Search results for "Fighter aircraft" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Thus, another definition states that an aircraft (or object) is supersonic ... Most modern fighter aircraft are supersonic, but only the Concorde ...7 KB (968 words) - 23:49, 26 February 2023
- , one of the Pakistan Navy's front line aircraft, has been used ... The Indian Air Force soon scrambled two IAF Mig-21 interceptor aircraft ...17 KB (2,490 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- A fixed-wing aircraft, commonly called an airplane or aeroplane, ... Fixed-wing aircraft include a large range of craft from small trainers ...20 KB (3,021 words) - 07:09, 16 June 2023
- fighter pilots for high-g flight in Air Force fighter aircraft. It is important to note that the centrifuge at Holloman AFB is far more difficult for ...11 KB (1,529 words) - 23:56, 3 December 2023
- fighter pilots for high-g flight in Air Force fighter aircraft. The use of large centrifuges to simulate a feeling of gravity has been proposed ...7 KB (963 words) - 23:56, 3 December 2023
- aviation. First flying in 1935, the aircraft caused great interest in Air Ministry circles on account of its top speed of 307 miles per hour ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- Soviet defector Viktor Belenko, a Soviet fighter pursuing Powers was caught ... Powers’s aircraft was badly damaged, and crashed near Sverdlovsk ...9 KB (1,350 words) - 01:20, 3 May 2023
- largest supplier of engines to civilian aircraft in the world, the company ... may have influenced Royce to turn to aircraft engine design) and broke ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 02:47, 16 December 2022
- he was convinced he needed a fighter aircraft with more agility, though ... of the then current German fighter aircraft.David Baker, Manfred ...33 KB (4,981 words) - 17:23, 7 December 2023
- in level flight. Yeager later commanded fighter squadrons and wings in Germany ... a test pilot and flew many types of aircraft, including experimental ...37 KB (5,256 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
- RAF's defenses and lure their fighter aircraft up to fight. The RAF ... July and September the RAF lost 1,023 fighter aircraft to all causes, while ...41 KB (6,464 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2023
- or simulate, the experience of flying an aircraft as closely and realistically ... deck crew in both civil and military aircraft. Engineering flight simulators ...23 KB (3,448 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- The first astronauts, both in the U.S. and USSR, tended to be jet ... short periods of weightlessness in aircraft such as the "vomit ...15 KB (2,112 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- postal flight in the days when aircraft had few instruments and ... (a version of the P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft), found on the seabed ...18 KB (2,919 words) - 06:45, 31 July 2023
- The first bombing from a fixed wing aircraft took place in 1911, when ... Modern military bomber aircraft are designed around a large-capacity ...13 KB (2,042 words) - 07:18, 17 November 2023
- then expanded into a major builder of aircraft engines. The automobile ... The main focus of aircraft production is fighter aircraft, with the ...20 KB (2,871 words) - 20:36, 17 April 2023
- a pilot training program with Nebraska Aircraft. He bought his own plane ... of an airmail route operated by Robertson Aircraft in St. Louis, Missouri. ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 21:30, 4 December 2023
- most prevalent forms of hijacking are of aircraft and automobiles. The motivations ... The first recorded aircraft hijack was on February 21, 1931, in Arequipa ...26 KB (3,897 words) - 15:49, 25 January 2023
- An aircraft carrier is a warship designed to deploy and, in most cases ... SC Seahawk which was actually a fighter aircraft like the Rufe in addition ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- viewer which differs. In the case of an aircraft wing, pressure regions turn ... British Supermarine Spitfire World War II fighter aircraft. ...23 KB (3,705 words) - 22:06, 25 November 2022
