From SPAD VIII of to P-51D Mustang and F-86A Sabre of and I give you the anatomy of the most famous fighter designs of their time. Art by John McCoy. Never realized that the F-86's engine had a nose cone!

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– The remarkable Westland Wyvern naval strike airplane featured contra-rotating propellers and a mighty, behind-the-cockpit 3,200-hp Rolls Royce Eagle engine. This configuration allowed a cut down nose... 1/

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A cutaway drawing of the then "revolutionary" Grumman F-14 Tomcat from the January 1970 issue of the Popular Mechanics Magazine. Artwork by Fred Wolff.

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Lockheed L-133 Starjet was an attempt to build the first jet fighter of the USAAF during the first half of WW2

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The Focke Wulf P 03-10 was a covert German Nazi mixed-propulsion project that remained at this stage. The Douglas XA-42 Mixmaster had a similar architecture but appears to be a standalone Douglas design

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Stunning image of an English Electric Lightning

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Two extraordinary stories of survival against the odds by fighter pilots who were thrown from their planes, clung to the rigging and somehow returned to the cockpit, wrestled back control > https://t.co/842dUABflQ

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Build it!
Inside 3-decker SKY WHALE that can carry 755 people & is bigger than Boeing-747 https://t.co/kokDO0uyiV

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Something like McDonnell-Douglas MD500N NOTAR (NO TAil Rotor). The air is expelled through two slots of the tailboom causing a boundary-layer control called the Coanda Effect. The result is that the tailboom becomes a "wing" https://t.co/haazYSFcs5

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Ikarus MM.2 trainer built in Royal Yugoslavia. Prototype was painted in dark Crimson color

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Photo of the Day: F15 patrolling the no-fly zone over Middlesbrough during the first Lockdown assisting the 80085 UN Peacekeepers there in fighting The War Against Transmission

Photographed from a Canberra

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- The Messerschmitt Me 264 Amerika bomber was to have flown from France or the Azores to bomb NYC, etc. Three prototypes built. 1/

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4/ Interestingly, the B-18 Bolo's top turret seems retractable. I see the nose turrets. Yet I'm having a hard time seeing the ventral turrets, however. Presumably they're also retractable. Any ideas from anyone?

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✈️Do you dream of becoming an aviator🛩️❓

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