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Formation flight in human aviation originated in World War I, when fighter aircraft were assigned to escort reconnaissance aircraft. [3] It was found that pairs of aircraft were more combat effective than single aircraft, and therefore, military aircraft would always fly in formations of at least two. [ 3 ]
The combat box was a tactical formation used by heavy (strategic) bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. The combat box was also referred to as a "staggered formation". Its defensive purpose was in massing the firepower of the bombers' guns, while offensively it concentrated the release of bombs on a target. [1]
F-22A Raptors in Vic formation. The Vic formation is a formation devised for military aircraft and first used during the First World War.It has three or sometimes more aircraft fly in close formation with the leader at the apex and the rest of the flight en echelon to the left and the right, the whole resembling the letter "V".
The formation consists of a flight of four aircraft, consisting of a "lead element" and a "second element", each of two aircraft. When viewing the formation from above, the positions of the planes resemble the tips of the four fingers of a human right hand (without the thumb), giving the formation its name.
Military units and formations of the Royal Air Force in World War II (5 C, 41 P) Military units and formations of the Royal Australian Air Force in World War II (2 C, 33 P) Military units and formations of the United States Army Air Forces (3 C, 16 P)
The Thach weave (also known as a beam defense position) is an aerial combat tactic that was developed by naval aviator John S. Thach and named by James H. Flatley of the United States Navy soon after the United States' entry into World War II. It is a tactical formation maneuver in which two or more allied planes wove in regularly intersecting ...
The Army Air Forces in World War II: Europe, Torch to Pointblank, August 1942 to December 1943. Vol. II. Chicago: University of Chicago. OCLC 1068351234 – via Hyperwar Foundation. Eden, Paul (2003). Aircraft Anatomy of World War II. London: Aerospace Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-905704-32-3. Eden, Paul (2004). The Encyclopedia of Aircraft of WWII.
The term elephant walk dates to World War II when large fleets of allied bombers would conduct attacks in missions containing 1,000 aircraft. Those who observed the taxiing of these large numbers of aircraft to take off in single file in nose-to-tail formations said that they looked like elephants walking to the next watering hole.