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Hawker Nimrod II
Hawker Nimrod II (c/n 41H-59890, formerly K3661 of the Fleet Air Arm), exhibited at Hangar 2 of the Imperial War Museum Duxford, June 2014. In the middle of 1920s, the Air Ministry began to look […]
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Sud Aviation/Aérospatiale SA-316B Alouette III
Sud Aviation/Aérospatiale SA-316B Alouette III (c/n 1247, A-274 of the Royal Netherlands Air Force), flying display during Air Force Days 2013 (Luchtmachtdagen 2013), Volkel air base, June 2013. On 28th February 1959, prototype of Alouette […]
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Heinkel He 162 A-2 Volksjäger
Heinkel He 162 A-2 Volksjäger (c/n 120227, formerly VN679 of the RAF), exhibited at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, London, July 2018. By early 1944, the German aviation authorities slowly began realising that […]
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Bristol Bulldog Mk IIA
Bristol Bulldog Mk IIA (c/n 7446, formerly G-ABBB), exhibited at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, London, July 2018. At the beginning of the 1920s, the Royal Air Force fighter tactics were focused on […]
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McDonnell Douglas F-4F Phantom II
McDonnell Douglas F-4F Phantom II (c/n 4330, 37+01, Luftwaffe), flying display at Phantom Pharewell retirement event, Wittmundhafen, June 2013. Exactly fifty-two years ago, in January of 1971, the book with a story of German Phantom […]
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Bell-Boeing CV-22B Osprey
Bell-Boeing CV-22B Osprey (c/n D1037, 11-0058 US Air Force, 352nd Special Operations Group), flying display at Royal International Air Tattoo, Fairford, July 2017. Without any doubts, the V-22 Osprey is one of the most interesting […]
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Junkers Ju 52/3m (CASA 325L)
Junkers Ju 52/3m (assembled in Spain as CASA 325L, c/n 13, F-AZJU), Amicale Jean Baptiste Salis, Plzeň/Líně airfield, September 2018. The Ju 52 was created in 1930, initially being just another single-engine aircraft representing the […]
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Hawker Hunter Mk.58
Hawker Hunter Mk.58 ´Graffiti Hunter´ (a former Swiss Air Force ´J-4015´), at the static display during Zigermeet 2019 in Mollis, Switzerland. Hawker Hunter was introduced into the Swiss Air Force in late 1950s, as a […]
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North American P-51D Mustang and Hawker Hunter T Mk.68
Hawker Hunter and P-51 Mustang during the joint flying display at Zigermeet 19, the air show held last weekend at Flugplatz Mollis, in Switzerland. The North American P-51D Mustang 44-72773 (D-FPSI) is one of the […]
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AH-64D Apache / F-16AM Fighting Falcon
The Royal Netherlands Air Force demo teams flying the F-16AM Fighting Falcon fighter jet and the AH-64D Apache attack helicopter, during the joint display performer at Volkel Luchtmachtdagen 2013. The F-16 Solo Demo Team was […]