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I was close first time! It's the Xian JH-7 also called the JBC-1 Flying Leopard, a Chinese twin seat twin engined high wing ground attack, using a licence built RR Spey engine.
simpilot34 Taking a stab here, Panavia Tornado?
Taking a stab here, Panavia Tornado?
No, sorry. The RB199 was built by the Turbo Union consortium, not license built as such & was only fitted to the Tornado. The aircraft in question uses a strictly licensed built version of an engine which has been fitted to several aircraft - the engine pre-dates the RB199 & is more powerful.
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Sorry, no - I think the crew would be in for a tight squeeze in that one?
The aircraft in question uses a licensed built version of a Western engine.
Nanchang Q-5 - twin engined, using a copy of a Russian engine, ground attack, high(ish) wing, and two seats in some variants
Cheers.
This is a twin engined, twin seat, high wing, ground attack (primarily) aircraft which remains in service. It suffered a protracted development & uses a license built version of a well known powerplant.
Spot on! I can't see the picture (logging on from work and Photobucket is barred), but, yes, before the Gloster was used, a Wellington was used to test the engine out, making the first allied jet a bomber.
Wellington W5516/G;
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This aircraft was not a production jet, but, did use the Power Jet W.1 jet engine.
It wasnt the B-26, the first Atar engine wasnt built until March 1948.....the first YB-49 jet flying wing bomber flew in October 1947, five months prior. Before that, the XB-45 Tornado first flew in March 1947. There was also the Douglas XB-43 Jetmaster, which first flew in May 1946. That is the earliest one I could find--before that, jet engines were used on fighters and not bombers, aside from the Ar-234 German jet bomber.
The B-45 was the first operational US jet powered bomber...
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U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!
N is for NO SURVIVORS...
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So was the He 274. But I suppose that's not an "allied" bomber....
Would someone please sell a new and improved Vautour.
The Martin B-26 was used as a test bed for SNECMA Atar jet engines by France.
Nope, not the Lancaster, in fact, I believe this aircraft flew before the Lancaster entered service.
I think Lancaster bombers served as a test-beds for early jet engines or it could have been the passenger conversion, the Lancastrian. Would that count?
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and the SU-24 too!
OK, I guess that means it's my turn. So, what was the first allied bomber to fly using a jet engine?
osher SU-7?
SU-7?
Spot on, the Su-7 led to the Su-9, to the Su-11, to the Su-15, to the Su-17. The Su-15 was fitted with twin engines & the Su-17 had variable geometry.
Osher - OH so close.
SU-9? It was re-developed into the SU-11, and the SU-24 with twin engines, and it first flew in 1957. The 24 is swing wing, the SU-9 fixed delta.
Stickpusher - point taken.
Osher - the Mirage IV was loosley speaking an enlarged twin engined Mirage III. The Mirage 4000, which some political wrangling "put to bed" was also a twin.
The aircraft in question had 5 notable production models, all made in reasonably quantity.
Can't be the DH jet range, as the Vampire first flew at the end of WWII, and even used parts from the Mosquito...
DH Vampire- single engine, straight wing.
DH Venom- single engine, straightish wing
DH Sea Vixen- twin engine, swept wing
Alas, no longer in service.
I know there was an 8 engined variant of the Mirage, but a twin engined too?
Yes, the Mirage F-1C, as well as a swing wing variant that was never went in to production.
stikpusher How about the Mirage III?
How about the Mirage III?
No, not the aircraft I was thinking about. Did the Mirage III have offspring which weren't delta?
Cheers - the F-8 is one ot the aircraft from the "golden era" of supersonic flight, a bit like (dare I say it) the EE Lightning - purpose built aircraft before the dawn of the multi-role & the accountants.
OK - This single engined aircraft first flew in the mid 50s & its design has since spawned several significant models which can trace their origins back to it. among these models (not variants) were a twin engined one & one with a dramaticaly different wing.
As far as I am aware, one model is still in limited service?
Yep, should have guessed, fanatic! How on earth does a J57 power an aircraft that fast w/o ABs? This was a good question and I did a bunch of researchy googling. Wrote off the J57.
It wasnt the -20A actually, but the RF-8G Crusaders were upgraded with the J57-P-420 engine. With this engine, the RF-8s could routinely supercruise. Not bad at all for an airplane designed in the 1950s. On a side note, I recall hearing from the pilots that flew the last F-8 in America--the Thunderbird Aviation guys--that the Crusader even in the 1990s could more than hold its own against modern competition. Against an F-15 Eagle, if the Eagle didnt have external tanks the Crusader would run it clean out of gas. Against the F-16, the Crusader could simply pull away from it in level flight. The Crusader made a habit of walking away from F-16s that flew chase on it. When you think about the extra weight that a Crusader had to have due to being designed for carrier ops, these comparisons take on an even more interesting light.
Over to you, milair!
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