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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 ...

, one of the Pakistan Navy's front line aircraft, has been used ... The Indian Air Force soon scrambled two IAF Mig-21 interceptor aircraft ...

A fixed-wing aircraft, commonly called an airplane or aeroplane, ... Fixed-wing aircraft include a large range of craft from small trainers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soviet defector Viktor Belenko, a Soviet fighter pursuing Powers was caught ... Powers’s aircraft was badly damaged, and crashed near Sverdlovsk ...

largest supplier of engines to civilian aircraft in the world, the company ... may have influenced Royce to turn to aircraft engine design) and broke ...

he was convinced he needed a fighter aircraft with more agility, though ... of the then current German fighter aircraft.David Baker, Manfred ...

in level flight. Yeager later commanded fighter squadrons and wings in Germany ... a test pilot and flew many types of aircraft, including experimental ...

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 ...

or simulate, the experience of flying an aircraft as closely and realistically ... deck crew in both civil and military aircraft. Engineering flight simulators ...

The first astronauts, both in the U.S. and USSR, tended to be jet ... short periods of weightlessness in aircraft such as the "vomit ...

postal flight in the days when aircraft had few instruments and ... (a version of the P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft), found on the seabed ...

The first bombing from a fixed wing aircraft took place in 1911, when ... Modern military bomber aircraft are designed around a large-capacity ...

then expanded into a major builder of aircraft engines. The automobile ... The main focus of aircraft production is fighter aircraft, with the ...

a pilot training program with Nebraska Aircraft. He bought his own plane ... of an airmail route operated by Robertson Aircraft in St. Louis, Missouri. ...

most prevalent forms of hijacking are of aircraft and automobiles. The motivations ... The first recorded aircraft hijack was on February 21, 1931, in Arequipa ...

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 ...

viewer which differs. In the case of an aircraft wing, pressure regions turn ... British Supermarine Spitfire World War II fighter aircraft. ...

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 ...

of Hawaii) and destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers and a heavy cruiser ... html A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers: Battle of Midway ...

and to accident, including 14 carrier fighter aircraft. ... about the losses to his carrier fighter aircraft strength, anxious about ...

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. ...

of both moving and fixed objects such as aircraft, ships, motor vehicles, ... larger effective antenna, useful in fighter aircraft applications that offer ...

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 ...

steel, glass, electrical equipment, aircraft, oil, and real estate. Automobiles ... Mitsubishi, was a primary Japanese naval fighter in World War II. It was ...

fire, such as in miniguns, and automatic aircraft cannons. ... to-air role, and by the late 1950s fighter aircraft armament had almost ...

American businessman, movie producer, aircraft inventor, mine owner and ... Hughes was a lifelong aircraft enthusiast, pilot, and self-taught ...

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 ...

(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 ...

ever assembled, including forty-two aircraft carriers, twenty-four battleships ... formation that included at least a dozen aircraft carriers and several battleships ...

such as a drag racer, a fixed-wing aircraft, or a spacecraft during ... These were tempting targets for enemy fighter aircraft, though difficult to ...

attackers. At the same time, Allied aircraft operating from Henderson ... Field by Allied forces. The Allied aircraft that subsequently operated ...

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 ...

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 ...

" 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 ...

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 ...

as a known object (for example an aircraft or weather balloon), it ... certain reports are ruled out as manned aircraft. Some have reported that ...

situation, such as separatist, freedom fighter, liberator, revolutionary ... terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." This is exemplified ...

of about ten fixed-wing and fifty rotary-wing aircraft. ... air force, fielding some 600+ combat aircraft of American design. In contrast ...

had deployed twenty ships, including two aircraft carriers, and the constant ... rubles, small arms, ammunition, and a few aircraft to support the Afghan resistance ...

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 ...

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 ...

of the city fell on the 1077th Anti-Aircraft (AA) Regiment, a unit made ... engineers, artillery, and ground-attack aircraft. To counter this, Soviet ...

first ships sighted by incoming Japanese aircraft, they were also the most ... Shepard was assigned to Fighter Squadron 42 (VF-42), flying the Vought ...

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 ...

technology, including poison gas, aircraft, and tanks. But it was only ... Mark 1), the first single seat fighter aircraft to combine a reasonable ...

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 ...

the coast. The Fast Carrier Force flew fighter cover, interdiction, and ... flying in gasoline and ordnance for the aircraft stationed at Inchon. The ...

, 332. However, he mentioned that aircraft diverted to such raids should ... bombing Soviet forces; Western Allied aircraft would not bomb east of the ...

high altitude, affecting the ability of aircraft to carry loads, made control ... also had mortars, artillery and anti-aircraft guns. Many posts had been ...

airport runway is unable to accommodate large aircraft. ... 2018, former president and independence fighter, Taur Matan Ruak, became ...

able to obtain the material for an anti-aircraft missile defense wall after ... of the deficiencies of most of the aircraft and air defense weaponry ...

officials or pilots with their advanced aircraft. From 1953 to the early ... flew his MiG-15 to the South. Since this fighter plane represented the best ...

an searchlight battery of Finnish anti-aircraft artillery in defense of ... in the German air force received her jet fighter license. ...

of heavy artillery (including anti-aircraft guns) and their ability ... and emplacing heavy artillery and anti-aircraft guns before making his move ...

The United States Navy mobilized two naval battle groups, the aircraft ... of the Iraqi air force and anti-aircraft facilities. This was quickly ...

