Aircraft had to approach these from certain directions and this led to the development of aids for directing the approach and landing slope.

Ed Murphy, a development engineer from Wright Field Aircraft Lab.

In 1995 Saab Military Aircraft and BAe signed an agreement for the joint development and marketing of the export version of the JAS 39 Gripen.

Aircraft operating in this regime include the Space Shuttle and various space planes in development.

An aeronautical engineer as well as a pilot, he began his engineering career with de Havilland Aircraft Company but, dissatisfied with the lack of opportunities for advancement, he took a position in 1924 with Vickers Ltd., where he was involved with the development of airships and structural geodetic frame design.

Rapier began development in 1961 as a private venture at British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ) known as " Sightline ".

The RFC, on the other hand, was reliant on the Royal Aircraft Factory and a lack of competition led to its equipment being over-standardised, inflexible in design approach which generally retarded progress in development.

Quality and cash flow problems, DC-10 development costs, combined with shortages due to the Vietnam War, led Douglas to agree to a merger with McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to form McDonnell Douglas.

* CAFE Foundation (" Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency "), a U. S. non-profit aviation development and flight test

The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer of the United States, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production of many important civilian and military helicopters.

Helicopter development began at Bell Aircraft in 1941 with the company's first one, the Bell Model 30 first flying in 1943.

The Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, whose name was in the course of time changed to Convair, the Convair Corporation and similar names, was an American aircraft, rocket, and spacecraft company for the design, development, and manufacturing of such high-technology aerospace products, and / or sub-units of them, or else a subsidiary of a larger corporation.

However Air Vice-Marshal Francis Linnell at the Ministry of Aircraft Production thought the work was diverting Wallis from the development of the Windsor.

* Unmanned helicopter development project with Israel Aircraft Industries.

In 1950, Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge while working for Hughes Aircraft, lead the development of the Falcon radar-guided missile, among other projects.

Repairs took often a long time, and the State Aircraft Factory was burdened with restoration / repair of Soviet war booty planes, foreign aircraft with many hours of flight time, and the development of indigenous Finnish fighter types.

Aircraft saw rapid and broad development during the war to meet the demands of aerial combat and address lessons learned from combat experience.

In a conference held on January 16, 1941, it was decided that the General Aircraft Hamilcar, under development at the time, would be used to transport a single tank or two Universal Carriers.

IDEF1 was developed under ICAM program priority 1102 by Dr Robert R. Brown of the Hughes Aircraft Company, under contract to SofTech, Inc. Dr Brown had previously been responsible for the development of IMS while working at Rockwell International.

As a Test Pilot he conducted experimental and research work at the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1923, where he contributed to the development of aircraft carrier catapult systems.

By the 1950s, after further development at the Electron Tube Laboratory at Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City, California, TWTs went into production there, and by the 1960s TWTs were also produced by such companies as the English Electric Valve Company, followed by Ferranti in the seventies.

In 1947, the Royal Aircraft Establishment took over development work and the missile was renamed RTV1.

* The British and French governments agree to collaboration between British Aircraft Corporation and Sud-Aviation in the development of a supersonic airliner.

* The British government purchases Beagle Aircraft to ensure the continued development and production of light aircraft in the United Kingdom.

* August 11 – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) signs a development contract for the MRCA ( Multi-Role Combat Aircraft ) programme, which will eventually result in the Panavia Tornado.

The cooperation of our exclusive American licensee, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corporation, has been important in this work.

* Concorde, a supersonic transport built by Aérospatiale and British Aircraft Corporation The introduction of the GNAT compiler and the Ada 95 and 2005 standards has to some extent mitigated the affordability problem.

Enfield has also narrated various TV documentaries such as the Discovery Wings channel " Classic British Aircraft ".

The Russian government has merged Ilyushin with Mikoyan, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, and Yakovlev under a new company named United Aircraft Corporation.

The Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough has through the years steered Britain's aircraft research, although most of it is now owned by Qinetiq.

Aircraft with APUs can also accept electrical and pneumatic power from ground equipment when an APU has failed or is not to be used.

Since 2003, Bahrain has been granted over $ 100 million in Foreign Military Funding to pay for various high profile weapons systems, to include an AN / TPS-59 ( v ) 3B Early Warning Radar, Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures ( LAIRCM ), Air-to-Air Missile Avoidance System for the King's Plane ( Boeing 747-400 ), as well as an Avenger Air Defense Vehicle.

In 1988, The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery ( TIGHAR ) initiated their project to investigate the Earhart / Noonan disappearance and since then has sent six expeditions to the island.

The Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association is currently one of among the krai's most successful enterprises, and for years has been the largest taxpayer of the territory.

NASA has consolidated its research, environmental and training aircraft, support services and facilities at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale.

Since 2002, Sandpoint has been home to Quest Aircraft the manufacturer of the Kodiak, a ten-seat, single-engine, turboprop airplane designed and produced to meet the needs of missionary and humanitarian organizations that travel to remote regions of the world.

Aircraft manufacturing has long dominated the local economy, and plays such an important role that it has the ability to influence the economic health of the entire region ; the state offers tax breaks and other incentives to aircraft manufacturers.

" In January 2011, the licensing agreement with Piper was abruptly ended with Piper CEO Geoffrey Berger saying " the company has a different business perspective and approach to the market than Czech Sport Aircraft ".

With the arrival of Boeing Aircraft, the city has gained international importance and stature as one of only four places in the world for the manufacture and assembly of wide-body commercial aircraft.

In addition to the photo database and discussion forums, the website accepts aviation articles for publishing, has an automatic news service which gathers aviation news, maintains an information database about aircraft types ( based on The International Directory of Civil Aircraft by Gerard Frawley ).

Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra, Pakistan is one of the Largest Aircraft Manufacturing facility in Asia and has the world's seventh largest assembly plant.

Jackson has received many fellowships, including the Martin Marietta Aircraft Company Scholarship and Fellowship, the Prince Hall Masons Scholarship, the National Science Foundation Traineeship, and a Ford Foundation Advanced Study Fellowship.

The bureau was formed in 1934 under designer Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev as OKB-115 ( the design bureau has its own production base at the facility № 115 ), but the birthday is considered on 12 May 1927, the day of maiden flight of the AIR-1 aircraft developed within the Department of Light Aircraft of GUAP ( Head Agency of Aviation Industry ) under the supervision of A. S. Yakovlev.

In April 2007, Essential Aircraft Maintenance Services ( EAMS ) has been established by LD Equity 2 based on the acquisition of Sterling ’ s aircraft maintenance department.

LD Equity 2 has, together with a new management team, acquired Sterling's aircraft maintenance activities and has established Essential Aircraft Maintenance Services A / S.

Ellern has worked as an engineer, including for JPL, Raytheon, Boeing, Hughes Aircraft and Northrop Corporation.

Hindustan Aeronautics has a long history of collaboration with several other international and domestic aerospace agencies such as Airbus, Boeing, Sukhoi Aviation Corporation, Elbit Systems, Israel Aircraft Industries, RSK MiG, BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce plc, Dassault Aviation, Dornier Flugzeugwerke, the Indian Aeronautical Development Agency and the Indian Space Research Organisation.