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Vought F-8 Crusader, the Glossary

The Vought F-8 Crusader (originally F8U) is a single-engine, supersonic, carrier-based air superiority jet aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Vought.^[1]

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Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.

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Aerial reconnaissance

Aerial reconnaissance is reconnaissance for a military or strategic purpose that is conducted using reconnaissance aircraft.

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Afterburner

An afterburner (or reheat in British English) is an additional combustion component used on some jet engines, mostly those on military supersonic aircraft.

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AGM-12 Bullpup

The AGM-12 Bullpup is a short-range air-to-ground missile developed by Martin Marietta for the US Navy.

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AGM-122 Sidearm

The AGM-122 Sidearm was an American air-to-surface anti-radiation missile produced between 1986 and 1990.

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The AIM-7 Sparrow (Air Intercept Missile) is an American medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the United States Air Force, United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and various other air forces and navies.

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AIM-9 Sidewinder

The AIM-9 Sidewinder ("AIM" for "Air Intercept Missile") is a short-range air-to-air missile.

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Air International

AIR International is a British aviation magazine covering current defence aerospace and civil aviation topics.

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Air superiority fighter

An air superiority fighter (also styled air-superiority fighter) is a fighter aircraft designed to seize control of enemy airspace by establishing tactical dominance (air superiority) over the opposing air force.

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Air Zoo

The Air Zoo, founded as the Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, is an aviation museum and indoor amusement park next to the Kalamazoo-Battle Creek International Airport in Portage, Michigan.

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Aircraft interception radar

Aircraft interception radar, or AI radar for short, is a British term for radar systems used to equip aircraft with the means to find and track other flying aircraft.

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Alameda, California

Alameda (Spanish for "tree-lined path") is a city in Alameda County, California, United States, located in the East Bay region of the Bay Area.

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All-aspect

An all-aspect air-to-air missile can track a target no matter which way the target faces relative to the missile.

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Andrews Air Force Base

Andrews Air Force Base (Andrews AFB, AAFB) is the airfield portion of Joint Base Andrews, which is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force (USAF).

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Angeles City

Angeles, officially the City of Angeles (Ciudad/Lakanbalen ning Angeles; Lungsod ng Angeles), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines.

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Angle of attack

In fluid dynamics, angle of attack (AOA, α, or \alpha) is the angle between a reference line on a body (often the chord line of an airfoil) and the vector representing the relative motion between the body and the fluid through which it is moving.

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Anti-radiation missile

An anti-radiation missile (ARM) is a missile designed to detect and home in on an enemy radio emission source.

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Apollo Guidance Computer

The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo command module (CM) and Apollo Lunar Module (LM).

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Area rule

The Whitcomb area rule, named after NACA engineer Richard Whitcomb and also called the transonic area rule, is a design procedure used to reduce an aircraft's drag at transonic speeds which occur between about Mach 0.75 and 1.2.

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Atwater, California

Atwater is a city on State Route 99 in Merced County, California, United States.

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Baguio

Baguio, officially the City of Baguio (Siudad ne Bagiw; Siudad ti Baguio; Lungsod ng Baguio), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines.

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Barrett Tillman

Henry Barrett Tillman (born 1948) is an American author who specializes in naval and aviation topics in addition to fiction and technical writing.

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Battleship Memorial Park

Battleship Memorial Park is a military history park and museum on the western shore of Mobile Bay in Mobile, Alabama.

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Beaune

Beaune is the wine capital of Burgundy in the Côte d'Or department in eastern France.

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Blown flap

Blown flaps, blown wing or jet flaps are powered aerodynamic high-lift devices used on the wings of certain aircraft to improve their low-speed flight characteristics.

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Boundary layer control

Boundary layer control refers to methods of controlling the behaviour of fluid flow boundary layers.

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Bremerton, Washington

Bremerton is a city in Kitsap County, Washington.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Cannon

A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant.

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Carrier-based aircraft

A carrier-based aircraft (also known as carrier-capable aircraft or carrier-borne aircraft) is a naval aircraft designed for operations from aircraft carriers.

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Caster

A caster (or castor) is an undriven wheel that is designed to be attached to the bottom of a larger object (the "vehicle") to enable that object to be moved.

