The decision to axe the Ark will leave the Navy without the capability of launching fixed wing aircraft.
Its VTOL capability comes courtesy of dual tilt-rotors that provide helicopter-style takeoffs with fixed wing speeds once airborne.
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The report said the Airprox board had been of the opinion that the object was unlikely to have been a fixed wing aircraft, helicopter or hot air balloon, given that it had not shown up on radar.
Visitors can see the falls from many vantage points: above from a helicopter or microlight fixed wing plane, at eye level walking across the Knife Edge Bridge that spans the width of the falls on the Zambian side, or from below on a hike.
In Scotland, the government funds two helicopters and two fixed-wing aircraft based in Glasgow, Inverness and Aberdeen.
The airport saw a 15.1% reduction in helicopter passengers, but recorded a 1.7% increase in fixed-wing passenger numbers.
As a kid he built model aircraft, and as an adult he flies real ones, both fixed-wing and helicopters.
And these same advances are being exploited in a new generation of diesel engines for use in small fixed-wing aircraft.
They are senior naval aviators with about 25 years of experience in naval aviation communities that operate fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft from carriers.
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Operators of Aberdeen International Airport said the drop in numbers in the helicopter sector last month was offset by growth in domestic and international fixed-wing passengers.
Cargo helicopters and fixed-wing planes provide supplies to military bases and support reconstruction projects, particularly in areas where it is too dangerous to move by road.
The Navy organizes its most capable warfighting units around those vessels, each of which hosts about 90 fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft launched from four-acre flight decks.
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The decision to bring forward its decommissioning was criticised because it leaves the Navy without the capacity to launch fixed-wing aircraft until replacements are brought in.
Helicopter gunships and fixed-wing aircraft targeted the villages while armed militias rode in on horses and camels to force about 30, 000 people from their homes, according to the report.
Mr Spencer's son-in-law, Michael Carr, who was also taught by Mr King, told the court his father-in-law was fanatical about flying and had already achieved his fixed-wing pilot's licence.
Unlike many large fixed-wing drones, which are flown under remote control by ground-based pilots, a modified K-MAX flies autonomously along a programmed course using GPS to navigate via specified way points.
Statistics from 2001 to 2005 show that a hour spent riding in a helicopter was about 40% more likely to result in an accident than an hour spent in a fixed-wing aircraft.
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They are the biggest purchaser of the revolutionary Osprey tiltrotor, which pivots its engines so it can take off like a helicopter, but fly as far and fast as a fixed-wing plane.
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The office is also in charge of the White House Communications Agency, which handles all presidential telephone, radio, and digital communications, as well as airlift operations through both fixed-wing and helicopter aircraft.
His team is about to safety-test a fixed-wing reconnaissance UAV for a consortium of clients including the police, coastguards, the lifeboat service and Dutch port authorities, to help them carry out maritime surveillance more efficiently.
Makers of fixed-wing aircraft are also looking at diesel engines, in small planes at least, where they show promise as a serious alternative to standard piston engines, which run on a high-octane form of petrol.
Backers hope they will prove a cheaper alternative to helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft for tasks as varied as power and pipeline inspection, mapping, security, border surveillance, research, filming, fire fighting, search and rescue and delivering supplies.
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The decision to bring forward Ark Royal's decommissioning by several years has been criticised because it leaves the Navy without the capacity to launch fixed-wing aircraft until replacements come into service at the end of the decade.
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Finally, AgustaWestland surprised the HeliExpo crowd by revealing that it has been secretly testing an electrically powered tiltrotor, mixing the versatility of a vertical takeoff and land helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed-wing aircraft.
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Part of that need will be met in the future by a new generation of rotorcraft, including the revolutionary MV-22 tiltrotor that combines the vertical agility of a helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed-wing plane.
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"Afghan National Army forces and U.S. soldiers operating in the area quickly moved to the site and cordoned off the insurgent forces by use of small-arms fire and support from coalition fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft, " the military statement said.
Although a member of the UN observer mission reckons that loyalist forces include at least two combat brigades that have been held in reserve, apart from fixed-wing bombers and chemical weapons, activists report that much of the Sunni rank and file is in effect idle.
For the most-aggressive available Gallardo models, the Edizione Tecnica offers buyers a fixed high rear wing and carbon-ceramic brakes.
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With a global sales and support presence, its products are offered by virtually every fixed- and rotor-wing airframe manufacturer in business aviation, and are installed aboard the world's four largest fractional ownership fleets.
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Wing Morgan Stoddart fixed his defender and flicked a pass out of the back of his hand to King, who in quick succession repeated that piece of skill to find fellow centre Gareth Maule.
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