The Hawker Sea Fury was the last piston-engine fighter-bomber to be manufactured in quantity in the United Kingdom.

After many years of research into vertical take-off and landing (VTOL), on 21 October 1960 Hawker Siddeley flew, tethered, the P.1127 (XP831), a single-seat fighter designed around the Bristol Siddeley Pegasus engine which had four rotating exhaust nozzles to provide vertical and horizontal flight.

Following the cessation of hostilities in World War II, Hawker initiated design of a private project single-seat fighter (known as the P-1067) powered by a 6,500 lbst Rolls Royce AJ65 axial flow turbojet fitted with two 30 mm Aden cannon.

The prototype of the Gloster Meteor fighter was flown for the first time on 5 March 1943. It was the first jet fighter to enter service with the Allies, and thus the type was in service during the closing stages of the conflict against Germany.

In 1948 Armstrong Whitworth re-designed the Gloster Meteor as a two-seat night fighter and in this regard it fitted the Rolls Royce Derwent 8 in the NF-11 and the Derwent 9 in the NF-12 and NF-14.

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 definitive prototype of the Wildcat, known by the manufacturer as the G-36, flew for the first time on 2 September 1937 under the designation XF4F-2.

The Halberstadter Flugzeugwerke, formerly the German office of the Bristol & Colonial Aeroplane Company, produced a series of fighter aircraft for the German Airforce prior to and during World War I.

Prior to World War I Hannoversche Waggonfabric AG was known for building railway rolling stock for the various railway in Europe, and in 1915 it was directed by the German Government to commence production of aeroplanes for the armed services.

The Grebe was designed by H P (Harry) Folland for the Gloster Aircraft Company, this company originating in 1917 as the Gloucestershire Aircraft Company which, at a plant near Cheltenham, established itself by building wooden aeroplanes for the RFC, and later the RAF.

In 1940 the design staff at Gloster Aircraft commenced design of an operational jet fighter to meet specification F.9/40, the aircraft built being the only Allied jet aircraft to see operational service during World War II. On 7 February 1941 the British Ministry of Aircraft Production placed an order for

The CR.42 was designed by Celestino Rosatelli and was a development of the CR.32 fighter, and the experimental CR.41 of 1936, and was the last single-seat biplane fighter built by any of the combatants for World War II.

Late in World War II the Fiat company in Italy designed the G-55 Centauro single-seat fighter powered by the Daimler Benz DB-605 12-cylinder VEE liquid-cooled engine, and this aircraft, although built in relatively small numbers, fought very successfully with the Fascist Republican Airforce.

The FW 190 was designed by Kurt Tank, technical director of the Focke Wulf Flugzeugbau, and was one of the most successful fighter aircraft of World War II, commencing life powered by a two-row BMW radial engine, final variants being powered by Junkers Jumo in-line engines.

The Fokker D.I and D.IV were developments by Fokker of the M.18 prototype, the D.I being the production variant of the M.18z, the ‘z’ indicating Zweistielig, meaning a two strut or two bay biplane.

In January 1918 comparison tests were made by the German Army Air Service to obtain an aeroplane with technical superiority over the enemy.

Although one of the most famous aircraft of World War I, the Dr 1 was not in fact one of the great combat aircraft of that era.

The E.III was a single-seat fighting scout produced by Fokker to meet the requirements of the German Air Force in World War I.

The Fokker D.VIII, initially known as the Fokker E.V, parasol fighter, was designed by Anthony H G Fokker and differed from most designs of the time in being a monoplane.

The P-40 series of fighter aircraft commenced with the XP-40 prototype and developed through the P-40C Tomahawk, which was used by the RAAF in the Middle-East campaign, and ultimately to the Kittyhawk.

In an attempt to increase the high-altitude performance of the P-40E Kittyhawk, Curtiss undertook the redesign of the aircraft to take a British-built Rolls Royce Merlin 28 engine with a single-stage, two-speed supercharger, and this was installed in a P-40D airframe and flown for the first time as the XP-40F

Following the success of the Hawk 75A, in July 1937 Curtiss installed a liquid-cooled Allison V-1710-11 engine with a General Electric turbo-supercharger in a Model 75A, becoming the Model 75I.

The CW-21 series was designed and built by the Curtiss Wright Corporation at its St Louis Airplane Division in the 1930s, the first model in the series being the CW-19R, a two-seat general purpose training monoplane powered by a 336 kw (450-hp) Wright R-975-E3 Whirlwind engine.

The Mosquito was probably the most versatile aircraft of World War II, being used in all roles from fighter, night fighter, long-range bomber, pathfinder, to photo-reconnaissance etc.

The DH.100 Vampire was built as a single-seat, jet-propelled, interceptor and the prototype (LZ548/G) was flown for the first time on 20 September 1943 powered by a de Havilland Goblin turbojet.

Following the success of the Mosquito, de Havilland prepared a new design intended to be a long-range medium-altitude single-seat fighter which could also be used as an unarmed photo-reconnaissance aircraft, or as a fighter bomber.

The prototype of the Venom series (VV612) was flown for the first time on 2 September 1949, and subsequently it was built in two main variants, the FB Mk 1 and the FB Mk 4, some 383 and 150 examples of each model respectively being built for the RAF.

Flight testing conducted in 1947 with a de Havilland Vampire powered by a Ghost engine in place of the Goblin led to design refinements by de Havilland.

Originally designed as a land-based all-weather fighter for the RAF in competition with the Gloster Javelin, the Sea Vixen, or DH-110, was flown in prototype form (WG236) on 26 September 1951, a second aircraft (WG240) joining the test programme on 25 July 1952, both aircraft being built in the Experimental

In 1934 Don R Berlin, chief engineer of the Curtiss Airplane Division of the Curtiss Wright Corp, designed an all metal low-wing cantilever monoplane with a retractable undercarriage.

The suddenness of the Japanese onslaught at the beginning of the war in the Pacific, the speed at which Japanese forces moved, and the possibility of fighter aircraft not being available from overseas sources, led to the decision to design and build a fighter aircraft as soon as possible to

The CA-15 was the second single-seat fighter designed and built in Australia for service in the Pacific Theatre of Operations, the Boomerang being the first.

Considered to be the best of the numerous derivatives of the North American F-86F Sabre, the CA-27 Sabre had about 60-percent of its fuselage structure changed due to the installation of a Rolls Royce Avon turbojet in place of the General Electric J-47, the Rolls Royce engine requiring a greater

In June 1940 the Australian War Cabinet voted money for the development of an aeroplane for the RAAF which was capable of dive-bombing, torpedo carrying, general bombing and reconnaissance duties.

The licence-built Canadair Sabre was just one of a number of variants of the popular Sabre series.

Acknowledged to be the finest shipboard fighter of World War II, the Corsair was superior in many respects to the Mustang below 6,096 m (20,000 ft), and, although it was designed for shipboard operation, the type was probably operated more frequently from land bases during the war.

In the 1920s Curtiss developed a series of biplane fighters, variants of which were built as civil aircraft, including the Conqueror Mailplane, D-12 Mailplane, and the Lindbergh Special built specially for Charles Lindberg.

Commonly known as the Buffalo, the prototype Brewster Model 39, known as the XF2A-1 (Bu No 1451) fitted with a 634 kw (850-hp) Wright R-1820-34 Cyclone engine, flew for the first time on 2 December 1937.

The Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter was conceived basically as a fighter variant of the Beaufort bomber.

The Bulldog was designed to specification F.9/26 by Leslie Frise as a private venture.