low-altitude collision
1Low Earth orbit — An orbiting cannon ball showing various sub orbital and orbital possibilities …
2Mid-air collision — Computer generated image of United Airlines Flight 718 and TWA Flight 2 colliding. A mid air collision is an aviation accident in which two or more aircraft come into contact during flight. Owing to the relatively high velocities involved and any …
3Traffic Collision Avoidance System — The Traffic alert and Collision Avoidance System (or TCAS) is an aircraft collision avoidance system designed to reduce the incidence of mid air collisions between aircraft. It monitors the airspace around an aircraft for other aircraft equipped… …
42002 Überlingen mid-air collision — Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 DHL Flight 611 CGI rendering of DHL Flight 611 moments before colliding with Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 Accident summary Date …
5Aircraft collision avoidance systems — Modern aircraft can use several types of collision avoidance systems to prevent unintentional contact with other aircraft, obstacles, or the ground:* Airborne Radar can detect the relative location of other aircraft, and has been in military use… …
6Obstacle Collision Avoidance System — The Obstacle Collision Avoidance System (OCAS) is designed to alert pilots if their aircraft is in immediate danger of flying into an obstacle. OCAS uses a low power ground based radar to provide detection and tracking of an aircraft s proximity… …
7McDonnell FH Phantom — FH Phantom McDonnell FH 1 Phantom Role Carrier based fighter aircraf …
8FH Phantom — infobox Aircraft name = FH Phantom type = Carrier based fighter aircraft manufacturer = McDonnell Aircraft caption = McDonnell FH 1 Phantom designer = first flight=26 January avyear|1945 introduced=August avyear|1947 retired=avyear|1949 USN, USMC …
9Gray Angels — The US company McDonnell Aircraft received a request in 1942 for a jet fighter which could be operated from U.S. Navy aircraft carriers. The eventual result was the FH 1 Phantom, a twin engined craft that was only moderately faster than the best… …
10Space debris — populations seen from outside geosynchronous orbit (GEO). Note the two primary debris fields, the ring of objects in GEO, and the cloud of objects in low earth orbit (LEO) …
