nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Midi (SNCAM), which was formed in 1937 when Dewoitine's Société Aéronautique Française was nationalised,...

Flyer took off from a rail, and in later flights would sometimes employ a catapult. An editorial in the 2013 edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft supported...

1912 by Fernand Lioré and Henri Olivier. The Société de Constructions Aéronautiques d'hydravions Lioré-et-Olivier had three factories, located in Argenteuil...

Bouguenais, near Nantes, to form the Société Nationale des Constructions Aéronautiques de l'Ouest (SNCAO). Loire 11 (1930) Three-seat, single engine general-purpose...

the Wrights used a catapult to assist most takeoffs of their 1904 and 1905 airplanes. The Santos-Dumont 14-bis did not use a catapult and ran on wheels...

Mustin successfully tested the concept of the catapult launch in August 1912, and in 1915 made the first catapult launching from a ship underway. The first...

an invasion of Britain. He implemented the plan – codenamed "Operation Catapult" – for a British fleet, coded "Force H" and based in Gibraltar, to sail...

1940; NATO codename "Mug" Beriev Be-5/KOR-3, three-seat, single engine, catapult-launched seaplane, not built Beriev MDR-8, unbuilt long-range reconnaissance...

methods of launching include towing aloft using a model powered aircraft, catapult-launching using an elastic bungee cord and hand-launching. When hand-launching...

that the line drops when the model is overhead. Other methods include catapult-launching, using an elastic bungee cord. The newer "discus" style of wingtip...

ejected at low altitude, but given that the early F-104 used a downwards catapulted ejection seat the deployed parachute did not adequately slow his descent...

outside the United States Navy, and one of two non-American vessels to use catapults to launch aircraft. Founded in the 17th century, the French Navy is one...

practical size, their takeoffs were aided by headwinds near Kitty Hawk and a catapult in Ohio, and without any official observers.: 376  Lilienthal's death due...

Santos-Dumont made what was claimed to be the first airplane flight unassisted by catapult and set the first world record recognized by the Aéro-Club de France by...

1946. The following day the aircraft made four deck-run takeoffs and two catapult launches, with five arrested landings, flown by Marine Major Marion Carl...

glider. Thermal soaring gliders are normally launched with a bungee cord catapult, a winch or towed by a powered model aircraft. A discus launch glider (DLG)...

February 9, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2016. "Navy's new electromagnetic catapult 'real smooth'". Newbury Park Press. September 28, 2011. Retrieved October...

from a flat surface, without assistance such as an incline, rails, or catapult. At the time Europe was aware of the efforts of the Wright brothers who...

Airlines. November 11 – Lieutenant Dixie Kiefer makes the first night catapult launch from a ship, the U.S. Navy battleship USS California (BB-44). November...

twin-engine flying boat mailplane Dornier Do 26 four-engine gull-wing monoplane catapult-launched mailplane flying boat Dornier Do 27 STOL utility light aircraft...

shipboard trainer for the Aéronavale, with strengthened undercarriage, catapult attachments and arrestor hook; 30 built. Potez CM.191 4-seat version of...

abreast the island. Catapult arrangements for the early Essexs varied between ships; Hornet was built with a single hydraulic catapult on the forward part...

Potez and SPCA in order to form the Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est (SNCASE) on 1 February 1937. CAMS 30E (1923) - single-engine...

day, 30 September 1955. On 4 April 1956, the F8U-1 performed its first catapult launch from Forrestal. Beginning in late 1956, prototype XF8U-1s were evaluated...

Kriegsmarine (German navy). Churchill authorised a plan – codenamed "Operation Catapult" – for a British naval formation (Force H) based in Gibraltar to sail to...

heavier-than-air craft of substantial size. It was launched from a spring-actuated catapult mounted on top of a houseboat on the Potomac River near Quantico, Virginia...

company LACEBA (Les Ateliers de Construction et d'Exploitation de Brevets Aéronautiques). Flight testing in Belgium was carried out with a 280 hp (209 kW) Salmson...

fuselage and wings. 31 July – The United States Navy tests an aircraft catapult for the first time. The test, which is conducted ashore, is a failure,...

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unit only for aircraft assigned to operate from battleship and cruiser catapults. April 4 – The U.S. Navy dirigible USS Akron (ZRS-4) crashes during a...