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BRITISH
(WARBIRD)
 1916

 1 October 1916 BE2e aircraft, was moved to Elmswell in East Anglia in September 1917.  Little information has survived about the squadron's early history; the suspicion being that, in common with many home defence units, it did not have the opportunity to see much action before being disbanded on 13 June 1919.

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BRITISH
(WARBIRD)
 1914

  

The R.E. 7 has been called the most useless airplane ever made, and for some good reasons. Between it's top speed and the speed at which it stalled and spun out of control there was a margin of only twenty miles an hour. It was intended to have a top speed of 80 mph, but it usually managed only 60, and it's stall speed was 48 mph. This made take-offs, landings and manoeuvring in the air very difficult. But the aircraft had to be thrown about the sky, as they were as manoueverable as 10-ton trucks. They had been designed as stable camera platforms for observation.  In RFC parlance, the R.E. 7 was "a pig - on a windy day a boy on a bicycle could pass it." It was powered by the 150hp RAF 4a engine giving it a theoretical speed of 82 mph (37 km/h), and a ceiling of 6,500 ft (1980 m). It first flew operationally in 1915. Only 250 were built, then they were superceded by the RE8, which wasn't much better. It came armed with a forward firing machine gun mounted oblique to the aircraft to avoid the propeller. This made it very difficult to hit anything, as the aircraft had to be crabbed to one side when aiming at another plane. The observer could not stand, or turn around like in later aircraft, so a machine gun in the back was nearly ineffective as the observer had to aim it by leaning back and swivelling the gun while looking over his shoulder.

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FRANCE
(WARBIRD)
 1915

  

The Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.7 was a British two-seat light bomber and reconnaissance biplane designed by the Royal Aircraft Factory and built under contracts by the Coventry Ordnance Works, Austin, Napier and Siddeley-Deasy for the Royal Flying Corps. Developed from the R.E.5 The aircraft was built by a number of different contractors with the first aircraft operational with the Royal Flying Corps in France in early 1916. The aircraft had two open cockpits with the observer/gunner in the forward cockpit under the upper wing and the pilot. aft.

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FRANCE
1911

  

The 1911 version of Robert Esnault-Pelterie differed radically from the older type in the method of elevation control and in the construction of the tail as well as in propeller, motor, etc. This type was built in two sizes (one or two seater) and largely preserved the graceful lines of its predecessors. After the flights of Laurens and Bournique, with and without passenger, and because of its high speed, reliability and stability, the scarlet bird-like R. E. P. took its place among the very best flying machines of the time.

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ITALY
 1939 

   The Reggiane Re.2000 was designed by Ing. Longhi who took his inspiration from the contemporary Seversky P-35 which it superficially resembled The Re.2000 prototype's first flight was on 24 May 1939, in Reggio Emilia, flown by Mario De Bernardi, and achieved a maximum speed of 515 km/h at 5,000 m. This was the Reggiane company's first aircraft having aluminum skin (panels) rather than an exclusively wooden structure.  The Regia Aeronautica rejected it, however, due to its unreliable engine and vulnerable fuel tanks.

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ITALY
 1940

 

 The Reggiane Re.2002 Ariete was an Italian fighter-bomber developed during World War II. The aircraft was a further development of the Re.2000, with some of the modifications that already had been introduced in the Re.2001. The aircraft was mainly used by the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Air Force), but it also saw limited use with the German Luftwaffe, who used it against the French resistance

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ITALY
 1942

The Reggiane Re.2005 Sagittario (English: Archer) Considered by many to be "the most beautiful plane of the Second World War" it was, along with the Macchi C.202/C.205 and Fiat G.55, one of the three "Serie 5" Italian fighters built around the famous Daimler-Benz DB 605 engine. Only 48 examples had been delivered, before Armistice, these fighter fighting in the defence of Naples, Rome and Sicily, the survivors battling above the crumbling ruins of Berlin, with German insignia. "The Re.2005 was altogether a superb, potent aeroplane", observed Group Captain Duncan Smith, DSO DFC

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BELGIUM
(WARBIRD)
 1928

  


The Renard Epervier was a Belgian prototype single-seat all-metal fighter monoplane built by the brothers Renard for a government-sponsored design contest in 1928. The Epervier Type 2 was built and flown in 1928, being constructed by Belgian aircraft manufacturer Stampe et Vertongen. It carried an armament of two synchronised 7.7mm guns and was lost later in 1928 after failing to recover from a flat spin. A second prototype, the Epervier Type 2bis, introduced revised streamlined fairings for the cantilever mainwheel legs, mainwheel spats and cylinder aft-fairings and was built by SABCA (Société Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aéronautiques).

