Tag: airplane
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Vickers Type 253
Vickers Type 253 The Vickers Type 253 was built to Air Ministry specification G.4/31 for a general purpose aircraft capable of carrying out level bombing, army co-operation, dive bombing, reconnaissance, casualty evacuation and torpedo bombing. The design is often also known as the Vickers G.4/31. Although a conventional biplane design, the internal fuselage construction, designed Read more
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Canadian Car and Foundry FDB
Canadian Car and Foundry FDB In 1938 at a time when monoplane fighters were replacing biplanes, Canadian Car and Foundry employed Michael Gregor to design a biplane fighter/dive-bomber (hence the FDB name). It is often also called the Gregor FDB. Initial claims were that it would reach 300mph with a 700 hp (520 kW) Pratt & Whitney R-1535-72 Read more
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Blériot 110 French Long-Distance Research Aircraft
Blériot 7110 French Long-Distance Research Aircraft The Blériot 110 was a French long-distance research aircraft. First flying on 16 May 1930. It held several records, the last of which was on 5 August 1933 when Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi set a new straight-line distance record, flying from New York to Rayak, Syria – a Read more