Aircraft designed to operate in orbital environments often utilize VTOL.

The DA36 E-Star, an aircraft designed by Siemens, Diamond Aircraft and EADS, employs a series hybrid powertrain, with a Wankel engine as internal combustion engine.

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.

Aircraft tail fins are designed to withstand full rudder deflection in one direction at maneuvering speed.

* Blackburn B-101 Beverley ( 1950 )-four-engine, high-wing, propellers, transport airplane ( designed by General Aircraft )

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 company began in 1938 at the Britannia Works, Thurmaston near Leicester, England, as Taylorcraft Aeroplanes ( England ) Limited, making light observation aircraft designed by the Taylorcraft Aircraft Corporation of America.

* Aircraft carrier-ships that serve as mobile seaborne airfields, designed primarily for the purpose of conducting combat operations by aircraft which engage in attacks against airborne, surface, sub-surface and shore targets.

Aircraft and projects designed under the Ha and BV designations can be found at:

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.

The United States Military Aircraft Designation System was first designed in 1919 when the US Army's Aeronautical Division became the United States Army Air Service.

BINAC, the Binary Automatic Computer, was an early electronic computer designed for Northrop Aircraft Company by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in 1949.

Each Surveyor mission consisted of a single unmanned spacecraft designed and built by Hughes Aircraft Company.

Much later the company built some Jetstream turboprop transport and navigational training aircraft following the collapse of the Handley Page Aircraft Company ( which designed the type ).

The Surveyor program was managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Los Angeles County, but the entire Surveyor space probe was designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company in El Segundo, California.

Each consisted of a single unmanned spacecraft designed and built by Hughes Aircraft Company.

It is also the home of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ( SCA ), a modified Boeing 747 designed to carry the Space Shuttle back to Kennedy Space Center in the case the Orbiter landed at Edwards.

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.

During the late 1930s, Bell Aircraft of the United States designed the YFM-1 Airacuda " bomber destroyer ".

" 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.

* Bristol Belvedere, helicopter designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company ( later Westland Aircraft )

* CAC Woomera, a prototype bomber aircraft designed by Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation during World War II

In mid-1944, the production of the B-24 was consolidated from several different companies ( including some in Texas ) to two large factories: the Consolidated Aircraft Company in San Diego and the Ford Motor Company's spawling factory in Willow Run, near Detroit, Michigan, which had been specially designed to produce B-24s.

This patch was not designed by NASA but by the engineers at Grumman Aircraft who designed and built the Lunar Module.

* 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.

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.