The first demonstration of the squadron's abilities took place on 26 September, when Prince George, Duke of Kent witnessed a demonstration of the fledgling airborne establishment's capabilities ; four parachute-drops were conducted, and then two gliders were towed by civilian aircraft.

In the adult state they have tear ducts and movable eyelids and most species have ears that can detect airborne or ground vibrations.

Specially-equipped IFVs have taken on some of the roles of light tanks ; they are used by reconnaissance organizations, and light IFVs are used by airborne units which must be able to fight without the heavy firepower of tanks.

Neither of the Air Force fighter pilots saw anything exit the airliner, either visually or on radar, nor did they see a parachute open ; but at night, with extremely limited visibility and cloud cover obscuring any ground lighting below, an airborne human figure clad entirely in black clothing could easily have gone undetected.

Since the introduction of firearms classifications have changed initially to reflect their formations on the battlefield as line infantry, and later to reflect modes of transport and type of tactics used by specific units as Mechanized infantry or airborne infantry.

Thus lubricant burning takes place in specialized facilities that have incorporated special scrubbers to remove airborne pollutants and have access to landfill sites with permits to handle the toxic ash.

The ultimate effects of the airborne pollution from the burning wells have yet to be determined, but samples of soil and vegetation in Ras al Khafji in northern Saudi Arabia revealed high levels of particles of oily soot incorporated into the desert ecology.

The AGM-114 has been the munition of choice for airborne targeted killings that have included high-profile figures such as Ahmed Yassin ( Hamas leader ) in 2004 by the Israeli Air Force and ; Anwar al-Awlaki ( American-born Islamic cleric and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader ) in Yemen in 2011,

Kites have been developed for commercial applications using kite control systems, including the airborne wind energy systems of high altitude wind power.

* Tactical ground and airborne equipment that ( a ) has size, weight, and complexity characteristics that must be kept to a minimum and ( b ) is used in systems that have components with similar minimum performance characteristics.

The airborne fraction of CO2 from human emissions, the percentage neither sequestered by photosynthetic life on land and sea nor absorbed in the oceans abiotically, has been almost constant over the past century, and that suggests a moderate upper limit on how much a component of the carbon cycle as large as phytoplankton may have declined, if such declined in recent decades.

The airborne fraction of CO2 from human emissions, the percentage neither sequestered by photosynthetic life on land and sea nor absorbed in the oceans abiotically, has been almost constant over the past century, and that suggests a moderate upper limit on how much a component of the carbon cycle as large as phytoplankton may have declined, if such declined in recent decades.

Many airliners have also been modified for government use as VIP transports and for military functions such as airborne tankers ( for example, the Vickers VC10, Lockheed L1011, Boeing 707 ), air ambulance ( USAF / USN McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ), reconnaissance ( Embraer ERJ 145, Saab 340, Boeing 737 ), as well as for troop-carrying roles.

Allied airborne doctrine prohibited big operations in the absence of all light, so the operation would have to be carried out in daylight.

Advances in helicopter technology since World War II have brought increased flexibility to the scope of airborne operations, and air assaults have largely replaced large-scale parachute operations, and ( almost ) completely replaced combat glider operations.

With the advantages of helicopter use, airborne forces have dwindled in numbers in recent years.

When the airborne divisions were conceived early in World War II, the Army's senior commanders decided that the glider regiments would have only two battalions each.

Aerobiologists have traditionally been involved in the measurement and reporting of airborne pollen and fungal spores as a service to allergy sufferers ( Larsson, 1993 ).

In " Genesis ", Barclay's T-cells have a bizarre reaction to a medicine, creating an airborne virus which causes Barclay to de-evolve into a spider-like ancestral form, and its other victims to revert to their various evolutionary forms, after multiple dormant introns in his body are accidentally activated.

Using magnetic instruments adapted from airborne magnetic anomaly detectors developed during World War II to detect submarines, the magnetic variations across the ocean floor have been mapped.

Many of these do not ever land in the water, and some, such as the frigatebirds, have difficulty getting airborne again should they do so.

All members of the United Kingdom armed forces can be considered for special forces selection, but historically the majority of candidates have an airborne forces background.

Fallschirmjäger ( airborne infantry ) platoons ( Fallschirmjägerzug ) have special operations responsibilities, and have command positions one rank higher compared to their corresponding position in a standard infantry platoon.

Direct tracings of the vibrations of sound-producing objects such as tuning forks had been made by English physician Thomas Young in 1807, but the first known device for recording airborne speech, music and other sounds is the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by French typesetter and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.

CFD says that if a phenomenon ( the return of an airborne ball to the Earth ) has been reproducibly measured in the past, one can safely assume its presence in the future without having to refer to additional measurement events for proof of its existence.

After Normandy, the airborne forces had been withdrawn to reform in England, re-forming into the First Allied Airborne Army of two British and three U. S. airborne divisions and a Polish brigade.

In the following months, plans for eighteen airborne operations had been drafted but then cancelled at short notice, mostly when the rapidly moving Allied ground forces overran the intended drop zones.

The First Allied Airborne Army had been created on 16 August as the result of British requests for a coordinated headquarters for airborne operations, a concept approved by General Eisenhower on 20 June.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, there has been a reduction in airborne divisions.

Churchill had been an enthusiast of the concept of airborne warfare since World War I, when he had proposed the creation of a force that might assault the German flanks deep behind the trenches of the static Western front.

The reserve regiment, the 915th of the 352nd division, which had earlier been ordered against the American airborne landings to the west of Omaha, was diverted to the Gold Beach zone east of Omaha, the defenses there having crumbled.

The aircraft, that had been on a cargo flight from Blackbushe Airport to Belgrade, could be kept airborne, and a forced landing at Graz Airport was carried out, in which it ran off the runway.

This warhead contains an airborne virus that spreads rapidly and consumes upon living things, quickly eradicating all life in the target radius ; once all life has been eradicated the virus will begin to consume itself, thus ending the virus.

He quotes Dempsey that with the British withdrawal the chance of mounting a " snap airborne operation " to seize Caen or to deepen the Allied bridgehead had been lost.

As it has been many decades since two industrialized great powers engaged in direct warfare, the concept of the " airborne gun " allowing a paratrooper unit to maintain an airhead against an armored force is in that sense non-functional, but currently, all three of the U. S. Army's howitzers ( for example ), are air-mobile.

The overland supply route to the base had been cut off, and airborne resupply by cargo aircraft became extremely dangerous due to heavy North Vietnamese antiaircraft fire.

It had been the first to be established for the purpose of undertaking division-level airborne operations, rather than contributing to a range of smaller operations, and there was considerable debate over what the unit should do in practice.

The British airborne troops would also face a large number of static defensive positions and obstacles which had been erected under the orders of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

The airborne troops emerged from the gliders and formed up, the noise of the gliders landing having been ignored by the sentry on patrol, who believed the sound to be that of a bomber crashing.

After a brief fire-fight with an NCO who appeared on the scene and who retreated unhurt after expending all his ammunition, the airborne troops were able to secure the bridge, which they discovered was not rigged with explosives as had been believed.

The sluagh sídhe — " the fairy host " — is sometimes depicted in Irish and Scottish lore as a crowd of airborne spirits, perhaps the cursed, evil or restless dead.