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  • 1 Atlantic Standard Time

    1) Abbreviation: AST (GMT - 0400)
    2) Information technology: AST, AST (-0400, TZ, ADT)
    3) File extension: AST (-4:00)

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Atlantic Standard Time

  • 2 Atlantic Standard Time-4:00

    Information technology: AST

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Atlantic Standard Time-4:00

  • 3 Atlantic standard time

    1) Abbreviation: AST (GMT - 0400)
    2) Information technology: AST, AST (-0400, TZ, ADT)
    3) File extension: AST (-4:00)

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Atlantic standard time

  • 4 atlantycki czas normalny

    • Atlantic Standard Time

    Słownik polsko-angielski dla inżynierów > atlantycki czas normalny

  • 5 время

    time
    время высвечивания
    luminescence decay time
    время жизни
    1.lifetime 2.life
    время задержки
    delay time
    время запоминания
    memory time
    время затухания
    die-away time
    время интегрирования
    integration time
    время использования телескопа для наблюдений
    telescope time
    время наблюдения
    1.time of observation 2.observation time (duration of observations)
    время наблюдения центрального лепестка интерференционной картины
    time of central maximum
    время накопления информации
    storage time
    время пролета
    time of flight (of artificial Earth’s satellite)
    время проявления
    development time
    время разрешения
    resolving time
    время расширения Вселенной
    Hubble time
    время релаксации
    relaxation time
    время спада сигнала
    discharge time
    время срабатывания
    pickup time
    время существования
    life time
    время усреднения
    averaging time
    время фиксирования
    fixation time
    время экспозиции
    exposure time
    абсолютное время
    Newtonian time
    астрономическое время
    astronomical time
    атлантическое стандартное время
    Atlantic Standard time
    атомное время
    atomic time
    восточноевропейское время
    Eastern European time
    восточное поясное время
    Eastern standard time (USA)
    Всемирное время
    1.Universal Time (UT) 2.Zulu or Z-time (in USA)
    Всемирное координированное время
    Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
    геомагнитное время
    geomagnetic time
    гражданское время
    civil time
    гринвичское время
    Greenwich
    гринвичское гражданское время
    Greenwich mean (from midnight)
    гринвичское истинное
    Greenwich apparent (time)
    гринвичское среднее время
    Greenwich mean (time)
    декретное время
    legal time
    дипольное время
    dipole time
    звездное время
    1.sidereal hour angle 2.astronomical time
    звездное время в среднюю полночь
    sidereal time in midnight
    звездное местное время
    local sidereal time
    истекшее время
    elapsed time
    истинное время
    1.apparent time 2.true time 3.real time
    истинное местное время
    local apparent time
    истинное солнечное время
    1.apparent solar time 2.astronomical time
    летнее время
    British summer time
    международное атомное время
    Time Atomic International (TAI)
    местное время
    local time
    местное геомагнитное время
    local geomagnetic time
    местное гражданское время
    local civil time
    местное поясное время
    local standard time
    местное среднее время
    local mean time
    наблюдательное время
    observation time
    поясное время
    1.standard time 2.zone time
    рабочее время
    operating time
    равномерное звездное время
    uniform sidereal time
    расчетное время
    1.estimated time 2.normal time
    солнечное время
    solar time
    собственное время
    1.proper time 2.intrinsic time
    среднее время
    1.mean time 2.average time
    среднеевропейское время
    Central European time
    среднее время жизни
    1.average life 2.mean life time
    среднее звездное время
    mean sidereal time
    среднее солнечное время
    mean solar time
    текущее время
    run(ning) time
    тихоокеанское поясное время
    Pacific standard time (USA)
    усредненное время
    averaged time
    фактическое время
    actual time
    характеристическое время
    characteristic time
    центральное зимнее время между 90° и 105° з.д.
    амер. Central winter time
    центральное поясное время между 90° и 150° з.д.
    амер. Central (standard) time
    эфемеридное время
    ephemeris time

    Русско-английский астрономический словарь > время

  • 6 атлантическое поясное время

    1. Atlantic Standard Time
    2. AST

     

    атлантическое поясное время
    Временной пояс атлантического побережья США. -4:00 от GMT.
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    Русско-английский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > атлантическое поясное время

