US dts 1942 December 7 1943 Bell Aircraft nts 3303 Retired Bell XP 77 lightweight fighter US dts 1944 ... Berliner Joyce nts 26 Retired Blackburn Firebrand torpedo fighter UK dts 1942 1943 1953 Blackburn Aircraft Blackburn nts 193 Retired Blackburn Firecrest strike fighter UK dts 1947 n a n a Blackburn Aircraft ... 7 Retired Blackburn Roc turret fighter UK dts 1938 December 23 1939 1943 Boulton Paul Aircraft Boulton ... nts 2 Prototype Consolidated P 30 2 seat fighter US dts 1934 January Consolidated Aircraft Consolidated ... fighter US dts 1945 February 11 n a n a Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation Consolidated Vultee ... Gloster E.1 44 jet fighter UK dts 1948 March 9 n a n a Gloster Aircraft Company Gloster nts 3 Abandoned ... nts 91 Retired Gloster Meteor jet fighter UK dts 1943 March 5 1944 Gloster Aircraft Company Gloster ... Hawker nts 290 Retired Hawker Hart Hawker Hart Fighter UK dts 1931 1932 1942 ca. Hawker Aircraft Hawker nts 6 Retired Hawker Hotspur turret fighter UK dts 1938 June 14 n a n a Hawker Aircraft Hawker ... fighter JPN dts 1942 December 27 1943 1945 Kawanishi Aircraft Company Kawanishi nts 1435 Retired ... UK dts 1942 May 1 n a n a Miles Aircraft Miles nts 1 Abandoned Miles Master Miles Master Fighter ... A6M2 N floatplane fighter JPN dts 1941 December 6 1942 1945 Nakajima Aircraft Company Nakajima nts 327 Retired Nakajima Army Type 91 Fighter JPN dts 1928 1931 1937 Nakajima Aircraft Company Nakajima nts 450 Retired Nakajima J1N night fighter JPN dts 1941 May 1942 1945 Nakajima Aircraft Company ...This is a list of military aircraft that are primarily designed for Aerial warfare air to air combat . The list includes fighteraircraft which are currently in operational service, those that have been retired, designs that flew but were not used operationally and future aircraft still in development ... also Category Generations of jet fighter generations of jet fighters . TOC List Expand list date February 2011 class wikitable sortable border 1 style width 98 Aircraft Name Country First flight Introduced ... more details
of Hawaii The New FighterAircraft Project NFA was a Government of Canada defence procurement project ... Defence DND select a single new fighter jet to replace the fleets of CF 101 Voodoo , CF 104 Starfighter and Canadair CF 5 CF 116 Freedom Fighteraircraft in the Canadian Forces . ref http www.casr.ca id cf18 1 1.htm The CF18 Hornet fighteraircraft In Detail ref Several aircraft were considered ... politics and the new fighteraircraft decisions , Canadian Public Administration , Vol. 24 ... attack aircraft tactical attack aircraft in Europe, and the Canadair CF 5 CF 116 Freedom Fighter ... to. The CF 116 Freedom Fighter was considerably more modern, but was a much simpler aircraft that was useful ... Navy use one of the LWF aircraft under a new program called the Navy Air Combat Fighter Project ... as different aircraft were favoured among different departments. Despite several changes of government ... Force , a total of 138 aircraft were delivered between 1982 and 1988. History Background Air resources ... Aircraft Project LRPA would dramatically increase their anti submarine capabilities, while a new ... the need for a new tactical ground attack aircraft to support Canada s ground forces in Western Europe, while the newly created Royal Canadian Air Force Air Command needed a new aircraft to replace their somewhat motley collection of increasingly dated fighter and interceptor aircraft. Inter service priorities were quickly decided. ref name tucker First up was the Long Range Patrol Aircraft ... that led to the aircraft s sensor suite being modified at considerable expense, a problem that is all ... fighter was next on the list of priorities for the government s Department of National Defence Canada .... For one, the NFA project demanded that whatever aircraft was selected would have to be completely off ..., Trade and Commerce DITC . All three proposed aircraft considered for the NFA project would be considered ... of the CF 101 Voodoo as the primary all weather Interceptor aircraft interceptor for duties ... more details
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about the 2010 boxing film the 1952 boxing film The Fighter 1952 film other uses fighter disambiguation Infobox film name The Fighter image The Fighter Poster.jpg caption Theatrical release poster director .... http www.variety.com index.asp?layout awardcentral&jump review&reviewid VE1117944024&query the fighter review The Fighter review . Variety magazine Variety , November 10, 2010 ref ref http directories.vnuemedia.com fjiguides bluesheets film display.aspx?mid 8954 The Fighter movie details , Film ... title The Fighter 2010 publisher Amazon.com work Box Office Mojo accessdate 2011 04 12 ref The Fighter ... Leo as Micky s and Dicky s mother. The Fighter is Russell and Wahlberg s third film collaboration ... 