Category: Aircraft carriers

** 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.

Aircraft carriers allow a naval force to project air power without having to depend on local bases for land-based aircraft.

* converted merchant ships, e. g., Merchant aircraft carriers, Catapult Aircraft Merchantman and armed merchant cruisers

The United States Navy is also using linear induction motors in the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System that will replace traditional steam catapults on future aircraft carriers.

Some of these vessels are amongst the largest ( such as supertankers ), most complex ( such as Aircraft carriers ), and highly valued movable structures produced by mankind.

Aircraft carriers were vital to the United States during World War II and to the United Kingdom in the 1982 Falklands War.

Aircraft carriers generally steam directly upwind at maximum speed, in order to increase apparent wind and reduce the necessary take-off velocity.

* Aircraft carriers — birds or mythical flying animals

The resulting Air Mail scandal led to the Air Mail Act of 1934, which mandated the separation of air carriers from their equipment manufacturers, breaking up companies such as the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation.

Category: Aircraft carriers

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Due to the initial demand from U. S. air carriers, Boeing sold the first 60 247s, an unprecedented $ 3. 5 million order to its affiliated airline, Boeing Air Transport ( part of the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, UATC ), at a unit price of $ 65, 000.

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* December 8 – Aircraft from the U. S. Navy carriers and strike Nauru in cooperation with a bombardment by surface warships ; eight or ten of the 12 Japanese planes on the island are destroyed.

* December 21 – 22 – Aircraft from the Japanese carriers and strike Wake Island, which will fall to the Japanese on December 23.

* 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.

* May 2 – The British East Indies Fleets 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron – consisting of the aircraft carriers HMS Emperor, HMS Hunter, HMS Khedive, and HMS Stalker – begin support of Operation Dracula, a British assault on Rangoon, Burma.

* July 5 – 11 – Aircraft from the British aircraft carriers HMS Ameer and HMS Emperor strike Japanese airfields and shipping at Car Nicobar.

* July 10 – Aircraft from the 20 aircraft carriers of U. S. Navy Task Force 38 strike Tokyo and vicinity.

* July 24 – 26 – Aircraft from carriers of the British 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron strike Japanese airfields and shipping in northern Malaya.

* September 10 – Five escort carriers of the British East Indies Fleets 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron anchor off Singapore to support Operation Zipper, the British reoccupation of Malaya.

* February 6 – Aircraft from the Imperial Russian Navy Black Sea Fleets seaplane carriers Imperator Nikolai I and Imperator Aleksandr I sink the Ottoman collier Irmingard ( 4, 211 grt ).

Aircraft like the F &# 8209 ; 15E and the now retired F &# 8209 ; 14 have roughly 80 percent of their budget spent on avionics.

Aircraft have means of automatically controlling flight.

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 have more stringent requirements, as they pose a high risk of damage to people and property in event of an accident.

One alleged scandal involving Daugherty concerned the Wright-Martin Aircraft Corp., which was supposedly found to have overcharged the Federal government by $ 2. 3 M on war contracts.

Aircraft Wankels have made something of a comeback in recent years.

Aircraft have a tendency to go to spin when they stall ( flight ).

* Aircraft operating at high altitudes near the tropopause ( mainly large jet airliners ) emit aerosols and leave contrails, both of which can increase cirrus cloud formation — cloud cover may have increased by up to 0. 2 % since the birth of aviation.

Because of this systemic approach UAS have been not included in the United States Munitions List Category VIII – Aircraft and Associated Equipment.

Aircraft will always fly slightly below the aircraft in front, if they have to follow in line ( the " trail formation ").

A number of aircraft have crashed in and around the Barrington Tops, Aircraft Hill being named after one of the crashes.

Aircraft tend to use cambered wings because they have relatively benign flights with preferred flight orientations as compared to missiles.

Aircraft designs have adopted the fully digital “ glass cockpit .” In such designs, instruments and gauges, including navigational map displays, use a user interface markup language known as ARINC 661.

Realising that a British company would have more chance to sell his models to the British government, in 1915, he set up the Blériot Manufacturing Aircraft Company Ltd.

Aircraft movements have gone down in the last two years, from a height of 158, 456 movements in 2009 to 79, 026 in 2011, mostly due to a slowdown of activities at the Moncton Flight College.

" The Renshaw Training System for Aircraft and Ship Recognition ," ( designed by psychologist Samuel Renshaw, was considered to have ) " saved untold lives during World War II.

Aircraft tachometers have a green arc showing the engine's designed cruising speed range.

Aircraft of this type have been flown for over two centuries.

Two projects, by Elbit Systems and Israel Aircraft Industries are both based on the locally produced Armored " Tomcar " and have the specific purpose of patrolling barrier fences against intrusions.

Aircraft designers, manufacturers, and operators have developed quieter aircraft and better operating procedures.

Aircraft types other than the DC-10 have also experienced catastrophic failures of a hatch.

Aircraft may fly routes that have a required performance factor, therefore the amount of error or actual performance factor must be monitored in order to fly those particular routes.

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

The export-variant K-8 Karakorum Basic Common Advanced Jet Trainer is co-produced by China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation ( CATIC ) for export markets other than Pakistan, while later aircraft for Pakistan have been built by the Aircraft Manufacturing Factory ( AMF ), Pakistan Aeronautical Complex.