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List Of Carrier-based Aircraft
This List of carrier-based aircraft covers fixed-wing aircraft designed for aircraft carrier flight deck operation and excludes aircraft intended for use from seaplane tenders, submarines and dirigibles. Helicopters includes only those regularly operated from aircraft carriers and not those normally flown from other types of surface ships or land bases. List of aircraft operated from aircraft carriers , - , Aeromarine 39, , US, , Propeller, , Trials, , , , Temporary, , +, , , - , Aérospatiale Alouette III, , France, , Helicopter, , , , , , Production, , , , , - , Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma, , France, , Helicopter, , , , , , Production, , , , , - , Aérospatiale Super Frelon, , France, , Helicopter, , , , , , Production, , , , , - , Agusta-Bell AB.212ASW, , Italy, , Helicopter, , ASW, , , , Production, , , , , - , AgustaWestland AW101/EH101/Merlin, , Italy/UK, , Helicopter, , , , , , Production, , , , , - , AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat, , UK/Italy, , Helicopter, , Mult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunning Landing-on Furious In Pup
Dunning may refer to: Places * Dunning, Chicago, Illinois, United States, a community area * Dunning, Nebraska, United States, a village * Dunning Creek, Pennsylvania * Dunning, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, a small village ** Dunning railway station Other uses * Dunning (surname), a surname * Baron Dunning, a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom * Dunning baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom * Dunning (process), the process of methodically communicating with customers to ensure the collection of accounts receivable See also * Dunning School, a historiographical school of thought regarding the Reconstruction period of American history * Dunning House, Wawayanda, New York, United States * Dunning–Kruger effect The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a certain type of task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge. Some researchers also include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armstrong Whitworth Starling
The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.14 Starling was a prototype British single-seat biplane fighter developed for the Royal Air Force in the late 1920s which unsuccessfully competed against the Bristol Bulldog. Development The A.W.14 Starling was developed by Armstrong Whitworth as the sole contender for Specification 28/24, for a single-seat fighter capable of operating in day and night-time conditions to replace Armstrong Whitworth's earlier Siskin. It was a single-bay sesquiplane (a biplane with the lower wing much smaller than the upper) with staggered unequal span wings. The fuselage had a bolted steel-tube structure, while the wings had steel spars and wooden ribs and were fitted with ailerons on the upper wings only. The wings used the experimental symmetrical RAF 30 aerofoil section. Armament was two synchronised Vickers machine guns.Tapper 1988, pp. 168–170.Mason 1992, p. 189.''Flight'' 2 August 1928, pp. 660–665. Two prototypes were ordered, with the first ''J8027' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berliner-Joyce OJ
The Berliner-Joyce OJ was an American biplane observation floatplane developed by the Berliner-Joyce Aircraft for the United States Navy during the early 1930s. Design and development The origins of the OJ stemmed from a 1929 Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer) requirement calling for an observation seaplane intended for service aboard ''Omaha'' class light cruisers, readily convertible to wheels or floats and light enough to operate from the cruiser-type catapult. Prototypes were ordered from Keystone-Loening (then a subsidiary of Curtiss-Wright), Berliner-Joyce and Vought, and designated as the XOK-1, XOJ-1 and XO4U-1 respectively. The Berliner Joyce design, a conventional biplane of mixed metal and fabric construction with staggered wings and the pilot and observer seated in tandem in open cockpits, first flew in May 1931. By that time the rival XOK-1 was already destroyed in a crash. Following trials that lasted into 1932, BuAer awarded Berliner-Joyce a contract. An order for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berliner-Joyce F2J