4, 2011. ref http thefilmstage.com 2010 06 24 the fighter will now strike a blow december 10th The Fighter Will Now Strike A Blow On December 10 . http www.thefilmstage.com The Film Stage . Retrieved ... money purse . Micky is soundly defeated by the much heavier fighter in an obvious mismatch. Frustrated ... fighter obsession 48309 title Mark Wahlberg on Why Making The Fighter Became an Obsession date 2010 ... url http moviesblog.mtv.com 2008 06 30 mark wahlberg reveals the fighter will take the ring this fall title Mark Wahlberg Reveals The Fighter Will Take The Ring This Fall date 2008 06 2008 work MTV News ... 2010 12 05 mark wahlberg revisits his working class roots for his role in the fighter title Mark ... for The Fighter at the same time, the actor continued, so I would leave three hours early for work ... 04 mark wahlberg interview the other guys celtics the fighter the brazilian job title Mark Wahlberg Exclusive Interview The Other Guys Also Talks Celtics and Future Projects like The Fighter, The Brazilian ... mark wahlberg fighter workout title The Mark Wahlberg Workout Wahlberg s Theory of Evolution date ... Champion The Fighter , Film Journal International , December 3, 2010 Page is not archivable at WebCitation.org ..., Rita. http www.lowellsun.com ci 16825125 The Fighter Comes Home , Lowell Sun , December 10, 2010 ... more details
strike aircraft , an alternative term for an ground attack aircraft In a current military parlance, a strike fighter is a multirole combat aircraft designed to operate primarily in the air strike air to surface attack role while also incorporating certain performance characteristics of a fighteraircraft . As a category, it is distinct from fighter bomber s. Examples of contemporary American ... Strike Fighter program. ref http www.globalsecurity.org military systems aircraft jsf.htm Joint Strike ... 34 2006 See also Interceptor aircraft Interdictor Fighter bomber Ground attack aircraft Multirole combat ... Category Fighteraircraft Category Attack aircraft ...merge Multirole combat aircraft date April 2012 Image F 15E gbu 28 release.jpg thumb right 300px A McDonnell ... Martin F 35 Lightning II . History Since 1940s, the term strike fighter was occasionally used in the navies to refer to fighteraircraft capable of performing air strike air to surface strike s, such as the Westland Wyvern ref http books.google.com books?id Zi82AQAAIAAJ&q 22Strike fighter 22&dq 22Strike fighter 22 Aerospace Engineering, Volume 6. Institute of the Aerospace Sciences, 1947. ref and Blackburn Firebrand . ref http books.google.com books?id UHjmAAAAMAAJ&q 22Strike fighter 22&dq 22Strike fighter 22 The Aeroplane Volume 75, 1948. ref It became normally used in the United States Navy ref name popular1983 http books.google.com books?id PETCVTz lwUC&pg PA98&dq 22strike fighter ... 23 December 2011. Quote ... can fly either as a fighter or an attack plane ... In Navy parlance, it is a strike fighter. ref at the end of 1970s, being the official ref http books.google.com books?id rQoAAAAAMBAJ&pg PA5&dq 22strike fighter 22 22fighter bomber 22 v onepage&q 22strike 20fighter ... Douglas F A 18 Hornet . In 1983, the U.S. Navy even renamed each existing Fighter Attack Squadron to Strike Fighter Squadron to emphasize ref name polmar Polmar 1997, p. 343. ref the air to surface mission ... more details
A day fighter is a fighteraircraft equipped only to fight during the day. More specifically, it refers to a multi purpose aircraft that does not include equipment for fighting at night such as a radar and specialized avionics , ref Britannica states A day fighter is an airplane in which weight and space are saved by eliminating the special navigational equipment of the night fighter. ref although it is sometimes used to refer to some interceptor aircraft interceptors as well. Examples of planes that were classified as day fighters were the Supermarine Spitfire ref http spitfiresite.com 2010 04 1942 defence of malta.html 1942 Defence of Malta ref and Messerschmitt Bf 109 . Both were excellent interceptors, but were also found in roles such as fighter bomber and reconnaissance . However, neither was really able to be used as a useful night fighter , so the term day fighter was used to describe ... Day Fighter . Ironically, after winning the contract the F 16 quickly matured into a much more capable multi role aircraft and can no longer be considered a day fighter. Likewise, the YF 17 evolved ... all weather combat aircraft. See also Night fighter Heavy fighter Interceptor aircraft References reflist Aviation lists Category Fighteraircraft de Tagj ger fr Chasseur de jour vi M y bay ti m k ch ... in comparison to airframe size and engine power, the day fighter remained a part of front line air forces ... factsheets factsheet.asp?id 2297 North American F 86 Day Fighter A, E and F Models ref MiG 15 and Hawker Hunter typified the day fighter role. These were followed by similar supersonic ... equipment such as the F 5 Freedom Fighter F 5 Freedom Fighter Tiger II are still used by nations which lack the money to acquire advanced fighteraircraft. The last of the purpose designed day fighters were the original F 16 and the YF 17 that competed for the Lightweight Fighter contract which had the goal of providing the USAF with an inexpensive day fighter that could be purchased in great numbers ... more details
