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Light Fighter
A light fighter or lightweight fighter is a fighter aircraft towards the low end of the practical range of weight, cost, and complexity over which fighters are fielded. The light or lightweight fighter retains carefully selected competitive features, in order to provide cost-effective design and performance. A well-designed lightweight fighter is able to match or better a heavier type plane-for-plane in many missions, and for lower cost. The lightweight class can therefore be strategically valuable. In attempts to scale this efficiency to still lower cost, some manufacturers have in recent years adopted the term “light fighter” to also refer to light primarily air-to-ground attack aircraft, some of which are modified trainer designs. These lower cost lightweight attack aircraft have become known as light combat aircraft (LCAs), and are sometimes considered to include some multirole light fighters. From 1926 the light fighter concept has been a regular thread in the develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airmen Work Alongside Peruvian Military During Joint Exercise
An airman is a member of an air force or air arm of a nation's armed forces. In certain air forces, it can also refer to a specific enlisted rank. An airman can also be referred to as a soldier in other definitions. As a military rank designation, the male form of address also applies to women. In civilian aviation usage, the term airman is analogous to the term "sailor" in nautical usage. In the American Federal Aviation Administration usage, an airman is any holder of an airman certificate, airman's certificate, male or female. This certificate is issued to those who qualify for it by the Federal Aviation Administration Airmen Certification Branch. New Zealand "Airman" was a former general term used to describe any service members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Following the Royal Air Force, the RNZAF now refers to its personnel as “aviators.” United Kingdom "Airman" and "airwoman" were formerly general terms used to describe members of the Royal Air Force, partic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fighter Aircraft
Fighter aircraft (early on also ''pursuit aircraft'') are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air supremacy, air superiority of the battlespace. Domination of the airspace above a battlefield permits bombers and attack aircraft to engage in tactical bombing, tactical and strategic bombing of enemy targets, and helps prevent the enemy from doing the same. The key performance features of a fighter include not only its firepower but also its high speed and maneuverability relative to the target aircraft. The success or failure of a combatant's efforts to gain air superiority hinges on several factors including the skill of its pilots, the tactical soundness of its doctrine for deploying its fighters, and the numbers and performance of those fighters. Many modern fighter aircraft also have secondary capabilities such as ground-attack aircraft, ground attack and some types, such as fighter-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nieuport-Delage NiD 62
The Nieuport-Delage NiD.62 was a French sesquiplane fighter from the early 1930s. This machine was a descendant of a long line of Nieuport-Delage fighters that were designed and built during the years immediately after World War I. The NiD.62 was built in 1931 as a fighter for the ''Armée de l'Air''. It served until the late 1930s, when it was replaced by more modern monoplane fighters. By the time of the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, all of the NiD.62s had been withdrawn from front-line fighter escadrilles but were used as trainers in French flight schools. A few aircraft were employed as target tugs. After the French German Armistice and German occupation of North and West part of France in June 1940, the German ''Luftwaffe'' had no interest in the NiD.62s and they were scrapped. None survived the war. Variants ;Nieuport-Delage NiD.62 :Single-seat fighter aircraft, powered by a Hispano-Suiza 12Hb. ;Nieuport-Delage NiD.621 :Twin-float fighter-trainer, powered by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiot 110
The Amiot 110, also known as the Amiot-SECM 110, was a French prototype interceptor designed and built in 1929. Development The Amiot 110 was designed as a contender in the so-called "Jockey" lightweight interceptor contest, competing against nine other types. It was a braced parasol wing monoplane with an all-metal structure and metal skinned fuselage. The first prototype had a fabric covered wing, replaced by metal skinning in the second. It had fixed, conventional landing gear; the stub wing behind the gear was part of a jettisonable fuel tank. Operational history It first flew in June 1928 and looked a promising candidate to win the "Jockey" contest. However it crashed on 1 July 1929, killing the pilot due to several loose rivets and integrity flaws. No further production went ahead after a second prototype was deemed inferior to the Nieuport-Delage NiD 62. Specifications References {{Amiot aircraft 1920s French fighter aircraft 110 110 may refer to: *110 (number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nieuport-Delage NiD 48
