The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet is a supersonic, twin-engine, carrier-based multirole fighter that began life as an enlarged development of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet and is now built by Boeing. The E is a single-seater, while the F…
The McDonnell Douglas C-17 Globemaster III is the large strategic military transport that the United States Air Force (USAF) ordered in the 1980s to replace the ageing Lockheed C-141 Starlifter and to take over part of the work of the…
The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is the jet tanker with which the United States Air Force left piston-engined tankers behind. It grew out of the same demonstrator as the Boeing 707, the 367-80 or "Dash-80", but it is not a militarised 707:…
The Douglas A-1 Skyraider — designated AD until the 1962 unification of US designations — is a single-engine, single-seat attack aircraft conceived during the Second World War as a carrier-based dive and torpedo bomber for the United…
The Airspeed AS.5 Courier was a British single-engined, low-wing cabin monoplane for five or six occupants, a pilot plus five passengers, conceived by Hessell Tiltman, one of the founders of Airspeed Ltd, and built first at York and then…
The Harrier II is the second generation of the vertical/short take-off and landing (V/STOL) combat aircraft pioneered by the British Harrier. It is a single-engine attack jet, powered by one Rolls-Royce Pegasus turbofan with four vectoring…
The Lockheed Constellation, nicknamed "Connie", is the family of four-engined propeller airliners that Lockheed built at its Burbank, California, plant from 1943 into the late 1950s. It was the first civil airliner family with a…
The Junkers Ju 52 is Germany's great interwar transport trimotor, instantly recognisable by its corrugated duralumin skin and the third engine in its nose. It was conceived at the Junkers works in Dessau, under engineer Ernst Zindel, as a…
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was an American single-seat, twin-engined fighter of the Second World War, instantly recognisable by its twin tail booms joined by a common tailplane and a central nacelle that housed both the pilot and the…
The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a heavy-lift transport helicopter with tandem rotors, conceived by Vertol in the late 1950s and built today by Boeing. It takes its name from the Chinook people of the American Pacific Northwest. Among Western…
The Airbus A350 is a long-range, wide-body twinjet that Airbus built to take on Boeing in the market for large two-engined airliners. It was the first Airbus airframe made largely of carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer, it shares a common type…
The Avro Vulcan was a four-jet, delta-wing strategic bomber built to fly high and fast, and the Royal Air Force kept it in service from 1956 to 1984. A.V. Roe and Company (Avro) designed it to meet Specification B.35/46, and from July 1963…