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6 unusual facts about fixed-wing aircraft


Hastings Aerodrome

Air Hawke's Bay, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hawke's Bay & East Coast Aero Club, is a registered aviation college and air charter company that specialises in full-time integrated fixed wing pilot training for both domestic and international students, and air charter services.

Heinkel He 219

The aircraft was flown to Freeman Field, Indiana for flight testing along with a second of the three He 219s: a He 219 A-5 prototype, Werknummer 290060 and given the foreign equipment number FE-612.

The aircraft was also complicated and expensive to build; these factors further limited the number of aircraft produced.

Henschel Hs 129

Though equipped with generally unsuitable designs such as the Henschel Hs 123 and cannon-armed versions of the Heinkel He 112, their armament and pilots proved that the aircraft was a very effective weapon even without bombs.

Misalliance

An aircraft crashes through the roof of the conservatory to close the end of the first act.

Operation Strike of the Sword

The Marines refrained from calling in a fixed-wing airstrike and instead used the 20mm guns from their AH-1W SuperCobra helicopter gunships to avoid the risk of civilian casualties.


Adventures for the Cure

In 2006, AFC developed a documentary film, Adventures for the Cure: The Doc, narrated by 3-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond, which chronicled a 6,500-mile trek across the United States on fixed-gear, single speed bicycles by Adam Driscoll, Patrick Blair, Jesse Stump and their support crew.

Advisors Asset Management

In 1998, Scott Colyer founded Sterling Resources, a fixed income and wealth preservation company for high net worth clients and institutions in Monument, Colorado.

Aortic arch

Aortopexy is a surgical procedure in which the aortic arch is fixed to the sternum in order to keep the trachea open.

ASP pistol

The ASP was a reworked Smith & Wesson Model 39 or 39-2, employing a shortened slide; a fixed bushing (in lieu of the Smith and Wesson designed collet bushing); the unique Guttersnipe sight system; clear Lexan grip-panels; a fully ramped and throated, shortened barrel; and a smoothed and radiused profile to ensure no risk of snagging on the draw.

Avro Avis

It had a fixed landing gear with a tail skid and could be powered by a nose-mounted 32 hp Bristol Cherub II engine or a 35 hp Blackburne Thrush radial piston engine.

Baffle

Squirrel baffle, a device fixed to birdfeeders to prevent access by squirrels and other small mammals

Binary-coded decimal

Fixed-point decimal numbers are supported by some programming languages (such as COBOL and PL/I).

Boy on a Stick and Slither

Frickles Mudcat, a catfish who is running for President of the United States and is only ever seen in one fixed pose

Charity Case

However, Park then goes to House and tells him Adams fell for his trick and has unwittingly paid to have House‘s Dynasty fixed instead.

Craig Schiffer

Prior to Dresdner Kleinwort, Schiffer headed Nomura International’s European Fixed Income Division, overseeing all of the capital markets and derivative businesses.

Curtiss SO3C Seamew

Lettice Curtis, in her book "Forgotten Pilots", stated 'that although its standard fuel tanks held 300 gallons, it would only just take off with the eighty gallons' fixed as the maximum for Air Transport Auxiliary trips.

Dabos JD.24P D'Artagnan

The projected production version was to have a non-retractable faired undercarriage, variable-pitch airscrews in place of the prototype's fixed-pitch units, and 115 h.p. Potez engines.

Dagsbrún

, as well as most of the Icelandic media company Norðurljós, making it the largest corporate network provider in Iceland, offering mobile and fixed telephony and high-quality data networking, with a large footprint in the residential broadband and TV market.

Deutsches Sprachdiplom Stufe I and II

All exams are free of charge, there are fixed dates for the exams in December and March (Northern Hemisphere) and in August (Southern Hemisphere).

Dissolution of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Fixed term parliaments were introduced by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 following the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement promulgated after the 2010 election, thereby abolishing the ability of the Prime Minister to unilaterally call an election prior to the expiry of the five-year term.

Embraer EMB 202 Ipanema

The latest version of this aircraft is the first ethanol-powered fixed-wing aircraft, which could give it an economical advantage over the gasoline version.

ERIKA Enterprise

Thanks to the collaboration with the Tool & Methodologies team of Magneti Marelli Powertrain & Electronics, the automotive kernel (BCC1, BCC2, ECC1, ECC2, multicore, memory protection and kernel fixed priority with Diab 5.5.1 compiler) is MISRA C 2004 compliant using FlexeLint 9.00h under the configuration suggested by Magneti Marelli.

Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act

This Act enables simplified procurement procedures where the procurement is limited, facilitates reliance of Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology, and promotes the use of fixed-price Performance Based Contracting.

Fixed point

Archimedes said δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω, which is sometimes translated as “Give me a fixed point and I will move the world.”

Floatplane

Floatplanes have often been derived from land-based aircraft, with fixed floats mounted under the fuselage instead of retractable undercarriage (featuring wheels).

Fryeburg Water Co.

The Fryeburg Water Co. was ordered by the New Hampshire Utilities Commission (NHPUC) to provide the residents of East Conway, New Hampshire with Poland Spring bottled water (incidentally, the water that the utility sold to the Nestlé subsidiary) until the company fixed a pipeline that brought water from the spring in Maine to the homes in New Hampshire.

Guerchais-Roche T.35

Roche Aviation designed the T.35 during the latter part of World War II as a low-wing touring monoplane with fixed undercarriage.

Internet in Australia

Wireless broadband in Australia is widespread, with many point-to-point fixed wireless broadband providers serving broadband-poor regional and rural areas, predominantly with Motorola Canopy and WiMAX technologies.

Ivey Wingo

That team is known for winning the a series fixed by, amongst others, Arnold Rothstein and Abe "Little Champ" Attell.

Kinora

The Kinora worked very like a flip book or a Rolodex, using images which were conventional monochrome photographic prints fixed to strong, flexible cards attached to a circular core.

Language Interface Pack

Unlike MUI packs which are available only to Microsoft volume license customers and for select SKUs of Windows Vista, a Language Interface Pack is available freely and can be installed on a licensed copy of Microsoft Windows or Office and a fixed base language.

Larry Taunton

Larry Alex Taunton (born, May 24, 1967) is an American author, columnist, radio talk show host, and cultural commentator based out of Birmingham, Alabama who serves as the Executive Director of Fixed Point Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the public defense of the Christian faith.

Madatha Kaja

Meanwhile, Swapna's marriage is fixed to JP's son Ajay (Subbaraju).

Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum

It housed a wide variety of historic Marine Corps vehicles/tanks (both wheeled and tracked), equipment, artillery pieces and aircraft (both fixed wing (airplanes) and rotary wing (helicopters)) to trace the evolution and significance of the Marine Air-Ground Team.

Megnanapuram

The imposing steeple, 192 ft high, was added in 1868, the coping stone being fixed by Lord Napier.

Meridian circle

In the Almagest Ptolemy describes a meridian circle which consisted of a fixed graduated outer ring and a movable inner ring with tabs that used a shadow to set the Sun's position.

Metal Slug

There also a host of mechanized enemies, such as tanks, mobile artillery, aircraft, armored personnel carriers and technicals.

Mount Fentale

The date of these eruptions is fixed by the investigations of the early 19th century explorer William Cornwallis Harris, whom David Buxton states first encountered this volcano and its lava beds in 1842.

Net1

Net1 delivers broadband services to homes and businesses using FWA (Fixed Wireless access) from base stations in Louth, Meath, Cavan, Monaghan, Fingal and parts of Armagh, Westmeath, Tyrone, Longford and Fermanagh counties.

Northwest Ranger

The aircraft featured a strut-braced high-wing, a six to eight seat enclosed cabin and optional fixed tricycle landing gear, conventional landing gear, floats or skis and a single engine in tractor configuration.

Public call office

Dursanchar government under take to private C-DOT, ITI, MTNL, BSNL and Airtel provide fixed landline postpaid PCO connections.

Robin Aiglon

The Aiglon is an all-metal low-wing monoplane with a fixed tricycle landing gear and powered by a nose-mounted 180hp (134kW) Lycoming O-360-A3AD or a Lycoming O-360-A3A engine.

Russian gauge

The railway has no fixed connection with the mainland, and rail cars coming from the mainland port of Vanino on the train ferry (operating since 1973) have their bogies changed in the Sakhalin port of Kholmsk.

Stellar parallax

It is clear from Euclid's geometry that the effect would be undetectable if the stars were far enough away, but for various reasons such gigantic distances involved seemed entirely implausible: it was one of Tycho Brahe's principal objections to Copernican heliocentrism that in order for it to be compatible with the lack of observable stellar parallax, there would have to be an enormous and unlikely void between the orbit of Saturn and the eighth sphere (the fixed stars).