  • 7 стандартное атлантическое время

    1) General subject: Atlantic Standard Time
    2) Abbreviation: AST, Atlantic Standard Time
    3) Information technology: Atlantic standard time (http://ivb.unact.ru/glossary/ast.html)

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > стандартное атлантическое время

  • 8 атлантический

    1. atlantic
    2. Atlantic

    Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > атлантический

  • 9 атлантическое поясное время

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > атлантическое поясное время

  • 10 средне-атлантическое поясное время

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > средне-атлантическое поясное время

  • 11 среднеатлантическое поясное время

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > среднеатлантическое поясное время

  • 12 Атлантическое время

    ( США) Atlantic Standard time

    Русско-английский словарь по электронике > Атлантическое время

  • 13 Атлантическое время

    ( США) Atlantic Standard time

    Русско-английский словарь по радиоэлектронике > Атлантическое время

  • 14 Foreign policy

       The guiding principle of Portuguese foreign policy since the founding of the monarchy in the 12th century has been the maintenance of Portugal's status first as an independent kingdom and, later, as a sovereign nation-state. For the first 800 years of its existence, Portuguese foreign policy and diplomacy sought to maintain the independence of the Portuguese monarchy, especially in relationship to the larger and more powerful Spanish monarchy. During this period, the Anglo- Portuguese Alliance, which began with a treaty of commerce and friendship signed between the kings of Portugal and England in 1386 (the Treaty of Windsor) and continued with the Methuen Treaty in 1703, sought to use England ( Great Britain after 1707) as a counterweight to its landward neighbor, Spain.
       As three invasions of Portugal by Napoleon's armies during the first decade of the 19th century proved, however, Spain was not the only threat to Portugal's independence and security. Portugal's ally, Britain, provided a counterweight also to a threatening France on more than one occasion between 1790 and 1830. During the 19th century, Portugal's foreign policy became largely subordinate to that of her oldest ally, Britain, and standard Portuguese histories describe Portugal's situation as that of a "protectorate" of Britain. In two key aspects during this time of international weakness and internal turmoil, Portugal's foreign policy was under great pressure from her ally, world power Britain: responses to European conflicts and to the situation of Portugal's scattered, largely impoverished overseas empire. Portugal's efforts to retain massive, resource-rich Brazil in her empire failed by 1822, when Brazil declared its independence. Britain's policy of favoring greater trade and commerce opportunities in an autonomous Brazil was at odds with Portugal's desperate efforts to hold Brazil.
       Following the loss of Brazil and a renewed interest in empire in tropical Africa, Portugal sought to regain a more independent initiative in her foreign policy and, especially after 1875, overseas imperial questions dominated foreign policy concerns. From this juncture, through the first Republic (1910-26) and during the Estado Novo, a primary purpose of Portuguese foreign policy was to maintain Portuguese India, Macau, and its colonies in Africa: Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea- Bissau. Under the direction of the dictator, Antônio de Oliveira Salazar, further efforts were made to reclaim a measure of independence of foreign policy, despite the tradition of British dominance. Salazar recognized the importance of an Atlantic orientation of the country's foreign policy. As Herbert Pell, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal (1937-41), observed in a June 1939 report to the U.S. Department of State, Portugal's leaders understood that Portugal must side with "that nation which dominates the Atlantic."
       During the 1930s, greater efforts were made in Lisbon in economic, financial, and foreign policy initiatives to assert a greater measure of flexibility in her dependence on ally Britain. German economic interests made inroads in an economy whose infrastructure in transportation, communication, and commerce had long been dominated by British commerce and investors. Portugal's foreign policy during World War II was challenged as both Allied and Axis powers tested the viability of Portugal's official policy of neutrality, qualified by a customary bow to the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance. Antônio de Oliveira Salazar, who served as minister of foreign affairs, as well as prime minister, during 1936-45, sought to sell his version of neutrality to both sides in the war and to do so in a way that would benefit Portugal's still weak economy and finance. Portugal's status as a neutral was keenly tested in several cases, including Portugal's agreeing to lease military bases to Britain and the United States in the Azores Islands and in the wolfram (tungsten ore) question. Portugal's foreign policy experienced severe pressures from the Allies in both cases, and Salazar made it clear to his British and American counterparts that Portugal sought to claim the right to make independent choices in policy, despite Portugal's military and economic weakness. In tense diplomatic negotiations with the Allies over Portugal's wolfram exports to Germany as of 1944, Salazar grew disheartened and briefly considered resigning over the wolfram question. Foreign policy pressure on this question diminished quickly on 6 June 1944, as Salazar decreed that wolfram mining, sales, and exports to both sides would cease for the remainder of the war. After the United States joined the Allies in the war and pursued an Atlantic strategy, Portugal discovered that her relationship with the dominant ally in the emerging United Nations was changing and that the U.S. would replace Britain as the key Atlantic ally during succeeding decades. Beginning in 1943-44, and continuing to 1949, when Portugal became, with the United States, a founding member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Luso-American relations assumed center stage in her foreign policy.
       During the Cold War, Portuguese foreign policy was aligned with that of the United States and its allies in Western Europe. After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, the focus of Portuguese foreign policy shifted away from defending and maintaining the African colonies toward integration with Europe. Since Portugal became a member of the European Economic Community in 1986, and this evolved into the European Union (EU), all Portuguese governments have sought to align Portugal's foreign policy with that of the EU in general and to be more independent of the United States. Since 1986, Portugal's bilateral commercial and diplomatic relations with Britain, France, and Spain have strengthened, especially those with Spain, which are more open and mutually beneficial than at any other time in history.
       Within the EU, Portugal has sought to play a role in the promotion of democracy and human rights, while maintaining its security ties to NATO. Currently, a Portuguese politician, José Manuel Durão Barroso, is president of the Commission of the EU, and Portugal has held the six-month rotating presidency of the EU three times, in 1992, 2000, and 2007.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Foreign policy

