DIY Life Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Conventional landing gear - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_landing_gear

   Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft undercarriage consisting of two main wheels forward of the center of gravity and a small wheel or skid to support the tail. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term taildragger is also used.

3. Water landing - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_landing

   Some aircraft are designed with the possibility of a water landing in mind. Airbus aircraft, for example, feature a "ditching button" which, if pressed, closes valves and openings underneath the aircraft, including the outflow valve, the air inlet for the emergency RAT, the avionics inlet, the extract valve, and the flow control valve. It is ...

4. LCVP (United States) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCVP_(United_States)

   The landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat was a landing craft used extensively by the Allied forces in amphibious landings in World War II.Typically constructed from plywood, this shallow-draft, barge-like boat could ferry a roughly platoon-sized complement of 36 men to shore at 12 knots (14 mph; 22 km/h).

5. VTOL - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTOL

   A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is one that can take off and land vertically without relying on a runway.This classification can include a variety of types of aircraft including helicopters as well as thrust-vectoring fixed-wing aircraft and other hybrid aircraft with powered rotors such as cyclogyros/cyclocopters and gyrodynes.

6. Aerocar - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerocar

   It is not a roadable aircraft but is based on the original Aerocar design. It uses the wing and tail section from the Aerocar. It seats four and is powered by a 150 hp IO-320 Lycoming engine. Only a single example was built. As of 2006, it was located in Colorado Springs, Colorado owned by Ed Sweeney, the owner of N102D. [2]

7. Albion-class landing platform dock - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion-class_landing...

   The value of the two Fearless-class landing platform docks was highlighted during the Falklands War.Not only did the ships transport troops and vehicles to the South Atlantic, the commanders of the landing operations at San Carlos were aboard HMS Fearless, and once they arrived their flight decks were used to support airborne operations by helicopters and Sea Harrier jets.