Unreferenced date August 2009 Infobox television show name Zone Fighter image caption format Live Action ... Ended num episodes 26 list episodes preceded by followed by Godzilla Island website Zone Fighter ... the young boy transform into the superheroes Zone Fighter, Zone Angel, and Zone Junior. Their transformation code associated with a henshin pose is Zone Fight Power . Hikaru Sakimori Zone Fighter is the oldest of the siblings. He works as a test driver for cars. As Zone Fighter, upon uttering the command ... the King of the Monsters himself is Zone Fighter s occasional ally in fighting the Garoga Terro Beasts. He is usually called forth by the Zone Family to assist Zone Fighter when he is outmatched or injured, and as the series progresses becomes a close friend to Zone Fighter. The Zone Family even ... . Zone arsenal Mighty Liner is Zone Fighter s car. Transforms from his racecar Skyline GT. It can also fly. Smokey is the mini aircraft Zone Angel and Junior ride. So named because it resides in a cloud until called upon. Zone Angel and Junior can recharge Fighter s energy with an emergency battery that comes with the aircraft. Bolt Thunder Great Raideki is the cloud controlled by Raita Sakamori ... Fighter. Garoga X Agents They are a squadron of Garogas that were highly trained for any situation. They were the last weapons sent to kill Zone Fighter. During the series finale they merge to create ... fights and is briefly defeated by Godzilla, but after reviving he is killed by Zone Fighter at the end of the episode. External links cite web title SciFi Japan Zone Fighter Series Guide url http www.scifijapan.com articles 2009 11 14 zone fighter series guide An indepth article about the series http zonefighter.wikia.com wiki Zone Fighter Wiki Zone Fighter Wiki Godzilla Category Tokusatsu television ... Television shows Category Toho es Zone Fighter fr Zone Fighter id Ryuusei Ningen Zone it Zone Fighter nl Zone Fighter ja th ... more details
Accidents and incidents involving military aircraft cs Foo fighter da Foo fighter de Foo Fighter ...About the aerial phenomenon the rock band Foo Fighters The term foo fighter was used by Allies Allied aircraft pilot aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various unidentified flying object UFOs ... and Pacific Theater of Operations . Though foo fighter initially described a type of UFO reported and named by the U.S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron , the term was also commonly used to mean any UFO ..., pp. 545 589, 2006 ref writes quote During WWII, the foo fighter experiences of Allied pilots were taken ... name RFC3092 By 1944, the term foo fighter was used by radar operators to describe a spurious or dubious ... operator in the 415th Night Fighter Squadron, Donald J. Meiers, who it is agreed by most 415th members ... 415th Night Fighter Squadron Frederic Ringwald, S 2 Intelligence Officer, 415th Night Fighter Squadron ... round glowing objects following their aircraft. The objects were variously described as fiery, and glowing ... that they seemed to toy with the aircraft, making wild turns before simply vanishing. Pilots and aircrew reported that the objects flew formation with their aircraft and behaved as if under ... Time magazine Time magazine carried a story entitled Foo Fighter , in which it reported that the balls ... it the foo fighter . According to Time , descriptions of the phenomena varied, but the pilots agreed that the mysterious lights followed their aircraft closely at high speed. Some scientists at the time ... first author link last2 first2 author2 link title Foo Fighter newspaper Time magazine Time pages ... , though it was reported to sometimes follow aircraft. On one occasion, the gunner of a B 29 aircraft managed to hit one with gunfire, causing it to break up into several large pieces which fell on buildings below and set them on fire. As with the European foo fighters, no aircraft was reported ... Robertson Panel cited foo fighter reports, noting that their behavior did not appear to be threatening ... more details
light aircraft for the civilian market, but most successful was the Westland Wapiti Wapiti close support aircraft. In 1935 Petters split its aircraft manufacturing from its aircraft engine concerns to form Westland Aircraft Limited , based in Yeovil , Somerset. World War Two File Westland whirlwind.jpg thumb Westland Whirlwind fighter Westland Whirlwind heavy fighter The Westland Whirlwind fixed wing Whirlwind was the UK s first cannon armed fighter and faster than many other British aircraft at the time ... Aircraft company logo fate Merged predecessor successor Westland Helicopters foundation 1915 as Westland Works br 1935 as Westland Aircraft on separation from Petters Ltd location Yeovil, Somerset, United Kingdom industry Aerospace key people products Fixed and rotary wing aircraft num employees parent subsid Westland Aircraft was a British aircraft manufacturer located in Yeovil in Somerset ... War, Westland had been building aircraft since 1915. During the war the company produced a number ... liaison aircraft with the Royal Air Force . After the war the company focussed on helicopter s, and was merged ... File Westland Wapiti 1 ExCC.jpg thumb Westland Wapiti In 1915 the Westland Aircraft Works was founded ... Type 166 aircraft. Orders for other aircraft followed during the First World War, including the Sopwith ... for aircraft production. ref name berryman cite book title Somerset airfields in the Second ... 85306 864 0 page 180 ref As a result of the experience gained in manufacturing aircraft under licence, Westland began to design and build its own aircraft, starting with the Westland N.1B in 1917, which ... Lysander army co operation aircraft was displaced for reconnaissance as too vulnerable but found ... aircraft during the war but only the Westland Welkin Welkin was accepted. The Welkin was a twin ... 51 Dragonfly The Westland Wyvern was a post war design of carrier based strike fighter for the Fleet Air Arm serving up to 1958. Post war the company decided to get out of fixed wing aircraft and concentrate ... more details
