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The plane was nicknamed the "lead sled" by pilots because they considered it underpowered. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The fuselage of this aircraft and others had been stretched to add a 1.83 m (6 ft) section, increasing passenger capacity from 52 to 56, and making room for more cargo between the cockpit and the passenger cabin.
The following list shows specific aeronautical transponder codes, and ranges of codes, that have been used for specific purposes in various countries.Traditionally, each country has allocated transponder codes by their own scheme with little commonality across borders.
In aviation, blue ice is frozen sewage material that has leaked mid-flight from commercial aircraft lavatory waste systems. It is a mixture of human biowaste and liquid disinfectant that freezes at high altitude. The name comes from the blue color of the disinfectant.
Pilots of 611 (West Lancashire) Squadron lend a hand pushing an early Supermarine Spitfire Mark IXb at RAF Biggin Hill in late 1942. Note the 611 unit identifier 'FY' and the individual aircraft identifier letter 'V'.
Often "horns" or protrusions are formed and project into the airflow, which smoothens it out. This form of ice is also called glaze. Rime ice is rough and opaque, formed by supercooled drops rapidly freezing on impact. Forming mostly along an airfoil's stagnation point, it generally conforms to the shape of the airfoil.
During the First World War, in order to avoid confusion with similarly numbered British flying squadrons, units of the separate Australian Flying Corps were known for administrative purposes as 67, 68, 69, and 71 squadrons.
Visualization of the ice and snow covering Earth's northern and southern polar regions Northern Hemisphere permafrost (permanently frozen ground) in purple. The polar regions, also called the frigid zones or polar zones, of Earth are Earth's polar ice caps, the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles (the North and South Poles), lying within the polar circles.
No. 75 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) fighter unit based at RAAF Base Tindal in the Northern Territory.The squadron was formed in 1942 and saw extensive action in the South West Pacific theatre of World War II, operating P-40 Kittyhawks.