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Birdman Chinook 2S showing the pentagonal cockpit cross-section Birdman Chinook 2S Birdman Chinook 2S cockpit Birdman Chinook 2S Rotax 503 engine installation. The Birdman Chinook is a family of single and two-place, pusher configuration, high-wing ultralight aircraft that was first flown on 12 December 1982 and produced by Birdman Enterprises of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, starting in 1983.
In 1989 ASAP unveiled the improved ASAP Chinook Plus 2. With the acquisition of Canadian Ultralight Manufacturing in St Paul, Alberta who had manufactured the earlier Chinook WT11 and WT2S, the Chinook Plus 2 was placed into production. [2] [9] [10] In 1992 Spectrum Aircraft of Surrey, British Columbia, the manufacturer of the Spectrum Beaver ...
Birdman MJ-5 hang glider Birdman MJ-5 hang glider Birdman Chinook 2S Birdman Chinook 2S. Birdman Enterprises Limited was a Canadian aircraft manufacturer that commenced business in 1973 and became well known for its line of hang gliders and later its ultralight aircraft until its demise in late 1987. [2] [3] [4]
Sqn. Cdr. E. H. Dunning makes the first landing of an aircraft on a moving ship, a Sopwith Pup on HMS Furious, August 2, 1917.. This List of carrier-based aircraft covers fixed-wing aircraft designed for aircraft carrier flight deck operation and excludes aircraft intended for use from seaplane tenders, submarines and dirigibles.
Birdman Chinook 2S; ASAP Chinook Plus 2; ... Bloch MB.170 (II) twin-engine reconnaissance aircraft / light bomber (2 built ... Boeing 352 twin-engine carrier-based ...
A total of over 700 WT-11s and 2S Chinooks were completed before Birdman Enterprises went out of business in late 1987. [6] Talanczuk's Chinook design was resurrected in 1989, when it was redesigned by Aircraft Sales and Parts President Brent Holomis as the ASAP Chinook 2 Plus, an Advanced Ultralight Aeroplane that remains in production today.
Five Lockheed US-3A Viking aircraft were also used from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. The C-2 has remained the U.S. Navy's primary COD vehicle since that time. Several U.S. Navy "Fleet Logistics Support Squadrons" provided COD services aboard carriers since the World War II, including VR-5, VR-21, VR-22, VR-23, VR-24, VRC-30, VRC-40, and ...
HMS Argus in 1918 – the world's first full-flight-deck aircraft carrier. USS Ronald Reagan in 2005. In less than 100 years aircraft carriers have developed into a powerful tool for the projection of power in pursuit of national interests. Aircraft carriers have their origins during the days of World War I. The earliest experiments consisted ...