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Castle Air Force Base

Castle Air Force Base (Castle AFB, 1941–1995) is a former United States Air Force Strategic Air Command base in California, northeast of Atwater, northwest of Merced, and about south of Sacramento.

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Castle Air Museum

Castle Air Museum is a military aviation museum located in Atwater, California, United States adjacent to Castle Airport, a former United States Air Force Strategic Air Command base which was closed in 1995, after the end of the Cold War.

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Cesar Basa Air Base

Cesar Basa Air Base, or simply Basa Air Base (formerly known as Floridablanca Airfield), is an airbase currently operated by the Philippine Air Force.

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Chantilly, Virginia

Chantilly is a census-designated place (CDP) in western Fairfax County, Virginia.

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Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport

Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport is a domestic airport located northwest of downtown Santa Rosa, California, in Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Chino, California

Chino (Spanish for "Curly") is a city in the western end of San Bernardino County, California, United States, with Los Angeles County to its west and Orange County to its south in the Southern California region.

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Clark Air Base

Clark Air Base is a Philippine Air Force base on Luzon Island in the Philippines, located west of Angeles City, and about northwest of Metro Manila.

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Close air support

In military tactics, close air support (CAS) is defined as aerial warfare actions—often air-to-ground actions such as strafes or airstrikes—by military aircraft against hostile targets in close proximity to friendly forces.

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Collier Trophy

The Robert J. Collier Trophy is an annual aviation award administered by the U.S. National Aeronautic Association (NAA), presented to those who have made "the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America, with respect to improving the performance, efficiency, and safety of air or space vehicles, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year." Robert J.

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Colt Mk 12 cannon

The Colt Mk 12 is a 20 mm autocannon that was widely used by the United States Navy after World War II.

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Concord, New Hampshire

Concord is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the seat of Merrimack County.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba.

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Cuers

Cuers is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

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Da Nang Air Base

Da Nang Air Base (Căn cứ không quân Đà Nẵng) (1930s–1975) (also known as Da Nang Airfield, Tourane Airfield or Tourane Air Base) was a French Air Force and later Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) facility located in the city of Da Nang, Vietnam.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.

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Dassault Rafale

The Dassault Rafale (literally meaning "gust of wind", or "burst of fire" in a more military sense) is a French twin-engine, canard delta wing, multirole fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation. Vought F-8 Crusader and Dassault Rafale are carrier-based aircraft.

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Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard

The Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard (Étendard is French for "battle flag", cognate to English "standard") is a French carrier-borne strike fighter aircraft designed by Dassault-Breguet for service with the French Navy. Vought F-8 Crusader and Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard are carrier-based aircraft and single-engined jet aircraft.

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Davis–Monthan Air Force Base

Davis–Monthan Air Force Base (DM AFB) is a United States Air Force base southeast of downtown Tucson, Arizona.

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Day fighter

A day fighter is a fighter aircraft equipped only to fight during the day.

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Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)

The Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) is a military decoration of the United States Armed Forces.

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Djibouti

Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to the east.

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Douglas A-4 Skyhawk

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a single-seat subsonic carrier-capable light attack aircraft designed and produced by the American aerospace manufacturer Douglas Aircraft Company, and later, McDonnell Douglas. Vought F-8 Crusader and Douglas A-4 Skyhawk are carrier-based aircraft and single-engined jet aircraft.

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Dulles International Airport

Washington Dulles International Airport is an international airport in Loudoun County and Fairfax County in Northern Virginia, United States, west of downtown Washington, D.C. The airport, which opened in 1962, is named after John Foster Dulles, an influential United States Secretary of State during the Cold War who briefly represented New York in the United States Senate.

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Edwards Air Force Base

Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force installation in California.

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Essex-class aircraft carrier

The Essex class is a retired class of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy.

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Estrella Warbird Museum

The Estrella Warbirds Museum is an aviation museum dedicated to the restoration and preservation of military aircraft, vehicles, and memorabilia.

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Fairey Delta 2

The Fairey Delta 2 or FD2 (internal designation Type V within Fairey) is a British supersonic research aircraft that was produced by the Fairey Aviation Company in response to a specification from the Ministry of Supply for a specialised aircraft for conducting investigations into flight and control at transonic and supersonic speeds.

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Fallon, Nevada

Fallon is a city in Churchill County in the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Fighter aircraft

Fighter aircraft (early on also pursuit aircraft) are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat.

