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starting with the sopwith camel and ending in the hawker harrier
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most successful allied fighter in WW1
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first four gun fighter plane
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Best fighter in the First World War and RAF standard fighter to 1925
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Harry Hawker attempts the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight
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Sydney Camm’s highly successful very light aircraft
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Easy-to-build steel tube structure, faster than the RAF’s best fighters
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First 200mph aircraft in RAF service
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The RAF’s first 300mph aircraft. The first 8-gun fighter and with a retractable undercarriage Crucial in the Battle of Britain, the most successful allied fighter in World War Two
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The first 400mph aircraft in RAF service
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Downs more V1 flying bombs than any other type
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Amongst the world’s fastest piston-engined aircraft
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Navy buy 420, far more than any other jet aircraft type
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Made a “Super Priority” aircraft for the RAF and NATO – nearly 2000 built
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unique vertical take-off and landing fixed-wing aircraft the world’s first operational VTOL aircraft - wins air race between New York and London city centres in 1969