distinguish2 variable geometry aircraft refimprove date January 2009 A Variable Fighter is a series of fictional transforming aerospace fighteraircraftfighter mecha primarily designed by Studio Nue s Shoji ... Wave System into the variable fighter s body. Variable Attack Bomber Aircraft Northrom Grumman ... known variable fighter model used during The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Space War I , the VF 1 ... ref Image Variable Fighter 25A Art.jpg thumb 150px Some Variable Fighters from the Macross universe ... in fighter and GERWALK modes. Fictional Background In The Super Dimension Fortress Macross the original ... on their own environment Battroid mode , on the ground Gerwalk mode , and the air Fighter mode ... for the VF 1 Valkyrie Sukhoi Israel Aircraft Industries Dornier Flugzeugwerke Dornier SV 51 Macross Zero Atmospheric use variable fighter used by anti UN forces VF X 1 Transformable flight test vehicle Stonewell Bellcom VF 1 Valkyrie series Macross U.N. Spacy main variable aerospace fighter from 2009 ... SDP 1 Stampede Valkyrie Macross Remember Me U.N. Spacy anti capital ship assault variable fighter ... Spacy prototype variable space fighter interceptor based on the VF 1 Valkyrie. ref name Remember ref ... use variable fighter ref name M3 http macross.anime.net production software index.html Sega ... variable fighter from 2020 to 2030 ref name M3 ref http macross.anime.net wiki VF 4 Lightning III Program ... ref VF 5 Shinsei Industry VF 5000 Star Mirage Atmospheric use variable fighter ref name M3 VF 6 VF ... name M3 Shinsei Industry VF 11 Thunderbolt Macross Plus U.N. Spacy main variable fighter from 2030 ... Messer VF 14 Vampire Macross 7 This fighter design was adapted by the Protodeviln Imprisonment and return ... 7 Updated into the VF 171 variable fighter. Modelled after the real life F 117. ref name macross.anime.net ... Neo Glaug Human designed variable drone fighter. ref http macross.anime.net production software index.html ... YF 19 Alpha One or Eagle One Macross Plus Prototype for the VF 19 Excalibur variable fighter. ref http ... more details
refimprove date February 2011 File SR 71A in flight near Beale AFB 1988.JPEG thumb right A USAF SR 71 high speed reconnaissance aircraft A reconnaissance aircraft is a manned military aircraft designed, or adapted, to carry out aerial reconnaissance . History main Aerial reconnaissance History The majority of World War I aircraft were reconnaissance designs. Aerial reconnaissance was mostly carried out by versions of standard fighter aircraft fighters and bomber s equipped with cameras until the Cold War , when the United States developed several dedicated reconnaissance designs, including the Lockheed U 2 U 2 and the SR 71 . Today much of the strategic role has passed over to Spy satellite satellites , and the tactical role to unmanned aerial vehicle s. See also Aerial reconnaissance Surveillance aircraft List of United States Air Force Reconnaissance Aircraft External links http www.spyflight.co.uk spyflight http www.RC135.com A Tale of Two Airplanes by Kingdon R. King Hawes, Lt Col, USAF Ret. They Brave Death for a Picture desperate chances taken by the flying camera men , Popular Science monthly, January 1919, page 18 19, Scanned by Google Books http books.google.com books?id HykDAAAAMBAJ&pg PA18 http www.yo 3a.com Army Lockheed YO 3A Silent Airplane in Vietnam Military aircraft types roles Category Reconnaissance aircraft da Rekognosceringsfly de Aufkl rungsflugzeug es Avi n de reconocimiento fr Avion de reconnaissance ou de surveillance it Aereo da ricognizione no Rekognoseringsfly pl Samolot rozpoznawczy ... more details
Infobox Defunct Company company name Blackburn Aircraft Limited company logo Image Blackburn Aircraft.png ... defunct 1960 location Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire Brough , Yorkshire industry Aviation, aircraft engines key people products num employees parent subsid Blackburn Aircraft Limited was a United Kingdom British aircraft manufacturer that concentrated mainly on naval and maritime aircraft during the first part of the 20th century. History Blackburn Aircraft was founded by Robert Blackburn aviation pioneer Robert Blackburn who built his first aircraft in 1908. The Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor ... in 1937, Blackburn started producing aircraft engines, the Blackburn Cirrus range. The company s name was changed to Blackburn Aircraft Limited in 1939, and the company amalgamated with General Aircraft Ltd General Aircraft Limited in 1949 as Blackburn and General Aircraft Limited , reverting to Blackburn Aircraft Limited by 1958. Aircraft production operations were absorbed into Hawker Siddeley and its engine operations into Bristol Siddeley , as part of the rationalisation of British aircraft ... Aircraft Corp. , was incorporated in Detroit on 20 May 1929 to acquire design and patent rights of the aircraft of Blackburn Airplane & Motor Co., Ltd. in the USA. It was owned 90 by Detroit Aircraft ... were to be supplied by the UK company at cost. Aircraft Image beverley.arp.750pix.jpg thumb ... 1909 single engine, single seat high wing monoplane aircraft Blackburn Second Monoplane 1911 single engine midwing monoplane aircraft Blackburn Mercury 1911 single engine, two seat midwing monoplane training aircraft Blackburn Type B 1912 single engine, two seat midwing monoplane training aircraft ... parasol wing cargo transport, a variant of the Sydney Blackburn F.1 Turcock 1928 single engine fighteraircraft Blackburn F.2 Lincock 1928 single engine, single seat biplane fighter Blackburn F.3 1934 single engine single seat biplane fighter built, never flew Blackburn 2F.1 Nautilus 1929 single engine ... more details
