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Jeremy the Jet Plane: an anthropomorphic jet airliner who lives in the Sodor Airport. He is based on the BAC One-Eleven and is featured in the Thomas & Friends TV series. Norton N-22 : a wide-body passenger aircraft at the center of a safety investigation in Michael Crichton's novel Airframe .
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The Bede BD-5 Micro is a series of small, single-seat homebuilt aircraft created in the late 1960s by US aircraft designer Jim Bede and introduced to the market primarily in kit form by the now-defunct Bede Aircraft Corporation in the early 1970s.
In the United States, in 2003, amateur-built aircraft experienced a rate of 21.6 accidents per 100,000 flight hours; the overall general aviation accident rate for that year was 6.75 per 100,000 flight hours. [13] The accident rate for homebuilt aircraft in the U.S. has long been a concern to the Federal Aviation Administration.
To win the 1962 Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Design Contest, Bowers designed the small plane to meet EAA's criteria for a low-cost, folding-wing airplane that was easy to build and fly, and could be towed or trailered. [1] The Fly Baby was designed to be a very simple aircraft.
The Boeing 787 flight deck has fly-by-wire controls. The 787 has a "fly-by-wire" control system similar in architecture to that of the Boeing 777. [241] [242] The flight deck features multi-function LCDs, which use an industry-standard graphical user interface widget toolkit (Cockpit Display System Interfaces to User Systems / ARINC 661). [243]
The Game Composites GB1 GameBird is a British single-engine, two-seat, aerobatic aircraft that was designed by Philipp Steinbach and the first prototype was built by Game Composites. Steinbach is a German aircraft designer, but not an aeronautical engineer , so he enlisted the aid of two engineers, Jing Dai and Robert Finney, to complete the ...
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