Some of the maneuvers include both solo aircraft performing at once, such as opposing passes ( toward each other in what appears to be a collision course ) and mirror formations ( back-to-back.

These nations ' fighters instead were optimized for speed and firepower to allow pilots to quickly engage, dispatch and disengage with opposing aircraft.

However, with the development of aircraft like the Convair B-36, both sides were gaining a greater ability to deliver nuclear weapons into the interior of the opposing country.

Towards the end of the war, the Dornier Do 335 Pfeil could have been an ideal twin-engined Zerstörer fighter design for the Luftwaffe due to its center-line-thrust format, which placed its fuselage-mounted twin engines ' propellers on opposing ends of the fuselage, and potentially allowed much better maneuverability, and did allow dramatically higher speeds ( just over 750 km / h or 465 mph ), than any other twin-piston-engined aircraft of its era, but like so many other advanced German aircraft designs that were actually produced by Germany late in the war, the Do 335 never had the chance to be produced in quantity.

The military determined ace status by verifying combat claims by a pilot, but confirmation, too, was needed from ground witnesses, affirmations of other pilots, or observation of the wreckage of the opposing enemy aircraft.

During the earliest era of air combat in World War I, a small number of frontline German fighter pilots serving with what would become known as the Luftstreitkräfte wore hard bridge pince-nez frames for their corrective lenses, including the very first pilot to defeat an opposing aircraft ( on July 1, 1915 ) using a synchronized machine-gun armed aircraft, Leutnant Kurt Wintgens.

Secondly, he stressed the importance of morale, not only of his own airmen, but more generally the detrimental effect that the presence of an aircraft had upon the morale of opposing ground troops.

However, by the nature of radar, the aircraft can be detected by opposing forces beyond its own detection range.

* July 6 – A Spanish Republican offensive against Brunete begins, supported by 300 aircraft ; the Republicans will use Polikarpov I-15 fighters at night for the first time during the battle, opposing night-bombing German Heinkel He 111 bombers.

Republican forces opposing them have only 33 fighters – only 18 of them modern Soviet aircraft – and 11 reconnaissance planes.

* August 24 – The Republicans launch an offensive against Nationalist in forces in Aragon, supported by about 200 aircraft ; the opposing Nationalists have only 15 Heinkels.

Those designed to engage opposing aircraft at ranges of less than approximately 20 miles ( 32 km ) are known as short-range or “ within visual range ” missiles ( SRAAMs or WVRAAMs ) and are sometimes called “ dogfight ” missiles because they emphasize agility rather than range.

* 10 June 1972: Solo Captain Lloyd Waterer died after a wingtip collision with the other solo aircraft while performing an opposing solo manoeuvre at the Trenton Air Show at CFB Trenton, Ontario.

During the last days of the war Pakistani aircraft flew over Indian cities and airbases without any response from the opposing side.

To counteract this, some aircraft have the front of the fin ( vertical stabilizer ) slightly offset from the centreline so as to provide an opposing force that cancels out the one produced by the slipstream, albeit only at one particular ( usually cruising ) speed, an example being the Hawker Hurricane fighter from World War II.

CruDiv 12 repeatedly maneuvered to avoid starshells fired by the opposing ships but was finally successfully illuminated by brilliant flares dropped by Japanese snooper aircraft.

In the western sector of the Soviet offensive alone, the Soviets commit 1, 376 aircraft to support the offensive, opposing a Soviet-estimated 580 German planes.

* June 14 – 16 – German and Italian aircraft join Italian surface warships and submarines in opposing Operation Harpoon, an Allied Malta resupply convoy from Gibraltar escorted by the British aircraft carriers and, and Operation Vigorous, a simultaneous resupply convoy from Alexandria, Egypt ; Royal Air Force and U. S. Army Air Forces aircraft from Malta and North Africa provide support to the convoys.

This evolution in aircraft was a " dynamic reaction between opposing forces which led to a refinement of the tactics of employing round the clock interdiction and prompted development of specialized night attack systems.

The military situation of the Spanish Republic deteriorated steadily under Negrín's government, largely because of the superior quality of the opposing generals and officers many of whom were veterans of the Rif War, and by 1938 the overwhelming advantage of the Nationalists in the terms of men ( 20 %), aircraft and artillery provided by Germany and Italy.