An interceptor aircraft or simply interceptor is a type of fighteraircraft designed specifically to prevent missions of enemy aircraft, particularly bomber aircraft bombers and reconnaissance aircraft ... range, demanding the use of radar and a large aircraft, eliminating the night fighter as a separate ... attack area. This solution is exemplified by the point defence interceptor . Intercept aircraft sacrifice capabilities of the air superiority fighter i.e., fighting enemy fighteraircraft by tuning their performance ... , an area range interceptor, was notably the heaviest fighteraircraft ever to see service in the world ... , which is an air superiority fighter and also an attack aircraft. Partial decline File Raptor ... aircraft Category Fighteraircraft Category Attack aircraft ar ca Interceptor de Abfangj ger ...merge Air superiority fighter date April 2012 Refimprove date January 2009 Image Su 15 Flagon.jpg thumb ... these goals leads to two typical designs, Citation needed date September 2011 larger aircraft that can ... destroyer and night fighter . Citation needed date September 2011 Nevertheless, the two classes ... by the Mikoyan MiG 31 MiG 31 , a very large aircraft with high speed, long range, and an extremely ... interceptors in the air in order to provide coverage over the entire attack area. As military aircraft ... aircraft or ones that stay in the air for extended periods. This solution is exemplified by the area .... In this case only a small number of aircraft is needed as they will spend most of their time ... less specialized fighter designs. Yet they tend to fare poorly in fighter to fighter combat ... their targets. This could be addressed through the use of a standing cover of aircraft, but only ... fc cite book last Shaw first Robert L. title Fighter combat tactics and maneuvering year 1985 publisher ... re assigned to fighter bomber squadrons, based nearer the front, while newer marks developed into more ... range fighter gap. The Germans, quickly losing their ability to project their airpower over enemy territory ... more details
projects iar 99c IAR 99C Soim Lead In Fighter Jet Trainer Aircraft, Romania ref The aim of programmable ... will find in an operational aircraft. Lead in fighter training Lead in fighter training LIFT utilises ... range due to a reduced internal fuel load. In some two seat fighteraircraft such as the Tornado, the Operational ... Dragonfly . Especially against opponents operating without a fighter screen or an effective Anti aircraft ... Army and Navy pilots A trainer is a class of aircraft designed specifically to facilitate flight training in flight training of pilots and aircrews. The use of a dedicated trainer aircraft ... featured aircraft. Citation needed date January 2011 Civilian pilots are normally trained in a light aircraft, with two or more seats to allow for student and instructor. The aircraft may be modified ... seat where all primary flight instrument are. The two seating configurations for trainer aircraft ... training in an aircraft with side by side seating and to progress to aircraft with tandem ... the HAL Kiran aircraft of the Indian Air Force , together with the HAL Tejas . Given ... a suitable advanced training aircraft, leading to a high casualty rate as pilots moved to high performance MiG 21 aircraft without suitable assessment of their aptitude for supersonic flight. ref ... the candidate learns to use his or her flying skills through simulated combat, attack and fighter ... aircraft not too dissimilar from civilian training aircraft. In this phase pilot candidates are screened for mental and physical attributes. Aircraft used for this purpose include the Slingsby T 67 ... financially restricted air forces may use Ultralight aviation ultra light aircraft , Glider sailplane ... the handling characteristics of jet aircraft as well as having sufficient performance to assess a candidate s technical ability at an aircraft controls, reaction speed and ability to anticipate events ... aircraft such as the BAC Jet Provost , T 37 Tweet , and Fouga Magister . Those candidates who are not suitable ... more details
than the Tu 144 . Supersonic military aircraft Many fighteraircraft and some bombers today ...Unreferenced date December 2009 File Sr71 1.jpg thumb A SR 71 Blackbird supersonic reconnaissance aircraft . A supersonic aircraft is designed to exceed the speed of sound in at least some of its normal flight configurations. Overview The great majority of supersonic aircraft today are military or experimental aircraft. Most of them, including many military fighteraircraft , are designed to exceed the speed of sound only in certain exceptional flight regimes a handful of aircraft, such as the SR 71 Blackbird military reconnaissance aircraft and the Concorde supersonic civilian transport, are designed to cruise continuously at speeds above the speed of sound. Supersonic flight brings with it substantial technical challenges, as the aerodynamics of supersonic flight are dramatically different from those of subsonic flight i.e., flight at speeds slower than that of sound . These challenges have largely been met. However, political, environmental, and economic obstacles of greater magnitude continue to severely limit the actual deployment of supersonic aircraft, particularly in the civilian world. Additionally, the need and demand for supersonic flight have often been insufficient to justify development or deployment of supersonic aircraft, particularly in the domain of civilian transport. The aforementioned SR 71 and Concorde aircraft are no longer flying today although Concorde was highly profitable in service, but because of the low market among operators due to sonic boom s, relatively high fuel consumption and poor range in turn making it unprofitable for manufacturers to produce these kinds of aircraft. Supersonic aircraft usually use low bypass turbofan s as they give ... transport Main Supersonic transport A supersonic transport SST is a civil aircraft designed to transport ... Supersonic Aircraft Category Aircraft by type cs Nadzvukov letoun ko pl Samolot ponadd wi kowy ... more details
