An early version of a flexible Air Force plane with vertical take-off and landing capabilities.
The DH-6 Twin Otter was chosen for its short take off and landing capability.
Reform of aircraft take-off and landing rights, known as slots, is also long overdue.
But on the other hand you get the big planes taking off and landing.
The high-intensity light can dazzle pilots during take-off and landing when shone at aircraft.
He officially opened a runway, which had already had several thousand planes taking off and landing on it.
Similarly, while access to busy airports may in theory be increased, this will depend on obtaining take-off and landing slots.
The meeting on Monday night was held at Breachwood Green, where it is claimed aeroplanes can be heard taking off and landing.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the high intensity light can dazzle pilots during the crucial phases of take-off and landing.
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He also wants to build a vertical take-off and landing commercial jet.
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"There's that time between when you can't use your laptop when you're taking off and landing, so that's prime SkyMall time, " Nainan said.
Virgin and Delta are forming an operational partnership that will give Delta more access to take-off and landing slots at London's Heathrow airport.
Why should using an iPad, Kindle or bag-holding alarm clock be banned during take-off and landing, even with all wireless comms switched off?
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The iPad has not received the appropriate certification of EFB to be used during take off and landing, but it will in the near future.
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The B-1B has a "variable-geometry" or swing-wing design: The wings are swept forwards, almost at right angles to the body, for take-off and landing and cruising.
Remember, every surgeon has to make a first cut, every lawyer a first opening statement to a jury, every pilot a first take off and landing.
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There were no problems reported at the airport in the capital, Banjul, with planes taking off and landing as scheduled from the afternoon of 1 January.
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.
Turns out 3% of our respondents (from a sample of 1, 933 passengers who completed the poll last week) say they leave their devices on during take-off and landing.
The Osprey's tiltrotor technology makes it the world's only transport plane capable of taking-off and landing vertically and converting in-flight to fly at speeds comparable to conventional turbo-props.
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.
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.
It includes ground troops with supporting artillery, amphibious assault vehicles and light armour, plus transport and attack helicopters and perhaps AV-8B Harrier jet fighter-bombers, capable of taking off and landing vertically.
Virgin and other carriers such as Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa and Emirates operate long-haul services, frequently using airports, such as London's Heathrow, where there are limited runway slots for take-off and landing.
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The two governments could have insisted on one immediately, at the same time dropping their outdated limits on foreign ownership of airlines and releasing take-off and landing slots at congested Heathrow.
Some cut-price airlines want regulators to force Swiss and British Airways to give up valuable take-off and landing slots at London's busy Heathrow airport if Swiss is allowed to become a Oneworld member.
Sir Richard has been particularly critical of the number of take-off and landing slots at Heathrow Airport that BA holds, especially after its parent company IAG bought BMI, which gave it more slots.
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The United States Post Office did not require the Letter Logger to do this, however, in part because mail often travels in aircraft, and transmitting devices must be switched off during take-off and landing.
The engines would have variable nozzles, which would be fully opened on take-off and landing, so that the exhaust would be slow and relatively quiet, and narrowed when the aircraft was cruising, providing the necessary speed.
The Osprey, readers of this space will recall, is a remarkable "tilt-rotor" airplane, capable of taking off and landing vertically but able to rotate its turboprop engines in flight so as to fly like a conventional aircraft.
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