Fighter F4U Corsair the Chance Vought company refers to those aircraft that forever left a mark in the history of world aviation. The involvement of these aircraft in the air battles over the Pacific ocean has a huge impact on the outcome. From 13 February 1943 until the end of the war aircraft F4U Corsair performed over the Pacific ocean 64 051 sortie. According to American data, F4U shot down in aerial combat was 2,140 Japanese aircraft, while losing only 189 machines. Thus, the ratio of losses in aerial combat amounted to 11.3:1 in favor of “Le Corsaire”, that is, for every 13 sorties of fighter aircraft had shot down one Japanese plane, which gave reason to believe F4U Corsair one of the best carrier-based fighter of the Second world war.
F4U CORSAIR – TEN YEARS IN THE SERIES
In early 1939, at the meetings of the military and industrial leadership of the Soviet Union repeatedly raised the issue of creating new types of fighters and about the increasing power of the aviation industry in case of war could not cope with the necessary volumes of deliveries of combat aircraft. The impetus for this was the analysis of air fighting in Spain, where it became apparent technological backwardness of Soviet fighters I-15 and I-16 from the new enemy aircraft, particularly from the German BF-109.
From the very beginning of the history of water transport designers and engineers sought to give the courts the ability to move with the greatest speed. It was necessary to reduce the hydrodynamic resistance of the hull. The race for “Ghost of speed” led to the most radical solution -to completely eliminate contact of the hull with the water surface! This was made possible thanks to the creation of wig – the courts break the wings.
Firm “Gather of waggonfabrik” (better known as just “goth”) at the end of the 1930s, released the first batch of ten-seat amphibious gliders DFS 230 was developed in the German Institute for the development of gliding (Deutches Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug, abbreviated DFS) under the direction of G. Jacobs. At the plant “goth” production of the DFS 230 was engaged in engineer A. Kalkert. Taking a series of DFS 230, Kalkert thought on creating a larger glider capable of carrying 20 soldiers with full equipment, and oversized cargo. He had to have a large hatch with size approximately equal to the cross section of the fuselage, and upper wing. The cargo hatch designer decided to make a hinged tail of the fuselage, as the nose of the glider could get damaged when landing (which often happens). This entailed the use of twin-boom tail. This layout was previously known, but was first applied to aircraft of this size.
What only nicknames and designations were attributed to it (sometimes intentionally) that, until recently, a top-secret aircraft, “Lame Goblin”, “Ghost”, “Ghost”, “Rocket bat”, “Blue Mary”, “Nighthawk”, “Aurora”, CSIWRS, COSIRS, CSIRS, F-19, RF-19, A-19, AR-19, F-25. Now it is know as the F-117A “night hawk” (“Nighthawk”)… the History of the airplane has its roots in the beginning of 70-ies. Development of technological methods for creation of stealth aircraft / vehicles began in the United States, likely in the mid 60-ies. The next step in this direction was the attempt of building with application of the developed technology aircraft low level giveaways, i.e. demonstrators.
For more than six months of heavy fighting on land, at sea and in the air. The Soviet warriors and the creators of the weapons – designers of tanks, guns, ships and planes – accumulated front-line experience. Started in 1942…
Helicopter S-55 Sikorsky Aircraft company, part of United Aircraft Corporation, was designed and built in the late 1940-ies, during the period of rapid progress in the global helicopter industry, becoming a significant success of its designer, Igor Sikorsky. By this time, the aircraft designers and military ceased to consider helicopters as merely exotic aircraft. Before them were staged combat missions of a wide range of: supplying troops in remote areas, landing, fight enemy submarines, aerial photography, rescue of crews of downed aircraft, setting smoke screens, laying communication lines, and aerial surveillance.
The development of aircraft, initially under the designation C-80 OKB. Sukhoi started at the initiative of M. P. Simonov in the early 1990s in the framework of the conversion of the defense industry. Two years later, finally formed the shape of the aircraft as a high-performance vehicle intended for passenger and cargo transportation on domestic routes and is able to replace the outdated machines of similar purpose. The prototype C-80 with the turbo-propeller engine TVD-1500 was calculated to transport 24 passengers or 2500 kg of cargo. However, the domestic TVD the time is not ripe and had to rely on ST7-9V of the company “General electric” (USA). With them the plane could carry up to 26 passengers or 3,500 kg of cargo.