and a YF 17, flying side by side, part of the Lightweight Fighter program . This article refers to a class of aircraft. Light infantry is sometimes referred to in this fashion in the US, see 7th Infantry Division United States 7th Infantry Division . A light fighter or lightweight fighter is a type of fighteraircraft with a diminutive airframe, deliberately designed to fill a performance niche ... were attempted. During the late 1930s the French List of aircraft of the Arm e de l Air Arm e de l Air , in an attempt to modernize her fleet of aircraft, produced several light fighter designs of wooden ... risk missions. References references Category Fighteraircraft ... 300px The Aerfer Ariete , a light fighter. File Northrop F 5E Tail No. 11417 061006 F 1234S 067.jpg ... as being too limited in capability, but several light fighter designs have fairly good combat records. History The original light fighter class developed out of a series of pre World War II WWII aircraft engine s that delivered a high power to weight ratio, albeit at a low power rating. In order to make use of these engines, the aircraft carrying them would have to be made as light as possible ... C.714 , which examplified the fundamental flaws of the light fighter concept underpowered ... States Army Air Corps USAAC also contracted for several light fighter designs when it was believed that a massive ... Light Fighter a lightweight version of the Hawker Tempest though in practice the resulting naval ... F 5 Freedom Fighter , which was largely passed over by the United States Air Force USAF , but saw ... as successful. The Folland Gnat was a British private venture design for a light fighter. ref http ... by the UK as a fighter but as a trainer it did serve as a fighter for the Indian Air Force. The NATO Light Weight Strike Fighter competition of the early 1950s led to designs such as the French ... as the winner. The F 16 Fighting Falcon was originally conceived under the Lightweight Fighter ... more details
An emergency fighter is an aircraft designed or adapted for use as a fighteraircraftfighter during ... of emergency fighter clear cut, as many aircraft designs are produced under pressure in wartime, and aircraft which were hastily adapted for use as fighters may then go on to have a mainstream career. The context The crisis which gives rise to an emergency fighter may have been the sudden outbreak of war, which resulted in a country lacking sufficient fighteraircraft. This was the case ... Boomerang . ref Gunston 2001, p. 152. ref An emergency fighter may also have been produced to meet a need for a particular sort of fighteraircraft. For instance, Britain s RAF used hastily .... At the same time, fighter design was still sufficiently simple that an aircraft designed and produced ..., less strategically important materials like steel or wood tended to affect the performance of the aircraft adversely. Adaptation of existing aircraft The advantage of adapting existing aircraft was that the emergency fighter could be produced quickly. A variety of aircraft types were used the Bristol ... fighter , pioneering the use of interceptor aircraft airborne intercept radar ref Lake 1998, p. 63 ... fighter competition was also launched to develop jet aircraft with great performance advantages ... Fighteraircraft ... to a tight time scale in a crisis situation, in the hope that a new aircraft might be able to change a nation s fortunes. Most famous of these was undoubtedly the Heinkel He 162 jet aircraft of Germany . Many examples of the emergency fighter concept date from the Second World War. In that global ... were aircraft designed for other purposes but pressed into service to meet an immediate need. In early 1942 eight Australian Wirraway Trainer aircraft trainer and general purpose military aircraft ... of strategic materials like the light alloys used in aircraft construction, several prototype emergency ... more details
For Naval reconnaissance aircraft called Scouts Scout plane Unreferenced date December 2009 Image RAF SE2a001a.jpg thumb right The S.E.2 in its final form at the Royal Aircraft Factory , Farnborough, Hampshire Farnborough Image Bristol Scout.jpg thumb right Bristol Scout The term scout , as a description of a class of military aircraft, came into use shortly before the World War I First World War , and referred to a light usually single seat reconnaissance aircraft, initially unarmed. Scout types were generally adaptations of pre war racing aircraft although at least one the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.2 was specifically designed for the role. At this stage the possibility of air to air combat was considered highly speculative, and the speed of these aircraft relative to their contemporaries was seen as an advantage in gaining immunity from ground fire and in the ability to deliver timely reconnaissance reports. Almost from the beginning of the war, various experiments were carried out in the fitting of armament to scouts to enable them to engage in air to air combat by early 1916 several