Flyer took off from a rail, and in later flights would sometimes employ a catapult. An editorial in the 2013 edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft supported...
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aviation records, which are registered and acknowledged by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.[citation needed] Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev founded the...
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Eugene Bullard, flew with regular French Aéronautique Militaire escadrilles. By April 1917, the Aéronautique Militaire had 2,870 aircraft with 60 fighter...
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American Wright brothers flights in 1903 are recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the standard-setting and record-keeping body for...
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the Wrights used a catapult to assist most takeoffs of their 1904 and 1905 airplanes. The Santos-Dumont 14-bis did not use a catapult and ran on wheels...
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nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Midi (SNCAM), which was formed in 1937 when Dewoitine's Société Aéronautique Française was nationalised,...
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from the original on 8 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale Hang Gliding Diploma (2006) for the invention of the modern...
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abreast the island. Catapult arrangements for the early Essexs varied between ships; Hornet was built with a single hydraulic catapult on the forward part...
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Mustin successfully tested the concept of the catapult launch in August 1912, and in 1915 made the first catapult launching from a ship underway. The first...
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940 km/h), aided by the upper-level westerly winds, to set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale record. The P-80B prototype, modified as a racer and designated...
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