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U.S.A
WARBIRD
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Convair F-102 Delta Dagger was a
US
interceptor aircraft built as part of the
backbone of the
United States Air Force's air defenses in
the late 1950s. Entering service in 1956, its main purpose was to intercept
invading
Soviet
bomber fleets.
The F-102 was the first
supersonic interceptor and first operational delta wing fighter of the USAF.
It used an internal weapons bay to carry both guided missiles and rockets.
As originally designed, it could not achieve Mach 1 supersonic flight until
redesigned with area ruling. The F-102 replaced subsonic types such as the
F-89 Scorpion, and by the 1960s, it saw
limited service in Vietnam in bomber escort and ground attack roles. It was
supplemented by
F-101 Voodoos and, later, by
F-4 Phantom IIs. Many of the F-102s were
transferred to
United States Air National Guard duty by
the mid-to-late 1960s, and the type was retired from operational service in
1976. The follow-on replacement was the Mach 2 class
F-106 Delta Dart which was an extensive
redesign of the F-102
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U.S.A
WARBIRD
1956
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Ryan XF2R Dark Shark was an experimental
aircraft built for the
United States Navy that combined
turboprop and
turbojet propulsion. It was based on Ryan's
earlier
FR Fireball, but replaced the Fireball's
piston engine with a
General Electric T-31 turboprop engine
driving a huge 4-bladed
Hamilton Standard
propeller.The
turboprop made for much improved performance over the Fireball, but the Navy
showed little interest in it; by that time, they had abandoned the idea of
the combination fighter and were instead looking into all-jet fighters.The
United States Air Force, however, showed a
little more interest; they were at the time evaluating the
Convair XP-81 of similar concept, and asked
Ryan to modify the XF2R to use the
Westinghouse J-34 turbojet instead of the
General Electric J-31 used previously. Modifications to the
prototype created the XF2R-2, with the jet
intakes moved to the sides of the forward fuselage with
NACA ducts instead of the inlets in the
wing leading edge used before.Although the Dark Shark proved to be a capable
aircraft, it never got further than the prototype stage; all-jet aircraft
were considered superior.
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In the early 1950s,
Handley Page designed a new short-range passenger aircraft to replace
the venerable Douglas DC-3. Named
H.P.R.3 Herald, the airplane was powered by four
Alvis Leonides Major piston engines of 870 hp (650
kW) each, and its pressurized cabin could seat up to 44 passengers. The
first "Herald" prototype G-AODE flew on August 25, 1955. Although
Queensland Airlines, Australian National Airways, and Lloyd Aereo
Colombianco had initially placed 29 orders, these were later cancelled
with only the first prototype completed.
To recover the investment, Handley Page redesigned the airplane to use
Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops, they also lengthened the fuselage by 50.8cm
(20in). With the first prototype flying in 1958.
Designated H.P.R.7 Dart Herald, the new aircraft entered production in
1959. The first order being placed by
BEA.
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FRANCE
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CANADA
1947
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The de Havilland Canada DHC-2
Beaver is a single engined, high wing,
propeller-driven,
STOL aircraft developed by
de Havilland Canada, primarily known as a
bush plane. It is used for cargo and passenger
hauling,
aerial application (crop
dusting and
aerial topdressing), and has been widely adopted
by armed forces as a
utility aircraft. The
U.S. Army Air Corps purchased several hundred
and nine DHC-2s are still in service with the
U.S. Air Force Auxiliary (Civil Air Patrol)
for search and rescue.
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WARBIRD
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The first prototype flew on 4 March
1918, powered by two 230 hp (186 kW) Siddeley Puma engines mounted as pushers.
When evaluated by the RAF, the performance of this prototype was well below
expectation, reaching only 90 mph (145 km/h) at 15,000 ft (4,572 m) with the
required bomb load. Owing to this poor performance, the DH.10 was redesigned
with more powerful engines in a tractor installation
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The British Aerospace BAe 125
is a twin-engined mid-size corporate jet, with newer variants now marketed as
the
Hawker 800. It was known as the Hawker
Siddeley HS.125 until 1977. It is also used by the
British
Royal Air Force as a navigation trainer
(as the Hawker Siddeley Dominie T1), and was used by the
United States Air Force as a calibration
aircraft (as the C-29).
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The
Cessna
T-37 Tweet is one of the most prominent of the trainer-attack type
aircraft.
This small, economical twin-engine
jet aircraft
flew for decades as a primary trainer for the
United States Air Force
(USAF), and in the air forces of several other nations. The
A-37 Dragonfly
variant served with distinction in the light attack role during the
Vietnam War
and continues to serve a role in the air forces of several South American nations.
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The Fokker Dr.I ("Dr"
for "Dreidecker" meaning "triplane") series is most closely associated
with Manfred von Richthofen (aka "the Red Baron") as the triplane
aircraft was his chosen mount in the final months of his life,
accounting for his last 20 kills. Designed to match the Sopwith Triplane
and appearing by October of 1917, the Dr.I was a capable aircraft made
more so by the pilots that flew her than the unique three-wing design.
In the end, the system was limited in production quantity and saw a
career spanning just the final year of the conflict, which by 1918, was
being used as a defensive system over Germany.
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