de Havilland Vampire - Wikipedia
The de Havilland DH100 Vampire is a British jet fighter which was developed and manufactured by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was the second jet fighter to be operated by the RAF, after the Gloster Meteor, and the first to be powered by a single jet engine.
de Havilland Vampire - War History
2016年12月16日 · The diminutive Vampire was England’s second jet fighter and spawned a large number of subtypes. It enjoyed a lengthy career and was exported to no less than 25 nations. The British Air Ministry issued Specification E.6/41 in 1941 to obtain a jet fighter built around a single de Havilland Goblin centrifugal-flow turbojet.
De Havilland Vampire - BAE Systems
Nene-powered Vampire for the RAAF. Built by de Havilland Australia, powered by 5,000 lbst Australian-built RR Nene 2-VH. Initially with dorsal intakes, later removed. First Australian-built aircraft flown 29 June 1948.
de Havilland Vampire | Military Wiki | Fandom
The de Havilland DH.100 Vampire was a British jet fighter commissioned by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Following the Gloster Meteor, it was the second jet fighter to enter service with the RAF.
de Havilland DH.100 Vampire Single-Seat Jet-Powered Fighter ...
2022年9月14日 · The de Havilland DH.100 Vampire held two key distinctions concerning aviation history - she was the first jet-powered aircraft anywhere to land on a moving aircraft carrier (this completed in her navalized "Sea Vampire" prototype guise) and she was the first jet aircraft in British service to be powered by a single turbojet engine - the ...
Home of the De Havilland Vampire
From 1949 to 1953, De Havilland Aircraft built eighty single-seat Vampires at the plant in Bankstown, NSW, for the Royal Australian Air Force. These Vampires were significantly different to most other Vampires built around the world in that they were powered by the Rolls-Royce Nene jet engine (built by Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation).
The Cold War de Havilland Vampire: A Super Fighter?
2021年4月5日 · Developed during World War II to take advantage of jet propulsion, the Vampire proved to be a unique-looking aircraft featuring a twin-boom design with an “egg-shaped” wood/aluminum fuselage.