refimprove date June 2010 mergeto parasite aircraft date May 2011 Composite aircraft can also refer to aircraft made using composite material s. A composite aircraft is made up of multiple component craft. It takes off and flies initially as a single aircraft, with the components able to separate in flight and continue as independent aircraft. Design principles The composite configuration is usually adopted to provide increased performance for one of the components, compared to a single craft flying alone. The craft carrying out the operational mission need not be compromised by the requirements for takeoff, climb and initial cruise, but may be optimised for the later stages of the mission. In some variants, small parasite aircraft are provided in support of the main component. One composite form comprises a large carrier ref http www.flightglobal.com pdfarchive view 1946 1946 20 201395.html Flight 1946 ref aircraft or mothership ref name Winchester Winchester, J. Ed. Concept aircraft , Grange ... component, typically used as an attack aircraft. The slip wing composite is a theoretical variant ..., further efforts went into carrying a fighter plane aloft on top of a second aeroplane. In the UK ..., Pemberton Billing proposed slip wing composite bomber and fighter types, early in the war ref Pemberton Billing, The slip wing fighter , Flight Dec 26, 1940, pp.524 525, 550 553 ref . Hawker s also ... fighter components wings fitted into depressions in the carrier s upper wing ref http www.adventurelounge.com aircraft full design 001.html adventurelounge.com ref . A number of composites proposals were ... operational status, and flew a number of combat missions. Postwar Experiments with parasite aircraft ... aircraft tends to refer to types constructed from composite material s. The Scaled Composites White Knight White Knight Space Ship One spaceplane is a composite aircraft in both senses. References ..., J. Ed. Concept aircraft , Grange, 2005 See also Parasite aircraft Category Aircraft by type ... more details
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This list of aircraft is sorted alphabetically, beginning with the name of the manufacturer or, in certain cases, designer . It is an inclusive list rather than an exclusive one, meaning that where an aircraft ... aircraft types. This list does not generally include variants or subtypes of the aircraft themselves ... constitutes a new aircraft as opposed to a variant of an existing type . The size of the list has required it to be broken into List of aircraft pre 1914 pre 1914 List of aircraft 0 A 0 A List of aircraft B B List of aircraft C C List of aircraft D D List of aircraft E E List of aircraft F F List of aircraft G G List of aircraft H H List of aircraft I I List of aircraft J J List of aircraft K K List of aircraft L L List of aircraft M M List of aircraft N N List of aircraft O O List of aircraft P P List of aircraft Q Q List of aircraft R R List of aircraft S S List of aircraft T T List of aircraft U Z U Z List of gliders gliders List of Human powered aircraft HPA List of UAV s List of aircraft engines Engines Or, to go directly to List of Aircraft TOC See also List of aircraft state ... .Paris. Docavia Editions Lariviere. 1992. ISBN 2 907051 01 6 Cynk, Jerzy B. Polish Aircraft 1893 1939 .... ISBN 1 85780 203 9 Gordon, Yefim. Soviet Russian Aircraft Weapons . Hinkley, Midland. 200?. ISBN 1 .... 2003. ISBN 1 85780 152 0 Gordon, Yefim & Dexter, Kieth Polikarpov s I 16 Fighter . Hinkley. Midland ... 5 Gray, Peter & Thetford, Owen. German Aircraft of the First World War . London, Putnam. 2nd Ed. 1970 ... 0 7603 1194 3 Grey, C.G. & Bridgman, Leonard. Jane s All the World s Aircraft 1938 . Sampson ... Aircraft 1875 1995 . London, Osprey. 1995. ISBN 1 85532 405 9 Haddow, G.W. & Grosz, Peter M. The German ... P.. U.S. Civil Aircraft vol. 2 . Los Angeles, Aero. 1964. Library of Congress 62 15967 Komissarov ... and Military Aircraft 1884 1969 .Watford. Harleyford. 1976. ISBN 0 85242 460 4 Shavrov, V.B. . Istoriia ..., Michael J.H.. World aircraft & Systems Directory . Brassey s. Herndon VA.1999 pages78 79 Taylor, John ... more details
Use British English date August 2011 Use dmy dates date August 2011 Folland Aircraft was a British aircraft manufacturing company which was active between 1937 and 1963. Infobox Aviation name Folland Aircraft image File Folland Gnat T1 XR 977 46.4 FTS Valley 03.09.67 edited 3.jpg caption Operational Gnat T.1 of No. 4 Flying Training School, RAF Valley , in 1967 History Image Gnat.750pix.jpg thumb right A privately owned Folland Gnat previously used by the Royal Air Force RAF Red Arrows display team. It has been painted as an aircraft of the earlier Yellowjacks display team, a forerunner of the Red Arrows. British Marine Aircraft Ltd was formed in February 1936 to produce Sikorsky S 42 Sikorsky S 42 A flying boat s under licence in the UK. The company built a factory on the western side of the Hamble le Rice Hamble peninsula with a slipway to Southampton Water . The Sikorsky deal came to naught, however, and the company was sold to Henry Folland Henry P. Folland some sources style him Harold ... census , formerly Chief designer for Gloster Aircraft Company , who renamed it Folland Aircraft Limited ... Aviation in Hampshire UK 1900 to 2000 Retrieved 20 May 2005 ref Folland began aircraft assembly ... 2005 Retrieved 20 May 2005 ref The first aircraft of its own design to fly was the Folland Fo.108 ... Specification E.28 40 for a research aircraft to investigate the issues of landing weight for aircraft operating from aircraft carrier carriers . The F.116 design was powered by a Centaurus radial and used ... BAD http www.britishaircraft.co.uk companypage.php?ID 21 Folland , British Aircraft Directory 1 May 2004 Retrieved 20 May 2005 ref He designed the Folland Midge prototype lightweight jet fighter which ... and Hawker Siddeley Hawk Hawk jets. ref name Haselden Aircraft Folland Fo.108 Folland Midge Folland ... aircraft manufacturers of the United Kingdom Category Hawker Siddeley Category Companies established in 1936 de Folland Aircraft fi Folland Aircraft sv Folland Aircraft ... more details
