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The Avro 536 and its follow-on design, the 546 were developments of the 504 military biplane, marketed for civil use in the years following World War I.Principally intended for joyriding, the aircraft had greater wing area and a more powerful engine to lift four passengers, seated in two rows of side-by-side seats behind the pilot.
Aircraft Engineering Corp Ace K-1; Alliance P.1; Alliance P.2 Seabird; Ansaldo A.300; Armstrong Whitworth Ara; Armstrong Whitworth Siskin; Astra-Paulhan flying boat; Austin Greyhound; Austin Whippet; Avro 536; Avro 539; Avro 548; Avro Baby
Donahue was already an ace with nine kills, these were his last claims of the war. [300] This was the first ever official ace in a day by a carrier based f4u pilot.This was his second ace in a day, also see May 13, 1943; On 17 April 1945, Lieutenant Commander Eugene Valencia, USN VF-9, shot down six Japanese planes over Okinawa. [301]
North Vietnamese forces had surrounded the camp, and learning from the success of air resupply during their 1969 attack on the Ben Het Camp, also established anti-aircraft artillery positions along likely air resupply corridors. On the first day of the siege, two C-7s were diverted from their scheduled missions and staged out of Pleiku to make ...
Aces with five symbols on French-suited playing cards, used in Germany The "first French ace", Frenchman Adolphe Pégoud being awarded the Croix de guerre. A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The exact number of aerial victories required to ...
Marine Attack Squadron 231 (VMA-231) is a United States Marine Corps fixed wing attack squadron that consists of AV-8B Harrier jets.The squadron, known as the "Ace of Spades", is based at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina and fall under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 14 (MAG-14) and the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW).
During World War II, Westbrook flew a total of 367 combat missions. He was credited with the destruction of 20 enemy aircraft in aerial combat, which includes 13 in P-38 Lightning and 7 in P-40 Warhawk. With 20 victories, Westbrook became the Thirteenth Air Force's highest scoring ace. [4]
The Ace Junior Ace is a two-seat sports aircraft that has been offered by the Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company in kit and plans form for home building since the early 1930s. It was designed by Orland Corben. [1] An evolution of Corben's single-seat Baby Ace, [2] it is a parasol wing monoplane of conventional taildragger configuration. Pilot ...