De Havilland Hornet F Mk 3 2024-05-20

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De Havilland Hornet F Mk 3 - The ultimate in Piston engine fighter design

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"The de Havilland Hornet was undoubtedly the ultimate in piston-engine fighter design, carrying on the graceful family line up to the jet age. It was the fastest piston-engine aircraft produced as a working aeroplane, and, were there still an airworthy example of this classic aeroplane in existence, it
would have no doubt roared round the Reno pylons well up with the rest of the field". Thus began Philip Birtles article on the Hornet in the December 1974...

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