types of scout could fire a machine gun forwards, in the line of flight, thus becoming the first effective single seat fighteraircraft fighters in effect, an entirely new class of aircraft. In French and German usage these types were termed hunters , but in the Royal Flying Corps and early Royal Air Force parlance scout remained the usual term for a single seat fighter into the early 1920s. The term fighter was already current, but in this period referred specifically to a two seater fighter such as the Sopwith 1 Strutter or the Bristol F.2 Fighter Bristol Fighter . This usage scout or sometimes fighting scout for single seat fighter can be found in many contemporary accounts, including ... writing on First World War aviation. DEFAULTSORT Scout Aircraft Category Military aircraft Category Military aircraft of World War I it Scout aeronautica ... more details
merge Multirole combat aircraft date April 2012 Fighter bomber redirects here. For the video game, see Fighter Bomber video game . File F4U 1s 1944 NAN7 8 84.jpg thumb Vought F4U Corsair fighter bombers during the World War II File P 47D CO 367th FG 1944 45.jpg thumb Republic P 47 D with fragmentation bombs on the wings and a fuel tank under the fuselage, 1945 A fighter bomber is a fixed wing aircraft with an intended primary role of light bomber light tactical bombing and also incorporating certain performance characteristics of a fighteraircraft . ref cite journal title Fighter bombers are dual purpose journal Popular Science date Dec 1942 volume 141 url http books.google.com books?id HCcDAAAAMBAJ&lpg PA124&dq popular 20science 20may 201941&pg PA124 v onepage&q&f true accessdate 25 March 2011 issn 0161 7370 ref This term, although still used, has less significance since the introduction of rocket s and guided missile s into aerial warfare. Nowadays, aircraft that carry similar duties are typically called multirole fighter s or sometimes strike fighter s . In their use, fighter bombers often are confused with ground attack aircraft or tactical bomber s, but they differ from these categories mainly by possessing at least partial fighter capabilities, fighter heritage, or fighter like appearance. Notable examples from World War II are the Focke Wulf FW 190 , Hawker Typhoon and Republic P 47 Thunderbolt . In terms of bombing tactic, various types of fighter bombers used various ... Ground attack aircraft Multirole combat aircraft Strike fighter References reflist Mil aviation stub Category Fighteraircraft Category Attack aircraft ar ca Ca abombarder de Jagdbomber ... . Many fighter bombers like the Bristol Beaufighter have a rear gun manned by the navigator observer. Fighter bombers are often used for multiple roles. Dedicated Fighter Bombers original research section ... 1940 Canadair CF 5 Canadair CF 5 Freedom Fighter 1968 Canadair CF 104 Starfighter 1962 De Havilland ... more details
of World War II . The escort fighter was a World War II concept for a fighteraircraft designed to escort bomber s to and from their targets. The perfect escort fighter had long range, a lengthy ..., planned to act as a parasite aircraft parasite fighter for the Convair B 36 , was tested with a B ... of multirole fighter , such as F A 18 , also decreased the need for escorts, as the aircraft ... Aviation lists DEFAULTSORT Escort Fighter Category Fighteraircraft ca Ca a d escorta es Caza ... sufficient fuel load, a number of twin engined heavy fighter s were designed for escort duties during ... progressed, improvements in fighter designs, as well as the use of drop tank s, allowed single ... used Messerschmitt Bf 109 s and Messerschmitt Bf 110 Bf 110 s based in France as escort fighter ... a fast moving fighter with guns in a turret proved extremely difficult hitting a slow moving bomber from a fighter with a gunsight was much easier. USAAF bomber losses gradually increased, and experimental ... Berlin were 55th Fighter Group World War II 55th Fighter Group P 38s on March 3, 1944. When the Rolls ... for efficiency, the final escort fighter development of the war was complete. Cold War The successes of the P 47N and P 51 gave the impression that the escort fighter was a concept worth continuing after the end of the war. The high fuel use of early jet engines made such aircraft difficult to design ... attempted a similar solution, docking jet fighter s with heavy bombers via a trapeze mechanism or their wingtips ... of fighter escort to gradually merge with fighter types, so the term fell out of use. In Korea, the F ... strike fighter s. Although the XB 70 Valkyrie , North American Aviation s Mach number Mach 3 bomber ... less likely, leaving existing fighter designs more than adequate for their protection in the wars being ... occurred with F 8 . Modern era The advent of the air superiority fighter , such as the F 15 Eagle , meant that bombers and attack aircraft would be protected by fighters flying far afield and ahead of them ... more details
