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169 relations: Air International, Air marshal, Air Ministry, Air Observation Post, Aircraft fairing, Alberta, Angle of incidence (aerodynamics), Anti-submarine warfare, Army cooperation aircraft, Arthur Barratt, Arthur Davenport (engineer), Artillery observer, Avro, Axis powers, Battle of Britain, Battle of France, Bedfordshire, Bristol Aeroplane Company, Bristol Mercury, Bristol Perseus, Bristol Type 148, British Expeditionary Force (World War II), British Indian Army, British Overseas Airways Corporation, Brussels, Burma Campaign, Calais, Calgary, Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Canadian Car and Foundry, Canadian Museum of Flight, Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, CFB Rockcliffe, Chad, Chantilly, Virginia, Chindits, Close air support, Coastal artillery, Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Conventional landing gear, Cross of Lorraine, Curtiss O-52 Owl, Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, Drop tank, Dunkirk evacuation, Duralumin, Duxford, Egyptian Air Force, Elektron (alloy), Empennage, ..., English Channel, Expo 86, Extrusion, Fantasy of Flight, Fieseler Fi 156, Finnish Air Force, Flap (aeronautics), Fleet Air Arm, Florida Air Museum, Free French Air Forces, French Resistance, Gabon, Gatineau, Gaullism, German military administration in occupied France during World War II, Great Britain, Grumman FF, Gull wing, Hamilton, Ontario, Hawker Aircraft, Hawker Hector, Hawker Hurricane, Henschel Hs 126, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Indian Air Force, Indian Air Force Museum, Palam, Irish Air Corps, Israel, Kokusai Ki-76, Lakeland, Florida, Langley, British Columbia (district municipality), Leading edge slot, Lewis gun, Liaison aircraft, Libya, License, List of Air Ministry specifications, List of aircraft of Canada's air forces, List of aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force, List of aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force, List of aircraft of World War II, List of military aircraft of Finland, List of military aircraft of the United States, List of Royal Air Force Operational Training Units, London, Luftwaffe, LWS-3 Mewa, Lynn Garrison, Lysander, M1919 Browning machine gun, Malton, Mississauga, Mockup, Musée de l’air et de l’espace, Museu do Ar, Nash & Thompson, National Air and Space Museum, National Steel Car, Nautical mile, Nazism, New Brunswick, No. 138 Squadron RAF, No. 161 Squadron RAF, No. 225 Squadron RAF, No. 414 Squadron RCAF, North American O-47, North American P-51 Mustang, Old Warden, Ontario, Operation Sea Lion, Ottawa, Palam, Paris, Polk City, Florida, Portuguese Air Force, Radial engine, RAF Newmarket, RAF Odiham, RAF Tangmere, RAF Tempsford, Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Museum London, Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, Royal Navy, Saint John, New Brunswick, Search and rescue, Sheet metal, Shuttleworth Collection, Sleeve valve, Sparta, Special Operations Executive, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Stinson Reliant, STOL, Tandem wing, Target tug, Taylorcraft Auster, Toronto, Turkish Air Force, Twin tail, United Kingdom, United States Army Air Forces, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Vichy France, Vickers K machine gun, Vintage Wings of Canada, W. E. W. Petter, Westland Aircraft, Westland Wapiti, Zaventem, .303 British, 1948 Palestine war, 400 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, 402 Squadron, 438 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, 439 Combat Support Squadron, 440 Transport Squadron. Expand index (119 more) »
Air International
AIR International is a British aviation magazine covering current defence aerospace and civil aviation topics.
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Air marshal
Air Marshal (Air Mshl or AM) is a three-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force.
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Air Ministry
The Air Ministry was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, that existed from 1918 to 1964.
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Air Observation Post
Air Observation Post (AOP) is the term used by the Royal Air Force and other services of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth air forces, for an aeroplane or helicopter used in the role of artillery spotter.
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Aircraft fairing
An aircraft fairing is a structure whose primary function is to produce a smooth outline and reduce drag.
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Alberta
Alberta is a western province of Canada.
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Angle of incidence (aerodynamics)
On fixed-wing aircraft, the angle of incidence (sometimes referred to as the mounting angle) is the angle between the chord line of the wing where the wing is mounted to the fuselage, and a reference axis along the fuselage (often the direction of minimum drag, or where applicable, the longitudinal axis).
