" "The pilot, after a lot of damage to the aircraft, was faced with a situation of either ditching the aircraft in the ocean or bailing out or landing the aircraft, and he made the choice that everyone would have wanted him to make -- to land at the nearest available airfield, which happened to be on Chinese soil, And he did it well.
In aeronautical jargon, a jetpod is a "VQSTOL" (very quiet, short take off and landing) aircraft, explained Dr. Joe Iannelli, Associate Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at London's City University.
Though some versions of the helicopter may eventually be equipped with an array of missiles, the Fire Scout is for now planned as a reconnaissance vehicle--a role where entire missions, including taking off and landing on aircraft carriers, can be accomplished with just a few keystrokes.
He invented the radio direction finder, autopilot and the first fully automatic aircraft landing system.
Holes were ripped into the roof of a woman's house after an aircraft landing at Heathrow created a vortex.
He actually helped man the 400, 000th aircraft landing aboard the USS Kitty Hawk.
If successful, the X-47B would claim two firsts for an unmanned jet: in-flight fueling capability, and launch and landing aboard Navy aircraft carriers.
It is reported that the Soviet Union has, among other things, utilized Olivetti-supplied machine tools to fabricate its new YAK-41 supersonic, short-take-off-and-landing naval fighter aircraft.
Brompton Road is also rumoured to be where Nazi deputy Rudolf Hess was held when he was captured after crash-landing a light aircraft in Scotland in May 1941.
More has been spent on airports recently, thanks to aid from America and to the pressure of international air-safety groups, which try to ensure that aircraft landing fees are not spirited away by governments.
Similarly, the origins of the microwave oven (an offshoot of radar), the folding baby buggy (the brainchild of a test-pilot inspired by aircraft landing gear) and traffic lights (one of the first of which exploded outside the Houses of Parliament) are not widely known.
The high-intensity light can dazzle pilots during take-off and landing when shone at aircraft.
In January, the company reported reported earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012 that were down 37.8% year-over-year, and attributed the slide in part to the higher cost of renting aircraft, landing fees and fuel.
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The ice generally dissipates long before the aircraft lands, but there have been documented cases of blue ice clinging to aircraft surfaces until the aircraft reaches warmer air on approach to landing, then the ice may separate from the aircraft and fall to earth.
Our aircraft made an emergency landing in an airfield on China's Hainan Island.
On 29 December, the crash-landing of a Tupolev-204 aircraft was recorded on the dashboard camera of a car on a nearby motorway.
It said the aircraft made a hard landing on a road and then came to a stop in a nearby rice paddy field.
At the moment Dr Haller, who is now at McGill University in Montreal, is collaborating with Wenbo Tang of Arizona State University and Pak Wai Chan of the Hong Kong Observatory to apply Lagrangian theory to the problem of aircraft taking off and landing in difficult circumstances.
Eighteen seconds later, you have slowed that aircraft to hover speed and can sit down in the landing zone to quickly on- or off-load the maximum things on the aircraft.
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Reform of aircraft take-off and landing rights, known as slots, is also long overdue.
The BAE Systems-manufactured Avro RJ100 aircraft suffered a failure on landing in London.
Sudden changes in wind speed or direction, known as wind shear, can lift or smash aircraft into the ground during landing.
Korean Air Lines fell 0.8% after a bomb threat forced one of its aircraft to make an emergency landing in Canada on Wednesday.
This aircraft, dubbed the V-22, is capable of taking off and landing like a helicopter and of transitioning to horizontal flight like a conventional aircraft in mid-air.
Currently, the Hales' landing strip has too much snow for wheeled aircraft but not enough for those with skis.
The FAA said it issued an AD requiring airlines to inspect Airbus A320 aircraft for possible cracking of a landing gear part.
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It is operated from a computer workstation, rather than by traditional aircraft controls, and has an automatic landing system.
"After landing and while taxiing to the gate, our aircraft made contact with another parked aircraft, " Spirit spokeswoman Misty Pinson confirmed to CNN.
Thanks to this sustained investment, myriad engineering challenges have been overcome that previously precluded a single aircraft design from taking-off and landing like helicopters and flying horizontally like conventional airplanes.
The Park Place search begins a day after the NYPD announced that Boeing officials had determined that the 5-foot-tall, 3-foot-wide wreckage is a support piece attached to the wing of an aircraft, and not a piece of landing gear as originally believed.
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