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aircraft and foreground
The aircraft in the foreground is a homebuilt aircraft | homebuilt Vans RV-4
Early F-100s were unpainted when they arrived in Southeast Asia like the foreground aircraft, but all eventually received camouflage paint like the aircraft in the back.
The white aircraft in the foreground is a Douglas Skyrocket.
Qantas jet on taxiway with aircraft viewing area and Botany Bay beach in foreground
In this general sense, occultation applies to the visual scene observed from low-flying aircraft ( or computer-generated imagery ) wherein foreground objects obscure distant dynamically, as the scene changes over time.
The aircraft in the foreground is a Canadair Regional Jet operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines.
The aircraft is seen at London Gatwick Airport | London Gatwick sharing the ramp with a British Caledonian BAC One-Eleven ( foreground ) on 12 March 1972.
In the foreground a Vickers Viscount variants # Viscount 800 | Vickers Viscount 802, right background a Vickers Vanguard, left background a Hawker Siddeley Trident # Introduction | Hawker Siddeley Trident 1C ( note the red port and starboard | port wing of the aircraft in the foreground ).
The aircraft in foreground, Serial 54-2222 is Wing Commander's Aircraft.
The NASA 737 research aircraft on the Wallops Flight Facility | Wallops runway in 1987 with the Microwave Landing System equipment in the foreground.
Enthusia also features realistic foreground textures ( Burgenschlucht, Löwenseering courses ), and course animations such as birds taking off, an animated windpower park ( Burgenschlucht ), multiple waterfalls, rivers and fountains ( Mystic Caveway, Edge Of The Road ), car traffic ( Route De La Seine ) or even a full aerobatic demonstration team emitting coloured smoke trails ( Löwenseering ) complete with a realistic aircraft fly-by sound.
: Just before the War II had done my first Post cover, an Alaska inland passage subject with a totem pole in the foreground, U. S. Navy destroyers and aircraft in the background.

aircraft and Vickers
The phrase Vickers Supermarine was applied to the aircraft.
A number of different aircraft platforms were considered including a variant of the Vickers VC10 airliner and two of the current V bombers, the Avro Vulcan and Handley Page Victor.
The Dart-powered Vickers Viscount was the first turboprop aircraft of any kind to go into production and sold in large numbers.
In 1911 the company name was changed to Vickers Ltd and expanded its operations into aircraft manufacture by the formation of Vickers Ltd ( Aviation Department ) and a Vickers School of Flying was opened at Brooklands, Surrey on 20 January 1912.
The Supermarine operation was closed in 1963 and the Vickers name for aircraft was dropped in 1965.
Turbojet engines were trialled on piston engine airframes, such as the Avro Lancastrian and the Vickers VC. 1 Viking, the latter becoming the first jet engine passenger aircraft in April 1948.
It is believed the aircraft had handling problems for it was not delivered to Martlesham Heath until early in 1936, long after the competition had been decided in favour of the Vickers Type 253.
At this time both Challenger and Low left the company to join the newly established aircraft division of the armament firm Vickers.
* Vickers Warwick, World War II RAF patrol aircraft
Originally trained as a structural engineer, he worked as an aircraft designer for Short and Harland, then as science correspondent to The Belfast Telegraph from 1966-1969, and as publicity officer for Vickers Shipbuilding ( 1973-1975 ), before starting to write full-time.
Likewise Transport aircraft also received the names of cities and towns-Avro York, Vickers Valetta, Handley Page Hastings, Blackburn Beverley.
* Where civilian aircraft types have been taken into service, their existing names or alphanumeric designations have often been retained, e. g. the Vickers VC10 or Lockheed TriStar.
* Vickers Vernon, a British military cargo aircraft of the Interwar period
He left Vickers shortly afterwards and in 1931 founded the aircraft construction company Airspeed Ltd.
Orders for other aircraft followed during the First World War, including the Sopwith 1½ Strutter, the de Havilland designed Airco DH. 4, Airco DH. 9 and Airco DH. 9A and the Vickers Vimy.
These services operated between Khartoum and London Gatwick via Cairo, Athens and Rome, initially using Airwork Vickers Viscount aircraft.
These were served with contemporary BAC One-Eleven and Vickers VC10 jet aircraft.
The Airline Division provided aircraft for commuter airlines in the United States including Air New Orleans, Desert Sun in Long Beach, Shasta Air and Sun West Airlines ; as well as internationally for Vickers for corporate transport use in the United Kingdom, Cameroon's Avia Services and to Piper's distributor in Colombia, Aero Leaver.
After a political row in Parliament, the government instructed BOAC to purchase 17 Vickers VC-10 aircraft from a 30-aircraft order which Guthrie had cancelled.
Nearest the camera are two BOAC aircraft – a Vickers VC10 ( with the high tail ) and a Boeing 707.
The first purpose-designed fighter aircraft included the British Vickers F. B. 5-machine gun armament was also fitted to several French types, such as the Morane-Saulnier L and N. Initially the German Air Service lagged behind the Allies in this respect with no purpose built fighting aircraft.
Blériot, Martinsyde, and Vickers also later produced military aeroplanes at Brooklands which became Britain's largest aircraft manufacturing centre by 1918.

aircraft and Vanguard
New aircraft types including the Viking, Valetta, Varsity, Viscount, Vanguard and VC10 were subsequently, designed, manufactured and delivered from there.
There are also many other civil and military aircraft on display including a Vickers Vanguard, Viscount, VC10.
The airline's launch order was for 20 aircraft, including six Vanguard V. 951s and 14 heavier V. 953s.
British Airways Cargo Vickers Vanguard # Cargo operations | Vickers V. 953C Merchantman G-APEK still in basic BEA " Speedjack " aircraft livery | colours following the BEA-BOAC merger.
On 1 April 1966, BEA resumed Southampton – Jersey services following the replacement of Southampton's grass runways with a paved runway suitable for bigger, heavier aircraft types such as the Viscount and Vanguard.
The Dart engine was used in the Argosy, Avro 748 ( and its military variant the Andover ), Friendship, Herald and Viscount aircraft, whilst the more powerful Tyne powered the Atlantic, Transall and the Vanguard.
Its aircraft ( cable-launched Vanguard TX1 gliders ) and equipment were stored into one of the large T4 Hangars where they remained until 1992.
For many years squadron aircraft would routinely deploy to Clark Air Base, in the Philippines to exercise with the United States Air Force as part of Exercise Cope Thunder, and additionally there was for many years a routine deployment to Malaysia named Exercise Vanguard.

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