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Burma received 18 Sea Fury FB11s, all being refurbished former Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm aircraft delivered between December 1957 and May 1958. These were used in the counter-insurgency role. Sea Furies were replace in Burmese service by Lockheed T-33 Shooting Stars by 1968.
The original Hawker Woodcock was a twin bay biplane fighter designed for night operations with the Royal Air Force. Testing indicated that it was insufficiently manoeuvrable and suffered severe wing flutter. As a result it was redisigned with a shorter wing span, resulting in one bay wings. This was accepted into service as the Woodcock Mk. II.
When first delivered in May 1925 to No. 3 Squadron, they suffered from a series of accidents due to wing spar and undercarriage failure. These flaws were rectified by the end of 1925. The only other squadron to operate the type was No. 17 which began operations in March 1926.
Woodcocks began being replaced by Gloster Gamecocks in 1928.
Photos of scale models of the Hawker Woodcock can be found here.
Designed and constructed during the final months of the First World War, the Mannesmann Giant Triplane was still under construction at the time of the armistice. Although designed as a transport, the Inter-Allied Aeronautical Control Commission believed that it was a bomber designed to reach New York.
The finished aircraft would have had a length of 46m and a wing span of 50m.
