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13 January 1940. First flight of the Yakovlev Yak-1 (I-26). WWII Soviet fighter aircraft, single-seat monoplane with a composite structure and wooden wings.

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2023-01-13

25 November 1930. First flight of the Fairey Hendon K1695, British twin engine monoplane heavy bomber, first all-metal low-wing monoplane to enter service in the RAF.

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2022-11-25

Blériot XI Monoplane. Built 1909. 3 airworthy (+ 2 replicas) and 15 on display (+5 replicas). Artist and source unknown.

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2022-09-17

20 August 1908. Robert Gastambride became the first passenger flown in a monoplane (the Gastambide-Mengin II, later re-named Antoinette II).

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2022-08-20

21 May 1958. The first flight of the PZL-102 Kos (blackbird), a Polish two-seat touring and training monoplane designed and built by PZL https://t.co/vk42CUrvJN

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2022-05-21

nose art supremacy

just wish adding faces on monoplanes are just as easy as doing it on biplanes

like on biplanes you can just slap a face on the front of the engine, the propellers can even serve as mustaches

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2021-12-25

On this day in 1911, an Italian pilot named Giulio Gavotti drops four grenades from an Etrich Taube monoplane onto Ottoman Turk positions in Libya. It's history's first air strike. No casualties are inflicted.

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2021-11-01

13 January 1940. First flight of the Yakovlev Yak-1 (I-26), WWII Soviet fighter aircraft, single-seat monoplane with a composite structure and wooden wings.

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2021-01-13

On this day in 1911, an Italian pilot named Giulio Gavotti drops four grenades from an Etrich Taube monoplane onto Ottoman Turk positions in Libya. It's history's first air strike. No casualties are inflicted.

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2020-11-01

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

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

On this day in 1911, an Italian pilot named Giulio Gavotti drops four grenades from an Etrich Taube monoplane onto Ottoman positions in Libya. It's history's first air strike. No casualties are inflicted.

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2019-11-01

"IAR 80C" by Stan Hajek
The IAR 80 was a Romanian World War II low-wing monoplane, all-metal monocoque fighter and ground-attack aircraft.

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2018-12-22

On this day in 1911, an Italian pilot named Giulio Gavotti drops four grenades from an Etrich Taube monoplane onto Ottoman positions in Libya. It's history's first air strike. No casualties are inflicted.

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2018-11-01

Old Warden's Pup and Triplane, both rotary-driven. For a graphic on the pros and cons of tri-, bi- and monoplanes

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2013-07-22