North American YF-93 (SAF Photo) North American YF-93A (Serial No. YF-317), 1950. The North American YF-93 was an American fighter development of the F-86 Sabre that emerged as a radically different variant that received its own designation. Two were built and flown before the project was eventually canceled. In 1947, North American Aviation began a design … Read more
Northrop F-89 Scorpion (USAF Photo) U.S. Air Force Northrop F-89D-45-NO Scorpion interceptors of the 59th Fighter Interceptor Squadrons, Goose Bay AB, Labrador (Canada), in the 1950s. 52-1959 in foreground, now in storage at Edwards AFB, California. 1950. The Northrop F-89 Scorpion is an all-weather, twin-engined interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Northrop … Read more
Northrop X-4 Bantam (USAF Photo) The Northrop X-4 Bantam was a prototype small twinjet aircraft manufactured by Northrop Corporation in 1948. It had no horizontal tail surfaces, depending instead on combined elevator and aileron control surfaces (called elevons) for control in pitch and roll attitudes, almost exactly in the manner of the similar-format, rocket-powered Messerschmitt Me … Read more
Oklahoma City, Tinker AFB, Charles B. Hall Memorial Airpark, South Air Depot Boulevard, 73145-3010. (Val Gempis Photo) Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system aircraft assigned to the 963rd Airborne Air Control Squadron at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, 1 Nov 2012. (Mike Freer – Touchdown-aviation Photo) Boeing E-3 Sentry (Serial No. 67-0356), airborne … Read more
North American B-25 Mitchell (USAAF Photo) North American B-25H Mitchell. The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American medium bomber that was introduced in 1941 and named in honor of Brigadier General William “Billy” Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation. Used by many Allied air forces, the B-25 served in every theater of World War … Read more
North American B-45 Tornado (USAF Photo) North American B-45A-5-NA Tornado (Serial No. 47-025) on a bomb run. The North AmericanB-45 Tornado is an early American jet bomber designed and manufactured byaircraft company North American Aviation. It has the distinction of being thefirst operational jet bomber to enter service with the United States Air Force(USAF), as well … Read more
North American F-100 Super Sabre (USAF Photo) A formation of four U.S. Air Force North American F-100C Super Sabres (S/N 54-2105, 54-2102, 54-2107, 54-1796). The North American F-100 Super Sabre is an American supersonic jet fighter aircraft designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer North American Aviation. The first of the Century Series of American jet … Read more
(USGOV-PD Photo) 332d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron North American F-86D-45-NA Sabre 52-3901 4709th Air Defense Wing, McGuire AFB, New Jersey, 1956 The North American F-86D/K/L Sabre (initially known as the YF-95 and widely known informally as the “Sabre Dog”) was an American transonic jet interceptor. Developed for the United States Air Force in the late 1940s, it was … Read more
(USAF Photo) An air-to-air right side view of an OV-10 Bronco aircraft firing a White phosphorus smoke rocket to mark a ground target. The aircraft is used by forward air controllers in support of ground troops. The North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco is an American twin-turboprop light attack and observation aircraft. It was developed in the … Read more
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II (USAF Photo) McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II being refueled in flight by a McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender aircraft over Hawaii during exercise Cope Canine ’85. The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the … Read more
