Renseignements généraux

Nº de série

EEP42392

Nº de partie

1

Nombre total de parties

1

Ou

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Brevets

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Description générale

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Dimensions

Remarque : Cette information reflète la taille générale pour l’entreposage et ne représente pas nécessairement les véritables dimensions de l’objet.

Longueur

9,4 m

Largeur

12,2 m

Hauteur

1,9 m

Épaisseur

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Poids

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Diamètre

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Volume

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Lexique

Groupe

Aviation

Catégorie

Aéronefs

Sous-catégorie

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Fabricant

Ou

deHavilland

Pays

England

État/province

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Ville

Middlesex

Contexte

Pays

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État/province

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Période

Manufactured in 1948, this Vampire served with RCAF fighter squadrons and an operational training unit until stored in 1956. It was transferred to the Museum in 1964.

Canada

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Fonction

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Technique

Production of the Vampire started just too late for Second World War. This very successful design was produced in several versions and flew with the air forces of more than 15 countries. In 1948 it was the first Jet fighter to enter the Royal Canadian Air Force. Here, as in other air forces, it introduced fighter pilots not only to jet flying, but also to cockpit pressurization and the tricycle landing gear. A simple rugged design, the last Vampires were not phased out of the Swiss Air Force until the late 1980s. In developing the Vampire, de Havilland applied its expertise in wood construction to manufacture a fuselage of the same type of plywood/balsa wood sandwich used in the Mosquito. The Vampire’s twin-boom configuration enabled the jet tail pipe to remain short in order to extract as much thrust as possible from the somewhat low-powered engines of the day. The prototype sea Vampire was the first jet aircraft to fly from an aircraft carrier.

Notes sur la région

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Détails

Marques

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Manque

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Fini

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Décoration

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