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A voice warning system is a system designed to alert the crew of an aircraft to imminent safety hazards. It is often known as a Bitchin' Betty, a slang term used by some pilots and aircrew and submariners (mainly North American). The enunciating voice, in at least some aircraft systems, may be either male or female.
Countdown to Looking Glass is a Canadian made-for-television movie that premiered in the United States on HBO on October 14, 1984 and was also broadcast on CTV in Canada. The movie presents a fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf.
Since actual aircraft could not be sent through the set, miniature models and a full-size mock-up of the tail-section of a Boeing 707 were used. Optical effects were used to make the planes look as if they were entering the set. The penultimate scene took place in a contemporary American home.
7500 is a 2019 action-thriller film [7] directed by Patrick Vollrath (in his feature-length directorial debut) and written by Vollrath and Senad Halilbašić.It stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tobias Ellis, a pilot whose plane is hijacked by Islamic terrorists.
The Runway Awareness and Advisory System (RAAS) is an electronic detection system that notifies aircraft flight crews on the ground of their position relative to their allocated runway. It is a type of Runway Situation Awareness Tool (RSAT).
This story was updated to include new information. The National Transportation Safety Board has issued an urgent warning to airlines that fly the Boeing 737, saying a failure first seen on a ...
Filmed with the full cooperation of the United States Air Force, scenes of contemporary North American F-86 Sabre and North American F-100 Super Sabre fighters are shot in Technicolor. Principal photography took place in Labrador , Canada, London, Rome and Lazio, Italy, as well as in Washington, District of Columbia.
The producers of A Dark Reflection are keen to promote the bleed free aircraft, [36] such as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which is the first of its kind. [37] Yet despite it being released in 2007, with The Telegraph calling it, "A Breath of Fresh Air", in 2009, [ 38 ] there have been no moves since by the airline industry to remodel any other ...