The Westland Welkin was a British twin-engine heavy fighter from the Westland Aircraft Company, designed to fight at extremely high altitudes, in the...
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(Houston-Wallace) Westland PV.7 Westland F.7/30 Westland Lysander Westland Whirlwind Westland Welkin Westland Wyvern Fairey Gannet AEW.3 - Westland Aircraft took...
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Welkin, a rocket engine Westland Welkin, a British World War 2 high-altitude fighter aircraft Ricardo Welkin, a Re:Zero character Welkin Gunther, a character...
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optionally 2 × 250 lb (115 kg) or 500 lb (230 kg) bombs Related development Westland Welkin Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Focke-Wulf Fw 187...
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variants)#Mk XIVe Mk.XIVe, XVIII,21,22,24[unreliable source?] Westland Welkin Westland Wyvern M1 Bell P-39 Airacobra - some early 20 mm-armed models and...
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only Westland Scout Westland Wasp Westland Sioux WS-61 - Westland Sea King Westland Puma Westland Gazelle WG.13 - Westland Lynx WG.30 - Westland 30 EHI...
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Lightning Mitsubishi Ki-83 Nakajima J5N North American F-82 Twin Mustang Westland Welkin A photo of PX212, with Captain Brown at the controls and both propellers...
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Bendix-Stromberg carburettor. Dedicated "high altitude" version used in the Westland Welkin high-altitude fighter and some later Spitfire and de Havilland Mosquito...
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(ISBN 0-9617029-0-7), p. 275. Some extremely high flying aircraft such as the Westland Welkin used partial pressurization to reduce the effort of using an oxygen...
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Northrop F-15 Reporter Rikugun Ki-93 Tachikawa Ki-74 Vickers Type 432 Westland Welkin Sternenbanner announcement of the B-29 in German, comparing it to the...
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Yeovil Aerodrome (ICAO: EGHG), sometimes known as Yeovil/Westland (to avoid confusion with nearby RNAS Yeovilton), is located in Yeovil, Somerset, England...
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fighter development.[failed verification] Apart from the Westland Whirlwind and the high-altitude Welkin, both built only in modest numbers (the former due...
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configuration, and era Focke-Wulf Ta 152 Kawasaki Ki-64 Nakajima Ki-87 Westland Welkin Related lists List of military aircraft of Germany Lepage 2009, p....
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000 ft), where it was felt to be safe from enemy fighters. The British Westland Welkin and Soviet Yakovlev Yak-9PD were developed specifically to counter...
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aircraft of the United States The British high altitude fighter, the Westland Welkin had a 70 ft (21 m) wingspan but an all up weight of about 10,500 lb...
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Overseas Airways Corporation Messerschmitt Me 262 with the Luftwaffe Westland Welkin with the Royal Air Force′s Fighter Interception Unit Fairey Firefly...
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Union 1941 360 Finland Potez 630 France 1938 1,395 Greece, Romania Westland Welkin United Kingdom 1944 77 Westland Whirlwind United Kingdom 1940 114...
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PV.3 Westland Wallace Westland PV.7 Westland F.7/30 Westland Lysander Westland Whirlwind Westland Welkin Westland Wyvern Technical director In the early...
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2008 by a group of aviation archaeologists. The specially developed Westland Welkin high altitude fighter provided 3.5 psi (240 hPa; 0.24 atm) at 45,000...
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1918 Prototype 4 Westland Welkin UK High-altitude interceptor 1942 Retired 75 Westland Westbury UK Heavy fighter 1926 Prototype 2 Westland Whirlwind UK Heavy...
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Supermarine Seafire (FAA) Vought Corsair (FAA) Westland Whirlwind (RAF) twin engine fighter Westland Welkin (RAF) high altitude fighter Avro Rota (RAF) Army...
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not run satisfactorily above 23,000 ft (7,010 m). When the competing Westland Welkin was ordered into production, the second prototype of the Vickers fighter...
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DH-9A wasn't a variant of the DH-9, but was instead entirely redesigned by Westland. Dominie was the RAF's name for the Dragon Rapide - impressed examples...
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anti-g carburettor. Dedicated "high altitude" version used in the Westland Welkin high-altitude fighter, and some later Spitfire and de Havilland Mosquito...
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prototype Kyushu K11W Shiragiku ("White Chrysanthemum") November 1 – Westland Welkin November 4 or 11 (sources vary) – Latécoère 631 November 8 – Grumman...
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Dornier Do 335 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Westland Welkin Related lists List of military aircraft of Germany List of World War...
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28[page needed] F.4/40 OR.81 High-altitude fighter – superseded by F.7/41 (q.v.) Westland Welkin N.5/40 OR.82 Naval 2-seat Fleet reconnaissance/fighter Fairey Firefly...
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W. E. W. Petter (section Welkin)
1 May 1968, Béruges) was a British aircraft designer. He is noted for Westland's wartime aeroplanes, as well as the Canberra, the early design of the Lightning...
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Sikorsky Whirlwind (helicopter) Westland Wasp Westland Welkin Westland Wessex Westland Whirlwind (fighter) Westland Wyvern (Eagle engine) Winter Zaunkönig...
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specialised in "Ranger" (daylight intruder) operations with Mosquitoes. Two Westland Welkin s served with the Fighter Interception Unit from May to November 1944...
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