Military experts say a tight naval blockade off Cuban ports and at the approaches to Cuban waters would require two naval task forces, each built around an aircraft carrier with a complement of about 100 planes and several destroyers.

This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.

We have the technology today with which to build aircraft shelters which could withstand at least 200 Aj.

This same preoccupation with missiles at the expense of aircraft has resulted in our half-hearted effort to develop nuclear propulsion for aircraft.

He'd landed the plane on a small airstrip in Connecticut and as soon as the aircraft had coasted to a stop, everyone had burst into chatter at the same moment.

Cutting short a holiday at Hong Kong, the aircraft carriers Lexington and Bennington steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines.

* 1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.

Helicopter pads are available at 27 stations ; runways at 15 locations are gravel, sea-ice, blue-ice, or compacted snow suitable for landing wheeled, fixed-wing aircraft ; of these, 1 is greater than 3 km in length, 6 are between 2 km and 3 km in length, 3 are between 1 km and 2 km in length, 3 are less than 1 km in length, and 2 are of unknown length ; snow surface skiways, limited to use by ski-equipped, fixed-wing aircraft, are available at another 15 locations ; of these, 4 are greater than 3 km in length, 3 are between 2 km and 3 km in length, 2 are between 1 km and 2 km in length, 2 are less than 1 km in length, and data is unavailable for the remaining 4.

* 1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at, setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.

* 1937 – The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London – it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.

* 1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding.

The aircraft crashed into the western side of the Pentagon at 09: 37 EDT.

The majority of aircraft power their avionics using 14-or 28 ‑ volt DC electrical systems ; however, larger, more sophisticated aircraft ( such as airliners or military combat aircraft ) have AC systems operating at 400 Hz, 115 volts AC.

Nowadays most commercial planes are equipped with aircraft flight control systems in order to reduce pilot error and workload at landing or takeoff.

Weather systems such as weather radar ( typically Arinc 708 on commercial aircraft ) and lightning detectors are important for aircraft flying at night or in instrument meteorological conditions, where it is not possible for pilots to see the weather ahead.

The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

An aircraft with a load of small nuclear weapons could very conceivably be given a mission to suppress all trains operating within a specified geographic area of Russia -- provided that we had used some of our ICBMs to degrade Russia's air defenses before our bombers got there.

Using very high thrust-to-weight ratio engines, develop a vertical-takeoff-and-landing ( VTOL ) long-range military aircraft.

In situations in which an aircraft becomes a threat while taking off – which gives very little reaction time – a decision on shooting it down may be taken by an Indian Air Force officer not below the rank of Assistant Chief of Air Staff ( Operations ).

Specialist aerobatic aircraft have powerful piston engines, light weight and big control surfaces, making them capable of very high roll rates and accelerations.

A skilled pilot will be able to climb vertically, perform very tight turns, tumble his aircraft end-over-end and perform manoeuvres during loops.

These effects, often several of them at a time, made it very difficult for World War II era aircraft to reach speeds much beyond 800 km / h ( 500 mph ).

For example, while the behavior of hypersonic flow is understood, building a scramjet aircraft to fly at hypersonic speeds has seen very limited success.

Many attack aircraft, even ones that look like fighters, are optimized to drop bombs, with very little ability to engage in aerial combat.

It happened because the German aircraft industry lacked the experience to build a long-range bomber fleet quickly, and because Hitler was insistent on the very rapid creation of a numerically large force.

The Solos showcase the high performance capabilities of their individual aircraft through the execution of high-speed passes, slow passes, fast rolls, slow rolls, and very tight turns.

These vary from extremely general ones ( PID controller ), to others devoted to very particular classes of systems ( especially robotics or aircraft cruise control ).

Fishing vessels were major post-war users, but it was also used on aircraft, including a very early ( 1949 ) application of moving-map displays.

Some aircraft, the Panavia Tornado for example, retain a very basic hydro-mechanical backup system for limited flight control capability on losing electrical power, in the case of the Tornado this allows rudimentary control of the stabilators only for pitch and roll axis movements.

Homebuilt aircraft, light-sport aircraft and very light jets have emerged in recent years as new trends in general aviation.

" The chances of an aircraft having a bomb on it are very small ," he reasons, " and certainly the chances of having two are almost none!

The boundary layer is a very thin sheet of air lying over the surface of the wing ( and all other surfaces of the aircraft ).

The aircraft produced by Maule Air are tube-and-fabric designs and are popular with bush pilots, thanks to their very low stall speed, their tundra tires and very forgiving oleo strut landing gear.

The AAF was very significant before and during the 1980s but by the time of the U. S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the number of aircraft available was minimal.