The Berliner-Joyce XF2J was the company's second biplane fighter for the United States Navy. The XF2J was ordered on 30 June 1931 and although designated as a two-seat fighter, it was used as an observation aircraft. Design and development The XF2J's construction was all-metal with a fabric covered rudder. The upper wing was " gulled", with a short, sharply upward-angled section, with the remainder of the wing with a slight dihedral. The lower wing span was shorter than the upper wing, and was braced with "N" struts and wires. A .30 calibre machine gun was located in each of the gulled sections of the upper wing and were synchronized to fire through the propeller arc.Forgotten Fighters p 56 The tightly-cowled 9-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-1690C Hornet was the engine originally specified, but was changed to the 14-cylinder Wright SR-1510-92 Whirlwind before the aircraft flew. The propeller was a metal constant speed two-blade design. The original open cockpits were modif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell XFL Airabonita
The Bell XFL Airabonita was an American experimental carrier-based interceptor aircraft developed for the United States Navy by Bell Aircraft Corporation of Buffalo, New York. It was similar to and a parallel development of the U.S. Army Air Corps’ land-based P-39 Airacobra, differing mainly in the use of a tailwheel undercarriage in place of the P-39's tricycle gear. Only one prototype was built. Design and development The XFL-1 (Bell Model 5) was powered by a single 1,150 hp (858 kW) Allison XV-1710-6 liquid-cooled V12 engine installed amidships behind the pilot and driving a three-bladed Curtiss Electric propeller in the nose through a 10.38 ft (3.16 m) extension shaft. The aircraft had provisions for a single 37 mm (1.46 in) Oldsmobile T9 cannon which could be replaced by a .50 in (12.7 mm) Browning M2/AN machine gun firing through the propeller shaft and two .30 in (7.62 mm) machine guns in the fuselage nose. It first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey
The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is an American multi-mission, tiltrotor military aircraft with both vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and short takeoff and landing (STOL) capabilities. It is designed to combine the functionality of a conventional helicopter with the long-range, high-speed cruise performance of a turboprop aircraft. In 1980, the failure of Operation Eagle Claw (during the Iran hostage crisis) underscored that there were military roles for which neither conventional helicopters nor fixed-wing transport aircraft were well-suited. The United States Department of Defense (DoD) initiated a program to develop an innovative transport aircraft with long-range, high-speed, and vertical-takeoff capabilities, and the Joint-service Vertical take-off/landing Experimental (JVX) program officially commenced in 1981. A partnership between Bell Helicopter and Boeing Helicopters was awarded a development contract in 1983 for the V-22 tiltrotor aircraft. The Bell Boeing team joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell AH-1 SuperCobra
The Bell AH-1 SuperCobra is a twin-engined attack helicopter that was developed on behalf of, and primarily operated by, the United States Marine Corps (USMC). The twin Cobra family, itself part of the larger Huey family, includes the AH-1J SeaCobra, the AH-1T Improved SeaCobra, and the AH-1W SuperCobra. The Super Cobra was derived from the single-engined Bell AH-1 Cobra, AH-1 Cobra, which had been developed during the mid-1960s as an interim gunship for the U.S. Army. The USMC had quickly taken an interest in the type, but sought a twin-engined arrangement for greater operational safety at sea, along with more capable armaments. While initially opposed by the Department of Defense, who were keen to promote commonality across the services, in May 1968, an order for an initial 49 twin-engine AH-1J SeaCobras was issued to Bell. The type entered service during the final months of the US's involvement in the Vietnam War, seeing limited action in the theatre as a result. The USMC p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricycle Landing Gear
Tricycle gear is a type of aircraft undercarriage, or ''landing gear'', arranged in a tricycle fashion. The tricycle arrangement has a single nose wheel in the front, and two or more main wheels slightly aft of the center of gravity. Tricycle gear aircraft are the easiest for takeoff, landing and taxiing, and consequently the configuration is the most widely used on aircraft.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition'', page 524. Aviation Supplies & Academics, 1997. Aviation Publishers Co. Limited, ''From the Ground Up'', page 11 (27th revised edition) History Several early aircraft had primitive tricycle gear, notably very early Antoinette planes and the Curtiss Pushers of the pre-World War I Pioneer Era of aviation. Waldo Waterman's 1929 tailless '' Whatsit'' was one of the first to have a steerable nose wheel. In 1956, Cessna introduced sprung-steel tricycle landing gear on the Cessna 172. Their marketing department described this as "Land-O-Matic" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Firsts In Aviation