This article is a part of Wikipedia WikiProject Aircraft . Please see Wikipedia WikiProject Aircraft page content for recommended layout. Infobox Aircraft Begin name Prajadhipok image Image 23 229 0154d37be274338.jpg caption image caption if it isn t descriptive it should be left blank Infobox Aircraft Type type Fighter manufacturer Royal Thai Air Force Manufacturing Division designer Lieutenant Colonel Luang Neramit Baijayonta first flight introduced 1929 retired status in most cases, this field is redundant use it sparingly primary user Royal Thai Air Force Directorate of Air Force, Royal Thai Army more users limited to three more users total. please separate with br produced years in production, e.g. 1970 1999, if still in active use but no longer built number built unit cost developed from the aircraft which formed the basis for the topic type variants with their own articles variants OF the topic type The Prajadhipok lang th was a single seat fighter, the second indigenous Thailand Thai aircraft design. In 1929, Lieutenant Colonel Luang Neramit Baijayonta designed the aircraft, which was named Prajadhipok after His Majesty King Prajadhipok Rama VII . It was the second Thai designed and built aircraft and the first Thai designed and built fighter, now called Fighter Type 5. References Forsgren, Jan. http www.aeroflight.co.uk waf aa eastasia thailand thai manu history2.htm Aircraft Production in Thailand Part 2 . aeroflight . 20 November 2004. Retrieved 22 February 2011. Category Aircraft manufactured by Thailand Category Thai fighteraircraft 1920 1929 aero 1920s stub th ... more details
unreferenced article date April 2012 File 070126 F 8732E 600.jpg thumb 250px Bushmaster cannons Aircraft artillery are artillery weapons with a calibre larger than 37mm gun 37mm mounted on aircraft. First used for ground attack roles during the first world war, aircraft artillery has found its use in the present day, most notably on the AC130 . History First used for ground attack roles during World War One , A notable user of Aircraft artillery was the fighter ace Ren Fonck . Notable aircraft using artillery Beardmore W.B.V Salmson Moineau SPAD S.XII Voisin III , worlds first aircraft using artillery. de Havilland Mosquito North American B 25 Mitchell Messerschmitt Me 262 Henschel Hs 129 Junkers Ju 87 Junkers Ju 88 Blackburn Perth References reflist See also Gunship List of aircraft artillery Category Aircraft artillery Category Artillery by type Category Firearms articles needing expert attention ... more details
Image 1 fighter, 3 Bombers by JM Rosier.JPG thumb right 300px A fighteraircraft and 3 bombers of the World War II era A military aircraft is any Fixed wing aircraft fixed wing or rotorcraft rotary wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary armed service of any type. ref name gunston Military aircraft can be either combat or non combat Combat aircraft are aircraft designed to destroy enemy equipment using their own armament. ref name gunston Combat aircraft are normally developed and procured only by military forces. Non combat aircraft are aircraft not designed for combat as their primary ... aircraft warplane s divide broadly into Fighteraircraft fighters and bomber s. There are several variations ... to air missile. Main Fighteraircraft The main role of fighters is destroying enemy aircraft in air ... , the P 51 Mustang and Bf 109 . An example of an Interceptor aircraft interceptor a fighter designed ... of a heavy fighter is the Messerschmitt Bf 110 . The term fighter is also sometimes applied to aircraft ... aircraft is operated by USAF Fighter squadrons. Bombers File B 29 in flight.jpg thumb A United States ... maneuverable than fighteraircraft. They are capable of carrying large payloads of bombs. Bombers .... In modern air forces, the distinction between bombers, fighter bombers, and attack aircraft has become ... low level attack aircraft make for a distinctly inferior air superiority fighter, and vice versa ... of striking targets deep within enemy territory, whereas fighter bombers and attack aircraft are limited ... Eagle dropping a Precision guided munition PGB . Main Multirole combat aircraftFighter bomber Strike fighter Many combat aircraft today have a multirole ability. Normally only applying to fixed wing aircraft, this term signifies that the plane in question can be a fighter or a bomber, depending ... would be the P 38 Lightning . Some fighteraircraft, such as the F 16 Fighting Falcon F 16 , are mostly ... also Military aviation Military aircraft insignia List of aircraft List of fighteraircraft Military ... more details
