They are the biggest purchaser of the revolutionary Osprey tiltrotor, which pivots its engines so it can take off like a helicopter, but fly as far and fast as a fixed-wing plane.
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Part of that need will be met in the future by a new generation of rotorcraft, including the revolutionary MV-22 tiltrotor that combines the vertical agility of a helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed-wing plane.
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Visitors can see the falls from many vantage points: above from a helicopter or microlight fixed wing plane, at eye level walking across the Knife Edge Bridge that spans the width of the falls on the Zambian side, or from below on a hike.
Two packets were then seen dropping from either wing of the plane following his command.
The cable became wrapped around a wing but the plane flew on towards St Andrews Park, losing height rapidly.
By integrating the subwoofer into the Soundbar itself, the overall effect is an elegant shape reminiscent of a plane's wing.
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If a model overestimates the lift around an aircraft's wing, then the actual plane might not get off the ground.
NASA, America's aerospace agency, showed how to quieten the boom by using a fatter wing on a modified fighter plane.
Flying Officer Hynam died while taking part in a flypast over Pershore on 25 May 1943 when his plane lost a wing and crashed, damaging the town's Brandy Cask pub.
As a young pilot in aviation's early, novelty days, Lindbergh, along with an older, more experienced sidekick, had entertained crowds throughout the Midwest by skydiving in a parachute or walking out parachuteless onto the plane's wing, and the Democrats were now quick to belittle his barnstorming in the Spirit of St.
The design, a more radical triangular wing-body shape, combines the plane's fuselage with the wings and has no tail.
England wing Ugo Monye is also on the plane, but national captains Steve Borthwick of England, Ryan Jones of Wales and Mike Blair of Scotland were among those left out.
Pilots say those stalls are particularly insidious because pilots cannot see the tail wings and because the recovery procedure is the opposite of a main-wing stall -- tail-wing stalls generally are overcome by raising the plane's nose.
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The wing and part of the fuselage of the plane were being moved to Oceana for further study, but the remains of the jet's twin engines will remain at the crash site for now as investigators study them, the U.S. Atlantic fleet's aviation arm reported.
Overhead video from CNN affiliate KTLA showed firefighters working to douse a fire as most of the plane, including a visible part of its wing, lay in the middle of a road.
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"Hey, that Japan Air may know it but they have fuel spewing out the leftward wing quite a bit, " the pilot of another plane told the control tower, which radioed the JAL crew and halted takeoff.
A350 to revive the larger older plane, or whether they should let it wither on the wing.
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Right-wing French terrorists reportedly tried to return the favor by attempting to sabotage Mattei's plane.
When lightning strikes a plane, the bolt typically hits a sharp part of it, such as a wing tip.
The pilot who flew the minister, Wing Commander N Harish, said Mr Fernandes was totally "at home" on board the plane.
Substantially more complex than previous aircraft, the new plane required the pilot to attend to the four engines, a retractable landing gear, new wing flaps, electric trim tabs that needed adjustment to maintain control at different airspeeds, and constant-speed propellers whose pitch had to be regulated with hydraulic controls, among other features.
The plane drops through the clouds above Olbia on the northeast coast of Sardinia, and tilts on its wing.
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