Military Aircraft Recocnition

A-10A Thunderbolt II "Warthog" Fairchild Republic Interesting Fact: The GAU-8 Avenger cannon on the A-10 is so large the landing gear on the nose is off to the left.

F-15C Eagle McDonnell Douglas Interesting Fact: The F-15 has never been shot down in air-to-air combat.

F-14D Super Tomcat Grumman Interesting Fact: The F-14 is capaple of firing 6 Pheonix missiles at once, but the load was to heavy to recover aboard an aircraft carrier.

F/A-18F Super Hornet Boieng/McDonnell Douglas Interesting Fact: The Blue Angels F-18's are de-gutted to be as light and manuverable as possible, but they can be repainted and readied for combat service in only 72 hours.

F-22A Raptor Boieng/Lockheed Martin Interesting Fact: The cockpit of the Raptor is completely glass, it has no conventional gauges.

F-35C JSF Lightning II Lockheed Martin Interesting Fact: The F-35 is twice as loud during takeoff as the F-15 and four times as loud during landings.

B-2 Spirit Northrop/Northrop Grumman Interesting Fact: The B-2 is the most expensive aircraft in the world, the entire program cost is nearly 45 Billion dollars.

Typhoon F-2 Eurofighter Interesting Fact: The Typhoon is not officially designated a stealth fighter but it does have air inlets that conceal the front of the jet engine, such as in the B-2 and other stealth aircraft.

Su-47 Berkut "Golden Eagle" Sukhoi Interesting Fact: The ailerons remain effective at the highest angles of attack, and controllability of the aircraft is retained even in the event of airflow separating from the remainder of the wings' surface.

F-16C Fighting Falcon General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin Interesting Fact: Highly nimble, the F-16 can pull 9-g maneuvers and can reach a maximum speed of over Mach 2.

AC-130H Spectre Boieng/Lockheed Martin Interesting Fact: the Spectre is the most heavily armed modern aircraft in the world.

B-1B Lancer Boieng/North American/Rockwell Interesting Fact: The unofficial 1983 James Bond film Never Say Never Again features a cruise missile launch from a B-1 (although a sequence in which cruise missiles are loaded onto the B-1 was filmed with a Concorde SST substituting for the B-1's undercarriage)

B-52 Stratofortress Boieng Interesting Fact: The B-52 was introduced into service in 1955 and is still active today, but they were only produced from 1952-1962.

SR-71 Blackbird Trainer Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Interesting Fact: The Blackbird is the fastest "air-breathing" aircraft in the world.

F-117 Night Hawk Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Interesting Fact: The aircrafts first flight was on June 18th 1981, 31 months after development started.