AerospaceScienceAircraft

Aerospace Science Aircraft
First Row:
1.Wright Flyer – 1903 - original aircraft flown by the Wright brothers on 17 Dec 1903 –
recognized by most authorities as the first powered, controlled flight.
2.JN-4 “Jenny” – 1917 - American built biplane very popular as a trainer and was used in
large numbers by barnstormers after WWI
3.Fokker DR-1 – 1917 - Triplane used by the German air forces in WWI – the most famous
pilot in this aircraft was the top German ace, Baron Manfred von Richtofen
4.Spad XI – 1917 - French built WWI aircraft – also used by Americans
5.Fokker E V/D VIII – WWII German fighter
6.“Albatross” – probably a D III
7.P-26 “Peashooter” – Boeing – 1932 – was the first all-metal production fighter aircraft and
the first military pursuit monoplane
8.F11C “Goshawk” - Curtis – 1932 – Carrier fighter
9.P6 “Hawk Fighter” – Curtis – 1929 – Fighter
10.P12E - Boeing – 1928 – Fighter
11.SB2U-1 “Vindicator” – Vought - 1936 - Carrier Dive Bomber
12.J2F-2 “Duck” – Grumman – 1936 - Utility Amphibian
13.DC-3 – 1934 - Military version was the C-47 – used by the Army –known as a “Gooney
Bird” – this was the most popular passenger aircraft in the world just prior to WWII
14.JU-87 “Stuka” - 1935 – Manufactured by German firm Junkers – exceptional dive bomber
used by Germany in WWII
15.Messerschmitt Me110 (Bf110) - 1936 – German WWII Fighter and night fighter when fitted
with radar
16.Grumman TBF 3 Avenger – 1941 – WWII Navy torpedo bomber – Crew of 3
17.Vought OSU-3 “Kingfisher” float plane used for observation and air-sea rescue
18.PBY5 – 1940 - built by Consolidated, used for reconnaissance and air-sea rescue in WWII
19.J-3 “Cub” – Piper – 1:48- 1938 – Trainer aircraft also used for transport and observation.
20.Spirt of St. Louis - 1927 – First solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic - $25,000 Norman
Orteg prize winner
21.R-1 “Gee Bee Sportster” or Gee Bee Model R – Grandville Brother Aircraft – 1932 – speed
racer - won the 1932 Thompson Trophy race, piloted by Jimmy Doolittle – Small control
surfaces made it very dangerous to fly but fast
Second Row:
1.P-40 “Tomahawk/Kittyhawk/Warhawk” – shown in Flying Tiger war paint –America’s
premier fighter prior to WWII
2.A6M2 “Zero” – Mitsubishi made and flown by Japan in WWII – their top fighter
3.B-17 “Flying Fortress” – Boeing –America’s premier bomber in WWII – when it was first
built it was faster than any of America’s fighter in use at the time
4.Savoia-Marchetti SM-79 II “Sparviero” (“Hunchback”) – Italian WWII
5.Douglas SBD-5 “Dauntless” – dive bomber and scout plane – WWII
6.Douglas TBD “Devastator” – Navy torpedo bomber, crew of 3 – pre-WWII colors –
(withdrawn from combat service after Battle of Midway, 1942)
7.F-2A “Buffalo” Brewster – Navy - 1939 – Carrier Fighter
8.Ju 52 “Eisen Annie or Iron Annie" – Junkers – 1932 – Transport
9.HE 111 H “Blitz” Bomber – Heinkel - German – 1935
10.SBC-3 “Helldiver” Curtis-Wright Company – 1938 – Dive Bomber
11.P-35 Seversky Aircraft Company – 1937 - Fighter
12.A-T6 “Texan” – 1935 - North American - Trainer
13.P-36 “Hawk” – Curtis – 1935 - Fighter
14.P-39 “Airacobra” – Bell – 1941 – Fighter
15.F-6 “Hellcat” – Grumman – USN WWII fighter
16.B-26 “Marauder” – Martin – US medium bomber – WWII
17.B-25 “Mitchell” – North American – medium bomber – WWII – used by Lt Col Jimmy
Doolittle (Doolittle’s Raiders) – launched from USS Hornet for raid on Tokyo in early 1942 – this was the first strike on the Japanese homeland during WWII
18.B-25 “Mitchell” – North American – medium bomber – WWII – named after Gen Billy
Mitchell – used to prove airpower could be used to sink naval vessels
19.B-24 “Liberator” – Consolidated – Heavy bomber – WWII – more than 18,000 were built –
used in European and Pacific theater – Skull and cross bombs were painted on the vertical stabilizers by Col Roger’s 90th Bomb Group Heavy (Jolly Rogers) flying in Pacific theater out of Port Moresby
20.P-38 “Lightning” – Lockheed – WWII – one of the US fastest fighters of WWII
21.P-59A “Airacomet” – Bell- 1:48- First American jet fighter, delivered in 1943, 413mph at
30,000feet.
