Fighter Aircraft

The first P-51 flew in 1941 and they were built for about 4 years after that.

Yes because the skillls are transferable and the skills are similiar.

India will have two jet fighters by 2014. The jet fighters will be Rafale and LCA Tejas.

North American Aircraft, who built the P-51, gave it that name.

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The stall speed is around 130knots for an F-15 C Eagle

There's no comparison between the two. They're totally different tools. This question is like "what is the advantage of a hammer over a washing machine?"

Fighter jets are good if you want to fight other fighter jets or drop bombs.

Helicopters are good if you want to transport personnel or supplies, observe combat or (if you have an attack helicopter) fight tanks.

Helicopters and jets serve different operational requirements.

Helicopters are better suited for insertion/extraction, ground support, ground attack, SAR, Anti-tank, anti-personnel roles

Jets are better suited for Air Superiority, anti-installation, AWACS, reconnaissance, stealth bombing, long-haul roles

You would have to specify a particular aircraft, "fighter aircraft" is too broad a definition.

"The landing system on an aircraft carrier can stop a 54,000 pound airplane traveling at 150 mph in two seconds."

Also, the aircraft carrier is often moving away from the landing aircraft (allowing a greater true air speed for the landing airplane.) Suppose the aircraft carrier is going 15 mph, then the 54,000 pound aircraft can land at a true airspeed of 165 mph.

Airplanes, espeically the military planes in WW2, were painted with numbers and symbols to identify them. Some numbers were the identification of the airplane. Some numbers were used to identify the airplane within the squadron.


For example, the number painted on the tail of large bomber was the aircraft serial number that was assigned to it at the Factory. These numbers were used to keep track of the aicraft throughout the war and to track its maintenance records and such.


Then other bombers would have a 2 or 3 digit number painted on the nose. These helped identify the number within the Group or Squadron. It could have been the radio call number identification used to talk to each other. Each plane could have nose art & a Name painted on the nose but this was used for morale only and not for a call sign.


The Germans in WW2 would identify many of their bombers, fighters and other planes with 4 numbers/Letters on the fuselage; 2 on each side of the National insignia (+). The first two letters/numbers would identify the Bomb Squadron and the last two would identify the aircraft within the unit. Usually the 3rd letter would be the aircraft's number.


British fighters used Letters placed next to the national insignia(roundel). You can see early Spitfires and Hurricanes with these letters. A pilot who distinguished himself would be allowed to use his initials instead of the squadron's letters. For example, ace Johnnie Johnson's aircraft was identified with "JEJ".


German fighters were generally marked with an aircraft number forward of the National insignia (+). Aft of the + insignia was a symbol that identified the Staffel(squadron) and would be a - or a Bar(|) or a "~". They used colors---black, red, yellow, blue---to also identify which staffel of the squadron and the aircraft number was the same color. It was really very simple. The leaders of the Staffel were painted black as they lead all the staffels. The leaders were marked with a Chevron or double Chevron that was turned to point Forward.

Many US fighter pilots considered the F100 Super Sabre (aka the "Hun") to be a handsome jet fighter. 1. Many USAF/USN/USMC airmen who had the opportunity to shoot an F100 target drone down during training; for those that were too young to have known the "Hun", when they saw it in the air, they often stated that it was a beautiful looking airplane. 2. The "Hun" never had any bad nicknames such as the SLUF/Buf or Double Ugly of the A7 Corsair II, B52 bomber or F4 Phantom II. 3. The F100 quite possibly saw more combat than any other US jet in history, logging over 360,000 combat missions in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971. Including 4 AIR NATIONAL GUARD SQUADRONS from Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico, and New York. Keeping in mind that former President Bush Jr. had served in the Texas Air National Guard (flying F102 Delta Daggers).

Most Spitfires could travel about 900 miles before refuelling.

The first operational jet fighter was called the Messerschmitt Me-262.

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The Tomcat's top speed is about 1,550 mph

About 150 million US Dollars each.

It doesn't stand for anything, it is just the number assigned since the U.S. reset the numbering system for aircraft (which had been in use since before the Korean war) in 1962 by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Numbering for all military aircraft restarted at -1 after that (however the lowest number used for a fighter was the F-4, but the next bomber was the B-1).

Not every aircraft assigned a number went into production and use (e,g, the prototype Airforce F-17 program was terminated when the F-16 was approved and the fighter was redesigned to make the Navy/Marines F-18). Also some numbers were skipped without ever having an airplane assigned that number (e.g. F-1, F-2, F-3, F-19) and the F-117 was inexplicably assigned an arbitrary out of sequence number that appears to be from the old numbering system.

It's engineering. Some aspects are better some are worse. The important part is the person in the cockpit

In direct response to a requirement order from the British Air purchasing Commission in early 1940, plans were underway for the NA-73X in early April 1940. The prototype flew on 26 October 1940 about 150 days later. It showed excellent performance and the RAF ordered 320. All had the Allison F3R engine and were used as tactical recce aircraft. They had 4x.50 and 4x .30 cal machine guns. North American built 2 extra and sent them to the USAAF selection centre as the XP-51. The USAAF then ordered 310 as sent, and a further 500 with the more powerful Allison V-1710 engine.

A canopy is the name for the clear plexiglass cover of the cockpit.

There is no required width as far as I know. Different air forces may have their own standards and regulations covering it.

Spitfire's stalling speed was about 80-90 mph on most models .