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US plane shoots down Syrian aircraft that attacked US-backed fighters A US warplane shot down a Syrian army jet on Sunday in the southern Raqqa countryside. Washington said the jet had dropped bombs near US-backed forces. Damascus said the plane was downed while flying a mission against Islamic State militants. A Syrian army statement released on state television said the plane crashed and the pilot was missing. It said the incident took place on Sunday afternoon near a village called Rasafah.
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World War I (1914â1919) Machine guns tended to be large and heavy, however, and only a few were small and light enough to be practicable for use on an airplane. Another problem was that firing sideways seriously decreased accuracy, while firing forward meant that the airplane’s propeller would be in the way.
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How many naval airplanes did John McCain crash before or after his pow experience? He was shot down in one jet. He had an engine failure in another jet and it crashed despite his efforts to relight the engine. He crashed into Corpus Cristi Bay...crash cause undetermined. He clipped some power lines in Spain, but plane did not crash.
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Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941 -- Japanese Aircraft during and after the Raid Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941 Japanese Type 00 Carrier Fighter (Zero) that crashed at Fort Kamehameha, near Pearl Harbor, during the attack. This plane, which had tail code A1-154 and a red band around its rear fuselage, came from the aircraft carrier Akagi.
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- Strike aircraft ideal for destroying ground targets. These aircraft carry the widest range of bombs and rockets along with powerful machine guns and autocannons. Currently, World of Warplanes features a branch of the Ilyushin heavily-armored attack aircraft of the Soviet tech tree.
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Made-in-Canada Avro Arrow could rise again to provide homegrown fighter jet solution In 1959, the Diefenbaker government scrapped the Avro Arrow project. Today's federal government is being urged to revive it. A Canadian company proposed an updated CF-105 Avro Arrow — revised with an updated engine — as an alternative to the purchase of 65 ultra-expensive American-made F-35 stealth fighter jets. The proposal is being championed by one of Canada's top soldiers, retired Major General Lewis MacKenzie.
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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird At sustained speeds of more than Mach 3.2, the plane was faster than the Soviet Union's fastest interceptor, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25, which also could not reach the SR-71's altitude. During its service life, no SR-71 was shot down.
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- Avro 504 The first plane to strafe troops on the ground, it was also the first British plane to be shot down by enemy ground fire. Better aircraft soon replaced the Avro 504 in combat, but it remained the standard British trainer for the duration of the war.
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- A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, hit the western side of the Pentagon, just outside Washington, D.C. The fourth hijacked plane, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed down in a field in rural Pennsylvania, never reaching its intended target because its crew and passengers fought back against the terrorists.
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List of aircraft accidents at Eglin Air Force Base 1 5 February 1937 – Boeing P-12 C, 31-185, of the 91st School Squadron, Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama, piloted by William C. Goldsborough, suffers a landing accident at the Valparaiso Bombing and Gunnery Base that results in a ground loop causing moderate damage.
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Thread: What's that movie called??? There was a movie I saw along time ago. It was about a Airforce pilot who gets killed in a plane crash and his friend ends up investigating the crash. It ends up that the pilot was flying upside down but his instruments said he was right side up so when he pulled up he dove into the ground faster.
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PSI to KPA Pressure Converter This converter determines the pressure conversion values between KPA and PSI (kilopascals and pounds per square inch), either to or from.
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- This innovation made the scouting aircraft a more effective fighter. However, probably the first true fighter (i.e. designed only to shoot down other aircraft) was the German Fokker E1 monoplane with synchronized forward firing machine guns (the guns did not fire when the propeller was in front of the muzzle).
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B-2 bombers kill nearly 100 ISIS terrorists in Libya Previous strikes in Libya used drones and F-15s from a U.S. Air Force base in England, and two Navy guided-missile destroyers were off the coast of Libya armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles. B-2 Spirit stealth bombers had last seen combat in March 2011, helping to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya, Pentagon officials said. The B-2 Spirit is the world's most technologically-advanced strategic bomber and brings massive firepower to bear, in a short time, anywhere on the globe, Air Force spokesman Capt. Mark Graff told reporters.