the new Joint Strike Fighteraircraft that will also come into service with the new CVF carriers ...An Aircraft Handler is a member of the Aircraft Handling branch in the Royal Navy of the UK Armed Forces . Aircraft Handlers are responsible for the safe movement, launching taking off and recovering landing of all aircraft onboard ships within the Royal Navy and some of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary . They are also responsible for aircraft crash rescue fire fighting duties on board Royal Navy ships and at Royal Naval Air Station s. The Aircraft Handling branch of the Fleet Air Arm in the Royal Navy was formed in 1945. Beforehand the duties of Aircraft Handlers were performed by members of other branches ... aircraft handling, crash rescue and fire fighting are required at sea on all ships with aircraft embarked. These skills are provided by the Aircraft Handler Naval rating rating s who are also employed ... the country and worldwide. Only about 10 of these are members of the Aircraft Handlers Association. The Aircraft Handlers Association is there for past and present serving members of the branch. It produces ... the Aircraft Handling branch is made up of around 450 personnel who served on various ships and at Royal Naval Air Stations. Training New recruits into the Aircraft Handling branch initially complete ... completion of basic training all recruits into the Aircraft Handling branch then proceed to RNAS ... RNSFDO . The training at RNSFDO is around 6 months and covers the two key skills required of an Aircraft Handler. The first phase is fire fighting, which sees recruits learn aircraft crash rescue fire ... that would be required as would be for the civilian fire service. The second phase of training is Aircraft ... and landing of aircraft on board Royal Navy ships and at Royal Naval air stations. The training for this role ... is largely made up to replicate the Invicible class aircraft carrier but can also be adapted to the roles ... NVQ qualifications in fire fighting skills. Organisation The Aircraft Handling branch is within the Fleet ... more details
nuclear flash. Camouflage was used for low level attack, and by fighteraircraft. File Super Mystere ... camouflage on the top surfaces and a neutral ecru tan on the bottom. Aircraft camouflage is the use of light and color patterns applied to military aircraft for the purpose of making an aircraft more ... using lamps to increase the brightness of the aircraft to match the background were trialed, and recent .... ref Aircraft were first camouflaged during World War I and camouflage has been widely employed in most ... matte camouflage finishes which add weight and drag to an aircraft, as well as requiring more frequent repainting. Usage Camouflage for aircraft is complicated by the fact that the appearance of the aircraft ... ref name Shaw380 Shaw, 1985, p. 380. ref and the aircraft s motion. For this reason, many military aircraft were painted to match the sky when viewed from below, and to either match the ground or break up the aircraft s outline when viewed from above. This is known as countershading , and can be useful on aircraft such as heavy bomber s that do not do much inverted flying during combat. ref name Shaw382 Because of the way light hits it, patterns of dark and light will often be present on an aircraft even if it is entirely one color, which will affect the apparent size of the aircraft. ref ... an aircraft in several neutral shades with a non reflective, matte finish. ref name Shaw381 Night camouflage ... War with VMA 513 Military aircraft flying at night have often been painted black, dark grey, dark green or other dark colours. This dark color has been applied to just the underside of some aircraft and to the entirety of others. In World War II, aircraft in the night sky tried to avoid being ..., Brown. ref and flares, and being sighted by enemy night fighter s. A matte painted surface reflects ... reduces aircraft speed and range. The RAF used a concoction called special night that was the epitome ... black finish often silhouettes an aircraft against the sky. To reduce this undesirable effect, numerous ... more details
and the majority of military fighteraircraft use a centre or side stick. Some light aircraft use ...Infobox aviation name Aircraft Yoke image Image Yoke.png caption The W shaped control yoke of a Boeing ... wing aircraft . ref name Crane Crane, Dale Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition , page 563 ... the Aircraft attitude attitude of the plane, usually in both pitch and Flight dynamics roll ... column controls the Elevator aircraft elevator and the pitch axis. ref name Crane Small to medium size aircraft, usually limited to propeller driven, feature a mechanical system whereby the yoke ... for larger and more powerful aircraft, so hydraulic systems are used, in which yoke movements control hydraulic valves and actuators. In more modern aircraft, inputs may first be sent to a Fly ... common being of a U or W design. Some aircraft use an M style, such as Embraer and Concorde . There are some .... In larger aircraft they are usually mounted on a post protruding vertically from the floor, referred ..., sport, and aerobatic aircraft. However, yokes are less sensitive i.e., more precise thanks to a larger ... the autopilot , and Trim aircraft trim the aircraft. In addition, there may be a clipboard, checklist ... 200ER aircraft ref ref http www.airliners.net photo USA Air Lockheed C 130H Hercules 1488750 L Picture of the Lockheed C 130H Hercules L 382 aircraft ref ref http www.airliners.net photo Sun Air McDonnell Douglas DC 9 32 0515210 L Picture of the McDonnell Douglas DC 9 32 aircraft ref ref http www.airliners.net photo Beech 58 Baron 1322806 L Picture of the Beech 58 Baron aircraft ref Alternative control systems Yokes are not used on all aircraft. Helicopters use a helicopter flight controls cyclic ... aircraft, mounted on a horizontal tube protruding from the instrumental panel. File Li 2 HA LIX Cockpit 01.jpg Circular, steering wheel type yoke in a 1940s Lisunov Li 2 gallery See also Aircraft flight control systems Joystick References Reflist Aircraft components Aviation lists DEFAULTSORT Yoke ... more details
