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

true winner of the battle of britain 😉

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De Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth

Could someone post a nice pic of a beautiful polished alloyP-51 Mustang for me? Can't seem to do it from my phone :-/ Absolutely GORGEOUS airplane with (essentially) a throbbing British heart. Kind of like a Shelby Cobra, in reverse...

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De Havilland Vampire

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p51d mustang

Thanks Klunk!

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De Havilland Hornet

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Stuka

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Do-17

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Messerschmitt 110

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Beech UC-45J Expeditor

That Vampire is glorious.

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dakota

ford [s]transit[/s] trimotor

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junkers [s]transit[/s] [s]trimotor[/s] ju52

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[s]death on a stick[/s] geebee r-2

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laird solution

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avro lancaster

deserves another pic i think

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what the hell

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laird-turner meteor

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ye gods, page 3 before a lanc!

it was so obvious, I assumed it had already been done

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avro anson

ye gods, page 3 before a lanc!

it was so obvious, I assumed it had already been done

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avro 504

the view fritz doesn't want in his rear view mirror

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spitfire

hard to believe the same company made this 🙂

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supermarine walrus

Keep up the good work Klunk. I'm guessing its a slow day in the office. 😉

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bristol fighter

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B-17 Flying Fortress

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Handley Page Stirling

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Vickers Wellington

Lancs (rightly I suppose) get all the limelight for bomber command but in the early stages of the campaign, there weren't enough of them. Quite a few pilots actually preferred the Stirlings...

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sopwith triplane

And just to show that MR A.V. Roe didn't get everything right, I give you

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The disastrous Avro Manchester. Was operational briefly. Everything that was wrong with it, was mostly fixed in its successor. Which was of course the Lanc.

And if I can be a bit cheeky, another Hurricane but a Mark V, little known variant that was redesigned to carry bombs/rockets and upgraded guns to Canons so it could take on a ground attack role.

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Affectionately known as the 'can opener' because it was so effective against tanks. Replaced late in the war by the already posted and rather terrifying Typhoon!

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mitchell

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douglas a-26 invader

another cheeky repeat - I know its already been posted but, my goodness, I do love a Corsair.
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Second fiddle to the mighty Lanc, HP Halifax

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Was a little late for WWII
But what a plane
Bearcat
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I always get frowned at for saying i like these better than Spitfires
Mustangs
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replica vickers vimy

It wasn't just the Gee Bee racers that went to extremes

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Bristol 72 racer, 1922
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Dayton-Wright RB-1 retractable undercarriage and variable camber wings 1920

As much as I like prop planes, you lot need to get with the times and embrace the future:

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I still think it's a lovely looking plane: Me-262

Makhinine Mak 10

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in Flight variable span wings - 1932

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video here
https://youtu.be/p3HsmM-IKqY

I always get frowned at for saying i like these better than Spitfires
Mustangs

Technically superior in a few minor respects, the rad design was a bit of a masterpiece on the Mustang and gave it a good few kts extra speed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_effect

What the hell - highly modded and probably way out of thread jurisdication, the sadly lost Galloping Ghost:

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You want jets rather than props, OK what about a plane that was operational with both

SAAB J21
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SAAB J21R
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The Me262 first flew with a piston engine

Sneaking in before the closing date, Gloster Meteor

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might as well have Gloster's jet prototype while we're at it

E28/39

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MkXII first of the griffon powered spitfires to come into widespread service. Widely recognised (in clipped wing format shown here) to be the fastest low level piston aircraft in general service. Most pilots found that the enemy just wouldn't engage with them when flying it. This was the aircraft that shot down most V-1s

B29 superfortress.
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Miles M20

An unbelievable nine weeks from specification issued to test flight of prototype. Conceived as an emergency, easy to produce backup, in case spit/hurricane production was stopped by bombing.

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Essentially a complete Lancaster Merlin installation at the front.

Love the fact about the Miles M20 and the requirements of a mid-war specification!

@Klunk's spitfire pic on the last page - that's a proper goosebumps pic that is.

Some fabulous aircraft here, the Grumman Tigercat on the first page is a long-time favourite, lucky enough to have seen one flying at RAF Wroughton years ago.
Have had a long-standing love for the PBY-5 Catalina, too; if there was any aircraft that I could have the opportunity to own and fly, it would be the Cat, one put on a lovely display at Weston Air Day last year:

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Always liked this. Then I saw it crash at Biggin Hill. Not felt the same about air shows since.

Bell P63 Kingcobra

Flying boats... plural. The Short Mayo composite:

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Gosh darn it, if Fokker can put three wings on a Dr1, we can do better...

Wight Quadraplane

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(no, it wasn't better)

A nice pair, clipped-wing Spit, and the only Hurri flying that saw action in the Battle of Britain:

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And something we'll never see again, a pair of Lancasters:

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Best photos I could get under the circumstances.

Westland Whirlwind

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Sadly not as good as it looked.

Hughes Spruce Goose

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Difficult to park.

another tigercat pic

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Spruce Goose.

Best. Name. Ever.

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Hughes H1 [s]Penis extension [/s] Racer.*

Hughes hated the name Spruce Goose.

* Strictly, this shouldn't be in the thread as it's a recreation. A bloody good one though.

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Ilyushin Il-2M3

Here's a pic of TT winner Alec Bennett in his RFC Bristol F2.
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ME163

As an avid childhood reader of W.E. Johns my mind links the aforementioned Beaufighter with the Consolidated B-24 Liberator in some particularly exciting piece of derring-do - possibly in Borneo.

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DO335

Nerd/pedant

That Handley Page Stirling way back up there, were they not built by Short Bros?

Got the shot of the two Lancaster but some modern old thing got in the way! 🙄

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Rachel

B26 Martin Marauder. Hard to fly because of its high landing speed, but the pilots loved it when they got used to it.

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Sopwith Camel and Pup ( and my father-in-law third from left who once upon a time commanded the Fleet Air Arm Historic Flight ):

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Nerd/pedant

That Handley Page Stirling way back up there, were they not built by Short Bros?

Correct. Beat me to it.

Curtiss XP-55

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Beamers, the Pup looks like it's escaped from Pixar's "Planes" 😉 the machine guns look like its eyes...

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Fokker E111 eindeker. No flaps the cables warp the wings to make it manoeuvre. Lethal in the Fokker Summer as it had the first effective forward firing gun .

I don't think we've had one of these yet, despite it being considered by many to be the best British fighter of the World War (though it's not as pretty as a Camel)

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SE5a

For Typhoon fans, I bumped into this a while back. Worth a watch - the usual collection of heros.

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boeing 221a monomail

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Boeing 218

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junkers 88

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blackburn firebrand

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Lavochkin La-9

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Lockheed 10-A Electra

No DC3?

Shame on you all...

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C47 on page 2...