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RIAT 2007

RIAT 2007

The Royal International Air Tattoo is a very large Air Show containing hundreds of military aircraft from a wide variety of countries both in the static park and flying display. RIAT has been held at Fairford since 1985 and one of the themes of this years display was to mark the 60th anniversary of the [...]

French flying boats and amphibians

French flying boats and amphibians

This article gives an overview of the most important and significant flying boats and amphibians developed and built by the French aircraft industry. In fact France more or less ‘invented’ the flying boat with the Fabre Hydravion which was flown for the first time on 28 March 1910 from the harbour of Marseille. Pilot on [...]

Various combat types

Various combat types

Images of the various combat planes, starting with Albatros WW1 combat plane up to the modern jet age. Most of the images show German airplanes and prototypes. Images bellow present following types: Seahawk Albatros D.12, Avro Arrow, B-25 Michell MLD, BAC Lightning and Soviet Tupolev Bear, Fairey Firefly Turget Tug MLD, Fokker C.Vd, Hawker Hunter [...]