Douglas C 47 ' Gooney Bird

The National D-Day Memorial is in Bedford, Virginia. The memorial recognizes the nineteen soldiers that died in the invasion of Omaha Beach from the Bedford's Company A of the Virginia National Guard's 116th Infantry Regiment. The memorial also recognizes all the other soldiers that risked their lives that day. The memorial was dedicated on June 6, 2001 in Bedford. D-Day was on June 6, 1944 when Allied soldiers under the orders of General Eisenhower attacked Normandy Beach in France. At the end of the day, the Allies got a foothold in France controlled by Hitler.

The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk was a single-engine, single-seat, metal fighter plane and ground-attack aircraft that was made by the Americans. The P-40 Warhawk fighters first flew in 1938 and caught the attention of the United States Army Air Corps, who placed the largest fighter plane order it had ever made for fighters for a count of 524 at a cost of US$13 million. This was the earliest serious fighter in WWII and did its job until better fighters came out. It was known as a safe and secure aircraft that was able to fly pilots back home after being shot up in action. Many variants of this plane were later created. In addition, the shark teeth graphics were a big feature on this plane.

They were assigned the mission of taking the island of Saipan that held an important airbase. One of the most memorable battles on Saipan occurred on the dawn of July, 7th 1944, when they

When the war started they used hot air balloons for reconnaissance which got shot down. Then the allies decide to start using plane for reconnaissance

D-Day was on June 6th, 1944. The sun was coming up over the Normandy Coast at around 5a.m. Canada had been given a major role by the miliary planners on D-Day. They took one of the five designated beaches where allied forces were to land for the attack.

Their greatness was unrecognized so there wasn’t much demand, and because the Lend-Lease Act had not been put in place, payment came right out of the Allies’ pockets. Nevertheless, these issues were solved with the engine switch and the Lend-lease Act. “(Green)” Perhaps the Mustang’s greatest advantage was its incredible accuracy at long range; it could down an enemy fighter before it was even in that plane’s firing range. “(Sherman3)” Another advantage was its square-tipped wings and tail, which made manufacturing easier and less costly while performance stayed the same. “(Green)” December 13, 1943, is the date when P-51s flew their first long range escort mission. It was four-hundred ninety miles to Kiel and back again with the Allison engine still in use. They then did a one-thousand and one-hundred mile mission to Berlin; that distance was unheard of for fighter planes and was made possible by the improved flight range of the Merlin engine. It was the best escort fighter we had, working well even in plain daylight. They ensured the destruction of several enemy supply lines and manufacturing plants. However, these bombing raids were at first riddled with failure. They often were shot down before deploying bombs and lost many planes to shrapnel. We soon learned from our mistakes and utilized the firepower of our Mustangs; taking a quicker, more spread out approach while our Mustangs shot down

The first flight occurred in 1903 when the Wright brothers famously took their airplane for a final test flight in December. In the years after this historic flight many people start to see the potential for airplanes in war, transportation, and shipping. Other builders disregarded previous doubt about flying and began to replicate the ideas of the Wright brothers in creating planes with three axes. In addition, the approach of WWI prompted military personnel to pursue uses of airplanes as a war machine. The airplane influenced many aspects of American culture after it’s invention including civilian life, war technology, and individual possibility.

The Battle of Britain was the first battle that was completely fought by airforces, making airpower a necessitative to winning, but it also created more danger for civilians, with the threat of bombs. The battle was fought between two airforces, the Luftwaffe (Germany) and the Royal Airforce (Britain). Britain developed two planes that were considered two of Britain’s best. The first plane was called the Hurricane (November 1935) which was used to shoot down the Luftwaffe bombers. The other plane was the Spitfire (March 1936). It was the fastest plane in the world and it was used to destroy the Nazi fighters which protected the bombers. These two planes created an advantage for the Royal Airforce. Another, British advantages was that in May 1940 Winston Churchill assigned Lord Beaverbrook, the owner of the Daily Express, to be in charge of

June 6, 1944, known infamously as D-Day and Operation Overlord, was the largest war invasion in military history. This paper will discuss the conceptualization of the invasion and the countries involved, from both sides of the war. It will chronical the planning, strategy, results and aftermath of the battle that turned the tide of World War II.

