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  2. Grumman F7F Tigercat - Wikipedia

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    An F7F-2D drone controller with an additional F8F windshield. An F7F-3N night fighter of VMF(N)-513 in April 1950. XP-65 Proposed United States Army Air Forces pursuit fighter. XF7F-1 Prototype aircraft, two built. F7F-1 Tigercat Twin-engine fighter-bomber aircraft, powered by two Pratt & Whitney R-2800-22W radial piston engines.

  3. Vought F7U Cutlass - Wikipedia

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    The Vought F7U Cutlass is a United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer Chance Vought.It was the first tailless production fighter in the United States as well as the Navy's first jet equipped with swept wings and the first to be designed with afterburners.

  4. de Havilland Hornet - Wikipedia

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    Data from The De Havilland Hornet, wwiiaircraftperformance.org General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 35 ft 6 in (10.82 m) Wingspan: 45 ft 0 in (13.716 m) Height: 14 ft 2 in (4.32 m) Wing area: 361 sq ft (33.5 m 2) Airfoil: EC1240 Empty weight: 11,292 lb (5,122 kg) Gross weight: 15,820 lb (7,176 kg) Max takeoff weight: 18,250 lb (8,278 kg) with 2x 200 imp gal (240 US gal; 910 L) drop-tanks ...

  5. F7 - Wikipedia

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    Grumman F7F Tigercat, a heavy fighter used by the US Navy; F-7, a hypothetical light fighter variant of the U.S. Boeing–Saab T-7 Red Hawk jet trainer; Locomotives

  6. List of United States fighter aircraft - Wikipedia

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    F7F Tigercat: Heavy fighter Grumman Saw action as a night fighter and attack aircraft during the Korean War. The aircraft was only used in combat once, when Marine Corps night fighter squadron VMF(N)-513 flying F7F-3Ns saw action in the early stages of the Korean War, shooting down two Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes. 1943 [93] [94] 1944 [93] [94] 364 ...

  7. Project Camel - Wikipedia

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    All the work done at NOTS on behalf of the Manhattan Project came under the codename Project "Camel". The name is said to have come from a remark by a Los Alamos scientist that once a camel (meaning Caltech) gets its nose under a tent flap it is hard to dislodge.

  8. List of fighter aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Fighter aircraft are military aircraft primarily designed for air-to-air combat.This list does not aim to include attack aircraft primarily intended for different roles, where they have some secondary air-to-air capability.

  9. VMFA-531 - Wikipedia

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    Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 531 (VMFA-531) was a United States Marine Corps fighter squadron consisting of various types aircraft from its inception culminating with the F/A-18 Hornet.