Tag: airplane
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Hawker Sea Fury
Hawker Sea Fury Originally designed for the Royal Air Force as a light Tempest Fighter, the end of the Second World War saw the RAF cancel its order for the fighter. The Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm saw the Fury as an ideal option to replace a range of aircraft and ordered it as the Read more
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Wight Quadruplane Fighter
Wight Quadruplane Fighter First Flying in mid-1916, the Wight Quadruplane was a single seat fighter. The initial design had two cabane struts of long chord length supporting the upper wing. Four similar type interplane struts were used between the upper three wings, all of which had ailerons. Due to the position of the lower wing, Read more
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Supermarine Type 224
Supermarine Type 224 Designed to meet Air Ministry Specification F.7/30, the Supermarine Type 224 was a low wing monoplane fighter aircraft armed with four .303 machine guns. The Air Ministry expressed a preference for the evaporatively cooled Rolls-Royce Goshawk, which was evaporatively cooled. This caused problems, which along with poor performance led to its elimination Read more