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Anti-submarine warfare
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, or other submarines to find, track and deter, damage, or destroy enemy submarines.
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Army cooperation aircraft
The army cooperation aircraft was an inter-war concept of an aircraft capable of support of ground units in a variety of roles.
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Arthur Barratt
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Sheridan Barratt, (25 February 1891 – 4 November 1966) was an officer in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
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Arthur Davenport (engineer)
Arthur Davenport F.R.Ae.S (1891–1976) was a British aircraft engineer working for Westland Aircraft.
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Artillery observer
A military artillery observer or spotter or FO (forward observer) is responsible for directing artillery and mortar fire onto a target, and may be a Forward Air Controller (FAC) for close air support and spotter for naval gunfire support.
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Avro
Avro was a British aircraft manufacturer.
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Axis powers
The Axis powers (Achsenmächte; Potenze dell'Asse; 枢軸国 Sūjikukoku), also known as the Axis and the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied forces.
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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain (Luftschlacht um England, literally "The Air Battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
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Battle of France
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
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Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire (abbreviated Beds.) is a county in the East of England.
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Bristol Aeroplane Company
The Bristol Aeroplane Company, originally the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was both one of the first and one of the most important British aviation companies, designing and manufacturing both airframes and aircraft engines.
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Bristol Mercury
The Bristol Mercury is a nine-cylinder, air-cooled, single-row, piston radial engine.
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Bristol Perseus
The Bristol Perseus was a British nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial aircraft engine produced by the Bristol Engine Company starting in 1932.
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Bristol Type 148
The Bristol Type 148 was a prototype two-seat, single-engine low-wing monoplane built in 1937 to an Air Ministry contact for an army cooperation aircraft.
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British Expeditionary Force (World War II)
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the name of the British Army in Western Europe during the Second World War from 2 September 1939 when the BEF GHQ was formed until 31 May 1940, when GHQ closed down.
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British Indian Army
The Indian Army (IA), often known since 1947 (but rarely during its existence) as the British Indian Army to distinguish it from the current Indian Army, was the principal military of the British Indian Empire before its decommissioning in 1947.
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British Overseas Airways Corporation
British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned airline created in 1940 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd.
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Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium.
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Burma Campaign
The Burma Campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of Burma, South-East Asian theatre of World War II, primarily between the forces of the British Empire and China, with support from the United States, against the invading forces of Imperial Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army.
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Calais
Calais (Calés; Kales) is a city and major ferry port in northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture.
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Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta.
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Canada Aviation and Space Museum
The Canada Aviation and Space Museum (Musée de l'Aviation et de l'Espace du Canada) (formerly the Canada Aviation Museum and National Aeronautical Collection) is Canada's national aviation history museum.
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Canadian Car and Foundry
Canadian Car and Foundry (CC&F) also variously known as "Canadian Car & Foundry," or more familiarly as "Can Car," manufactured buses, railroad rolling stock and later aircraft for the Canadian market.
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Canadian Museum of Flight
The Canadian Museum of Flight (formally the Canadian Museum of Flight Association since 1998) is an aviation museum at the Langley Regional Airport in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
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Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum is a Canadian aviation museum located at the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport in Hamilton, Ontario.
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CFB Rockcliffe
Canadian Forces Base Rockcliffe (also CFB Rockcliffe) is a former Canadian Forces Base located in the eastern part of Ottawa, Ontario, now used for Ottawa/Rockcliffe Airport and the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
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Chad
Chad (تشاد; Tchad), officially the Republic of Chad ("Republic of the Chad"), is a landlocked country in Central Africa.
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Chantilly, Virginia
Chantilly is a census-designated place (CDP) in western Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.
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Chindits
The Chindits, known officially as the Long Range Penetration Groups, were special operations units of the British and Indian armies, which saw action in 1943–1944, during the Burma Campaign of World War II.
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Close air support
In military tactics, close air support (CAS) is defined as air action such as air strikes by fixed or rotary-winged aircraft against hostile targets that are in close proximity to friendly forces and which requires detailed integration of each air mission with fire and movement of these forces and attacks with aerial bombs, glide bombs, missiles, rockets, aircraft cannons, machine guns, and even directed-energy weapons such as lasers.
