The Sopwith Pup was a British single seat biplane fighter aircraft built by the Sopwith Aviation Company, entering service with the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service in the autumn of 1916. The armament on the Sopwith Pup is a 303 Vickers machine gun, fired forward through the arc of the propeller by means of a gun synchronizer. With pleasant flying characteristics and good maneuverability, the aircraft proved very successful.
With the significant exception of being unmanned, the RQ-4A Global Hawk is similar to the legendary Lockheed U-2 in mission. The Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can survey large geographic areas with pinpoint accuracy from high altitudes while keeping pilots out of harm's way. Once mission parameters are programmed into the aircraft, it autonomously taxis, takes off, flies, captures imagery, returns and lands.
The Bell X-1 (originally the XS-1) was a joint NACA-U.S. Army Air Forces, secret supersonic research project built by Bell Aircraft. Conceived in 1944 and designed and built in 1945, it was the first aircraft to intentionally exceed the speed of sound in controlled, level flight. The aircraft conceptually was a “bullet with wings,” shaped to resemble a .50 caliber machine gun bullet (a projectile known to be stable at supersonic speeds.)
FS-001 is the first prototype of the very successful MQ-8B FIRE SCOUT Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. Based upon a civilian Schweizer helicopter platform, it incorporates highly reliable turbine power for endurance and maintainability.
Built by Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego and delivered to the US Army in 1941, The Eager Beaver was ferried overseas via Hawaii to Australia and assigned to the 5th Air Force, 90th Bombardment Group, 320 Bombardment Squadron. It was there that it was given its nickname “The Eager Beaver” and adorned with the group’s “Skull and Crossed Bombs” motif on the vertical stabilizers.
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