A prone pilot lies on their stomach rather than seated in a normal upright or reclining position. During the 1930s, glider designer Reimar Horten began...
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Preface to Planes with Pronated Pilots". 6 October 2021. "Proned pilots - Nest of Dragons". "Proned pilots". Look up prone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary...
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A heavily modified Gloster Meteor F8 fighter, the "prone position/prone pilot" Meteor, was used by the Royal Air Force in 1954 and 1955 to evaluate the...
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Gloster Meteor (redirect from Gloster Meteor F.8 "Prone Pilot")
1954, a specially adapted Meteor F.8, the "Meteor Prone Pilot", which placed the pilot into a prone position to counteract inertial forces, took its first...
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G-suit (section Prone pilot position aircraft)
piston engined trainer. However, other difficulties associated with prone piloting and the development of practical g-suits for normal seating positions...
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becoming 29689 and 29690. See also Gloster Meteor F8 "Prone Pilot" for background on prone pilot experiments. Green and Swanborough 2001, p. 345. Norton...
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Sud-Ouest Triton – First French jet aircraft Akaflieg Berlin B 9 1943. – Prone pilot Albatros L.81 – Elektron metal structure testbed AVA AF 1 – Augumented...
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This can enable the pilot to handle g-forces. It is the opposite of the prone pilot. Aériane Swift British Aerospace P.125 Maupin Carbon Dragon Ruppert Archaeopteryx...
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Aerobatic Bush planes Electric aircraft Flying wings Gliders Human-powered Prone-pilot Rocket-powered Flying boats and floatplanes STOL Supersonic Trimotors...
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Akaflieg Berlin B9 (category Prone pilot aircraft)
in the 1940s. It was designed to examine the benefits of having a pilot in a prone position. The aircraft was flown in 1943, but was eventually abandoned...
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Škoda-Kauba P14 (category Prone pilot aircraft)
formed most of the fuselage structure. The cockpit had the pilot flying the aircraft in a prone position above the air intake. Its landing gear was a retractable...
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Northrop XP-79 (category Prone pilot aircraft)
designed by Northrop. The pilot operated the aircraft in a prone position, permitting much greater g-forces to be resisted by the pilot in pitch. The XP-79...
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November 2021. The UK's F-35 fleet has grown to 24 aircraft after @OC207Sqn pilots ferried three new jets from the @LockheedMartin plant in Fort Worth, Texas...
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"IAF's Mirage 2000 fighter jet crashes near Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh, pilots safely ejected". The Hindu. 6 February 2025. Archived from the original...
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Reid and Sigrist R.S.3 Desford (category Prone pilot aircraft)
rebuilt as the R.S.4 Bobsleigh as an experimental aircraft with the pilot in a prone position, seen as advantageous in minimising g-force effects in fighter...
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Henschel Hs 132 (category Prone pilot aircraft)
the Heinkel He 162), a retractable nosewheel undercarriage and the pilot in a prone position. The aircraft intentionally made as little use of strategic...
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Wright Flyer (category Prone pilot aircraft)
gliders, the pilot flew lying on his stomach on the lower wing with his head toward the front of the craft in an effort to reduce drag. The pilot was left...
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Unmanned aerial vehicle (redirect from No pilot aircraft)
aircraft system (UAS), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft with no human pilot, crew, or passengers on board, but rather is controlled remotely or is autonomous...
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2009-05-25. Retrieved 2009-12-20. B. N. Sullivan (2008-08-04). "Professional Pilot News: Airbus A380 requires new 'super' wake separation category". Propilotnews...
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Horten H.IV (category Prone pilot aircraft)
Horten H.IV is a German tailless flying wing glider in which the pilot was to lie in a prone position to reduce the frontal area, and hence drag. It was designed...
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Wright Flyer III (category Prone pilot aircraft)
dependable, flying reliably for significant durations, and bringing its pilot back to the starting point safely, and landing without damage. On October...
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two-seater version of Gripen NG is in development and will be used for both pilot training and combat missions. For the combat role, this version will be...
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"Piper project honors pipeline patrols". aopa.org. Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Retrieved 20 December 2016. "Mountain Air Cargo". Archived...
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