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Hawker Hunter
Country	UK
Type	Jet-powered fighter
First flight	20 July 1951
Built	1978

Photo gallery of a Hawker Hunter, The Hawker Hunter is a transonic British jet-powered fighter aircraft that was developed by Hawker Aircraft for the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It was designed to take advantage of the newly developed Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engine and the swept wing, and was the first jet-powered aircraft produced by Hawker to be procured by the RAF.

Source: Hawker Hunter on Wiki

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Westland Seaking Mk7
Country	UK
Type	Helicopter

Photo gallery of a Westland Seaking Mk7, The Westland WS-61 Sea King is a British licence-built version of the American Sikorsky S-61 helicopter of the same name, built by Westland Helicopters. The aircraft differs considerably from the American version, with Rolls-Royce Gnome engines (derived from the US General Electric T58), British-made anti-submarine warfare systems and a fully computerised flight control system. The Sea King was primarily designed for performing anti-submarine warfare (ASW) missions. A Sea King variant was adapted by Westland as troop transport known as the Commando.

Source: Westland Seaking Mk7 on Wiki

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Stridsvagn m-38
Country	Sweden
Type	Light tank
Photographer	Erik Gustavsson
Description	Album of 21 photos walk-around of a «Stridsvagn m-38»

Photo gallery of a Stridsvagn m-38 Stridsvagn L-60 (Strv L-60), also known as Landsverk L-60, was a Swedish tank developed in 1934. It was developed by AB Landsverk as a light tank which included several advanced design features such as torsion bar suspension, periscopes rather than view slits and all-welded construction. The L-60 was progressively improved and four variants were created: L-60A, L-60B, L-60C (37mm gun), L-60D (new turret and 37mm gun and twin machine guns). The L-60 eventually evolved into the Stridsvagn m/38 and subsequent Stridsvagn m/39 and Stridsvagn m/40 and was adopted by the Swedish army as such.

Source: Stridsvagn m-38 on Wiki

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Dornier Do 31E3
Country	Germany
Type	Jet transport
First flight	10 February 1967
Built	3

The Dornier Do 31 was a West German experimental VTOL jet transport built by Dornier. The Do 31 was designed to meet a NATO specification (NBMR-4) for a tactical support aircraft for the EWR VJ 101 VTOL strike aircraft designed under the NATO contract of BMR-3. The project was cancelled in 1970 owing to high costs, technical problems and a change of requirement.

Source: Dornier Do 31E3 on Wiki

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Fokker Dr.I
Country	Germany
Role	Fighter
First flight	July 5, 1917
Built	320

Photo gallery of a Fokker Dr.I, The Fokker Dr.I (Dreidecker, “triplane” in German) was a World War I fighter aircraft built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. The Dr.I saw widespread service in the spring of 1918. It became famous as the aircraft in which Manfred von Richthofen gained his last 19 victories, and in which he was killed on 21 April 1918.

Source: Fokker Dr.I on Wiki

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Hawker Tempest V
Country	UK
Role	Fighter aircraft
First flight	2 September 1942
Built	1702

Photo gallery of a Hawker Tempest V at The Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon, The Hawker Tempest was a British fighter aircraft primarily used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the Second World War. The Tempest was an improved derivative of the Hawker Typhoon, the type originally being known as the Typhoon II, which was intended to address the Typhoon’s unexpected fall-off of performance at high altitude by replacing its wing with a thinner laminar flow design. Having diverged considerably from the Typhoon, it was chosen to rename the aircraft Tempest. The Tempest emerged as one of the most powerful fighters of the World War II and was the fastest propeller-driven aircraft of the war at low altitude.

Source: Hawker Tempest V on Wiki

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Gannet AS.4
Country	UK
Type	Carrier-borne aircraft
Photographer	Karl-Heinz Feller
Description	Album of 45 photos walk-around of a «Gannet AS.4»

Photo gallery of a Gannet AS.4, The Fairey Gannet was a British carrier-borne aircraft of the post-Second World War era developed for the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm (FAA) by the Fairey Aviation Company. It was a mid-wing monoplane with a tricycle undercarriage and a crew of three, and a double turboprop engine driving two contra-rotating propellers.

Source: Gannet AS.4 on Wiki

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Hawker Siddeley Nimrod
Country	UK
Type	Maritime patrol aircraft
First flight	21 October 1973
Number built	4>

Photo gallery of a Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, The Hawker Siddeley Nimrod was a maritime patrol aircraft developed and operated by the United Kingdom. It was an extensive modification of the de Havilland Comet, the world’s first operational jet airliner. It was originally designed by de Havilland’s successor firm, Hawker Siddeley; further development and maintenance work was undertaken by Hawker Siddeley’s own successor companies, British Aerospace and BAE Systems, respectively.

Source: Hawker Siddeley Nimrod on Wiki

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Yak-52
Country	Soviet Union
Type	Trainer aircraft
Photographer	Aleksandr Boriskin
Description	Album of 24 photos walk-around of a «Yak-52»

Photo gallery of a Yak-52, The Yakovlev Yak-52 (Russian: Яковлев Як-52) is a Soviet primary trainer aircraft which first flew in 1976. It is still being produced in Romania by Aerostar, as Iak-52, which gained manufacturing rights under agreement within the now defunct COMECON socialist trade organisation. The Yak-52 was designed originally as an aerobatic trainer for students in the Soviet DOSAAF training organisation, which trained both civilian sport pilots and military pilots.

Source: Yak-52 on Wiki

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Blackburn Buccaneer
Country	UK
Role	Attack aircraft
First flight	30 April 1958
Built	211

Photo gallery of a Blackburn Buccaneer in Imperial War Museum Duxford, The Blackburn Buccaneer was a Royal Navy (RN) carrier-borne attack aircraft designed in the 1950s. Designed and initially produced by Blackburn Aircraft at Brough, it was later officially known as the Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer when Blackburn became a part of the Hawker Siddeley group, but this name was rarely used.