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Parnall was a British aircraft manufacturer that evolved from a wood-working company before the First World War to a significant designer of military and civil aircraft into the 1940s. It was based in the west of England and was originally known as George Parnall & Co. Ltd.
== History ==
In 1916, the Bristol based P... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
the early 1930s.
The Parnall G.4/31 was a 1930s general purpose aircraft which could operate as a day and night bomber as well as the reconnaissance, torpedo and dive-bombing roles. It was a large angular biplane powered by a 690 hp (515 kW) Bristol Pegasus IM3 with a Townend ring.
The Parnall Heck was designed by Bas... | aerospace_engineering | 363 |
Bahamasair Holdings Limited, operating as Bahamasair (stylised: bahamasaır), is the flag carrier of The Bahamas. Headquartered in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, the airline operates scheduled services to 32 domestic and regional destinations in the Caribbean and the United States from its base at Lynden Pindling I... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
30 March 2012 and put into service in April 2012. The second 737-500 was delivered on 21 June 2012. Bahamasair retired its last two Boeing 737-200s in September 2012 and received a third Boeing 737-500 in March 2014.
In May 2015, it was reported that the loss-making airline was in a phase of restructuring to gain prof... | aerospace_engineering | 470 |
The Britten-Norman Trislander (more formally designated the BN-2A Mk III Trislander) is a three-engined piston-powered utility aircraft designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Britten-Norman.
The Trislander was designed in the late 1960s as an expanded derivative of the company's Islander, a twin-eng... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
kits supplied by Britten-Norman before undertaking full production, however, these plans ultimately came to nothing.
Into the 2020s, companies have continued to operate the Trislander; a number have been made available for private entities to hire.
== Variants ==
BN-2A Mk III-1
First production version, with short n... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
/h, 160 kn) at sea level
Cruise speed: 155 mph (249 km/h, 135 kn) (59% power) at 13,000 ft (4,000 m)
Range: 1,000 mi (1,600 km, 870 nmi)
Service ceiling: 13,160 ft (4,010 m)
Rate of climb: 980 ft/min (5.0 m/s)
Take off run to 50 ft (15 m): 1,950 feet (590 m)
Landing run from 50 ft (15 m): 1,445 ft (440 m)
== See also... | aerospace_engineering | 322 |
Tunis–Carthage International Airport (French: Aéroport de Tunis-Carthage, Arabic: مطار تونس قرطاج الدولي, IATA: TUN, ICAO: DTTA) is the international airport of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. It serves as the home base for Tunisair, Tunisair Express, Nouvelair Tunisia, and Tunisavia. The airport is named for the histor... | aerospace_engineering | 958 |
Sir Frederick Grant Banting (; November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon. For his co-discovery of insulin and its therapeutic potential, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John Macleod.
Banting and his student, Charles Best, isol... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
1914, the day after Canada's declaration of war, and then again in October, but was refused twice due to poor vision. In his third year of medical school Banting successfully joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in 1915 and was commissioned a private, then promoted to sergeant. He trained at a camp at Niagara ... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
the destruction of the insulin by the proteolysis enzyme of the pancreas. The challenge was to find a way to extract insulin from the pancreas prior to its destruction.
Moses Barron published an article in 1920 which described experimental closure of the pancreatic duct by ligature; this further influenced Banting's t... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
The fur trade commissioner for the Hudson's Bay Company called Banting's remarks "false and slanderous", and a month later, the governor and general manager of HBC met Banting at the King Edward Hotel to demand a retraction. Banting stated that the reporter had betrayed his confidence, but did not retract his statement... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
anting Research Foundation, was created in 1925 and provides funding to support health and biomedical research in Canada.
Banting's name is immortalized in the yearly Banting Lectures, given by an expert in diabetes, and by the creation of the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research of the University of Toronto... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
$7,500. Following the Banting's receipt of the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh in 1927, Banting gave the 1928 Cameron Lecture in Edinburgh. He was a member of numerous medical academies and societies in Canada and abroad, including the British and American Physiological Societies, and the... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
of insulin. Lippincott.
Walters, Eric (2005). Elixir. Puffin Canada. ISBN 978-0-14-301641-0.
Raju, T. N. (1998). "The Nobel Chronicles. 1923: Frederick G Banting (1891–1941), John J R Macleod (1876–1935)". Lancet. 352 (9138): 1482. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(05)61319-0. PMID 9808029. S2CID 54323266.
Hudson, R. P. (1979). ... | aerospace_engineering | 766 |
Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) is a Japanese cargo airline with its head office on the property of Narita International Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, outside Tokyo. It operates scheduled cargo services in Asia and to Europe and North America. Its main base is Narita Airport.
== History ==
Nippon Cargo Airlines wa... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
Europe B.V. Its Americas regional headquarters is on the property of O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Originally the US subsidiary was to be headquartered in New York. Its European regional headquarters is on the property of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands.
