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The Excalibur was designed as "clone" [1] of the Quad City Challenger II aircraft. The company took the basic Challenger design and incorporated many changes, including mounting the engine upright allowing larger propellers and the Rotax gearbox to be mounted, lengthening the tailboom and enlarging the tail vertical surface to increase stability, shortening the ailerons and replacing control ...
The new design differed so much from the original Excalibur, that a different model designation was needed. It was first given the temporary designation L-104, then it was later officially designated the Model 49 or "Excalibur A". In time, the Model 49 would become a completely different aircraft from the original Model 44.
The first VS-44, Excalibur, crashed on takeoff in 1942 at Botwood, Newfoundland, killing 11 of 37 aboard. [5] A proposed licensed version of the VS-44 to be built by Nash-Kelvinator, the JRK-1, was canceled due to the availability of the impressed JR2S aircraft. [6]
Gotha LE.2; Gotha LE.3; Harlan Pfeil Taube; Halberstadt Taube III: ... Excalibur Aircraft Excalibur; Excalibur ( Excalibur Aviation Company) Excalibur 800; Exkluziv
The SA26 Merlin is a pressurized Excalibur fitted with a different Lycoming TIGO-540 6-cylinder geared piston engine. The TIGO 540 was used despite the fact that one of the reasons the IO-720 was used in the Excalibur was that the Queen Air series' IGSO-480 and IGSO-540 engines from the same manufacturer were so troublesome.
Possibly one P-51D captured in 1944, fate unknown [7] Polikarpov U-2VS (Po-2) USSR: Utility biplane One captured in 1944 Polikarpov I-16 Type 24 USSR: Fighter One I-16 captured near Dorohoi in 1941. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3: USSR: Fighter Captured near Melitopol on 18 March 1942 when the pilot defected. [8]
The M982 Excalibur (previously XM982) is a 155 mm extended-range guided artillery shell developed in a collaborative effort between the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and the United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC). [4] The Excalibur was developed and/or manufactured by prime contractor Raytheon ...
On 3 May 2011, the president of Romania Traian Băsescu announced the location for the SM-3 systems: former Air Force base Deveselu in Olt County. [61] The system includes 3 batteries with 24 SM-3 Block I rockets, manned by approximately 200 US soldiers (with a maximum of 500) initially under Romanian Air Force overall command. [61]