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Whaam! adapts a panel by Irv Novick from the "Star Jockey" story from issue No. 89 of DC Comics' All-American Men of War (Feb. 1962). [23] [24] [25] The original forms part of a dream sequence in which fictional World War II P-51 Mustang pilot Johnny Flying Cloud, "the Navajo ace", foresees himself flying a jet fighter while shooting down other jet planes.
Crackle! Pop!" [2] —part of the 360th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, [3] was on a daylight bombing run over Saint-Nazaire, France. This was Magee's seventh mission. Magee left his ball turret when it became inoperative after being damaged by German flak, and discovered his parachute had been torn and rendered useless. Another flak hit then ...
Basic fighter maneuvers (BFM) are tactical movements performed by fighter aircraft during air combat maneuvering (ACM, also called dogfighting), to gain a positional advantage over the opponent. [1] BFM combines the fundamentals of aerodynamic flight and the geometry of pursuit, with the physics of managing the aircraft's energy-to-mass ratio ...
Two years ago, a Chinese fighter jet released chaff in front of an Australian P-8 Poseidon aircraft flying over the South China Sea, with some of the metallic debris entering the plane's engine.
This chart shows the incredible cost of operating the US Air Force's most expensive planes US general: China's airpower will overtake the US Air Force by 2030 Show comments
The F-35, however, is designed to be a family of three aircraft, a conventional take-off and landing (CTOL) fighter, a short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) fighter, and a Catapult Assisted Take Off But Arrested Recovery (CATOBAR) fighter, each of which has a different unit price and slightly varying specifications in terms of fuel ...
Two military planes, a fighter jet and a refueling aircraft, "made contact" during training Tuesday, forcing the fighter pilot to eject, according to the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in Arizona ...
F/A-181 Black Wasp II: A carrier-based multirole fighter aircraft used by NATO in ARMA 3. It is a combination of the F/A-18E Super Hornet and the F-22 Raptor. Firehawk: a VTOL multi-role fighter jet that appears in Command & Conquer 3. The craft is a two-seat, forward-swept wing design with rearwards-swept winglets and canards. It can be ...