== Destination... | aerospace_engineering | 429 |
The Curtiss Robin, introduced in 1928, is an American high-wing monoplane built by the Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Company.
The J-1 version was flown by Wrong Way Corrigan who crossed the Atlantic after being refused permission to do so.
== Design ==
The Robin, a workmanlike cabin monoplane, had a wooden... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
.
Robin M
A Robin B aircraft, fitted with the 115 hp (86 kW) Milwaukee Tank V-502 V-8 engine (air-cooled OX-5 conversions).
Robin W
(Model 50J) Powered by a 110 hp (82 kW) Warner Scarab radial piston engine. Only a small number were built in 1930.
XC-10
One Robin W was sold to the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) ... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
h)
Range: 785 mi (1,263 km, 682 nmi) cruising; 580 mi (500 nmi; 930 km) at full throttle
Service ceiling: 12,500 ft (3,800 m)
Rate of climb: 450 ft/min (2.3 m/s)
Time to altitude: 3,800 ft (1,200 m) in 10 minutes
Wing loading: 8.2 lb/sq ft (40 kg/m2)
Power/mass: 0.0465 hp/lb (0.0764 kW/kg)
== See also ==
Related dev... | aerospace_engineering | 301 |
Avianca S.A. (acronym in Spanish for Aerovias de Colombia S.A., "Airways of Colombia", and stylized as avianca since October 2023) is the largest airline in Colombia. It has been the flag carrier of Colombia since December 5, 1919, when it was initially registered under the name SCADTA. It is headquartered in Colombia,... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
54 Skymasters. In 1951, Avianca acquired Lockheed Constellations and Super Constellations. In 1956, the company transported the Colombian delegation to the Melbourne Olympics on a 61-hour trip, stopping only to refuel.
During the 1960s, the company built the Avianca Building in Bogotá, designed by the architect Germán ... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
caTaca Holding to Avianca Holdings. TACA and all other AviancaTaca airlines changed their brand to Avianca on May 28, 2013.
As of 2017, Avianca operates the second-most daily international flights from Miami with 16, second only to American Airlines.
In August 2018, Avianca had some operational difficulties due to prob... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
cap on routes where the entity is the only operator; and, as the new entity would hold a majority of the market share in Colombia, to ensure that the market remains dynamic.
On May 13, 2023, after analyzing the "financial and technical implications" of the merger under these conditions, Avianca withdrew its plans to a... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
Colombia, killing all eight on board. The wreckage was found a month later, but some of the gold and cargo were missing.
On June 23, 1959, a Douglas DC-4 (registered HK-135), operating as Flight 667, struck Cerro Baco mountain while en route to Lima, Peru, killing all 14 aboard.
On January 21, 1960, Avianca Flight 671... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
during a domestic Avianca flight.
On April 12, 1999, Avianca Flight 9463, a Fokker 50 (registered PH-MXT), from Bogotá to Bucaramanga was hijacked by six ELN members, who forced the plane to make an emergency landing on a clandestine runway in the Bolívar Department. One passenger died during captivity, the rest were ... | aerospace_engineering | 405 |
Aristotle Socrates Onassis (, US also ; Greek: Αριστοτέλης Ωνάσης, romanized: Aristotélis Onásis, pronounced [aristoˈtelis oˈnasis]; 20 January 1906 – 15 March 1975) was a Greek and Argentine business magnate. He amassed the world's largest privately owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famo... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
while operating at low cost. This and his astute business sense helped Onassis earn handsome profits in the highly competitive shipping market. Onassis made large profits when the Big Oil companies like Mobil, Socony, and Texaco signed long-term contracts known as time charters at fixed prices before the stock market ... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
.
It is alleged that Robert Maheu, a former FBI agent, worked for then US Vice President Richard Nixon on an operation aimed at ruining Onassis. Maheu helped the U.S. government sabotage a deal that had given Onassis a monopoly to transport Saudi oil. As part of his mission, Maheu was reportedly even allowed, if necess... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
; apartments in Paris, London, Monte Carlo, Athens, and Acapulco; a castle in South France; the Olympic Tower (a 52-storey high-rise in Manhattan); another building in Sutton Place; Olympic Airways and Air Navigation; the island of Skorpios; the 325 ft (99.06 m) luxury yacht Christina O and, finally, deposit accounts a... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
on Skorpios and his yacht Christina O.
His marriage also resulted, in part, in the popularization of Gyros in America. Gyros were one of his favorite foods and Greek places in New York City began to regularly offer them for lunch because of the demand from Aristotle's work meetings. Previously Gyros were little known ... | aerospace_engineering | 844 |
Stansted Airport (IATA: STN, ICAO: EGSS) is an international airport serving London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It is located near Stansted Mountfitchet, Uttlesford, Essex, 42 miles (68 km; 36 nmi) northeast of Central London.
