Bombers are not intended to attack other aircraft although many are fitted with defensive weapons.

An interceptor is generally an aircraft intended to target ( or intercept ) bombers and so often trades maneuverability for climb rate.

Planners quickly realized that an aircraft intended to destroy its kind in the air had to be fast enough to catch its quarry.

However, any aircraft operating under VFR must have the required equipment on board, as described in FAR Part 91. 205 ( which includes instruments necessary for IFR flight ); but the view outside of the aircraft is the primary source for keeping the aircraft straight and level ( orientation ), flying where you intended to fly ( navigation ), and for not hitting anything ( separation ).

A crude aircraft landing area was cleared on the northeast side of the island, and a T-shaped marker which was intended to be seen from the air was made from gathered stones, but no airplane is known to have ever landed there.

These were joined by four L-39C Albatros aircraft purchased from Kazakhstan as part of the intended 16 to be used by the 1st fighter ( training ) squadron.

Many APCs and IFVs currently under development are intended for rapid deployment by aircraft.

For similar reasons, objects intended to avoid detection will not have inside corners or surfaces and edges perpendicular to likely detection directions, which leads to " odd " looking stealth aircraft.

Though intended for aviation use, it was not fitted to any aircraft.

Passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 were able to assess their situation based on these conversations and plan a counter attack that resulted in the aircraft crashing before it reached its intended target.

The first aircraft carrier due for decommissioning that would enter the SRP is planned to be Enterprise, intended for withdrawal in 2013.

Two Trents were fitted to Gloster Meteor EE227 — the sole " Trent-Meteor " — which thus became the world's first turboprop-powered aircraft, albeit a test-bed not intended for production.

Subsequent analysis of the flight recorders recovered from the crash site revealed how the actions taken by the passengers prevented the aircraft from reaching the hijackers ' intended target.

Of the four aircraft hijacked on September 11the others were American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines Flight 77 and United Airlines Flight 175United Airlines Flight 93 was the only one that failed to reach its hijackers ' intended target.

* A letter for the type of ship the reactor is intended for (" A " for aircraft carrier, " C " for cruiser, " D " for destroyer, and " S " for submarine )

In the low-level role, which had originally been intended to be performed by the cancelled BAC TSR-2, the V Force were considered by Air Staff planners to be largely immune from interception, the Soviet air defences being assessed as having no significant interception capability below 1, 500 ft, any remaining threat coming from the SA-3 low-level surface-to-air missile, flight planners taking care to route aircraft around known SA-3 sites.

Shift times, on the date a ship or aircraft is expected to pass into another area, must be strictly observed or the ship or aircraft will miss messages intended for it.

The B and C curves were intended for louder sounds ( though they are less used ) while the D curve is used in assessing loud aircraft noise ( IEC 537 ).

Although the definition of an airliner can vary from country to country, an airliner is typically defined as an aircraft intended for carrying multiple passengers in commercial service.

If an airliner is defined as a plane intended for carrying multiple passengers in commercial service, the Russian Sikorsky Ilya Muromets was the first official passenger aircraft.

An associated British invention, intended to provide more precise optical guidance to aircraft on final approaching the deck, was the Fresnel lens optical landing aid.

Several other Iridium-based telephones exist, such as payphones, bag phones, car phones and equipment intended for installation on ships and aircraft.

The Air Force / Air Defense Forces had 8, 000 personnel and 90 combat capable aircraft, including 22 fighters, 59 fighter ground attack aircraft and 16 attack helicopters.

In the USA, several states have stated that they would shoot down hijacked commercial aircraft if it can be assumed that the hijackers intend to use the aircraft in a 9 / 11-style attack, despite killing innocent passengers on board.

In January 2005, a federal law came into force in Germany – the Luftsicherheitsgesetz – that allowed " direct action by armed force " against a hijacked aircraft to prevent a 9 / 11-type attack.

Although the role of the ground attack aircraft significantly diminished after the Korean War, it re-emerged during the Vietnam War, and in the recognition of this, the US Air Force authorised the design and production of what was later to become the A-10 dedicated anti-armour and ground-attack aircraft of the Cold War.

A bomber is a military aircraft designed to attack ground and sea targets, by dropping bombs on them, firing torpedoes at them, or – in recent years – by launching cruise missiles at them.

* ground attack aircraft

Some smaller designs have been used as the basis for specialist fighters, such as night fighters, and a number of fighters, such as the Hawker Hurricane were used as ground attack aircraft bombers, replacing earlier conventional light bombers that proved unable to defend themselves and carry a reasonable bombload.

In modern air forces, the distinction between bombers, fighter-bombers, and attack aircraft has become blurred.

Many attack aircraft, even ones that look like fighters, are optimized to drop bombs, with very little ability to engage in aerial combat.

Indeed, the design qualities that make an effective low-level attack aircraft make for a distinctly inferior air superiority fighter, and vice versa.

Perhaps the one meaningful distinction at present is the question of range: a bomber is generally a long-range aircraft capable of striking targets deep within enemy territory, whereas fighter bombers and attack aircraft are limited to ' theater ' missions in and around the immediate area of battlefield combat.

