Cool picture of a P-51 Mustang

This is a cool picture of a P-51 Mustang that I came across.

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The P-61 Black Widow

The SCR-720A radar

The Northrop P-61 Black Widow was designed as a night fighter. With a armerment of four .50 caliber machine guns and four 20mm cannons. With radar in the white dome on the front of the fuseglage it could detect hostle airplanes at night and then shoot them down.

The Boeing X-32 Joint Strike Fighter was designed as a mulit-purpose fighter for the U.S. Air Force, the Marines, and the Navy. It had a direct lift system for verticle takeoff and landing. This fighter competed against the Lockheed Martin X-35. The X-32 lost the Joint Strike fighter Competition, but it did not cost as much as its couterpart the X-35. I prefer the Boeing X-32 to any other single seat fighter jet.

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Our Family's Trip to Nicaragua

On the 26th. of January 2007, Our family went to Nicaragua on a missions trip. My mom a nurse, did medical checkups and the rest of my family painted, worked with special-needs children. This trip changed my world-view. Now I know what poverty really is, and I understand how people in impaovrished countries get along. This trip really changed my world view.

Republic F-84 Thunderjet

The Republic Aviation F-84 Thunderjet was an American-built turbojet fighter-bomber aircraft. Originating as a 1944 United States Air Force proposal for a daytime fighter, the F-84 flew in 1946. Although it entered service in 1947, the Thunderjet was plagued by so many structural and engine problems that a 1948 Air Force review declared it unable to execute any aspect of its intended mission and considered cancelling the program. The aircraft was not considered fully operational until the 1949 F-84D model and the design matured only with the definitive F-84G introduced in 1951. In 1954, the straight-wing Thunderjet was joined by the swept-wing F-84F Thunderstreak fighter and RF-84F Thunderflash photo reconnaissance aircraft. The F-84 The Thunderjet was also used as a parasite fighter on the Convair B-36 Peacemaker.

The F-4 Phantom

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II was the primary fighter bomber of the Vietnam War. It was developed after the F-3 lost a naval contract and Mc Donnell decided to develop an ground attack/ interceptor. The F-4 was armed with four semi-recessed Sparrow III missiles for interception instead of machine guns or cannons. The ground attack armament was all the bombs that could be placed on the eleven hardpoints. As of 2001 more than 1,000 F-4 remained in service.

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