Jinnah had continued opposing the Congress.

The clinic received a large amount funding from John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his family, which continued to make donations to Sanger's causes in future decades, but generally made them anonymously to avoid public exposure of the family name, and to protect family member Nelson Rockefeller's political career since openly advocating birth control could have led to the Catholic Church opposing him politically.

Although the struggle between executive and legislative branches was partially resolved by the new constitution, the two branches continued to represent fundamentally opposing visions of Russia's future.

Kennett's profile continued to grow as he became a major commentator on national issues, including urging the new government of John Howard to introduce tax reform, and actively opposing the rise of the One Nation Party of Pauline Hanson.

After various preliminaries, his nephew was forced to abdicate the throne to Charles IX as regent in 1595 by the Riksens ständer, which eventually kicked off nearly seven decades of sporadic warfare as the two lines of the divided House of Vasa both continued to attempt to remake the union between the Polish and Swedish thrones with opposing counter-claims and dynastic wars.

The county was at first made up of areas that included part of what is now Searcy County, Arkansas, with many opposing splitting the two, which partly fueled the bloody Tutt-Everett War, which began in 1844 and continued into 1850.

Brauchitsch agreed with Halder's fears, but continued to vacillate about opposing Hitler-he asked Reichenau and Rundstedt to remonstrate with Hitler, but they refused.

It is also considered overshooting if a player knew the opponent was eliminated but continued to shoot, disregarding the safety of the opposing player and risking dangerous injury to others.

As an application of these general principles, social conservatives in many countries generally: favor the pro-life position in opposing euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, and abortion ; oppose both eugenics ( inheritable genetic modification ) and human enhancement ( transhumanism ) while supporting bioconservatism ; support abstinence-only education, school prayers, gun ownership and defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman ; support the continued prohibition of recreational or medically non-beneficial drugs ; oppose prostitution and brothels, polygamy, gay adoption, premarital sex, and non-marital sex ; and object to pornography and what they consider to be indecency and promiscuity.

In exchange custody of the hostages would be transferred to the government of Iran, which after a short period would release the hostages — the Iranian president and foreign minister both opposing the continued holding of the hostages.

He continued to criticize Laurier, opposing Laurier's attempts to build a Canadian navy in 1911, which he believed would draw Canada into future imperial wars between Britain and Germany.

After Peng was purged in 1959 for opposing Mao's Great Leap Forward, Yang was one of the few leaders of the CCP who continued to maintain a close relationship with Peng.

After the inauguration of the Malayan Union, the Malays, under UMNO, continued opposing the Malayan Union.

After destroying both their creators and the opposing side in a long-ago galactic war, the self-replicating Berserkers have continued to wipe out all forms of life that they encounter in the Milky Way, which leads to the cooperation and coordination of most of the sentient races in major attempts to defeat them.

After his arrest in 1925 for opposing the newly-formed Italian fascist regime, he left Italy but continued to actively organise resistance to Benito Mussolini in France, England and finally in the USA.

The Democrats won a majority in the second National Assembly election in September 1951, and they continued their policy of opposing the king on practically all fronts.

Another charge against Amin was that he had continued to aid southern Sudan's Anyanya rebels in opposing the regime of Gaafar Nimeiry even after Obote had shifted his support away from the Anyanya to Nimeiry.

The paper continued in the same vein after Edward Heath won the 1970 general election, opposing his Tory government's trade union legislation between 1970 and 1974 and placing itself at the head of opposition to Heath's negotiations for Britain to join the EEC.

Repeated arrests and imprisonment of persons opposing the regime, such as members of Charter 77 and religious activists, continued throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s.

His slapshot's reputation continued to grow throughout the league, to the point it could inspire fear in opposing players.

However, he continued to still see plenty of ice time on power plays where his slapshot could wreak havoc for opposing goaltenders, and was encouraged to use his shot as before.

Throughout the rest of World War II, the CPUSA continued a policy of militant, if sometimes bureaucratic, trade unionism while opposing strike actions at all costs.

As the alliance continued to target the opposing tribe, Pagong, Jenna Lewis and Gervase Peterson were eliminated next.

Cooper continued his independence from his party throughout his term, vocally opposing Republican plans to cut taxes despite record national budget deficits and resisting the party's efforts to reduce funding for the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe in the aftermath of the war.