Image DH Mosquito F.jpg right thumb A de Havilland Mosquito heavy fighter, armed with cannon and rockets A heavy fighter is a fighteraircraft designed to carry heavier weapons or operate at longer ranges ... adapted for both day and night fighter use. United States During the late 1930s, Bell Aircraft of the United ... See also Interceptor aircraft Light fighter Night fighter Aviation lists Category Fighteraircraft ... crews. The twin engine heavy fighter was a major design class during the pre World War II period. Conceived as long range escort fighter s, or heavily armed bomber destroyer s, heavy fighters ... as night fighter s, with considerable successes. Only the Northrop P 61 Black Widow of the USAAF was ever built from the start, during the World War II era, solely to be a night fighter. Germany File Me110G4 2.jpg thumb A Messerschmitt Bf 110 G 4, equipped with radar to serve as a night fighter A major heavy fighter design was the Messerschmitt Bf 110 , a Germany German fighter that, prior .... ref cite book last Murphy first Justin D. title Military aircraft, 1919 1945 an illustrated history ... speed . Eventually Bf 110s were converted to interceptor s especially night fighter s and ground attack aircraft for rest of the war. The Messerschmitt Me 210 Me 210 and Messerschmitt Me 410 Me 410 Hornisse were all new aircraft designs meant to replace the Bf 110, but also could not outrun contemporary ... been an ideal twin engined Zerst rer fighter design for the Luftwaffe due to its center line thrust ... 750 km h or 465 mph , than any other twin piston engined aircraft of its era, but like so many other advanced German aircraft designs that were actually produced by Germany late in the war ... that The bomber will always get through , the British lagged behind in its heavy fighter development ... 1932 p7 column B. ref Apart from the Westland Whirlwind fighter Westland Whirlwind and Westland ... of which participated in WWII. File Lockheed P 38 eight aircraft formation 061018 F 1234P 007.jpg ... more details
theory Energy Maneuverability E M theory to develop fighteraircraft. The theory enabled quantitative one to one comparison of the performance of aircraft in terms of air combat maneuvering .... The result was the F 15 Eagle , an aircraft that was far superior in maneuverability to the F 111 fighter variants. The Air Force had also been studying a lighter day fighter starting in 1965, the Air Force had pursued a low priority study of the Advanced Day Fighter ADF , a 25,000 pound design. After ...The Fighter Mafia was a group of United States Air Force U.S. Air Force officers and civilian defense ... develop specifications for the Light Weight Fighter . The nickname, a professional jest ... over the fighter within the Air Force. The Fighter Mafia was instrumental in a return to air combat maneouvrability as the defining quality of fighter planes after the Vietnam war showed that long range ... weapons trends, stated that a counterair force must be able to destroy aircraft in the air at long ranges ... McGraw Hill year 2000 location New York url doi isbn 0071346961 ref Their F X fighter acquisition ... lines. Real world combat during the Vietnam war demonstrated that the entire Lightweight Fighter Missileers ... that the F 111 would be poorly suited to the role of fighter, and the Air Force F X proposal was quietly ... work on the F 15. The F 15, originally a lighter aircraft, grew in size and weight as it attempted ... Robert authorlink coauthors title Boyd the fighter pilot who changed the art of war publisher Little ... engineer Harry Hillaker formed the core of the self dubbed Fighter Mafia which worked behind the scenes in the late 1960s to pursue a lightweight fighter as an alternative to the F 15. Riccioni ... . In 1969, under the guise that the Navy was developing a small, high performance Navy aircraft, Riccioni ... Dynamics to build the embodiment of Boyd s E M theory a small, low drag, low weight, pure fighter ... spending 50 million on developing an alternative lightweight fighter. This was followed by the assignment ... more details
a significant aircraft parts producer, and developed the XP 67 Bat fighter prototype. ref name hist 1939 45a http www.boeing.com history narrative n028mcd.html McDonnell Aircraft Corp, The War Years ... Aircraft Corporation company logo Image Mcdonnell logo.png fate Merged with Douglas Aircraft Company ... Aircraft Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer based in St. Louis, Missouri . The company ... and Project Gemini Gemini capsule . McDonnell Aircraft later merged with the Douglas Aircraft ... McDonnell & Associates in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1928 to produce a general aviation personal aircraft ... . He left in 1938 to try again with his own firm, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, based near St ... name hist 1939 45b http www.boeing.com history narrative n029mcd.html McDonnell Aircraft Corp, The War Years 1939 1945 part 2 , Boeing.com. ref McDonnell Aircraft suffered after the war with an end of government orders and a surplus of aircraft, and heavily cut its workforce. The advent of the Korean War helped push McDonnell into a major military fighter supply role. In 1943, McDonnell began developing ... Douglas Aircraft Division in 1967 after the McDonnell Douglas merger. In 1969, he returned ... Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft began to sound each other out about a merger. Inquiries began ... of McDonnell and Douglas Aircraft, Dave Lewis, then president of McDonnell, was named chairman of what was called the Long Beach, Douglas Aircraft Division. Lewis managed the turnaround of the division. Image Image Fh1.phantom.750pix.jpg thumb right McDonnell FH 1 Phantom fighter McDonnell ... kdh.html TD2D KDD KDH Katydid ref McDonnell XP 67 XP 67 experimental twin engine propeller fighter FH Phantom twin engine jet fighter F2H Banshee twin engine naval jet fighter XF 85 Goblin experimental jet fighter XF 88 Voodoo experimental twin engine fighter F3H Demon single engine naval jet fighter F 101 Voodoo twin engine supersonic, long range jet fighter bomber single seat and interceptor two ... more details
