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Jun 13, 2009 London Why did so many WW2 Planes have twin tails/stabilizers? I can see on the Lancaster, Halifax and Me110 that you wouldn't want your mid upper gunner to have an attacker hiding behind a fuselage based tail. But a single fuselage tail must be stronger and have less vulnerable controls and gives a rear gunner no disadvantages.

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The result was the F-15 Eagle and the F-16 Fighting Falcon. The F-15 was adopted in 1976 and the F-16 in 1978. The F-15 was originally designed to carry eight air-to-air missiles, but later models.

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The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was an American fighter used during World War II. Possessing an iconic design that placed the engines in twin booms and the cockpit in a central nacelle, the P-38 saw use all theaters of the conflict and was feared by German and Japanese pilots. The first American fighter capable of 400 mph, the P-38's design also.

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A twin-boom aircraft has two longitudinal auxiliary booms. These may contain ancillary items such as fuel tanks and/or provide a supporting structure for other items. Typically, twin tailbooms support the tail surfaces, although on some types such as the Rutan Model 72 Grizzly the booms run forward of the wing.

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Naval combat aircraft such as the Boeing F/A-18E and F Super Hornet or Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II have twin-tail designs. This may be a redundancy as they will be flown primarily around water where there aren't as many readily available landing sites; if one is damaged, the other will still work well enough for some time.

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World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war's end. 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.

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The list of aircraft of World War II includes all the aircraft used by those countries which were at war during World War from the period between their joining the conflict and the conflict ending for them. Aircraft developed but not used operationally in the war are in the prototypes section at the end.

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It was powered by twin Hercules radial engines, rated at 1,375 horsepower, and it was armed with four 20 mm cannon. The Mark I flew in July 1939 and arrived in squadrons barely a year later. By late summer of 1940, the AI Mark IV radar had been installed, and the Bristol began its successful career as a night fighter.

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Possibly the greatest fighter of WWII, this aircraft flew with a recognizable scoop under its belly, a powerful V-12 in its tapered nose, and squared-off wings and tail surfaces. BIG WEEK Boeing B.

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The twin tail was used on a wide variety of World War II multi-engine designs that saw mass production, especially on the American B-24 Liberator and B-25 Mitchell bombers, the British Avro Lancaster and Handley Page Halifax heavy bombers, and the Soviet Union's Petlyakov Pe-2 attack bomber.

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Although the P-38 is the most famous twin-boom combat aircraft of World War II, it is not the first. That distinction belongs to the Fokker G.1, which first flew in 1937, two years before the XP-38.

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World War II was a definitive moment in history for aircraft. For both the military and commercial industry it was the heyday of aircraft production. Before the start of the war the U.S. Army Air Corps had only a few hundred air planes. By the end of the war it was the largest Air Force ever assembled with nearly 80,000 airplanes.

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Nov 3, 2021 Jesse Beckett, Guest Author circa 1943: Two Lockhead P-38 Lightning aircraft fly on the Pacific Front during World War II. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) During the war, if you needed a great fighter, fighter bomber, escort, reconnaissance aircraft, night fighter, and pathfinder, the P-38 Lightning was a go-to choice.

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Lockheed twin-engine, twin-tail passenger aircraft were familiar sights at American and foreign airports during the 1930s. The most famous, which was featured prominently in movie newsreel and magazine photos, was the Electra 10E flown by aviatrix Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated round-the-world flight in 1937.

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The Dornier Do 17 is a twin-engined light bomber produced by Dornier Flugzeugwerke for the German Luftwaffe during World War II. Designed in the early 1930s as a Schnellbomber ("fast bomber") intended to be fast enough to outrun opposing aircraft, the lightly built craft had a twin tail and "shoulder wing".

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The twin tail should be kept right behind the inner engines in the propeller's airstream and thus enhance rudder responsiveness and flight stability. But the B-24 was not particular known for good stability or light controls. On the contrary. With the B-24N a large single tail was to be implemented and test results were more than promising to.