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UNITED  STATES MILITARY AIRCRAFT 

 
Air Force  Navy  Marine Corps

 

Army Coast Guard

 
The Military Aircraft as we know it today, had its beginnings in the First World War, but it was not initially an American development. In fact, no American designed fighter were actually used in the war because they were years behind European technology. At the time America entered the war, the only suitable planes available were British and French machines, many already proven in combat. When the United States did start building aircraft, they were license built versions of European designs. The first American developed fighters began to appear in 1918, but even these new planes drew heavily on established European patterns. Gradually American aircraft development established a course of its own and distinctive new designs Paralleled, if not led world aircraft technology. Aircraft design is still progressing. With speeds up to three times that of sound easily attained, radical concepts in propulsion are being devised to enable the modern aircraft to stand still in the air as well. Air combat of the future could extend from a tennis court size field to the fringes of space. American technology is trying to assure that wherever a fighting aircraft is needed, an American aircraft will be available to fulfill the requirements.

 

 

National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics

 

 
 

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Beech Bell Boeing
     
Brewster Cessna Consolidated
     
Convair Curtiss Douglas
     
Enstrom Fairchild Gates / Learjet
     
General Dynamics Grumman GM Fisher
     
Gulfstream Hughes Keystone
     
Lockheed Martin McDonnell
     
McDonnell Douglas North American Northrop
     
Piper Republic Rockwell
     
Sikorsky Thomas Morse Vought / LTV
     
Vultee Waco  

 

 

Aircraft Carriers U. S. Military Aircraft Unique Aircraft Photos
Aircraft Cockpits U. S. Navy Blue Angels F-4E  Phantom U. S Thunderbirds Photos
From The Collection of Mike Jacobssen
Air Shows / Carriers / Training Exercise
By
Mike Boshuizen
B-52 Aircraft Photos/Oshkosh/Other
By Lt. Col. Ted Taylor
Military Photos Of World War II
U. S Air  Force Thunderbirds Assorted Aircraft Pictures NASA Aircraft Photos
By Jim Patton
Unusual Looking Aircraft Military Air Show Photos
By Jerry Rudy
 Air Shows Civilian Aircraft
Lt. Col. By Ted Taylor
WW I & WW II Aircraft Photos
By Carl & Irwin High/Judy & Smokey
Foreign Aircraft Aircraft Humor
Travis/Lowry/Chanute A.F.B's Air Show
By Dave Travis
Guest Photos Of Aircrafts
D Walker / Jim Trent / Gregg Stansbery
Aircraft Links
Wright Patterson Air Museum
By Howard High
Duxford Museum
By Malcolm Sanderson
Guest Book
  Aircraft / Museum / Air Show Photos
By Ed High
 

 

 

Hi-Lites By High Back To Assorted Military Aircraft The Crystal Lady

 

 

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