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Fastest Propeller Plane? A Closer Look At The Piper M700 Fury
Max Cruise 301 knots / 346 mph / 557 km/h Range 1,149 nmi (advertised) / 1,852 nmi (at max cruise according to Flying Mag) The title of fastest propeller-driven (but not exclusively) aircraft ever ...
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A-1 Skyraider: The Air Force’s Last Propellor Plane
As early as the 1940s, U.S. aircraft were experimenting with jet engines, threatening to make the propeller-driven aircraft a relic of the past. By the 1950s, the jet engine was essentially the ...
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Air Force revives Skyraider name for new light attack aircraft
Air Force Air Force Special Operations Command has dubbed its newest aircraft Skyraider II ... the name of the OA-1K Skyraider II, a propeller-driven light attack airplane, at the Global SOF ...
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World War II Aircraft
The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...