Exercise Skycatcher, at Cowcaddens Fire Station, involved a light aircraft "crashing" into a tower block.
Two men have been injured after a light aircraft crashed near a small airfield in Hampshire.
In September, a light aircraft carrying a number of General Saleh's business associates crashed while, reportedly, on a gold-buying mission in eastern Congo.
Brompton Road is also rumoured to be where Nazi deputy Rudolf Hess was held when he was captured after crash-landing a light aircraft in Scotland in May 1941.
The 24-year-old prince, who has spent time in Afghanistan as a member of the British Army's Household Cavalry, qualified for the course by flying a light aircraft under instruction, the statement said.
For a man who was staring death in the face a few weeks ago, trapped in the twisted wreckage of a light aircraft with aviation fuel leaking all around him, Nigel Farage is on remarkably good form.
Hanjour is known to have trained in a Piper light aircraft on March 8th 1999.
While the royal party have lunch at Castle College in Stornoway, we pile into a nine-seater light aircraft and set off with a carrier bag of ham and chicken sandwiches.
The 19-year-old was convicted by magistrates of shining a light at an aircraft in flight so as to dazzle or distract the pilot.
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MacCready fielded a team, this time with an entry called the Bionic Bat, which featured a design much closer to modern light aircraft, incorporating a rear propeller and a more robust pilot gondola.
Still assuming a much smaller, light aircraft had hit the structure, the group emerged from the tower and were directed by policemen to keep moving.
As the plane took off the 50-year-old pilot reported feeling a "slight bump" and thought the aircraft had run over a light on the runway.
The turboprop is used in counter-insurgency fights and as a light attack vehicle and reconnaissance aircraft that is built for various speeds.
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These include a requirement for pilots of even light aircraft and helicopters to file flight plans, giving precise timings.
And under International Civil Aviation Organisation regulations, any structure over 45 metres tall on a flight path or near an aerodrome must be fitted with a medium-intensity aircraft warning light.
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Cartersville Airport, a general aviation airport about 15 miles (24 km) north with a much shorter runway intended for light aircraft was considered, but it was behind the aircraft and now out of reach.
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It will fit a large variety of aircraft, from light corporate jets to giant jetliners, so the contraption could appeal to everyone from Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people) Chief Executive Larry Ellison , a jet aficionado, to Donald J.
As a young man, he climbed mountains, flew light aircraft and is said to have enjoyed parachuting out of planes doing cartwheels.
As our colleague Rich Karlgaard has written, a new kind of aircraft is coming--very light jets.
Air traffic control in the UK could be in for a radical overhaul if research into a new way of locating and tracking aircraft gets the green light.
The problem is--assuming the F-35 sees the light of day in a timely manner--that this aircraft simply doesn't do the job in air-to-air combat that the F-22 does, nor does it have the F22's ability to penetrate sophisticated defenses.
The BBC team saw a lot of soldiers inside the compound and some old, light anti-aircraft guns attached to the back of trucks.
Now with his third wife, he is a fitness fanatic, with a penchant for cross-country skiing and also pilots gliders, helicopters, light aircraft and larger jets, including the Boeing 747.
Susan White Mathis, a native of Atlanta, had long been in search of a place to build an African retreat, and after an extensive search, she settled on Madikwe Game Reserve, a 185, 000-acre tract of arid bushveld located an hour by light aircraft northwest of Johannesburg.
The Pentagon deferred on a decision to provide the Afghans with five used C-130 military transport planes and light attack aircraft.
At the same time, Learjet was working on the Learjet 45, a totally new fuselage design, which would also target the light jet buyer seeking more range and cabin size together with operating costs less than a typical midsize aircraft.
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