enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ryan X-13 Vertijet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_X-13_Vertijet

    The Ryan X-13 Vertijet (company designation Model 69) is an experimental tail-sitting vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) jet aircraft built by Ryan Aeronautical and flown in the United States in the 1950s. The main objective of the project was to demonstrate the ability of a pure jet to vertically take off, hover, transition to horizontal ...

  3. Dornier Do 31 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_31

    The Dornier Do 31 is an experimental, jet-propelled, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) cargo aircraft that was designed and produced by West German aircraft manufacturer Dornier. The development of the Do 31 was motivated principally by heavy interest expressed by the German Air Force in the acquisition of short take-off and vertical landing ...

  4. Grand Theft Auto modding - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_modding

    While Rockstar has previously provided some support with the original Grand Theft Auto and Grand Theft Auto 2, and even used a third-party utility for developing the Grand Theft Auto: London expansion packs, [39] the only official modification tool Rockstar has released is Rockstar Editor, [40] a tool which allows users to record and edit ...

  5. Zero-length launch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-length_launch

    The zero-length launch system or zero-length take-off system (ZLL, ZLTO, ZEL, ZELL) was a method whereby jet fighters and attack aircraft could be near-vertically launched using rocket motors to rapidly gain speed and altitude. Such rocket boosters were limited to a short-burn duration, being typically solid-fuel and suitable for only a single ...

  6. Afterburner - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterburner

    A jet engine afterburner is an extended exhaust section containing extra fuel injectors. Since the jet engine upstream (i.e., before the turbine) will use little of the oxygen it ingests, additional fuel can be burned after the gas flow has left the turbines. When the afterburner is turned on, fuel is injected and igniters are fired.

  7. What is clear air turbulence and how did it affect the ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/clear-air-turbulence-did-affect...

    The feeling has been likened to a theme-park ride in which you keep going round and round without a chance to get off. Can turbulence bring down an aircraft? Not a modern jet such as the Boeing 777.

  8. Aircraft flight control system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_flight_control_system

    Cockpit controls and instrument panel of a Cessna 182D Skylane. Generally, the primary cockpit flight controls are arranged as follows: [2] A control yoke (also known as a control column), centre stick or side-stick (the latter two also colloquially known as a control or joystick), governs the aircraft's roll and pitch by moving the ailerons (or activating wing warping on some very early ...

  9. Ski-jump (aviation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski-jump_(aviation)

    Ski-jumps can be used in two ways: Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery for conventional, tailhook-equipped naval aircraft; and Short Take-Off, Vertical Landing for V/STOL aircraft. Catapult-equipped aircraft carriers have become a minority in the 21st century in part because ski-jump operations are simpler and cost less.