As London's third-busiest airport, Stansted serves over 180 destinations ... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
Commission to review the need afresh. The Commission for the Third London Airport (the "Roskill Commission") of 1968–71 did not include Stansted as one of its four short-listed sites and recommended that Cublington in Buckinghamshire should be developed as London's third airport. However, the Conservative government u... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
ruling in July 2011 that the airport be sold, and the Court of Appeal turned down an appeal by BAA on 26 July 2012. In light of the result, BAA chose not to appeal to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and confirmed on 20 August 2012 that the airport would be sold.
=== Under MAG ownership (2013–) ===
In January... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
the short-stay car park, while a free service is within the mid-stay area. A fee is charged for the express service. Terminal Road North and its free drop-off area directly outside the terminal was closed shortly after MAG took over the airport in 2013.
=== Control tower ===
Stansted's air traffic control tower was... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
either Heathrow or Gatwick. Following the 2015 election, the commission made a final recommendation to expand Heathrow subject to certain environmental constraints.
=== Terminal ===
==== Ongoing Terminal extension ====
In July 2023, MAG announced a new proposal for a reconfiguration and three-bay extension to the... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
sted Airport:
Notes
^1 British Airways flights to Amsterdam operate as a one-way service. The return flights are destined for London-City. The service is a result of limited weekend opening times of London-City to decrease nuisance for nearby residents.
=== Cargo ===
=== Route development ===
Long-haul scheduled... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
== Ground transport ==
=== Airside Transit system ===
The Stansted Airport Transit System connects the terminal to the satellite buildings via a 2 mi (3 km) free automated people mover service, which runs on dual concrete tracks. The system uses a mix of Adtranz C-100 and CX-100 vehicles to carry passengers to depar... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
a runway excursion during a rejected takeoff, winding up in a drain on the side of the runway, collapsing the undercarriage. Two passengers died out of 54 on board.
On 23 December 1957, a Scottish Airlines Avro 685 York C.1, a cargo flight, crashed on its third approach to Stansted striking a tree three quarters of a ... | aerospace_engineering | 767 |
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) was a West German aerospace manufacturer. It was formed during the late 1960s as the result of efforts to consolidate the West German aerospace industry; aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt AG merged with the civil engineering and aviation firm Bölkow in 1968, while rival aircraft manuf... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
October 1988, a production version was introduced as the Eurocopter EC135 during the early 1990s which, like its Bo 105 ancestor, achieved similar commercial success.
Perhaps the most important partnership that MBB was involved in was the Airbus A300. On 26 September 1967, the British, French, and West German governm... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
=== Space hardware ===
==== Uncrewed spacecraft ====
Helios (spacecraft)
Symphonie
EURECA
Shuttle pallet satellite
==== Crewed spacecraft ====
Spacelab
Saenger (spacecraft)
=== Other ===
MBTA Commuter Rail BTC-3 and CTC-3 rail cars
DB Class 420 commuter trains
DB ICE 1 high-speed trains
Alpenflug, a suspended rol... | aerospace_engineering | 198 |
Naval Air Facility Atsugi (厚木海軍飛行場, Atsugi Kaigun-hikōjō) (IATA: NJA, ICAO: RJTA) is a joint Japan-US naval air base located in the cities of Yamato and Ayase in Kanagawa, Japan. It is the largest United States Navy (USN) air base in the Pacific Ocean, and once housed all of the squadrons of Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
consequence CVW-5, the carrier's air wing was based at Atsugi.
On 2 November 1976, a US Navy Grumman C-1 Trader, piloted by Lt. Laury K. Backman, suffered a mechanical failure of the aileron system while maneuvering to land on runway 01, and crashed short of the runway. All six aboard were killed.
In 1977, a McDonnel... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
court was to hand down its decision, the Japanese government purchased the plant for nearly 40 million dollars and shut it down. Dismantling was completed by the end of that year.
=== Noise lawsuits ===
Since 1976 there have been a number of lawsuits with local residents sued the Japanese government over noise from ... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
iral said he lost confidence in McNellis' ability to command. McNellis was replaced by Captain Michael S. White. In 2012 the squadrons of CVW 5 completed their transition to variants of the Super Hornet/Growler, making it the first air wing without legacy Hornets.
=== Relocation to Iwakuni ===
Until 2018 all the squa... | aerospace_engineering | 921 |
Wake Island is a 1942 American action drama war film directed by John Farrow, written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and starring Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Barbara Britton, and William Bendix. The film tells the story of the United States military garrison on Wake Island and the... | aerospace_engineering | 1,024 |
time a full-time player for the Norfolk Tars, a baseball team in the minor league Piedmont League. Mary Thomas appeared as Caton's daughter.
== Production ==
The film was based on official Marine records. A copy of the script by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler was sent to the Marine Corps for approval prior to filmin... | aerospace_engineering | 862 |
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