Description: The Westland Wyvern was a British single-seat carrier-based attack aircraft of the 1950s intended to cover a wide variety of roles. Apart from the cannons, rockets, and bombs usually carried by such aircraft, the Wyvern was unusual in that it could also carry a torpedo long after it ceased being normal armament on other contemporary aircraft. Another unusual feature was its contra-rotating propellers.
Description: The Fairey Gannet is a carrier-borne Anti-submarine warfare and Airborne Early Warning aircraft of the immediate post World War II-era developed for the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm. It has a conventional monoplane mid-wing and tricycle undercarriage. The pilot sits over the gas turbine engine atop the fuselage and behind the double, co-axial, contra-rotating propellors; the one (or two) crew sit in additional cockpit stations behind the pilot. The second crew member sat in a separate fuselage "bubble" facing the tail.
Description: The Hawker Hunter was a British jet fighter aircraft of the 1950s. Considered by many to be the finest transonic fighter, the Hunter served for many years with the Royal Air Force, and was widely exported, serving with 19 air forces. A total of 1,927 Hunters were produced by Hawker Siddley and under license.
Description: The Gloster Aircraft Company was a British aircraft manufacturer formed in 1917 as the Gloucestershire Aircraft Company Limited. In 1926 the name of the company was abbreviated to Gloster because customers outside of the United Kingdom found the original name too difficult to pronounce. The company produced the Gloster Grebe; Gloster Gladiator; Hawker Hurricane; Hawker Typhoon; Gloster Meteor and Gloster Javelin and its test runway became famous for the first flight of Sir Frank Whittle's turbo-jet aircraft.
Description: The M3 was the bigger brother to the M2 Half Track Car which was intended as an artillery tractor. It had a longer chassis than the M2 with access doors in the rear and seating for 10 troops - 5 either side. A pintle mount or pulpit-ring over the front seats was used for a 0.5 calibre M2 machine gun and 0.30 cal machine guns could be used form mounts along the sides of the passenger compartment. The body was armoured all round with an adjustable armoured shutter for the engine's radiator and a bullet proof windscreen.
Description: The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (NATO reporting name Fresco) is a Russian jet fighter aircraft armed with 3 cannons, considered to be most effective in action against enemy aircraft. Its bombload was considered light relative to other aircraft of the time since it had been designed primarily as an interceptor.
Description: The Type VIIC/42 was designed in 1942 and 1943 to replace the aging Type VIIC. It would have had a much stronger pressure hull, with plating thickness up to 28 mm, and would have dived twice as deep as the previous VIICs. These boats would have been very similar in external appearance to the VIIC/41 but with two periscopes in the tower and would have carried two more torpedoes.
