Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Red Oak Municipal Airport covers an area of 202 acres (82 ha) at an elevation of 1,045 feet (319 m) above mean sea level. It has three concrete paved runways: 5/23 is 5,100 by 75 feet (1,554 x 23 m) and 17/35 is 2,901 by 60 feet (884 x 18 m). It also has a turf runway designated 13/31 which is 2,050 by 210 feet (625 x 64 m). [1]
Bombardier Transportation was a Canadian-German rolling stock and rail transport manufacturer, with headquarters in Berlin, Germany. It was one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Bombardier Transportation had many regional offices, production and development facilities worldwide.
The city of Red Oak was established by the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad as Red Oak Junction. That railroad was acquired by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and they laid out a new right-of-way in southwest Iowa in the late 19th century to lessen the grade. [2] It required a new depot in Red Oak, which was built from 1900 ...
A bombardier or bomb aimer is the crew member of a bomber aircraft responsible for the targeting of aerial bombs. "Bomb aimer" was the preferred term in the military forces of the Commonwealth , while "bombardier" (from the French word for "bomb thrower" and similar in meaning to " grenadier ") was the equivalent position in the United States ...
A Douglas C-47D Skytrain (built as a C-47B-1-DK), 43-48298, c/n 25559, [96] of the 123d Air Base Group, Godman AFB, Kentucky, [97] with nine officers and 12 enlisted men on board to attend the funeral of a brother pilot who died in a crash Thursday, crashes ~eight miles NE of Kanawha Airport, Charleston, West Virginia, when it clips the top of ...
Henry Eugene Erwin Sr. (May 8, 1921 – January 16, 2002) was a United States Army Air Forces airman and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
During 2001, the works became part of Bombardier Transportation. After the closure of Alstom's Washwood Heath plant in 2005, Derby works became the only passenger rolling stock manufacturer in the UK. [1] [2] During mid-2011, Bombardier announced it was to cut 1,400 out of the 3,000 jobs at Derby. In November 2019, following the awarding of ...
Bombardier Inc. (French pronunciation: [bɔ̃baʁdje]) is a Canadian business jet manufacturer. [2] Headquartered in Montreal , the company was founded in 1942 by Joseph-Armand Bombardier to market his snowmobiles and became one of the world's biggest producers of aircraft and trains.