Third Row:
1.XP-56 Black Bullet - Northrop – first flight 1943 – counter-rotating pusher props – fighter –
poor flight stability – cancelled in 1945
2.XP-55 Ascender – Curtiss - Swept wing, pusher fighter – first flight 1943 - unstable at low
speeds – cancelled in 1944
3.Spruce Goose” – Howard Hughes – transport aircraft built near the end of WWII – made of
wood – HUGE – only flew once, getting about 10 to 15 feet out of the water
4.Me-262 “Swallow” German – WWII – first operational jet
5.Me-163 “Komet” – German – WWII – first operational rocket-powered aircraft –
effectiveness was limited by fuel capacity – short range but very fast (over 600 mph)
6.F-8 “Bearcat” – Grumman – built at the end of WWII
7.P-61 “Black Widow” – Northrup- WWII night fighter
8.Do 17 “Fliegender Bleistift” (flying pencil) - Dornier – 1935 – German Light Bomber
(Looks like the Ju 88)
9.A-26 –“Invader” - Douglas – 1942 to 69 – WWII, Korea, CIA and Cold war - Light Attack
Bomber
10.A-20 “Havoc” - Douglas – Light Bomber – 1939- WWII
11.B-29 “Superfortress” – Boeing – WWII premier heavy bomber – Enola Gay dropped atomic
bomb on Hiroshima and Bock’s Car dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki
12.F-4U “Corsair” – Chance-Vought – one of the fastest aircraft used in WWII (exclusively in
the Pacific theater
13.P-47 “Thunderbolt” – Republic – heaviest US fighter in WWII – due to size it was called
“Juggernaut” which was shortened to “Jug” which is what most people knew it as
14.Curtiss SMC2C-1 “Helldiver” – WWII Navy bomber – crew of 2 –called “the Beast”
15.A-36 “Apache” - North American – 1942 - Ground-attack/dive bomber
16.F-82 “Twin Mustang” – North American – 1946 - Long-range escort fighter and night fighter
17.P-51 “Mustang” – North American – best US fighter of WWII – good armament and long
range – designed, built, and flown in less than 120 days
Fourth Row:
1.Bell X-1a – rocket powered research aircraft was the first plane to exceed the speed of sound
– flown by Capt Chuck Yeager in 1947 –Yeager named his aircraft “Glamorous Glennis”
2.XF-85 “Goblin” – McDonnell – parasite fighter – first flight 1948 under an EB-29
3.B-36J “Peacemaker”- Convair – 1949 – Nuclear Bomber
4.T-33A “T-Bird” – Lockheed – based on P-80 “Shooting Star”
5.Mig-15 bis “Fagot”–Chinese J-2 “Jianjiji” markings - Mikoyan-Gurevich Company –
1947 – Soviet Fighter – Famous for the Korean War’s Mig Alley – (VK-1 centrifugal jet
engine visible by sliding empennage back)
6.F-86 “Sabre” – North American – best fighter during Korean War
7.F-100C “Super Sabre” - North American – first aircraft capable of breaking the sound
barrier in straight and level flight – first of the so-called “century series” of aircraft (F-100, F-101, F-103) – painted in the colors of the USAF Thunderbirds precision aerobatic team
8.F-104 “Starfighter” – Lockheed – basically a great big engine with a canopy on top – mach
2
9.F9F-5P “Panther” - Grumman – 1947 - photo-reconnaissance – Navy
10.F-9 “Panther” – Grumman – 1947 – Navy - Korean War - Fighter-Bomber
11.B-52 “Stratofortress” –“BUFF” – Boeing – heavy bomber used extensively in Vietnam
12.KC-135 “Stratotanker” – Boeing – military version of 707 – used for aerial refueling of
aircraft
13.A1 “Skyraider” - Douglas – 1950 – Navy attack fighter - Korean and Vietnam
14.MiG-21 “Fishbed” – Russian fighter used in Vietnam against US fighters
15.AC-130 “Spectre” – McDonnell-Douglas – designed for use in Vietnam – based on C-130
“Hercules” transport – used a combination of cannon and 105mm howitzer
16.F-105 “”Wild Weasel” – Republic – used to find and destroy SAM sites in Vietnam - variant
of “Thunderchief” –“Thud” – designed to carry a single nuclear weapon in a huge bomb
bay but was converted to fighter bomber
17.AH-64 “Apache”– Hughes Aircraft then Boeing – 1986 - Attack Helicopter
18.X-3 “Stiletto”– Douglas – 1956 - Supersonic experimental but couldn’t go Mach 1
19.XFY-1 “Pogo”– Convair – 1954 – Navy – Vertical Takeoff and Land fighter prototype –
Only one made; too hard to land
Fifth Row:
1.SR-71 “Blackbird” – Lockheed – fastest aircraft in the world –designed with 1950’s
technology – capable of mach 3+ at over 80,000 feet – strategic reconnaissance
2.XB-70 “Valkyrie” – North American – 1:72 - Nuclear Bomber design – Only 2 built before
retirement. 200 ft long, cruised at 1982mph at 75,250feet.