  • 15 ave

    f.
    bird (animal).
    el Ave Fénix the phoenix
    ave del Paraíso bird of paradise
    ave de presa bird of prey
    * * *
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SM ABR
    = Alta Velocidad Española high speed train
    * * *
    masculino (= Alta Velocidad Española) high-speed train
    •• Cultural note:
    A high-speed train service linking Madrid with Seville and Huelva via Cadiz, established in 1992 in time for the international exhibition Expo 92 in Seville. Lines under construction include: Madrid-Barcelona, with an extension to France and Barcelona-Valencia. An AVE service linking Madrid and Galicia is being planned
    * * *
    = bird.
    Ex. For example, the child doing a project about birds will require books to give him background information, a record or cassette to let him hear a bird-song, and a film to help him to appreciate bird flight.
    ----
    * ave acuática = water bird.
    * ave carroñera = scavenger.
    * ave de caza = game bird.
    * ave del paraíso = bird of paradise.
    * ave de orilla = shorebird.
    * ave de paso = bird of passage.
    * ave de rapiña = raptor.
    * ave marina = sea bird.
    * ave migratoria = migratory bird.
    * ave nocturna = night owl, night owl.
    * ave pasajera = bird of passage.
    * ave rapaz = raptor.
    * aves acuáticas = waterfowl, fowl.
    * aves de corral = poultry.
    * aves y pájaros = bird life.
    * ave zancuda = wader, wading bird, shorebird.
    * cazador de aves = fowler.
    * cría de aves = poultry farming, aviculture, chicken farming.
    * criador de aves = aviculturist.
    * de la cría de aves = avicultural.
    * lugar donde las aves pasan la noche = roost.
    * observación de aves y pájaros = birdwatching [bird-watching], birding.
    * observador de aves y pájaros = birder, birdwatcher [bird-watcher].
    * relacionado con las aves = avian.
    * relativo a las aves = avian.
    * * *
    masculino (= Alta Velocidad Española) high-speed train
    •• Cultural note:
    A high-speed train service linking Madrid with Seville and Huelva via Cadiz, established in 1992 in time for the international exhibition Expo 92 in Seville. Lines under construction include: Madrid-Barcelona, with an extension to France and Barcelona-Valencia. An AVE service linking Madrid and Galicia is being planned
    * * *
    = bird.

    Ex: For example, the child doing a project about birds will require books to give him background information, a record or cassette to let him hear a bird-song, and a film to help him to appreciate bird flight.

