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    Me-109 Research Paper

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    warfare in the year 1911. Airplanes were first used for recon until finally weapons were added to them. Different countries competed to build the best most advanced airplanes. As the time for war came countries such as England and Germany designed fighter planes and bombers too. A couple of the airplanes that Germany managed to crank out for World War II were the ME-109 and the Stuka Bomb Diver. Meanwhile the British had the Spitfire Diver which was used by the Royal Air Force. These airplanes managed

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    Wright brothers achieved powered flight in 19031 and yet aircrafts were being used for surveillance and eventually combat purposes. It is understood that these aircrafts were primitive, but they laid down the foundation for what we know today as fighter jets. The Fokker Eindecker “revolutionized air combat by successfully employing a synchronized forward -firing machine gun mounted on the engine cowling”2. Because this airplane became the first to successfully use a

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    Close Air Support was developed and fighters were formed to help with this such as the Stuka Dive Bomber, and the British Tempest. Aircraft also began hunting tanks with large caliber machine guns and unguided rockets as ammunition. Aircraft carriers were used on a large scale, and their true

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    Hellcat History

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    aircraft, got an order from the British for Curtiss P-40 fighter planes; they needed planes for the inevitable war ahead. However, the president of North American had an idea for a new fighter, called the P-51 Mustang, with an Allison V-1710-39 engine. Without the engine, and with the help of experienced workers, a prototype was built in 117 days. It flew six weeks after the prototype was finished and immediately outperformed the existing fighter planes. One of its most extraordinary features was its

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    Rudel, among the most decorated pilots in all the luftwaffe, claimed a total of 519 armored vehicles destroyed. While the Allied forces did not deploy a dedicated dive bomber during their liberation of Europe, the United States used the hulking P-47 fighter-bomber as a multirole combat aircraft with dive bombing among its duties. Unlike the multirole dive bombers of yore, though, the P-47 was powerful enough to handle all its assigned roles and was a terrific interdictor. On

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    propellers. The Germans, and, to a lesser extent, the Americans even developed pilotless, guided missiles during the war, such as Germany’s V1 and V2 weapons. However, the bulk of aerial combat was conducted using propeller-driven, human-piloted fighters and bombers. From the book ghosts I quote “We need to deliver these weapons or we’ll be unarmed.” Over the course of the war, many important battles took place on land and at sea, but it is significant that many of the closing events of the war also

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    F-8b Harrier Essay

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    aircraft types have been used to meet specific demands and specialize in single purposes. The F-117 Nighthawk specializes in stealth, the A-10 Thunderbolt is designed purely for Close Air Support, and the F-22 Raptor was created as an air superiority fighter. One function that has been added to the list more recently is STOVL (Short Takeoff Vertical Landing), and has been successfully exemplified by the AV-8B Harrier. This platform has been in use since the first version arrived in 1967, and is looking

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    Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr.

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    Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. recognized for being the first Black Air Force General, paved the way for the Black soldier. Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. was born December 18, 1912, to Benjamin, Sr. and Elnora Dickerson Davis. Due to complications from childbirth, Elnora dies when Benjamin is four years old. His father Benjamin, Sr. the first Black General in the United States Army, serving in various capacities such as the Spanish-American War and the original Buffalo Soldier regiments was a pioneer for

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    Essay On Patriotism

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    Service Shows More than Patriotism The healthcare reform debate has been on the minds of many Americans in recent years. Democrats have worked to put Obamacare in place in 2009 and want to fix issues using the existing platform. Many Republicans are currently working to repeal and replace Obamacare with Trumpcare. The healthcare debate has come to a standstill in Congress as deep party lines persist. In August 2017, following the fights over the universal healthcare debate, TCA Regional News reported

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    the success of Blitzkrieg, the evacuation of Dunkirk and the surrender of France, Britain was by herself. However, before Hitler could contemplate undertaking an invasion he was advised by his generals that Germany had to destroy the Fighter Command of the Royal Air Force in order to gain superiority in the air. This would in turn enable him to gain control of the English Channel in order to transfer the 160,000 German troops on the 2000 invasion barges, which had been

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