AIR

Combat Aircraft / Fighter

First flight: 1999

Mitsubishi F-15J/DJ Eagle

JASDF (Japan Air Self-Defense Force)

First flight: 1980

Combat Aircraft / Bomber

First flight: 1989

First flight: 1952

AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System)

Reconnaissance

First flight: 1955

Introduction: 1956

First flight: 1964

Introduction: 1966

Retired: 1998 (USAF), 1999 (NASA)

Tanker

Maritime Patrol

- a military version of the Boeing 747 airliner

- Air Force One is the official air traffic control call sign for a United States Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States.

Helicopter 

Empty weight: 6,895 kg

Empty weight: 15,071 kg

Empty weight: 14,432 kg 

STOL (short take-off and landing)

VTOL (vertical take-off and landing)

Trainer Aircraft 

First flight: 1981

UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)

NOTES

Parts of Airplane and Function

FUSELAGE: hold things together - carry payload

- Radar dome

- Cockpit / flight deck: command and control

- Passenger door / hatch

- Cabin window 

- Nose landing gear

- Emergency door

- Main landing gear

- Rear door

- Baggage compartments


TURBINE ENGINE: generate thrust

- Air intake

- Fan

- Nacelle

- Pylon


WING: generate lift

- Slats: increase lift

- Spoiler: change lift, drag and roll

- Flaps: increase lift and drag

- Aileron: change roll

- Winglet: decrease drag 

- Flap track fairings


STABILIZER: control yaw and pitch

- Vertical stabilizer / tail fine: control yaw

- Rudder: change yaw

- Horizontal stabilizer / tail plane: control pitch

- Elevator: change pitch

cf. NASA

Infrastructure of Airport 

- Tower

- Terminal / Passenger Boarding Bridge (PBB)

- Hangars

- Ramp / Apron / Spot

- Taxiway

- Runway

- Hold Marking

- Blast-pad / Stop Way

- Threshold

- Landing Designator

- Touchdown Zone Making

- Aiming Point

- Center Line

- Edge Markings

Cruise Steps

- Maintenance

- Flight Planning

- Parked

- Push back

-Taxi

- Take off / Departure

- Initial Climb / Gear up / Flaps

- Climb

- Cruise / Optimum Altitude

- Descent

- Initial Approach / Gear down / Flaps

- Final Approach

- Go around

- Landing / Touch and Go

- Reverse Thrust / Arrival

- Taxi to gate

- Review

Aircraft Weapons

- LANTIRN Navigation Pod

- LANTIRN targeting Pod

- M61 Vulcan

- AIM-9 Sidewinder

- AIM-120 AMRAAM

- EGBU-10 Enhanced Paveway II

LANTIRN: Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Ifrared for Night

AIM: Air-launched Intercept Missile / Air Interceptor Missile

AMRAAM:  Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile 

EGBU: Enhanced Guided Bomb Unit 

AAM: Air-to-Air Missile 

Data Sheets