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AT-99 Scorpion: a VTOL gunship which uses two transverse ducted rotors for lift. It has a crew of one. The aircraft appears in the 2009 film Avatar. [41] Cordium-powered airships from Project Wingman: Anura-class air cruiser: The smallest type of airship for civilian and military use. Equipped with standard anti-aircraft armament.
Warbits was well-received by critics, gaining "universal acclaim" on Metacritic. [7] Most of its reviews were from mobile gaming sites rather than more major outlets. [5] Upon launch, the game was made the App Store's Editor's Choice for two weeks straight, attributed to launching during an Earth Day promotion that prevented larger developers from launching their apps.
LZ 54 first flew on 27 November 1915, completing 14 flights during her nine weeks of service. [2] Several of these flights were patrols over the North Sea, searching for Allied merchant and naval ships. Naval scouting was the main role of the navy's Zeppelin fleet, and a total of 220 such flights were carried out during the war. [3]
The A-10 Thunderbolt II is among the player-flyable aircraft in the 1989 video game U.N. Squadron. [23] The aircraft is also featured in the 1989 video game A-10 Tank Killer . [ 24 ] It has since appeared in the Ace Combat series [ 25 ] and is a study-level aircraft in the combat flight simulator DCS World .
Zeppelin's notions were first formulated in 1874 [1] and developed in detail in 1893. [2] They were patented in Germany in 1895 and in the United States in 1899. [3] After the outstanding success of the Zeppelin design, the word zeppelin came to be commonly used to refer to all forms of rigid airships.
[2] In 1994, Power Play (a german computer game magazine) added it to the list of "Best 100 games in 1994" in their special edition 9. [3] In March 1994, ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - a German computer and video game magazine - rated Zeppelin with 11 out of 12 and gave the award "ASM Hit/very good". "Chic presentation and an unusual game ...
Zeppelin LZ 104 (construction number, designated L 59 by the German Imperial Navy) and nicknamed Das Afrika-Schiff ("The Africa Ship"), was a World War I German dirigible. It is famous for having attempted a long-distance resupply mission to the beleaguered garrison of Germany's East Africa colony .
The LZ 2 was a German experimental airship constructed by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin and first flown in 1906. It was the true ancestor of later Zeppelin airship designs. The major mistakes made by Kübler in the design of the LZ 1 were not repeated: the designer, Ludwig Dürr, who was to head the design of all subsequent Zeppelins, used triangular-section girders instead of Kübler's flat girders ...