    * ave acuática = water bird.
    * ave carroñera = scavenger.
    * ave de caza = game bird.
    * ave del paraíso = bird of paradise.
    * ave de orilla = shorebird.
    * ave de paso = bird of passage.
    * ave de rapiña = raptor.
    * ave marina = sea bird.
    * ave migratoria = migratory bird.
    * ave nocturna = night owl, night owl.
    * ave pasajera = bird of passage.
    * ave rapaz = raptor.
    * aves acuáticas = waterfowl, fowl.
    * aves de corral = poultry.
    * aves y pájaros = bird life.
    * ave zancuda = wader, wading bird, shorebird.
    * cazador de aves = fowler.
    * cría de aves = poultry farming, aviculture, chicken farming.
    * criador de aves = aviculturist.
    * de la cría de aves = avicultural.
    * lugar donde las aves pasan la noche = roost.
    * observación de aves y pájaros = birdwatching [bird-watching], birding.
    * observador de aves y pájaros = birder, birdwatcher [bird-watcher].
    * relacionado con las aves = avian.
    * relativo a las aves = avian.

    * * *
    (= Alta Velocidad Española) high-speed train
    * * *

    Multiple Entries:
    AVE    
    ave
    AVE sustantivo masculino (

    ave feminine noun taking masculine article in the singular
    bird;
    ave de corral fowl;
    ave de mal agüero bird of ill omen;
    ave rapaz or de rapiña (Zool) bird of prey;

    ( persona) shark
    AVE m Esp (abr de (tren de) alta velocidad español) high-speed train
    ' AVE' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    buche
    - caldo
    - cantor
    - cantora
    - chillar
    - chillido
    - copete
    - deshuesar
    - desplumar
    - envergadura
    - nacer
    - P.º
    - papo
    - pechuga
    - pelar
    - peregrina
    - peregrino
    - picada
    - picado
    - pico
    - picotear
    - planear
    - pluma
    - plumaje
    - rapaz
    - rellena
    - rellenar
    - relleno
    - remontar
    - remontarse
    - volar
    - vuelo
    - zancuda
    - zancudo
    - águila
    - ala
    - anilla
    - Av.
    - Avda.
    - ave
    - Avemaría
    - carne
    - cloaca
    - depredador
    - gallo
    - guacamaya
    - lapa
    - molleja
    - palomo
    - papagayo
    English:
    Av
    - Ave
    - bird
    - cock
    - fowl
    - Hail Mary
    - leg
    - migrant
    - pluck
    - poultry
    - prey
    - quill
    - seabird
    - shark
    - soar
    - swoop
    - phoenix
    - sea
    - wader
    * * *
    AVE ['a£e] nm (abrev de Alta Velocidad Española)
    = Spanish high-speed train
    AVE
    The AVE is Spain's most modern train, and is designed to travel at speeds of over 300Km/h. It is a development of the French TGV, and Spanish, German and French companies are involved in its manufacture. It runs on a separate track from ordinary Spanish rolling stock, as the latter has a wider gauge than the European standard of the AVE track. The first AVE line was opened from Madrid to Seville to coincide with the Expo '92 in the latter city. The final section of the line from Madrid to Barcelona is under construction, and this will eventually extend to the French border. Further lines are being built and eventually it is intended that a single high-speed network will connect the cities of the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts via Madrid. These projects have given rise to a certain amount of controversy, and some have encountered problems, whether due to technical, geological or human factors.
    * * *
    m abr (= alta velocidad española) high speed train
    * * *
    ave nf
    1) : bird
    2)
    aves de corral : poultry
    3)
    ave de presa : bird of prey
    * * *
    ave n bird
    ave rapaz / ave de rapiña bird of prey

