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Just too late for World War I – The Martinsyde Buzzard 19 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
The first true fighter developed by the Martinsyde company was the F.1 created in 1915 as a substantial two-bay biplane powered by a Rolls-Royce Mk III (later Eagle III) water-cooled V-12 engine rated...
Nearing the end of the biplane era: The Gloster Gauntlet 12 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
In the summer of 1927 the British Air Ministry issued Specification F.20/27 for a new fighter, and this elicited a large number of proposals including the Armstrong Whitworth A.W.XVI, Boulton and Paul...