"Spider's Web" Saves British Seahawk Fighter
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This dramatic picture — taken during an actual emergency landing on an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean — shows how a nylon elastic barrier, aptly name the "Spider's Web", saved a British Seahawk jet fighter that was unable to lower its arres...
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"New Style British Dinghy for 'Ditched' Airman"
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Scientific assistant Ann Wakely demonstrates a new type of single seat dinghy at the British Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine, Farnborough, England.
The dinghy, which has its own built-in survival canopy, is designed to afford maximu...
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