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Fire-control radar

A fire-control radar (FCR) is a radar that is designed specifically to provide information (mainly target azimuth, elevation, range and range rate) to a fire-control system in order to direct weapons such that they hit a target.

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Flap (aeronautics)

A flap is a high-lift device used to reduce the stalling speed of an aircraft wing at a given weight.

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Flight airspeed record

An air speed record is the highest airspeed attained by an aircraft of a particular class.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Floridablanca, Pampanga

Floridablanca, officially the Municipality of Floridablanca (Balen ning Floridablanca; Bayan ng Floridablanca) is a 1st class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Philippines.

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Floyd Bennett Field

Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City, along the shore of Jamaica Bay.

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Fly-by-wire

Fly-by-wire (FBW) is a system that replaces the conventional manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface.

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Flying ace

A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat.

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Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum

The Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum is a United States Marine Corps aviation museum currently located at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, California.

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Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket

The Mk 4 Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket (FFAR), also known as "Mighty Mouse", is an unguided rocket used by United States military aircraft.

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Fort Myers, Florida

Fort Myers (or Ft. Myers) is a city in and the county seat of Lee County, Florida, United States.

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Fort Worth Aviation Museum

The Fort Worth Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located next to Meacham International Airport in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise counties.

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French Naval Aviation

French Naval Aviation (often abbreviated in French to: Aéronavale (contraction of Aéronautique navale), or Aviation navale, or more simply l'Aéro) is the naval air arm of the French Navy.

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French Navy

The French Navy (lit), informally La Royale, is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of France.

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Frontiers of Flight Museum

The Frontiers of Flight Museum is an aerospace museum located in Dallas, Texas, founded in November 1988 by William E. Cooper, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and Jan Collmer.

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Fuselage

The fuselage (from the French fuselé "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section.

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Grumman F-11 Tiger

The Grumman F11F/F-11 Tiger is a supersonic, single-seat carrier-based fighter aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Grumman. Vought F-8 Crusader and Grumman F-11 Tiger are 1950s United States fighter aircraft, carrier-based aircraft, second-generation jet fighters and single-engined jet aircraft.

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Gulf War

The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.

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Gun camera

Gun cameras are cameras mounted on a gun, used to photograph or record from its perspective.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Infrared search and track

An infrared search and track (IRST) system (sometimes known as infrared sighting and tracking) is a method for detecting and tracking objects which give off infrared radiation, such as the infrared signatures of jet aircraft and helicopters.

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Interdiction

Interdiction is interception of an object prior to its arrival at the location where it is to be used in military, espionage, and law enforcement.

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Iran–Iraq War

The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988.

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John Glenn

John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician.

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Joint Forces Training Base – Los Alamitos

Joint Forces Training Base – Los Alamitos is a joint base in Los Alamitos, California, United States.

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K-13 (missile)

The Vympel K-13 (NATO reporting name: AA-2 "Atoll") is a short-range, infrared homing air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union.

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Kalamazoo, Michigan

Kalamazoo is a city in and the county seat of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States.

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Key West

Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida, within the U.S. state of Florida.

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Kitsap Lake

Kitsap Lake is a lake in Kitsap County, Washington.

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Korean War

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.

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Lakehurst Maxfield Field

Lakehurst Maxfield Field, formerly known as Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst (NAES Lakehurst), is the naval component of Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst (JB MDL), a United States Air Force-managed joint base.

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Lakehurst, New Jersey

Lakehurst is a borough in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Landing gear

Landing gear is the undercarriage of an aircraft or spacecraft that is used for taxiing, takeoff or landing.

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Landing signal officer

A landing signal officer or landing safety officer (LSO), also informally known as paddles (United States Navy) or batsman (Royal Navy), is a naval aviator specially trained to facilitate the "safe and expeditious recovery" of naval aircraft aboard aircraft carriers.

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Leading edge

The leading edge is the part of the wing that first contacts the air;Crane, Dale: Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition, page 305.

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Liberal, Kansas

Liberal is the county seat of Seward County, Kansas, United States.

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Lieutenant commander

Lieutenant Commander (also hyphenated lieutenant-commander and abbreviated Lt Cdr, LtCdr., LCDR, or LCdr) is a commissioned officer rank in many navies.

