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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.

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One torpedo had hit the forward aviation fuel tanks near the main hangar, and aircraft that had just landed and were being refueled exploded into flames.
Lahore airport officials refueled the aircraft and allowed it to leave Lahore at 22: 32 IST.
Next morning, after both aircraft are refueled, the survivors endure flying through an overcast layer of radioactive ash and byproducts on their way to Antarctica.
* A U. S. Navy Convair R3Y-2 Tradewind flying boat sets a world record for the number of aircraft refueled in flight simultaneously, refueling four U. S. Navy Grumman F9F-8 Cougar fighters at the same time.
USAAF aircraft en-route to North Africa refueled at Shannon Airport, flying boats at nearby Foynes.
The B-45 was the United States Air Force's first operational jet bomber, and the first jet aircraft to be refueled in the air.
The wing also sent a detachment of RB-29 refueling aircraft, and conducted the first aerial refueling under combat conditions when a KB-29P refueled an RC-45C over North Korea in July 1951
The 17th Pursuit Squadron, based at Nichols Field, also landed at Clark and had its aircraft refueled while its pilots ate lunch, then put its pilots on alert shortly after 11: 00.
A British Airways aircraft being refueled
Without adequate supplies of refined residual fuel oil for the Battle of the Philippine Sea, Japanese aircraft carriers refueled with unrefined Tarakan crude oil in June 1944.
The F-84s were refueled enroute by KB-29 Superfortress tankers near Taegu, South Korea upon their return from the target, which gave any aircraft unable to be aerial refueled an alternate landing spot.
The aircraft refueled at Anchorage ( Merrill Field ) and took off at 8: 12 p. m. to continue on to its destination, New York City ( LaGuardia Airport ).

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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.
Shipbuilding, aircraft procurement, and weapon programs indicate that there will not be enough of anything.
While the civil market has had weather radar for a while, there are strict rules about using it to navigate the aircraft.
And in 1956, there were carried by the F3H-2M Demon and F7U Cutlass fighter aircraft.
The Dassault Falcon private jets are built there as well as the military aircraft Rafale and Mirage 2000, the Airbus A380 cockpit, the boosters of Ariane 5, and the M51 SLBM missile.
The navy operates its own aircraft for transport and patrol ; there are no fighters or bomber aircraft but they have attack helicopters.
Schaffner recalled that Cooper appeared to be familiar with the local terrain ; at one point, he remarked, " Looks like Tacoma down there ," as the aircraft flew above it.
While Howland Island was colonized in 1935 as a future aviation facility and is known in popular culture mostly because of its association with the last flight of Earhart and Noonan, no aircraft is known to have ever landed there, although anchorages nearby could be used by floatplanes and flying boats during World War II.
While there have been and still are many stationary applications, the real strength of internal combustion engines is in mobile applications and they dominate as a power supply for cars, aircraft, and boats.
During flight under IFR, there are no visibility requirements, so flying through clouds ( or other conditions where there is zero visibility outside the aircraft ) is legal and safe.
However, there are still minimum weather conditions that must be present in order for the aircraft to take off and land ; these will vary according to the kind of operation, the type of navigation aids available, the location and height of terrain and obstructions in the vicinity of the airport, equipment on the aircraft, and the qualifications of the crew.
A crude aircraft landing area was cleared on the northeast side of the island, and a T-shaped marker which was intended to be seen from the air was made from gathered stones, but no airplane is known to have ever landed there.
In January 1989, there was another encounter over the Gulf of Sidra between U. S. and Libyan aircraft which resulted in the downing of two Libyan jets.
When an aircraft is at rest, there is no circulation.
As such there was an inflow of Soviet-built aircraft to support the government in the civil war up to 1992.
It flies transport, trainer, helicopter, and fighter aircraft, of which the IISS says there is ' very limited operational capability.
For example, there are now only a small number of manufacturers of civil passenger aircraft, though Brazil ( Embraer ) and Canada ( Bombardier ) have participated in the small passenger aircraft market sector.
Now there are approximately fifteen airlines, over sixty aircraft, six international destinations, and more domestic routes in Somalia.
At one time there was even a group on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, known as the " Shire of Curragh Mor " ( anglicized Irish for " Big Boat "), and the shire's arms played on the Nimitz's ship's badge.

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