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The Nebelwerfer (transl. "fog launcher") was a World War II German series of weapons. They were initially developed by and assigned to the Army 's Nebeltruppen . Initially, two different mortars were fielded before they were replaced by a variety of rocket launchers ranging in size from 15 to 32 centimetres (5.9 to 12.6 in).
The 28/32 cm Nebelwerfer 41 (28/32 cm NbW 41) was a German multiple rocket launcher used in the Second World War. It served with units of the so-called Nebeltruppen , the German equivalent of the U.S. Army's Chemical Corps .
Ruhrstahl X-4 in RAF Museum Cosford. The air-to-air missile grew out of the unguided air-to-air rockets used during the First World War. Le Prieur rockets were sometimes attached to the struts of biplanes and fired electrically, usually against observation balloons, by such early pilots as Albert Ball and A. M. Walters. [4]
The 10 cm Nebelwerfer 40 (10 cm NbW 40) was a heavy mortar used by Germany during the Second World War. Much like the American M2 4.2 inch mortar it was intended to deliver chemical munitions, such as gas and smoke shells, as well as ordinary high-explosive shells .
A-4 at Combat Air Museum; A-4 Skyhawk Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine from reference book American Combat Planes of the 20th Century by R. Wagner; AeroWeb.org A-4 Skyhawks on display; restoration to flight of a TA-4J "A-4D Skyhawk" a 1958 Flight article "Tantalizing Tinker Toy" (pilot report), Budd Davisson, March, 1975, Air Progress.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB or ARB) is an agency of the government of California that aims to reduce air pollution.Established in 1967 when then-governor Ronald Reagan signed the Mulford-Carrell Act, combining the Bureau of Air Sanitation and the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board, CARB is a department within the cabinet-level California Environmental Protection Agency.
A pair of back-to-back storms were forecast to dump heavy snow and rain over parts of the Pacific Northwest, northern California and the Rockies this week, triggering winter storm and flood warnings.
Air California 737-100 in 1969 at Orange County airport. Air California, later renamed AirCal, was a U.S. airline company headquartered in Newport Beach, California that started in the 1960s as a California intrastate airline. [1] [2] [3] The airline's home airport was Orange County Airport, now known as John Wayne Airport.