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Fairey Delta 2
Country	UK
Role	High-speed research aircraft
First fly	6 October 1954
Built	2

The Fairey Delta 2 or FD2 (internal designation Type V within Fairey) was a British supersonic research aircraft produced by the Fairey Aviation Company in response to a specification from the Ministry of Supply for a specialised aircraft for conducting investigations into flight and control at transonic and supersonic speeds. Key features of the type include the adoption of a delta wing and a droop-nose. On 6 October 1954, the Delta 2 conducted its maiden flight, flown by Fairey test pilot Peter Twiss; a total of two aircraft would be produced. The Delta 2 was the final aircraft to be produced by Fairey as an independent manufacture.

Source: Fairey Delta 2 on Wikipedia

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Handley Page HP.115
Country	UK
Role	Experimental aircraft
First flight	17 August 1961
Built	1

The Handley Page HP.115 was a British delta wing research aircraft built by Handley Page to test the low-speed handling characteristics to be expected from a supersonic airliner of slender delta configuration. It formed part of the British supersonic aircraft research programme, carried out in the 1960s and sponsored by the Ministry of Supply, that eventually produced the Concorde.

Source: Handley Page HP.115 on Wikipedia

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Lockheed C-5 Galaxy
Country	USA
Role	Strategic airlifter
First flight	30 June 1968
Built	131

The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft originally designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin. It provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a heavy intercontinental-range strategic airlift capability, one that can carry outsized and oversized loads, including all air-certifiable cargo. The Galaxy has many similarities to its smaller Lockheed C-141 Starlifter predecessor, and the later Boeing C-17 Globemaster III. The C-5 is among the largest military aircraft in the world.

Source: Lockheed C-5 Galaxy on Wikipedia

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Rutan Voyager
Country	USA
Role	Record plane
First flight	June 22, 1984
Built	1

The Rutan Model 76 Voyager was the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. It was piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager

Source: Rutan Voyager on Wikipedia

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Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail
Country	USA
Class and type	Signals intelligence aircraft
Status	Active service
Built	Unknow

The Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail is an airborne signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection platform based on the Beechcraft King Air and Super King Air. While the US military and specifically the United States Army have numerous personnel transport variants of the King Air platforms referred to with the general C-12 designation, the RC-12 specification represents a heavily modified platform that facilitates SIGINT collection through various sensors and onboard processors.

Source: Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail on Wikipedia

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Petlyakov Pe-2
Country	Soviet Union
Class and type	Dive bomber
First flight	22 December 1939
Built	11000+

The Petlyakov Pe-2 (Russian: Петляков Пе-2) was a Soviet twin-engined dive bomber used during World War II. It was regarded as one of the best front-line medium bombers of the war and also proved successful as a heavy fighter, as a night fighter (Pe-3 variant) and as a reconnaissance aircraft.

Source: Petlyakov Pe-2 on Wikipedia

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Goodyear GZ-22
Country	USA
Class and type	Non-rigid airship
First flight	1989
Built	1

The Loral GZ-22 (also known as the Goodyear GZ-22) was a class of non-rigid airship, or blimp first flown in 1989 and operated by Goodyear as its flagship promotional aircraft, with civil registration N4A and named Spirit of Akron. This was the only airship of this class ever built.

Source: the Goodyear GZ-22 on Wikipedia

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USS Intrepid
Country	USA
Class and type	Essex-class aircraft carrier
Launched	26 April 1943
Decommissioned	15 March 1974

USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting “I”, is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in August 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, most notably the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). In her second career, she served mainly in the Atlantic, but also participated in the Vietnam War.

Source: USS Intrepid on Wikipedia

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Handley Page Halifax
Country	UK
Role	Heavy bomber
First flight	25 October 1939
Built	6176

The Handley Page Halifax was a Royal Air Force (RAF) four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War. It was developed by Handley Page to the same specification as the contemporary twin-engine Avro Manchester. The Halifax has its origins in the twin-engine HP56 proposal of the late 1930s, produced in response to the British Air Ministry’s Specification P.13/36 for a capable medium bomber for “world-wide use.” The HP56 was ordered as a backup to the Avro 679, both aircraft being designed to use the underperforming Rolls-Royce Vulture engine. The Handley Page design was altered at the Ministry to a four-engine arrangement powered by the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine; the rival Avro 679 was produced as the twin-engine Avro Manchester which, while regarded as unsuccessful mainly due to the Vulture engine, was a direct predecessor of the famed Avro Lancaster. Both the Lancaster and the Halifax would emerge as capable four-engined strategic bombers, thousands of which would be built and operated by the RAF and several other services during the War.

Source: Handley Page Halifax on Wikipedia

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Canadair CP-107 Argus
Country	Canada
Role	Maritime patrol aircraft
First flight	28 March 1957
Built	33

The Canadair CP-107 Argus (CL-28) was a marine reconnaissance aircraft designed and manufactured by Canadair for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). In its early years, the Argus was reputedly the finest anti-submarine patrol bomber in the world. The Argus served throughout the Cold War in the RCAF’s Maritime Air Command and later the CF’s Maritime Air Group and Air Command.