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  • 1Landing Signal Officer — Landing Signal Officers (LSOs) are naval aviators specially trained to control the approach and landings of airplanes aboard aircraft carriers. Paddles In the U.S. Navy, aircraft carrier operations began with USS Langley (CV 1) in 1922. Langley s …

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  • 2Optical landing system — The Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System of Charles de Gaulle An optical landing system (OLS) (nicknamed meatball or simply, Ball ) is used to give glidepath information to pilots in the terminal phase of landing on an aircraft carrier.[1] From… …

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  • 3Track and field — For the video game, see Track Field (video game). Track and field The track and field stadium is at the heart of the sport Nickname(s) Track Characteristics Team mem …

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  • 4Emergency landing — For other uses, see Emergency landing (disambiguation). Crash landing redirects here. For other uses, see Crash landing (disambiguation). JetBlue Airways Flight 292 making an emergency landing at LAX An emergency landing is a landing made by an… …

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  • 5Novikov self-consistency principle — The Novikov self consistency principle, also known as the Novikov self consistency conjecture, is a principle developed by Russian physicist Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov in the mid 1980s to solve the problem of paradoxes in time travel, which is… …

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  • 6Deadstick landing — A deadstick landing, also called a dead stick landing is a type of forced landing when an aircraft loses all of its propulsive power and is forced to land. The term is often misunderstood, as the flight controls in the majority of aircraft are… …

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  • 7Tier One — is Scaled Composites program of suborbital human spaceflight using the reusable spacecraft SpaceShipOne and its launcher White Knight. The craft are designed by Burt Rutan, and the project is funded 20 million US Dollars by Paul Allen. In 2004 it …

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  • 8Scaled Composites Tier One — Tier One redirects here. For other uses, see Tier 1 (disambiguation). Tier One is Scaled Composites program of suborbital human spaceflight using the reusable spacecraft SpaceShipOne and its launcher White Knight. The craft was designed by Burt …

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  • 9X-20 Dyna-Soar — The X 20 Dyna Soar ( Dynamic Soarer ) was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to develop a spaceplane that could be used for a variety of military missions, including reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite maintenance, and sabotage …

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  • 10History of Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles — The history of Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAV) describes the development and history of Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAV) and is closely tied to the general history of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) since UCAVs are a specialized development …

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