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Data from Pacific Aerospace General characteristics Crew: one (pilot) Capacity: Pilot + nine passengers or 17 parachutists Length: 11.11 m (36 ft 5 in) Wingspan: 12.8 m (42 ft 0 in) Height: 3.88 m (12 ft 9 in) Wing area: 24.88 m 2 (267.8 sq ft) Aspect ratio: 6.59 Empty weight: 1,633 kg (3,600 lb) Max takeoff weight: 3,402 kg (7,500 lb) Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 A-34 turboprop ...
The Fletcher class was a class of destroyers built by the United States during World War II. The class was designed in 1939, as a result of dissatisfaction with the earlier destroyer leader types of the Porter and Somers classes.
21 September 1942 [11] — Sunk, 1 February 1943 [11] Bache DD-470 Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Staten Island, New York: 19 November 1941 [12] 7 July 1942 14 November 1942 [12] 4 February 1946 [12] Wrecked, 6 February 1968 [12] 1 October 1951 [12] 1 March 1968 [12] Beale DD-471 19 December 1941 24 August 1942 23 December 1942 11 April 1946
By the end of World War II, the U.S. Navy had also commissioned 112 six-gun destroyers derived from the Fletcher design; 67 Allen M. Sumner class 2200 tonners and 45 Gearing class 2250 tonners. [2] The Allen M. Sumner class' hull was slightly wider than the Fletcher class', while the Gearing -class design was a lengthened version of the Allen M ...
The Cresco is a low-wing monoplane which, like the Fletcher but unlike most topdressers, ... Height: 3.63 m (11 ft 11 in) Wing area: 27.31 m 2 (294.0 sq ft)
January 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM. Mick Cronin’s UCLA men’s basketball team has spent the first two months of the 2024-25 season racking up frequent-flyer miles, with trips to New York, ...
The Fletcher FU-24 is an agricultural aircraft made in New Zealand. Being one of the first aircraft designed for aerial topdressing , the Fletcher has also been used for other aerial applications as a utility aircraft, and for sky diving .
USS Fletcher (DD/DDE-445), named for Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher, was the lead Fletcher-class destroyer, and served in the Pacific during World War II. She received fifteen battle stars for World War II service, and five for Korean War service. Fletcher was laid down by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Kearny, New Jersey, on 2 ...