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.

With the information contained in Chanute's book, the personal assistance of Chanute himself, and research carried out in their own wind tunnel, the Wright brothers gained enough knowledge of aerodynamics to fly the first powered aircraft on December 17, 1903.

And in 1956, there were carried by the F3H-2M Demon and F7U Cutlass fighter aircraft.

The complement of aircraft carried by the Minas Gerais included at one point six Grumman S-2E antisubmarine planes, in addition to several SH-3D Sea King helicopters and Aérospatiale Super Puma and HB-350 Esquilo helicopters.

The upgrade is being carried out by Embraer and Elbit ; it includes a new avionics suite, a full glass cockpit with three MFDs, HOTAS configuration and a new multimode radar, the Italian Grifo F. The first F-5EM was handed over on September 21, 2005, and it is scheduled at a rate of two aircraft being delivered each month from that date onwards.

Aircraft design began specializing, primarily into two types: bombers, which carried explosive payloads to bomb land targets or ships ; and fighter-interceptors, which were used to either intercept incoming aircraft or to escort and protect bombers ( engagements between fighter aircraft were known as dog fights ).

This was carried out in worsening weather, and by the time the refuelling was complete and the call was made for the passengers to re-board the aircraft, the wintry showers had taken hold and snow had settled heavily on the runway and around the airport.

It is also used by France, where it is known as SCALP EG, and carried by the Armée de l ' Air's Mirage 2000 and Rafale aircraft.

It was to be a massive and impregnable 600-metre aircraft carrier made from reinforced ice (" Pykrete "): Habakkuk was never carried out due to its enormous cost.

Their Me-262's jets often carried R4M rockets, and other types of " bomber destroyer " aircraft had unguided rockets as well.

The U. S. Army established the basic configuration of the tracked APC with the M75 and M59 before adopting the lighter M113 which could be carried by Lockheed C-130 Hercules and other transport aircraft.

The first of these was the BMD-1, which had the same firepower as the BMP-1, but which could be carried in or even parachuted from the standard Soviet transport aircraft.

* 1944 – World War II: Bombing of Tokyo – The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.

As envisioned, the airborne command post would be carried on a long range / long endurance aircraft, manned by a battle staff headed by a SAC general officer of at least brigadier general rank.

Although technically VTOL aircraft, they are operationally STOVL aircraft due to the extra weight carried at take off for fuel and armaments.

While the V bombers no longer held precedence in Britain's nuclear strategic planning, superseded by aircraft such as the SEPECAT Jaguar and Panavia Tornado, which carried smaller tactical nuclear weapons, the Avro Vulcan would be perhaps best remembered for its conventional long range bombing raids during the 1982 Falklands War.

Tests carried out on the vertical stabilizers from the accident aircraft, and from another similar aircraft, found that the strength of the composite material had not been compromised, and the NTSB concluded that the material had failed because it had been stressed beyond its design limit, despite ten previous recorded incidents where A300 tail fins had been stressed beyond their design limitation in which none resulted in the separation of the vertical stabilizer in-flight.

Initial developments were carried out in the 1960s within the aircraft and automotive industries in the area of 3D surface construction and NC programming, most of it independent of one another and often not publicly published until much later.

Tanks now faced a serious vulnerability from a weapon that could be carried by an infantryman or aircraft.

However, apart from sea transport, mosquitoes have been effectively carried by personal vehicles, delivery trucks, trains and aircraft.

In the control-canard, most of the weight of the aircraft is carried by the main wing and the canard wing is used primarily for longitudinal control during maneuvering.

Later diversification carried the organization into such sectors as paper, steel, glass, electrical equipment, aircraft, oil, and real estate.

By early 1941, portable centimetric airborne radars were being tested in American and British aircraft.

A fleet of these aircraft would also enable SAC to keep one such aircraft continuously airborne, 24 hours a day every day of the year.

As a result, one of SAC's EC-135 Looking Glass aircraft was constantly airborne from 1961 until the dissoultion of the Soviet Union and the de facto end of the Cold War in 1990.

* Bird strike, collision between an airborne animal and a man-made vehicle, especially aircraft

* For history of airborne wind energy aircraft, see High altitude wind power

A C-7 Caribou aircraft as used by the 1st Cavalry Division for airborne radio relay.

The second problem was that of radio frequency interference: the limited frequency spectrum in use for combat radios meant that relay aircraft often interfered with the communication of ground units when their frequencies were overridden by the airborne units.

Light aircraft such as the Piper L-4 Cub served as artillery spotters and provided airborne reconnaissance.

* E-1 Tracer, an American airborne early warning aircraft

* Beriev A-60, a modified Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft, converted into an airborne laser laboratory in 1981.

Kuiper also pioneered airborne infrared observing using a Convair 990 aircraft in the 1960s.

* Aircraft carrier-ships that serve as mobile seaborne airfields, designed primarily for the purpose of conducting combat operations by aircraft which engage in attacks against airborne, surface, sub-surface and shore targets.

It took the continued reintervention of Churchill to ensure that sufficient aircraft were devoted to the airborne project to make it viable.

During large airborne operations, heavy equipment is dropped just prior to personnel and it is possible to combine loads on the same aircraft.

* In aviation an aircraft becomes airborne when it takes off.

On any given night, Dutch might find his aircraft on airborne alert far from the continental United States, in secret, only telling his wife when he returns days later.

One of the wing's tenant units, the 55th Electronic Combat Group, is tasked to provide command, control, and communications countermeasures in support of tactical forces with its EC-130H aircraft and, employing the EC-130E aircraft, provide airborne command, control, and communications capabilities for managing tactical air operations in war and other contingencies worldwide.

Headquartered in Utica, New York, the division included more than 8, 500 employees in five locations in the northeastern U. S. Its products included aircraft flight and weapon control systems, cockpit instruments, aircraft electrical generating systems, airborne radars and data processing systems, electronic countermeasures, space command systems, and aircraft / surface multi-barrel armament systems.

Meanwhile, Rafe and Danny are the only two who manage to get airborne and shoot down seven Japanese aircraft with P-40s using their reckless tactics, including an old game of theirs called chicken.