Rather than wait for orders, Sandy took the initiative, reversed course, and put his ship and aircraft within range of Afghanistan by the next morning, setting the stage for the strikes that followed.
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The plane selected for the main part of the mission is the aging C-141, an aircraft with intercontinental range.
Boeing has always believed that the market (especially in Asia) will want big long-range aircraft to fly point-to-point rather than super-jumbos using hub airports.
The government says it looked at other nuclear-deterrent systems, including launching adapted Trident missiles from land or ships, or firing cruise missiles from long-range aircraft.
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The researchers envisage a mid-range aircraft that would carry 215 passengers.
As is the case with much severe weather, we simply see more than we did prior to satellites and (in the case of hurricanes) long-range aircraft reconnaissance.
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So if the C919 is to be commercially viable, COMAC needs to get the plane up in the air on or close to its ambitious schedule while the market for medium-range aircraft remains hot.
They also favor naval power, but ships take a much longer time than planes to get places in the vast expanses of the Western Pacific, and the Navy has little in the way of long-range aircraft.
The GTF will power Mitsubishi's new regional jet, as well as Bombardier's new CSeries, a 110-130 seat (and potentially 150 seat) medium-range aircraft that has 90 firm orders, the latest coming from Republic Airways last month.
It also argues for a stealth long-range attack aircraft as part of the airwing to provide more flexibility on how we employ our carriers.
Having recently reversed himself on the bomber and approved Air Force plans to develop a new long-range strike aircraft, the defense secretary needs to also revisit his decision on F-22.
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She would also appreciate its importance in the projection of American power in Asia and beyond as much of the nation's long-range transport aircraft supplying our military operations around the world transit through Elmendorf.
And then, again, our ability to then with a single aircraft be able to range the world and operate independently of runways is just something that is going to bring us capabilities that we don't have today.
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The future for Intelligence , Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) and strike aircraft is stealth, extreme range, and extended persistence on-station.
Separately, Vivek Lall, who heads the Indian operations at Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems unit, said the company will bid to sell six medium-range maritime patrol aircraft to India.
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Rather than turn the planes into scrap metal and lose a substantial amount of money, Saab has remodelled them into aircraft aimed at combating a range of worldwide threats.
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Immediately after the attacks, the TSA prohibited a wide range of items from aircraft cabins.
Iran claims to have its own fleet of unarmed drones, but U.S. officials question Tehran's ability to conduct even short-range reconnaissance with unmanned aircraft.
Immediately after the attacks, the TSA prohibited a wide range of items from aircraft, but it has gradually been reintroducing some banned items such as cigarette lighters and matches.
It is thus proposed for applications that range from lightweight materials for aircraft to touch-screens for computers.
As the range and passenger load of aircraft grow, so does the importance of international hub airports such as London's Heathrow.
Such weapons don't have the range and sophistication to hit aircraft frequently.
In the past few years, India has ordered from Boeing the C-17 Globemaster airlifters as well P8I long-range maritime reconnaissance and antisubmarine aircraft.
Investigators of the February crash found that interference from PLBs carried by passengers had caused the "smart" long-range rescue beacons on the aircraft and life rafts to shut down.
In July 1992, OSD effectively rejected the requirements established by the commands responsible for Special Operations Forces (SOF) and Navy Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) for an aircraft with the high speed and long range capabilities critical to their respective missions.
Even after all twenty B-2's are delivered, the inventory of long-range bombers will total barely 200 aircraft.
Controlling planes over oceans presents all kinds of challenges because aircraft are out of normal radio and radar range.
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Whether it's Gogo's exclusive air to ground and ATG-4 technologies, SES's Ku-band satellites or, Inmarsat's Global Xpress Ka-band satellite technologies, we plan to offer a full range of connectivity solutions for any aircraft mission.
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Finally, AgustaWestland surprised the HeliExpo crowd by revealing that it has been secretly testing an electrically powered tiltrotor, mixing the versatility of a vertical takeoff and land helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed-wing aircraft.
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Andrew Krepinevich, a radical defence analyst whose thinking has been endorsed, in part, by Mr Rumsfeld, cites several weapon systems which deserve higher priority: long-range bombers, missiles and unmanned aircraft, ships designed for coastal warfare, and submarines which can fire cruise missiles.
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