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fighter aircraft A 1917 Albatros D.Va, a German fighter plane of World War I. Fokker Eindecker Capt. William A. (“Billy”) Bishop, a Canadian ace who served in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I, posing in front of his Nieuport type 17 fighter plane, France, August 1917. A restored U.S. FJ-4B Fury naval jet fighter of the 1950s (top) flying in echelon with two restored Soviet fighters of the same era—a MiG-17 (middle) and a MiG-15 (bottom). World War I: Sopwith Camel Sukhoi Su-27 S-37 fighter
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A 1917 Albatros D.Va, a German fighter plane of World War I.
Fokker Eindecker
Capt. William A. (“Billy”) Bishop, a Canadian ace who served in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I, posing in front of his Nieuport type 17 fighter plane, France, August 1917.
A restored U.S. FJ-4B Fury naval jet fighter of the 1950s (top) flying in echelon with two restored Soviet fighters of the same era—a MiG-17 (middle) and a MiG-15 (bottom).
World War I: Sopwith Camel
Sukhoi Su-27
S-37 fighter
Watch President Roosevelt outline his Four Freedoms and learn how Britain defeated Germany's Luftwaffe
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Fieseler, Gerhard
Gerhard Fieseler
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Leroy Randle Grumman
American engineer
Dornier, Claudius
Claudius Dornier
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