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.

In May 1941 its aircraft situation was only marginally better than a year before: only 22 P-26 fighters, 12 " utterly obsolete, ancient, vulnerable as pumpkins " B-10s, 56 Seversky P-35As diverted from a sale to Sweden in November 1940, 18 Douglas B-18 Bolos still in crates after disassembly and shipment from the Hawaiian Department in March, nine North American A-27s seized in January from a shipment intended for Siam and distributed to the pursuit squadrons as instrument trainers, several Douglas C-39 transports, and a small number of varied observation planes.

Two US A-10 aircraft repeatedly strafed Serb targets, prompting the Serbs to return the seized weapons to the collection site.

With his determination and grit, Halsey had bolstered his command's resolve and seized the initiative from the Japanese until ships, aircraft and crews being produced and trained in the States could arrive in 1943 and 1944 to tip the scales of the war in favor of the allies.

During World War II, Paderborn was comprehensively bombed by allied aircraft in 1944 and 1945 ( 85 % destruction ) and seized by the US 3rd Armored Division during a pitched battle 31 March-1 April 1945, in which tanks and flamethrowers were used during combined mechanized-infantry assaults against the city's southwestern, southern and southeastern approaches.

The hijackers stormed up the stairways into the plane, fired shots from an automatic weapon, and seized control of the aircraft.

U. S. Air Force and U. S. Navy aircraft begin searching for the American container ship SS Mayaguez, which Cambodian Khmer Rouge forces seized earlier in the day in the Gulf of Thailand.

) Menzies decided that he could not allow her to be removed in this way, and when the aircraft stopped for refuelling at Darwin, she was seized from the MVD men by ASIO officials.

Administrators seized the aircraft subject to a 20 year old debt of the Thai government to a now-defunct German construction corporation that has risen to some 30 million euros.

On 7 March 2004 Simon Mann and 69 others were arrested in Zimbabwe when their Boeing 727 was seized by security forces during a stop-off at Harare airport where the aircraft was due to be loaded with £ 100, 000 worth of weapons and equipment.

In December 1930, along with other Republican aviators, he seized some aircraft at the aerodrome of Cuatro Vientos and flew over Madrid dropping leaflets which falsely stated a republican revolution had broken out all over Spain, calling on citizens and soldiers to aid the movement and stating that troops ' quarters would be bombed shortly if they did not help in the revolution.

They allege that some 5 tons of cocaine was seized as well as twenty-four aircraft.

However, the complement was completed with seized Japanese aircraft, mostly ones dedicated to liaison duties.

Due to streets proximity with the latter, a variety of aircraft could be seen from this street and thus photographers ( and movie makers ) seized the opportunity to capture landing aircraft.

Examples are in public utilities, making military aircraft and accessories, or where the investment and risk for a proprietorship would be too great for a much needed project impossible to achieve by any means other than the corporate form, e.g. constructing major airports or dams.

The decreases, which are largely in construction and in aircraft procurement, are offset in part by increases for research and development and for procurement of other military equipment such as tanks, vehicles, guns, and electronic devices.

The first capability is represented by a combination of manned bombers, carrier-based aircraft, and intercontinental and intermediate range missiles.

Research, development test and evaluation funds, devoted to missiles in 1960 were 3 to 4 times as large as those devoted to aircraft, and actual missile procurement is expected to exceed aircraft procurement by 1963.

Until this hunter-killer operation can be performed by spacecraft, manned aircraft appear to be the only means available to us.

The aircraft could be used to destroy other mobile, fleeting, and imprecisely located targets as well as the known, fixed and hardened targets which can also be destroyed by missile.

but the airfield, on which the aircraft is completely dependent, is doomed by the missile.

If we could use all the small airfields we have in this country, we could disperse our strategic aircraft by a factor of 10 or more.

There is little enthusiasm for spending money to develop more powerful engines because of the erroneous belief that the aircraft has been made obsolete by the missile.

The Pathet Lao, stiffened by Communist Veterans from neighboring North Viet Nam, were supplied by Soviet aircraft.

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.

An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet.

They produced large numbers of posters and prints published by Mabileau et Cie, covering racing events involving motorcars, aircraft, dirigibles and speedboats.

Thirty stations, operated by 16 national governments party to the Antarctic Treaty, have landing facilities for either helicopters and / or fixed-wing aircraft ; commercial enterprises operate two additional air facilities.

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.

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U. S. fighters over Bougainville Island.

The hijackers on American Airlines Flight 77 were led by Hani Hanjour, who piloted the aircraft into the Pentagon.

On ‑ board communications are provided by public address systems and aircraft intercoms.

Aircraft hijacking ( also known as skyjacking and sky controlling ) is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an individual or a group.

Most aircraft hijackers intend to use the passengers as hostages, either for monetary ransom or for some political or administrative concession by authorities.