The top speed of the SR-71 was 2,200 miles per hour (3,540 km/h). The cost of a SR- 71 was 34 million dollars and was made the first stealth aircraft ever made. The engine type of it was Pratt and Whitney J58, which went over Mach 3.2 at 85,000 feet. The final flight of the SR-71 was on October 1999, and their manufacture were the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. The length was 107’ 5" and the length of the nose probe was 4’ 11". The SR- 71 had a wing span of 55 ' 7" and also, a wing area of 1,795 ft. sq. It has a wing aspect ratio of 1.939 and a wing root chord of 60.533. The SR-71 has a dihedral angle of 0 degrees and a wing chord of 0.00. The plan has a wing sweep of 52.629 degrees and an inboard elevon area of 39.00 ft. sq. The height of the SR-71 is 18 ' 6" and has a maximum weight of 170,000 lbs. The SR-71 at high speeds and altitudes causes friction to heat up the metal skin to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. The pressure suits that the crew wears are suits that are the same as astronauts or suits worn to space shuttle missions. The only aircraft that can catch up close to the SR- 71 is the MiG-25 Foxbat and it can only be on Mach 3 up to a few seconds. To withstand the friction heat at Mach 3, they built the SR-71’s airframe. It is covered in 90 percent of titanium alloy. The Blackbird always runs on JP7 fuel, which is full of low-volatility. They gave the SR-71 many nicknames such as: “Habu”, “SR”, "Lady in Black”, and they mostly knew it as the

On December 7 1941, at just about 0600 hrs, the six carriers and 423 plane’s Japanese attack force commanded by Admiral Nagumo, it is getting ready to launch the first wave of 183 planes. At exactly 0610 183 planes take off from the carriers located 200 miles north of Oahu and heads for their target, the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. The second wave consisting of 167 planes took off at 0715.

D-Day occurred on June 6, 1944. It was the day on which Allied Powers invaded France and caused Germany to fight a two-sided war. This eventually led to the defeat of Nazi Germany. Much went into preparation for the planning and execution of D-Day. The American General during World War II was Dwight D. Eisenhower. He put to order Operation Overlord in 1943.

World War Two was the first time that airplanes were used as

During the first of the many days of World War I, the pilots were considered the “eyes of the army” (Feltus 1). They were used mainly to scout enemy positions, and then report the whereabouts of the enemy to the army. However, these aircrafts started out as slow and proved as easy targets for the enemy and the advanced anti-aircraft weapons, and there was a massive loss of life as a result of this (Wilkin 4). One monumental event that occurred during the Second World War, was when the British Royal Air Force conducted a bombing of Berlin, and thus Germany had fallen back multiple weeks in planning their highly effective and dangerous rocket programs (Bailey 133). The raid of the German capital city was a decisive event in World War II, and allowed the Allies to get the edge over the Axis powers. Although reconnaissance and bomber pilots were extremely important, fighter pilots had a more cataclysmic effect on the war. As almost all pilots grew tired of using pistols to shoot at enemy planes while having to fly, they wanted an easier and more effective way to both fly and take down an opposing plane. Then, on one day in 1915, the Germans captured the plane of French aviator Roland Garros, and since Garros had innovatively built a machine gun that fired in between the spinning of his propellers, the German army sent the plane to the Fokker plane factory and the design was copied. After the Germans got their hands on Garros’

However, together with its military derivative, the C-47 Skytrain over 16,000 were built. Large numbers continue to see service in a wide variety well into the 21st century. Approximately 400 DC-3s and converted C-47s are still flying to this day as a testament to the durability of the design, many examples being over