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A B-24 Liberator and a PBY Catalina with an underwing Leigh Light anti-submarine device. 3rd pic: a Wellington with the same device but in a belly-turret mounted position

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2020-07-08

Fiat C.R. 42DB was an attempt to revitalize the project by installing on a standard CR42 a Daimler-Benz DB 601 from Macchi MC202. There was an order for 150 soon cancelled.

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2020-07-04

Airplanes we have never seen: Sud-Ouest / SNCASE SE 580 high-powered fighter for the French Air Force and Navy

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2020-07-03

VTOL History: Focke-Achgelis Fa 269 through the use of tilt-rotor

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2020-06-30

Rustsatz II device with a four MG 17 machine guns in the ventral position of a Henschel Hs.129b-1

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2020-06-24

Prototypes: Curtiss XF15C. US Navy wasn’t considering jet-powered fighters because their weak thrust at low speeds and altitude made them dangerous when operating from carriers. The solution was combine a main piston engine with a jet one

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2020-06-23

The drawing of the day: Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow by S. Snider

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2020-06-20

Quirky Planes: Hillson Bi-mono. After the take-off the upper wing came off falling to the ground and the plane flew like a monoplane

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2020-06-20

Australian CAC CA-15 Kangaroo: only one prototype was built and although it had excellent characteristics ( was one of the fastest piston fighters ever built) the project was cancelled

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2020-06-08

Quirky planes: Galvin HC French seaplane fighter with fuselage divided in two parts with the propeller in the middle.

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2020-06-05

The Boeing P-26 (281) was a single-engine, single-seat and low-wing monoplane fighter aircraft. It was the first US interceptor with monoplane and metal structure

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2020-06-02

Junkers Ju 87-G2 'Stuka' with a 37 mm BK 37 cannon under each wing for anti-tank operations

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2020-05-26