Night fighter
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RAF night fighter operation conducted against Luftwaffe night fighters with a single mosquito joining the landing pattern
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Black Widow: Northrop P-61 twin-engined Night Fighter
Blind approach: Approach to landing under very low visibility conditions with the aid of R/T
Bingo: Point of maximum fuel level for successful return flight to base.
Blitz Week: Big Week ...
Side view of a Me 262 night fighter, note the radar antenna on the nose and second seat for a radar operatorIn April 1944, ...
The aircraft performed badly during the Battle of Britain and was redesigned. The installation of radar equipment made it the best night fighter in the Luftwaffe. The Messerschmitt A. G.
It excelled in the duties of low-level and high-attack day and night bomber, long-range photo-reconnaissance, mine layer, pathfinder, high-speed military transport, long-range day and night fighter, and fighter-bomber.
By the end of World War One it comprised nine bomber squadrons and one night fighter squadron and had dropped 543 tons of bombs. "Independent Air Force" was really a misnomer.
 See also: Aircraft, Night, Range, Speed, Radar
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