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The "Lightning" was the first modern fighter with a tricycle landing gear. It was the first American aircraft to shoot down
a German plane, and it was the first aircraft to land in Japan after that country surrendered.
 The Curtis P-40 "Warhawk" first appeared in 1937 and it was the only U.S. fighter available in quantity at the beginning of WWII.  The P-40 with it's nose decoration was made famous by the "Flying Tigers" under Gen. Claire Chennault who flew for the Chineese government in 1942 
The AAF's most common training aircraft: PT-17, BT-13 and AT-6A
The Stearman PT-17 was the first plane in which AAF student pilots flew solo from 1933 to 1947. Over 10,000 were built.
Some are still in use today as pleasure craft or cropdusters.
Boeing's B-17 "Flying Fortress" is perhaps America's most famous military aircraft. Production began in 1935 and it first saw
combat as an RAF bomber in 1941.
 Typically, the Flying Fortress had a crew of 9 or 10, bristled with 12 machine guns and carried up to a 20,000 pound bomb load. 
Boeing and its licensees produced over 12,700 B-17s. Of these 4,735 were lost in combat. Today fewer than 100 B-17
airframes exist and less than 13 of these are airworthy.
The North American B-25 "Mitchell" was the most built, the most versitile and the most used medium bomber in WWII.
The 1942 Doolittle raid on Tokyo made the B-25 famous.
 The Mitchell carried a crew of 6 and a normal bomb load of 5,000 pounds. Of the 9,816 built only 137 airframes exist today. 42 of these are operational 
This is one of the landing gear assemblies for a Lockheed C-5A "Galaxy". A total of 28 wheels support its gross maximum
weight of over 400 tons.
The "Shooting Star", Lockheed's P-80/F-80, never made it into WWII combat, but was used extensively in the Korean Conflict.
It was the first aircraft to exceed 500 mph in level flight.
 In November 1950 an F-80C shot down a MIG-15 in the world's first jet fighter air battle over Korea. On to Page 3 ->or Click Here to display these pictures in an interactive slideshow format. Webpage by FortOgden Design © 2001- 2007 W.F. Graf | |
