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 were getting progressively more displays, dials and information dashboards that eventually competed for space and pilot attention.

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 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.

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.

Aircraft with special characteristics that give them unique capabilities will often display those in their demos ; For example, Russian fighters with Thrust vectoring may be used to perform Pugachev's Cobra or the Kulbit, among other difficult manoeuvers that cannot be performed by other aircraft.

On 27 November 2007 Cessna announced the new Cessna 162 would be made in the People's Republic of China by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, which is a subsidiary of China Aviation Industry Corporation I ( AVIC I ), a Chinese government-owned consortium of aircraft manufacturers.

Aircraft systems may be quadruplexed ( four independent channels ) to prevent loss of signals in the case of failure of one or even two channels.

Subsequent work at the Royal Aircraft Establishment investigated axial turbine designs that could be used to supply power to a shaft and thence a propeller.

* 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.

Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport.

Aircraft which are only passing through the airspace must also contact Tower Control in order to be sure that they remain clear of other traffic.

Aircraft or scaled models of them can be mounted on the three struts in the foreground which in this picture hold individual airplane wing portions.

Two years later, learning that Geoffrey de Havilland, who was then at the Royal Aircraft Factory in Farnborough, might be available, Holt Thomas invited de Havilland to join Airco as chief designer.

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

Aircraft with APUs can also accept electrical and pneumatic power from ground equipment when an APU has failed or is not to be used.

Aircraft noise can be reduced by using quieter jet engines.

The Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough was given the job of considering how the missile could be adapted as a satellite launching vehicle, in conjunction with other rocket stages.

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.

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.

At the time of the merger, Douglas Aircraft was estimated to be less than a year from bankruptcy.

Aircraft with tail-wheel undercarriages had not been greatly affected by slush, due to the geometry of these undercarriages in relation to the aircraft's centre of gravity, but newer types, such as the Ambassador, with nose wheel landing-gear and the main wheels behind the centre of gravity, were found to be vulnerable.

Aircraft may be used for instruction or flown by pilots with a valid private license, and at least 30 hours flight time.

Aircraft using the approach can be observed from various parks on the river's west bank.

British intelligence at the Air Ministry, led by R V Jones, were aware of the system initially because a downed German bomber's Lorenz system was analysed by the Royal Aircraft Establishment and seen to be far too sensitive to be a mere landing aid.