There are other unusual aircraft here, including this British-designed Armstrong Whitworth Argosy, a four-engined civilian transport which because of its noisy turbo-prop engines and twin-tail was nicknamed the "whistling wheelbarrow". The Argosy was never a common plane, but they did operate in...
The Y-20, developed by Xi’an Aircraft Industrial Corporation (Xian) for the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), is the biggest indigenous strategic airlifter ever built in China. The aircraft has a maximum take-off weight of 220t and can carry a payload of 60t. The Y-20 proj...
Yagen owns close to 60 aircraft. Some of the airplanes are off-site, including a Kingfisher, a Focke Wulf 190 and a de Havilland DH-89 Rapide, which is a large twin-engine biplane. Others under restoration reside at the Fighter Factory, the aircraft recovery and restoration component of th...
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The Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King (company designation S-61) is an American twin-engined anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter designed and built by Sikorsky Aircraft. It was a landmark design, being the first ASW helicopter to take advantage of turboshaft en
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The C model is the same as the B but has two .50 cal. machine guns in blisters on each side of the fuselage just under the cockpit. They are fired by the aircraft commander. Both the B and C models’ maximum take-off weights are 37,000 lbs. Each has an extra 100 hors...
Numerous attempts weremade to improve the performance of the mighty Jug. One experimental model set a speed record of 505 mph (810 km/h). No piston engine aircraft would top that until 1989. In 1942, Republic reported that its plots had broken the then-elusive ‘sound barrier’ during P-...
Dubbed thePiper PA-48 Enforcer, the single-engine turbo-prop was a direct descendent of the classic North American P-51. The modernized Mustang was first conceived during the late Vietnam War-era as a low-cost, low-level ground attack aircraft.Piperhoped the tried an...
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