of service by 1943. The XP 54 fighter project was the last Vultee Aircraft design but only two ...Infobox Company company name Vultee Aircraft Corporation company logo fate Merged with Consolidated foundation 1939 defunct 1943 location successor Convair The Vultee Aircraft Corporation became an independent ... Aircraft Corporation in 1943 to form the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation , or Convair . ref ... Aircraft Division was formed as an autonomous subsidiary of AVCO. Jerry Vultee was named vice ... of the defunct AMC, including Lycoming Engines Lycoming and Stinson Aircraft Company . Vultee Aircraft was created in November 1939, when Vultee Aircraft Division of AVCO was reorganized as an independent ... Vultee V 1 executive aircraft displayed in the Virginia Aviation Museum . Meanwhile, Vultee and Breese ... V 11 V 11 attack aircraft for the United States Army Air Corps , but it received few initial .... blockquote blockquote DON P. SMITH Vice President blockquote blockquote Vultee Aircraft Los Angeles ... to take Jerry s place, and Vultee Aircraft Division began to develop military designs. Dick Palmer .... The AVCO Vultee division became the separate Vultee Aircraft Corporation in 1939. ref name deltas17 The P 66 Vanguard was a 1941 fighter program that was intended for Sweden that was inherited by the USAAC ... Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation , popularly known as Convair . ref name deltas18 Yenne 2009 ... Aircraft Division , an autonomous subsidiary of AVCO 1939 Vultee Aircraft Division of AVCO reorganized as an independent company known as Vultee Aircraft, Inc. 1941 Consolidated Aircraft Corporation ... Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft still controlled by AVCO 1947 Convair acquired by the Atlas ... 1994 Convair Aircraft Structures unit sold to McDonnell Douglas Museum displays Virginia Aviation ... essay Aerospace Consolidated Vultee Aero33.htm Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation ... Aircraft 1932 1947 . Santa Ana, CA Narkiewicz Thompson, 1992. ISBN 0 913322 02 4. http www.aviation ... more details
jet as it entered production a few months before the Me 262. The first operational fighteraircraft jet fighter was the Messerschmitt Me 262 , ref Hecht, Heinrich. The World s First Turbojet Fighter ... 22 Raptor A jet aircraft or simply jet is an aircraft nearly always a fixed wing aircraft propelled by jet engine s. Jet aircraft generally fly much faster than Propeller aircraft propeller powered aircraft ... achieve maximum efficiency over long distances. The engines in propeller powered aircraft achieve their maximum efficiency at much lower altitudes. Some jet aircraft can move faster than sound. Two ... USAF He 178 page61.jpg thumb Heinkel He 178 , the world s first aircraft to fly purely on turbojet ... Propulsion of Aircraft Part III G Geoffrey Smith Flight September 25th 1941 ref In 1910 the Romanian ... aircraft to fly was the Heinkel He 178 prototype of the Nazi Germany German Air Force, the Luftwaffe ... Books Ltd., England, 2009 ref The first flight of a jet engined aircraft to come to popular attention ... 1941 ref It was the first jet aircraft recognised by the F d ration A ronautique Internationale at the time ... aircraft of World War II although the rocket powered Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was faster ... aircraft in 1945, including the Nakajima Kikka Nakajima J9Y Kikka , a crude copy of the Me 262. By the end of 1945, the US had introduced their next jet fighter, the Lockheed P 80 Shooting Star into service and the UK its second fighter design, the de Havilland Vampire The US introduced the North ... to fly higher and faster than any Interceptor aircraft interceptor . BOAC operated the first ... service in 1958 and dominate the market for civilian airliners. Turbofan aircraft began entering ... km h . It went into service in 1975, but soon stopped flying. The Mach 2 Concorde aircraft entered service ... 3.35 2,275 mph, 3,661 km h . Other jets Most people use the term jet aircraft to denote gas ... propulsion. The fastest airbreathing jet aircraft is the unmanned X 43 scramjet at around Mach 9 10 ... more details