About a film the plane Stealth aircraft Infobox Film name Stealth Fighter image stealth fighter.jpg caption DVD cover director Jim Wynorski producer Jim Wynorski as Jay Andrews writer Lenny Juliano br T.L. Lankford br John A. Sanders narrator starring Ice T br Costas Mandylor br Erika Eleniak br Sarah Dampf br William Sadler actor William Sadler br Ernie Hudson br Andrew Divoff music Alex Wilkinson cinematography J.E. Bash editing Vanick Moradian distributor released September 1999 runtime 88 minutes country FilmUS language English budget preceded by followed by Stealth Fighter is an action film released in 1999. The film stars Ice T , Costas Mandylor , Erika Eleniak , Sarah Dampf, William Sadler actor William Sadler , Ernie Hudson , and Andrew Divoff . Film synopsis Owen Turner Ice T is a naval Aviator pilot who decides to fake his own death. After this, he ends up employed by a Latin American arms dealer. Turner steals a stealth fighter from a US Air Force base in the Philippines and uses it to target military installations around the world. However, a naval reserve officer is recruited to infiltrate Turner s group and stop him. Cast Ice T as Owen Turner Costas Mandylor as Ryan Mitchell Erika Eleniak as Erin Mitchell Sarah Dampf as J.P. Mitchell William Sadler actor William Sadler as Admiral Frank Peterson Ernie Hudson as President Westwood Andrew Divoff as Roberto Menendez Release The film was first released on TV in Spain in September 1999. On February 15, 2000, the film premiered on video in the United States. Later on that year, the film premiered in Iceland and Germany. External links imdb title id 0181838 http www.rottentomatoes.com m 1092080 stealth fighter Stealth Fighter at Rotten Tomatoes Category 1999 films Category English language films Category 1990s action films Category American action thriller films Category American crime thriller films Category Aviation films action film stub it Stealth Fighter pl Niewidzialny my liwiec ... more details
Yeager Jalal Zandi See also Flying aces Fighteraircraft Military aviation TOPGUN Operation Red Flag ... virtually all fighter pilots are also military officers. Fitness Fighter pilots must be in optimal ..., as g forces have a tendency to suck blood away from the brain. Fighter pilots also require strong ... to the opponent is decidedly important. Outperformance of another pilot and that pilot s aircraft ... sharply, which essentially caused the missile to lose sight of the target aircraft. Another tactic ... guiding it. Chaff is another option in the case that the aircraft is too high up to use geographical ... their aircraft. The new AESA radar system, outfitted on the F A 18E F Super Hornet can use its radar ... equivalent to Earth s normal pull of gravity. Because modern jet aircraft are highly agile and have ... about 1G of extra tolerance. Notable Fighter Pilots Notable fighter pilots include Buzz Aldrin ... links Museums http www.nzfpm.co.nz New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum http www.xonitek.com docs XSCMain.asp?ID B2656DEC 508F 43EA 8F3D 218D862F3864 Continuous Improvement A Fighter Pilot s Culture of Performance Aerial warfare DEFAULTSORT pilot, fighter pilot Category Military aviation occupations ... more details
Virtua Fighter may refer to Virtua Fighter series Virtua Fighter series , a series of fighting video games Virtua Fighter video game Virtua Fighter video game , the first game in the fighting video game series Virtua Fighter anime Virtua Fighter anime , an anime based on the fighting video game series disambig ... more details
Infobox Defunct company name Bell Aircraft logo File Bellaircraftlogo.png 200px type Aircraft manufacturer ... Lawrence Dale Bell num employees parent subsid The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer of the United States , a builder of several types of fighteraircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X 1 , the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production ... by a stint as a manager for Consolidated Aircraft in Buffalo, New York . Consolidated Aircraft moved ... 