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List of fighter aircraft

Fighter aircraft are military aircraft primarily designed for air-to-air combat.

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Lists of military aircraft of the United States

Lists of military aircraft of the United States cover current and former military aircraft of the United States Armed Forces.

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Lockheed CL-1200 Lancer

The Lockheed CL-1200 Lancer was a late 1960s company-funded proposal for a fighter aircraft based on the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. Vought F-8 Crusader and Lockheed CL-1200 Lancer are single-engined jet aircraft.

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LTV A-7 Corsair II

The LTV A-7 Corsair II is an American carrier-capable subsonic light attack aircraft designed and manufactured by Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV). Vought F-8 Crusader and LTV A-7 Corsair II are carrier-based aircraft, single-engined jet aircraft and Vought aircraft.

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Mach number

The Mach number (M or Ma), often only Mach, is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound.

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Machine gun

A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic and rifled firearm designed for sustained direct fire with rifle cartridges.

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Magnavox

Magnavox (Latin for "great voice", stylized as MAGNAVOX or sometimes Magnavox in Australia) was an American electronics company.

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Maiden flight

The maiden flight, also known as first flight, of an aircraft is the first occasion on which it leaves the ground under its own power.

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Manila

Manila (Maynila), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynila), is the capital and second-most-populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City.

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Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort

Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort or MCAS Beaufort is a United States Marine Corps (USMC) air base located northwest of the central business district of Beaufort, a city in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States.

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Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay

Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay or MCAS Kaneohe Bay is a United States Marine Corps (USMC) airfield located within the Marine Corps Base Hawaii complex, formerly known as Marine Corps Air Facility (MCAF) Kaneohe Bay or Naval Air Station (NAS) Kaneohe Bay.

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Marine Corps Air Station Miramar

Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (MCAS Miramar) is a United States Marine Corps installation that is home to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, which is the aviation element of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.

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Mark 81 bomb

The Mark 81 is a general-purpose bomb (nicknamed "Firecracker").

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Mark 82 bomb

The Mark 82 is a unguided, low-drag general-purpose bomb, part of the United States Mark 80 series.

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Mark 83 bomb

The Mark 83 is a bomb, part of the Mark 80 series of low-drag general-purpose bombs in United States service.

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Mark 84 bomb

The Mark 84 or BLU-117 is a American general-purpose bomb.

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Martin-Baker

Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Limited is a British manufacturer of ejection seats and safety-related equipment for aviation.

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McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center

The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center is a science museum located in Concord, New Hampshire, United States, next door to the NHTI campus.

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McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the United States Navy. Vought F-8 Crusader and McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II are 1950s United States fighter aircraft and carrier-based aircraft.

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McDonnell F2H Banshee

The McDonnell F2H Banshee (company designation McDonnell Model 24) is a single-seat carrier-based jet fighter aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer McDonnell Aircraft. Vought F-8 Crusader and McDonnell F2H Banshee are carrier-based aircraft.

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McDonnell F3H Demon

The McDonnell F3H Demon is a subsonic swept-wing carrier-based jet fighter aircraft designed and produced by the American manufacturer McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. Vought F-8 Crusader and McDonnell F3H Demon are 1950s United States fighter aircraft, carrier-based aircraft, second-generation jet fighters and single-engined jet aircraft.

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Medium-range ballistic missile

A medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) is a type of ballistic missile with medium range, this last classification depending on the standards of certain organizations.

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Mid-America Air Museum

The Mid-America Air Museum is an aerospace and aircraft museum located at the Liberal Mid-America Regional Airport in Liberal, Kansas, United States.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17; NATO reporting name: Fresco) is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the Soviet Union from 1952 and was operated by air forces internationally. Vought F-8 Crusader and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 are single-engined jet aircraft.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. Vought F-8 Crusader and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 are aircraft first flown in 1955, second-generation jet fighters and single-engined jet aircraft.

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Missile

A missile is an airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight aided usually by a propellant, jet engine or rocket motor.

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Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.

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Moffett Federal Airfield

Moffett Federal Airfield, also known as Moffett Field, is a joint civil-military airport located in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County, California, United States, between northern Mountain View and northern Sunnyvale.

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Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Mount Pleasant is a large suburban town in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States.