The Nieuport-Delage NiD 48 was a single-engine parasol wing light fighter aircraft designed and produced by the French aircraft manufacturer Nieuport-Delage. It was designed for a French 1926 light fighter competition. Unlike many Nieuport designs of the period, the NiD 48 was not a sesquiplane but a monoplane, its wing mounted like those of the sesquiplanes over the fuselage in parasol wing configuration. It bore a resemblance to the NiD 42, except it lacked an ancillary wing, had smaller dimensions and was only half of the loaded weight. Both of the flightworthy NiD 48s built were powered by Hispano-Suiza upright V-12 water-cooled engines, with a 12Jb in the first prototype and a 12Hb in the second, the NiD 48bis. Aft of the engine, the fuselage had a circular cross-section that tapered into the tail unit. It had a single-seat open cockpit that was located underneath the trailing edge of the wing. Performing its maiden flight during early 1929, a total of three airframes we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Aircraft Of The French Air Force During World War II
Aircraft of the French Air Force and French Naval Aviation, Naval Aviation during the Phoney War and the Battle of France, and aircraft of the Free French Air Force (FAFL). The list is not complete and includes obsolete aircraft used for training as well as prototype and pre-production aircraft. List is in alphabetical order by manufacturer or designer. Aircraft of the , 1939–1940 and , 1940–1942 Avions Amiot, Amiot * Amiot 143 medium bomber * Amiot 351/Amiot 354 twin-engine light bomber ANF Les Mureaux * ANF Les Mureaux 113/115/117 reconnaissance aircraft Arsenal de l'Aéronautique, Arsenal * Arsenal VG-33 light wooden-built fighter for rapid production, only few built and used. Besson (aircraft), Besson * MB.411 submarine-borne floatplane operated by French submarine Surcouf Blériot Aéronautique, Blériot-SPAD * Blériot-SPAD S.510 biplane fighter, mostly used for training by the time of the beginning of the war. Société des Avions Marcel Bloch, Bloch * MB.81 '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Messerschmitt Me 262
The Messerschmitt Me 262, nicknamed (German for "Swallow") in fighter versions, or ("Storm Bird") in fighter-bomber versions, is a fighter aircraft and fighter-bomber that was designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt. It was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft and one of two jet fighter aircraft types to see air-to-air combat in World War Two, the other being the Heinkel He 162. The design of what would become the Me 262 started in April 1939, before World War II. It made its maiden flight on 18 April 1941 with a piston engine, and its first jet-powered flight on 18 July 1942. Progress was delayed by problems with engines, metallurgy Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the ..., and interference from Luftwaffe chie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Electric F414
The General Electric F414 is an American afterburning turbofan engine in the 22,000- pound (98 kN) thrust class produced by GE Aerospace (formerly GE Aviation). The F414 originated from GE's widely used F404 turbofan, enlarged and improved for use in the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The engine was developed from the F412 non-afterburning turbofan planned for the A-12 Avenger II, before it was canceled. Design and development Origins GE evolved the F404 into the F412-GE-400 non-afterburning turbofan for the McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II. After the cancellation of the A-12 in 1991, the research was directed toward an engine for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. GE successfully pitched the F414 as a low-risk derivative of the F404, rather than a riskier new engine. The F414 engine was originally envisioned as not using any materials or processes not used in the F404, and was designed to fit in the same footprint as the F404."Confident GE heads to F414 CDR next month" (1994). ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Electric J79
The General Electric J79 is an axial-flow turbojet engine built for use in a variety of fighter and bomber aircraft and a supersonic cruise missile. The J79 was produced by General Electric Aircraft Engines in the United States, and under license by several other companies worldwide. Among its major uses was the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, Convair B-58 Hustler, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, North American A-5 Vigilante and IAI Kfir. A commercial version, designated the CJ805, powered the Convair 880, while an aft-turbofan derivative, the CJ805-23, powered the Convair 990 airliners and a single Sud Aviation Caravelle intended to demonstrate to the U.S. market the benefits of a bypass engine over the existing Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet. In 1959 the gas generator of the J79 was developed as a stationary 10 MW-class () free-turbine turboshaft engine for naval power, power generation, and industrial use, called the LM1500. Its first application was in the research hydr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
