The FICON (Fighter Conveyor) program was conducted by the United States Air Force in the 1950s to test the feasibility of a Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber...
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F-84 Thunderjet in the bomber's bomb bay (the FICON project), or attached to the bomber's wingtips (Project Tom-Tom). One configuration studied for the...
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Luftwaffe during World War II for attacking large heavily defended targets. FICON project - Convair B-36 — F-84F Thunderstreak combination for fighter escort...
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operational. See FICON project Tom-Tom Two RF-84K and B-36 wingtip coupling experiment, did not become operational. See FICON project FICON F-84E and GRB-36D...
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science-themed children's television series on BBC TV Project Tom-Tom, a fighter plane experiment after the FICON project Tom Tom Magazine, a quarterly about women...
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from the ANG in 1972. Several modified Thunderflashes were used in the FICON project. The Thunderstreak suffered from the same poor takeoff performance as...
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tested the FICON project to extend the range of photographic reconnaissance and fighter escort aircraft beginning in January 1955. FICON involved using...
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development and in service; consequently, the project was cancelled.[citation needed] More successful was the FICON project, involving a modified B-36 (called a...
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(1963) Boeing EB-29 with FICON trapeze and McDonnell XF-85 Goblin parasite fighter A Republic F-84E on FICON trapeze Project Tom Tom: Boeing B-29 with...
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the RF-84K Thunderflash (FICON project) and XF-85 Goblin fighters. In November 2014, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) requested...
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91st Cyberspace Operations Squadron (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from August 2017)
conducted an operational procedure called the Fighter-Conveyance (FICON) system. FICON used two aircraft: a B-36 to function as the "mother" ship, providing...
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Northrop XP-79 Convair XP-81 Bell XP-83 XB-35 YB-49 XB-70 Valkyrie B-1A FICON project B-72 (WS-125) Convair X-6 Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Northrop YA-9...
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from May 1948 to February 1953. During this time, he took part in the FICON project, a concept to increase the effective combat radius of jet fighters by...
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subsequent FICON project attempted a similar solution, docking jet fighters with heavy bombers via a trapeze mechanism or their wingtips. Whilst projects for...
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Anders USA M Apollo 8 Bud Anderson USA F Triple ace of World War II, FICON project Joseph T. Anderson USA M Harrier jump jet testing, deputy director of...
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systems." His aircraft was F-86D-1-NA Sabre, 50-469. In 1953, under the FICON project, the Convair GRB-36F, 49-2707 and Republic EF-84E Thunderjet, 49-2115...
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McDonnell XF-85 Goblin (category Cancelled military aircraft projects of the United States)
concept of parasite aircraft under three related projects following the cancellation: MX-106 "Tip Tow", FICON, and "Tom-Tom." During World War II, American...
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Sparrowhawk de Havilland DH.53 Humming Bird Republic RF-84K Thunderjet FICON project Gunston, Bill (1995). The Osprey Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875...
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converted to carry a GRF-84F Thunderstreak on a central trapeze as part of the FICON (Fighter Conveyor) programme, other machines were also converted and used...
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is a protocol that transports SCSI commands over Fibre Channel networks. FICON is a protocol that transports ESCON commands, used by IBM mainframe computers...
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after its release in 2002. Brocade added mainframe customers with FICON and FICON CUP support on the SilkWorm 12000. In 2004, the BLOOM II improved on...
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program to be constructed. It is designed to improve performance for native FICON applications that use extended format datasets (including DB2 and VSAM)...
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Motherboard FET—Field Effect Transistor FHS—Filesystem Hierarchy Standard FICON—FIber CONnectivity FIFO—First In First Out FIPS—Federal Information Processing...
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Solutions - IFL". IBM. Retrieved 5 June 2013. "IBM Z - I/O Connectivity: FICON/zHPF/CTC". www.ibm.com. 2012-11-15. Retrieved 2016-06-01. staff, Computerworld...
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to February 1956, the wing participated in the FICON (FIghter CONveyor) project, which was a project to extend the range of reconnaissance jets by having...
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Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy (FABIQ) School of Construction Engineering (FICON) School of Health Science (FACISA) It has seven vocational schools: Art...
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87‐0800 Northrop X-4 Bantam 46-0677 Republic XF-84H 51-17059 Republic YRF-84F FICON 49-2430 Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor 46-0680 Ryan X-13 Vertijet 54-1620...
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these with Enterprise Systems Connection (ESCON) and Fibre Connection (FICON) channels, but well after the S/360 era. There were initially two types...
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