enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. QF 1-pounder pom-pom - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QF_1-pounder_pom-pom

   Hiram Maxim originally designed the Pom-Pom in the late 1880s as an enlarged version of the Maxim machine gun.Its longer range necessitated exploding projectiles to judge range, which in turn dictated a shell weight of at least 400 grams (0.88 lb), as that was the lightest exploding shell allowed under the Saint Petersburg Declaration of 1868 and reaffirmed in the Hague Convention of 1899.

3. QF 2-pounder naval gun - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QF_2-pounder_naval_gun

   The Royal Navy judged the pom-pom's effectiveness to range from about half that of the Bofors, per gun, against torpedo planes to about equal against Kamikaze attackers. [21] It was a ubiquitous weapon that outnumbered the Bofors gun in Commonwealth naval service [ 22 ] up to the end of World War II and it shot down many Axis aircraft.

4. Pom-Pom director - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pom-Pom_Director

   Directors I to III controlled the gun mounting through "follow the pointer" control and aimed at aircraft using eye shooting techniques through a simple ring sight. [1] These directors began to appear on Royal Navy cruisers, battleships and aircraft carriers in 1930. They were universally fitted, one per pom-pom gun mounting, by the late 1930s. [2]

5. Royal Moroccan Air Force - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Moroccan_Air_Force

   In July 2011, a Royal Moroccan Air Force C-130H crash killed 78 people after the aircraft, en route from Dakhla, a city in Morocco to Kenitra Air Base in Kenitra, crashed 9.7 km (6 mi) from a planned stop-over at Guelmim Air Base. The 6 crew, 60 members of the army and 12 civilians, mainly partners travelling with their partners, perished in ...

6. Radio-controlled model - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-controlled_model

   1:10 scale radio-controlled car (Saab Sonett II)A radio-controlled model (or RC model) is a model that is steerable with the use of radio control (RC). All types of model vehicles have had RC systems installed in them, including ground vehicles, boats, planes, helicopters and even submarines and scale railway locomotives.

7. List of aircraft registration prefixes - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft...

   The registration often denotes the aircraft type and maker. Some examples: HB-Axx two-engined aircraft from 5.7 to 15 tons, Aircraft over 15 tons due to shortage of Jxx. HB-Bxx balloons; HB-Cxx single-engined Cessnas under 5.7 tons; HB-Dxx and HB-Kxx other single-engined aircraft under 5.7 tons; HB-Fxx Swiss-produced aircraft like PC-6 and PC-12

8. Pom-pom (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pom-pom_(disambiguation)

   QF 1-pounder pom-pom, an infantry gun of the Second Boer War; QF 2-pounder naval gun, a British anti-aircraft gun in naval use Pom-Pom director, a fire-director for QF 2 pounder naval gun; USS Pompon (SS-267), a U.S. Navy submarine built during World War II

9. Free flight (model aircraft) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_flight_(model_aircraft)

   F1B Model by Stepan Stepanchuk. Free flight is the segment of model aviation involving aircraft with no active external control after launch. Free Flight is the original form of hobby aeromodeling, with the competitive objective being to build and launch a self controlling aircraft that will consistently achieve the longest flight duration over multiple competition rounds, within various class ...