[Closed] Another aeroplane thread! Anything from WWI to WWII inclusive this time....

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YEA!!! Big hugs to CptFH.
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Above is a DH2 baldly made model but lovely plane more wire and space than fabric.

Right come on play nice and tell us what they are when you post please. Anything else is just mean. I love planes but I'm not that good on this era.

Edit like that helpful crankboy if you please.

Thanks

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[b]Hawker Hurricane[/b]

I wanted to post the Mosquito but Matt O&A beat me to it

One of the greatest (And with a personal connection to one of my grandfathers). The Rapide.

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Between the wars, primarily, but saw service as the Dominie.

Mosquito wins for me

(And with a personal connection to one of my grandfathers). The Rapide.

You're related to Franco???

Couple of WWII favourites (making a change from the usual):

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Ooh, Lysander, good call.

My dad worked on these, In fact he may have worked on this one as he was based at Aldergrove during WW2.

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Boeing B-17 Memphis Bell

(Ah - that didn't work. It's a link to the original Memphis Belle movie, made in 1943)

I like some of the odder stuff of the era (lots to come from WW1 then...)

The BV141 was 'different'.
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Arguably the better fighter in the Battle of Britain

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This crazy thing that didnt get past prototypes.

I finally fulfilled an ambition I had held for at least 40 years of seeing one of these fly, at Old Warden this summer. Always been interested since reading about William Barker ( that's him on the OP's image with a Sopwith Camel)
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Sopwith Snipe replica, with original Bentley BR2 rotary.

If you are interested in WW1 aircraft, you need to check out the TVAL site
http://thevintageaviator.co.nz

My favourite to see flying is the oldest flying british plane, built in 1913

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The BV141 was 'different

Slightly more normal, but still cool looking. The FW 189:

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Paul Allen ( of Microsoft fame) has a Fw 189 under restoration to fly... may be before the end of the decade?!?

Always been interested since reading about William Barker ( is that him on the OP's image with a Sopwith Camel?)

It is indeed! Good spot!

On a similar, book related note, try this -
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Featuring these;

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Fairey Swordfish.

yes, just checked and had altered my post- sorry!

War in a Srtingbag is one of the better books on WW2 flying I have read- not the usual gung-ho stuff, but very thought provoking

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not a hart but a hector

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I have sat in the cockpit of the Hind whilst on the ground on a couple of occasions when working as volunteer with the Shuttleworth Collection ( with the appropriate permission of course).
It is surprisingly big and sophisticated compared to the WW1 types

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Arguably the better fighter in the Battle of Britain

go on then 🙂

A solution to the problem of improving flying boat aerodynamics led to a less than successful result. Not helped by having the chronically unreliable R-R Vulture for power. Blackburn B20
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Might we see one of these in the air soon? Fiat CR42

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may then be able to fly in formation with at least two of these. Gloster Gladiator

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Ahem. Plane type details please. Ahem.

Great thread. Remember seeing the Fiesler Storch at Biggin Hill in the 1980's. After all the Mach 2 jets that had been featured the Storch's take off run was ridiculously short!

Grumman F6F Hellcat (Chino Warbirds' F6F-3 painted as a Fleet Air Arm Hellcat Mk. I.)
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Piaggio-Pegna Pc7.1928

Another attempt to reduce the aerodynamic drag in flying boats and seaplanes.

Using hydrofoils, the engine first drove a water prop until on the foils, then the airscrew would be clutched in and it would take off. I don't think it ever did.

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someone made a model fly, but if you look, it has additional float under the wings the original didn't have

Ahem. Plane type details please. Ahem.

Sorry, mine were obviously a Fiesler Storch and a Westland Lysander.

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Dewoitine D.520

My G G Uncle Charlie, centre of the photo posing in front of a crashed aircraft near Dover, 1914. Why they made a social occasion of it I'm not sure!
He was one of the first in the Royal Flying Corp having been drafted in from the balloon section of the Royal Engineers before the war.

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sorry, mine Macchi C205 Veltro. Rightly respected by allied pilots

Another top thread.

CFH if you pop into Kings Sombourne church next time you are passing their is a window in honour of Sopwoth (Romsey end, rhs as you walk in)

The forerunner of the Spitfire, RJ Mitchell's 1929 Schneider Trophy Seaplane

[url= http://www.rjmitchell-spitfire.co.uk/schneidertrophy/1929.asp?sectionID=2 ]RJ Mitchell Website[/url]

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Hawker Typhoon! I love this plane, can't find a pic to do it justice though!

Bristol Blenheim Mk IV (with the lovely glass nose).

Love these threads, takes me right back to Airfix kits at my gran's kitchen table of a weekend.

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Arguably the better fighter in the Battle of Britain

See I'd say Fw190

nice to see a full size one 😉

PP I think that must be an early BE 2 in your great great uncles photo.

the Vintage aviator make replica's of these as well.

http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/projects/be2

Arado AR234 "Blitz"

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Fw190 first in service in 1941, so not in the BoB. Sorry, pedant mode kicked in again

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Mig 3

Damn you with your "facts" 👿 .Battle of Britain in our house was mostly every wednesday before tea....and some times Jerry got to win.

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Thunderjug. The joke went, "how do you evade enemy fire in a P47? Answer: Undo the straps and run around the cockpit".

A Mig 3 has been restored in Russia. It never ceases to amaze me how many rare planes are being brought back to life.

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The massively underrated victim of 'doctrine' and incorrect application of assets that was hugely effective when used correctly - the Boulton-Paul Defiant

Mig 3 has been restored in Russia. It never ceases to amaze me how many rare planes are being brought back to life.

This is simply beautiful.

The B-17 Flying Fortress

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Good call on the Hellcat, btw.

I think that must be an early BE 2 in your great great uncles photo.

Thanks JimW, that's what I was thinking, a beautiful looking aircraft, but not that effective apparently.

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First 200mph fighter - Hawker Fury

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Arguably the ultimate development of the piston engine fighter - Hawker Sea Fury

I was gonna drop the Schneider Trophy winning Supermarine but beaten to it and undoubtedly the defining aircraft of the interwar years.

So I'll stick the P-38 Lightning in instead

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And it's offspring, the rather bizarre, never fought in the war (but did fly in 1945) P-82 Twin Mustang. Apparently the record holder for the longest nonstop flight ever made by a propeller-driven fighter (5051 miles so no trouble getting over Southern Germany)

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Mosquito and Catalina for the wins. Remaining choice is limited.

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Beech Staggerwing.
Biplane pron.

Supermarine Stranraer

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Short S25 Sunderland

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The massively underrated victim of 'doctrine' and incorrect application of assets that was hugely effective when used correctly - the Boulton-Paul Defiant

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Horsa glider

This is my favourite from that era:

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Had one fly over head once at the same time as I was up in the air trying to catch the ball at a line out, I think I dropped it as I was distracted!

Northrop P61 Black Widow

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The issue with the twin mustang

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Zero

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Bristol Bulldog

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finish gloster gauntlet

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cg pzl p.11

the real thing

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Polikarpov I-16

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Polikarpov I-153 Chaika

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Tupolev SB-2

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Bristol Beaufighter

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Westland Whirlwind - came up in the wiki page on the Beaufighter.