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Here is a list of aircraft used by the British Royal Air Force (RAF), Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA), Army Air Corps (AAC) and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) [1] during the Second World War.
The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito is a British twin-engined, multirole combat aircraft, introduced during the Second World War.Unusual in that its airframe was constructed mostly of wood, it was nicknamed the "Wooden Wonder", [4] or "Mossie".
The Boulton Paul Defiant is a British interceptor aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II.The Defiant was designed and built by Boulton Paul Aircraft as a "turret fighter" to meet the RAF requirement for day and night fighters that could concentrate their firepower on enemy bombers which were not expected to have fighter escorts due to the distance from Germany ...
This is a late WWII Spitfire mk LF IX the most produced variant of the Spitfire. An English Electric Lightning which served as the primary British fighter for much of the Cold War . Only completely British built fighter aircraft capable of Mach 2.
The Tempest emerged as one of the most powerful fighters of World War II and at low altitude was the fastest single-engine propeller-driven aircraft of the war. [ 2 ] Upon entering service in 1944, the Tempest performed low-level interception, particularly against the V-1 flying bomb threat, and ground attack supporting major invasions like ...
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WWII production count: 14,483 Aircraft type: Fighter Country of origin: Great Britain From 1937 to 1944, nearly 14,500 Hawker Hurricane fighters were produced. The Royal Air Force deployed 32 ...
The RAF Air Staff thought that an experimental aircraft armed with the 20 mm cannon was needed urgently and specification F.37/35 was issued to British aircraft companies in 1935. The specification called for a single-seat day and night fighter armed with four cannon.