Fighter Aircraft

The current British fighter aircraft is called Eurofighter Typhoon.

Most modern fighters carry 1,500 -2,000 gallons of fuel.

The AV-8B version as operated by USMC can carry a 25mm GAU rotary cannon under the fuselage and up 6 missiles on hardpoints under the wings.

Vortex Generators are fitted on both sides of the base of the Fin, on Tornado Aircraft, to generate a turbulence, so that the Rudder has an effect at altitude, otherwise the Rudder is flying in a vacuum, and has no effect on the stability of the aircraft, causing judder, with possible buckling of the spine to occur.

Yes, finally they have been admitted. The USAF is one of the last western Air Forces to allow female fighter pilots.

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The Gloster Meteor was the first British Jet, while the Messerschmitt Me 262 was the first German jet. However they both came out around the same time.

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The first jet fighter was Heinkel He 280, designed and built before WWII (and flown a couple of weeks after it started) it was rejected by the Luftwaffe as unnecessary.

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The fastest models of Spitfire could do over 440 mph.

It cost about 9,000 pounds to build a Spitfire.

Air-to-ground capability means the plane is designed and equipped to attack targets on the ground. It can have bombs, air-to-surface missiles or cannons to do this with.

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Example - F-22

A combination of sensor capability, integrated avionics, situational awareness, and weapons provides first-kill opportunity against threats. The F-22 possesses a sophisticated sensor suite allowing the pilot to track, identify, shoot and kill air-to-air threats before being detected. Significant advances in cockpit design and sensor fusion improve the pilot's situational awareness. In the air-to-air configuration the Raptor carries six AIM-120 AMRAAMs and two AIM-9 Sidewinders.

The F-22 has a significant capability to attack surface targets. In the air-to-ground configuration the aircraft can carry two 1,000-pound GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munitions internally and will use on-board avionics for navigation and weapons delivery support. In the future air-to-ground capability will be enhanced with the addition of an upgraded radar and up to eight small diameter bombs. The Raptor will also carry two AIM-120s and two AIM-9s in the air-to-ground configuration.

Most if not all fighter jets use turbojet engines as they are the most efficient. The either use just the turbojet engine or it is modified to have a afterburner which causes the flame that you sometimes see at the back of jet fighters. One famous example is the F-14A Tomcat which was used in the film Topgun.

Ten years of your life, if you want to join the Air Force. There are some companies that offer brief flights in them and they charge thousands of dollars for the privilege.

The F18 can achieve Mach 1.8 or so at 40,000 feet. The MiG-29 can go faster, or around Mach 2.25 at altitude. The MiG-28 was never built.

No, since the technology represented by the SU-37 program, continues to be developed across several other airframes.

Plenty of things changed about fighter planes between WW1 and WW2 : - metal became more and more used instead of wood and cloth for the fuselage and the wings - fighters got retractable landing gears under the wings - they got a closed canopy - machineguns now incorporated in the wings - basic aiming systems then after WW2 came the era of the fighter jet with V wings and a jet engine incorporated in the fuselage. IR and EM missiles have also revolutionized the air to air combat. Nowadays Fighter jets are multi-roles and can also handle ground attack duties.

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The X-43 reaching speeds of up to Mach 6.8! or 8,000 MPH.

J-10A is considered a a 4th generation fighter jet while J-10B is considered a 4.5th gen fighter jet. The J-10 modified with a diverterless supersonic intake (DSI), an infra-red search and track (IRST) sensor, modified vertical stabilizers, ventral fins, housing fitted under the wings, and a modified nose that could indicate and AESA radar. The J-10B has been upgraded with better avionics etc and it is the version that Pakistan has ordered which will be delivered in 2014-2017.

The first Soviet jet aircraft to fly was the MiG 9, piloted by Alexei Grinchik on April 24, 1946.

It means flying by computer and servo system control rather than using cables to make changes in the rudder, aelorons, etc.

There were actually 4 all black fighter Squadrons, 99th, 100th, 301st and 302 nd. Together they made up the 332nd Fighter Group, Fifteenth US Army Air Force. The first commander of the 99th, (the first Tuskegee Squadron) was Lt. Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. He eventually became Group Commander. His father, Benjamin O.Davis Sr was one of the US Army's first black Generals in WW2.

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no, the spitfire was only used in world war 2, but they are still flown in airshows all around Britain but I'm not sure about the rest of the world.

The Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first operational jet fighter, had a maximum speed of approximately 540 mph (870 km/h) at altitude. Its performance was significantly enhanced by its twin Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet engines, allowing it to outpace many of its contemporaries during World War II. The aircraft's speed, combined with its advanced design, made it a formidable opponent in the skies.