Ahem. Plane type details please. Ahem.

Sorry, mine were obviously a Fiesler Storch and a Westland Lysander.

Dewoitine D.520

My G G Uncle Charlie, centre of the photo posing in front of a crashed aircraft near Dover, 1914. Why they made a social occasion of it I’m not sure!
He was one of the first in the Royal Flying Corp having been drafted in from the balloon section of the Royal Engineers before the war.

sorry, mine Macchi C205 Veltro. Rightly respected by allied pilots

Another top thread.

CFH if you pop into Kings Sombourne church next time you are passing their is a window in honour of Sopwoth (Romsey end, rhs as you walk in)

The forerunner of the Spitfire, RJ Mitchell’s 1929 Schneider Trophy Seaplane

RJ Mitchell Website

Hawker Typhoon! I love this plane, can’t find a pic to do it justice though!

Bristol Blenheim Mk IV (with the lovely glass nose).

Love these threads, takes me right back to Airfix kits at my gran’s kitchen table of a weekend.

Arguably the better fighter in the Battle of Britain

See I’d say Fw190

See I’d say Fw190

nice to see a full size one 😉

PP I think that must be an early BE 2 in your great great uncles photo.

the Vintage aviator make replica’s of these as well.

http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/projects/be2

Arado AR234 “Blitz”

Fw190 first in service in 1941, so not in the BoB. Sorry, pedant mode kicked in again

Mig 3

Damn you with your “facts” 👿 .Battle of Britain in our house was mostly every wednesday before tea….and some times Jerry got to win.

Thunderjug. The joke went, “how do you evade enemy fire in a P47? Answer: Undo the straps and run around the cockpit”.

A Mig 3 has been restored in Russia. It never ceases to amaze me how many rare planes are being brought back to life.

The massively underrated victim of ‘doctrine’ and incorrect application of assets that was hugely effective when used correctly – the Boulton-Paul Defiant

Mig 3 has been restored in Russia. It never ceases to amaze me how many rare planes are being brought back to life.

IIRC! Didn’t they effectively find the factory, abandoned and looking like the Marie-celeste,

This is simply beautiful.

The B-17 Flying Fortress

Good call on the Hellcat, btw.

I think that must be an early BE 2 in your great great uncles photo.

Thanks JimW, that’s what I was thinking, a beautiful looking aircraft, but not that effective apparently.

First 200mph fighter – Hawker Fury

Arguably the ultimate development of the piston engine fighter – Hawker Sea Fury

I was gonna drop the Schneider Trophy winning Supermarine but beaten to it and undoubtedly the defining aircraft of the interwar years.

So I’ll stick the P-38 Lightning in instead

And it’s offspring, the rather bizarre, never fought in the war (but did fly in 1945) P-82 Twin Mustang. Apparently the record holder for the longest nonstop flight ever made by a propeller-driven fighter (5051 miles so no trouble getting over Southern Germany)

Mosquito and Catalina for the wins. Remaining choice is limited.

Beech Staggerwing.
Biplane pron.

Supermarine Stranraer

Short S25 Sunderland

The massively underrated victim of ‘doctrine’ and incorrect application of assets that was hugely effective when used correctly – the Boulton-Paul Defiant

What? You mean when they were mistaken for Huricanes and dived on from behind. Can’t think of any other occasion when the Defiant was a success. It wasn’t designed as a night fighter either, if you are going to use that an example.

Horsa glider

This is my favourite from that era:

Had one fly over head once at the same time as I was up in the air trying to catch the ball at a line out, I think I dropped it as I was distracted!

Northrop P61 Black Widow

The issue with the twin mustang
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhGRzKcAu10[/video]

Zero

Bristol Bulldog

finish gloster gauntlet

cg pzl p.11

the real thing

Polikarpov I-16

Polikarpov I-153 Chaika

Tupolev SB-2

Bristol Beaufighter

Westland Whirlwind – came up in the wiki page on the Beaufighter.