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Aircraft and for
* AeroVironment, Inc., makers of Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles and Unmanned Aircraft Systems for the military
Aircraft communication can also take place using HF ( especially for trans-oceanic flights ) or satellite communication.
Aircraft were getting progressively more displays, dials and information dashboards that eventually competed for space and pilot attention.
* Aircraft Data Network ( ADN ): Ethernet derivative for Commercial Aircraft
* Avionics Full-Duplex Switched Ethernet ( AFDX ): Specific implementation of ARINC 664 ( ADN ) for Commercial Aircraft
* ARINC 429: Generic Medium-Speed Data Sharing for Private and Commercial Aircraft
* ARINC 708: Weather Radar for Commercial Aircraft
* ARINC 717: Flight Data Recorder for Commercial Aircraft
This case is politically distinct in the sense that the government of Israel-which strongly denounced other cases of Aircraft hijacking-endorsed this one and declared its participants to be heroes and martyrs for the Zionist cause.
Signed at The Hague on 16 December 1970, the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft contains 14 articles relating to what constitutes hijacking as well as guidelines for what is expected of governments when dealing with hijackings.
Aircraft carriers have since become the central unit in naval warfare, acting as a mobile base for lethal aircraft.
All categories are available for Fixed-Wing Aircraft ( airplanes ) and Rotatory-Wing Aircraft ( helicopters ).
On 27 November 2007, Textron announced that Cessna had purchased the bankrupt Columbia Aircraft company for US $ 26. 4M and would continue production of the Columbia 350 and 400 as the Cessna 350 and Cessna 400 at the Columbia factory in Bend, Oregon.
A second reason cited for moving production to Shenyang Aircraft Corporation was Cessna had no plant capacity available in the USA at the time.
* Consolidated Aircraft Commodore, a flying boat used for passenger travel in the 1930s
The Nieuport 11 of 1916 and Royal Aircraft Factory S. E. 5 of 1918 both used this system with considerable success, however this placement made aiming difficult and the location made it difficult for a pilot to both maneuver and have access to the gun's breech.
Aircraft designed for these races introduced innovations like streamlining and more powerful engines that would find their way into the fighters of World War II.
There was also a partnership with the Brunswick Aircraft Corporation for expertise on the novel use of honeycomb aluminium panels bonded together to form a lightweight but rigid " tub ".
In comparison, scheduled flights operate from around 560 airports in the U. S. According to the U. S. Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, general aviation provides more than one percent of the United States ' GDP, accounting for 1. 3 million jobs in professional services and manufacturing.
Nearby Radlett was the base for Handley Page Aircraft Company, while Hatfield became home to de Havilland.
Aircraft used to create a weightless state for purposes of experimentation, such as NASA's “ Vomit Comet ,” follow a vertically parabolic trajectory for brief periods in order to trace the course of an object in free fall, which produces the same effect as zero gravity for most purposes.

Aircraft and army
Amongst squadrons formed at Andover was 106 Squadron, formed on 30 September 1917, who were equipped with Royal Aircraft Factory R. E. 8 reconnaissance aircraft for army co-operation duties, being posted to Ireland in May 1918.

Aircraft and co-operation
The authors planned that the RAF ’ s future air combat force would be based around the multi-role Typhoon and Joint Combat Aircraft, in co-operation with the Tornado GR4 and Harrier GR7 / GR9.

Aircraft and gliders
Aircraft spotting or plane spotting is the observation and logging of the registration numbers of aircraft: gliders, powered aircraft, balloons, airships, helicopters, and microlights.
The Allied glider force had been rebuilt after Normandy until by 16 September it numbered 2, 160 CG-4A Waco gliders, 916 Airspeed Horsas ( 812 RAF and 104 US Army ) and 64 General Aircraft Hamilcars.
Airspeed Horsa | Horsa and General Aircraft Hamilcar | Hamilcar gliders of the 1st Airlanding Brigade ( United Kingdom ) | 1st Airlanding Brigade litter landing zone ' Z ' west of Wolfheze, 17 September.
Aircraft also climb by entering a zone of rising air, but since such zones are unpredictable and inconveniently located, and since most are poorly adapted to passive climbs of this type, only gliders attempt such climbs on a regular basis.
Aircraft assigned were Douglas C-47 Skytrains and Waco CG-4A gliders.
When Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the United States Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall visited the 1st Airborne Division on 16 April 1942, they were treated to a demonstration involving every available aircraft of No. 38 Wing RAF — 12 Whitleys and nine Hawker Hector biplanes towing General Aircraft Hotspur gliders.
Churchill directed Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal to find the required aircraft, and Portal agreed to supply 83 Whitleys, along with 10 Halifax bombers to tow the new, larger General Aircraft Hamilcar gliders.
A number of military gliders were also designed, starting with the General Aircraft Hotspur, but gliders were not used by the British until Operation Freshman in 1942.
The 6th Airborne Division consisted of 7, 220 personnel transported by 42 Douglas C-54 and 752 C-47 Dakota transport aircraft, as well as 420 Airspeed Horsa and General Aircraft Hamilcar gliders.
Aircraft flight mechanics are relevant to gliders, helicopters and aeroplanes.
Aircraft with a single main landing gear or very high aspect ratio wings such as gliders, may place small landing gear in the wingtips.
The Tetrarchs were transported and landed in specially designed General Aircraft Hamilcar gliders.
Around this time the War Office and Air Ministry began to draw up specifications for several types of military gliders to be used by the unit, which would eventually take the form of the General Aircraft Hotspur, General Aircraft Hamilcar, Airspeed Horsa and the Slingsby Hengist.
Once qualified as light aircraft pilots after a 12 week course, they were given further training on gliders: another 12 week course to qualify on the General Aircraft Hotspur glider.

