Archives for September 2021

Thunderbolt and Lightning Raids Airmen flying P-47s provided bomber escorts, close air support, and swift ground attacks during World War… Read More »

First of the Jets Production of the XP-80, the experimental version of the F-80 Shooting Star, began in 1943 for… Read More »

Rolls Royce of Fighters At Great Britain’s request in 1940, the P-51 was initially designed similar to the NA-73 aircraft.… Read More »

Cold War Ground Support Production of the F-84F—the first swept-wing F-84 variant—began in 1954. This airframe filled the role of… Read More »

Tactical Design At the request of Tactical Air Command, who required a light fighter-bomber able to deliver tactical nuclear weapons,… Read More »

Killer Sabre The F-86, the US Air Force’s first swept-wing jet fighter, made its initial flight in October 1947. Equipped… Read More »