Fixed-wing aircraft designed for high-speed operation ( such as commercial jet aircraft ) have difficulty generating enough lift at the low speeds encountered during takeoff.

Fixed-wing aircraft have generally been replaced by more versatile rotary-wing aircraft since the late 1940s.

A view of Earth's troposphere from an Fixed-wing aircraft | airplane.

Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct from rotary-wing aircraft in which the wings form a rotor mounted on a spinning shaft and ornithopters in which the wings are hinged, allowing them to flap in similar manner to a bird.

Fixed-wing aircraft can be equipped with devices to prevent or postpone a stall or to make it less ( or in some cases more ) severe, or to make recovery easier.

Fixed-wing flights pay a $ 25 landing fee as of January 1, 2009.

Fixed-wing flights were banned under the ceasefire terms, although the UN Security Council agreed to the resumption of domestic flights.

* Fixed-wing aircraft services, operated by Isles of Scilly Skybus, from Land's End, Newquay, Exeter, Bristol and Southampton.

Fixed-wing amphibious aircraft are seaplanes ( flying boats and floatplanes ) that are equipped with retractable wheels, at the expense of extra weight and complexity, plus diminished range and fuel economy compared to planes designed for land or water only.

Image: King Air 200 air ambulance. JPG | Fixed-wing interior

* Airtanker: Fixed-wing aircraft certified by FAA as being capable of transport and delivery of 600 to 3, 0000 gallons of water or other liquid or powder fire retardants.

* Fixed-wing services include passenger and cargo charters, medical evacuation flights, non-scheduled airline operations and aerial survey work.

Fixed-wing aircraft are also used to transport prisoners, with the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System ( nicknamed " Con Air ") perhaps being the largest example of this use.

Fixed-wing aircraft are also used to provide regular police patrols in remote communities and to transport investigators to remote crime scenes.

Fixed-wing aircraft range from small trainers and recreational aircraft to large airliners and military cargo aircraft.

Associates of Aviation Science: Central Oregon Community College joined with local flight schools, Leading Edge Aviation ( Rotorcraft provider ) and Professional Air ( Fixed-wing aircraft provider ), to provide flight training for the aviation degree program.

AAC interventions are highly individualized, taking into account specific abilities of language comprehension, social-relational characteristics, learning strengths and weaknesses, and developmental patterns for specific types of intellectual disabilities.

Other types of formicariums are those made with plaster, ytong ( autoclaved aerated concrete or AAC ), or simply with no medium.

* Sound Alert types Vibration ; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3, AAC ringtones

It supports several MPEG-4 Audio object types ( LC, Main, LTP for encoding and SBR, PS, ER, LD for decoding ), file formats ( ADTS AAC, raw AAC, MP4 ), multichannel and gapless encoding / decoding and MP4 metadata tags.

The MPEG-4 object types of the AAC format supported by FAAC are the " Low Complexity " ( LC ), " Main ", and " Long Term Prediction " ( LTP ).

It is MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AAC decoder and supports MPEG-4 audio object types LC, Main, LTP, LD, ER, SBR and PS, which can be combined also to HE-AAC and HE-AACv2 Profile ( AAC LC + SBR + PS ).

AAC groundcrew work with a number of different types of helicopters including the, Lynx, Bell 212, Gazelle and Apache.

It handles all types of vehicle maintenance, but concentrates more on `` service station activities '' than on extensive vehicle repairs.

The mapping of important physical features such as slopes and types of soil and the collection of all available information pertaining to public utility service areas are being conducted as staff projects and, like the other two inventory projects, are scheduled for completion July 1, 1961.

They may preside over a simple prayer service such as the Liturgy of the Hours which they are obliged to say with their community, speak about Scripture to their community, and give certain types of blessings not reserved to the clergy.

Similar types, based on 3-ton lorries, were produced in Britain, Canada and Australia, and together formed the most numerous self-propelled AA guns in British service.

These types of analytics are increasing in popularity as companies demand greater visibility into the performance of call centers and other service and support channels, in order to correct problems before they affect satisfaction levels.

While both types of gun were effective against wooden ships, neither had the capability to pierce the armour of ironclads ; due to reports of slight problems with the breeches of the Armstrong gun, and their higher cost, the older muzzle-loaders were selected to remain in service, instead.

" The Act of Congress on 1918-07-09, recognized the need for different types and degrees of heroism and meritorious service and included such provisions for award criteria.

The Hong Kong Transport Department ( HKTD ) allows and licenses the operation of two types of public light buses – ( 1 ) green minibuses that have route numbers, stop at designated stops ( many routes have hail and ride sections along which passengers can board and exit anywhere unless it's a no-stopping zone ) and which have their fares, service and frequency regulated by the HKTD ; and ( 2 ) red minibuses that may or may not have regular routes, may or may not be numbered, may or may not have fixed stops and whose fares and service levels are not regulated by HKTD.

The reason for having three types of taxis is to ensure service availability in less populated regions, as running in the urban centre is considered to be more profitable.

KIS consists of two distinct types of modules which interact with each other ( typically across a network ) to provide the service.

Larger LANs are characterized by their use of redundant links with switches using the spanning tree protocol to prevent loops, their ability to manage differing traffic types via quality of service ( QoS ), and to segregate traffic with VLANs.

Lebanon provides three types of services: dialup services, wireless Internet service and ADSL.

While earlier times had seen larger and taller longships in service, by this time the authorities had also gone over to other types of ships for warfare.

There were also service villages, specializing in production of certain types of items.

Most of these stations broadcast various types of music format, and political discussions, news and phone-in programmes remain mostly the domain of the national broadcaster ( NBC ) which broadcasts nine radio services nationally ( in various Namibian languages, including German-the only full-time German service outside of Europe ), plus the new! Ha service, broadcasting to the San community in Tsumkwe.

A profession has been further defined as: " a special type of occupation ...( possessing ) corporate solidarity ... prolonged specialized training in a body of abstract knowledge, and a collectivity or service orientation ... a vocational sub-culture which comprises implicit codes of behaviour, generates an esprit de corps among members of the same profession, and ensures them certain occupational advantages ...( also ) bureaucratic structures and monopolistic privileges to perform certain types of work ... professional literature, legislation, etc.

A defined quality of service may be desired or required for certain types of network traffic, for example:

These types of service are called inelastic, meaning that they require a certain minimum level of bandwidth and a certain maximum latency to function.

Subpoenas issued to Internet Service Providers were expanded to include not only " the name, address, local and long distance telephone toll billing records, telephone number or other subscriber number or identity, and length of service of a subscriber " but also session times and durations, types of services used, communication device address information ( e. g. IP addresses ), payment method and bank account and credit card numbers.

Besides the ubiquitous helicopter, there are currently two types of VTOL aircraft in military service: craft using a tiltrotor, such as the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, and aircraft using directed jet thrust such as the Harrier family.

Other types of collectible patches include police or service patches, space mission patches, Scout patches, fashion patches, political and sports stickers, walking stick labels, car window pennants, and pin badges.

An interchange circuit can carry many types of signals and provide many types of service features, such as control signals, timing signals, and common return functions.