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Posted by Dave on Thu Oct 30 16:36:01 2014 After ogling at the civilian aircraft at the Smithsonian I headed over to the military aircraft. There will be a LOT more when I post the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy photos. All photos taken with my smartphone so apologies for fuzzy pictures.The evolution of military airfraft instrument panels. First, the XP-84 Thunderjet (1946):  The A-10 Thunderbolt II (early 1970's):  The F-16 (early 1980's):  Whittle W1X jet engine, Britain's first jet engine:  XP-80 Shooting Star "Lulu-Belle," the first jet fighter used operationally by the United States Army Air Forces:  German Me 262:  Model of Bell P-59A Airacomet (1942), America's first jet and designed around two Whittle-type turbojets. They were built as trainers:  Model of Italian Caprioni Campini, an experimental jet aircraft built in 1940:  Model of Japanese Nakajima Kikka (1945). Similar to the Me 262, it entered service too late in the war to be used:  Launch off a WWII aircraft carrier:  McDonnell FH-1 Phantom, the first purely jet-powered aircraft to land on an American aircraft carrier. First flight was in January 1945:  MUCH more military aviation in the Udvar-Hazy museum photos. |
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