Famous Fighters of the Second World War, Volume 2Doubleday and Company, 1962 - Fighter planes |
Contents
THE POLIKARPOV I16 | 5 |
THE GLOSTER GLADIATOR | 15 |
THE BOULTON PAUL DEFIANT | 26 |
Copyright | |
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aircraft airframe airscrew Allied altitude armour attack attained biplane bomber bombs Boulton Paul Breda-SAFAT carriers Chance Vought cockpit canopy combat Corsair defence Defiant delivered drop tank engine rated equipment fighter biplane flaps flew flight flown Folgore ft./min fuel capacity fuel tanks fuselage Gladiator IIs Grumman Gruppo h.p. for take-off Hayabusa Hayate Heinkel Hellcat increased initial climb rate insignia installed internal fuel Jumo loaded weight Luftwaffe m.p.h. at sea machine guns manoeuvrability Martlet maximum speed MG 151 cannon MK 108 cannon monoplane Nakajima night fighter normal loaded operational Pacific performance pilots power plant prototype radar radial redesigned Regia Aeronautica retractable Royal Navy Russian Saetta Schräge Musik Sea Gladiators sea level Second World service ceiling shipboard single-seat Squadron Stormo supercharger tail surfaces tion trials turret twin two-seat Type U.S. Navy undercarriage V-J Day variant ventral tray Wildcat Yakovlev Zero-Sen