By the winter of 1941 – 1942 just 39 percent of the fighter force was operational and possessed just 60 more combat aircraft than it did in June 1941 despite its increased commitments.

The Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom possessed some very advanced fighter planes, such as Spitfires and Hurricanes, but these were not useful for attacking ground troops on a battlefield, and the small number of planes dispatched to France with the British Expeditionary Force were destroyed fairly quickly.

The Georgian navy possessed 1 destroyer, 4 fighter aircraft, 4 torpedo boats, and 10 steamboats.

The largest single-engine fighter built for the US Air Force, the production model of F-105B possessed an internal bomb bay and five external weapons pylons.

The discovery of what Sinclair possessed led the Minbari to surrender and return Sinclair to his fighter, the memory of his time aboard the Minbari cruiser blocked ( though this block would not be permanent and would break down years later ).

At that time the squadron possessed 18 F-15C's and two F-15D's fighter aircraft.

One of the FDSL 131 remote gun turrets of a Me 210 being maintained, with cover removed The intended replacement for the German Bf 110 heavy fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 210, possessed twin half-teardrop-shaped, remotely-operated Ferngerichtete Drehringseitenlafette FDSL 131 / 1B turrets, one on each side " flank " of the rear fuselage to defend the rear of the aircraft, controlled from the rear area of the cockpit.

Green, who possessed a pilot's licence, would fly the panel of judges between audition venues all over Britain, in his small Cessna aircraft.

Sam watches in horror as the Old Man's slug begins dividing so he too can be possessed.

The horror of the pre-born — the reason the Bene Gesserit call them " abominations " — is that they are easily possessed by the ego-memories of their ancestors.

A 1996 profile article in Entertainment Weekly, on the occasion of her landing a prestigious television role at the end of this period, noted: " Delaney's résumé is spotted with ridiculous roles that range from a nun in the Chuck Norris action movie, The Delta Force, to a possessed nymphomaniac in the soft-core horror film, Temptress.

In October 2007 he appeared in his first Hollywood film, Dante's Criterion, described as a supernatural horror story of a possessed television, as " Ziggy Fontain " a wheelchair-using TV advertising producer.

The Omega Effect, however, possessed a horror within it that Desaad could not stand, and Darkseid simply siphoned the energy off him.

The alien invasion may be sf but it is presented with the trappings of traditional horror, such as the V-shaped “ mark of the devil ” that all possessed people display ”.

In the 1995 movie The Mangler, based on a fantastical short horror story by author Stephen King, a large industrial mangle ( that is possessed by a demon ) claims many victims ' lives to satisfy its blood lust.

As a director, Francis was more than competent, and his horror films possessed an undeniable visual flair.

The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.

Shaftesbury countered that, contrary to Hobbes, humans in a state of nature were neither good nor bad, but that they possessed a moral sense based on the emotion of sympathy, and that this emotion was the source and foundation of human goodness and benevolence.

While he lacked foresight and was at times cursed by bad judgement, he possessed an uncanny understanding of his most useful subjects, and the vast majority of those who served him remained unwaveringly loyal until his death.

Formerly, people believed the dolls possessed the power to contain bad spirits.

one might be found amongst the many spendthrifts of the present age, instead of ruining themselves by gaming, or laying snares to debauch young Females, by their false promises and many other bad vices ; would be rejoiced at such an opportunity, of reclaiming themselves by withdrawing from the snares laid for them by bad and designing Men and Women, who constantly lay wait to lead astray the young and unwary that are possessed of large property, such might here have the pleasure and satisfaction to make a real Paradise on earth, by illuminating a place that would for ever shine and display their generosity.

He possessed a violent disposition ; " his temper was naturally bad ; it was hasty and it was violent ; forming a natural contrast with the rest of his mind ", but he successfully controlled this.

Mr. Dyslexic, the leading artist of the postwar era, was possessed of an almost staggering lack of drawing talent matched only by his bad taste and ignorance of the English language.

In practice, the terms " good " and " bad " apply to finite sets of properties, since this is the only case where there is a ratio between the total number of desired properties and the number of such properties possessed by some object being valued.

Without Vincent's intercession, the hero will not discover that Malus was indeed Dracula reincarnate-not simply possessed by him-and receive one of the bad endings in which the hero rescues the boy.

Ryotaro Nogami is a young man with incredibly bad luck who in one day is possessed by a mysterious creature known as an Imagin and discovers the Rider Pass, a device that enables him to transform into Kamen Rider Den-O.

Possessable things include farm animals, tools, houses, family members and money, while for instance wild animals, landscape features and weather phenomena cannot be possessed.

This instrument possessed many advantages ; it was more exact, took a correct measurement in every direction, was contained in a small compass, and could be used on either the model or the marble.

Likewise, possession of knives, batons and other any other instrument that may be considered, " Offensive Weapons " if they are possessed by an individual, in a Public Place, " Without lawful excuse ".

One was 32-year-old Martin B. Kazy Jr., who possessed single-engine, multi-engine and instrument flight ratings, as well as a commercial certificate and an instrument flight instructor certificate.

The other, 35-year-old David Boswell, a U. S. Marine Corps sergeant, possessed single-engine and multi-engine ratings and a commercial certificate and was at the time of the accident practicing ILS approaches under the instruction of Kazy in pursuit of his instrument rating.

She possessed absolute pitch, helpful in playing an instrument that generates tones of any pitch throughout its range, not just those defined by equal temperament.

' It has, in the first place, the great advantage of lightness and handiness, while its single blade, to some extent, combines the step-cutting qualities possessed by the two cutters of the ordinary double-headed axe, though the latter instrument is on the whole decidedly superior.

This was made possible by the presence of flight feathers on both the forelimbs and hindlimbs of Microraptor, and it has been suggested the earliest flying ancestors of birds may have possessed this morphology, with the monoplane arrangement of modern birds evolving later.

Because of this, when the Great Race of Yith felt obliged to transfer their minds to the ' beetle folk ' due to their defeat against the flying polyps, the people who originally possessed the bodies of the Coleopterous race would presumably have been destroyed by the victorious polyps.

The early jet airliners possessed much lower levels of noise and vibration than contemporary piston-engined ones, so much so that in 1947, after piloting a jet powered aircraft for the first time, Wing Commander Maurice A. Smith, then-Editor of Flight magazine, stated ; " Piloting a jet aircraft has confirmed one opinion I had formed after flying as a passenger in the Lancastrian jet test beds, that few, if any, having flown in a jet-propelled transport, will wish to revert to the noise, vibration and attendant fatigue of an airscrew-propelled piston-engined aircraft "

The XF10F never entered service ; it possessed extremely poor flying characteristics and rather vicious spin tendencies.

In 2100, it possessed a " Death Belt "-a vast field of floating rocks and debris, inhabited by vicious flying rats.

By 1917 the factory site trebled in size, and possessed its own flying ground at Cofton Hackett, south of the main works, which was operated by the newly formed Austin Aero Company.

By the end of the war, the German Army Air Service possessed a total of 2, 709 frontline aircraft, 56 airships, 186 balloon detachments and about 4, 500 flying personnel.

The Hau Dragon possessed at least one other mecha-their own flying fortress-but it seemed to be rather helpless without the seven robots to defend it.

Rodriguez is a mutant who had no real powers of his own but possessed a symbiotic relationship with his superpowered flying skateboard, which was seemingly alive and had an abusive relationship with him.

Explosive bolts send Anya and Buffy flying while Willow is briefly possessed by the First Evil.