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Coastal artillery
Coastal artillery is the branch of the armed forces concerned with operating anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications.
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Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is an aviation museum located at Brandon Municipal Airport, Brandon, Manitoba.
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Conventional landing gear
Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft undercarriage consisting of two main wheels forward of the center of gravity and a small wheel or skid to support the tail.
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Cross of Lorraine
The Cross of Lorraine (Croix de Lorraine) is a heraldic two-barred cross, consisting of a vertical line crossed by two shorter horizontal bars.
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Curtiss O-52 Owl
The Curtiss O-52 "Owl" was an observation aircraft used by the United States Army Air Corps before and during World War II.
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Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk is an American single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground-attack aircraft that first flew in 1938.
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Drop tank
In aviation, a drop tank (external tank, wing tank, or belly tank) is used to describe auxiliary fuel tanks externally carried by aircraft.
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Dunkirk evacuation
The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.
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Duralumin
Duralumin (also called duraluminum, duraluminium, duralum, dural(l)ium, or dural) is a trade name for one of the earliest types of age-hardenable aluminium alloys.
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Duxford
Duxford is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, about south of Cambridge.
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Egyptian Air Force
The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) (القوات الجوية المصرية), is the aviation branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces, is responsible for all airborne defence missions and operates all military aircraft, including those used in support of the Egyptian Army, Egyptian Navy and the Egyptian Air Defense Forces, created as a separate command in the 1970s, coordinates with the Air Force to integrate air and ground-based air defense operations.
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Elektron (alloy)
Elektron is the registered trademark of a wide range of magnesium alloys manufactured by a British company Magnesium Elektron Limited.
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Empennage
The empennage, also known as the tail or tail assembly, is a structure at the rear of an aircraft that provides stability during flight, in a way similar to the feathers on an arrow.
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English Channel
The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Expo 86
The 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, or simply Expo 86, was a World's Fair held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from Friday, May 2 until Monday, October 13, 1986.
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Extrusion
Extrusion is a process used to create objects of a fixed cross-sectional profile.
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Fantasy of Flight
Fantasy of Flight is an aviation-related attraction in Polk City, Florida, United States that takes visitors back to the pioneering days of early flight, World War I, World War II and beyond.
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Fieseler Fi 156
The Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (English: Stork) was a small German liaison aircraft built by Fieseler before and during World War II.
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Finnish Air Force
The Finnish Air Force (FAF or FiAF) (Ilmavoimat ("Air Forces"), Flygvapnet) ("Air Arm") is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces.
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Flap (aeronautics)
Flaps are a type of high-lift device used to increase the lift of an aircraft wing at a given airspeed.
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Fleet Air Arm
The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) is the branch of the British Royal Navy responsible for the operation of naval aircraft.
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Florida Air Museum
The Florida Air Museum is designated as Florida’s "Official Aviation Museum and Education Center." It features a display of aircraft including one-of-a-kind designs, classics, ultra-lights, antiques and warbirds.
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Free French Air Forces
The Free French Air Forces (Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres, FAFL) were the air arm of the Free French Forces during the Second World War from 1940.
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French Resistance
The French Resistance (La Résistance) was the collection of French movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War.
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Gabon
Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic (République gabonaise), is a sovereign state on the west coast of Central Africa.
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Gatineau
Gatineau (locally), officially Ville de Gatineau, is a city in western Quebec, Canada.
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Gaullism
Gaullism (Gaullisme) is a French political stance based on the thought and action of World War II French Resistance leader General Charles de Gaulle, who would become the founding President of the Fifth French Republic.
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German military administration in occupied France during World War II
The Military Administration in France (Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; Occupation de la France par l'Allemagne) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western France.
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Great Britain
Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.
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Grumman FF
The Grumman FF "Fifi" (company designation G-5) was an American biplane fighter aircraft operated by the United States Navy during the 1930s.
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Gull wing
The gull wing is an aircraft wing configuration with a prominent bend in the wing inner section towards the wing root.
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Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario.
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Hawker Aircraft
Hawker Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer responsible for some of the most famous products in British aviation history.
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Hawker Hector
The Hawker Hector was a British biplane army co-operation and liaison aircraft of the late 1930s; it served with the Royal Air Force and saw brief combat in the Battle of France in May 1940.
