Aircraft from No. 114 Squadron RAF attacking the German airfield at Herdla in preparation of the landings at Vagsøy.

* February 23 – Aircraft from six aircraft carriers of Task Force 58 make the first Allied strike against Japanese forces in the Mariana Islands, attacking Guam, Rota, and Tinian, discovering the location of Japanese airfields in the islands for the first time, destroying 168 Japanese aircraft, sinking two cargo ships and several smaller craft, and conducting the first Allied photographic reconnaissance missions ever flown over the Marianas.

Aircraft bombing Kanoya Air Field employ variable time fuzes on 260-pound ( 118-kg ) bombs for the first time as a means of attacking revetted Japanese aircraft.

Aircraft from No. 114 Squadron RAF attacking the German airfield at Herdla in preparation of the Operation Archery landings at Vågsøy.

Aircraft were very successful in not only attacking U-boats, but also in disrupting U-boats from carrying out attacks against ships.

His mind flicked through the mental pictures he had from the hours of Aircraft Identification.

In 1994, Raytheon merged Beechcraft with the Hawker product line it had acquired in 1993 from British Aerospace, forming Raytheon Aircraft Company.

Randy Groom, now President of Groom Aviation LLC, was President from 2003 to 2007, when Raytheon sold Raytheon Aircraft to Hawker Beechcraft.

Cessna Aircraft Company closed its doors from 1932 until 1934 due to the state of the economy.

Aircraft engines increased in power several-fold over the period, going from a typical in the 1918 Fokker D. VII to in the 1938 Curtiss P-36.

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.

Aircraft approaching from the north must make visual contact with the airport at a higher altitude than a flight approaching from the south, because of rapidly rising terrain south of the airport.

* Dreikausen, Margret, " Aerial Perception: The Earth as Seen from Aircraft and Spacecraft and Its Influence on Contemporary Art " ( Associated University Presses: Cranbury, NJ ; London, England ; Mississauga, Ontario: 1985 ).

NASA ordered 20 production spacecraft, numbered 1 through 20, from McDonnell Aircraft Company, St. Louis, Missouri.

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.

The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft from 1917 to the Present.

On April 17, 2012, Discovery was transported by Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to Dulles from Kennedy Space Center, where it made several passes over the Washington D. C. metro area.

Junkers ( Aircraft ) | Junkers patent drawing from March 1944.

* August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ( SCA ).

** Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – Aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.

* May 21 – Army Aviation Section separated from Signal Corps and divided into the Division of Military Aeronautics and the Bureau of Aircraft Production.

* February 13 – Aircraft from HMS Formidable ( 67 ) attack Massawa.

* February 2 – The word Aerospace is coined, from the words Aircraft ( aero ) and Spacecraft ( space ), taking into consideration that the Earth's atmosphere and outerspace is to be one, or a single realm.

American Airlines retired all its Airbus A300-600 Aircraft from service eight years after the accident ( and 21 years in service ) in August, 2009, with its last flight, flight 1908 from Miami to New York-JFK operating on August 24, 2009.

Grissom was one of the smaller astronauts, and he worked very closely with the engineers and technicians from McDonnell Aircraft who built the Gemini spacecraft.

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

Aircraft noise not only occurs from take-off and landings, but also ground operations including maintenance and testing of aircraft.

Aircraft evacuation slides allow people to rapidly and safely reach the ground from the height of a passenger airliner.

Marine Corps Air Station Yuma or MCAS Yuma is a United States Marine Corps air station which is the home to multiple squadrons of AV-8B Harrier IIs of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1 ( MAWTS-1 ) and Marine Fighter Training Squadron 401 ( VMFT-401 ), an air combat adversary squadron of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing of the Marine Corps Reserve.

* Aerospace engineering designed, built, and flew multiple winning RPV aircraft in the annual international DBF, competitions sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Office of Naval Research, and Cessna Aircraft Company.

Aircraft engines usually have multiple magnetos to provide redundancy in the event of a failure.

Aircraft and ground radios that employ HAVE QUICK must be initialized with accurate Time Of Day ( TOD ) ( usually from a GPS receiver ), a Word Of the Day ( WOD ) which serves as a key, and a NET number ( providing mode selection and multiple networks to use the same word of the day ).

