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

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15 July 1932. The prototype low-wing monoplane Vickers Type 171 Jockey was lost during spinning trials at Martlesham Heath when it entered a flat spin and crashed at Woodbridge, Suffolk. The pilot successfully bailed out at 5,000 feet.

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11 July 1952. First flight of the F-500 'Monitor' I. French, two seat single engine monoplane trainer prototype.

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Captain Eustace Lorain and his passenger Staff Sergeant R H V Wilson were flying a Nieuport Monoplane out of Larkhill on a routine morning practice sortie.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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27 January 1953. First flight of the Hurel-Dubois HD-31 (F-WFKU, later F-BFKU). French twin-engine high-wing braced monoplane of metal construction. Cargo and passenger aeroplane powered by 800 hp Wright 957C7BA1 Cyclone radial engines.

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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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24 August 1925. First flight of the Supermarine S.4, British
single-engine single-seat monoplane racing seaplane prototype designed by R. J.
Mitchell to compete in the Schneider Trophy. It crashed and was destroyed
before the competition started.

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"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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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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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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