Duxford, UK. Le 13 juillet, 2013. Il n'y a que deux hydravions biplans Gloster Gladiator fighters restent dans le monde - un Gladaiator J'ai exploité par la Shuttleworth Trust et un gladiateur II exploité par The Flying Collection. Ils ont volé ensemble pour la première fois à un meeting aérien Flying Legends 2013 warbirds classique à partir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale qui a lieu chaque année à Duxford IWM Crédit : Niall Ferguson/Alamy Live News

• Contributeur: Niall Ferguson / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: DAHNB2
• Taille du fichier: 41,4 MB (768,3 KB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 4500 x 3215 px | 38,1 x 27,2 cm | 15 x 10,7 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 13 juillet 2013
• Lieu: Duxford Cambridge United Kingdom

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The Gloster Gladiator (or Gloster SS.37) was a British-built biplane fighter. It was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Navy (as the Sea Gladiator variant) and was exported to a number of other air forces during the late 1930s. It was the RAF's last biplane fighter aircraft and was rendered obsolete by newer monoplane designs even as it was being introduced. Though often pitted against more formidable foes during the early days of the Second World War, it acquitted itself reasonably well in combat. The Gladiator saw action in almost all theatres during the Second World War, with a large number of air forces, some of them on the Axis side. The RAF used it in France, Norway, Greece, the defence of Malta, and the brief Anglo-Iraqi War (in which the Royal Iraqi Air Force was similarly equipped). Other countries deploying the Gladiator included China against Japan, beginning in 1938; Finland (along with Swedish volunteers) against the Soviet Union in the Winter War and the Continuation War; and Norway, Belgium, and Greece resisting Axis invasion of their respective lands. There are only two flying Gloster Gladiators left in the world.

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