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Modern drawing of the P.13b Before the DM.10 was begun, in December 1944 Lippisch's attention moved to a revised design similar in some respects to the earlier P.11 / Delta VI but keeping the P.13a's sharp sweep angle and solid-fuel ramjet with rotating burner.
Initial plans were for 184 to equip six dive bomber squadrons with 18 aircraft each, plus reserves. The prototype made its first flight on 6 July 1938, the second followed in January 1939, and the third in May. Four of the pre-series LN.40 dive bombers were delivered in July, and it passed its carrier trials aboard the aircraft carrier Béarn ...
Also certain postwar planes such as the Bell X-5, F-86 Sabre or the MiG-15 were deemed to have been based on the pioneering work of World War II German aircraft designers. [1] [2] [3] German aircraft manufacturers such as Henschel in Kassel had their archives destroyed in the course of the Allied bombing of the Third Reich at the end of World ...
The PB2Y Coronado is a large flying boat patrol bomber designed by Consolidated Aircraft, and used by the US Navy during World War II in bombing, antisubmarine, medical/hospital plane, and transport roles. Obsolete by the end of the war, Coronados were quickly taken out of service.
List of aircraft of Germany in World War II; List of aircraft of Japan, World War II; List of aircraft of Poland during World War II; List of aircraft of the Red Army Air Forces; List of Regia Aeronautica aircraft used in World War II; List of aircraft of the United Kingdom in World War II; List of aircraft of the United States during World War II
Conceptual design of Project Habakkuk aircraft carrier with 600-metre (1,969 ft) runway. Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies) was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice, for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version ... Pages in category "Lists of World War II aircraft" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. ...
The Origins of the Second World War. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-20470-1. Wilson, Stewart. Aircraft of World War II (Aerospace Publications, 1988), with photos, production data, service histories, countries of origin, and specifications for most World War II fighters, bombers and cargo planes.