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It was initially a spray designed to protect fighter planes from salty sea spray.

Players can also choose to pilot some of the most iconic American and Japanese fighter planes from the army or navy's aviation units, while completing quests that take them through various historical battles such as Pearl Harbor, Midway and Guadalcanal.

Free flight is a good bet to get a hang of flying World War II fighter planes from Spitfire to Junkers Ju 87, all purchasable with money earned from the campaign missions and their optional side missions.

Rogers, who has been known to keep two U.S. Air Force fighter planes from blasting away in opposite directions by holding them back with his bare hands, performed at the most recent Gathering for Gardner — a conference that celebrates the interests of one of Scientific American's greatest columnists, the late mathemagician Martin Gardner.

«The P - 51 Mustang is the most iconic fighter plane from World War II and a powerful symbol of the United States» aviation combat history,» Hinton explains.

Looks like a Japanese fighter plane from WWII.

Not exact matches

Typical work then: generating the performance requirements for «jam - proof» communications systems, from walkie - talkies to sophisticated computers for fighter planes.

Our technologies are used in aircraft ranging from the most used single aisle aircraft and the largest passenger planes in the world to business jets and the world's advanced 5th generation fighter aircraft.

Mr. Speaker, while other partner countries in the joint strike fighter project are hitting the brakes because of costs rising from $ 50 million to $ 92 million per plane, the Conservative government is going full throttle and is planning to stick Canadians with the bill.

On November 4, 1983, a member of a Muslim suicide squad attacked an Israeli compound in southern Lebanon with a truck bomb, killing more than 60 soldiers, The following day Israeli fighter planes bombed the base from which the truck might have come.

He was 5 feet 8, he was Phi Beta Kappa, grandson of an Iowa governor, and he was three and a half years away from crashing his Navy fighter plane into the Caribbean.

The United States has historically backed Israel in order to maintain some control over the region; virtually everything else in the area is anti-U.S. So Israel was convenient as a kind of base for the U.S. - it could send fighter planes to Israel instead of having them fly from inefficiently far away; and plus, if things got really hairy in the middle east, Israel could do some of the actual fighting too.

In Burkina Faso the United States Military base acts as a hub of a U.S spying network in the region, with spy planes departing from their base to fly over Mali, Mauritania and the Sahara, where they search for fighters from al - Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

From expeditioners perishing in an Antarctic icescape to World War II fighter planes exploding over Britain, dire situations can lead to crucial medical advances.

The shape - shifting, dolphin - like fighter planes that swarm a mystery heroine in the film's prologue are bracing at first, until one realizes they are almost lifted whole cloth from Yonebayashi's work on Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo.

The film immediately begins with German bookseller Wilfried Böse (Daniel Brühl) and fellow Revolutionary Cells member Brigitte Kuhn (Rosamund Pike) taking over a plane traveling from Tel Aviv to Paris (by way of Athens), alongside two Palestinian terrorists, with the intention of securing the release for over 50 Palestinian «freedom fighters» locked up in Israel and four other countries.

But things change (and the pace picks up considerably from its exposition - heavy, conflict - free intro) when Capt. Trevor's fighter plane delivers the agonizing realities of the first World War.

The film opens on the island of Themyscira, a paradise island created by the god Zeus and hidden from the real world by a protective shield, and the film stays there for a while as we follow Diana from curious little girl to fully trained warrior princess but once Steve Trevor's fighter plane crashes there and Diana realises there is a war being fought in world she does not know of that is not too far away then we swiftly get brought into London in 1918 and this shift from fantasy into a «real world» scenario gives the film a greater sense of depth, and when combined with characters that you actually care about then Wonder Woman is head and shoulders above all of the other DCEU movies on the strength of that alone.

With Training Day's Antoine Fuqua directing, everything is shaping up fairly plausibly until, suddenly and surely improbably, an unidentified plane isn't intercepted until it's just a mile from the centre of Washington DC, two state - of - the - art fighter jets are downed by machine guns and the Secret Service has to hold off the subsequent attack on the White House — codenamed Olympus — armed with nothing more than handguns.

Next is «The Wind Rises,» Miyazaki's latest tale which takes a slight diversion from his more whimsical fantasy films to tell the real - life story Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed the Zero fighter plane that was used during World War II, and infamously during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Jiro, who works in the aviation division of Mitsubishi, is an artist who dreams of flight (his eyesight prevents him from becoming a pilot) and channels his love into creating the next generation of airplanes, but is trapped in a military culture that demands he design a fighter plane.

Nolan's screenplay sees the operation from the land — where hundreds of thousands of soldiers are trapped — the sea — where private boats are racing to rescue those soldiers — and the air — where fighter planes attempt to hold back German aircraft.

As World War I unfolds, Diana Prince / Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) lives on an Amazonian island, cut off from the outside world until fighter pilot Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) crashes his plane there.

With an abundance of torque and an instant throttle response, it punches forwards with almost shocking violence and a soundtrack straight from a piston - engined fighter plane.

It took the 3D fighters from the Tekken universe and limited them to the 2D plane that is the staple of Street Fighter games.

No longer will you be ruined by splash damage from a fighter pilot who's gone 81 - 0 without ever once playing the objective: any launch - able projectiles that can be equipped to fighter or attack planes have lost splash damage benefits, so masterful accuracy is now required.

Call of Duty: WWII even tries its hand at vehicle segments: you get to drive and gun from both a Jeep and Kubelwagen, you get to drive a tank, and pilot a fighter plane.

The series» lauded focus on multiplayer benefited from this, too, as skilled fighters could intentionally steer battle planes together to participate in combo maneuvers.

When your game's first playable moment has players firing a rocket launcher with infinite ammo at fighter jets and missile batteries from atop an airborne plane, you're making good on your promise of over-the-top mayhem.

The free top down shooter lets you take control of a fighter Ace plane from England as you battle the evil reign of Hitler and his Aces of the Luftwaffe.

Most fighters take place on a 2D plane of some sort, moving from left to right or vice-versa towards the opponent on the opposite side of the screen, trading blows.

This 2v2 fighter features the best members from each game for some cross brand battles on a 2D plane.

Waiting to be shipped out, in a shed abutting the kitchen, her new commissions for Quack Quack, as the new Serpentine show is called, draw on memories from her time in Kensington as a child during the blitz, as well as observations of the park's present - day visitors — a mix of fighter planes, cavorting dogs and resting migrants.

Filling the gallery's magnificent central Duveen Galleries with a single new work for six months, the results have ranged from the spectacular (Fiona Banner's decommissioned fighter planes hanging from the ceiling in 2010) to the seriously underwhelming (Christina Mackie's long stockings dangling from the ceiling).

The archive also documents his studio at Butler's Wharf in a series of photographs, which was overflowing with a variety of found objects and scrap, from a fighter plane cockpit to a collection of gongs, all of which were potential elements of his work.

, his famous 1963 picture of a fighter plane being shot by another, and Drowning Girl, both appropriated from contemporary comics, as well as the Artist's Studio series which saw him bring his graphic, pop style to his own surroundings and other real - life art works.

Some of the cities shown in these maps overlap with those dotting the Silk Route series, a set of nine intricately detailed paintings of historic maps overlaid with diverse collage elements — from ominous fighter planes to cheerful cartoon characters to textile patterns that evoke ancient weavers and traders.

This newest body of work expands upon familiar Morley motifs — fighter planes and battleships are set alongside imagery from disparate historical periods including Viking ships, medieval castles, and lighthouses.

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