Airforce personnel total about 8, 000 ; its equipment includes eight Russian-manufactured Sukhoi Su-27 fighter aircraft and transport planes.

* Atlas, official name for the Airbus A400M transport aircraft

* HMS Athene, an aircraft transport

* 1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.

To supplement air traffic control, most large transport aircraft and many smaller ones use a traffic alert and collision avoidance system ( TCAS ), which can detect the location of nearby aircraft, and provide instructions for avoiding a midair collision.

In contrast to small non-rigid blimps, giant rigid airships became the first aircraft to transport passengers and cargo over great distances.

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.

Most modern AFVs are superficially similar in design to their World War II counterparts, with significantly better armour, weapons, engines and suspension-however with an increase in the capacity of transport aircraft allowing AFVs to be practically transported by air, many armies are replacing some or all of their traditional heavy vehicles with lighter airmobile versions, often with wheels instead of tracks.

Due to the extremely rugged, mountainous nature of Southeastern Alaska, almost all communities ( with the exception of Hyder, Skagway, and Haines ) have no road connections outside of their locale, so aircraft and boats are the major means of transport.

In 2007 the AF & ADF consisted of 18, 170 personnel ( two fighter / interceptor bases, four FGA / reconnaissance squadrons, one transport air base, training aircraft, and attack and support helicopters, SAM units ).

Fighter command, it has all first-line combat assets under its control-fighter, attack and reconnaissance aircraft ; V FAE ( V Força Aérea )-responsible for transport missions.

On the same day of contract signature for the P-3BR work, 29 April 2005, EADS CASA was also awarded a contract to supply 12 C-295M medium transport aircraft.

The main heavy transport aircraft is the Lockheed C-130H Hercules and it will not change soon.

Also in 2008 the Brazilian company Embraer showcased the Brazilian military transport aircraft, Embraer KC-390, and some countries already have shown interest in the aircraft, with France even placing orders.

In 1990, Bulgaria had a total of more than 2, 400 tanks, 2, 000 armored vehicles, 2, 500 large caliber artillery systems, 300 fighter and bomber aircraft, 100 trainer aircraft, more than 40 combat and 40 transport helicopters, 4 submarine, 6 fast missile craft, 2 frigates, 5 corvettes, 6 torpedo boats, 9 patrol craft, 30 minesweepers and 21 transport vessels.

An example of bad spending plans is the large-scale purchasing of transport aircraft, while the Air Force has a severe need of new fighters ( the MiG-29s, even though modernized, are nearing their operational limits ).

After acquiring an initial fleet of utility and transport aircraft, the squadron was attached to an interarmy support regiment.

These were later followed by two Alouette III SA. 316 B helicopters, used mostly for liaison purposes, one twin-engined Aero Commander 500 light utility aircraft, two Hawker-Siddeley HS. 748-2A twin turboprop transport aircraft, and two Nord 262 twin turboprop transport aircraft.

Some of these were built during a period of war between Bolivia and Paraguay, in order to transport Bolivian troops and their supplies to the war front in the lowlands of southeastern Bolivia and western Paraguay.

Furthermore, Carnegie ’ s success was due to his convenient relationship with the railroad industries, which not only relied on steel for track, but were also making money from steel transport.

Lord Sydney, as Secretary of State for the Home Office, was the minister in charge of this undertaking, and in September 1786 he appointed Phillip commodore of the fleet which was to transport the convicts and soldiers who were to be the new settlers to Botany Bay.

For the first time, armored cars or limousines were put into service for safer transport, with modern versions virtually invulnerable to small arms fire, smaller bombs and mines.

Five Mi-8 / 17 transport helicopters were later added to the Escadrille d ' Hélicoptères.

The barge and canal system contended favorably with the railways in the early industrial revolution prior to around the 1850s – 1960s for example, the Erie Canal in New York State is credited by economic historians with giving the growth boost needed for New York City to eclipse Philadelphia as America's largest port and city but such canal systems with their locks, need for maintenance and dredging, pumps and sanitary issues were eventually outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items by the railways due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of Rail transport.

Bundaberg Rum originated because the local sugar mills had a problem with what to do with the waste molasses after the sugar was extracted ( it was heavy, difficult to transport and the costs of converting it to stock feed were rarely worth the effort ).

Large quantities of beef were available across the British Dominions and South America, but its transport and storage were problematic.

The railways were historically important in Chile, but now play a relatively small part in the country's transport system.

Rail freight transport has also suffered at the hands of the trucking industry and will continue to do so due to the immense leverage the truck driver's union can bring to bear if they were to feel threatened.

Prominent goods and services imported by Cyprus in 2008 were consumer goods, machinery, petroleum and other lubricants, transport equipments and intermediate goods.

In ancient China, large canals for river transport were established as far back as the Warring States ( 481 – 221 BC ), the longest one of that period being the Hong Gou ( Canal of the Wild Geese ), which according to the ancient historian Sima Qian connected the old states of Song, Zhang, Chen, Cai, Cao, and Wei.

The advantages of paper currency were numerous: it reduced transport of gold and silver, and thus lowered the risks ; it made loaning gold or silver at interest easier, since the specie ( gold or silver ) never left the possession of the lender until someone else redeemed the note ; and it allowed for a division of currency into credit and specie backed forms.

In Shanghai, where bicycles were once the dominant mode of transport, bicycle travel on a few city roads was banned temporarily in December 2003.

Three hundred Belgian personnel were serving as staff officers and advisors throughout the Ministry of Defence, Italians were supporting the Air Force, Americans were assisting with transport and communications, Israelis with airborne forces training, and there were British advisors with the engineers.

