ROCKWELL OV-10 BRONCO
First flown at July 1965, it entered service as OV-10A with USMC and USAF at 1968, with 270 built in total, with 15 modified for forward air control. Varied as OV-10B (For West Germany), OV-10C (Royal Thai Air Force), OV-10E (Venezuela) and OV-10F (Indonesia). The Indonesian OV-10F played major and decisive part against East Timor’s Fretillin Guerillas at Operation Seroja.
Type : Battlefield Support/Counter Insurgency
Crew : 2
Powerplant : two 715hp AiResearch T76-410/411 Turboprops
Max Speed : 281mph at sea level
Service Ceiling : 30,000ft
Max Range : 600miles
Height/Length/Wing Span : 4.62m/12.67m/12.19m
Armament : 2x7.62mm machine guns, up to 3600lbs of bombs and/or rockets
Friday, September 12, 2008
Piaggio P.108
PIAGGIO P.108
The only Regia Aeronautica’s four-engined bomber, designed by Giovanni Casiraghi and first flown at 24 November 1939, and the first examples delivered in May 1941, but not operated until 1942. Operating at Mediterranean at last year of Italy's war. The main production was P.108B, when the P.108A only one was build.
Type : Heavy Bomber
Crew : 6
Powerplant : four 1350hp Piaggio P.XII RC35 18-cylinder radials
Max Speed : 261mph at 12,800ft
Service Ceiling : 26,400ft
Max Range : 2190miles
Height/Length/Wing Span : 5.18m/22.92m/32m
Armament : 8x12.7mm Breda-SAFAT machine guns; up to 7700lbs of bombs or 3 torpedoes.
The only Regia Aeronautica’s four-engined bomber, designed by Giovanni Casiraghi and first flown at 24 November 1939, and the first examples delivered in May 1941, but not operated until 1942. Operating at Mediterranean at last year of Italy's war. The main production was P.108B, when the P.108A only one was build.
Type : Heavy Bomber
Crew : 6
Powerplant : four 1350hp Piaggio P.XII RC35 18-cylinder radials
Max Speed : 261mph at 12,800ft
Service Ceiling : 26,400ft
Max Range : 2190miles
Height/Length/Wing Span : 5.18m/22.92m/32m
Armament : 8x12.7mm Breda-SAFAT machine guns; up to 7700lbs of bombs or 3 torpedoes.
Nieuport 11 Bebe
NIEUPORT 11 BÉBÉ
It achievement to successfully restoring air power balance during the ‘Fokker Scourge’ of 1915 have led it names to be placed as one of the most effective, or may the finest fighter of World War I. Entering service at Summer 1915, it proved to be fast, maneuverable and well-able to stand against the Fokker Eindeckers. At Verdun in February 1916, it inflicted such a heavy losses on the enemy, forcing the Germans to alter their tactics. Also served with RNAS and RFC, one of RFC leading aces, Albert Ball scored the first of his victories in one of these.
Type : Fighter
Crew : 1
Powerplant : one 80hp Le Rhone 9c 9-cylinder rotary
Max Speed : 97mph
Service Ceiling : 14,765ft
Height/Length/Wing Span : 2.45m/5.80m/7.55m
Armament : 1x7.7mm forward firing Vickers machine gun
It achievement to successfully restoring air power balance during the ‘Fokker Scourge’ of 1915 have led it names to be placed as one of the most effective, or may the finest fighter of World War I. Entering service at Summer 1915, it proved to be fast, maneuverable and well-able to stand against the Fokker Eindeckers. At Verdun in February 1916, it inflicted such a heavy losses on the enemy, forcing the Germans to alter their tactics. Also served with RNAS and RFC, one of RFC leading aces, Albert Ball scored the first of his victories in one of these.
Type : Fighter
Crew : 1
Powerplant : one 80hp Le Rhone 9c 9-cylinder rotary
Max Speed : 97mph
Service Ceiling : 14,765ft
Height/Length/Wing Span : 2.45m/5.80m/7.55m
Armament : 1x7.7mm forward firing Vickers machine gun
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