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GERMANY
 1978 

 
When matured at the beginning of the 1970s, with many air forces the realization that an advanced pilot training would be based on new, high-technology systems are significantly more expensive, was looking for an alternative, should the one hand, include the flight characteristics of a jet airplane, on the other, the low cost of an airplane propeller. The company could look back at that time already over twenty years of research into new methods and techniques in the aircraft.

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U.S.A.
(WARBIRD)
 1951

  

The Republic F-84 Thunderjet was an American-built turbojet fighter-bomber aircraft. Originating as a 1944 United States Army Air Force proposal for a "day fighter", the F-84 flew in 1946. Although it entered service in 1947, the Thunderjet was plagued by so many structural and engine problems that a 1948 Air Force review declared it
 unable to execute any aspect of its intended mission and considered cancelling the program. The aircraft was not considered fully operational until the 1949 F-84D model and the design matured only with the definitive F-84G introduced in 1951.

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 1946

  

The Republic RC-3 Seabee is an all-metal amphibious sports aircraft designed by Percival Spencer and manufactured by the Republic Aircraft Corporation.

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JAPAN
 WARBIRD
 1945

  

The first prototype flew in April 1945. Two built.

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GERMAN
 WARBIRD
 1917

  

For a two-seater reconnaissance aircraft, Rumpler C.IV had an excellent performance,
which enabled it to remain in front-line service until the end of World War I on the Western Front, as well as in Italy and Palestine. Its exceptional ceiling allowed pilots to undertake reconnaissance secure in the knowledge that few allied aircraft could reach it.

 

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POLAND
 1934   

The R.W.D.9 differed primarily from its predecessor by being of four- rather than two-seat configuration, and four of the eight production aircraft (one airframe having been used for static tests) had the GR.760 engine, the other four having the 164kW Walter Bora radial engine. Six of the R.W.D.9s took part in the 1934 Challenge, all of them finishing in the top 10 places and sweeping the board by being first, second and third; almost unbelieveably this performance was repeated in the Circuit of Europe in September of that year, the first three places falling to the R.W.D.9. 20

POLAND
 1933  

 
The aircraft was designed as a single-seater aerobatic sports plane, that could also be used as a trainer for fighter aircraft pilots. The main designer was Jerzy Drzewiecki of the RWD construction team in the DWL (Doświadczalne Warsztaty Lotnicze) workshops. Its silhouette was similar to the RWD-8. The first prototype (registration SP-ALC), was flown in July 1933 by Drzewiecki. Its stability was not satisfactory, but after modifications, including lengthening a fuselage, it appeared a successful design and it completed state trials in 1935. In a mock dogfight with the PZL P.11c fighter, the RWD-10 kept on the P.11's tail. The first public aerobatics show of the RWD-10 took place during a Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning in September 14-15, 1935 in Warsaw.		 18

U.S.A.
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On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis" 5,810 kilometers (3,610 miles) between Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, and Paris, France, in 33 hours, 30 minutes.
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U.S.A.
 1937

  

In 1937 and 1938 a second civilian aircraft model was introduced, the Ryan SCW-145 for Sport Coupe, Warner 145 horsepower (108 kW) engine. The SCW was a larger three seater aircraft with a sliding canopy and side-by-side front seating. The prototype SCW was originally powered by a Menasco engine, however prototype testing revealed that more power was needed hence the move to the Warner 145 hp (108 kW), 7-cylinder radial engine for production models. Thirteen examples of the SCW were built, although the last one was assembled from surplus parts decades after the initial production run was finished.

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U.S.A.
(WARBIRD)
 1943

  

The Ryan FR Fireball was a composite propeller and jet-powered aircraft designed by Ryan Aeronautical for the United States Navy during World War II. The Fireball entered service before the end of the war, but did not see combat. The FR-1 Fireball was the United States Navy's first aircraft with jet propulsion.
Design began in 1943 to a proposal instigated by Admiral John S. McCain, Sr. for a composite-powered fighter; early jet engines had sluggish acceleration which was considered unsafe and unsuitable for aircraft carrier takeoff and landing. Ryan aeronautical engineer Benjamin Tyler Salmon was tasked with designing an aircraft to meet these criteria. His solution was a composite design that allowed for conventional piston-powered flight but gave a jet for higher speeds.

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