Boulton Paul Defiant
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The Boulton Paul Defiant is a British interceptor aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force during World War II. The Defiant was designed and built by Boulton Paul Aircraft as a "turret fighter" t
Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I
Defiants of No. 264 Squadron in 1940.
Defiant N1671 from 307 Squadron at the RAF Museum London, partially dismantled, with its tail, engine cowling and outer wing sections removed, 2016
An air-gunner of 264 Squadron wearing a 'GQ Parasuit', or "rhino suit", August 1940
De Havilland Mosquito
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The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was a British twin-engined, multi-role combat aircraft, introduced during the Second World War. Unusual in that its airframe was constructed mostly of wood, it was nick
Boulton Paul Defiant
…though this was mainly due to slow initial production. In mid-1942 it was replaced by better-performing night fighters, the Bristol Beaufighter and de Havilland Mosquito. The Defiant continued to find use in gunnery training, target towing, electronic countermeasures and air-sea rescue. Among RAF pilots it had the…
Mosquito B Mk IV Series 2 bomber with No. 105 Squadron of the Royal Air Force
Construction concepts pioneered in the DH.88 Comet were later used in the Mosquito.
One of de Havilland's proposals was to adapt the de Havilland Albatross design to create a fast bomber.
1943 advertisement for de Havilland taken from Flight & Aircraft Engineer magazine highlights the speed of the B Mk.IV.