Avro Canada CF-100 RCAF

An Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck

An Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck

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Bell UH-1 Huey Helicopter

Bell UH-1 Huey Helicopter

The UH-1N is a light-lift utility helicopter used to support Air Force Space Command missile wings and groups. The helicopter has a number of uses including Airlift of emergency security and disaster response forces.

Sir Sydney Camm

Sir Sydney Camm

The Hawker Hurricane was perhaps Sydney Camm's best known design, made famous by it's role in the Battle of Britain alongside the Supermarine Spitfire. Camm started the design in response to an Air Ministry requirement for a new fighter in 1934.

Boeing B-47 Part 3: In service

Boeing B-47 Part 3: In service

The B-47 was the first line of America's strategic defense in the late 1950s and early 1960s, standing guard with nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union. Its nuclear strike role was highly visible, but while bomber variants of the B-47 never fired a shot in anger, the reconnaissance versions playe........

AIM-9 Sidewinder

AIM-9 Sidewinder

The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a supersonic, heat-seeking, air-to-air missile carried by fighter aircraft. It has a high-explosive warhead and an infrared heat-seeking guidance system. The Sidewinder was developed by the U.S. Navy for fleet air defense and was adapted by the U.S. Air Force for fighter airc........

BAC (EE) Lightning - Part 2

BAC (EE) Lightning - Part 2

During the 1950s, the British English Electric (later BAC) firm developed Britain's first (and in a sense last) operational Mach 2 fighter. A powerful and impressive aircraft that was restricted by limited endurance and armament, it went into service as an "interim solution" in the ear........

Short Sperrin

Short Sperrin

In the postwar period, Great Britain built not one but three long-range jet bombers -- the "Valiant", "Victor", and "Vulcan" -- as the backbone of that nation's nuclear deterrence force. The first of these "V-bombers" was the Vickers Valiant, which served thro........

Grumman F-14 Tomcat - part 1

Grumman F-14 Tomcat - part 1

One of the mainstays of US Navy fleet defense in the late 20th century was the Grumman "F-14 Tomcat", a twin-engine interceptor armed with long-range Phoenix air-to-air missiles. The Tomcat is being phased out of Navy service, having also been pressed into the reconnaissance and,........

V Bomber - Avro Vulcan - service

V Bomber - Avro Vulcan - service

In the postwar period, the British Royal Air Force operated a set of three types of long-range jet-propelled strategic nuclear bombers, including the Vickers Valiant, the Handley-Page Victor, and the Avro Vulcan. All three "V-bombers" would have noteworthy careers, but the Vulcan, with........

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