Supermarine Walrus

Supermarine Walrus

First flight was in 1933. 740 were made before the end of WW2. The Walrus rescued 1,000 Allied fliers who had been shot down over water. It was not a fast airplane:

• maximum speed 135 MPH
• cruise         92 MPH
• landing speed  57 MPH

Landing speed was so low it could land on a carrier despite not having a tailhook. 

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Wikipedia:

The Westland Lysander is a British army co-operation and liaison aircraft produced by Westland Aircraft that was used immediately before and during the Second World War.

After becoming obsolete in the army co-operation role, the aircraft's short-field performance enabled clandestine missions using small, improvised airstrips behind enemy lines to place or recover agents, particularly in occupied France with the help of the French Resistance. Royal Air Force army co-operation aircraft were named after mythical or historical military leaders; in this case the Spartan admiral Lysander was chosen.

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Wikipedia:

The Shuttleworth Collection is a working aviation, automotive and agricultural collection located at Old Warden Aerodrome in Bedfordshire, England.

 

The collection was founded in 1928 by aviator Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth. While flying a Fairey Battle at night on 2 August 1940, Shuttleworth fatally crashed. His mother, in 1944, formed the Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust "for the teaching of the science and practice of aviation and of afforestation and agriculture."

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