Military experts say a tight naval blockade off Cuban ports and at the approaches to Cuban waters would require two naval task forces, each built around an aircraft carrier with a complement of about 100 planes and several destroyers.

* 1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the.

The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer are sunk off the island's east coast.

* 1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding.

* Italian aircraft carrier Aquila, a World War II Italian aircraft carrier

The aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga delivered the Apollo 16 command module to the North Island Naval Air Station, near San Diego, California on Friday, 5 May 1972.

One of the recent attractions is the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, a museum ship now moored at the former Naval Air Station as the USS Hornet Museum.

The HARM missile was approved for full production in March 1983, and then deployed in late 1985 with VA-72 and VA-46 aboard the aircraft carrier USS America.

The Navy would require a long-range, long-endurance interceptor aircraft to defend carrier battle groups against this threat.

Until the 1980s, the flagship of the ocean-going navy was the aircraft carrier Minas Gerais ( the ex-British HMS Vengeance ), which has been in service since 1945.

While the Minas Gerais was not considered likely to be replaced until the next century, it was nonetheless decommissioned in 2001 following the purchase of the French aircraft carrier Foch.

Despite this, aircraft today are much more extensively used as the primary tools for both army and navy, as evidenced by the prominent use of helicopters to transport and support troops, the use of aerial bombardment as the " first strike " in many engagements, and the replacement of the battleship with the aircraft carrier as the center of most modern navies.

Once aboard the aircraft carrier the group formed the core of VF-191 ( Satan's Kittens ).

In 1998, CDR Patrick Driscoll made the first " Blue Jet " landing on a " haze gray and underway " aircraft carrier, USS Harry S. Truman ( CVN-75 ).

* A photographic record of aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable, 1944 – 45, including Operation Iceberg, the attack on the Sakashimas

Pointing to the overwhelming dominance of the aircraft carrier in the Pacific Theater, they asked the United States Congress to fund a large fleet of " supercarriers " and their supporting battle groups, beginning with the USS United States ( CVA-58 ).

During the Cold War, the ČSLA was equipped primarily with Soviet arms, although certain arms like the OT-64 SKOT armored personnel carrier, the L-29 Delfín and L-39 Albatros aircraft, the P-27 Pancéřovka antitank rocket launcher, the Sa vz.

Aer Lingus, Ireland's national flag carrier has named one of its Airbus A330 aircraft in commemoration of the saint ( reg: EI-DUO ).

Two aircraft carriers, and were simultaneously in commission and in operation during World War II, and Franklin therefore had the distinction of having two simultaneously operational US Navy warships named in his honor.

The United States Navy named two ships for Roosevelt: the, a submarine that was in commission from 1961 to 1982 ; and the, an aircraft carrier that has been on active duty in the Atlantic Fleet since 1986.

Of the 233 aircraft assigned to the Hawaiian Air Force, 146 were in commission before the attack ; afterward, only 83 were in commission ( including 27 P-40s ) and 76 had been totally destroyed.

All five pursuit squadrons had a Table of Organization and Equipment strength of 25 aircraft, including spares, but because of accidents and other factors, none had that total and decided to use 18 in tactical commission, regardless of the number in their inventory.

The numbers below in italicized brackets indicate the number of aircraft in commission on 8 December.

*, an aircraft carrier in commission from 1968 to 2007

* was the lead ship of the Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers, and was in commission between 1961 and 2009

Later he was recommended for a commission and learned to fly Bristol Fighter aircraft.

An investigation commission of the ICAO determined that a bomb placed in a container in location 13-R in the forward cargo hold caused the destruction of the aircraft.

In parallel, he became a Swiss Air Force pilot in 1966, where he holds a commission as captain, and has logged 5600 hours flying time, including 4, 000 hours in jet aircraft.

The U. S. Navy escort aircraft carrier — in commission from 1945-1946, 1951-1955, and 1965-1969 — was named for this battle.

