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    Aircraft bridges, including taxiway bridges and runway bridges, bring aircraft traffic over motorways, railways, and waterways. Aircraft bridges must be...
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    of the launch tower. Before the introduction of jet bridges, passengers normally boarded an aircraft by walking along the ground-level ramp and climbing...
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    Bridge. Below this is the Flag Bridge, designated for the embarked admiral and his staff. To facilitate working on the flight deck of a US aircraft carrier...
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  • A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic historical war film directed by Richard Attenborough. It depicts Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied operation in...
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    A parasite aircraft is a component of a composite aircraft which is carried aloft and air launched by a larger carrier aircraft or mother ship to support...
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    bridge length was increased by taking a curved path rather than a more direct path to Coronado. The clearance would allow an empty oil-fired aircraft...
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  • animal and a man-made vehicle, especially aircraft Bridge strike, collision of an over-height vehicle to a bridge. Military strike, limited attack on a specified...
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    pilots had flown under the upper span of Tower Bridge, Pollock was the first to do so in a jet aircraft. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, Pollock's...
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  • Skybridge (redirect from SkyBridge)
    a type of pedestrian bridge Jet bridge or skybridge, a retractable connecting bridge between an airport and an aircraft SkyBridge (people mover), a people...
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  • An airborne aircraft carrier is a type of mother ship aircraft which can carry, launch, retrieve and support other smaller parasite aircraft. The only dedicated...
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    German Luftwaffe aircraft attacking the bridge over the next 10 days. The Americans claimed to have shot down nearly 30 percent of the aircraft dispatched against...
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    PA2 (French: Porte-Avions 2, "Aircraft Carrier 2") was a planned aircraft carrier under development by Thales Naval France and DCNS for the French Navy...
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  • include buildings, towers, stadiums, and bridges. Other structures such as oil rigs, space satellites, aircraft, and ships may also be designed by a structural...
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    2024, the Oriental Air Bridge fleet consists of the following aircraft: Oriental Air Bridge has also operated the following aircraft types in the past:[citation...
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    and a truck on the bridge, and tore away 97 feet (30 m) of the bridge's rail and 41 feet (12 m) of the bridge's wall.: 5  The aircraft then plunged into...
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  • Sikorsky Aircraft is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Stratford, Connecticut. It was established by the Russian aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky...
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    Cessna AT-17 Bobcat (category Aircraft specs templates using more performance parameter)
    a twin-engine advanced trainer aircraft designed and made in the United States, and used during World War II to bridge the gap between single-engine trainers...
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    (130 nmi; 160 mi). The weapon can be launched from a number of different aircraft—the Saab Gripen, Dassault Mirage 2000, Dassault Rafale, the Panavia Tornado...
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    which destroys an RC aircraft on YouTube. The adequacy of comparison between flutter in aircraft aerodynamics and Tacoma Narrows Bridge case is discussed...
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    Various real-world aircraft have long made significant appearances in fictional works, including books, films, toys, TV programs, video games, and other...
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  • list of aircraft and armaments of the Army Air Corps (British Army). Airspeed Horsa Auster AOP.6 General Aircraft Hamilcar General Aircraft Hotspur Taylorcraft...
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    Anti-aircraft warfare is the counter to aerial warfare and includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action"...
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    part of a night-time flight along the river by wartime aircraft. London Bridge was the one bridge not subsequently stripped of the illuminations, which...
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    Minsk (Russian: Минск) is an aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft cruiser in Russian classification) that served the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from...
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  • One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (stylised on screen as ......one of our aircraft is missing) is a 1942 British black-and-white war film, mainly set in the...
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  • the aircraft's maximal safe range in a situation where the only possible landing site is the takeoff site, for example in the case of an aircraft to an...
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    Baku (Russian: Баку) was a Kiev-class aircraft carrier of the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from 1987 to 1996. In 1991 the ship was renamed Admiral...
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  • Taihō (大鳳, "Great Phoenix") was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Possessing heavy belt armor and featuring an armored...
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  • leading to the aircraft. A gate adjacent to the stand where the aircraft is parked may be a contact gate, providing access by way of a jet bridge, or a ground-loaded...
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    nearby rail bridges are included as part of the 14th Street bridge complex. A major gateway for automotive, bicycle and rail traffic, the bridge complex is...
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