It flies transport, trainer, helicopter, and fighter aircraft, of which the IISS says there is ' very limited operational capability.

For example, the instructions involved in updating financial records are very different from those required to duplicate conditions on an aircraft for pilots training in a flight simulator.

One very important use was for bus bars for new aluminum plants needed to make aircraft.

* Slovenia contributed to IFOR ( logistical support ) and is very engaged in the SFOR effort, providing VIP support helicopter and light transport aircraft missions and use of an airbase in southern Slovenia ;

This is the ability of some aircraft to take off from a short runway or take off vertically if it does not have a very heavy payload and land vertically ( i. e. with no runway ).

Because they often exhibit a combination of high strength and low weight, these alloys became widely used in many forms of industry, including the construction of modern aircraft.

Pilots can navigate much more accurately and view terrain, obstructions, and other nearby aircraft on a map or through synthetic vision, even at night or in low visibility.

The turrets carried four. 50 inch ( 12. 7 mm ) machine guns, which were designed to be adjusted to converge at the single point where enemy aircraft were expected to appear at low altitude in conduction of strafing runs directed at large infantry and field artillery units.

At low speeds, the compressibility of air is not significant in relation to aircraft design, but as the airflow nears and exceeds the speed of sound, a host of new aerodynamic effects become important in the design of aircraft.

In structural applications, high flexural rigidity, thermal stability, thermal conductivity and low density ( 1. 85 times that of water ) make beryllium a quality aerospace material for high-speed aircraft, missiles, space vehicles and communication satellites.

When surface to air missiles became capable of hitting high flying aircraft bombers, bombers used flight at low altitude to evade radar detection.

Historically, materials used in bicycles have followed a similar pattern as in aircraft, the goal being high strength and low weight.

The Decca Navigator System was a low frequency radio navigation system which allowed ships and aircraft to determine their position by receiving radio signals from fixed navigational beacons with a receiving unit.

High performance aircraft that have FBW controls ( also called CCVs or Control-Configured Vehicles ) may be deliberately designed to have low or even negative stability in some flight regimes, the rapid-reacting CCV controls compensating for the lack of natural stability.

In the 1980s Guyana Airways Corporation's domestic operations started to deteriorate for a number of reasons, not least among them the unrealistically low fares it was required to charge and the lack of access to foreign exchange for imported aircraft parts and other requirements.

LORAN ( LOng RAnge Navigation ) is a terrestrial radio navigation system which enables ships and aircraft to determine their position and speed from low frequency radio signals transmitted by fixed land based radio beacons, using a receiver unit.

Conversely, so-called " nodder " height finding radars use a dish with a narrow vertical beamwidth and wide azimuthal beamwidth to detect an aircraft at a specific height but with low azimuthal precision.

* The cylinders had good cooling airflow over them, even when the aircraft in which they were mounted were at rest, which was important, as the low airspeed attainable by aircraft of the time provided limited cooling airflow, and alloys of the day were less advanced than they are now.

After reports from the Red Flag exercises in Nevada in the late 1970s that the light grey under surfaces became highly visible against the ground when the aircraft banked steeply at the low altitudes it was assigned to, the disruptive pattern was later continued to include the under surfaces as well on all Vulcans.

Carriers were also more economical than battleships due to the relatively low cost of aircraft and their not requiring to be as heavily armoured.

In 1960 NSU ( the firm the inventor worked for ) and the US firm Curtiss-Wright signed an agreement where NSU would concentrate on the development of low and medium powered Wankel engines and Curtiss-Wright would develop high powered Wankel Engines, including aircraft engines of which Curtiss-Wright had decades of experience designing and producing.

Since Wankel engines operate at a relatively high rotational speed with relatively low torque, propeller aircraft must use a Propeller Speed Reduction Unit ( PSRU ) to keep their propellers within the proper speed range.

Pure delta-wings fell out of favour somewhat due to poor gust response characteristics at low altitudes ( they get bounced around a lot and so must fly slower and higher ) and advances in high lift devices, however many of the advantages have been retained by use of leading edge root extensions, which act in the same manner and many modern fighter aircraft, such as the JAS 39 Gripen and the Eurofighter Typhoon use a delta wing, often in conjunction with a canard.

Radar altimeters are also a component of terrain avoidance warning systems, warning the pilot if the aircraft is flying too low, or if there is rising terrain ahead.

Radar altimeter technology is also used in terrain-following radar allowing fighter aircraft to fly at very low altitude.

Condensation forming over the wing of an aircraft in a low pressure zone

In the 1920s and 1930s, Bellanca's aircraft of his own design were known for their efficient, low operating cost gaining fame for world record endurance and distance flights.