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Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (20 October 2011) was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by rebel forces in 2011.

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Museum of Flight

The Museum of Flight is a private non-profit air and space museum in the Seattle metropolitan area.

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NACA airfoil

The NACA airfoil series is a set of standardized airfoil shapes developed by this agency, which became widely used in the design of aircraft wings.

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Naples International Airport

Naples-Capodichino International Airport (Aeroporto Internazionale di Napoli) is the international airport serving Naples and the Southern Italian region of Campania.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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National Air and Space Museum

The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States, dedicated to human flight and space exploration.

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National Naval Aviation Museum

The National Naval Aviation Museum, formerly known as the National Museum of Naval Aviation and the Naval Aviation Museum, is a military and aerospace museum located at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.

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Naval Air Station Alameda

Naval Air Station Alameda (NAS Alameda) was a United States Navy Naval Air Station in Alameda, California, on San Francisco Bay.

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Naval Air Station Cecil Field

Naval Air Station Cecil Field or NAS Cecil Field was a United States Navy air base, located in Duval County, Florida.

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Naval Air Station Fallon

Naval Air Station Fallon or NAS Fallon is the United States Navy's premier air-to-air and air-to-ground training facility.

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Naval Air Station Jacksonville

Naval Air Station Jacksonville (NAS Jacksonville) is a large naval air station located approximately eight miles (13 km) south of the central business district of Jacksonville, Florida, United States.

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Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove

Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove or NASJRB Willow Grove was a Naval Air Station owned by the U.S. Navy and located in Horsham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States four miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Willow Grove, which is north of Philadelphia.

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Naval Air Station Oceana

Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana or NAS Oceana is a United States Navy Naval Air Station located in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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Naval Air Station Pensacola

Naval Air Station Pensacola or NAS Pensacola (formerly NAS/KNAS until changed circa 1970 to allow Nassau International Airport, now Lynden Pindling International Airport, to have IATA code NAS), "The Cradle of Naval Aviation", is a United States Navy base located next to Warrington, Florida, a community southwest of the Pensacola city limits.

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Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake is a large military installation in California that supports the research, testing and evaluation programs of the United States Navy.

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Navy Unit Commendation

The Navy Unit Commendation (NUC) is a United States Navy and United States Coast Guard unit award that was established by order of the Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal on 18 December 1944.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nguyễn Hồng Nhị

Nguyễn Hồng Nhị (1936 – 26 November 2021) was a Vietnamese MiG-21 fighter ace in the Vietnam People's Air Force's 921st Fighter Regiment.

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North American F-100 Super Sabre

The North American F-100 Super Sabre is an American supersonic jet fighter aircraft designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer North American Aviation. Vought F-8 Crusader and North American F-100 Super Sabre are 1950s United States fighter aircraft and single-engined jet aircraft.

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Northrop F-5

The Northrop F-5 is a family of supersonic light fighter aircraft initially designed as a privately funded project in the late 1950s by Northrop Corporation. Vought F-8 Crusader and Northrop F-5 are 1950s United States fighter aircraft and second-generation jet fighters.

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Operation Linebacker II

Operation Linebacker II, sometimes referred to as the Christmas bombings, was a strategic bombing campaign conducted by the United States against targets in North Vietnam from December 18 to December 29, 1972, during the Vietnam War.

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Operation Rolling Thunder

Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States (U.S.) 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) against North Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War.

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Pacific Coast Air Museum

The Pacific Coast Air Museum, in Santa Rosa, California, is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving aviation history through the acquisition, restoration, and display of historic aircraft.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Paso Robles, California

Paso Robles, officially El Paso de Robles (Spanish for The Pass of Oaks), is a city in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States.

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Patriots Point

Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum is a naval museum located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, at the mouth of the Cooper River on the Charleston Harbor, across from Charleston.

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Pensacola, Florida

Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle.

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Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.

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Philippine Air Force

The Philippine Air Force (PAF) (Hukbong Himpapawid ng Pilipinas) is the aerial warfare service branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

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Philippine Military Academy

The Philippine Military Academy (Akademiyang Militar ng Pilipinas / Academia Militar de Filipinas) also referred to by its acronym PMA is the premier military academy for Filipinos aspiring for a commission as a military officer of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Pima Air & Space Museum

The Pima Air & Space Museum is an aerospace museum in Tucson, Arizona, US.

