Encyclopedia of US Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems: Post-World War II fighters, 1945-1973Office of Air Force History, 1978 |
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1954 Interceptor Acceptance Rates afterburner AIM-9B Sidewinder Air Force accepted Air Force's Air National Guard airframe altitude April armament August avionics bomber bombs Category II tests cockpit configuration Convair Cost Per Flying Cost Per Production Crew December delivery Deployments Dynamics early Edwards AFB ejection seats electronic End of Production engine installed Enters Operational Service equipped February fire-control system Flight Production Aircraft flight tests Flyaway Cost Flying Hour fuselage improved initial interceptor inventory January July June Lockheed LOCKHEED XF-90 Mach Manufacturer's Model March million missiles Mockup Inspection modification months Navy Nellis AFB North American Northrop November Number & Designation October ordnance Pave Spike Phaseout pilot Previous Model Series procurement prototype radar reconnaissance redesignated Republic requirements retrofitted rockets September South Vietnam speed squadrons Subsequent Model Series supersonic TAC's Tactical Fighter Takeoff tanks tion Total turbojet USAF Weapon System Wild Weasel
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الصفحة v - Advisory Committee (As of September 1975) Dr. IB Holley, Jr. Duke University Lt. Gen. James R. Allen Superintendent, USAF Academy Dr. Robert F. Byrnes Indiana University Lt. Gen. Albert P. Clark USAF (ret.) Lt. Gen. Raymond B. Furlong Commander, Air University Dr. Henry F. Graff Columbia University Dr.
الصفحة 83 - ... systems for defense of the Continental United States on the basis of area defense and point defense, as well as the criterion of an arbitrary range limitation. Area and point defense systems cannot be defined with precision. Area defense involves the concept of locating defense units to intercept enemy attacks remote from and without reference to individual vital installations, industrial complexes or population centers.
الصفحة 67 - ... improved suspension and release mechanism for carrying droppable wing tanks in conjunction with bombs and rockets.
الصفحة 28 - G is the measure or value of the gravitational pull of the earth or of a force required to accelerate or decelerate at the rate of 32.16 feet per second per second any free moving body.
الصفحة 165 - ... combat-ready, fully tested weapon system was planned for December 1955 — almost 2 years later than first anticipated. First Flight (Prototype) 24 October 1953 The first YF-102A, flown from Edwards AFB in October 1953, 5 The area-rule concept of aircraft design (that interference drag at transonic speed depends almost entirely on the distribution of the aircraft's total crosssectional area along the direction of flight) was verified during December 1952 by Richard T. Whitcomb in NACA's new transonic...
الصفحة 200 - ... malfunctions of the fuel venting systems. This in turn added a shortage of J-75 engines to the similar problems hampering F-105D operations from 1964 through 1967. SEA Losses 1965-1968 F-105Ds, flying from Korat AB, began striking carefully selected targets north of the 17th parallel in early 1965. While participating in tactical air strikes over South Vietnam, in 1966 and subsequent years they carried out more strikes against the North than any other USAF aircraft. Operating against ever stiffening...
الصفحة 66 - The first TF-86F flew for the first time on 14 December 1953 and was destroyed in an accident soon after. A second TF-86F was completed and flown in the summer of 1954, but the Air Force cancelled the program a few months later. Phaseout 1954-1956 The F-86F, like the F-86E, left the Air Force inventory after the Korean war. By early 1955, the Air Defense Command had no F86F interceptors. By the end...
الصفحة 27 - The first test flight from Muroc was successful and performance of the experimental planes soon proved spectacular. The second XP84 flew in August 1946 and, a month later, established a US national speed record of 611 mph (530 kn). Both these aircraft had a 3,750 Ib. st J35-GE-7 turbojet. The 4,000 Ib. st Allison-built J35A-15 engine was fitted in the XP-84A, in the 15 YP-84A prototypes reserved for special evaluation, and in all the initial P-84B productions.
الصفحة 305 - REPUBLIC P-47 THUNDERBOLT Single-engined, single-seat escort fighter and fighter-bomber. Conceived, tested, produced, and put into action wholly within the period of World War II. P^47 Thunderbolts (F^47Ds and F^47Ns) equipped SAC, TAC and ADC squadrons for a number of postwar years. They subsequently reached the Air National Guard and did not completely pass out of service until 1955. The F-47 was the Air Force's last radial-engine fighter. First Flight (prototype) 6 May 1941 First Deliveries 1942...
الصفحة 3 - The United States Air Force, established 26 July 1947 (when the National Security Act of 1947 became law) as a separate service, coequal with Army and Navy, came into being on 18 September 1947. In the ensuing months the Air Force revised its duty prefix letter, in the designation given to fighter aircraft, from "P" for Pursuit to "F