User:Alvinrune/Airplanes and Helicopters of the U.S. Navy

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Curtiss Biplane
The Curtiss Biplane is one of the first aircraft in the U.S., setting many records in 1909. A spy plane used widely in former U.S.S.R., it could hold only one person. It has two elevators, or flaps on wings that determine the altitude; the body was first made of bamboo, then steel, but the wings were made of wood. The engine’s strength was a 65 horsepower turbine and the length is 29 feet. The wingspan is 30 feet and the wing area is 92 feet2. If the craft is empty, it weighs 772 pounds, and if it is loaded, its weight is 1,102 pounds. The wing load is 39 pounds per 2 feet, and the power load is 17 pounds per horsepower. Its speed reaches 43 miles per hour, but its landing speed is only 37 miles per hour. It can fly nonstop for 3 hours and its altitude levels tops at 6,562 feet. It takes 20 minute to climb 3,289 feet, and the fuel takes up 154 pounds.

Early A-7B Corsair
This airplane is an old navy unit used mainly for attacking manufactured by Vought®. Deriving from the A-7, it is nicknamed The Corsair. The designation system for the air craft is the U.S. Tri-Service.

F-14 Tomcat
The F-14 Tomcat is a fast, two-engine, variable sweep wing, and two-place strike fighter made by the Grumman Aircraft Corporation. The numerous responsibilities of routing, target acquirement, Electronic Counter Measures (ECM), and the pilot and the radar intercept officer (RIO) distribute among the armaments service. Principal assignments consist of accurate strike in opposition to ground units, air superiority missions, and navy sky defenses. As an attacking fighter, the Tomcat is competent of arranging an variety of air-to-ground weaponry (MK-80 series GP bombs, LGB’s, and JDAM) in an assortment of arrangements, while concurrently transporting the AIM-7, AIM-9, and AIM-54 air-to-air missiles. The F-14 includes the LANTIRN aiming system that tolerates distribution of numerous laser-directed ammunitions for exact strikes in air-to-ground attack missions and for battle damage evaluations. With its Fast Tactical Imagery (FTI) system, the F-14 can convey and pick up aiming and spying images in flight to supply time-responsive strike capacity. An amount of F-14’s also contain the Tactical Air Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS) presenting in-theater planned scouting.

SH-60B Seahawk
Fuselage Length: 50 feet Overall Length: 64 feet 8 inches Height: 17 feet Weight: In Harpoon Targeting Role: 18,000 pounds In ASW Role: 19,800 pounds In Utility Role: 21,000+ pounds Speed: Maximum Cruise at 5,000 Feet: 155 mph Range: 50 Nautical-mile Radius with 3 hours on Station 150 Nautical-mile Radius with 1 hour on Station Power Plant: Two T700-GE-401 Turboshaft Engines Crew: Four Contractor: Sikorsky

UH-46 Sea Knight
The fuselage length, or the length excluding the wings and tail, of this Navy delivery-used helicopter is 45 feet, and the actual length of the whole thing, including the wings and tail is 84 feet. The height, from the wheels to the dorsal fin is 17 feet and the gross weight is about 23,000 pounds. It can fly up to 165 miles per hour and can top its altitude level at 14,000 feet. Its range is 206 nautical, or naval, miles with its ferry range at 774 nautical miles. It can have a crew of three and its contractor is Boeing Vertol®.

U.S.S. Cushing TB-1
N. G. Herreshoff in Bristol, Rohde Island, built this 116-ton experimental torpedo boat, the U.S.S. Cushing TB-1. It started activating in the April of 1890 and was the Navy’s most modern torpedo boat. Spending most of its time aiding in scientific advances regarding torpedoes, Cushing, as it is casually called, also worked near Key West and Cuba, offering help in the Spanish-American War. After the conflict, it faded and, unfortunately, it fell prey to a target and died in 1920.