Avro Vulcan ↗
Avro's delta-wing bomber, developed for Britain's postwar strategic force.
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16 aircraft entries
Avro's delta-wing bomber, developed for Britain's postwar strategic force.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
An all-metal sport and touring aircraft from Bayerische Flugzeugwerke.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
Mechanical warbird controls with speed-dependent stick loading, elevator-trim relief and separate piston-engine cues.
A radial-engine trainer that also served in combat and civilian warbird roles.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A European variable-sweep combat-aircraft family with distinct strike and interceptor versions.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
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