This is a list of firsts in aviation. For a comprehensive list of women's records, see Women in aviation. First person to fly The first flight (including gliding) by a person is unknown. Several have been suggested. * In 559 A.D., several prisoners of Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi, including Yuan Huangtou of Ye, China, Ye, were said to have been forced to launch themselves with a kite from a tower, as an experiment. Only Yuan Huangtou survived, only to be executed later. * In the 9th century, the Andalusian Abbas ibn Firnas attempted a short gliding flight with wings covered with feathers from the Tower of Cordoba but was injured while landing. [100f.] * In the early 11th century, Eilmer of Malmesbury, an English Benedictine monk, attempted a gliding flight using wings. He is recorded as travelling a modest distance before breaking his legs on landing.William of Malmesbury – ed. and trans. R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson, and M. Winterbottom (1998–99). ''Gesta regum Anglo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AH574
''AH574'' was a Bell Airacobra I used by the Royal Navy for test work during and after the Second World War Initial history ''AH574'' was initially ordered in 1940 for the Royal Air Force (RAF) as part of the Airacobra I serial number block ''AH570''–''AH739'' (No. 601 Squadron RAF). When the Airacobra type was rejected by the RAF, ''AH574'' was transferred to the Royal Navy for test work.Brown 2006, p. 93. Test work On 4 April 1945, ''AH574'' became part of aviation history when test pilot Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown landed it on the flight deck of HMS ''Pretoria Castle''—the first carrier landing made by an aircraft with retractable tricycle gear—due to a declared emergency during initial trials for landings on rubber decks planned for future carriers. In his autobiography, Captain Brown described the circumstances thus: I had already collected a few 'firsts' in aviation, and I rather wanted to be the first pilot to put a tricycle aircraft down on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beardmore W
Beardmore can refer to: *Andrew Beardmore, better known as Andy Moor, English trance DJ, producer and remixer *Bob Beardmore, British rugby league footballer *Bud Beardmore (1939–2016), American lacrosse coach *Jim Beardmore, Former All-American lacrosse goalie and current coach *Nathaniel Beardmore (1816-1872), British engineer and hydrologist *William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn, a Scottish industrialist :*William Beardmore and Company, the engineering company of the above Beardmore :*Beardmore 160 hp, a water-cooled aero engine built for the above company * Beardmore, Ontario, a small community in Northern Ontario * Beardmore, Victoria, a small town in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia * Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica, one of the world's largest glaciers *Beardmore Relics The Beardmore Relics are a cache of Viking Age artifacts, said to have been unearthed near Beardmore, Ontario, Canada in the 1930s. The cache consists of a Viking Age sword, an axe head, and a bar of und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avro Buffalo
The Avro 571 Buffalo was a prototype British carrier-based torpedo bomber biplane, designed and built by Avro in the 1920s. It was not selected for service, the Blackburn Ripon being ordered instead. Design and development The Avro 571 Buffalo was designed by Avro as a private venture to meet the requirements of Air Ministry Specification 21/23, for a two-seat torpedo bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, intended to replace the Blackburn Dart. The prototype (''G-EBNW'') first flew at the Avro works at Hamble during 1926.Jackson 1990, p.229. It was evaluated against the Blackburn Ripon and the Handley Page Harrow, but was found to have poor handling and was therefore rejected.Mason 1994, p. 157. The prototype was therefore rebuilt as the Avro 572 Buffalo II, with new, all-metal wings, fitted with controllable Handley Page slats and a more powerful engine. In this form, the Buffalo was much improved. By this time however, the Ripon had been declared the competition winner. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
