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2. Nakajima Ki-84 - Wikipedia

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   The Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate (キ84 疾風, lit."Gale") is a single-seat fighter flown by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service in the last two years of World War II.The Allied reporting name was "Frank"; the Japanese Army designation was Army Type 4 Fighter (四式戦闘機, yon-shiki-sentō-ki).

3. McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet - Wikipedia

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   The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is an all-weather supersonic, twin-engine, carrier-capable, multirole combat aircraft, designed as both a fighter and attack aircraft (hence the F/A designation). Designed by McDonnell Douglas and Northrop, the F/A-18 was derived from the latter's YF-17 in the 1970s for use by the United States Navy and ...

4. McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet - Wikipedia

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   The McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet (official military designation CF-188) is a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) variant of the American McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet fighter aircraft. In 1980, the F/A-18 was selected as the winner of the New Fighter Aircraft Project competition to replace CF-104 Starfighter, CF-101 Voodoo and the CF-116 ...

5. List of United States fighter aircraft - Wikipedia

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   Carrier-based fighter aircraft Goodyear Aircraft: Developed from the Vought F4U Corsair. 1945 1945 10 + 1 Prototype FH Phantom: Carrier-based fighter aircraft McDonnell Aircraft: First purely jet-powered aircraft to land on an American aircraft carrier in 1946. [98] [99] 1945 [98] 1947 [34] [98] [99] 62 [34] [98] FJ-1 Fury: Fighter North ...

6. Hiller Aircraft - Wikipedia

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   Besides helicopters, in the year after World War II, Stanley Hiller researched a two-man rocket-jet aircraft design that took off and landed vertically, called the VJ-100, in which he tried unsuccessfully to interest the U.S. military. [3] The company was renamed Hiller Helicopters in 1948. It was involved in the development of a number of ...

7. List of active United States naval aircraft - Wikipedia

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   Aircraft Origin Type Variant In service Notes Combat Aircraft; F/A-18 Super Hornet: United States: multirole: F/A-18E/F: 421 76 on order [1] F-35 Lightning II: United States stealth multirole F-35C: 30 204 on order [1] AWACS; E-2 Hawkeye: United States: AEW: E-2C/D: 83 25 on order [1] Electronic Warfare; E-6 Mercury: United States: TACAMO: 16 ...

8. Hawker Fury - Wikipedia

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   The new fighter prototype, known as the Hawker Hornet, first flew at Brooklands, Surrey, in March 1929. [3] The Hornet was a single-engined biplane, with single bay wings, initially powered by a 420 hp (310 kW) Rolls-Royce F.XIC engine enclosed by a smooth, streamlined cowling but was quickly re-engined with a 480 hp (360 kW) Kestrel IS. [4]

9. List of fighter aircraft - Wikipedia

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   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