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Planes of Fame Air Museum

Planes of Fame Air Museum is an aviation museum in Chino, California, The museum has many flying and static aircraft, along with several rare examples under restoration.

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Pratt & Whitney J57

The Pratt & Whitney J57 (company designation: JT3C) is an axial-flow turbojet engine developed by Pratt & Whitney in the early 1950s.

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Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum

The Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum is a non-profit aviation museum located in Southern Colorado.

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Pueblo, Colorado

Pueblo is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Pueblo County, Colorado, United States.

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R.530

The Matra R.530 is a French medium to short range air-to-air missile.

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R.550 Magic

The R.550 Magic (backronym for Missile Auto-Guidé Interception et Combat) is a short-range air-to-air missile designed in 1965 by French company Matra to compete with the American AIM-9 Sidewinder, and it was made backwards compatible with the Sidewinder launch hardware.

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Rochefort, Charente-Maritime

Rochefort (Ròchafòrt), unofficially Rochefort-sur-Mer (Ròchafòrt de Mar) for disambiguation, is a city and commune in Southwestern France, a port on the Charente estuary.

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Rolls-Royce Spey

The Rolls-Royce Spey (company designations RB.163 and RB.168 and RB.183) is a low-bypass turbofan engine originally designed and manufactured by Rolls-Royce that has been in widespread service for over 40 years.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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Santa Rosa, California

Santa Rosa (Spanish for "Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, in the North Bay region of the Bay Area in California.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a state in the coastal Southeastern region of the United States.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Space Coast Regional Airport

Space Coast Regional Airport is in Titusville, Florida, United States, on Columbia Boulevard (State Road 405) and Washington Avenue (U.S. 1) in Brevard County.

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SSM-N-8 Regulus

The SSM-N-8A Regulus or the Regulus I was a United States Navy-developed ship-and-submarine-launched, nuclear-capable turbojet-powered second generation cruise missile, deployed from 1955 to 1964.

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Stabilator

A stabilator is a fully movable aircraft horizontal stabilizer.

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Supercritical airfoil

A supercritical aerofoil (supercritical airfoil in American English) is an airfoil designed primarily to delay the onset of wave drag in the transonic speed range.

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Surface-to-air missile

A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea to destroy aircraft or other missiles.

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Swept wing

A swept wing is a wing angled either backward or occasionally forward from its root rather than perpendicular to the fuselage.

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Thirteen Days (film)

Thirteen Days is a 2000 American historical political thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson.

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Titanium

Titanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ti and atomic number 22.

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Titusville, Florida

Titusville is a city in and the county seat of Brevard County, Florida, United States.

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Toulouse

Toulouse (Tolosa) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania.

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Tucson, Arizona

Tucson (Cuk Ṣon; Tucsón) is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and is home to the University of Arizona.

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Turbojet

The turbojet is an airbreathing jet engine which is typically used in aircraft.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.

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United States Navy Reserve

The United States Navy Reserve (USNR), known as the United States Naval Reserve from 1915 to 2005, is the Reserve Component (RC) of the United States Navy.

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USS Alabama (BB-60)

USS Alabama (BB-60) is a retired battleship.

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USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31)

USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) was the 14th of the 24 s completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy.

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USS Hornet (CV-12)

USS Hornet (CV/CVA/CVS-12) is an ''Essex''-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy (USN) during World War II.

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USS Intrepid (CV-11)

USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 s built during World War II for the United States Navy.

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USS Midway Museum

The USS Midway Museum is a historical naval aircraft carrier museum located in downtown San Diego, California at Navy Pier.

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USS Yorktown (CV-10)

USS Yorktown (CV/CVA/CVS-10) is one of 24 s built during World War II for the United States Navy.

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Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum

The Valiant Air Command, Inc.

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Variable-incidence wing

A variable-incidence wing has an adjustable angle of incidence relative to its fuselage.

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Variable-sweep wing

A variable-sweep wing, colloquially known as a "swing wing", is an airplane wing, or set of wings, that may be modified during flight, swept back and then returned to its previous straight position.

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VF-124

Fighter Squadron 124 or VF-124 Gunfighters was a fleet replacement squadron (FRS) of the United States Navy.

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VF-191

Fighter Squadron 191 (VF-191) was an aviation unit of the United States Navy.

