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Single-engine monoplane: Liaison, trainer, light cargo 1936 4 Grumman JF-2 Duck [7] Grumman: Amphibious single-engine biplane: Transport and search and rescue: October 1934 14 Grumman JRF Goose [8] Grumman: Amphibious flying boat: Various 1939 34 Grumman J4F-1 Widgeon [9] Grumman: Amphibious flying boat: Coastal anti-submarine patrol July 1941 ...
The Boeing XF8B (Model 400) was a single-engine aircraft developed by Boeing during World War II to provide the United States Navy with a long-range shipboard fighter aircraft. The XF8B was intended for operation against the Japanese home islands from aircraft carriers outside the range of Japanese land-based aircraft.
Pages in category "Single-engined piston aircraft" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,304 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major is an American 28-cylinder four-row radial piston aircraft engine designed and built during World War II.At 4,362.5 cu in (71.5 L), it is the largest-displacement aviation piston engine to be mass-produced in the United States, and at 4,300 hp (3,200 kW) the most powerful.
The list of aircraft of World War II includes all of the aircraft used by countries which were at war during World War II from the period between when the country joined the war and the time the country withdrew from it, or when the war ended.
The R-2800 powered several types of fighters and medium bombers during the war, including the US Navy's Vought F4U Corsair, with the XF4U-1 first prototype Corsair becoming the first airframe to fly (as originally designed) with the Double Wasp [7] in its XR-2800-4 prototype version on May 29, 1940, [8] and the first single-engine American ...
Cancelled jet engine addition to conventional radial engine torpedo bomber [13] [14] Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg: Germany: September 1944: Operational: October 1944: 300: Manned version of the pulsejet powered V-1 flying bomb ready late 1944 but not used. [15] Gloster E.28/39: UK: April 1941: Prototype: n/a: 2: Engine testbed and first Allied ...
The Tempest emerged as one of the most powerful fighters of World War II and at low altitude was the fastest single-engine propeller-driven aircraft of the war. [ 2 ] Upon entering service in 1944, the Tempest performed low-level interception, particularly against the V-1 flying bomb threat, and ground attack supporting major invasions like ...