Military Aircraft

47 and 5 crew, 2 passengers are waist gunners

The Osprey can fly just over 1,000 miles on internal tanks, but can also refuel in the air if necessary.

The F14 was designed as a 2 seat shipboard fighter to carry long range radar guided air to air missiles as the first line of defence for a naval task force.

The F16 was designed as a single seat light weight fighter carrying only short range infrared guided missiles for land based air forces.

They are not really comparable.

The Messerschmidt was made all over German factories during WWII, although there were different types of Messerschmidt fighters such as the ME109, and the ME262 they were all made in Germany during WWII. there may have been recreations made in the U.S. they are not originals of the fighter plane.

There were some nine or ten Messerschmitt planes of various types and with several sub marks. They were built all over Germany but also in some conquered territories

The SR-71's J58 engine produces 142 kilo-newtons (32,000 pounds) of thrust.

Depends on what category of improvements you are looking at. Northrop Grumman has made some improvements to the HUD (Head-up display), while boeing has replaced certain metals. I would imagine most of these things are classified.

The Lancaster was almost entirely aluminium, with some steel.

the stealth fighter has a classified mixture of a special kind of aircraft paint that the radar cant read.

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Stealth is "designed in". It relies upon the shaping of the airframe, (although stealth paint can help).

Late models of the B-52 could carry 120 of the 500 pound bombs.

The F22... although it hasn't killed anyone yet that we know of.

In terms of kills to losses ratio, the F-15 is by far the best, with over one hundred kills for no losses.

The most lethal jet fighter of ALL time was undoubtedly the F-4 Phantom ! -With it's use throughout Vietnam by the USAF, the US Navy, and the US Marines and in

various wars with the Israeli Air Force the Phantom quite possibly caused more destruction than any 2 other jet types ever.

B52s normally flew over North Vietnam on bombing missions in groups of 3 bombers. These were called "cells." Or 3 plane cells. A formation might consist of up to 20 cells or 60 bombers.

all versions carryed 33,000 pounds of fuel internal . the fb had two external tanks on stations 3 and 6 for atotal of 43,000 pounds . the victor alert jets at raf upperheyford and raf lakenheath , f-111e and f-111f were loaded in the same configuration .

This is how you get approval for a big project like a stealth bomber: You make it in as many states as possible so politicians can say, "I brought good jobs to my district."

The F-16 Falcon.

About 30,000.

They say approximately 1,500, but I think it was higher.

Flyovers originated during WW1.

The Lancaster was built at a number of factories in order to increase production. The majority came from Avro at Chadderton near Manchester, others were built by Metropolitan-Vickers, Armstrong Whitworth and at the Austin Motor Company works in Longbridge, Birmingham. The Lancaster was also produced in Victory Aircraft, Malton, Ontario, Canada.

The engines for the Me262 were design development of Frank Whittle's design which were filed away in the patents office and available for anyone to study.

There are several different types of aviation fuels. Most smaller airplanes that are piston driven take a fuel called 100LL, or Low Lead, and it is dyed blue in color. There are several other types of aviation fuel, such as 80/87, which is red, 100/130, which is green, and 115/145, which is purple. Jet aircraft take a different types of gas altogether, called JetA, which is kerosene.

Current models have Pratt and Whitney TF -33 Turbofans

2,200 mph/4200 k/h or so

Top speed ever was about 4,078 mph in a steep dive.

It should be noted that this recon jet has been decommissioned for some time now.

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