The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The Royal Aircraft Factory FE8 equipped with a single machine gun in the front cockpit, arrived at the Western Front in August 1916, at a time when pusher aircraft were outclassed by German fighters. On one occasion, 9 March 1917, five of a formation of nine were destroyed by Albatros D111 aircraft. Shortly afterwards, FE8 aircraft were withdrawn and replaced by tractor aircraft.
The Royal Aircraft Factory FE2b is a two seat aircraft with a pusher propellor and equipped with two Lewis guns, one forward and one backward firing. FE2b aircraft were initially successful over the W
Western Desert, Cyrenaica, Libya. 30 October 1942. Five Junkers JU 52 transport aircraft were destroyed and five others damaged by long range fighters of the RAF near Tobruk. All the aircraft destroye
Broken data plate from an Albatros built Fokker D.VII. 85 x 26 mm in size. Damaged on one end where pulled off airframe. Two holes added presumably to display the plate. Text reads: Albatros GESSEL
India. C. 1943-12. Group portrait of two members of Churchill's Squadron, Flying Officer G. W. Andrews of Hamilton, NSW, seated in cockpit, and Flight Sergeant H. B. Chatfield of Bendigo, Vic, who att
PENFUI, TIMOR. 1943-02-27. JAPANESE "BETTY" BOMBERS AT THE AIRFIELD UNDER STRAFING ATTACK BY BEAUFIGHTER AIRCRAFT OF NO. 31 SQUADRON RAAF. EIGHT FIGHTERS AND FOUR BOMBERS WERE DESTROYED, WITH NINE FIG
Six low flying Japanese Army Kawasaki Ki-48 twin-engined light bomber aircraft (Allied code name 'Lily') during an air raid over Darwin on 20 June 1943. During this raid RAAF Spitfire squadrons interc
