Disregarding advice from Eric 'Winkle' Brown to handle the Heinkel He 162 'Spatz's rudder with caution, Flt. Lt. R A Marks, RAF, conducted a low-level roll during the Farnborough Air Show on 9 November 1945. One of the fin and rudder assemblies broke off and Marks was killed in the crash

The Boeing P-26 Peashooter was the first fighter monoplane in USAAC service around 1933. It was also the last with an open cockpit, fixed landing gear and externally braced wings. With their colourful livery the Peashooters enjoyed a peaceful beginning which turned into an old age hazardous operational life. The 281 export models fought in both China and Spain (only a single example) prior to WWII. Later on some of them, still in USAAC service in late 1941, did what they could in the Philippines (both by Americans and the locals) and Panama. To say they were outclassed by Mitsubishi A6M Zeros is more than an understatement

An evolution of the VG 30, one of those trendy light fighters of the late 1930s, the VG 33 was a successful attempt to achieve something with the efficient VG 30 wooden airframe. Equipped with a Hispano-Suiza 12Y-31 of around 860hp, the VG 33 turned out to be as maneuverable and fast as the Messerschmitt Bf 109E, but with weaker armament. The chaotic situation of the French aircraft and engine industry in those years allowed only a bunch them to enter service before France surrender, others were found assembled, but engineless by the Germans. It had a very streamlined and fluid design