    Spanish-English dictionary > ave

  • 16 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom

    [br]
    b. 9 April 1806 Portsea, Hampshire, England
    d. 15 September 1859 18 Duke Street, St James's, London, England
    [br]
    English civil and mechanical engineer.
    [br]
    The son of Marc Isambard Brunel and Sophia Kingdom, he was educated at a private boarding-school in Hove. At the age of 14 he went to the College of Caen and then to the Lycée Henri-Quatre in Paris, after which he was apprenticed to Louis Breguet. In 1822 he returned from France and started working in his father's office, while spending much of his time at the works of Maudslay, Sons \& Field.
    From 1825 to 1828 he worked under his father on the construction of the latter's Thames Tunnel, occupying the position of Engineer-in-Charge, exhibiting great courage and presence of mind in the emergencies which occurred not infrequently. These culminated in January 1828 in the flooding of the tunnel and work was suspended for seven years. For the next five years the young engineer made abortive attempts to find a suitable outlet for his talents, but to little avail. Eventually, in 1831, his design for a suspension bridge over the River Avon at Clifton Gorge was accepted and he was appointed Engineer. (The bridge was eventually finished five years after Brunel's death, as a memorial to him, the delay being due to inadequate financing.) He next planned and supervised improvements to the Bristol docks. In March 1833 he was appointed Engineer of the Bristol Railway, later called the Great Western Railway. He immediately started to survey the route between London and Bristol that was completed by late August that year. On 5 July 1836 he married Mary Horsley and settled into 18 Duke Street, Westminster, London, where he also had his office. Work on the Bristol Railway started in 1836. The foundation stone of the Clifton Suspension Bridge was laid the same year. Whereas George Stephenson had based his standard railway gauge as 4 ft 8½ in (1.44 m), that or a similar gauge being usual for colliery wagonways in the Newcastle area, Brunel adopted the broader gauge of 7 ft (2.13 m). The first stretch of the line, from Paddington to Maidenhead, was opened to traffic on 4 June 1838, and the whole line from London to Bristol was opened in June 1841. The continuation of the line through to Exeter was completed and opened on 1 May 1844. The normal time for the 194-mile (312 km) run from Paddington to Exeter was 5 hours, at an average speed of 38.8 mph (62.4 km/h) including stops. The Great Western line included the Box Tunnel, the longest tunnel to that date at nearly two miles (3.2 km).
    Brunel was the engineer of most of the railways in the West Country, in South Wales and much of Southern Ireland. As railway networks developed, the frequent break of gauge became more of a problem and on 9 July 1845 a Royal Commission was appointed to look into it. In spite of comparative tests, run between Paddington-Didcot and Darlington-York, which showed in favour of Brunel's arrangement, the enquiry ruled in favour of the narrow gauge, 274 miles (441 km) of the former having been built against 1,901 miles (3,059 km) of the latter to that date. The Gauge Act of 1846 forbade the building of any further railways in Britain to any gauge other than 4 ft 8 1/2 in (1.44 m).
    The existence of long and severe gradients on the South Devon Railway led to Brunel's adoption of the atmospheric railway developed by Samuel Clegg and later by the Samuda brothers. In this a pipe of 9 in. (23 cm) or more in diameter was laid between the rails, along the top of which ran a continuous hinged flap of leather backed with iron. At intervals of about 3 miles (4.8 km) were pumping stations to exhaust the pipe. Much trouble was experienced with the flap valve and its lubrication—freezing of the leather in winter, the lubricant being sucked into the pipe or eaten by rats at other times—and the experiment was abandoned at considerable cost.
    Brunel is to be remembered for his two great West Country tubular bridges, the Chepstow and the Tamar Bridge at Saltash, with the latter opened in May 1859, having two main spans of 465 ft (142 m) and a central pier extending 80 ft (24 m) below high water mark and allowing 100 ft (30 m) of headroom above the same. His timber viaducts throughout Devon and Cornwall became a feature of the landscape. The line was extended ultimately to Penzance.
    As early as 1835 Brunel had the idea of extending the line westwards across the Atlantic from Bristol to New York by means of a steamship. In 1836 building commenced and the hull left Bristol in July 1837 for fitting out at Wapping. On 31 March 1838 the ship left again for Bristol but the boiler lagging caught fire and Brunel was injured in the subsequent confusion. On 8 April the ship set sail for New York (under steam), its rival, the 703-ton Sirius, having left four days earlier. The 1,340-ton Great Western arrived only a few hours after the Sirius. The hull was of wood, and was copper-sheathed. In 1838 Brunel planned a larger ship, some 3,000 tons, the Great Britain, which was to have an iron hull.
    The Great Britain was screwdriven and was launched on 19 July 1843,289 ft (88 m) long by 51 ft (15.5 m) at its widest. The ship's first voyage, from Liverpool to New York, began on 26 August 1845. In 1846 it ran aground in Dundrum Bay, County Down, and was later sold for use on the Australian run, on which it sailed no fewer than thirty-two times in twenty-three years, also serving as a troop-ship in the Crimean War. During this war, Brunel designed a 1,000-bed hospital which was shipped out to Renkioi ready for assembly and complete with shower-baths and vapour-baths with printed instructions on how to use them, beds and bedding and water closets with a supply of toilet paper! Brunel's last, largest and most extravagantly conceived ship was the Great Leviathan, eventually named The Great Eastern, which had a double-skinned iron hull, together with both paddles and screw propeller. Brunel designed the ship to carry sufficient coal for the round trip to Australia without refuelling, thus saving the need for and the cost of bunkering, as there were then few bunkering ports throughout the world. The ship's construction was started by John Scott Russell in his yard at Millwall on the Thames, but the building was completed by Brunel due to Russell's bankruptcy in 1856. The hull of the huge vessel was laid down so as to be launched sideways into the river and then to be floated on the tide. Brunel's plan for hydraulic launching gear had been turned down by the directors on the grounds of cost, an economy that proved false in the event. The sideways launch with over 4,000 tons of hydraulic power together with steam winches and floating tugs on the river took over two months, from 3 November 1857 until 13 January 1858. The ship was 680 ft (207 m) long, 83 ft (25 m) beam and 58 ft (18 m) deep; the screw was 24 ft (7.3 m) in diameter and paddles 60 ft (18.3 m) in diameter. Its displacement was 32,000 tons (32,500 tonnes).
    The strain of overwork and the huge responsibilities that lay on Brunel began to tell. He was diagnosed as suffering from Bright's disease, or nephritis, and spent the winter travelling in the Mediterranean and Egypt, returning to England in May 1859. On 5 September he suffered a stroke which left him partially paralysed, and he died ten days later at his Duke Street home.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1957, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, London: Longmans Green. J.Dugan, 1953, The Great Iron Ship, Hamish Hamilton.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Brunel, Isambard Kingdom