and re arm aircraft a small fighteraircraft like the Bf 109 Messerschmitt BF 109 . Flugzeugkavernen ...multiple issues references April 2010 primarysources April 2010 Aircraft cavern is the literal translation of the German word Flugzeugkaverne . A Flugzeugkaverne is an underground hangar used by the Swiss Air Force . Design File Hangar3 LSTA.JPG thumb 200px Hangar 3 at Raron airfield, Switzerland A Swiss Flugzeugkaverne has space for 30 or more aircraft. The outside door usually consists of a light composite material made from steel with a wooden core. This door is safe against small arms fire and hand ... to fire on the main blast door s. As long as the blast doors are closed, the area with the aircraft ... consists of three tunnels The first one is named Tunnel X. It provides space for 15 aircraft and is equipped to handle any major overhauls such as engine repairs or replacements. The aircraft are moved ... to re arm the aircraft. This includes cannon shells, Sidewinder missile Sidewinders and AIM 120 AMRAAM ... tunnel, there are the working rooms for maintaining the aircraft systems, the communications center ... is Tunnel Y. Having the same size as Tunnel X, it can also hold 15 aircraft. Fuel storage is located behind the three tunnels. All this allows the complex to sustain 30 aircraft for about 30 days without ... can roll in and out at the same time without the need to move parked aircraft. This makes it possible to operate with more aircraft. The tunnels Y and Z are linked with a tunnel directly before the main blast doors so it is possible to refuel and rearm an aircraft during a mission without ..., none of these Corsair aircraft or any other aircraft type was bought. Operational use File X street.jpg ... the following aircraft types de Havilland D.H.100 Vampire de Havilland Venom de Havilland D.H.112 Venom ... aircraft. Other aircraft types BAe Hawk and Aerospatiale SA.316 Alouette III Alouette III have ... Category Aircraft hangars Category Swiss Air Force de Flugzeugkaverne ... more details
Infobox Aviation name Tailless aircraft image File DH 108 Swallow tg283.jpg caption The de Havilland DH 108 DH108 Swallow A tailless aircraft often tail less traditionally has all its horizontal control ... 36 research aircraft which has a canard foreplane but no vertical fin. The most successful tailless configuration has been the tailless delta wing delta , especially for combat aircraft. Flying wings ... wing would lie ahead of the aircraft s center of gravity, creating instability in Pitch flight pitch . Some other method must be used to move the aerodynamic center backward and make the aircraft ... washout . The outer section of the wing now acts as a conventional tailplane, and in level flight the aircraft ... tips of a swept wing. Reflex camber can be simulated by fitting large Elevator aircraft elevators ..., such as the Fauvel and Marske Aircraft series of sailplanes, use it. An alternative approach is to locate the main weight of the aircraft a significant distance below the wing center, so that gravity will tend to maintain the aircraft in a horizontal attitude and so counteract any aerodynamic instability ... level of stability. Some modern hi tech combat aircraft are aerodynamically unstable in pitch and rely ... for the missing stabiliser. As a result, these aircraft could pitch up or down sharply and uncontrollably ... War , the English engineer John William Dunne J. W. Dunne developed a series of tailless aircraft characterised ... practical tailless aeroplanes. Few records of these aircraft remain. Most of Dunne s designs were ... who produced the Westland Hill Pterodactyl Pterodactyl series of aircraft from 1920s onwards which ... for the German designer Willy Messerschmitt on the first tailless aircraft to go into production ... aircraft to reach operational service during the war. Its rocket propulsion system was highly unsafe ... a few examples of a tailless jet powered research aircraft called the de Havilland DH 108 DH108 Swallow , based on the forward fuselage of the de Havilland Vampire jet fighter. One of these was one of the first ... more details
carrying merchant ships which could launch but not retrieve fighteraircraft from a catapult. These vessels ... jump ramp for launching lightly loaded conventional fighteraircraft but recover using traditional ... to be this large to see all the carriers at a glance. An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase . Aircraft ... on local bases for staging aircraft operations. They have evolved from wooden vessels used to deploy ... rotary wing aircraft. Aircraft carriers are typically treated as the capital ship of a fleet and are extremely expensive to build and important to protect of the nine nations which possess an aircraft carrier, six of these navies possess only one such ship. Twenty one aircraft carriers are currently ... name bbc20110608 cite news title China aircraft carrier confirmed by general url http www.bbc.co.uk ... Main History of the aircraft carrier File HMS Illustrious01.jpg thumb upright From foreground to background ... of heavier than air, fixed wing aircraft was closely followed in 1910 by the first experimental take ... military world japan wakamiya av.htm title IJN Wakamiya Aircraft Carrier publisher globalsecurity.org ... naval aircraft. ref Geoffrey Till, Adopting the Aircraft Carrier The British, Japanese, and American ... underway in the mid 1920s, resulting in ships such as HMS Hermes 95 6 and Japanese aircraft carrier H sh H sh . Most early aircraft carriers were conversions of ships that were laid down or had ... Naval Treaty of 1922 affected aircraft carrier plans. The U.S. and UK were permitted up to 135,000 ... conversion of capital ship hulls to carriers such as the Sclass Lexington aircraft carrier 1 s. Image ... and building aircraft carriers that were specifically designed as such. This allowed the design to be specialized ... as fleet carrier s. The aircraft carrier was used extensively in World War II, and several types were created as a result. Escort aircraft carrier s, such as USS Bogue CVE 9 6 , were built only during ... more details
Mitsubishi Aircraft Company may refer to Mitsubishi Aircraft Company , an historical Japanese aircraft company which prodcued aircraft and engines in the 1920s and 1930s Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation , a modern Japanese aircraft company which produces the Mitsubishi Regional Jet MRJ disambig ... more details
