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The plane is now in the Collings Foundation’s American Heritage Museum in Hudson, Massachusetts. “In 2016, I got a call from a woman named Carol from Ohio,” said James P. Busha, the EAA ...
A USAF SR-71 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. A reconnaissance aircraft (colloquially, a spy plane) is a military aircraft designed or adapted to perform aerial reconnaissance with roles including collection of imagery intelligence (including using photography), signals intelligence, as well as measurement and signature intelligence.
The Nakajima J1N1 Gekkō (月光, "Moonlight") is a twin-engine aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.A prototype first flew in May 1941. The first full production variant of the Gekkō, the J1N1-C was a reconnaissance aircraft, although many of these underwent field modification into night fighters; in addition, a night fighter variant, the J1N1-S was later put into ...
The Yokosuka D4Y Suisei (彗星, Suisei, "Comet"; Allied reporting name "Judy") is a two-seat carrier-based dive bomber developed by the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal and operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1942 to 1945 during World War II.
A B.E.2c reconnaissance aircraft of the RFC with an aerial reconnaissance camera fixed to the side of the fuselage, 1916. The use of aerial photography rapidly matured during the First World War, as aircraft used for reconnaissance purposes were outfitted with cameras to record enemy movements and defences.
Under the Tri-Services Designation plan implemented under Robert McNamara in September 1962, the Vigilante was redesignated A-5, with the initial A3J-1 becoming A-5A and the updated A3J-2 becoming A-5B. The subsequent reconnaissance version, originally A3J-3P, became the RA-5C. [citation needed]
Unarmed training prototype, January 2008. Bell's ARH demonstrator, a modified Bell 407 (s/n 53343/N91796 [12]), first flew on 3 June 2005. [13] In February 2006, the ARH demonstrator flew with a limited avionics and Mission Equipment Package (MEP), and in April Bell fitted and mounted the Honeywell HTS900-2 engine to the demonstrator airframe, followed by a series of ground runs. [14]
At sustained speeds of more than Mach 3.2, the plane was faster than the Soviet Union's fastest interceptor, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25, [N 5] which also could not reach the SR-71's altitude. [48] No SR-71 was ever shot down. [6] The SR-71 featured chines, a pair of sharp edges leading aft from either side of the nose along the fuselage.