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Most-produced supersonic aircraft. According to the Guinness Book Of Records, it is the most-produced jet-powered military aircraft. [19] Also built in China, Czechoslovakia and India. Waco CG-4: M: Glider, military: 13,903+ United States: 1942: 1945 Most-produced glider. Many licensed manufacturers. Curtiss P-40 Warhawk: M: Fighter 13,738 [20 ...
If the date of an aircraft's entry into service or first flight is not known, the aircraft will be listed by its name, the country of origin or major wartime users. Aircraft used for multiple roles are generally only listed under their primary role unless specialized versions were built for other roles in significant numbers.
The Origins of the Second World War. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-20470-1. Wilson, Stewart. Aircraft of World War II (Aerospace Publications, 1988), with photos, production data, service histories, countries of origin, and specifications for most World War II fighters, bombers and cargo planes.
Aircraft manufacturing went from a distant 41st place among American industries to first place in less than five years. [1] [2] [3] In 1939, total aircraft production for the US military was less than 3,000 planes. By the end of the war, America produced 300,000 planes. No war was more industrialized than World War II. It was a war won as much ...
A captured Messerschmitt Me 262, the most numerous jet fighter of World War II. World War II was the first war in which jet aircraft participated in combat with examples being used on both sides of the conflict during the latter stages of the war. The first successful jet aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, flew only five days before the war started ...
The early marks of Spitfire and Hurricane had machine guns that were, however, of the .30 calibre (7.62mm) class, with less hitting power than heavier calibre weapons firing non-explosive bullets - the Germans' MG 131 machine gun, the Japanese Ho-103 machine gun, the Soviets' Berezin UB and particularly the "light-barrel" AN/M2 version of the ...
Stinson OY Sentinel - Observation/liaison aircraft; Stinson R3Q - Trainer/utility aircraft; Spartan NP - Trainer; Taylorcraft LNT - Observation/liaison aircraft; Timm N2T Tutor - Trainer; Vought F4U Corsair - Carrier-based fighter; Vought O3U Corsair - Scout; Vought OS2U Kingfisher - Observation aircraft; Vought SBU - Carrier-based dive bomber ...
Military production during World War II was the ... of an aircraft, 1942. During World War II unemployment by 1945 had fallen to 1.9% from 14.6% in 1940. 20% of the ...