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    Republic of Singapore Air Force) also use the term "squadron" for non-flying ground units (e.g. radar squadrons, missile squadrons, air defense squadrons...
    15 KB (2,009 words) - 00:54, 17 April 2024
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    environment. Other, mostly older terms include "contour flying", "ground-hugging", "terrain masking", "flying under the radar" and "hedgehopping". During NOE...
    7 KB (742 words) - 03:44, 10 January 2024
  • "Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground" is a song from the film Honeysuckle Rose. The song was written and recorded by American singer Willie Nelson and...
    3 KB (263 words) - 23:42, 25 May 2023
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    the 1990s, the type saw action during the Yugoslav Wars, typically flying ground-attack missions in Croatia, Bosnia[citation needed] and Kosovo. As of...
    26 KB (2,983 words) - 20:43, 17 April 2024
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    The namesake and defining feature of a flying buttress is that it is not in contact with the wall at ground level, unlike a traditional buttress, and...
    14 KB (1,624 words) - 20:23, 14 January 2024
  • The Flying Ship (Ukrainian: летючий корабель; letuchiy korabel, Russian: летучий корабль; letuchiy korabl) is an East Slavic or Eastern European folk tale...
    12 KB (1,385 words) - 09:14, 16 March 2024
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    squirrel family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels (including chipmunks and prairie dogs, among others), and flying squirrels. Squirrels are indigenous...
    35 KB (3,545 words) - 15:36, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal Flying Corps
    above ground level at Larkhill. Four months later, on 11 December 1912, Parke was killed when the Handley Page monoplane in which he was flying from Hendon...
    75 KB (9,377 words) - 15:07, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bentley Flying Spur (2005)
    The Bentley Flying Spur, known as the Bentley Continental Flying Spur before 2013, is a full-sized luxury car produced by Bentley Motors Limited since...
    26 KB (1,620 words) - 03:06, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ground proximity warning system
    A ground proximity warning system (GPWS) is a system designed to alert pilots if their aircraft is in immediate danger of flying into the ground or an...
    20 KB (2,139 words) - 00:53, 21 April 2024
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    A flying car or roadable aircraft is a type of vehicle which can function both as a road vehicle and as an aircraft. As used here, this includes vehicles...
    56 KB (5,829 words) - 22:35, 23 May 2024
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    volunteers for its headquarters and ground crew, the AVG recruited most of its staff from the U.S. military. The Flying Tigers began to arrive in China in...
    63 KB (8,192 words) - 12:03, 4 May 2024
  • flying officer flies. Some flying officers are aircrew, but many are ground branch officers. Amongst the ground branches some flying officers have command...
    10 KB (864 words) - 03:10, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
    The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC)....
    146 KB (17,006 words) - 22:27, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of flying boats and floatplanes
    (They do not include rotorcraft, or ground-effect vehicles which can only skim along close to the water) A flying boat relies on its main hull for buoyancy...
    81 KB (441 words) - 20:02, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flying saucer
    A flying saucer, also referred to as a flying disc, is a descriptive term for a type of flying craft having a disc or saucer-shaped body, commonly used...
    29 KB (3,325 words) - 20:19, 8 May 2024
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    Dry Rates". The Balance Careers. Retrieved 1 July 2018. "Royal flying corps: Central Flying school". Flight Archive. Flight global. 20 April 1912. Retrieved...
    6 KB (582 words) - 16:43, 24 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Speed flying and speed riding
    gentler flight, never touching the ground before landing. The fast landing technique for speed wings, when flying without skis, is similar to that used...
    24 KB (2,305 words) - 03:39, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flying Spaghetti Monster
    The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is the deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism, a parodic new religious movement that...
    119 KB (10,559 words) - 15:45, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flying squirrel
    down trees and maneuvering on the ground floor or executing dangerous leaps in the air. By gliding at high speeds, flying squirrels can rummage through a...
    28 KB (3,119 words) - 00:55, 2 May 2024
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