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 ).

Strategic Air Command began deploying Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers and aerial refueling aircraft to the newly completed airfield facilities in 1987.

By mid-1942, the Allies began to regroup and while some Allied aircraft such as the Brewster Buffalo and the P-39 were hopelessly outclassed by fighters like Japan's Zero, others such as the Army's P-40 and the Navy's Wildcat possessed attributes such as superior firepower, ruggedness and dive speed, and the Allies soon developed tactics ( such as the Thach weave ) to take advantage of these strengths.

Air forces began to replace or supplemented them with cannons, which fired explosive shells that could blast a hole in an enemy aircraft — rather than relying on kinetic energy from a solid bullet striking a fuel line, control cable, pilot, etc.

* 1944 – World War II: The " Big Week " began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.

Here it was possible to build a larger wind tunnel, and Eiffel began to make tests using scale models of aircraft designs.

Finally in 1911, trials with aircraft began and in 1912 Tirpitz agreed to purchase the first dirigible for naval reconnaissance at a cost of 850, 000 GM.

In the meantime, the Afghan military began seeking latest fighter aircraft and other advanced weapons.

In the meantime, the Afghan military began seeking latest fighter aircraft and other advanced weapons.

Between 1918 and 1920, NNS delivered 25 destroyers, and after the war, NNS began building aircraft carriers.

On 27 September 1991, as the Soviet Union was dissolving after the August 1991 Soviet coup d ' état attempt, President George H. W. Bush began taking SAC bomber and associated aerial refuelling aircraft off continuous nuclear alert.

Gun salute by aircraft, primarily displayed during funerals, began with simple flypasts during World War I and have evolved into the missing man formation, where either a formation of aircraft is conspicuously missing an element, or where a single plane abruptly leaves a formation.

Regular flights with jet aircraft began in 1962.

At 08: 47, the plane's transponder signal changed once, and a second time within a minute, and the aircraft began deviating from its assigned course.

The aircraft immediately began taking fire, and the right door minigunner, Sergeant Phillip Svitak, was killed by small arms fire.

After Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, the designer and builder of Italy's first aircraft, came to the United States in 1911, he began to design aircraft for a number of firms including Maryland Pressed Steel Company, Wright Aeronautical Corporation and Columbia Aircraft Company.

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.

In 1949, it began maintaining aircraft used by some of Britain's contemporary independent airlines on the Berlin Airlift.

During the 1960s, Lockheed began development for two large aircraft: the C-5 Galaxy military transport and the L-1011 TriStar wide-body civil airliner.

The success of the Allied air offensive caused a reorganization of the German air arm, and both sides began using large formations of aircraft rather than relying on individual combat.

Applications of control methodology have helped make possible space travel and communication satellites, safer and more efficient aircraft, cleaner auto engines, cleaner and more efficient chemical processes, to mention but a few.

A flying car or roadable aircraft is an aircraft that can also travel along roads.

A slightly different concept that is sometimes referred to as a " flying car ", particularly in science fiction, is that of an aircraft that would be practical enough for every-day travel, but would not necessarily be drivable on the roads.

There are two international airports in Jamaica with modern terminals, long runways, and the navigational equipment required to accommodate the large jet aircraft used in modern air travel: Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston and Sangster International Airport in the resort town of Montego Bay.

Vehicles that do not travel on land often are called craft, such as watercraft, sailcraft, aircraft, hovercraft and spacecraft.

This gave Lockheed more than a year's head-start over other aircraft manufacturers in what was easily foreseen as the post-war modernisation of civilian air travel.

From this, the term " Mojave " has come to refer to the temporary storage of aircraft, e. g. during decreased demand for air travel and between short-term leases.

This division is illustrated in a number of ways: The sovereign, for example, holds a unique Canadian title and, when she and other members of the Royal Family are acting in public specifically as representatives of Canada, they will use, where possible, Canadian symbols, including the country's national flag, unique royal symbols, armed forces uniforms, and the like, as well as Canadian Forces aircraft or other Canadian-owned vehicles for travel.

Jet lag, medically referred to as desynchronosis, is a physiological condition which results from alterations to the body's circadian rhythms resulting from rapid long-distance transmeridian ( east – west or west – east ) travel on a jet aircraft.

The common term jet lag is used because before the arrival of the passenger jet aircraft, it was generally uncommon to travel far and fast enough to cause jet lag.

* Air corridor, a designated travel path for aircraft

The Monk liked to meddle in history and to change it for his own amusement and for what he considered to be the better: lending mechanical assistance to the builders of Stonehenge ; giving Leonardo da Vinci tips on aircraft design ; making money by using time travel to exploit compound interest ; and, when the Doctor first encountered him, attempting to prevent the Norman Conquest as part of a plan to guide England into an early age of technological prosperity.

The crux of the theory posited that Churchill had asked one of his men to tamper with an engine on his aircraft, giving him an excuse not to travel at that time.

* A term used in the travel industry for a seat on board an aircraft occupied by one or more passengers

The Beehive was designed by Frank Hoar and included a subway to the already existing railway station at Tinsley Green that let passengers travel from London Victoria Station to the aircraft without stepping outside.

Space weather phenomena can cause damaging surges in long electrical transmissions lines and expose passengers and crew of aircraft travel to radiation, especially on polar routes.

In March 2009, the New York Post wrote that the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained emails sent by Pelosi's staff which requested that the United States Air Force ( USAF ) provide specific aircraft – a Boeing 757 – for Pelosi to use for taxpayer-funded travel.

In 1966 jet travel started with the acquisition of Douglas DC-9 aircraft, which cut travel times in half on most of the routes.

The beams were pointed to the next station to produce a set of airways, allowing an aircraft to travel from airport to airport by following a selected set of stations.

Douglas created a series of experimental high-speed jet aircraft in the Skyrocket family, with the Skyrocket DB-II being the first aircraft to travel at twice the speed of sound in 1966.

A further improvement in comfort and travel times was achieved when Lloyd Aéreo acquired its first jet aircraft ( of the Boeing 727 type ) in 1969, allowing for the inauguration of flights to Central America and the United States, as well as long-haul services to Madrid in Spain.