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Hawker Hurricane
The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft of the 1930s–1940s that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd.
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Henschel Hs 126
The Henschel Hs 126 was a German two-seat reconnaissance and observation aircraft of World War II that was derived from the Henschel Hs 122.
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Imperial War Museum Duxford
Imperial War Museum Duxford is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, England.
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Indian Air Force
The Indian Air Force (IAF; IAST: Bhāratīya Vāyu Senā) is the air arm of the Indian armed forces.
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Indian Air Force Museum, Palam
The Indian Air Force Museum, Palam, is the museum of the Indian Air Force, and is located at the Palam Air Force Station in Delhi, India.
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Irish Air Corps
The Air Corps (An tAerchór) is the air component of the Defence Forces of Ireland.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.
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Kokusai Ki-76
The Kokusai Ki-76, or Liaison Aircraft Type 3 (in 三式指揮連絡機), was a Japanese high-wing monoplane artillery spotter and liaison aircraft that served in World War II.
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Lakeland, Florida
Lakeland is a city in Polk County, Florida, along Interstate 4 east of Tampa.
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Langley, British Columbia (district municipality)
The Township of Langley is a district municipality immediately east of the City of Surrey in southwestern British Columbia, Canada.
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Leading edge slot
A leading edge slot is a fixed aerodynamic feature of the wing of some aircraft to reduce the stall speed and promote good low-speed handling qualities.
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Lewis gun
The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War-era light machine gun of US design that was perfected and mass-produced in the United Kingdom, and widely used by British and British Empire troops during the war.
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Liaison aircraft
A liaison aircraft (also called an army cooperation aircraft) is a small, usually unarmed aircraft primarily used by military forces for artillery observation or transporting commanders and messages.
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Libya
Libya (ليبيا), officially the State of Libya (دولة ليبيا), is a sovereign state in the Maghreb region of North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.
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License
A license (American English) or licence (British English) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit).
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List of Air Ministry specifications
This is a partial list of the British Air Ministry (AM) specifications for aircraft.
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List of aircraft of Canada's air forces
This is a list of aircraft of Canada's air forces.
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List of aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm
This is a list of aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA).
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List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force
Many aircraft types have served in the British Royal Air Force since its formation in April 1918 from the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service.
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List of aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force
Many aircraft types have served in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) since it was formed in March 1921.
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List of aircraft of World War II
The List of aircraft of World War II includes all the aircraft used by those countries, which were at war during World War II from the period between their joining the conflict and the conflict ending for them.
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List of military aircraft of Finland
The following is a list of military aircraft of Finland, both historical and currently in use by the Finnish Defence Forces.
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List of military aircraft of the United States
This list of military aircraft of the United States includes prototype, pre-production, and operational types.
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List of Royal Air Force Operational Training Units
Royal Air Force Operational Training Units (OTU) were training units that prepared aircrew for operations on a particular type or types of aircraft or roles.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.
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LWS-3 Mewa
The LWS-3 Mewa ("Seagull") was a Polish observation and close reconnaissance aircraft, designed in the late-1930s by the LWS factory.
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Lynn Garrison
Lynn Garrison (born April 1, 1937) is a Canadian pilot and political adviser.
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Lysander
Lysander (died 395 BC, Λύσανδρος, Lýsandros) was a Spartan admiral who commanded the Spartan fleet in the Hellespont which defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC.
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M1919 Browning machine gun
The M1919 Browning is a.30 caliber medium machine gun that was widely used during the 20th century, especially during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
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Malton, Mississauga
Malton is a neighbourhood in the northeastern part of the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, located to the northwest of Toronto.
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Mockup
In manufacturing and design, a mockup, or mock-up, is a scale or full-size model of a design or device, used for teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion, and other purposes.
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Musée de l’air et de l’espace
The Musée de l'air et de l'espace, (English: Air and Space Museum), is a French aerospace museum, located at the south-eastern edge of Le Bourget Airport, north of Paris, and in the commune of Le Bourget.
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Museu do Ar
The Air Museum (Museu do Ar) is an aviation museum of the Portuguese Air Force located at Sintra Air Base and with spaces at Ovar and Alverca.
