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The Scaled Composites Model 318 White Knight (now also called White Knight One) is a jet-powered carrier aircraft that was used to launch its companion SpaceShipOne, an experimental spaceplane. The White Knight and SpaceShipOne were designed by Burt Rutan and manufactured by Scaled Composites , a private company founded by Rutan in 1982.
The first member of the A320 aircraft family was the A320, which first flew on 22 February 1987 after the program was launched in March 1984. [5] The family was soon extended to include the stretched A321 (first delivery 1994), the shortened A319 (first delivery 1996), and the further shortened A318 (first delivery 2003).
The role of these ships was for the training of pilots for carrier take-offs and landings in a safe area where the carriers would not be at risk of attack by hostile forces. [86] Together the Sable and Wolverine trained 17,820 pilots in 116,000 carrier landings. Of these, 51,000 landings were on Sable.
The Proteus wing was adapted for use on the Model 318 White Knight carrier aircraft, which is the launch system for Rutan's Tier One spacecraft and the DARPA X-37. Flight testing of the Proteus began with its first flight on July 26, 1998, at the Mojave Airport and continued through the end of 1999.
Autovía A-318, a highway in the Andalucian region of Spain Airbus A318 , a short- to medium-range, narrow-body, commercial passenger jet airliner built by Airbus Industrie Topics referred to by the same term
IATA codes are published in Appendix A of IATA's annual Standard Schedules Information Manual (SSIM) and are used for airline timetables and computer reservation systems. [2] IATA designators are used to distinguish between aircraft types and variants that have differences from an airline commercial perspective (size, role, interior ...
CVBG-5, Battle Carrier Air Group 5 12 December 1946, U.S. Navy Letter ACL 165-46 Navy Air Reserve units at NAS Columbus: November 1946 The "C" code issued to this NAS was a controlled duplicate of the same code letter given to Carrier Air Group 5. Code changed to "7C" in 1956. CVG-6, Carrier Air Group 6Carrier Air Group 6: 1952
The Airbus A300-600ST (Super Transporter), or Beluga, is a specialised wide-body airliner used to transport aircraft parts and outsize cargoes.It received the official name of Super Transporter early on, but its nickname, after the beluga whale, which it resembles, [1] [2] gained popularity and has since been officially adopted.