#jet fighters

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

Sabre Jet

#Sabre Jet #jet fighters #jet

[aviationgeek2024]

#military #aviacion #aviación #aircraft #aircraft carrier #airplane #planes #airport #flying #military aircraft #usaf #aviation history #fighter jet #helicopter #aviation photography #jet #jet fighters #aviation #military planes #tumblr milestone

[stone-cold-groove]

Convair’s B-58... America’s first supersonic bomber - 1957.

#vintage advertising #vintage illustration #convair #convair p5y #convair r3y #convair skate #consolidated vaultee aircraft company #consolidated vaultee #vintage aircraft #military aircraft #jet bombers #delta dagger #f-102 #jet fighters #b-58 #b-58 hustler #f-102 delta dagger #supersonic bomber #supersonic aircraft #bombers

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Cool photo of the McDonnel-Douglas F-4 Phantom II. "The Phantom Ghost" 1962- 1992

#phantom ghost #viet nam era aircraft #jet fighters #F-4 Phantom II #other stuff #photography

[boanerges20]

Grumman F-14 Tomcat

#grumman #f14 #tomcat #aircraft #jet fighters #dive bombing #air supremacy

[grayrazor]

I kinda feel bad for the Shinden II. Designed by Shōji Kawamori, but only ever used as DLC fodder; first in Assault Horizon, then in Ace Combat 7.

#ace combat #ace combat assault horizon #ace combat infinity #ace combat 7 #asf-x shinden ii #shinden #Shōji Kawamori #macross #jet fighters

[deutschland-im-krieg]

Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger on public display after the war in Hyde Park, London, England, 14 Sep 1945. The He 162 was the world's first single engine jet fighter to see combat service. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

#germany #ww2 #luftwaffe #ww2 aircraft #heinkel #he 162 #jet fighters #third reich

[devileaterjaek]

#gaming #arcade #sega #80s #afterburner #afterburner ii #afterburner 2 #arcade games #retro gaming #aircraft #plane #jet #jet fighters #fighter jet #flight sim

[blackros78]

A Dassualt Rafale flies over the desert in Egypt on December 23, 2014.

#dassault rafale #jet fighters #multirole fighter #egypt

[darignis]

— No Valentines' celebrations for me! I fall in working for decepticon empire!

#art #concept #transformers #decepticons #original character #stormfreak #jet fighters #maccadam

[kaot1c-cl]

Sukhoi SU-47 - Caza experimental de Sukhoi

El Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut, también designado como S-32 y S-37 durante el desarrollo inicial, es un caza a supersónico experimental. Una característica distintiva de este aparato son sus alas en forma de flecha invertida. Aunque el Berkut ha sido referido como Su-47 desde 2002, sugiriendo un aparato preparado para la producción, la realidad es que se ha usado como un prototipo de demostración de nueva tecnología. Su primer vuelo tuvo lugar en 1997 y fue introducido en el mismo año.

Velocidad máxima: Mach 1.6 (1975 km/hr) Alcance: 3300 km Costo: 70 millones de USD

#jet fighters #russia #sukhoi

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

Rockwell XFV-12A

Rockwell XFV-12A

by Alex Stoll

Around 1970 the Navy could not see how it was going to be able to replace its old Essex and Midway carriers with Nimitz-class supercarriers. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt directed a study of alternatives which resulted in the Sea Control Ship (SCS), a mini-carrier equipped with V/STOL fighters and ASW aircraft. The USN invited manufactures to propose demonstration programs for a new aircraft, called the V/STOL Fighter Technology Prototype, to replace the outdated Harrier and serve on the SCS or other ships much smaller than conventional carriers: BAe and MD proposed an improved Harrier and a supersonic Harrier with a PCB (Plenum-Chamber Burning) engine; Boeing and Northrop proposed jet-powered tail-sitters; Lockheed-California proposed a propeller-driven tail-sitter; and Rockwell proposed a canard-delta aircraft powered by a large and enormously powerful engine that used the ejector-lift system for V/STOL. The Navy awarded the contract to Rockwell in 1972, instead of choosing designs based on proved technology, and the XFV-12A designation (twelth in the V series, not in the F series; the F-12 was the interceptor verison of the Blackbird) was allotted. Even though the forward fuselage and landing gear of the A-4 and the wing box, air intakes, and fuel tanks of the F-4 were used to speed the program up, it still ran far behind schedule. The prototype was rolled out in December 1976 and the first flight was scheduled for 1979.

Engine Configuration For takeoff and landing, the entire engine was ducted to hollow-section "ejector flaps" (also called augmentor flaps) out along the wings and the canard by pilot command via a diverter valve box. The high-energy hot gas forced fresh air from above through the ejector flaps at a ratio of 7.5:1 to boost thrust by 70 percent. The ejector flaps could be raised or lowered to provide a smooth transition from vertical to horizontal flight or vice versa. After the XFV-12A's cancellation, de Havilland Canada designed an aircraft with ejectors build into the roots of a delta wing. GD incorporated their concept into the E-7, a F-16-based delta-winged STOVL aircraft. DHC built a large powered model and tested it in 1987. The EL system was large and control was difficult as a result of the large air mass moving through the wing root during transition, and nothing came of it (though not because the EL couldn't produce enough thrust as in the XFV-12A's case) despite the attractive low exhaust velocity.

Cancellation Rockwell and Pratt & Whitney experienced several major technical problems, and the thrust boost from the ejector flap system was never as large in the full-scale aircraft as predicted from data collected by test rigs and sub-scale models; the XFV-12A could not leave the ground. Eventually funding dried up, the SCS was canceled, and the program proved a disappointment; however, in most future ASTOVL programs, large-scale powered models were used because of the experience gained in the XFV-12A program.

#Rockwell XFV-12A #Rockwell #Pratt & Whitney #V/STOL fighters #V/STOL #jet fighters #fighters

[aviationgeek2024]

#jet fighters #aviation photography #jet #usaf #helicopter #aviation history #fighter jet #aviación #aviacion #military

[stone-cold-groove]

Engineering to the Nth power. In the air it’s Convair - 1952.

#vintage advertising #vintage illustration #convair #convair p5y #convair r3y #convair skate #consolidated vaultee aircraft company #consolidated vaultee #vintage aircraft #military aircraft #commercial aircraft #jet fighters #f-102 #f-106 #delta dart #delta dagger #sea dart

[ievocatus]

Panavia Tornado

#tornado #fighter bomber #jet fighters #planes #military #air force #aircraft #military aircraft

[sometimeslondon]

Jet fighters

More from my current favourite London museum, the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon. The aircraft on display here include a Sepecat Jaguar and a Eurofighter Typhoon

#jet #aircraft #fighters #Royal Air Force #RAF #museum #Sepecat #Jaguar #Eurofighter #Typhoon #jet fighters #jet aircraft #airplanes #Hendon #London #england #uk