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North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer that designed and built several notable aircraft and spacecraft. Its products included the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, the XB-70 bomber, the B-1 Lancer, the Apollo command and service module, the second stage of the Saturn V ...
The North American F-82 Twin Mustang is an American long-range escort fighter.Based on the North American P-51 Mustang, the F-82 was designed as an escort for the Boeing B-29 Superfortress in World War II, but the war ended well before the first production units were operational.
The North American F-86 Sabre, sometimes called the Sabrejet, is a transonic jet fighter aircraft.Produced by North American Aviation, the Sabre is best known as the United States' first swept-wing fighter that could counter the swept-wing Soviet MiG-15 in high-speed dogfights in the skies of the Korean War (1950–1953), fighting some of the earliest jet-to-jet battles in history.
The F-107 was never given an official name, but was sometimes informally called the "Super Super Sabre" [10] referring to North American's earlier fighter design, the F-100 Super Sabre. [11] The designation "F-107A" was the only one assigned to the aircraft, [11] [12] though "YF-107A" is often used in publications.
North American NJ-1 - Trainer; North American PBJ Mitchell - Medium/anti-ship bomber; North American SNJ - Trainer; North American ETF-51D - Fighter; Northrop BT-1 - Dive bomber (withdrawn 1944) Piper LNP - Training glider; Piper NE - Observation/liaison aircraft; Pratt-Read LNE - Training glider; Ryan FR Fireball - Carrier-based mixed ...
Fighter North American Aviation Series of fighters. 1939/1940 Never 13 P-51 Mustang: Fighter North American Aviation Used largely in WWII. 1940 [17] 1942 [18] [19] 15,000+ [20] P-43 Lancer: Fighter Republic Aviation: A proposed development was the P-44 Rocket. 1940 1941 272 P-44 Rocket: Fighter Republic Aviation
The North American FJ-2 and FJ-3 Fury are a series of swept-wing and carrier-capable fighters for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The FJ-2 resulted from an effort to navalize the North American F-86 Sabre operated by the United States Air Force .
The North American F-100 Super Sabre is an American supersonic jet fighter aircraft designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer North American Aviation.The first of the Century Series of American jet fighters, it was the first United States Air Force (USAF) fighter capable of supersonic speed in level flight.