Fighter Aircraft

350km - 770km

It Depends on the variant

Most modern fighters are 45 -55 feet long.

The F/A-18 Hornet is a multi-role jet that flies with BOTH the U.S Navy and Marine Corps.

An F-22 can fly about 1,500 mph.

The F-14 is a US Navy Jet Fighter, which has been the main carrier fighter since early 1970's. The F-14 may look simliar to the US Air Force F-15 but the Navy jet has 2 crew and variable geometry wings(they sweep aft for faster speeds). The F-14 was the "star" of the movie "Top Gun" starring Tom Cruise. It is being phased out by the F-18 Hornet.

The F-35 JSF jet cost 382 billion dollars but for one aircraft.

A number of pilots have suffered spinal injuries. One RAF pilot even ended up permanently 2 inches shorter due to compression of his spine. During early tests of ejection seats one "pilot" (Doddy Hayes) managed to rupture every single muscle in his body.

Where it states that out of 232 RAF reports of ejection there were

29.4% of aircrew who sustained spinal fractures. Another 14.2% of aircrew sustained a head injury and the incidence of head injury in Tornado ejectees was higher than the other aircraft types. Compared with 5.8% of ejectees from aircraft with an arm restraint system, 11.2% of aircrew sustained upper limb flail injuries

"Air Cav" is short for "Air Cavalry."

There are three divisions in the US Army that have Air Cavalry squadrons: the 10th Mountain Division, 82nd Airborne Division and 101st Airborne Division. The Air Cav squadron's function is reconnaissance--going out in front of the division main, finding the enemy and reporting where they are so the infantry and artillery units will know where to go to fight. Air Cav units use helicopters, dirt bikes, and other tools to help them get in and out quickly. They are all trained, proficient fighters but since they go downrange in groups of four or five they are also trained not to be seen because if they are found they will be killed.

Generally a Squadron - 10-15 aircraft . A wing is usually 3 Squadrons, a Group is usually 3-8 wings

The A-10 pilots are proud to be "low an' slow" -or "in the mud" with their tough aircraft at a max speed of 440 mph.

It depends on the different type of runway and the pilots preference.

The famed TBF Avenger was first contracted for by the U.S.Navy in 1940. Its first public showing was on December 7, 1941 at a Grumman "Open House". In light of events in the Pacific that day the aircraft was subsequently named the "Avenger". Flying from aircraft carriers and land bases, Avengers became the standard Navy torpedo bombers of World War Two. The AVenger was quite a large plane to be powered by one engine. It had a 3-man crew and was armed with a rear ball turrent gunner. The torpedo was carried internnally in a bomb-bay. This was the aircraft that President George H. Bush (the current president's father) flew in WW. He was shot down and rescued by a US sub.

CSAS is an acronym for Command Stability Augumentation System - The "Fly by wire" system on Tornado Aircraft.

The most common Messerchmitts were the were the ME109 G5 and G6. They could fly at almost 400 mph. The ME 262 jet fighter could fly at approximately 540 mph.

Late models of the De Havilland Mosquito were fastest.

Some of the the H model Heinkel 111's could carry up to 860 gallons of fuel.

During the 30's and 40's, US fighters were called "pursuit" aircraft - hence the heading of 'P'. -Sometime around 1946-7 the US Air Force decided to use the heading 'F' for fighter, and I believe the first one may have been F-84 Thunderjet.

A military jet fighter pilot could land a Jumbo jet in case of an emergency with the assistance of a pilot "talking him down" over the radio. But a military pilot could not go out and fly a passenger jet without any training. If he had flown a military cargo plane, then MAYBE he could. Flying a real jet is NOT like playing with Flight Simulator on your home computer. However, many military pilots, including Air Force and Navy fighter jockeys, are hired by passenger and freighter airlines and are trained to fly passengers.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Legally....no. A (private) 'pilot's license' allows one to fly a plane of a given configuration. This means a plane with a single piston engine. Commercial pilots have to be trained, tested, and certified on each type of aircraft they fly. To put it in everyday terms, it would be like someone needing a driver's license to operate a compact car with an automatic transmission. Manual transmissions, diesel engines, 4X4s, and even cars from different manufacturers would all require a different driver's test. As we saw on Sept 11, it doesn't take a lot of training to maintain level flight. That's not really an essential skill to flying an aircraft though, like how keeping your car in your lane is important but it's not something that's particularly difficult. With experience, you do it automatically. The real skill in piloting is knowing the aircraft's flight parameters (envelope), weather patterns, emergency procedures, etc...it's a long list. It's like asking you to jump from driving a car to driving a bus....maybe you CAN do it, but certainly not proficiently.

Spitfires had quite a few different rudders, mostly around 6 feet long. Every rudder had a 'trim tab' about 15-18 inches long.

In the beginning of 2013, the UK has approximately 100 Eurofighter Typhoons.

The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang was an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II, the Korean War and several other conflicts. It was conceived, designed and built by North American Aviation (NAA), under the direction of lead engineer Edgar Schmued, in response to a specification issued directly to NAA by the British Purchasing Commission; the prototype NA-73X airframe was rolled out on 9 September 1940.

Depends what type of fighter jet it is

You don't need hot start on a Spitfire. It only happens on jets.

The airfoils on a stuntplane are meant to make it extremely manueverable at low speed, so the control surfaces are much larger. Jet fighters need less movement.

-9.81 km/h