pathfinder aircraft造句

• One Pathfinder aircraft and three other bombers fail to return.
• Five Pathfinder aircraft, including that of the commanding officer of 7 Squadron, were among the losses.
• So what's the big deal about the flight of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Pathfinder aircraft?
• The main force of 56 aircraft continued to climb to to give cover to the four Pathfinder aircraft.
• At 0030 hours, Pathfinder aircraft released flares directly above the airfield and ten minutes later the first bombs were dropped.
• Pathfinder aircraft fail to concentrate markers on the target and the raid fails when the bombers spread their bombs widely throughout the countryside.
• Limited experiments with solar electric propulsion have been performed, notably the manned Solar Challenger and Solar Impulse and the unmanned NASA Pathfinder aircraft.
• Three pathfinder aircraft led the way, dropping fifty paratroops equipped with Rebecca / Eureka and Krypton lamps precisely on the drop zone behind Allied lines.
• As lead aircraft, 482 BG B-17s and B-24s usually flew missions from stations of other groups with some key personnel of the host group flying in the pathfinder aircraft.
• *1942  ( Overnight )  Royal Air Force Bomber Command s Pathfinder Force flies its first mission, with 31 Pathfinder aircraft attempting to mark the target  The German submarine base at Flensburg  For a main force of 87 bombers.
• *1943  ( 27-28 ) For the first time, Oboe-equipped British Mosquitos leading the way for a British raid on D黶seldorf drop ground markers rather than sky markers to guide follow-on Pathfinder aircraft, clearly improving British night-bombing accuracy over that experienced before.
• Taking off from Cho-do Island in the early morning hours, Captain Frank J . Westerman and Lieutenant Robert Sullivan flew low-level through darkness for two hours, guided north by an Air Rescue SA-16 pathfinder aircraft flying overhead at an altitude of 100 feet.
• As lead aircraft, 482d B-17s and B-24s usually flew missions from stations of other groups with some key personnel of the host group flying in the pathfinder aircraft . The Brunswick, Schweinfurt, and other German industrial centers during Big Week, 20 25 February 1944.
• During World War II, Pugh joined the United States Army Air Corps, forerunner of the United States Air Force, and was the navigator of a pathfinder aircraft, which dropped paratroopers into Germany in Operation Varsity, considered to have been the largest such landing in military history.
• *1942  ( overnight ) Due to heavy German jamming of Gee, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Pathfinder aircraft go astray, marking the wrong city, and the force of 231 British bombers that sets out to attack Saarbr點ken instead bombs Saarlouis 15 km ( 9.3 mi ) to the northwest.
• Night missions had similar profiles to and from the target, except that aircraft did not assemble in the target area but bombed individually, guided by their own navigation systems and by the glow of fires started by pathfinder aircraft . In addition, bombing altitudes were rarely higher than 8, 000 feet.