The majority of aircraft power their avionics using 14-or 28 ‑ volt DC electrical systems ; however, larger, more sophisticated aircraft ( such as airliners or military combat aircraft ) have AC systems operating at 400 Hz, 115 volts AC.

A few years later, in 1981, IBM introduced the first DOS based IBM PC, and due to the overwhelming popularity of PCs and their clones, DOS soon became the operating system on which the majority of BBS programs were run.

McCulloh ’ s innovations, inventions and operating techniques continue to advance safety within the parasailing industry and have set the standards by which the majority of operators follow.

For example, Apple's iPhone 4 contains a quadband chipset operating on 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 MHz, allowing usage in the majority of countries where UMTS-FDD is deployed.

However, professional editors still have to be paid, and PLoS still relies heavily on donations from foundations to cover the majority of its operating costs ; smaller journals do not often have access to such resources.

The majority spread throughout these cities usually operating laundries at this time.

The vast majority of the operating system kernel was rewritten in C leaving a handful of hardware-dependent parts in assembly language.

After abuse by spammers became widespread, operating an open relay came to be frowned upon among the majority of Internet server administrators and other prominent users.

Thus, although juries must render unanimous verdicts, in run-of-the-mill criminal trials they behave in practice as if they were operating using a majority rules voting system.

Other tools like awk can also be considered glue languages, as can any language implemented by an ActiveX WSH engine ( VBScript, JScript and VBA by default in Windows and third-party engines including implementations of Rexx, Perl, Tcl, Python, XSLT, Ruby, Delphi, & c ) A majority of applications can access and use operating system components via the object models or its own functions.

The majority of mining societies operating in Sardinia depended on non-Sardinian capital money.

VGA was the last graphical standard introduced by IBM that the majority of PC clone manufacturers conformed to, making it today () the lowest common denominator that almost all post-1990 PC graphics hardware can be expected to implement down to the lowest level of hardware registers, obviating the need for any device-specific firmware or driver software ( while all VGA compatible hardware has on-board firmware as well, the only standardized API of that firmware was created for 16-bit real mode and can't easily be used by newer 32-or 64-bit operating systems ).

Initially operating from one branch, the service is now provided by the majority of branches and co-ordinated from the organisation's head office.

Quixtar replaced the North American business of Amway in 2001 after the majority of the distributors moved to Quixtar, with Amway operating in the rest of the world.

For instance on the OpenStep system, applications were often only a few hundred kilobytes in size and loaded quickly ; the majority of their code was located in libraries that had already been loaded for other purposes by the operating system.

The majority of revenue originates from operating grants, valued at $ 369. 801 million for the 2011-2012 academic year.

However, RAIM is predicated on the assumption that a majority of the GPS constellation is operating properly, and so it is much less useful when the entire constellation is perturbed by global influences such as geomagnetic storms.

In the late 1990s though, the vast majority of mobile phones had only basic phone features so many people also carried a separate dedicated PDA device, running early versions of operating systems such as Palm OS, BlackBerry OS or Windows CE / Pocket PC.

Although Arcelor Mittal owns a majority stake in Hibbing Taconite, the operating agent is actually a minority owner, Cliffs Natural Resources.

The operating voltage of the majority of SIM cards launched before 1998 was.

Each of the companies operating under the Virgin brand is a separate entity, with Branson completely owning some and holding minority or majority stakes in others.

The vast majority of modern operating systems have inherited streams from Unix, and many languages in the C programming language family have inherited C's file I / O interface with few if any changes ( for example, PHP ).

In early 2003 Federated closed the majority of its historic Davison's franchise in Atlanta ( operating as Macy's since 1985 ), rebranding its other Atlanta division Rich's with the unwieldy name, Rich's – Macy's.

The majority of them originated on Unix systems, but several later ports to other operating systems exist.

The town remained fairly placid through the succeeding decades, with The Boeing Company providing the majority of employment in the area.

The airline operated 118 aircraft of 15 models, the majority of aircraft which have been variations of the Boeing 737.

Cargo traffic has also become another stronghold of Prestwick with the vast majority of Scotland's Boeing 747 Freighter traffic entering via the airport.

That year, a consortium led by Eagle Global Logistics purchased a majority stake in the company, primarily from retiring shareholders and embarked on converting the company's Boeing 727s to cargo aircraft to operate its cargo hub in Austin, Texas under the Quest International name.

* For the F-X2 program, the Brazilian government have chosen the French Rafale over the Boeing F / A-18E / F Super Hornet due to concerns over technology transfer barriers and ITAR regulations, regardless that the Brazilian air force and the majority of their pilots preferred the Super Hornet over other bidders.

The majority of development comes from academia, but several companies have built CubeSats, including large-satellite-maker Boeing.

The majority of loan guarantees over 2007 and 2008 went to companies purchasing Boeing aircraft.

France pushed its Exocet missile while the majority of the nations preferred the Boeing AGM-84 Harpoon.

Headquartered in St Louis, Phantom Works has projects throughout the majority of Boeing locations in the United States.

Use nuclear propulsions to keep our long-range military aircraft in the air for the majority of their useful life.

The vast majority of aircraft today are general aviation types.

The majority of IFR navigation is given by ground-and satellite-based systems, while radar vectors are usually reserved by ATC for sequencing aircraft for a busy approach or transitioning aircraft from takeoff to cruise, amongst other things.

Studies have established that the majority of UFO observations are misidentified conventional objects or natural phenomena — most commonly aircraft, balloons, noctilucent clouds, nacreous clouds, or astronomical objects such as meteors or bright planets with a small percentage even being hoaxes.

Today, the majority of the use of all types of glider aircraft is recreational.

The majority of aircraft contain some form of this device that warns the pilot of an impending stall.

While the majority of fixed-wing aircraft design and construction lie in the British Aircraft Corporation and the Hawker Siddeley Group the helicopter divisions of Bristol, Fairey and Saunders-Roe ( with their hovercraft ) were merged with Westland to form Westland Helicopters in 1961.

While military aircraft made up the majority of Embraer's products during the 1970s, by 1985 a regional airliner had debuted, the Brasilia.

In the mid-1990s the company pursued a product line more focused on small commercial planes than the military aircraft that had prior made up the majority of its manufacturing.

The majority of four stroke engines have poppet valves, although some aircraft engines have sleeve valves.

After the Italian armistice the Luftwaffe took over the majority of Regia Aeronautica aircraft.

Naval aircraft, which had shorter ranges ( and carried lighter bomb loads ) than their Air Force counterparts, approached their targets from seaward with the majority of their strikes flown against coastal targets.

The majority of this training is done in a live position controlling real aircraft and is termed On the Job Training ( OJT ), with a fully qualified and trained mentor or On the Job Training Instructor ( OJTI ) also ' plugged in ' to the sector to give guidance and ready to take over in a second should it become necessary.

The Royal Air Force's Strike Command was the military formation which controlled the majority of the United Kingdom's bomber and fighter aircraft from 1968 until 2007: it was merged with Personnel and Training Command to form the single Air Command.

The vast majority of air traffic in and out of the airport is private aircraft.

95, 643 aircraft traffic movements were recorded ; the majority being domestic services.

The U. S. raid, however, contained 550 aircraft, and the majority were able to press the attack.

Despite this, 80 of the returning aircraft were lost, some crashing on flight decks, the majority going into the sea.