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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.
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]
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 ...
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.
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 ...
This is a list of aircraft carriers which are currently in service, under maintenance or refit, in reserve, under construction, or being updated. An aircraft carrier is a warship with a full-length flight deck, hangar and facilities for arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. [1]
During World War II, the United States Navy purchased two Great Lakes side-wheel paddle steamers and converted them into freshwater aircraft carrier training ships. Both vessels were designated with the hull classification symbol IX and lacked hangar decks , elevators or armaments .
Twenty-one aircraft carriers, all of the attack carriers operational during the era except John F. Kennedy, deployed to Task Force 77 of the US Seventh Fleet, conducting 86 war cruises and operating 9,178 total days on the line in the Gulf of Tonkin. 530 aircraft were lost in combat and 329 more in operational accidents, causing the deaths of ...