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CAV 100

• Aircraft for Combat

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Supermarine Spitfire

• Built in 1938
• Faster and more maneuverable than Hurricane
• Merlin engine
• 8 machine guns

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North American P-51 Mustang

• GM Allison engine
• Rolls-Royce Merlin engine
• 437 MPH top speed
• Long range escort
• 15,000 built

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B-17 Flying Fortress

• Carried 13 machine guns
• Used to bomb Germany
• 65,000 gross weight

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B-29 Super Fortress

• Top speed 354 MPH
• Ceiling 36,000 feet
• 141,000 Gross weight
• Range 3200 miles
• Dropped first atomic bomb
• Used mostly in Pacific
• Saw combat in 1944

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Mitsubishi Zero

• Best Japanese fighter
• Best in Pacific early in war
• 340 MPH top speed
• Lightly armored- blew up easily

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Messerschmitt ME-109

• First flown 1935
• Speed increased from 290 to 355 MPH
• 35,000 built during war more than any other
  German plane

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Messerschmitt ME-262

• First jet to see combat
• 1400 built
• Top speed 540 MPH
• Hitler ordered it used as bomber