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Groom Lake is a salt flat [15] in Nevada used for runways of the Nellis Bombing Range Test Site airport (XTA/KXTA) on the north of the Area 51 USAF military installation. The lake at 4,409 ft (1,344 m) elevation is approximately 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 mi (6 km) from north to south and 3 mi (5 km) from east to west at its widest point. [ 16 ]
6 test aircraft and 1 production aircraft have been delivered. 20 on order. 42 planned. [64] MQ-1B Predator: General Atomics: USA Propeller Multi-mission Unmanned 1 [2] MQ-9A Reaper: General Atomics: USA Propeller Multi-mission [65] Unmanned 2007, 2015 (ER) [66] 102 [2] BQM-167 Skeeter: Composite Engineering: Jet Target drone Unmanned 2008 [66 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Aircraft Origin Type Variant In service Notes Fighter aircraft (1,690) F-15 Eagle: United States air superiority: F-15C: 145 145 F-15C total force as of September 2023 (USAF Almanac). [1] 29 F-15C - Active. 116 F-15C - Air National Guard. Trainer aircraft listed separately. F-15E Strike Eagle: United States multirole: 218
The aircraft made its first successful flight on February 5, 1982, in Area 51, at Groom Lake, Nevada, flown by Northrop test pilot Richard G. Thomas. [7] The aircraft subsequently logged 135 flights over a three-year period. The aircraft often flew three to four flights weekly and several times flew more than once a day.
A Draken Douglas A-4K. Draken was established by Jared Isaacman at Lakeland Linder International Airport in January 2012. [1] In 2015, the company was awarded contracts to provide training for the Air National Guard (ANG) at Volk Field in Wisconsin, for the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Joint Tactical Air Control at MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, and at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center ...
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