3.F-4 “Phantom II” - McDonnell-Douglas –US premier fighter in Vietnam – used by USN and
USMC before adoption by USAF – fighter, fighter-bomber, interceptor, and reconnaissance variants – IAF markings
4.F-4E “Phantom II” - McDonnell-Douglas – USAF markings – earlier models only had
AAMs – E model had a six-barrel gatling gun capable of firing up to 6,000 rounds per
minute
5.UH-1 “Huey” – Bell – versatile helicopter used during Vietnam as cargo, transport, and
gunship
6.F-5A Northrop - 1960 – Mach 1.4 fighter for foreign military sales
7.F-14 “Tomcat” – Grumman – USN air superiority fighter – carries Phoenix missiles capable
of kitting targets 90 miles out – tracks and fires at six target simultaneously
8.OV-10A “Bronco” – Rockwell International – observation plane
9.AH-1S “Cobra” – Bell – gunship
10.YAK-38 “Forger” – Soviet version of US Harrier
11.B-58 “Hussler”– Convair – 1960 – Nuclear Strategic Bomber
Sixth Row:
1.MiG-25 “Foxbat” – Mach 3 fighter – built to intercept US bomber that was never deployed
operationally – fighter, fighter-bomber, and reconnaissance variants
2.A-10 “Warthog” - Fairchild Republic – close air support – incorporates a titanium bathtub
to protect the pilot from small arms fire – built around the GAU-8 gatling gun
3.F-20 “Tigershark” – North American – President Carter placed onus on aircraft companies
to do R&D for military aircraft – they gambled but the plane was never purchased by any
country – two of the four built have crashed
4.AV-8B “Harrier” – UK aircraft copied – attack – VSTOL
5.F-15 “Eagle” - McDonnell-Douglas – mainstay of current USAF – air superiority fighter,
interceptor – E model is air-to-mud
6.F-15 “Eagle” – McDonnell-Douglas – to be replaced by F-22
7.F-16 “Fighting Falcon” – General Dynamics –called the “Electric Jet” because of its fly-by-
wire operation - “Lawn Dart” – fighter, fighter-bomber, interceptor
8.SU-27 “Flanker” – Soviet fighter
9.Tornado IDS/ECR – Panavia Aircraft – 1979 - fighter-bomber built by Germany, UK, and
Italy
Seventh Row:
1.F-18 “Hornet” - McDonnell-Douglas – USN interceptor, fighter, fighter-bomber – painted in
the colors of the USN Blue Angels precision aerobatic team
2.F-16 “Fighting Falcon” – General Dynamics – painted in the colors of the USAF
Thunderbirds precision aerobatic team
3.B-1B “Lancer” – North American – small RCS – heavy bomber
4.AH-64 “Apache”– Hughes Aircraft then Boeing – 1986 - Attack Helicopter
5.SU-25 “Frogfoot” – close air support – Soviet version of the A-10 “Warthog”
6.Space Shuttle – consortium – first reusable space vehicle
7.B-2 “Spirit” –Boeing” – high subsonic stealth bomber – nuclear capable
8.F-117 “Nighthawk” - - stealth fighter-bomber – very small RCS – dropped initial bombs in
1990 Persian Gulf War – no offensive weapons
9.RQ/MQ-1 “Predator” 1:48 - 2002 - General Atomics Aeronautical Systems- Airborne
surveillance and reconnaissance drone (Unmanned.) 135mph. Later equipped with Hellfire missiles.
10.F-22 “Raptor” – Boeing/Lockheed Martin – air superiority fighter – supersonic flight
without afterburner。