...RAF Bomber Command had a meeting to see where the DH.98 could fit into RAF service. the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command refused the desi
A twin engine monoplane which entered service with the Royal Air Force in 1941, the de Havilland Mosquito was originally
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...ble to cope with the constant dive-bombing, led to it being withdrawn from service in Malaya by 1952, and from Aden by 1954.
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...underland served until 1959 in the Royal Air Force, and finally was out of service in 1967 by the RNZAF. Today, only a handful survive (with only one airworth
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...ed and manoeuvrability, the Hampden was declared obsolete and retired from service in 1942.
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...s, plus a float plane modification, the Swordfish would finally bow out of service in 1945 after VE day after showing just how successful the outdated design
...raft was placed in April 1935 and in July 1936 the first Swordfish entered service with 825 Naval Air Squadron of the Fleet Air Arm.
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...is easily capable of taking on single engine fighters. It entered Squadron service in mid-1946. However, it was rarely used as World War Two was drawing to a
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...ed and manoeuvrability, the Hampden was declared obsolete and retired from service in 1942.
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...Production of the Mk Ic proceeded into Autumn 1942, with an entrance into service in April 1940 as a night time bomber as daylight bombing had been ceased at
...gasus engines, the Wellington was first test flown in May 1936 and entered service with RAF Bomber Command in 1938. Full-scale production of the Mk Ic (Type 4
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...Production of the Mk Ic proceeded into Autumn 1942, with an entrance into service in April 1940 as a night time bomber as daylight bombing had been ceased at
...gasus engines, the Wellington was first test flown in May 1936 and entered service with RAF Bomber Command in 1938. Full-scale production of the Mk Ic (Type 4
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...ion of the last of 11,461 Wellingtons, and the aircraft was withdrawn from service in March 1953 after finishing its RAF career as a pilot and navigator train
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...known for its huge, lumbering profile and punishing bomb load. During its service with Britain, it flew 82,773 operations and dropped 224,207 tons of bombs.
...r the French, Egyptian, and Pakistani Air Forces. It remained in Pakistani service until 1961.
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...hroughout the war to hammer back Axis powers. By the end of the Stirling's service, the aircraft had flown a total of 14,500 sorties and dropped 27,000 lbs of
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...hroughout the war to hammer back Axis powers. By the end of the Stirling's service, the aircraft had flown a total of 14,500 sorties and dropped 27,000 lbs of
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...a. The first production run, designated '''Canberra B Mk 2''', entered RAF service in 1951, replacing the Mosquito and [[Lincoln B Mk II|Lincoln]] in frontlin
* High service ceiling(max. altitude)
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...was designed by Roy Chadwick and first flew on 9th January 1941; entering service in 1942. It was produced by Avro, Armstrong Whitworth, Austin Motors, Metro
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...on for a toss bombing system allowing the use of nuclear weapons. Entering service in 1955, the Canberra B (I) Mk 6 was soon withdrawn from Bomber Command ope
.... Trials proved to be successful and the resulting Canberra B Mk.6 entered service with the RAF in 1954.
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The Gloster Gladiator biplane fighter was the best and the last biplane in service with the British RAF.
In 1935, Tuck entered service with the British RAF, and by 1942 he had 29 enemy aircraft destroyed and 2
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...nitially developed for the United States Army Air Corps, but first entered service as an export model.
...F service, the Boston was adopted by the United States Army Air Corps, the service it was originally designed and intended for.
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...military aircraft. The NA-16, with some modifications, would go on to see service in the US Army Air Corps as the BC-1 before being re-designated the T-6 Tex
...ays. Throughout the first months of the war, the Wirraway was pressed into service as a light bomber and as an "emergency fighter". It performed well enough i
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...nsiderably slower than its contemporaries. The aircraft saw limited active service during the Second World War in both frontline and secondary duties.
...ototype configuration first flew in May of 1942 and was later ordered into service as the Boomerang Mark I (contract number CA-12) - a total of 105 Boomerang
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