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The North American B-45 Tornado is an early American jet bomber designed and manufactured by aircraft company North American Aviation. It has the distinction of being the first operational jet bomber to enter service with the United States Air Force (USAF), as well as the first multiengine jet bomber to be refueled in midair. [1]
Camera footage from a U.S. A-10, as it begins an attack on a British vehicle squadron, March 2003. This is a list of friendly fire incidents by the U.S. Military on allied British personnel and civilians. Korean War 23 September 1950: During the "Battle of Hill 282", three United States Air Force F-51 Mustang aircraft attacked a position held by the British Army's 1st Battalion, Argyll and ...
A German Air Force Tornado IDS 43+13 flying above Nevada, US, 2007. The first Tornado prototype made its first flight on 14 August 1974 from Ingolstadt Manching Airport, in West Germany. [133] Deliveries of production Tornados began on 27 July 1979. The total number of Tornados delivered to the German Air Force was 247, including 35 ECR ...
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often ...
The tornado dissipated at the northeast corner of the base. [5] The tornado missed most structures on the base, but the damage to expensive military aircraft was substantial. The total damage cost came to around $10 million, or $127 million in 2023 United States dollars. [1] This was the most damaging tornado in Oklahoma up to that date. [6]
List of United States tornado outbreaks – 1900–1909 Outbreak Dates Region Tornadoes Casualties Notes 1900 Plains tornado outbreak: May 5–6, 1900: Nebraska-Texas-Missouri – ≥3 fatalities, ≥16 injuries: May 6 named "day of the cyclones" by the press. (≥19 significant, 2 killer) 1900 Southeast tornado outbreak: November 20, 1900
A widespread, destructive, and deadly tornado outbreak sequence affected the Southeastern United States from April 28 to May 2, 1953, producing 24 tornadoes, including five violent F4 tornadoes. The deadliest event of the sequence was an F4 tornado family that ravaged Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Georgia , on April 30, killing at ...
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis 2015357 – Soviet fighter of the Korean People's Air Force defected to Seoul, later flown by Chuck Yeager [100] North American B-45C Tornado 48-0010 [101] North American F-82B Twin Mustang 44‐65162 – configured as an F-82G [102] North American L-17A Navion 47‐1347 [103] North American F-86A Sabre 49-1067 ...