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.

Both the missile and the aircraft were used by the United States Navy and are now retired, the AIM-54 Phoenix in 2004 and the F-14 in 2006.

Most of the other light aircraft acquired by the FABF in the 1970s and 1980s have also now been retired along with the Mi-4 helicopters, but some recent acquisitions have been made, including a Beechcraft King Air, a Piper PA-34 Seneca, a CEAPR Robin light training aircraft, and a single Air Tractor AT-802 aerial sprayer aircraft for spraying insecticides, purchased after the northern part of the country suffered heavy crop damage from a 2004 invasion of swarming locusts.

Older B-52B, B-52C, B-52E and B-52F aircraft were retired, along with the B-58A, leaving SAC with an offensive force of several hundred B-52D, B-52G, B-52H and FB-111A strike aircraft, augmented by 1, 054 Titan II, Minuteman II and Minuteman III ICBMs.

Now retired from British Royal Navy service, the Indian Navy operates Sea Harriers mainly from its aircraft carrier INS Viraat.

By the end of the year, the Silver City name ceased to be used as all aircraft had either been repainted in BUA colours or retired.

Bristol's most successful aircraft during this period was the Bristol Bulldog fighter, which formed the mainstay of Royal Air Force ( RAF ) fighter force between 1930 and 1937, when the Bulldog was retired from front line service.

In 1947, the designation system was extensively overhauled, with several categories being dispensed with, and others renamed For instance, the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star ( Pursuit ) was redesignated as F-80 ( Fighter ), while the A-26 medium bomber / attack aircraft was redesignated as the B-26, reusing the designation, the Martin B-26 having retired in the meantime.

The aircraft was from the 919th Special Operations Group at Eglin's Duke Field, retired to AMARC on 15 November 1994.

Although it made a brief revival in the mid-1990s, today the aircraft is again retired.

This aircraft was retired to AMARC in 1991.

After its active service was over, this aircraft was retired to the National Museum of the United States Air Force where it is now on static display.

With the reassignment of the 341st SMW to Malmstrom, the tankers of the 407th ARW were reassigned or retired and the runway at the base was used by the Air Defense Command F-101 and F-106 interceptors along with transient aircraft.

By March 2009, the airline completely retired its fleet of three ATR 42 short-haul aircraft, after operating the type since 1993, and replaced it with a fleet of six Bombardier Q400 aircraft, the first of which was delivered in May 2008.

**** The USS Midway ( CV-41 ), a retired U. S. Navy aircraft carrier, now a memorial ship in San Diego, California, named for the Battle of Midway

As new fighter aircraft entered the inventory, more Instructor Courses were added to the curriculum ; as weapons systems have been retired, the courses have been discontinued.

Air Vanuatu ATR 42 aircraft ( now retired ) at Bauerfield International Airport, Port Vila.

On September 1, 2010 Comair announced that they would reduce their fleet by eliminating all of their aging Bombardier CRJ100 / 200 aircraft and expect to have them all retired sometime in 2012.

The Air Force retired nearly all of its propeller-driven B-29 / B-50s and they were replaced by new Boeing B-47 Stratojet aircraft.

The Coast Guard's fixed-wing aircraft made use of the runway at Lindbergh Field until the mid-1990s when the fixed-wing aircraft were retired.

The HARM missile was approved for full production in March 1983, and then deployed in late 1985 with VA-72 and VA-46 aboard the aircraft carrier USS America.

* Saab 340 ( 30 – 35 passenger short-haul aircraft ) ( manufactured 1983 – 1999, 459 built )

* 1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace.

* 1983 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.

The United Airlines Flight 175 aircraft was a Boeing 767 – 222 built in 1983, registration number N612UA, with capacity of 168 passengers.

The airline was established in February 1981 and began operations August 1, 1983, using three leased Boeing 737 aircraft flying out of its base in Phoenix, Arizona, with Ed Beauvais, a well-known airline industry consultant, as its CEO.

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 ).

The Gimli Glider is the nickname of an Air Canada aircraft that was involved in a notable aviation incident in July 1983.

Captain Robert Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal, the flight crew who landed the aircraft to safety in Gimli on 23 July 1983 are expected to be on hand for the aircraft's departure.

In 1983 the airport, renamed Belfast International, was regularly accommodating the largest civil aircraft in service, and with the installation of new technology was capable of all weather operations.

In 1983 Aer Lingus opened its ' Aer Lingus Commuter ' division which took delivery of Shorts, Saab AB, and Fokker turboprop aircraft to open regular daily domestic services to and from Ireland's smaller regional airports for the first time, as well as to serve existing routes to smaller regional airports in the United Kingdom.

In 1983, the Australian Commonwealth government used RAAF aircraft to take surveillance photos of a then-controversial part of Tasmania, resulting in the Attorney-General Gareth Evans being memorably nicknamed " Biggles ".

The airline was renamed to Jetstream International Airlines ( JIA ) in December 1983 after it took delivery of two Jetstream aircraft.

The 34 remaining Peace Gate II aircraft were delivered between 1983 and 1987.

By 1983 the fleet included seven aircraft, two Boeing 727-100s ( the second was registered C2-RN7 ) and five Boeing 737-200s ( C2-RN5, ' RN6, ' RN8 and ' RN9 having been added to the fleet ); since the entire population of Nauru at this time was about 8, 000, the airline was in the extraordinary position of having seating capacity equal to 10 % of the Nauruan population.

Anatoly Vasilyevich Liapidevsky ( 1908 – 1983 ) was a Soviet aircraft pilot and the first to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union ( in 1934 ).

: This scenario starts in 1983 with the intense competition for the airlines heating up with aircraft that can fly for longer distances without re-fueling.

The airline's DC-10 was delivered on 24 February 1983, and the aircraft leased from the Dutch airline was returned.

The last Texas International aircraft were seen in 1983.

* December 21 – The first aircraft carrier designed as such to be launched in France, Clemenceau, is launched by the Brest Arsenal at Brest .< ref > Gardiner, Robert, Conways All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1947-1982, Part One: The Western Powers, < Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1983, ISBN 0-87021-418-7, p. 28 .</ ref >

The squadron reformed on 1 January 1983 at RAF Marham re-equipped with twelve Tornado GR1 aircraft and eighteen WE. 177 nuclear bombs, and the

As pilot and aircraft commander of a B-52D Stratofortress, he led a combat crew of six, accumulating over 2, 000 hours of jet experience before resigning as a captain in 1983.

From 1980 to 1983 he was assigned to F-111 aircraft at RAF Lakenheath.

From 1980 to 1983, he was assigned to Langley AFB, Virginia, where he flew the F-15 aircraft.