__________ 1945 Avro York One of No 51 Squadron's Avro Yorks, taking part in the Berlin Airlift in 1948, runs up its engines at Gatow airfield before returning to West Germany for more supplies

__________ 1945 Avro Lincoln Avro Lincolns of No 7 Squadron on a bombing mission against Malaysian terrorists in 1954. The aircraft was a development of the Lancaster, but its improvements included a greater wingspan, improved engines with four-blade propellers and a longer...

__________ 1944 Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI In foreground is the machine flown by Flt Lt Raymond Baxter - picture depicts No 602 Squadron making a low-level precision attack on Baatsher-Mex building in The Hague, HQ of German V1/V2 research, on 18 March 1945

__________ 1944 Republic Thunderbolt A Thunderbolt P-47II of No 134 Squadron taxies out onto a flooded airstrip in Burma late in a 1944 monsoon. This was the heaviest single-engine fighter at that time; as can be seen, it needed a very deep fuselage to accommodate the...

__________ 1944 Hawker Tempest A Hawker Tempest V from No 3 Squadron, flown by Flight Lieutenant Pierre Clostermann, engages in a dog-fight with Focke-Wulf Ta 152s (later edition of the 190) in April 1945

__________ 1937 Fairey Battle A flight of Fairey Battles of No 218 Squadron on patrol over the snow-covered French countryside in January 1940. This plane lacked the performance and fire-power necessary to combat the German fighters and was quickly withdrawn from service

__________ 1937 Bristol Blenheim I A Bristol Blenheim I from No 211 Squadron attacks Italian troops at Klisura, Albania during the Greek campaign of late 1940

__________ 1937 Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Whitley Vs of No 51 Squadron from RAF Dishforth drop propaganda leaflets over Germany in 1940. This five-seater heavy bomber had a maximum bomb load of 7000lb, and was one of the mainstays of Bomber Command at the outbreak of war

__________ 1936 Avro Anson An Avro Anson, on Air-Sea Rescue duties with No 279 Squadron, liaises with an RAF launch off the East Anglian coast

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If Dave hasn't beaten me to the punch.