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
- cruiser; twelve 3 inch (76.2 mm) M3 anti-aircraft guns (with only a single ... seven of the twelve F4F Wildcat fighter aircraft belonging to a Marine ...28 KB (4,195 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- of Hawaii) and destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers and a heavy cruiser ... html A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers: Battle of Midway ...42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
- and to accident, including 14 carrier fighter aircraft. ... about the losses to his carrier fighter aircraft strength, anxious about ...54 KB (8,339 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- and achieved further celebrity as a fighter pilot, losing the sight ... his torpedo boat MAS 96 and the SVA-5 aircraft he flew over Vienna. ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- of both moving and fixed objects such as aircraft, ships, motor vehicles, ... larger effective antenna, useful in fighter aircraft applications that offer ...32 KB (4,862 words) - 22:43, 7 December 2022
- United States Air Force (USAF) F-15 fighter aircraft, operating under the ... Meanwhile, at 09:35, two USAF F-15C fighter aircraft from the 53d ...67 KB (10,179 words) - 23:19, 30 March 2024
- steel, glass, electrical equipment, aircraft, oil, and real estate. Automobiles ... Mitsubishi, was a primary Japanese naval fighter in World War II. It was ...21 KB (2,798 words) - 19:21, 9 November 2022
- fire, such as in miniguns, and automatic aircraft cannons. ... to-air role, and by the late 1950s fighter aircraft armament had almost ...29 KB (4,662 words) - 04:50, 5 November 2022
- American businessman, movie producer, aircraft inventor, mine owner and ... Hughes was a lifelong aircraft enthusiast, pilot, and self-taught ...29 KB (4,496 words) - 19:27, 7 February 2024
- the development of an air force based on aircraft carriers and on land. He ... G4M crated a demand for long-range fighter aircraft. The result partly drove ...45 KB (7,129 words) - 05:57, 11 March 2024
- (MIT). In March 1924, he conducted aircraft acceleration tests at McCook ... attack of 16 B-25 medium bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, with ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- ever assembled, including forty-two aircraft carriers, twenty-four battleships ... formation that included at least a dozen aircraft carriers and several battleships ...36 KB (5,455 words) - 21:51, 17 February 2023
- such as a drag racer, a fixed-wing aircraft, or a spacecraft during ... These were tempting targets for enemy fighter aircraft, though difficult to ...30 KB (4,644 words) - 07:42, 18 November 2022
- attackers. At the same time, Allied aircraft operating from Henderson ... Field by Allied forces. The Allied aircraft that subsequently operated ...46 KB (6,816 words) - 11:29, 20 September 2023
- coastal artillery guns, 12 heavy anti-aircraft guns, and 30 25mm dual-mount ... flying from the Mariana Islands. Fighter aircraft based on Iwo Jima sometimes ...41 KB (6,399 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- he was assigned to VMF-311, Marine Aircraft Group 33 (MAG-33) in Korea. causing Williams to have to crash-land his fighter jet. After scrambling out ...17 KB (2,672 words) - 21:15, 28 October 2022
- " and learned to fly a light aircraft, a hobby that would take ... the same time, he began to re-qualify as a fighter pilot. On March 27, 1968 ...17 KB (2,467 words) - 10:29, 7 June 2023
- joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II and ... senior year in residence due to becoming a fighter pilot during World War II ...55 KB (7,935 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- as a known object (for example an aircraft or weather balloon), it ... certain reports are ruled out as manned aircraft. Some have reported that ...29 KB (4,399 words) - 01:37, 3 May 2023
- situation, such as separatist, freedom fighter, liberator, revolutionary ... terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." This is exemplified ...40 KB (5,766 words) - 14:59, 30 April 2023
- of about ten fixed-wing and fifty rotary-wing aircraft. ... air force, fielding some 600+ combat aircraft of American design. In contrast ...22 KB (3,202 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- had deployed twenty ships, including two aircraft carriers, and the constant ... rubles, small arms, ammunition, and a few aircraft to support the Afghan resistance ...40 KB (5,946 words) - 15:41, 4 February 2023
- or not Zhou Enlai attempted to send air force fighter planes after the fleeing Lin’s aircraft. One account relates that when Zhou Enlai asked ...22 KB (3,630 words) - 04:11, 29 October 2022
- quot;). Among the occupants of the aircraft was a Luftwaffe major, Hellmuth ... 1,815 combat, 487 Transport and 50 Glider aircraft were deployed to support ...78 KB (12,110 words) - 11:42, 20 September 2023
- of the city fell on the 1077th Anti-Aircraft (AA) Regiment, a unit made ... engineers, artillery, and ground-attack aircraft. To counter this, Soviet ...43 KB (6,775 words) - 01:36, 26 September 2023
- first ships sighted by incoming Japanese aircraft, they were also the most ... Shepard was assigned to Fighter Squadron 42 (VF-42), flying the Vought ...57 KB (8,455 words) - 04:33, 17 June 2023
- 7, 1941. Two attack waves, totaling 350 aircraft were launched from six IJN ... 40 B5Ns, and 43 A6Ms (a total of 183 aircraft), launched north of Oahu ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- technology, including poison gas, aircraft, and tanks. But it was only ... Mark 1), the first single seat fighter aircraft to combine a reasonable ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
- quot; Woodward and centered around the aircraft carriers HMS Hermes and ... the Task Force was shadowed by Boeing 707 aircraft of the Argentine Air Force ...43 KB (6,819 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- the coast. The Fast Carrier Force flew fighter cover, interdiction, and ... flying in gasoline and ordnance for the aircraft stationed at Inchon. The ...21 KB (3,161 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
