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Then & Now: How Does The US Navy’s First Fighter Compare With The F-35?
The US Navy's first carrier-based fighter aircraft was the little Vought VE-7 biplane (this was also the age when the Navy was experimenting with flying airship carriers launching Curtiss F9C-2 ...
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The Grumman F7F Tigercat: A Twin-Engine Marvel of the US Navy
Two Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes were shot down by them ... Starting in 1949, scores of F7Fs were flown to the US Navy storage facility at NAS Litchfield Park in Arizona. While most airframes were ...