This airplane was built in 1940, serving on the Eastern Front during WW2. 180 votes Is this iconic? 40 Grumman F8F Bearcat Photo: Airwolfhound Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 A piston-engine US Navy fighter designed during World War II, which arrived too late to see combat, the Grumman ...
Its large airframe was towed along by a single Merlin engine, the sort used by the Spitfire and Hurricane. This simply did not give out the necessary power to outrun or outmanoeuvre attacking BF 109 E's during the Battle of France. Its redeeming quality of easy flying characteristics meant...
Armed Forces of World War II, ranked by the most kills. These numbers are for those planes flown by American pilots. 1. North American P-51 Mustang A pair of P-51 Mustangs (Image source: Wikimedia Common) The US used a lot of fighter planes in WW2, but nothing was as famous and...
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WW2 Aircraft Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress The Flying Fortress embodied the cherished American concept of precision daylight bombardment and was amongst the deadliest of World War 2 planes. Developed during the mid- to late 1930s, the B-17 entered service in 1938, but production was limited by ...
Turbo-JETS, were constructed by German and English engineers throughout the 1930's. Here is a picture of Hans Ohain standing next to one of his engines in 1935, 4 years before WW2. Please understand that these designs were not pulled out of thin air, they were built around research and...
How many planes flew in the Berlin Airlift?West Berlin:West Berlin existed from 1948 until 1990 and was the western-controlled section of the German city of Berlin. The other part of the city of Berlin, referred to as East Berlin, was controlled by the Communist Soviet Union and East ...
The second USS Worcester (CL-144) was laid down on 29 January 1945 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp.; launched on 4 February 1947; sponsored by Gloria Ann Sullivan, the daughter of Mayor F. G. Sullivan of Worcester, Massachusetts; and commissioned at...
Hangar 1 was used by the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) to operate balloons on behalf of the Met Office. A company called Airship Industries tried to revive the fortunes of the airship industry in the Shed 1 (on closure of the RAE operation) in the 1980s, but the efforts ended in...
US distributor:Great Planes PT-19 Fairchild ARF:PT-19 EP ARF ARF Price:$99.98 Great Planes has released a new scale electric power ARF, the PT-19 Fairchild. This is a great park-flyer sized model that has a very attractive scale yellow and blue covering scheme, and as good as the PT-...