7 Worst Aircraft I’ve Flown | Hush-Kit
Nov 8, 2024 · Matt in one of his favourite aircraft. When you’ve flown 52 different aircraft types (and counting), you often get asked what your favourite is. So, it was a welcome change when I was asked to choose the ten worst aircraft. No holds barred, the more brutal, the better, was the brief; but, despite my best…
The story of the F-20 Tigershark (including pilot interview)
Oct 3, 2023 · The F-20 was the ultimate US F-5 derivative. However unlike the twin-engined Tiger II and Freedom Fighter, the F-20 was powered by a single engine. It was intended to serve the needs of US client nations not cleared for fighters as advanced as the F-16. The F-20 had similar performance to the F-16 but would…
MOSQUITO versus BEAUFIGHTER Round 1 | Hush-Kit
Oct 2, 2024 · Written by Hush Kit Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with History, luftwaffe, RAF, World War II, wwii 3 comments. October 6, 2024 - 4:46 pm Definitely not three Beaufighters in a trenchcoat. I lack the vocabulary to explain just how excited I was by this article’s title. Nor do I have the words to tell you just how worried I was before I …
The 11 Tiniest Jet Fighters - Hush-Kit
Dec 27, 2020 · Wingspan roughly equal to the length of a Panzer VI. 5. Early Yakovlev jets (Yak-15, Yak-17, Yak-23) L: 8.7m, W: 9.2m (Yak-15) First flown less than a year after VE Day, the Yak-15 came into being by shoving a reverse-engineered Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet into the front end of a Yak-3 piston fighter.
Top 10 Japanese Aircraft Of World War II - Hush-Kit
May 21, 2023 · Vol 2 can be pre-ordered here.. The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes Vol 1 here and Vol 2 here. 6. Kawasaki Ki-100. 五式戦闘機, Go-shiki sentouki (Type 5 Fighter) Few fighter aircraft in history have made a successful switch from an inline powerplant to a radial (or vice versa) but one of the finest examples of this rare breed was the Ki-100 and its existence was very much a case of force ...
Top Ten Twin-Engine Fighters of World War II - Hush-Kit
Oct 15, 2021 · The de Havilland Mosquito perhaps epitomises the outcome that mid-Thirties aircraft designers were reaching for in scheming out their ‘strategic fighter’ designs in France, Germany, Japan, Poland, the Netherlands, and doubtless elsewhere. The golden objective was to come up with a fast, heavily armed twin-engine aircraft that had the range to act as a bomber escort, and the speed ...
Almost the greatest fighter of World War II: The Martin-Baker MB5
Jan 2, 2019 · Imagine a world without Danny DeVito, Roger Daltrey and George Lucas. There’s a parallel universe where Rick Moranis played Schwarzenegger’s brother in Twins, where The Who never happened and where Star Wars was a military project to make Reagan hard and the Soviet Union broke. This speculative universe is one in which famous figures born in …
Flying & fighting in the Dassault Rafale: Interview with a Rafale ...
Nov 11, 2019 · From the perilous deck of an aircraft carrier, Pierre-Henri ‘Até’ Chuet took the Dassault Rafale M into combat in Iraq. We spoke to him to find out more about the Rafale, a remarkable fighting machine, a masterpiece of design and a strong contender for the title of best combat aircraft ‘all-rounder’.
Turkey’s new Kaan stealth fighter aircraft versus the F-22 Raptor
Feb 28, 2024 · The TAI KAAN – Turkiye’s 5 th Gen Fighter – How does it stack up?. First of all, a little digression. How come Turkiye is developing, and flying a prototype 5 th Gen Fighter? This is a valid question, given that the US, while they would probably claim to have the only true 5 th Gen combat aircraft, appears up to this point only to have competition in …
The ‘Last Gunfighter’: F-8 Crusader over North Vietnam
Sep 6, 2020 · Chance-Vought F-8 Crusader. The Vought F-8 Crusader entered service in the United States Navy in 1957. 2 It was a single seat and single engine air superiority fighter. Capable of speeds approaching Mach-2, 3 the F-8 was built with one goal in mind: find enemy aircraft and shoot them down. The Crusader was armed with four Colt Mark-12 twenty-millimetre cannon and could also carry four AIM-9 ...