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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.
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The decreases, which are largely in construction and in aircraft procurement, are offset in part by increases for research and development and for procurement of other military equipment such as tanks, vehicles, guns, and electronic devices.
New obligational authority for 1961 recommended in this budget for aircraft procurement ( excluding amounts for related research and construction ) totals $4,753 million, which is $1,390 million below that enacted for 1960.
It seems reasonable that if general nuclear war is not to be one cataclysmic act of burning each other's citizens to cinders, we must have a manned strategic force of long-endurance aircraft capable of going into China or Russia to find and destroy their strategic forces which continued to threaten us.
The aircraft could be used to destroy other mobile, fleeting, and imprecisely located targets as well as the known, fixed and hardened targets which can also be destroyed by missile.
However, the aircraft which we have today are tied to large, `` soft '' airfields.
Here then is our problem: aircraft are vital to winning a war today because they can perform those missions which a missile is totally incapable of performing ; ;
but the airfield, on which the aircraft is completely dependent, is doomed by the missile.
This is the point on which so many people have written off the aircraft in favor of the missile.
But remember this -- it isn't the aircraft which is vulnerable to nuclear rockets, it is the airfield.
Build long-range aircraft which can take off from small ( 3,000-foot ) airfields with runways.
We have the technology today with which to build aircraft shelters which could withstand at least 200 Aj.
The future of manned aircraft is in doubt, which affects government procurement, and jet transports have revolutionized the airline trade -- one jet can take the place of three compound-engine planes.
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.
Smaller aircraft may use simpler traffic alerting systems such as TPAS, which are passive ( they do not actively interrogate the transponders of other aircraft ) and do not provide advisories for conflict resolution.
To help avoid collision with terrain ( CFIT ), aircraft use systems such as ground-proximity warning systems ( GPWS ), which use radar altimeters as a key element.
EMS and disaster relief helicopters will be required to fly in unpleasant conditions, this may require more aircraft sensors, some of which were until recently considered purely for military aircraft.
In situations in which an aircraft becomes a threat while taking off – which gives very little reaction time – a decision on shooting it down may be taken by an Indian Air Force officer not below the rank of Assistant Chief of Air Staff ( Operations ).
It may be applied, as it is stated in article 1 of the convention in case of: offenses against penal law ; acts which, whether or not they are offenses, may or do jeopardize the safety of the aircraft or of persons or property therein or which jeopardize good order and discipline on board.
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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.
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.
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Indeed, the final German blitzkrieg operation in the west, Operation Wacht am Rhein, was planned to take place during poor weather which grounded Allied aircraft.
Corto was a member of " Operation Screaming Fist ," which planned on infiltrating and disrupting Soviet computer systems from ultralight aircraft dropped over Russia.
The first aircraft carrier due for decommissioning that would enter the SRP is planned to be Enterprise, intended for withdrawal in 2013.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Germany planned three different VTOL aircraft.
** Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi military escorts on board an UNSCOM helicopter try to physically prevent the UNSCOM pilot from flying the helicopter in the direction of its planned destination, threatening the safety of the aircraft and their crews.
* Beriev Be-2500 Neptune, a proposed super-heavy amphibian cargo aircraft with a max takeoff weight of 2500 metric tons ( planned ).
The aggressive tactic prompted U. S. President Clinton to invoke the Taiwan Relations Act and dispatch two aircraft carrier battle groups into the region off Taiwan's southern coast to monitor the situation, and PRC's missile tests were forced to end earlier than planned.
* CVA-01, a class of British aircraft carriers planned for the post – World War II era but ultimately cancelled
The French government planned to use his name for an aircraft carrier but the ship was finally named after Charles de Gaulle.
* was a Centaur-class aircraft carrier, originally planned as HMS Elephant, but renamed in 1945.
The airline planned to move to cargo aircraft and laid off most of its passenger aircraft aircrew.
* The next day, 18 September 1946, saw 27 people losing their lives when a SABENA Douglas DC-4 ( OO-CBG ) crashed 35 km short of Gander Airport, where the aircraft had been planned to land for a refueling stop on the flight from Brussels to New York.
Yamani's biography suggests that the Algerians had used a covert listening device on the front of the aircraft to overhear the earlier conversation between the terrorists, and found that Carlos had in fact still planned to murder the two oil ministers.
The planned cargo port would be built at a cost of $ 15m and would include aircraft parking, an immediate taxiway and access to public roads.
He planned to create a light aircraft that was all-metal monocoque construction.
Though the band had planned on leaving a few days early, so they could rehearse, visa problems prevented this, so they went to Canada and entered the US in a light aircraft.
While, for example, light bomber could be used in a battlefield, it was not primarily planned to, and an attack aircraft was.
In September 1918, he planned and led nearly 1, 500 British, French and Italian aircraft in the air phase of the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, one of the first coordinated air-ground offensives in history.
No additional air strikes against Cuban airfields and aircraft were specifically planned before 17 April, because B-26 pilots ' exaggerated claims gave the CIA false confidence in the success of the 15 April attacks, until U-2 reconnaissance photos on 16 April showed otherwise.
It was a pointed building that was planned to have the largest possible surface facing the tarmac, to allow the most possible aircraft to park.
* Iraqi military escorts on board a UNSCOM helicopter try to physically prevent the UNSCOM pilot from flying the helicopter in the direction of its planned destination, threatening the safety of the aircraft and their crews.
It also planned for an expansion of the AAF to 60, 000 aircraft and 2. 1 million men.
* The was a planned light cruiser that was converted into the light aircraft carrier.
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