Frank awakens to the Captain of the aircraft carrier telling him the his team is out of commission as the scene shows wounded Delta operatives being carried out of the area and to helicopters.

*, a Royal Navy aircraft repair yard in Egypt, in commission between 1941 and 1946.

*, an aircraft carrier in commission from 1968 to 2007

The commission concluded that during the crash the aircraft engine was running ( the propeller was rotating ), and there was enough fuel on board ( see, for instance ).

The aircraft is used to conduct a wide range of policing work providing emergency responses to incidents involving threat to life, commission of crime and searching for missing persons.

His aggressiveness and effectiveness led to his being given his own aircraft and a roving commission.

The escort aircraft carrier, in commission from 1945 to 1946, and the Ticonderoga class guided-missile cruiser, in commission since 1993, were named for this battle.

Once Scheele accepted a commission as an Assistant Surgeon ( July 2, 1934 ), he began a series of rotations at quarantine stations, in San Francisco and San Pedro, California and at Honolulu, Hawaii, where a light schedule of duties included inspecting aircraft at Pearl Harbor.

The commission, presided over by Justice Peter Mahon, concluded that the accident was caused by a correction made to the coordinates of the flight path the night before the disaster, coupled with a failure to inform the flight crew of the change, with the result that the aircraft, instead of being directed by computer down McMurdo Sound ( as the crew assumed ), was re-routed into the path of Mount Erebus.

The crew decided to abandon the aircraft because it could not stay aloft with three engines out of commission while carrying a heavy payload.

The U. S. Navy escort aircraft carrier USS Bougainville ( CVE-100 ), in commission from 1944 to 1946, was named for the Bougainville campaign.

But the closing aircraft showed no sign of deviating from their original course.

Build long-range aircraft which can take off from small ( 3,000-foot ) airfields with runways.

It would be even more valuable because that same aircraft could immediately destroy any targets it discovered -- no need to wait for a missile to come all the way from the United States with the chance that the target, if it were mobile, would be gone.

The Pathet Lao, stiffened by Communist Veterans from neighboring North Viet Nam, were supplied by Soviet aircraft.

An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet.

There are also reports that 50 combat aircraft from the disbanded 19th Army of the Soviet Air Defence Forces came under Azeri control.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

Observations from Greek fighter aircraft indicate a decompression problem.

* 1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at, setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.

* 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

The aircraft involved, a Boeing 757-223, was flying American Airlines ' daily scheduled morning transcontinental service from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – American aircraft from carriers and bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Commercial aircraft cockpit data recorders, commonly known as a “ black box ”, store flight information and audio from the cockpit.

Screening passengers with metal detectors and luggage with x-ray machines helps prevent weapons from being taken on to an aircraft.

# An aircraft should be “ in flight ” ( that is, according to Article 1, paragraph 3 of the Tokyo Convention, from the moment when power is applied for the purpose of take-off until the moment when the landing run ends );

Aeronautics ( from Greek ὰήρ āēr which means " air " and ναυτική nautikē which means " navigation, Airmanship ", i. e. " navigation of the air ") is the science involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of airflight-capable machines, or the techniques of operating aircraft and rocketry within the atmosphere.

After World War II, especially in North America, there was a boom in general aviation, both private and commercial, as thousands of pilots were released from military service and many inexpensive war-surplus transport and training aircraft became available.

A rocket or rocket vehicle is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle which obtains thrust from a rocket engine.

Platforms used include both trucks and heavier combat vehicles such as APCs and tanks, which add protection from aircraft, artillery, and small arms fire for front line deployment.

Edgar Cayce first mentioned Atlantis in 1923 and later suggested that it was originally a continent-sized region extending from the Azores to the Bahamas, holding an ancient, highly evolved civilization which had ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious form of energy crystal.

Platforms used include both trucks and heavier combat vehicles such as APCs and tanks, which add protection from aircraft, artillery, and small arms fire for front line deployment.

* 2005 – The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.