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With powerplants such as these, vertical takeoff and landing combat aircraft could be built.

With a 15-to-one engine, a supersonic aircraft weighing 300,000 pounds could rise vertically.

The reason that we are not going ahead full speed to develop high thrust-to-weight engines is that it would cost perhaps a billion dollars -- and you don't spend that sort of money if aircraft are obsolete.

When aircraft are no longer helpless on airfields, they are no longer vulnerable to Aj.

It would be priceless to have an aircraft to gather that post-attack reconnaissance.

It would be even more valuable because that same aircraft could immediately destroy any targets it discovered -- no need to wait for a missile to come all the way from the United States with the chance that the target, if it were mobile, would be gone.

A large aircraft, such as the B-52 or B-70, could carry perhaps 50 or 100 small nuclear weapons.

Shipbuilding, aircraft procurement, and weapon programs indicate that there will not be enough of anything.

The `` Barre Aviation Field '' was set to receive its first aircraft the Sunday following the flood.

The Pathet Lao, stiffened by Communist Veterans from neighboring North Viet Nam, were supplied by Soviet aircraft.

He'd landed the plane on a small airstrip in Connecticut and as soon as the aircraft had coasted to a stop, everyone had burst into chatter at the same moment.

Cutting short a holiday at Hong Kong, the aircraft carriers Lexington and Bennington steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines.

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.

This means the aircraft companies are going to tear into the government market, looking for anything they can get and making the competition tough.

* In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in an aircraft ( between New York City and Paris ).

* In 1931, Bert Hinkler made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight across the South Atlantic in an aircraft.

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

The Air Force / Air Defense Forces had 8, 000 personnel and 90 combat capable aircraft, including 22 fighters, 59 fighter ground attack aircraft and 16 attack helicopters.

The navy also has several aircraft for maritime patrol:

* Atlas Aircraft, a US aircraft maker in the 1940s

* Atlas Aviation, an aircraft maintenance firm in Florida, USA

* Atlas Aircraft Corporation, a South African military aircraft manufacturer, formerly known as Atlas Aviation

** Atlas Cheetah, a fighter aircraft of the South African Air Force

* Atlas, official name for the Airbus A400M transport aircraft