One of the most successful fighter aircraft of World War II, the Hellcat was a development of the Wildcat fitted with a Double Wasp engine providing 1,492 kw (2,000-hp), the prototype, the XF6F-1, flying at Bethpage on 26 June 1942, the second prototype, the XF6F-3 flying six weeks later on

The Dauntless was a Northrop design which originated in 1938, the company subsequently being absorbed into the Douglas Aircraft Corp, and the Northrop XBT-2 became the Douglas XSBD-1.

The Baffin was designed by Major F A Bumpus to meet a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm requirement, and was built by the Blackburn Aircraft & Motor Co Ltd of Brough, in Yorkshire to succeed the company’s Ripon as the standard torpedo bomber with the FAA for operation from that