Elevators are used to lift cargo and equipment; e.g. lifting aircraft ... On aircraft carriers, elevators carry aircraft between the flight ...

as the deciding factor at sea by aircraft carriers. The term "battleship ... and Gneisenau surprising and sinking the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious off ...

using 'fatigued' Canberra B2 aircraft and Hawker Hunters—­ ... find alternative means of keeping their aircraft flying. The RhAF was relatively ...

supporters viewed him as a heroic freedom fighter who symbolized the national ... come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. Do not let the ...

On October 30, 1994, unmarked Russian aircraft began bombing the capital ... the city into submission. Russian aircraft bombarded Grozny while armored ...

Truppe Volontarie and Condor Legion), aircraft, and weapons to support ... Soviet Union. These arms included 1,000 aircraft, 900 tanks, 1,500 artillery ...

U.S.-manufactured F-4 Phantom and F-5 Freedom Fighter fighters, as well as AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters. It also operated a number of F-14 Tomcat ...

States to transfer two hundred military aircraft out of France and return ... and served into the early 1990s. Also, aircraft marshalling signals were ...

| Aircraft || 7,700 || 18,700 || 142.8 |} In 1941, the Soviet armed ... severely hampered by a shortage of modern aircraft. The Soviet fighter force ...

[[Image:Defoliation_agent_spraying.jpg|thumb|right|275px|U.S. aircraft ... Vietnamese navy. Maddox was joined by aircraft from the aircraft-carrier ...

isoparaffin meant more C-3 available for fighter plane use. ... quality of fuel being used by the German fighter planes was quite similar ...

War with twenty-two confirmed kills as a fighter pilot, and recipient of ... to fly businessmen and others on private aircraft. On a winter's day ...

the Dutch government's purchase of fighter aircraft. The Prime Minister of the Netherlands ordered an inquiry into the affair while Prince Bernhard ...

and military infrastructure to replace aircraft lost during combat. Throughout ... Air Force comprised only about 700 obsolete aircraft. Chinese weapons ...

flying the Grumman F9F Panther from the aircraft carrier ... 1949. On March 2, 1950, he made his first aircraft carrier landing on ...

anti-aircraft (AA) guns were mounted on the ship's superstructure ... за свободу – Freedom Fighter). ===Reserve and decommissioning=== ...

in numbers. One U-boat sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous, ... The Luftwaffe initially targeted RAF Fighter Command. The results were ...

A freedom fighter, Rao had been active during the Indian Independence movement and joined full time politics after independence as a member of ...

began the war with about 180 Russian aircraft, including 40 YAK fighters ... of U.S. Navy pilots flying F9F Panther fighter jets on hazardous missions ...

since World War I as offensive firearms in fighter aircraft and tanks (for example, for air combat or suppressing fire for ground troop support). ...

PLA air force]] Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter aircraft]] ... since the early 2000s – its first aircraft carrier entered service in 2012, ...

to throw the hostages out of the aircraft. They surrendered and released ... [[File:USF-111 Libya1986.JPG|thumb|alt=photograph|48th Tactical Fighter ...

Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft, and to strengthen the ... in the 1880s and 1890s. The production of aircraft was greatly increased at ...

includes U.S. F-16 multi-role fighter aircraft, Mirage 2000s, British Hawk aircraft, and French helicopters. The air defense has a Hawk missile ...

Chittaranjan Das, the Bengali freedom fighter and co-founder (with Motilal ... flown on to Berlin in a special courier aircraft at the beginning of April ...

The Kazakh Air Defence Force's fighter aircraft element consists of the 356th Fighter Aviation Regiment, flying MiG-31s from Semipalitinsk ...

flies transport, trainer, helicopter, and fighter aircraft. Nigeria has pursued a policy of developing domestic training and military production capabilities ...

batteries, it quickly moved to supply fighter jets and anti-aircraft missiles to the ROC. It also provided amphibious assault ships to land supplies ...

they may be found in machines ranging from fighter aircraft to industrial robots, digital cameras, and even children's toys. ...

advanced Dassault Mirage III French jet fighter, established the Dimona ... concluded with the sale of Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel, the ...

fighter]] airplane|alt=A light fighter aircraft on the ground with two ... [[File:China Airlines Lineup TPE.jpg|thumb|350px|China Airlines aircraft ...

the election, Putin flew to Chechnya on a fighter jet, claiming victory. ... On August 24, 2004, two Russian aircraft were bombed. This was followed ...

airport, and also uses it to test and develop fighter aircraft for the Indian Air Force.Rasheed Kappan , [http://www.hindu.com/2007/06/14/stories/2007061406380100 ...

naval zone. Moreover, by 1941, U.S. Navy aircraft carriers were secretly ferrying ... were providing most of the troops, aircraft and ships against the Germans ...

baron Lord Beaverbrook in charge of aircraft production. It was Beaverbrook ... "The Few" for the Allied fighter pilots who won it. ...

column was under attack from German aircraft, he shot and killed a pair ... positions with indirect fire. Light aircraft such as the Piper L-4 Cub ...

Nag and Trishul. India's first modern fighter aircraft is named Tejas. This practice is usually followed in scientific institutions in India also. ...

The Albanian Air Force still has MiG-19 and F-6 aircraft, although most are not operational. The last of Albania's fighter jets were withdrawn ...

is made in France, including the Rafale fighter, the Charles de Gaulle aircraft ... machinery and transportation equipment, aircraft, plastics, chemicals, pharmaceutical ...

began massing large numbers of tanks and aircraft on Israel's borders ... [[Image:Ilan Ramon.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Ilan Ramon, Israeli fighter ...

After becoming a wartime resistance fighter, Georges Valois was arrested ... * 1935: Aircraft * 1935: La Ville radieuse (The Radiant City) ...

military power including in numbers of tanks, fighter aircraft and naval vessels; it has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. It also has the second ...