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Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5: M: Biplane, fighter 5,205 United Kingdom: 1917: 1918: McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II: M: Jet fighter-bomber: 5,195 [68] United States: 1958: 1981 Includes 127 built in Japan by Mitsubishi. [68] Cessna 170: C: Utility / trainer 5,174 [69] United States: 1948: 1956: Developed into Cessna 172. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG ...
All-time leading jet ace during World War II. [12] Ilmari Juutilainen Finland: 1939–1944 1932–1947 94 Fokker D.XXI, Brewster Buffalo and Bf 109: The top scoring Ilmavoimat (Finnish Air Force), and the top scoring non-German fighter pilot of all time. The top flying ace of the Finnish Air Force with 94 confirmed aerial combat victories [13]
Manfred von Richthofen, known as the "Red Baron", scored the most officially accepted kills (80) in World War I and is arguably the most famous flying ace of all time. World War I introduced the systematic use of true single-seat fighter aircraft, with enough speed and agility to catch and maintain contact with targets in the air, coupled with ...
The Me 262 was the first operational jet fighter. The earliest jet fighters appeared during and after the last years of World War II. They were similar in most respects to their piston-engined contemporaries, having straight, effectively unswept wings and being of wood and/or light alloy construction.
Fighter aces in World War II had tremendously varying kill scores, affected as they were by many factors: the pilot's skill level, the performance of the airplane the pilot flew and the planes they flew against, how long they served, their opportunity to meet the enemy in the air (Allied to Axis disproportion), whether they were the formation's leader or a wingman, the standards their air ...
In the US Air Force the naming convention for fighter aircraft is a prefix "F-", followed by a number, ground attack aircraft are prefixed with “A-” and bombers with “B-”. Fighter aircraft from the second world war onwards are sorted into generations, from 1 to 5, based on technological level. [1] [2] An American F-16 fighter jet
The best UFC fighters of all time ranked. Alex Pattle ... status as the greatest featherweight of all time. In fact, the now-36-year-old Aldo was unbeaten in 10 years prior to that famous result ...
This category lists fighter aircraft considered to belong to the third generation of fighter jets, developed from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. Pages in category "Third-generation jet fighters" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.