First seeing action with the RAF the American armed forces were to take up the majority of the use during latter stages of WW2. Merlin powered Mustangs were to start their first of many missions to escort long range bombers in mid-december 1943. The P51-D’s were to prove superior to th...
Yet I found some amazing stories, from a nurse who was just one of two accompanying Claire Chennault’s famed mercenary ‘Flying Tigers’ taking out Japanese bombers over China and Burma, to the men who flew dangerous high altitude cargo missions from India to China over the Himalayas, to th...
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Used instead during WW2 in coastal anti-sub patrol, also in preliminary glider pick-up trials. POP: 38 [39-027/064], of which 12 were converted to glider tugs, and about 18 became 14p UC-67 transports in 1942 [39-029, 031, 034/035, 039, 041, 043/044, 047, 054/059, 061, 063...
Had a unique V-tail acting as both elevator and rudder, with a single control wheel replacing the usual two- and three-lever systems commonly used in contemporary airplanes, and weighed a third less than a Curtiss machine. Take-off speed said to be only 17mph....
With jets already the perceived future of aerial warfare as far as the Americans were concerned, authorities were already laying down the groundwork for fleets of new jet-powered fighters and bombers. A request during the late-war years called for a straight-wing, jet-powered, single-seat fig...
Peru’s order of battle was a battalion of highly trained marines and even paratroopers. These latter units would undertake the first-ever combat airdrop in a war in the Western Hemisphere. [6] Peru also drew upon seven American-madeP-64 fighters, which it converted to light bombers. [7]...
Planned for retractable gear, but a fixed gear was used. Had a novel cockpit ventilator in the wing's leading edge that howled to warn of stalls. POP: 1; caught fire during a 1936 flight and crashed [NX11573].HoffmanEdward C Hoffman, St Petersburg FL....