Highly engaged in community work, Thompson's involvement includes being a member of the board of trustees, Wake Forest University ; board member, Teach For America, North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte Latin School, YMCA Metropolitan board, United Way of Central Carolinas, Inc. ( 2003 Board Chairman ), Charlotte Institute for Technology Innovation ( Charlotte Institute ) and co-chair, Advantage Carolina.

| powers = Highly skilled pilot, swordsman, and marksman

Image: Mosaic ceiling. jpg | Highly decorated Moorish-style ceiling in Agadir, Morocco

Above: Highly suppressed tau ( particle ) | tau particle decay | decay via flavor-changing neutral current at one-loop order in the Standard Model.

Vision: To be the Bastion of Enforcement in the Singapore Armed Forces, a United yet Diverse Team of Elite Protectors, Enforcers and Reformers of Law and Order, Highly Regarded as Exemplary Guardians of Military Law and Premier Leaders in Ceremonial Drills.

Highly acclaimed, it is the first in Attenborough's ' Life ' series of programmes and was followed by The Living Planet ( 1984 ).

Keeping continued to produce colour picture books from time to time, including Railway Passage, which was Highly Commended for the 1974 Greenaway Medal ; Sammy Streetsinger ( 1984 ), about a subway busker's rise to fame as a pop star and subsequent return to happy obscurity ; and his final book, Adam and Paradise Island, another story of the changing landscape of London, which was published posthumously in 1989.

In later years the actual production of aircraft was the responsibility of the Ministry of Aircraft Production ( 1940 – 46 ), the Ministry of Supply ( 1946 – 59 ), the Ministry of Aviation ( 1959 – 67 ) and finally the Ministry of Technology ( 1967 – 70 ).

*" Aircraft Gas Turbine Technology " by Irwin E. Treager, Professor Emeritus Purdue University, McGraw-Hill, Glencoe Division, 1979, ISBN 0-07-065158-2.

The city is home to the headquarters of eyewear manufacturer Oakley, Inc .; metals company Kaiser Aluminum, in-flight entertainment provider Panasonic Avionics ; Karem Aircraft an aircraft company developing UAV's with major aircraft companies ; telecommunications software developer Greenlight Wireless Corp .; barbecue retailer Barbeques Galore ; restaurant chains Johnny Rockets and Del Taco ; medical equipment maker Apria Healthcare ; and skateboarding companies Sole Technology, Inc., Etnies, and Tilly's ; among others.

According to AMTSociety's Aircraft Maintenance Technology Embry-Riddle has one of the largest and most well-regarded Aerospace Engineering programs in the USA.

* 2010 The Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. Sikorsky X2 Technology ™ Demonstrator Team

Prior to entering active duty in the United States Air Force, Meade was a Hughes Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and an electronics design engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City, California.

The Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Technology and Engineering ( CFSATE ) is a Canadian Forces training establishment for Aerospace Engineering Officers, Aircraft Technicians and Image Technicians who serve with units of the Royal Canadian Air Force.

# December 1977-February 1978, student, Aircraft Maintenance Technology Course, Sheppard AFB, Texas

* Treager, Irwin E. ' Aircraft Gas Turbine Engine Technology ' 3rd edn, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1995, ISBN 978-0-02-8018287

Schematic of WTC 1 with impact damage, adapted by me from National Institute of Standards and Technology report " Baseline Structural Performance and Aircraft

The concept of the Small Aircraft Transportation System ( SATS ) was first envisioned in the late 1980s in a workshop by the AIAA, NASA, FAA, and industry titled, " The Role of Technology in Revitalizing the U. S. General Aviation Industry.

Both the organization and the management of Zodiac Aerospace are structured into three businesses: Aerosafety & Technology, Aircraft Systems and Cabin Interiors.

* Research Center for Aircraft Parts Technology ( RCAPT )

Various subjects are taught at HNC / HND level, including Aircraft Engineering, Architectural Technology, Civil Engineering, Marine Engineering, Computer Aided Draughting, Engineering Systems, Fabrication and Welding and Quantity Surveying.

Current degree programs at Bachelors level include BEng ( Hons ) Aircraft Engineering, BSc Architectural Technology, BEng ( Hons ) Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BEng ( Hons ) Energy Engineering, BEng Mechanical Engineering, BEng ( Hons ) Mechanical and Energy Engineering and BSc Quantity Surveying.

His son Fred W. Piasecki is Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer of Piasecki Aircraft.

The Future Aircraft Technology Enhancements ( FATE ) program is a program to develop new technologies.

* Future Aircraft Technology

Space Shuttle Atlantis | Space Shuttle Atlantis on a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

BN-2B Islander Aircraft registration | VP-FBD operated by the Falkland Islands Government Air Service, Stanley, Falkland Islands | Stanley, 1994.

| rockets = 8 × 5 in ( 127 mm ) High Velocity Aircraft Rockets

File: Plane wreckage on Howland Island. jpg | Aircraft wreckage on Howland

| ref = Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft ; Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War

| ref = Standard Aircraft Characteristics

| ref = The Encyclopedia of World Military Aircraft

Junkers ( Aircraft ) | Junkers patent drawing from March 1944.

Mate-Demate Device | STS Program mate / de-mate facility for STS Orbiter and STS Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ( Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1991 )

The Martin Aircraft Company Martin-Marietta X-24 | X-24 was built as part of a 1963 to 1975 experimental US military program.

| ref = Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II

| ref = OKB MiG Aircraft and History

Stunt flyer flying low in a Curtiss Aircraft | Curtiss Pusher plane, California, circa 1927

In 1952, the United States Air Force opened a radar base that was home to the 790th Radar Squadron, an Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, in Sublette, Missouri | Sublette, about north of Kirksville.

| ref = Vickers Aircraft since 1908

Airspeed Horsa | Horsa and General Aircraft Hamilcar | Hamilcar gliders of the 1st Airlanding Brigade ( United Kingdom ) | 1st Airlanding Brigade litter landing zone ' Z ' west of Wolfheze, 17 September.

Aircraft principal axes | Pitch

| ref = Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1980 – 81, Air Force Tac Recce Aircraft: NATO and Non-aligned Western European Air Force Tactical Reconnaissance Aircraft of the Cold War