In 2007 the AF & ADF consisted of 18, 170 personnel ( two fighter / interceptor bases, four FGA / reconnaissance squadrons, one transport air base, training aircraft, and attack and support helicopters, SAM units ).

Air Force equipment included in 2004 260 FGA / training aircraft and 80 attack helicopters.

Fighter command, it has all first-line combat assets under its control-fighter, attack and reconnaissance aircraft ; V FAE ( V Força Aérea )-responsible for transport missions.

The A-1s are the main attack / bomber aircraft of the FAB.

It was conducted at the Koren range, and included some 1, 700 personnel with tanks, ATGMs, attack aircraft, AA guns and armored vehicles.

* XA-38 Grizzly Prototype 1944 twin engined attack aircraft.

Allied forces deployed to the flanks of the German penetration, and as soon as the skies cleared, Allied aircraft were again able to attack motorized columns.

As a result of increased security regarding air traffic in the capital, the White House was evacuated in 2005 before an unauthorized aircraft could approach the grounds.

The same NASAMS units has since been used to protect the president and all air space around the White House, which is strictly prohibited to aircraft.

White Hall houses the 365th Training Squadron which train aircraft avionics troops.

A top-secret White Paper, compiled by the Royal Air Force and produced for the British Government in 1959, estimated that British atomic bombers were capable of destroying key cities and military targets in the Soviet Union, with an estimated 16 million deaths in the USSR ( half of whom were estimated to be killed on impact and the rest fatally injured ) before bomber aircraft from the US Strategic Air Command reached their targets.

He also used the White House Communication Agency including the use of special aircraft as communication centers.

This aircraft was retired in 1983, converted to a QF-106 Drone and expended over the White Sands Missile Range near Holloman AFB, NM on 13 September 1991.

These include Burger's Smokehouse, which cures and processes hams, turkeys, and other speciality meats for shipment all over the world ; Honeysuckle White, a division of Cargill Inc., which produces poultry ; Tana Wire Marker, which produces the brightly colored balls affixed to electrical wires to warn aircraft of their presence ; Arkansas Valley Feather, which processes and markets feather products ; Racker's Manufacturing ( steel fabrication ); Aerosonics ( heating and air conditioning equipment ); Mo-Wood ( cabinets and wood products ); and California Manufacturing ( coats and jackets ).

* Scaled Composites White Knight, the aircraft used to carry and launch Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne

When Congress repealed the Neutrality Act in November 1939 to permit the selling of aircraft to the belligerents, Arnold became concerned that shipments of planes to the Allies slowed delivery to the Air Corps, particularly since control of the allotment of aircraft production had been given to the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department in December 1938, and by extension, to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., a White House favorite.

Following the 1966 Defence White Paper, the Air Ministry decided on two aircraft: the F-111K, with a longer-term replacement being a joint Anglo-French project for a variable geometry strike aircraft-the Anglo French Variable Geometry Aircraft ( AFVG ).

He was appointed Minister of Defence in 1957 and quickly produced the 1957 Defence White Paper that proposed a radical shift in the Royal Air Force by ending the use of fighter aircraft in favour of missile technology.

Captain John McMahn and Sergeant White, of the 182d Fighter-Bomber Squadron, Texas Air National Guard, close out flight records at Taegu AB ( K-2 ), South Korea, following their F-84E Thunderjet becoming the first such aircraft to complete 1, 000 flying hours, 1952.

In Great Britain in 1913, similarly, the boat building firm J. Samuel White of Cowes on the Isle of Wight set up a new aircraft division and produced a flying boat in the United Kingdom.

The history of the present Glasgow Airport goes back to 1932, when the site at Abbotsinch, between the Black Cart Water and the White Cart Water, near Paisley in Renfrewshire, was opened and the Royal Air Force 602 Squadron ( City of Glasgow ) Auxiliary Air Force moved its Wapiti IIA aircraft from nearby Renfrew in January 1933.

The Eisenhower White House acknowledged that this might be the same plane, but still proclaimed that there " was absolutely no deliberate attempt to violate Soviet airspace and never has been ", and attempted to continue the facade by grounding all U-2 aircraft to check for " oxygen problems.

Finland's White Guard, the Whites, managed to seize a few aircraft from the Russians, but were forced to rely on foreign pilots and aircraft.

Swedish count Eric von Rosen gave the Finnish White government its second aircraft, a Thulin Typ D. Its pilot, Lieutenant Nils Kindberg, flew the aircraft to Vaasa on 6 March 1918, carrying von Rosen as a passenger.

Two of the Albatross aircraft were gifts from persons supporting the White Finnish cause, while the third was bought.

There is a separate Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) base at Forest Hill ( RAAF Base Wagga ), which is the administration and logistics training base for Air Force personnel and the tri-service ( RAN / Army / RAAF ) electronic ( White hander ) and aircraft ( Black hander ) trades school.

* Frederick Walker Baldwin ( class of 1906 ) – Designer of the Silver Dart, White Wing and Red Wing aircraft

White ( l ) and McDivitt being congratulated by President Lyndon B. Johnson by telephone aboard the aircraft carrier USS Wasp

* L ' Oiseau Blanc (" White Bird "), aircraft flown by Charles Nungesser and François Coli which vanished on an attempted transatlantic flight in 1927