  • 17 Cobham, Sir Alan John

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 6 May 1894 London, England
    d. 21 October 1973 British Virgin Islands
    [br]
    English pilot who pioneered worldwide air routes and developed an in-flight refuelling system which is in use today.
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    Alan Cobham was a man of many parts. He started as a veterinary assistant in France during the First World War, but transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917. After the war he continued flying, by giving joy-rides and doing aerial photography work. In 1921 he joined the De Havilland Aircraft Company (see de Havilland, Geoffrey) as a test and charter pilot; he was also successful in a number of air races. During the 1920s Cobham made many notable flights to distant parts of the British Empire, pioneering possible routes for airline operations. During the early 1930s Sir Alan (he was knighted in 1926) devoted his attention to generating a public interest in aviation and to campaigning for more airfields. Cobham's Flying Circus toured the country giving flying displays and joy-rides, which for thousands of people was their first experience of flying.
    In 1933 Cobham planned a non-stop flight to India by refuelling his aircraft while flying: this was not a new idea but the process was still experimental. The flight was unsuccessful due to a fault in his aircraft, unrelated to the in-flight refuelling system. The following year Flight Refuelling Ltd was founded, and by 1939 two Short flying boats were operating the first inflight-refuelled service across the Atlantic. Inflight refuelling was not required during the early years of the Second World War, so Cobham turned to other projects such as thermal de-icing of wings, and a scheme which was not carried out, for delivering fighters to the Middle East by towing them behind Wellington bombers.
    After the Second World War the fortunes of Flight Refuelling Ltd were at a low ebb, especially when British South American Airways abandoned the idea of using in-flight refuelling. Then an American contract and the use of their tanker aircraft to ferry oil during the Berlin Airlift saved the day. In 1949 Cobham's chief designer, Peter Macgregor, came up with an idea for refuelling fighters using a probe and drogue system. A large tanker aircraft trailed a hose with a conical drogue at the free end. The fighter pilot manoeuvred the probe, fitted to his aircraft, so that it locked into the drogue, enabling fuel to be transferred. Since the 1950s this system has become the effective world standard.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1926. Air Force Cross 1926.
    Bibliography
    1978, A Time to Fly, ed. C.Derrick, London; pub. in paperback 1986 (Cobham's memoirs).
    Flight to the Cape and Back, 1926, London; Australia and Back, 1926, London;
    Twenty Thousand Miles in a Flying Boat, 1930, London.
    Further Reading
    Peter G.Proctor, 1975, "The life and work of Sir Alan Cobham", Aerospace (RAeS) (March).
    JDS

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