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.

He founded the Lawson Aircraft Company in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to build military training aircraft and later the Lawson Airplane Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to build airliners.

Following this, the widespread adoption of ailerons versus wing warping made aircraft much easier to control, and only a decade later, at the start of World War I, heavier-than-air powered aircraft had become practical for reconnaissance, artillery spotting, and even attacks against ground positions.

It will be initially integrated onto the FA-18C / D, FA-18E / F, EA-18G, and Tornado ECR aircraft and later on the F-35.

Because of this, the United States Air Force XB-70 Valkyrie program was cancelled in the early 1960s ; the later B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit aircraft entered service only after protracted political and development problems.

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.

Kaye got his first license as a private pilot of multi-engine aircraft, not getting certified for operating a single engine plane until six years later.

Also, significant numbers of British, and later U. S., fighter aircraft were supplied to aid the Soviet war effort as part of Lend-Lease, with the Bell P-39 Airacobra proving particularly effective in the lower-altitude combat typical of the Eastern Front.

Hines beached the aircraft and although it burned, the crew escaped unharmed, was rescued by the ( the same ship that later took Unit 92 to Gardner Island ), transferred to a sub chaser and taken to Canton Island.

Miyazaki's next film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ( Kaze no Tani no Naushika, 1984 ), was an adventure film that introduced many of the themes which recur in later films: a concern with ecology and the human impact on the environment ; a fascination with aircraft and flight ; pacifism, including an anti-military streak ; feminism ; and morally ambiguous characterizations, especially among villains.

* F — fighter aircraft, also later ground attack aircraft: List of NATO reporting names for fighters

In 1964 he was commissioned in an anti aircraft artillery regiment ( 36 LAA Regiment Artillery, later 36 Light Air Defence Regiment ).

Heinlein was frequently interviewed during his later years by military historians who asked him about Captain King and his service as the commander of the U. S. Navy's first modern aircraft carrier.

Adams-Farwell engines later powered fixed-wing aircraft in the US after 1910.

Basing for the E-4 aircraft was later moved to Offutt AFB, with one E-4 continuously stationed at Andrews AFB in order to be available to the National Command Authority.

While the battleship had evolved primarily around engagements between armoured ships with large-caliber guns, the torpedo allowed torpedo boats and other lighter surface ships, submersibles, even ordinary fishing boats or frogmen, and later, aircraft, to destroy large armoured ships without the need of large guns, though sometimes at the risk of being hit by longer-range shellfire.

Other types rely on radar guidance ( either on-board or " painted " by the launching aircraft ).

In the case of aircraft, those flags are usually painted on, and those are usually to be painted on in the position as if they were blowing in the wind.

Because these aircraft are frequently operated by smaller airlines that are contracted to provide (" feed ") passengers from smaller cities to hub airports ( and reverse ) for a " major " or " flag " carrier, regional airliners may be painted in the liveries of the major airline for whom they provide this " feeder " service.

Typically, these regional feederliners, are painted in the aircraft liveries and color schemes of the much larger airline partners so the regional airlines may offer and market a seamless transition between the larger airline to smaller airline.

In air forces the serial number is used to uniquely identify individual aircraft and is usually painted on both sides of the aircraft fuselage, most often in the tail area, although in some cases the serial is painted on the side of the aircraft's fin / rudder ( s ).

It was the intention that Prinair would have been one of the launch customers of the CASA CN-235 and at the roll-out of the new aircraft in September 1983 the prototype was actually painted in Prinair colors ( right side only ).

Both aircraft were painted with a special reflective white paint to limit heat damage.

It has two very large letters " LH " and an arrow painted on it which was used to denote to aircraft pilots the direction to nearby London Heathrow Airport using visual flight rules ( VFR ) if landing on the now closed runway 23.

Along with his writing, he has painted watercolors mostly relating to his Florida Everglades home, or aircraft that he flew ; they are rarely space-related.

The Heron is painted as G-AOXL of Morton Air Services, which was the aircraft that flew the last passenger flight from Croydon on 30 September 1959.

The aircraft was painted with the logo of the " El Al / Israel National Aviation Company " and fitted with extra fuel tanks to enable a non-stop flight from Geneva to Israel.

On 26 March, the company presented its latest aircraft which has been painted in the 1960s livery and the crew was wearing a selection of the historical uniforms.

A vintage Curtiss P-40 aircraft, nicknamed " Joy ", is on display at the riverside war memorial in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, painted in the colors of the Flying Tigers.

In an arrangement commonly known as code-sharing, each airline painted their aircraft in Air Florida colors and their flights were listed in reservations systems as Air Florida flights.

King on 10 January 1942 that he thought that twin-engine Army bombers could be launched from an aircraft carrier after observing several at a naval airfield in Norfolk, Virginia, where the runway was painted with the outline of a carrier deck for landing practice.

Airbus A318 " Aurel Vlaicu ", the first aircraft painted in the current colour scheme

When the airline ceased Zeal320 had one aircraft ( ZK-OJO ) painted in Freedom Air livery.

This was accomplished by using a painted backdrop of an aircraft, which was " serviced " by dwarfs standing next to the backdrop.

The airline's aircraft have been painted back into the Qantas livery and returned to Qantas short-haul for use on their domestic and trans-Tasman routes.

An aircraft at Eglin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil registered aircraft belonging to a CIA proprietary organization in the Miami area.