The NOAA Aircraft Operations Center houses multiple light aircraft, and three Hurricane Hunters aircraft.

An Air National Guard Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting ( ARFF ) unit is located at the airport, equipped with multiple fire fighting and rescue vehicles, to augment the airport's civilian ARFF unit.

Other launches in the 1960s included six high-altitude releases of vaporized barium from 2-stage Nike Iroquois sounding rockets in January 1967 to measure wind speeds and directions in the upper atmosphere, conducted under the auspices of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory ( AFCRL ) in conjunction with the Space Systems Branch of the Aircraft and Missile Test Division, Air Proving Ground Center, Eglin AFB.

Aircraft equipped with contra-rotating propellers, also referred to as coaxial contra-rotating propellers, apply the maximum power of usually a single piston or turboprop engine to drive two propellers in contra-rotation ( rotation about the same axis in opposite directions ).

They also created the Coordinated Two Aircraft 360, where two aircraft fly in opposite directions at low level at about 350 miles an hour, at about seven gravities, in a horizontal circle and pass each other on both sides of the circle.

Business Week ( Aug. 9, 1961 ) reports that the United Aircraft Company, against which the International Association of Machinists had undertaken a strike, decided to keep its plants operating.

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.

Aircraft sextants are now out of production, but had special features.

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 had a presence in all the major battles of World War II.

Aircraft Transport and Travel had been allowed to continue to operate until December 1920.

In June, 1940, formal announcement was made that the de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., had completed negotiations for the purchase from Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., of that firm's holding of Airspeed ordinary shares.

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.

In the late 1930s, Gulf's aviation manager, Maj. Alford J. Williams, had the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation construct two modified biplanes, cleaned-up versions of the Grumman F3F Navy fighter, for promotional use by the company.

Official War Office policy was to purchase only aircraft designed by the Royal Aircraft Establishment, and Bristol had already built a number of their B. E. 2 two-seater reconnaissance aircraft.

They then met John Parker, an investment banker who had run a Chase Aircraft glider subsidiary, Northwest Aeronautical Corporation ( NAC ), in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Smye, born in Hamilton, Ontario, had risen through the ranks of the government's departments overseeing wartime aircraft production, to Assistant General Manager of Federal Aircraft Limited, the Crown Corporation managing production of the Avro Anson at the National Steel Car / Victory Aircraft plant.

Also in the UK in 1967 the go-ahead had been given for the UK's ( separately developed ) three-stage Black Arrow rocket launcher ( made by Westland Aircraft, with Bristol Siddeley rocket engines developed at the Rocket Propulsion Establishment at Westcott, Buckinghamshire )-Britain did not need to rely on Europa, and Black Arrow would be ready first.

At the beginning of July the Chairman of Jowett Cars Limited, AF Jopling ( who at the time was also a senior employee with Blackburn Aircraft ), informed Jowett shareholders at their Annual General Meeting that difficulties had arisen over the future supply of car bodies.

* Later in 1930: The Surrey Aero Club was formed at the aerodrome by a Ronald Waters, who had been the manager of Home Counties Aircraft Service Ltd based at Penshurst Airfield in Kent.

In addition, most of the prime contractors for launch vehicles and related major items ( including North American Aviation, Chrysler, Boeing, Douglas Aircraft, Rocketdyne, and IBM ) collectively had approximately a similar number of employees working in MSFC facilities.

While the first few " Beechcraft " were built in the vacant Cessna Aircraft plant, which had also closed during the depression, Beech later leased and then bought the Travel Air plant from Curtis Wright and moved his factory to this plant.

By 1954, several Aircraft Control and Warning ( Radar ) squadrons had been formed at the base.

Only one week later, on 24 October 2011, Piper Aircraft announced it had “ indefinitely suspended ” all work on the Altaire project and would be laying off 150 of its 850 employees, plus 55 contract workers, due to the program ’ s cancellation.

The loss of Piper Aircraft contributed to an unemployment rate of more than 20 % in Lock Haven in the early 1980s, though the rate had declined to about 9 % by 2000.