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North American P-51 Mustang

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Created as a private-venture project by a company that was not officially recognized in its own country as worthy of designing fighter aircraft, the North American P-51 Mustang grew out of Britain’s overwhelming need for large quantities of modern high-performance fighters in the early stages of the Second World War.

It was one of the very few successful warplanes in history that was conceived without an official specification ever being raised before its creation.

Messerschmitt Bf 109

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The Messerschmitt Bf 109 (also referred to as the Messerschmitt Me 109) was one of the world’s great fighter planes and it enjoyed the distinction of having built in greater numbers than any other – some 33,000 were built. It was mass-produced in Germany from 1936 through 1945 and it was built in other countries after the war, serving in Spain until 1967.

Supermarine Spitfire

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Of all the fighters that have served with the Royal Air Force since its formation in 1918, none has achieved wider, no more widely deserved, fame than the Supermarine Spitfire.

No better example can be found of ”the right aeroplane being available at the right time”; it was the Spitfire, more than other single type, that allowed the RAF’s fighter squadrons during World War II first to blunt the spearhead of the Luftwaffe’s attack on Britain.

Focke-Wulf Fw 190

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When the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 first appeared in action over the coast of France during the autumn of 1941 it was certainly the most advanced fighter in the world.

For the first time the Luftwaffe fighter pilots were to have an ascendency over the contemporary Spitfire, an ascendancy which they enjoyed at least until the introduction of the Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX during the autumn of 1942. The Fw 190 unofficially named Würger (Butcher Bird), was perhaps the most perfect radial-engine fighter ever built.

Lockheed P-38 Lightning

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The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was the first military type developed by the Lockheed Aircraft Corps.

It made its first flight on January 27, 1939, but crashed

at the end of a record transcontinental flight California

to New York on February 11.

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