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VF-194

Fighter Squadron 194 (VF-194) was an aviation unit of the United States Navy.

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VF-51

VF-51, Fighter Squadron 51 was an aviation unit of the United States Navy known as the "Screaming Eagles".

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VFA-154

Strike Fighter Squadron 154 (VFA-154), also known as the "Black Knights", is a United States Navy strike fighter squadron stationed at Naval Air Station Lemoore.

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VFA-32

Strike Fighter Squadron 32 (VFA-32), nicknamed the "Fighting Swordsmen", are a United States Navy strike fighter squadron presently flying the F/A-18F Super Hornet and based ashore at Naval Air Station Oceana.

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VFP-206

VFP-206 was a Light Photographic Squadron of the United States Navy Reserve established on 1 June 1970.

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VFP-306

VFP-306 was a Light Photographic Squadron of the United States Navy Reserve established on 1 June 1970.

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VFP-62

Light Photographic Squadron 62 (VFP-62) was an aviation unit of the United States Navy in service from 1949 to 1968.

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VFP-63

VFP-63 was a Light Photographic Squadron of the U.S. Navy.

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Vietnam People's Air Force

The Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF; Không quân nhân dân Việt Nam (KQNDVN)), officially the Air Defence - Air Force Service (ADAF Service) or the Vietnam Air Force (Không quân Việt Nam (KQVN)), is the aerial and space service branch of Vietnam.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Villamor Air Base

Colonel Jesus Villamor Air Base, known simply as Villamor Air Base, is the headquarters of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) and shares runways with Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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VMAQ-2

Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 (VMAQ-2) was a United States Marine Corps electronic warfare squadron in service from 1952 to 2019.

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VMFA-122

Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122 (VMFA-122) is a United States Marine Corps fighter attack squadron flying the F-35B Lightning II.

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Vought

Vought was the name of several related American aerospace firms. Vought F-8 Crusader and Vought are Vought aircraft.

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Vought F7U Cutlass

The Vought F7U Cutlass was a United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer Chance Vought. Vought F-8 Crusader and Vought F7U Cutlass are carrier-based aircraft and Vought aircraft.

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Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III

The Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III was an aircraft developed by Chance Vought as a successor to the successful Vought F-8 Crusader program and as a competitor to the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. Vought F-8 Crusader and Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III are 1950s United States fighter aircraft, carrier-based aircraft, single-engined jet aircraft, variable-incidence-wing aircraft and Vought aircraft.

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Vought YA-7F

The Vought YA-7F "Strikefighter" is a prototype transonic attack aircraft based on the subsonic A-7 Corsair II. Vought F-8 Crusader and Vought YA-7F are single-engined jet aircraft and Vought aircraft.

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VX-3

Air Development Squadron 3 or VX-3 was a United States Navy air test and evaluation squadron established on 20 November 1948 and disestablished on 1 March 1960.

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Willow Grove, Pennsylvania

Willow Grove is a census-designated place (CDP) in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Wing configuration

The wing configuration of a fixed-wing aircraft (including both gliders and powered aeroplanes) is its arrangement of lifting and related surfaces.

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Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum

The Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum in Horsham, Pennsylvania is a museum dedicated to preserving the aviation history of the Greater Delaware Valley including NAS Willow Grove and Harold F. Pitcairn.

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Yemen

Yemen (al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a sovereign state in West Asia.

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Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија) was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992.

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Zero-lift drag coefficient

In aerodynamics, the zero-lift drag coefficient C_ is a dimensionless parameter which relates an aircraft's zero-lift drag force to its size, speed, and flying altitude.

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Zuni (rocket)

The Zuni 5-inch Folding-Fin Aircraft Rocket (FFAR), or simply Zuni, is a unguided rocket developed by the Hunter-Douglas Division of Bridgeport Brass Company and deployed by the United States Armed Forces, and the French Air Force.

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1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system

The Tri-Service aircraft designation system is a unified system introduced in 1962 by the United States Department of Defense for designating all U.S. military aircraft.

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1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo

The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines' Luzon Volcanic Arc was the second-largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, behind only the 1912 eruption of Novarupta in Alaska.

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20 mm caliber

20 mm caliber is a specific size of popular autocannon ammunition.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_F-8_Crusader

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