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Nash & Thompson
Nash & Thompson was a British engineering firm that developed and produced hydraulically operated gun turrets for aircraft.
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National Air and Space Museum
The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, also called the NASM, is a museum in Washington, D.C..
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National Steel Car
National Steel Car is the largest manufacturer of rolling stock in Canada, based in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Nautical mile
A nautical mile is a unit of measurement defined as exactly.
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Nazism
National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.
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New Brunswick
New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick; Canadian French pronunciation) is one of three Maritime provinces on the east coast of Canada.
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No. 138 Squadron RAF
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No. 161 Squadron RAF
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No. 225 Squadron RAF
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No. 414 Squadron RCAF
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North American O-47
The North American O-47 is an observation fixed-wing aircraft monoplane used by the United States Army Air Corps.
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North American P-51 Mustang
The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts.
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Old Warden
Old Warden is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, just west of the town of Biggleswade.
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Ontario
Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.
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Operation Sea Lion
Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion (Unternehmen Seelöwe), was Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War.
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Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.
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Palam
Palam is a major suburb and residential colony in South West Delhi.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.
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Polk City, Florida
Polk City is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States.
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Portuguese Air Force
The Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa) is the aerial warfare force of Portugal.
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Radial engine
The radial engine is a reciprocating type internal combustion engine configuration in which the cylinders "radiate" outward from a central crankcase like the spokes of a wheel.
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RAF Newmarket
RAF Newmarket was a Royal Air Force station located near Newmarket, Suffolk, England, near the border with Cambridgeshire.
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RAF Odiham
Royal Air Force Odiham or more simply RAF Odiham is a Royal Air Force station situated a little to the south of the historic village of Odiham in Hampshire, England.
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RAF Tangmere
RAF Tangmere which was in Tangmere, 3 miles (5 km) east of Chichester, West Sussex, England, was a Royal Air Force station famous for its role in the Battle of Britain.
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RAF Tempsford
RAF Tempsford is a former Royal Air Force station located north east of Sandy, Bedfordshire, England and south of St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, England.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.
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Royal Air Force Museum London
The Royal Air Force Museum London, commonly called the RAF Museum, is located on the former Hendon Aerodrome, with five major buildings and hangars dedicated to the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force.
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Royal Canadian Air Force
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; Aviation royale canadienne, ARC) is the air force of Canada.
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Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History
The Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History (Musée Royal de l’Armée et d’Histoire Militaire, often abbreviated to MRA, Koninklijk Museum van het Leger en de Krijgsgeschiedenis, KLM) is a military museum that occupies the two northernmost halls of the historic complex in Cinquantenaire Park in Brussels, Belgium.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Saint John, New Brunswick
Saint John is the port city of the Bay of Fundy in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
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Search and rescue
Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.
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Sheet metal
Sheet metal is metal formed by an industrial process into thin, flat pieces.
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Shuttleworth Collection
The Shuttleworth Collection is an aeronautical and automotive museum located at the Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden in Bedfordshire, England.
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Sleeve valve
The sleeve valve is a type of valve mechanism for piston engines, distinct from the usual poppet valve.
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Sparta
Sparta (Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, Spártā; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, Spártē) was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece.
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Special Operations Executive
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British World War II organisation.
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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, also called the Udvar-Hazy Center, is the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM)'s annex at Washington Dulles International Airport in the Chantilly area of Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.
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Stinson Reliant
The Stinson Reliant was a popular single-engine four- to five-seat high-wing monoplane manufactured by the Stinson Aircraft Division of the Aviation Manufacturing Corporation of Wayne, Michigan.
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STOL
STOL is an acronym for a short takeoff and landing aircraft, which have short runway requirements for takeoff and landing.
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Tandem wing
QAC Quickie Q2 A tandem wing aircraft has two main wings, with one located forward and the other to the rear.
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Target tug
A target tug is an aircraft which tows an unmanned drone, a fabric drogue or other kind of target, for the purposes of gun or missile target practice.
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Taylorcraft Auster
The Taylorcraft Auster was a British military liaison and observation aircraft produced by the Taylorcraft Aeroplanes (England) Limited company during the Second World War.
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Toronto
Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.
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Turkish Air Force
The Turkish Air Force (Türk Hava Kuvvetleri) is the aerial warfare service branch of the Turkish Armed Forces.
