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Hardened aircraft shelter at RAF Bruggen, 1981 The HASs at RAF Upper Heyford in the United Kingdom are protected as scheduled monuments.. A hardened aircraft shelter (HAS) or protective aircraft shelter (PAS) is a reinforced hangar to house and protect military aircraft from enemy attack.
The WS3 system consists of a Weapons Storage Vault (WSV) and electronic monitoring and control systems built into the concrete floor of a specially-secured Hardened Aircraft Shelter. One vault can hold up to four nuclear weapons and in the lowered position provides ballistic protection through its hardened lid and reinforced sidewalls. [1]
A blast pen and memorial at the former RAF Kenley A Hawker Hurricane in a revetment at RAF Wittering in 1940. A blast pen was a specially constructed E-shaped double bay at British Royal Air Force (RAF) Second World War fighter stations, being either 150 ft (46 m) or 190 ft (58 m) wide and 80 ft (24 m) front-to-back, accommodating aircraft for safe-keeping against bomb blasts and shrapnel ...
MARPA's members include many air carriers from around the world. MARPA has an air carrier committee that remains quite active. [4] The committee was originally formed by MARPA Director Josh Abelson, and since then has been chaired by Cori Ferguson of Alaska Airlines (2006–2008), David Linebaugh of Delta Air Lines (2008–2011), Steve Jones of American Airlines (2011–2013), William Barrett ...
Armed Forces Security Center (AFSC) – Personal protective security for the royal family, members of the Royal Thai Government VIPs, and Thai Military VIPs. King's Guard – Ceremonial distinction given to various units in the Royal Thai Armed Forces and protective security to members royal family.
Under the Civil Air Regulations (CARs), the government had the authority to approve aircraft parts in a predecessor to the PMA rules. This authority was found in each of the sets of airworthiness standards published in the Civil Air Regulations. [8] CAR 3.31, for example, permitted the Administrator to approve aircraft parts as early as 1947. [9]
GARA is a statute of repose generally shielding most manufacturers of aircraft (carrying fewer than 20 passengers), and aircraft parts, from liability for most accidents (including injury or fatality accidents) involving their products that are 18 years old or older (at the time of the accident), even if manufacturer negligence was a cause.
Hardened Aircraft Shelter at RAF Bruggen, 1981. From c.1954–1957 the fighter squadrons at Bruggen were 67, 71E, 112 & 130, equipped initially with Canadair Sabre F.4s, later re-equipped with the Hawker Hunter F.4s. These squadrons were either redeployed or disbanded in 1957 with the arrival of 87 Squadron, equipped with Gloster Javelin FAW.1s.