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On 1 November the Mustangs were transferred to other units and the 160th was re-equipped with RF-80A Shooting Star photo-reconnaissance jets and transferred to Lawson AFB, Georgia. At Lawson, the wartime group was formed as the 160th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, the 157th TRS (South Carolina ANG) (RF-80) and 112th TRS (Ohio ANG) (RB-26).
A United States Marine Corps Vought RF-8A Crusader, BuNo 146891, [206] returning from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa to its home base of Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture suffered a mechanical malfunction and crashed into a residential neighborhood in Machida, Tokyo, Japan. The crash killed four people and injured 32 others on the ground.
RAF Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C.1, XP441, of No. 114 Squadron RAF, written off during training accident at RAF Benson, when the aircraft bounced heavily during a three-engine approach and attempted a go-around, but the pilot inexpertly retracted the flaps, stalled, and came down in Mr. Passey's junk yard in the village of Benson. The crew ...
No. 80 Squadron RAF; Active: 1 Sept 1917 – 1 April 1918 1 April 1918 – 1 February 1920 8 March 1937 – 1 May 1955 1 August 1955 – 28 September 1969 15 April 2024 – present: Country: United Kingdom: Branch: Royal Air Force: Part of: Air and Space Warfare Centre: Home station: Eglin AFB, Florida: Nickname(s) Weighty Eighty [1] Motto(s ...
The Republic F-84F Thunderstreak is an American swept-wing turbojet-powered fighter-bomber.The RF-84F Thunderflash was a photo reconnaissance version.. The design was originally intended to be a relatively simple upgrade to the F-84 Thunderjet to make it more competitive with the F-86 Sabre, differing largely in the use of a swept-wing and tail.
[80] 166 RF-101Cs were built, including 96 originally scheduled to be F-101C fighter-bombers. [49] On 27 November 1957, during Operation Sun Run, an RF-101C piloted by then-Captain Robert Sweet set the Los Angeles-New York City-Los Angeles record in six hours and 46 minutes, and New York to Los Angeles record in three hours and 36 minutes.
The F-16 was designed to be relatively inexpensive to build and simpler to maintain than earlier-generation fighters. The airframe is built with about 80% aviation-grade aluminum alloys, 8% steel, 3% composites, and 1.5% titanium.
The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star is the first jet fighter used operationally by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II. [1] Designed and built by Lockheed in 1943 and delivered just 143 days from the start of design, two pre-production models saw limited service in Italy just before the end of World War II.