For transport, Ure would tie the illegal immigrants up in burlap bags so that if customs agents were to approach then he could easily toss the bags overboard.

This battle marked the effective end of resistance to the expeditionary force, but the gunboats were called into service to transport troops to Fashoda, south along the White Nile, where a small force of French troops had made a difficult land crossing and staked a claim to the area.

Major imports from the EU were power generating machinery ( 21 %), chemicals ( 16 %), transport equipment ( 16 %), and food and agricultural products ( 10 %).

Water transport can be divided into sea, based on the ports of Rijeka, Ploče, Split and Zadar, and river transport, based on Sava, Danube and, to a lesser extent, Drava.

The history of the growth, decline and resurgence of rail transport can be divided up into several discrete periods defined by the principal means of motive power used.

* The Operational Naval Grouping ( Groupement Naval Opérationnel ), which is divided into three flotillas and one group: the High Seas Patrol Boats ( Patrouilleurs de Haute Mer ), the Coastal Surveillance Vessels ( Bâtiments de Surveillance Côtière ), the Fast Coastal Boats ( Vedettes Côtières Rapides ) and the Transport Group ( groupe de transport ).

During the Cold War the VVS was divided into three main branches ( equivalent to commands in Western air forces ): Long Range Aviation ( Dal ' naya Aviatsiya or " DA "), focused on long-range bombers ; Frontal Aviation ( Frontovaya Aviatsiya or " FA "), focused on battlefield air defence, close air support, and interdiction ; and Military Transport Aviation ( Voenno-Transportnaya Aviatsiya or " VTA "), which controlled all transport aircraft.

SJ was created in 2000, out of the public transport division of Statens Järnvägar, when the former government agency was divided into six separate government-owned limited companies.

The subscribers are charged extra for receiving this premium content, and the amount is typically divided between the mobile network operator and the value added service provider ( VASP ), either through revenue share or a fixed transport fee.

1952 + American faculty widely divided in their allegiances to lantern slides for their clarity or to 35mm slides for their ease of production and transport to class.

If the tree was to become canoes then it would often be divided into sections and worked into rough canoe shapes before transport, but if it were to be used for a totem pole or building materials it would be towed in the round to the village.

For half a century, the communities on both sides of the harbour were linked internally by sea transport, before improved roads in the 1950s finally displaced this energetic flotilla and the harbour once again divided the community.

This would deny the ( assumed superior ) invader the chance of forcing the defenders into a decisive battle, and give the defenders the opportunity to swiftly mass and counter-attack weak enemy positions, besieging forces, or divided forces by shifting weight by sea transport.

Part 3 on policies and actions is divided by area into the following titles: the internal market ; the free movement of goods, including the customs union ; agriculture and fisheries ; free movement of people, services and capital ; the area of freedom, justice and security, including police and justice co-operation ; transport policy ; competition, taxation and harmonisation of regulations ( note Article 101 and Article 102 ); economic and monetary policy, including articles on the euro ; employment policy ; the European Social Fund ; education, vocational training, youth and sport policies ; cultural policy ; public health ; consumer protection ; Trans-European Networks ; industrial policy ; economic, social and territorial cohesion ( reducing disparities in development ); research and development and space policy ; environmental policy ; energy policy ; tourism ; civil protection ; and administrative co-operation.

The series is divided into two major sections, defined by the main method of transport the protagonists are utilizing.

In 3rd and 3. 5 editions, Conjuration is divided into five subschools: calling ( spells which physically transport extraplanar creatures to the caster, as well as granting them the ability to return to where they were called from ), creation, healing, summoning ( teleporting objects to the caster's location and / or causing creatures to physically manifest at the caster's location ) and teleportation ( instantly transporting creatures and / or objects ).

Melburnians in general are divided over the freeways ; supporters crying " progress and growth " and detractors lamenting for example, the destruction of habitats and the loss of peace and tranquillity along the freeway path and at the ends where the freeway traffic is spilled onto local roads, the increased reliance on private automobiles and the economic, social and environmental costs they bring, the inefficiency of road transport versus the efficiency of public transport.

Otherwise, the most recent political tremor occurred when Tony Valeri, the federal minister of transport who supported Paul Martin as Liberal leader, defeated Sheila Copps, a former Canadian heritage minister who supported Jean Chrétien, in a bitter constituency nomination election after redistricting forced the two sitting MPs head-to-head in the formerly divided Hamilton East-Stoney Creek.

The group was divided in half for transport back to Japan on two escort carriers-21 on IJS Chuyo and 20 on IJS Unyo.

RapidIO is a layered specification, intuitively divided into a physical layer protocol, packet transport ( routing ) protocol and multiple protocols at the logical layer.

Another well known thermal transport process is Fourier's Law of Heat conduction, stating that the heat flux between two bodies maintained at different temperatures is proportional to the temperature gradient ( the temperature difference divided by the spatial separation ).

The metro uses the same zoning system as the majority of public transport providers in the Porto metropolitan area, which is divided into Central ( C ), North ( N ) and South ( S ) zones, and further divided into numbered sub-zones.

Alternatively, one can think of the constituency as being divided between a ' suburban ' district in the south and communities that grew in the industrial revolution to the north ; the Southern area, particularly between Church Village and Llantrisant, contains much new residential and light industrial development, and benefits from good transport links due to its proximity to the M4.

The grottos of Beni Hasan, near Antinopolis, upon the opposite bank of the Nile, were the common cemetery of the Hermopolitans, for, although the river divided the city from its necropolis, yet, from the wide curve of the western hills at this point, it was easier to ferry the dead over the water than to transport them by land to the hills.