Fighter Speed Chart

This is a chart of maximum speed at altitude. Currently 277 different fighters are in the data file. You can select fighters for display by time range, or by matching strings to their name, engine, or country of origin.

• You can drag with the right mouse button depressed to zoom in, and click the center mouse button to zoom out again. If you don't have a right or middle mouse button, you can use the left button in combination with the META (Ctrl on Windows system) and ALT keys.
• Click on a label in the plot to get the name, country, year of service introduction, maximum speed, and engine.
• Drag the sliders on the bar to change the period covered. The full range is from 1900 to 1990. The left triangle indicates the start year, the red one the end year.
• Enter text in the three filter fields to the left to select. For example, if you want to display all fighters powered by the Allison V-1710 or Wright R-1820 engine, then enter "V-1710 R-1820" in the "Engine :" field, separated by a blank. Then press the RETURN key. Note that the match is case sensitive.

Known problems

• Clicking on a symbol does not always produce the text label one expects. The applet selects the one which is closest to the coordinates of the button press.
• Not all browsers support all three mouse buttons correctly.

Materials

Here is the source code for the applet the data plotting class, an auxiliary math class, and the data file that is read by the applet.