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'''Piaggio Aero Industries''' is an [[aircraft]] manufacturing company born from the former '''Rinaldo Piaggio SPA''', an == Aircraft models ==

...spokes on a wheel. This configuration was formerly very commonly used in [[aircraft]] engines before being superseded by [[turboshaft]] and [[turbojet]] engine For [[aircraft engine|aircraft use]] the radial has several advantages over the [[Inline engine|inline]] d

...s and some [[World War II|WWII]]-era [[fighter aircraft]]. These allow the aircraft to maintain a safe speed in a steep descent. The [[Saab 17|Saab B 17]] [[di * [[Air brake (aircraft)]]

...[[Second Italo-Abyssinian War]], where it showed itself to be a versatile aircraft, serving as a bomber, transport and reconnaissance plane. SM.81s also fough ...r Italian forces were fighting. Its low speed and vulnerability to fighter aircraft meant that, during day time, it was restricted to [[second line]] duties, f

...es are from the [[World War II]] era, and were designed for large military aircraft. The following are examples of this engine type: ...eta R.C. 24/60]], an [[x-24_engine|X-24]] developed for the [[Caproni F6]] fighter, but never fully completed before [[Italy]]’s surrender in [[1943]].

...was an early type of [[internal-combustion engine|internal combustion]] [[aircraft engine]], used mostly in the years shortly before and during [[World War I] ...around it. In the most common form, the crankshaft was fixed solidly to an aircraft frame, and the [[propeller]] simply bolted onto the front of the cylinder b

...[[liberty engine]]; the [[Curtiss NC]] [[Flying boat]]s, such as the first aircraft to make a [[transatlantic]] flight, the [[NC-4]], had a set of 4 V12 engine A number of [[World War II]] [[fighter aircraft|fighter]]s and [[bomber]]s used V12 engines such as the [[Rolls-Royce]] [[Rolls-Roy

...rols the aircraft. Most modern cockpits are enclosed, except on some small aircraft, and cockpits on large [[airliner]]s are also physically separated from the Cockpit as a term for the pilot's compartment in an [[aircraft]] first appeared in 1914. From about 1935 cockpit also came to be used info

...oblems by using a [[Steel|solid-steel]] torsion bar (supplied by [[Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation]]) to counterbalance a full-sized door and then use * [[Bristol Fighter (car)|Bristol Fighter]] (gull-wing)

...r many years it maintained an aerospace subsidiary, first named [[Goodyear Aircraft Company]] and then after [[World War II]] renamed [[Goodyear Aerospace Corp ...odel T]] with Goodyear tires. A year later Goodyear manufactured its first aircraft tire.

...e [[Germany]], in which the Regia Aeronautica could deploy more than 3.000 aircraft, of which less than 60% were serviceable. The Regia Aeronautica fought from ...], which renewed the transport fleet, and the Lockheed-Aeritalia F-104S, a fighter-variant of the Starfighter developed specifically to meet the requirements

During [[World War II]] the company produced fighter planes, but Piaggio emerged from the conflict with its [[Pontedera]] plant ...400, a tiny passenger car. The company's [[Piaggio Aero]] division builds aircraft.

...to distinguish it from [[avgas]], ''aviation gasoline'' used in (light) [[aircraft]]. This should be distinguished in usage from genuinely [[gaseous]] fuels u ...(Fuel containing lead may continue to be sold for off-road uses, including aircraft, racing cars, farm equipment, and marine engines.) The ban on leaded gasoli

...nelli]]. Fiat has also manufactured [[railroad]] vehicles, [[tanks]] and [[aircraft]]. As of 2009, Fiat is the world's sixth largest carmaker as well as Italy' ...made fighter aircraft, which was one of the most common [[Italy|Italian]] aircraft used along with the [[Savoia-Marchetti]], and also made light tanks and arm

...[[Piaggio]] pistons engine and the first one of the first [[Italian]] jet aircraft, the 1940 Caproni Campini CC2, that flew the first time during a 1941 fligh

...duce military hardware for the Italian and Allied war efforts. Munitions, aircraft engines and other components, compressors and generators based on the compa ===Aircraft engines===

...(IX-529)|USS ''Sea Shadow'']], sinks it while also shooting down a Chinese fighter plane sent out to investigate the stray warship. When the recovered bodies ...er with the stealth ship is also of poetic licence, in the real world an [[aircraft carrier]] would also have been present, and a wealth of options to engage t

Bond and Simonova go to Cuba to find the satellite dish in a [[light aircraft]] which is shot and crashes in the jungle. Onatopp [[zipline]]s down off a ...Onatopp.jpg|100px]] || [[Xenia Onatopp]] || [[Famke Janssen]] || A former fighter pilot for the Soviet Air Force who joined the Janus crime syndicate after t