Billy McDonald, the Hawk 75, and Chennault's combat victories Ajax Baumler, the 100th Flying Tiger No, sorry, the AVG never met the Zero in combat Did the RAF 'sell' victories to the AVG? 1,500 planes shot down? The ultimate AVG myth Chris Shores on the subject of AVG victory claims Ed McClure: The Last Flying Tiger Ace (Zeke Striker)

Armament: 24 unguided 2.75 inch rockets and six guided missiles Engine: One Pratt & Whitney J57 of 16,000 lbs. thrust with afterburner Cost: $1,184,000 Maximum speed: 810 mph. Cruising speed: 600 mph. Range: 1,000 miles Service Ceiling: 55,000 ft. History

LKk/42s were used little bit in planes as "training MGs" eg. in Swedish made Draken and British Hawk fighters. The use started at 1980's. According to memo made in 16.2.1983 "test firings were done in late of 1982 to get the test guns into service use with Drakens".

On March 28th,1942 8 more F2A-3 were offloaded from the Seaplane Tender "Curtiss" AV-3 for the unit at Midway, and finally 7 Grumman F4F-3 Wildcats were delivered from the Aircraft Ferry "Kitty Hawk" APV-1 on May 26th, 1942.

The probabilities are that the minimum parasite drag can, within a comparatively short time, be reduced, at least for commercial types, to about 40 percent of the conventional figure and that the maximum trimmed lift coefficient (CLmax) may, within a similar short time, be increased to at least 75 percent of conventional values.

Hall, E. R. (Bon), Glory In Chaos: The RAAF in the Far East in 1941-42, published by the Sembawang Association, 75 Donne Street, West Coburg, Victoria, Australia, 1989 [bt2] Hugo Hooftman, Van Glenn Martins en Mustangs, Alle vliegtuigen die hebben gevlogen bij het KNIL, de Indische militaire luchtvaart (About Glenn Martins and Mustangs, all ...

While they were absent ten Japanese fighters strafed the field followed an hour later by an attack by nine bombers with fighter escort [75]. On May 31st nine P-43s escorted five A-29s to attack the ferry crossing between Ichang and Itu.

Whitehead was flight checked by Julius Barr and made some flights in the Vultee V-11. He was then sent to join a group of French and German mercenaries flying Curtiss Hawk III fighter-bombers for the 5th Pursuit Group at Nanchang. During combat over Hankou on December 14, he was severely wounded and forced to bail out.

Between X-75 (28 July) and X-8 (23 October) the British and American fliers and gunners would attack widely scattered targets in the Japanese home islands in order to inflict the maximum damage on the Japanese air forces, disrupt communications between Honshu and Kyushu, and eliminate as much as possible of the remaining Japanese navy and ...

2017年5月31日 · HOME. > TIGERS > P-43 > NOTES. REPUBLIC P-43 AND CHINA'S AIR WAR I. General notes In telling the story of the P-43 in both the C.A.F. and U.S.A.A.F. service in China as well as trying to connect the two and put both in context, the principal text became somewhat stylistically ponderous.