GR7A Anhedral Military fighteraircraft often have near zero or even negative dihedral angle. This reduces ... maneuverability and is undesirable for fighter type aircraft. Anhedral angles are also seen on aircraft ... of the wings and tailplane of an aircraft, as seen on this Boeing 737 , is called dihedral angle Dihedral angle is the upward angle from horizontal of the wings or tailplane of a fixed wing aircraft ... from horizontal of the wings or tailplane of a fixed wing aircraft. File Dihedral and anhedral angle aircraft wing .svg thumb Schematic of dihedral and anhedral angle of an aircraft wing. Dihedral ... . Dihedral effect is a critical factor in the stability of an aircraft about the roll axis the Flight dynamics aircraft Spiral mode spiral mode . It is also pertinent to the nature of an aircraft s dutch roll oscillation and to maneuverability about the roll flight roll axis. File Aircraft dihedral ... axis and the nature of an aircraft s phugoid mode oscillation. When the term dihedral of an aircraft ... angle is the upward angle from horizontal of the wings of a fixed wing aircraft , or of any paired nominally horizontal surfaces on any aircraft . The term can also apply to the wings of a bird . Dihedral ... volume 1 pages 139 chapter 4.1.7 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 78 31382 ref of an aircraft ... angle of an aircraft increases the dihedral effect on it. However, many other aircraft parameters ... , vertical center of gravity , and the height and size of anything on an aircraft that changes its sidewards force as sideslip changes. Longitudinal dihedral Dihedral angle on an aircraft almost always implies the angle between two paired surfaces, one on each side of the aircraft . Even then, it is almost ... between the Angle of incidence Angle of incidence of fixed wing aircraft angle of incidence of the wing and Angle of incidence Angle of incidence of fixed wing aircraft angle of incidence of the horizontal ... angle and dihedral effect Aircraft stability analysis In analysis of aircraft stability, dihedral ... more details
Jet aircraft jet fighteraircraft fighters , in the mid 1950s. Powder driven catapults were also ... USS Hornet CV 12 USS Hornet , with an Douglas A 4 Skyhawk A 4 in launch position. An aircraft catapult is a device used to launch aircraft from ship s in particular aircraft carrier s as a form of assisted ... that is attached through the track to the Undercarriage nose gear of the aircraft, or in some cases a wire rope called a catapult bridle is attached to the aircraft and the catapult shuttle. The ramps at the catapult ends on some aircraft carriers are used to catch the ropes so they can be reused bridles have not been used on U.S. aircraft since the end of the Cold War , and all U.S. Navy ... Nimitz class aircraft carrier Nimitz class aircraft carrier s. USS Enterprise CVN 65 USS Enterprise ... holds the aircraft in place as steam pressure builds up, then breaks or releases older models used a pin that sheared , freeing the piston to pull the aircraft along the deck at high speed. Within about two to four seconds, aircraft velocity by the action of the catapult plus apparent wind speed ship s speed plus or minus natural wind will be sufficient to allow an aircraft to fly away, even after ... and derrick styled catapult to assist their early aircraft with a takeoff in a limited space. On 31 ... s forward speed to the aircraft s airspeed for takeoff, and lower clearance from the water conditions ... half of the war. In the 1920s and 1930s, many naval vessels apart from aircraft carriers carried float ... on the sea alongside for recovery by crane. There were submarine aircraft carriers , and some ... a catapult and from one to four aircraft battleships or battlecruisers like the HMS Prince of Wales 53 HMS Prince of Wales carried four aircraft and HMS Rodney 29 HMS Rodney carried two, while smaller warships like the cruiser HMNZS Leander HMNZS Leander carried one. The aircraft carried were ..., and the aircraft was lowered onto the sea for takeoff. Some had their aircraft and catapult removed ... more details
pp move indef Other uses Infobox VG series title Street Fighter image Image Street Fighter Logo.png 200px caption genre Fighting Game Fighting spinoffs Street Fighter EX series, films, live action and animated ... country Japan first release version Street Fighter video game Street Fighter first release date August 30, 1987 latest release version Street Fighter X Tekken latest release date March 6, 2012 website http www.streetfighter.com Official website Nihongo Street Fighter Sutor to Fait ... of Street Fighter author IGN Staff accessdate 2010 02 07 ref the series has had total home software ... http books.google.co.uk books?id OJQFSlyMEfAC accessdate 2011 04 09 page 77 quote Street Fighter has ... Fighter Wireless Game Series url http www.wirelessdevnet.com news 2002 137 news9.html accessdate 17 ... game franchises , with its List of best selling video games best selling entry Street Fighter II exceeding ... quote In 1993, sales of the violent beat em up video game Street Fighter II exceeded 1.5 billion. ref The franchise has enjoyed significant success all around the world. History Street Fighter 1987 Main Street Fighter video game Image Street Fighter.png thumb Ryu Street Fighter Ryu vs. Retsu in Street Fighter video game Street Fighter Street Fighter made its debut in the Amusement arcade arcades ... artist Ryu Street Fighter Ryu , who competed in a worldwide martial arts tournament, spanning five ..., Ken Street Fighter Ken . The player could perform three types of punch and kick attacks which ... . These were performed by executing special button combinations with the controls. Street Fighter ... on the NEC Avenue TurboGrafx CD console under the new name Fighting Street . Street Fighter ... Classics Collection Vol. 2 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox . Street Fighter II series 1991 Main Street Fighter II Super Street Fighter II Super Street Fighter II Turbo Street Fighter II The World Warrior , released in 1991, was the first true sequel to the original Street Fighter , following an unsuccessful ... more details
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