The Grumman E-2C Hawkeye is an American all-weather, aircraft carrier-based tactical Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft. The early E-2A and E-2B versions are no longer in service, todays Hawkeyes being to E-2C and E-2C+ standard. […]
CVA-58 USS United States After the second World War, the new enemy of the US was the Soviet Union, and the age of the atomic weapons began. The only way to deploy those weapons was […]
McDonnell Douglas F-15A/C Eagle is a single-seat air superiority fighter. The F-15E Strike Eagle is an all-weather two-seat dual role aircraft for strike / interdiction. The F-15 was ordered “off the drawing board”, and there […]
The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, variable sweep wing, two-placed fighter designed to attack and destroy enemy aircraft at night and in all weather conditions, from carriers or shore based. Three basic versions […]
The Boeing AH-64 Apache is a tandem two-seat attack helicopter. Is designed by Hughes, sold to McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company in January 1984, and now in production by Boeing after the take over of McDonnell […]
The Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche armed reconnaissance helicopter was the centerpiece of the U.S. Army’s aviation modernization plan. This reflects the Army’s overall transition to an Objective Force that will utilize advanced weapon systems and […]
The Boeing (former McDonnell Douglas) T-45A Goshawk is the US Navy’s two-seat advanced jet trainer. The aircraft is jointly manufactured by Boeing and BAE Systems. The T-45A was selected to meet the US Navy requirement […]
The B-29 was the first effective long distance bomber in the world en was designed from 1940 as model 345 to fill the need of the US Army Air Core’s plan for a ‘hemisphere defense’ […]
The Bell P-39 was an unusual fighter at the time, the engine was placed in the center of the aircraft for a good weight-ratio. This was not unique but at the least unusual. The P-39 […]
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