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  2. Pushback (aviation) - Wikipedia

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    A KLM Boeing 777 being pushed back from a gate at Narita International Airport in Japan. In aviation, pushback is an airport procedure during which an aircraft is pushed backwards away from its parking position, usually at an airport gate by external power. [1] [2] Pushbacks are carried out by special, low-profile vehicles called pushback ...

  3. Pushback - Wikipedia

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    Pushback (aviation), a vehicle for towing airplanes; Pushback (migration), any measure aimed at forcing migrants to return over a border; Backlash (disambiguation)

  4. Thrust reversal - Wikipedia

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    If circumstances require it, reverse thrust can be used all the way to a stop, or even to provide thrust to push the aircraft backward, though aircraft tugs or towbars are more commonly used for that purpose. When reverse thrust is used to push an aircraft back from the gate, the maneuver is called a powerback. Some manufacturers warn against ...

  5. Taxiing - Wikipedia

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    Airbus jet airliners taxiing at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport A privately owned Sea Vixen taxis back from an air show flight, with wings folding as it moves.. Taxiing (rarely spelled taxying) [1] is the movement of an aircraft on the ground, under its own power, in contrast to towing or pushback where the aircraft is moved by a tug.

  6. List of pusher aircraft by configuration and date - Wikipedia

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    Dornier Do 335 1943 push-pull fighter, 38 built; Moynet Jupiter 1963 push-pull transport, 2 built; Aero Design DG-1 1977 push-pull racer, 1 built; Rutan Defiant 1978 transport, 19+ built; Rutan Voyager 1984 endurance record aircraft, 1 built [note 4] * Star Kraft SK-700 1994 push-pull transport, [79] Aeronix Airelle 2002 tandem wing 2 seater, 5 ...

  7. Push-pull configuration - Wikipedia

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    Push-pull designs have the engines mounted above the wing as Dornier flying boats or more commonly on a shorter fuselage than conventional one, as for Rutan Defiant or Voyager canard designs. Twin boomers such as the Cessna Skymaster and Adam A500 have the aircraft's tail suspended via twin booms behind the pusher propeller.

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  9. Aerobatic maneuver - Wikipedia

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    The nose then falls back to the horizontal, and the aircraft accelerates away in the original direction ; Kulbit; post-stall maneuver similar to Pugachev's Cobra, but going to 360° pitch angle, flying a "loop" Roll; Rotational motion around the longitudinal axis (the nose rotates around its center). Barrel roll; a combination of a loop and a ...