C-5 GalaxyLockheed C 5 Galaxy airplane model. The Lockheed C 5 Galaxy is one of the world's largest aircraft. It is almost as long as a football field and as high as a six story building and has a cargo compartment about the size of an eight lane bowling alley. The C 5 is the only aircraft that can transport any of the Army's combat equipment, including the 74 ton (66,600 kilogram) mobile scissors bridge, tanks and helicopters. The maximum weight for takeoff

The X-2 was powered by an XLR25-CW-3 two-chambered throttleable rocket engine

Wingspan 7 3/8 inches

AAF pilots learned that the Thunderbolt could out-dive any Luftwaffe airplane encountered

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The air-to-air missile fire-to-hit ratios were low and air combat usually degenerated to subsonic 'dogfighting' where the F-4 was at a decided disadvantage when flying against more maneuverable enemy aircraft (MiG 17 and MiG 21)

designed as a fighter-bomber

Adolf Hitler agreed to mass production

The project was given high priority by the German High Command in 1942

Twenty years later

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In the Battle of Britain

Rotorspan 15 3/4 inches