2000 edition of Western New York Heritage magazine ref When Consolidated Aircraft moved to San Diego, CA San Diego in 1935, Bell stayed behind and established his own company, the Bell Aircraft ... destroyer powered by two Allison powered pusher configuration pusher Propeller aircraft propeller ... scrapped as useless. Image Airacobra P39 Assembly LOC 02902u.jpg thumb left Bell Aircraft Corporation ... placed the engine in the center of the aircraft, with the propeller driven by a long shaft through ... they proved themselves to be a good ground attack aircraft. This was also demonstrated by a few U.S. ... Air Forces already had the superior P 47 Thunderbolt and P 38 Lightning fighter bomber s. The main productive activity that Bell Aircraft had during WW II was as a second or third producer of heavy bomber s that had been designed and built by other aerospace industry aircraft companies . This happened ... of Atlanta . This factory was completed in mid 1943, and Bell Aircraft won contracts to build ... some in Texas, also to two large factories the Consolidated Aircraft Company in San Diego, CA San ... had been specially designed for producing B 24s. Hence, for the rest of WW II, Bell Aircraft concentrated ... World War II The aircraft factory in Marietta later became the property of the Lockheed Corporation ... s. Although Bell designed several more fighter plane designs during and after WW II, none of these ever ... American jet fighter to fly, though its performance turned out to be inferior to the Propeller ... more details
of its time. This eventually developed into modern jet bomber s carrying fully capable fighteraircraft . In some cases, these aircraft are able to return to their mother ship. As fighter capabilities ... envisaged a commercial airship that could also carry five fighteraircraft as well as troops if put ... avparsit.html Category Parasite aircraft cs Parazitn letoun de Parasite Fighter es Avi n par sito ...refimprove date June 2010 mergefrom composite aircraft date May 2011 mergefrom captive carry date May ... Stratofortress . A parasite aircraft is a component of a composite aircraft which is carried, and air launch ed by, a mother ship aircraft. The first use for parasite aircraft was in 1916, when the United ... Porte Baby first composite aircraft 1916.jpg thumb right Bristol Scout on Porte Baby Until the middle of the 20th century there was military interest in parasite fighters fighteraircraft intended to be carried into a combat zone by a larger aircraft, such as a bomber aircraft bomber . If the bomber ... the great disparity in range between bombers and their escort fighter s. Development of aerial ... Akron USS Akron and the USS Macon ZRS 5 Macon , were designed with parasite fighter capability ... Me 328 as a parasite fighter, but problems with its pulsejet engines could not be overcome. Other ... to extend the range of fighters. Example of parasitic aircraft combinations Examples which have flown include Felixstowe Porte Baby Porte Baby Bristol Scout , the first parasite aircraft 1916 List of Zeppelins L 35 LZ 80 Albatros D.III , the first parasite fighter flying from an airship January 26, 1918 HMA 23 Sopwith Camel , parasite fighter, flying from an airship 1918 Tc 3 and Tc 7 non rigid ... Navy escort fighter program, ended when the airships crashed 1935 . LZ 129 Hindenburg had trials using parasite aircraft in the days before it crashed at Lakehurst, but the trial proved unsuccessful ... TB 3 Polikarpov SPB , the first parasite aircraft to see combat 1941 Dornier Do 217 Messerschmitt Me ... more details
Infobox ship begin Infobox ship image Ship image Image Sea Fighter FSF1.jpg 300px Sea Fighter FSF 1 Ship caption Sea Fighter FSF 1 Infobox ship career Hide header Ship country United States Ship flag USN ... Sea Fighter for the U.S. Navy accessdate 2008 03 02 publisher Nichols Bros. Boat builders ref Ship original ... ship fsf 1.htm title Sea Fighter FSF 1 Fast Sea Frame Littoral Surface Craft Experimental LSC X publisher ... SEA FIGHTER FSF 1 accessdate 2008 03 02 date 2007 04 20 work U.S. Naval Vessel Register publisher ... to activate Ship sensors Ship EW Ship armament Ship armour Ship aircraft Ship aircraft facilities 2 helipad s, Unmanned aerial vehicle UAV capable Ship notes Sea Fighter FSF 1 is an experimental littoral ... web url http www.navy.mil search display.asp?story id 19463 title Navy Sea Fighter Makes San Diego ... 29 NG427 SeaFighterFSF1.pdf ref Description Image Sea Fighter FSF 1.jpg thumb left A helicopter lands on Sea Fighter underway Sea Fighter s hull is of a Small waterplane area twin hull SWATH design, constructed out of aluminium aluminum . The SWATH design gives Sea Fighter exceptional motion ... gas turbine engines, twin water jets, and a streamlined hull, Sea Fighter is capable of speeds of convert ... on Sea Fighter s inner deck. The vessel has the capability of launching small craft up to 11 ... pad helicopter deck capable of operating aircraft up to the size of an Sikorsky UH 60 Black Hawk H ... to convert 50 kn km h 1 . A special deck lighting system has been developed for Sea Fighter using ... warships, even at the higher speeds in which Sea Fighter operates. The basic design has a displacement .... Each water jet has thrust vectoring and thrust reversers making it possible for Sea Fighter to move ... Fighter to make dramatic evasive maneuvers while traveling at high speed. This would prevent the craft from being forced to shore or into the path of enemy vessels. Sea Fighter s forward superstructure ... glass displays using the latest in navigational aids to assist Sea Fighter in patrolling coastal areas ... more details
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