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Twin tail
A twin tail is a specific type of vertical stabilizer arrangement found on the empennage of some aircraft.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States Army Air Forces
The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.
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Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
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Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island is in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Canada.
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Vichy France
Vichy France (Régime de Vichy) is the common name of the French State (État français) headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.
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Vickers K machine gun
Not to be confused with the Vickers light machine gun The Vickers K machine gun, known as the Vickers Gas Operated (Vickers G.O.) in British service, was a rapid-firing machine gun developed and manufactured for use in aircraft by Vickers-Armstrongs.
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Vintage Wings of Canada
Vintage Wings of Canada is a not for profit, charitable organization, with a collection of historically significant aircraft.
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W. E. W. Petter
William Edward Willoughby "Teddy" Petter (8 August 1908, Highgate in Middlesex – 1 May 1968, Béruges) was a British aircraft designer.
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Westland Aircraft
Westland Aircraft was a British aircraft manufacturer located in Yeovil, Somerset.
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Westland Wapiti
The Westland Wapiti was a British two-seat general-purpose military single-engined biplane of the 1920s.
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Zaventem
Zaventem is a Belgian municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant.
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.303 British
The.303 British (designated as the 303 British by the C.I.P. and SAAMI) or 7.7×56mmR, is a calibre (with the bore diameter measured between the lands as is common practice in Europe) rimmed rifle cartridge first developed in Britain as a black-powder round put into service in December 1888 for the Lee–Metford rifle.
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1948 Palestine war
The 1948 Palestine war, known in Hebrew as the War of Independence (מלחמת העצמאות, Milkhemet Ha'Atzma'ut) or the War of Liberation (מלחמת השחרור, Milkhemet HaShikhrur) and in Arabic as The Nakba or Catastrophe (النكبة, al-Nakba), refers to the war that occurred in the former Mandatory Palestine during the period between the United Nations vote on the partition plan on November 30, 1947, and the official end of the first Arab–Israeli war on July 20, 1949.
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400 Tactical Helicopter Squadron
400 "City of Toronto" Tactical Helicopter and Training Squadron is part of 1 Wing, and as such a lodger unit of Canadian Forces Base Borden.
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402 Squadron
402 "City of Winnipeg" Squadron (French: 402e Escadron) is a Royal Canadian Air Force (formerly the Canadian Forces) squadron based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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438 Tactical Helicopter Squadron
438 "City of Montreal" Tactical Helicopter Squadron (French: 438e Escadron tactique d'hélicoptères) is a unit of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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439 Combat Support Squadron
439 Combat Support Squadron (French: 439e Escadron de soutien au combat) is a squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force, based in Bagotville, Quebec. No. 439 Squadron RCAF was a unit of the Royal Canadian Air Force, formed during World War II. No. 123 (Army Co-operation) Squadron was formed on 15 January 1942 and flew army training operations in Ontario and Nova Scotia with the Westland Lysander. It was renumbered No. 439 (Fighter Bomber) Squadron on December 31, 1943, when it transferred to Wellingore, England and spent the war in England, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany. It flew the Hawker Hurricane, and later the Hawker Typhoon. They disbanded at Flensburg, Germany, on August 26, 1945. They reformed at Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Station Uplands (CFB Uplands) on September 1, 1951, and went to 1 Wing North Luffenham on May 4, 1952, they then moved to 1 Wing Marville, France, on April 1, 1955. The squadron was equipped with the F-86 Sabre. They were deactivated between November 30, 1963, and February 28, 1964, and reactivated on March 1, 1964, as 439 Strike/Attack Squadron, equipped with CF-104 Starfighters. They moved with 3 Wing to Lahr, Germany on April 1, 1967, then to CFB Baden-Soellingen, Germany in 1971 as 439 Tactical Fighter Squadron. The squadron disbanded in November 1984 and reformed in November 1985 with the CF-18. They were disbanded at Baden-Soellingen on 15 May 1993 and reactivated shortly after at 3 Wing Bagotville as 439 Combat Support Squadron (French: 439e Escadron de soutien au combat). The squadron is now equipped with the CH-146 Griffon.
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440 Transport Squadron
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Lysander (aircraft), Westland Lysander III, Westland Lysander Mk.II, Westland Lysander Mk.III.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_Lysander
