He has been in prison since May, 1958, when his aircraft was shot down over Moluccas.

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.

This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.

The `` Barre Aviation Field '' was set to receive its first aircraft the Sunday following the flood.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

The aircraft involved, a Boeing 757-223, was flying American Airlines ' daily scheduled morning transcontinental service from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.

During World War II, Abadan was a major logistics center for Lend-Lease aircraft being sent to the Soviet Union by the United States.

After World War II, especially in North America, there was a boom in general aviation, both private and commercial, as thousands of pilots were released from military service and many inexpensive war-surplus transport and training aircraft became available.

As a response armour plating was added to aircraft to protect aircrew and vulnerable areas such as fuel tanks and engine.

Although the role of the ground attack aircraft significantly diminished after the Korean War, it re-emerged during the Vietnam War, and in the recognition of this, the US Air Force authorised the design and production of what was later to become the A-10 dedicated anti-armour and ground-attack aircraft of the Cold War.

Edgar Cayce first mentioned Atlantis in 1923 and later suggested that it was originally a continent-sized region extending from the Azores to the Bahamas, holding an ancient, highly evolved civilization which had ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious form of energy crystal.

The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.

Spraying was usually done either from helicopters or from low-flying C-123 Provider aircraft, fitted with sprayers and " MC-1 Hourglass " pump systems and chemical tanks.

An elevated power cable from the mainland to Arapawa Island over Tory Channel was struck by an Air Albatross Cessna 402 commuter aircraft in 1985.

The aircraft was destroyed less than a second later with no loss of life.

But at the speed of sound this can no longer happen, and the air which was previously following the streamline around the aircraft now hits it directly.

The sound barrier was broken using the Bell X-1 aircraft twelve years later, thanks in part to those individuals.

Computational fluid dynamics was started as an effort to solve for flow properties around complex objects and has rapidly grown to the point where entire aircraft can be designed using a computer, with wind-tunnel tests followed by flight tests to confirm the computer predictions.

The P < small >< sub > k </ sub ></ small > ( kill probability ) of the AIM-7E was less than 10 %; US fighter pilots shot down 55 aircraft using the Sparrow.

Its worst tendency was that of detonating prematurely, approximately a thousand feet in front of the launching aircraft, but it also had many motor failures, erratic flights, and fuzing problems.

The third combat use of the AMRAAM was in 1994, when a Republika Srpska Air Force J-21 Jastreb aircraft was shot down by a USAF F-16C that was patrolling the UN-imposed no-fly-zone over Bosnia.

* B-52 ( cocktail ), a cocktail shooter named after the aircraft

* B-52 ( hairstyle ), a hairstyle also known as the beehive, named after the aircraft

* The B-52s, a rock band, named after the hairstyle named after the aircraft

Two aircraft carriers, and were simultaneously in commission and in operation during World War II, and Franklin therefore had the distinction of having two simultaneously operational US Navy warships named in his honor.

Aer Lingus, Ireland's national flag carrier has named one of its Airbus A330 aircraft in commemoration of the saint ( reg: EI-DUO ).

Coincidentally, Douglas A. Lawson, who discovered Q. northropi in Texas in 1971, named it for John " Jack " Northrop, a famous developer of tailless flying wing aircraft in the 1940s.

The beer is named after the legendary Supermarine Spitfire aircraft designed by R. J. Mitchell.

The United States Navy named two ships for Roosevelt: the, a submarine that was in commission from 1961 to 1982 ; and the, an aircraft carrier that has been on active duty in the Atlantic Fleet since 1986.

They spot an aircraft, and Mazzola-against Tyler's orders-tries to convince Rabbit to fire on the plane with the deck gun, which appears to be coming in for an attack, but is only scouting for a German destroyer named the Anschluss.

The first bus, named B1, was launched in 1934, and aircraft engines were added to the growing range of products at the beginning of the 1940s.

Other vehicles named after Vega include the ESA's Vega launch system and the Lockheed Vega aircraft.

Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker.

The final Parnall aircraft was an open two-seater trainer derivative of the Heck to Air Ministry Specification T. 1 / 37 named the Parnall 382, later the Heck III.

Since the bulk of both troops and aircraft were American, Brereton, a U. S. Army Air Forces officer, was named by Eisenhower on 16 July and appointed by SHAEF on 2 August.

The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk ( CV-63 ), the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber AV-19 with an aircraft number of 93-1086, the aircraft transport ship USS Kitty Hawk ( AKV-1 ), and the Apollo 14 command module have been named for the town.

He worked with Polikarpov before being named head of a new aircraft design bureau in Moscow in December 1939.

On May 28, 1987, a West German pilot named Mathias Rust landed a light aircraft on St Basil's descent next to Red Square, causing a major scandal in the Soviet Air Defence Forces.

Before this date soviet aircraft were named according to their function: TB-1 for " Tyazholy Bombardirovschik " (" тяжелый бомбардировщик ", " heavy bomber "), the first.

* Land-based maritime patrol aircraft were named for naval explorers-Avro Anson ( George Anson, 1st Baron Anson ), Lockheed Hudson ( Henry Hudson ), Avro Shackleton ( Ernest Shackleton ), Bristol Beaufort ( Francis Beaufort ).

Sometimes a named RAF version of an aircraft would be cancelled with the naval version entering service without a corresponding land-based name, e. g. Hawker Sea Fury, de Havilland Sea Vixen.

The base was named in honor of Lieutenants Samuel H. Davis and Oscar Monthan, two Tucsonans and World War I – era pilots who died in separate military aircraft accidents.

* Queen Mary trailer, a type of semi-trailer designed for the carriage and recovery of aircraft, named after the RMS Queen Mary