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Boeing B-29 Superfortress

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is perhaps best known as the plane that dropped the world's first atomic bomb by the Enola Gay...

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English Electric Canberra

The English Electric Canberra stayed in service for 55 years with the Royal Air Force and the English Electric Canberra would set a number...

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Hawker Demon

The Hawker Demon was the fighter version of the Hawker aircraft, the Hart bomber. The Hawker Demon would serve with both the Royal Air Force...

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	1/5/41	The first production P-51 Mustang flies for the first time.
	4/5/53	The English Electric Canberra sets the world altitude record of 63,668 ft.
	6/5/35	The Curtiss P-36 Hawk prototype makes it's maiden flight.
	12/5/49	The Berlin airlift ends in which the Avro York took part.
	14/5/38	The Spitfire Mk I takes to the skies for the first time.
	16/5/43	Nineteen Lancasters of 617 Squadron take part in Operation Chastise.
	21/5/42	The P-61 Black Widow prototype files for the first time.
	24/5/36	The Fiesler Storch prototype makes it's first flight.
	26/5/41	A Catalina of No. 209 Squadron finds the Bismarck.
	29/5/40	The prototype Vought F4U Corsair makes it's first flight.