Another unusual test was made in 22 November 1973, with six missiles fired in 38 seconds, at Mach 0.78 and 24,800 feet (7600 m), with four scoring direct hits. This missile entered service at the beginning of 1975, just as the Vietnam War was coming to an end. ...
First flown in 1953 and initially named "Sabre 45" due to the 45° swept back wings, the North American F-100 Super Sabre was developed from the F-86, and was the world’s first fighter capable of supersonic speed in level flight. Used widely during the Vietnam War, the F-100D was...
This system first gained notoriety when an SA-2 battery shot down aU.S. Air Force(USAF)U-2overflying theSoviet Unionin 1960. Later, North Vietnamese forces used the S-75 extensively during theVietnam Warto defend Hanoi and Haiphong. It has also been locally-produced in thePeople's Repu...
Sadley it was only flown once as a test before the war ended. But as the Vietnam war started more jet engined aircraft were used, but these aircraft weren’t as fuel efficient as the normal propelled aircraft so they had shorter flying distances. So as this happened, America decided to ...
John Lear, a retired commercial airline pilot with over 19,000+ total hours flown in over 100 different types of planes for 10 different airlines in 60 different countries around the world, doubted that even a professional pilot could fly into the World Trade Center at 500 miles an hour. ...
“It’s always been in aviation,” he explained. Lois Lacy says if her husband ever has time to pen his bio, he should name it, “The Planes I’ve Flown and The People I’ve Known.” Why? Lacy, the founder of Clay Lacy Aviation, has flown more than 300 different aircraft types....
By the end of World War II, Carr had flown 172 combat missions, with 15 confirmed aerial victories and numerous ground targets destroyed. His flying career continued after the war, with 57 combat missions in the Korean War and another 286 in Vietnam. He retired in 1973 as a colonel, havi...
The ‘‘Gooney Bird’’ was so adaptable that the U.S. Air Force still retained a thousand C-47s in 1961. Some of those were converted to ‘‘gunships’’ with heavy machine-gun and cannon armament during the Vietnam War. Lockheed P-38 Lightning ...
Originally designed to British specifications and flown by the RAF in 1941, the P-51 Mustang was one of the most effective U.S. Army Air Force’s planes of World War II. Fitted with the British Rolls Royce Merlin engine (as in the Spitfire) , the Mustang could hit 441 mph, and provi...
The first copies were delivered in 1937 and were flown in the Spanish Civil war, giving Luftwaffe pilots essential experience for the bigger conflict that followed. The year it was introduced, the Bf109 broke the speed record, flying at almost 380 mph. At the start of the war it was consi...