Aircraft and were
When the stock exchange opened this morning, many dealers were quick to purchase shares in Douglas, Lockheed and United Aircraft and prices rose substantially.
Aircraft design began specializing, primarily into two types: bombers, which carried explosive payloads to bomb land targets or ships ; and fighter-interceptors, which were used to either intercept incoming aircraft or to escort and protect bombers ( engagements between fighter aircraft were known as dog fights ).
A number of Mercury boilerplate spacecraft ( including mockup / prototype / replica spacecraft, made from non-flight materials or lacking production spacecraft systems and / or hardware ) were also made by NASA and McDonnell Aircraft.
In 1928 Vickers-Armstrongs took over Supermarine as Supermarine Aviation Works ( Vickers ) Ltd and in 1938 all Vickers-Armstrongs aviation interests were reorganised to become Vickers-Armstrongs ( Aircraft ) Ltd, although Supermarine continued to design, build and trade under its own name.
After that, in the shakeup of British aircraft manufacturing, Vickers-Armstrongs ( Aircraft ) became a part of the British Aircraft Corporation and the individual manufacturing heritage names were lost.
In 1938, both companies were re-organised as Vickers-Armstrongs ( Aircraft ) Ltd, although the former Supermarine and Vickers works continued to brand their products under their former names.
In 1960 the aircraft interests were merged with those of the Bristol, English Electric Company and Hunting Aircraft to form the British Aircraft Corporation.
Aircraft were used for reconnaissance, as fighters, bombers and ground-support, and each role was advanced considerably.
Aircraft designed according to Whitcomb's area rule looked odd at the time they were first tested, ( e. g., the Blackburn Buccaneer ), and were dubbed " flying Coke bottles ," but the area rule is effective and came to be an expected part of the appearance of any transonic aircraft.
Contributing to these rudder pedal inputs were characteristics of the Airbus A300-600 sensitive rudder system design and elements of the American Airlines Advanced Aircraft Maneuvering Training Program.
Seven companies were selected to develop engineering proposals: Chrysler, the Lockheed Corporation, the Douglas Aircraft Company, the Convair Division of General Dynamics, the Firestone Corp., the Sperry-Rand Company, and the Martin Company.
The first operational missions of naval aircraft were flown under his command during the Veracruz operation in 1914 and he was the first to hold the title: Commander, Aircraft Squadrons, Pacific Fleet.
Aircraft were to be used for systematic air observation of German troop movements to and on the battlefield, to avoid the failures of previous battles where too few aircraft had been burdened with too many duties in bad weather.
Aircraft production operations were absorbed into Hawker Siddeley and its engine operations into Bristol Siddeley, as part of the rationalisation of British aircraft manufacturers, and the Blackburn name was dropped completely in 1963.
These types, and the DH. 9A, a developed version that served for many years with the postwar Royal Air Force, formed the basis of early de Havilland designed airliners, including the company's DH. 16 and DH. 18 types which were operated by Aircraft Transport and Travel Limited, the first airline established in the United Kingdom, also owned by George Holt Thomas.
The Connecticut Aircraft blimps were powered by Hall-Scott engines.
This was furthermore the time the Air Kruise cross-Channel services, as well as all Dragon Airways, Lancashire Aircraft Corporation and Manx Airlines operations from Newcastle upon Tyne, Blackpool and the Isle of Man were transferred to Silver City's new Northern Division to streamline BAS's fragmented airline operations.
See and fellow astronaut Charles Bassett, assigned as Pilot for Gemini 9, were killed before their mission flew on February 28, 1966, when their T-38 trainer jet crashed into McDonnell Aircraft Building 101, known as the McDonnell Space Center, located 1, 000 feet ( 300 m ) from Lambert Field airport in St. Louis, Missouri.
In 1956 its major operations were split into Bristol Aircraft and Bristol Aero Engines.
" Aircraft losses on tactical attack missions soared, and Air Force commanders soon realized that their large, missile-armed jet fighters were exceedingly vulnerable not only to antiaircraft shells and missiles but also to cannon-armed, maneuverable Soviet fighters.

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