William Avery "Billy" Bishop VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED (February 8, 1894 – September 11, 1956) was a Canadian World War I flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, the highest number for a British Empire pilot. Billy Bishop was born on 8 February 1894, in Owen Sound, Ontario. He was the third of four children born to William A. and Margaret Bishop. His father, a lawyer and graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, was the Registrar of Grey County. In 1911, at the age of 17, Billy Bishop entered the Roy ...

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Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are more commonly known as airplanes in North American English and aeroplanes in Commonwealth English. An airplane is a heavier-than-air aircraft where movement of the wings in relation to the aircraft is not used to generate lift. All aircraft wings flex, and some aircraft have wings that can tilt, sweep back or fold, but if none of these movements are used to g ...

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• Fixed-wing aircraft - Super sonic aircraft
• Fixed-wing aircraft - Rocket-powered aircraft
• Fixed-wing aircraft - Ramjet aircraft
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January January 12 - German aces Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke, with 8 kills, are the first pilots awarded with Pour le Mérite ("the Blue Max") January 29 - the second and last Zeppelin raid on Paris inflicts 54 casualties. March March 16 - US military aircraft fly their first mission over foreign soil when Curtiss JN3s of the 1st Aero Squadron carry out reconnaissance over Mexico. March 18 - German ...

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February No. 100 Squadron RFC, the first British night fighter squadron is formed. April Known as Bloody April, while supporting the Arras offensive the Royal Flying Corps loses 245 aircraft -- 140 in the first two weeks -- out of a initial strength of 365. Aircrew casualties are 211 killed or missing and 108 prisoners of war. April 6 - the U ...

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Fixed-wing aircraft - Propeller aircraft. Propeller airplanes make use of combustion engines, that in turn, turn a propeller, which creates the necessary force for the movement of the aircraft. They are relatively quiet, but they fly at lower speeds, and have lower load capacity compared to similar sized jet powered aircraft. However, they are significantly cheaper and much more economic than jets, and is the generally the best option for people who need to use an airplane in a smaller company to transport a few passengers and/or small amounts of cargo. They are also t ...

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February February 9 - Sopwith Pup flown by Harry Hawker April SPAD S.VII May May 28 - Sopwith Triplane flown by Harry Hawker June June 17 - Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 June 29 - the B&W, William Boeing's first aircraft. September September 9 - Bristol F.2A September 12 - the Hewitt-Sperry flying bomb October October 25 - Bristol F.2B Fighter November

January Sopwith Camel flown by Harry Hawker February Junkers J.4 April April 4 - SPAD S.XIII September September 14 - Fairey III November November 30 - Vickers Vimy ...

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The dream of flight goes back, for Man, to the days of pre-history. Many legends, beliefs and myths of antiquity involve flight, such as the legend of Icarus. Leonardo of the Vinci, among others visionary inventors, drew an airplane, in the 15th century. With the first flight made by man (Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Francois d'Arlandes) in an aircraft lighter than air, a balloon, the biggest challenge became to create other craft, capable of controlled flight. Years of research by many eager people who dreamed of flight produced ve ...

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Statistics show that the risk of an air accident is very small. One is more likely to have an accident going to the airport in a car than have one during your flight. Many people have a fear of flying because the risk of death in an aircraft accident, if there is one, is extremely high. Furthermore, car crashes rarely feature outside local news whereas air crashes are reported internationally, making the risk seem greater. The majority of aircraft accidents occur due to human error, that is, an error of the pilot(s) or control tower. ...

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Conventional airplanes -- from small planes such as the Bumble Bee II and Cessna 140 to a gigantic Antonov 225 -- consist of a longitudinal fuselage, one or more wings to provide the majority of lift, a tailplane for stability, and a one or more vertical surfaces at the tail for stability. Fixed-wing aircraft - Fixed parts. Each wing is a single wing structure integrated into the fuselage of the aircraft. Sometimes, the half of a wing on either side of the fuselage is referred to as a wing, e.g. left ...

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Small airplanes can be designed and constructed at home, by aviators who possess sufficient knowledge in the areas of engineering, physics and aerodynamics. Other aviators with less knowledge make their airplanes using complete kits, with pre-manufactured parts, and assemble the aircraft themselves. While there are thousands of "amateur-built" airplanes flying around the world, they are still a small minority. Given their complexity, most airplanes are constructed by companies with the objective of producing them in quantity for custo ...

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There are relatively few companies that produce airplanes on a large scale. However, the production of an airplane for one company is a process that actually involves dozens, or even hundreds, of other companies and plants, that produce the parts that go into the aircraft. For example, one company can be responsible for the production of the landing gear, while another one is responsible for the radar. The production of such parts is not limited to the same city or country; in the case of large aircraft manufac ...

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An airplane flies due to the aerodynamic reactions that happen when air passes at high speed over the wing. If you look at a cross-section of an airplane wing, you will see that the top of the wing is curved, while the bottom of the wing is straight -- or at least curved less than the top. This shape -- called an "airfoil" -- is what creates lift when a wing travels through the air. Image:American taking off.jpgWhen an airplane wing travels through the air, it forces the air to pass both on top of and underneath the wing. Becau ...

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