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EB-29A docked wingtip-to-wingtip with two EF-84Ds in Project Tip-Tow Close-up of the B-29 with EF-84D-1-RE 48-641 on wingtip hookup. The MX-1016 program (code named "Tip Tow") sought to extend the range of jets to give fighter protection to piston-engined bombers with the provision for in-flight attachment/detachment of the fighter to the bomber via wingtip connections.
An F-84 Thunderjet hooked on a FICON trapeze beneath its mother ship. A parasite aircraft is a component of a composite aircraft which is carried aloft and air launched by a larger carrier aircraft or mother ship to support the primary mission of the carrier. The carrier craft may or may not be able to later recover the parasite during flight.
In America the FIghter CONveyer (FICON) trapeze system was developed for carrying, launching and recovering parasite fighters. Examples with and without the FICON system included: B-36/XF-85 Goblin, an attempt to equip bombers with their own escort fighters (1948) Convair B-36/F-84, another, more successful, escort fighter attempt (1952)
TALPA assessment generates a Runway Condition Code (RWYCC) ranging from 6 to 0, where 6 indicates a dry runway and 0 signifies nil conditions, meaning braking action is minimal to non-existent. Separate runway condition codes are published for each third of a runway, and pilots use a Runway Condition Assessment Matrix (RCAM) to calculate their ...
FICON (Fibre Connection) is the IBM proprietary name for the ANSI FC-SB-3 Single-Byte Command Code Sets-3 Mapping Protocol for Fibre Channel (FC) protocol.It is a FC layer 4 protocol used to map both IBM's antecedent (either ESCON or parallel Bus and Tag) channel-to-control-unit cabling infrastructure and protocol onto standard FC services and infrastructure.
Aviation weather briefing service [6] Available at designated FSS's AWG American Wire Gage: The larger the size number, the smaller the wire diameter. AWIS Aviation weather information service [6] Available at FSS: AWO All weather operations AWOS Automated weather observation system [6] Automated METAR reporting system AWWS Aviation weather web ...
Braking action in aviation is a description of how easily an aircraft can stop after landing on a runway. Either pilots or airport management can report the braking action according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. [1] When reporting braking action, any of the following terms may be used: Good; Medium; Poor; Nil - bad or no braking ...
ACM Aviation: BAY JET United States CRV Acropolis Aviation: ACROPOLIS United Kingdom ORS Action Air: AVIATION SERVICE Italy ICAO Code no longer allocated, defunct AXQ Action Airlines (Action Air Charter) ACTION AIR United States AVR Active Aero Charter, Inc. ACTIVE AERO United States RRM Acvila Air-Romanian Carrier: AIR ROMANIA Romania defunct ADC