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The delta wings, canopy and tail of the HAL Tejas make it look like a Mirage 2000 or Saab Gripen. The Tejas has D shaped air intakes below the wing roots, and separate from them, as main recignition point. (photo: Government of India/WikiMedia)
Two aspects of this aircraft make it very easy to recognise. It has both a cockpit that slightly pops out of the fuselage and a large vertical stabiliser with corrugated sheet metal. The original version has four piston engines, while the Dart Herald has two turboprop engines.
The Halifax bomber has an H-tail and a big single wheel main gear like the Avro Lancaster, but has radial engines, a more rounded nose and small cockpit windows.
This research airplane has the air intake for the single engine on top of the fuselage, in front of the vertical stabiliser, quite unusual. Also typical is the rather blunt forward fuselage and short nose gear.
The Hanriot HD-1 has slightly wider upper wings than lower wings, which are connected by two outward oand forward tilted struts. The radial piston engine is directly in front of the wings. The vertical stabiliser has a typical elliptical shape.
The Harbin Y-12 has the same basic configuration as the DHC-6 although with a horizontal stabiliser attached to the fuselage instead of the vertical fin. Also, the Harbin aircraft has a large dorsal fin, a ventral fin, and large landscape oriented cabin windows. (photo WikiMedia/Shahram Sharifi - Iranian Spotters)
The Hawker Fury and Sea Fury have a bubble canopy, a radial engine with prop spinner and a tall elliptical vertical stabiliser as main recognition points. The inner wings have no hedral, while the outer wings have dihedral. The main landing gear retracts inward in the wings.
The water cooled V12 piston engine gives most versions of the Hawker Hart and Osprey a streamlined appearance, further enhanced by the upper wings close to the fuselage, but still above it. Some versions have a radial piston engine though. The aircraft seats two in an open, tandem cockpit. The vertical fin is quite low, and rounded from the root of the leading edge until the end of the rudder.
To recognise these biplane fighters look for the parasol wings just above the fuselage, staggered wings with rounded tips, braced by single N-shaped struts, a streamlined nose with propeller spinner, and a cooler under the fuselage, in between the lower wings.
The main typical features of the Hawker Hunter are the triangular air intakes in the wing roots, feeding the single jet engine in the rear fuselage, and the cruciform tail with its curved leading edge of the vertical stabiliser, all the way to its trailing edge.
