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Boeing B-29
The B-29 was the first effective long distance bomber in the world en was designed from 1940 as model 345 to fill the need of the US Army Air Core’s plan for a ‘hemisphere defense’ […]
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Mc Donnel Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
The Mc Donnel Douglas Skyhawk is a product of the 1950’s. A light attack/multi-role aircraft developed for use of a flightdeck that did service for the US Navy and US Marine Corps as well as […]
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Boeing 747, E-4B, VC-25A & YAL-1
The Boeing 747, acclaimed as an airline pioneer, has proven highly adaptable to military roles. Derivatives of the 747 serve as VIP transports for Governments, as Advanced Airborne National Command Post, and as dual-role cargo/tanker […]
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SOCATA TB30B Epsilon
Designed for initial training of military pilots, the Epsilon is a Two-seat military primary/basic trainer and counter-insurgency aircraft. Capable of flying under high load factors and in inverted flight. Powered by a piston engine, its […]
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AVRO Lancaster
What the Flying Fortress was for the USAF, that was the AVRO Lancaster for the RAF. The RAF Lancasters flew the night missions in the second World War to Germany. It was a dangerous job, […]
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Hawker Sea Hurricane
The Hawker Sea Hurricane was an adapted shore based Hurricane fighter bomber by the fitting of a V-framed arrester hook and catapult spools. Some 300 Hurricanes were assigned for refitting as Sea Hurricanes, the rest […]
Civilian fact sheets
Fairchild F27 / FH227
Fairchild acquired a license to build the Fokker F.27 on 26 April 1956 and put the aircraft into production at the same time as the parent company, actually achieving first deliveries and airline service before […]
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Fokker F-27 Friendship
The Fokker F-27 is the most successful civilian airplane the fokker factory has ever built. At the time it was one of the first, and certainly one of the most successful turbo-prop aircraft in the […]
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Fokker F-60
The Fokker F-60 is the military variant of the civilian Fokker F-50. The F-60 is only in service with the Royal Netherlands Air Force. Country of development/built:?? Netherlands First Flight(s): Fokker 60: November 1995 U-01 […]
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Fokker D-XXI (D-21)
The Royal Dutch Air Force (Luchtvaartafdeling) ordered 36 D XXI’s with the 825 hp Bristol Mercury VII nine cylinder radial engine and armed it with four wing-mounted 7,9 mm FN-Browning M.36 guns. When the Germans […]
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Fokker G-1
Fokker delivered a total of 36 G-1’s to the Dutch Air Force, they were numbered from 300 to 335. The 36 aircraft were divided over two ‘afdelingen’: 3 JaVA and 4 JaVA. At the outbreak […]
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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
The most famous bomber of the United States dating from the Second World War Where the British Lancaster’s bombed Germany by night, the Americans invaded German airspace during the day on there bomb raids to […]