RapidFireWeb Supermarine Stranraer The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document Warplanes from the Second World War preserved in the United Kingdom. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft to provide and update the data on this website. Photos are by the author unless otherwise credited. Any errors found here … Read more
Westland Wyvern (RN Photo) The Westland Wyvern is a British single-seat carrier-based multi-role strike aircraft built by Westland Aircraft that served in the 1950s, seeing service in the 1956 Suez Crisis. Production Wyverns were powered by a turboprop engine driving large and distinctive contra-rotating propellers, and could carry aerial torpedoes. (RN Photo) Westland Wyvern S Mk. 4. … Read more
Bell X-2 Starbuster (NACA Photo) The Bell X-2 (nicknamed “Starbuster”) was an X-plane research aircraft built to investigate flight characteristics in the Mach 2–3 range. The X-2 was a rocket-powered, swept-wing research aircraft developed jointly in 1945 by Bell Aircraft Corporation, the United States Air Force and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to explore … Read more
Westland Lysander (RAF Photo) Westland Lysander formation, breaking off. (RAF Photo) Westland Lysander formation. (Mike Freer – Touchdown-aviation Photo) Westland Lysander Mk. III (Serial No. V9367), ex-RCAF (Serial No. 1582), Reg. No. G-AZWT, painted in the markings of a Polish Aqn (Serial No. V9441), ca 1999, The Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden, Bedfordshire. Airworthy. (Tim Felce Photos) (Paul … Read more
North American XB-70A Valkyrie (USAF Photo) North American XB-70A Valkyrie. The futuristic XB-70A was originally conceived in the 1950s as a high-altitude, nuclear strike bomber that could fly at Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound). At that time, any potential enemy would have been unable to defend against such a bomber. By the early … Read more
Alabama Warplanes (USAF Photo) North American RF-51D-25-NT Mustang (Serial No. 44-84522), 160th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, Alabama Air National Guard, ca 1949. Lockheed C-36 Electra, Maxwell Field, Alabama, 27 March 1939. This type was originally designated Y1C-36 and was later redesignated as UC-36. (USAF Photo) (USAF Photo) Republic RF-84 Thunderflash of the Alabama Air National Guard, … Read more
Supermarine Spitfire Tr. 9 The aim of this web page is to locate, identify and document Supermarine Spitfires preserved in the United Kingdom. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft to provide and update the data on this website. Photos are by the author unless otherwise credited. Any errors found here are … Read more
Vickers Wellington The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document Warplanes from the Second World War preserved in the United Kingdom. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft to provide and update the data on this website. Photos are by the author unless otherwise credited. Any errors found here … Read more
Westland P.12 Delanne Lysander (RAF Photo) Westrland P.12 Delanne Lysander The P.12, also sometimes referred to as the Wendover[citation needed], was a rebuild of the prototype Lysander K6127 with a Delanne configuration tandem rear wing to carry a four-gun power-operated tail gun turret. The design was intended for “beach strafing” in case of invasion of the … Read more
Supermarine Spitfire Mk. V (IWM Photo, CH 2929) Supermarine Spitfire Mk. Vb (Serial R6923), No 92 Squadron RAF based at Biggin Hill, Kent, UK. R6923 was originally a Mk. I, converted to a Mk. V after serving with No. 19 Squadron and No. 7 Operational Training Unit in 1940. It was shot down over the … Read more