Superquick

A number of Superquick models are destroyed in a scene in the film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, where Sellers stamps on them in retribution for his son having "fixed" a paint blemish on Sellers's Bentley by painting a "go faster stripe" on the side.

Tailored fiber placement

The fibrous material is fixed with an upper and lower stitching thread on a base material.

Tater Du Lighthouse

There is a separate red fixed light that shows in the line over the Runnelstone Rock.

Telecommunications in El Salvador

Telecommunications in El Salvador include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet, centered primarily around the capital, San Salvador.

Two Headed

The song's video, directed by Morris Panych, was choreographed around a fixed-location camera.

Walkie-talkie

In addition to land mobile use, walkie-talkie designs are also used for marine VHF and aviation communications, especially on smaller boats and ultralight aircraft where mounting a fixed radio might be impractical or expensive.

Watts Warehouse

The bronze statue depicts the sentry wearing a Tommy helmet, World War I battle gear and a cape, standing on guard with his rifle with fixed bayonet upright, and was commissioned from the British sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger who also designed the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner, London.

Weller ULI NG

It features a cable-braced high-wing, a single-seat open cockpit without a windshield, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.


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43d Air Division

In the summer of 1957, when the Nagasaki area suffered severe flooding, the 43d assisted Japanese authorities and people by flying numerous airlift missions with helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

Cheshire Constabulary

Since December 2001 Cheshire Police have operated a Britten-Norman Islander fixed-wing aircraft, registration G-CHEZ.

CIA transnational activities in counterproliferation

It was also noted that Iraq had modified commercial crop sprayers for BW delivery at the Salman Pak facility that were assessed to be suitable for the dissemination of BW agents from helicopters or slow moving fixed wing aircraft.

Cierva C.30

By the end of the decade private flyers were moving back to the comforts and economies of fixed-wing aircraft and more C.30s moved abroad, leaving the Autogiro Flying Club at London Air Park, Hanworth as the major UK user.

Gluhareff Pressure Jet

Simple design means that engines can be incorporated into either a Helicopter's rotor blades, or a fixed wing aircraft's wings or tailfins.

Kampala Airport

Possibly the last use of the airstrip by fixed-wing aircraft was in the mid-1970s by members of the Safari Rally Committee who obtained special consent to operate from the site with a Cessna 310.

Learning to fly

Flight training, in which a person takes lessons to fly an aircraft such as a helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft

LifeFlight

LifeFlight uses one Sikorsky S-76-A helicopter (owned and operated by CHC Helicopter Corporation) as its primary mode of transport and a Beechcraft King Air 200 fixed wing aircraft as its secondary mode of transport.

Miho-Yonago Airport

The Japan Coast Guard established a base at Miho in 1978 and has operated Bell 212, Bell 412 (1996) and AgustaWestland AW139 (2009) helicopters and Bombardier DHC-8 (2011) fixed-wing aircraft there.

Republika Srpska Air Force

The majority of the fixed-wing aircraft were originally part of the 82nd Aviation Brigade, consisting out 237th lbae (Fighter Bomber Squadron with the J-21 Jastreb), 238th lbae (named "Vrbas Lynxes" flying the J-22 Orao) and 351st iae (Reconnaissance Squadron with the IJ-21, J-22 and IJ-22), which were located at the Cerklje ob Krki Air Base in Slovenia.

Richard R. Behn

The Aircraft Operations Center, located in Tampa, Florida, on MacDill Air Force Base, oversees NOAA’s fixed-wing aircraft, including the renowned NOAA “hurricane hunters.”

S72

Sikorsky S-72, a 1976 experimental hybrid helicopter/fixed-wing aircraft

Scottish Ambulance Service

The fleet consists of two Eurocopter EC-135 helicopters (operated under sub-contract by Bond Air Services) and two Beechcraft B200C King Air fixed-wing aircraft, which provide emergency response and transfers of patients to and from remote areas of Scotland.

Vikrant-class aircraft carrier

It will deploy up to 20 fixed-wing aircraft, primarily the Mikoyan MiG-29K and the naval variant of the HAL Tejas Mark 2, besides carrying 10 Kamov Ka-31 or Westland Sea King helicopters.

Wright Flyer III

Four days later, they wrote to the United States Secretary of War William Howard Taft, offering to sell the world's first practical fixed-wing aircraft.