Combat aviation of the USSR: long-range bomber Il-4 (DB-3F). All-metal twin-engined monoplane with closed cockpit and retractable landing gear. The first flight – 1936. Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow The Ilyushin Il-4 (DB-3F) was a Soviet twin…

Combat aviation of Great Britain: the Hawker Hurricane (Mk. 2B model) is a British single-seat fighter aircraft of the 1930s–1940s that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd. for service with the Royal Air Force (RAF). Developed in 1935…

Breguet 941S (62-NC): French four-engine turboprop short takeoff and landing In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the French aviation pioneer Louis Charles Bréguet developed a concept for a short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft using four free-turbine turboshaft…

Combat aviation: jet fighter MiG-21 SM. The maximum speed is 2230 km / h. The practical ceiling is 18000 m. The flight range is 1800 km. Crew – 1 person. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic…

The SEPECAT Jaguar is an Anglo-French jet attack aircraft originally used by the British Royal Air Force and the French Air Force in the close air support and nuclear strike role. It is still in service with the Indian Air Force. Originally conceived in the…

Tu-4. Long range heavy bomber. Developed in the USSR in 1947 on the US B-29 bomber. First Russian nuclear carrier. 6200 km flight range with 558 km/h The Tupolev Tu-4 (Russian: Туполев Ту-4; NATO reporting name: Bull) is a piston-engined Soviet strategic…

Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle Super 10. Air Toulouse air company The Caravelle belongs to the first generation of passenger aircraft to use newly developed jet propulsion technology, and it was the first jet airliner developed specifically for the short/medium…

ATR 72-600 (F-WWEY): Franco-Italian turboprop regional airliner The ATR 72 is a twin-engine turboprop, short-haul regional airliner developed and produced in France and Italy by aircraft manufacturer ATR (Avions de transport régional or Aerei da Trasporto…

The Hirth Hi 27 Acrostar was designed by Arnold Wagner to win aerobatic competitions, in part by having handling independent of orientation, upright or inverted. A single engine, single seat low-wing monoplane, it was built in West Germany by Wolf Hirth GmbH…

Mignet HM 293 Pou-du-Ciel: French trainer aircraft The odd name comes from the French nickname for the Ford Model T automobile: Pou de la Route, or “Louse of the Road”, because Henry Ford’s economy car was so common. Henri Mignet dreamed of creating a Model…

The Daimler L20, later known as the Klemm-Daimler L20, was one of the first light aircraft to be built in significant numbers. A two-seater with an engine of only 20 hp (15 kW), it demonstrated the ability of a small aircraft to cope with flights over the…

Aéroplanes Morane-Saulnier was a French aircraft manufacturing company formed in October 1911 by Raymond Saulnier (1881–1964) and the Morane brothers, Léon (1885–1918) and Robert (1886–1968). The company was taken over and diversified in the 1960s. During…

The Dassault Super Mystère is a French fighter-bomber and was the first Western European supersonic aircraft to enter mass production. As the Super Mystère B.2, sometimes known as the SMB.2, the aircraft entered production in 1957. The production version…

The Dassault M.D.450 Ouragan (French: Hurricane) is a French fighter-bomber developed and produced by Dassault Aviation. It has its origins in a private venture by Dassault to produce an all-French aircraft which would make use of jet propulsion, which subsequently…

The Hawker Hunter is a transonic British jet-powered fighter aircraft that was developed by Hawker Aircraft for the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It was designed to take advantage of the newly developed Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet…

MiG-17 frontline multipurpose fighter. Designed in 1949. Crew – 1, armament – 23 mm NR-23 gun; 37 mm N – 37 D gun, speed – 1114 km/h, ceiling – 15600 m, flight range – 1295 km The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17  is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the…