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- The rugged CH-47 Chinook helicopter that crashed in Afghanistan flies fast and has double the lift capacity of its Vietnam-era forebears.
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How many planes did John McCain crash in navy? A fourth plane was lost when he was shot down over North Vietnam on a bombing mission over Hanoi. There's no evidence that any of the four destroyed planes were lost to pilot error. A fifth alleged crash turns out to be a misinterpretation of a flight accident that did not result in the loss of the aircraft. McCain admitted to causing that incident through daredevil clowning but returned safely.
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Russia's 5 Most Dangerous Warplanes The MiG-29 is also a multirole fighter and can be equipped with air-to-air missiles like the AA-8, designed for use at close range, and air-to-ground weaponry like the AS-12 missile. The Fulcrum proved to be a highly dynamic platform, and since 1983, has been adapted for a wide array of more specialized roles.
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Trivia Trivia. 1  This film is based on the true story of eight US crewmen of a US bomber plane who were downed and captured by the Japanese military after the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, Japan on April 18, 1942. The crewmen included Lt. Robert Hite, Lt. William G. Farrow, Lt. George Barr, Sgt. Harold A. Spatz, Cpl.
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First on CNN: US shoots down another pro-regime drone in Syria (CNN)A US F-15E fighter jet shot down a pro-Syrian regime drone near At Tanf, Syria, on Monday, two US officials told CNN, the third downing of a pro-regime aircraft this month.
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Bockscar Bockscar, sometimes called Bock's Car, is the name of the United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber that dropped a Fat Man nuclear weapon over the Japanese city of Nagasaki during World War II in the second – and last – nuclear attack in history.n 9 August 1945, Bockscar, piloted by the 393d Bombardment Squadron's commander, Major Charles W. Sweeney, dropped a Fat Man nuclear bomb with a blast yield equivalent to 21 kilotons of TNT over the city of Nagasaki. About 44% of the city was destroyed; 35,000 people were killed and 60,000 injured.
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Speedbird 9 Suffers Quadruple Flameout Speedbird 9 Suffers Quadruple Flameout. June 24, 2015 By Mike Leave a Comment. On June 24, 1982, a British Airways Boeing 747 on a scheduled flight with multiple legs from London to Auckland flew through a cloud of volcanic ash in Indonesia, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
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- The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and the Consolidated B-24 were the United States' two standard heavy bombers until the arrival of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress in 1944. The B-17 served in almost every theater of World War II, but it used mostly by the US Eighth Air Force, based in the UK, to bombard German targets.
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1 November 1918 Sous-Lieutenant Paul-René Fonck. (Agence Meurisse) 1 November 1918: At 2:20 p.m., Lieutenant Paul-René Fonck, Escadrille 103, Aéronautique Militaire, shot down a Luftstreitkräfte Halberstadt C, east of Vouziers, France. Gefreiter W. Schmidt of Flieger-Abteilung 297b, was killed. This was the 75th confirmed enemy aircraft that Fonck had destroyed.
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The last time a Russian jet was shot down by a NATO jet was in 1952 A U.S. Navy Grumman Panther of the kind used to shoot down 4 Russian MiG 15s on Nov 18. 1952. (U.S. Navy) A Russian Su-24 Fencer, a multi-role attack aircraft, was shot down by Turkish F-16s while reportedly flying in Turkish airspace Tuesday.
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World War II Interesting Facts about the Aircraft of World War II. 1  The Japanese used a tactic called Kamikaze where they would purposely crash a plane into an enemy ship to sink it. 2  Airplanes also played an important role in the war at sea through the use of aircraft carriers. 3  Around 12,000 heavy bombers were shot down during the war.
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How many naval airplanes did John McCain crash before or after his pow experience? He was shot down in one jet. He had an engine failure in another jet and it crashed despite his efforts to relight the engine. He crashed into Corpus Cristi Bay...crash cause undetermined. He clipped some power lines in Spain, but plane did not crash. He was in a jet on the USS Forestall that was hit by rocket fired across the flight deck from another jet.