concussion ammunition

боеприпас(ы); инж. подрывные средства, ВВ и средства взрывания; боекомплект; мор. боезапас; разг. снаряды; см. тж. munition

— active cluster ammunition

— air craft ammunition

— air incendiary ammunition

— ammunition carried on the man

— ammunition in hand

— ammunition in unit rolling reserves

— ammunition to hand

— ammunition with the weapon

— ammunition zero

— AP ammunition

— AP cartridge ammunition

— area fragmentation ammunition

— area-target ammunition

— area-target homing submissile scattering ammunition

— armor-defeating ammunition

— artillery ammunition

— artillery low-yield thermonuclear ammunition

— atomic ammunition

— authorized ammunition

— autorotation ammunition

— ball ammunition

— ballplast ammunition

— be high on ammunition

— be low on ammunition

— binary chemical ammunition

— blank ammunition

— bomblet-filled artillery ammunition

— bomb-mine ammunition

— break-up ammunition

— bulk ammunition

— burning-type ammunition

— bursting-type ammunition

— caliber ammunition

— canister ammunition

— cannon-caliber gun-fired ammunition

— case ammunition

— caseless ammunition

— chemical agent ammunition

— chemical energy ammunition

— cluster ammunition

— colored smoke ammunition

— combat ammunition

— combat vehicle ammunition

— combustible ammunition

— complete round ammunition

— concrete-penetrating ammunition

— concussion ammunition

— containerized ammunition

— controlled effects ammunition

— conventional ammunition

— decalibrated ammunition

— depleted uranium ammunition

— direct fire ammunition

— drill ammunition

— drop ammunition

— duplex ammunition

— encapsulated monopropellant gun ammunition

— engineer ammunition

— enhanced contamination effect nuclear ammunition

— enhanced initial radiation ammunition

— equipment ammunition

— explosive ammunition

— explosive-type biological dissemination ammunition

— faulty ammunition

— fixed type ammunition

— fragmentation ammunition

— full-bore ammunition

— full-power rifle ammunition

— GM ammunition

— gun ammunition

— gyrojet ammunition

— handgun ammunition

— hand-loaded ammunition

— HE ammunition

— HE effect nuclear ammunition

— HE/tracer ammunition

— HEAT ammunition

— heavy density ammunition

— high-bulk ammunition

— high-expenditure ammunition

— high-intensity ammunition

— high-penetration radiation-reduced blast nuclear ammunition

— high-powered small arms ammunition

— high-velocity ammunition

— high-velocity decalibrated AP arrowtype ammunition

— high-velocity small-arms ammunition

— homing artillery ammunition

— homing submissile scattering ammunition

— honeycomb ammunition

— HVAP ammunition

— illumination ammunition

— incendiary ammunition

— indirect fire ammunition

— inert ammunition

— infantry ammunition

— intermediate power rifle ammunition

— kinetic energy ammunition

— light-case ammunition

— linked ammunition

— linkless ammunition

— liquid propelling caseless ammunition

— liquid propelling charge ammunition

— live ammunition

— low-explosive ammunition

— maneuver ammunition

— mechanical opening-type biological ammunition

— microcaliber ammunition

— mine-dispensing ammunition

— mine-scatterable ammunition

— mine-scattering ammunition

— miniature ammunition

— multicharge ammunition

— NATO small arms ammunition

— NATO standard ammunition

— NATO-interoperable ammunition

— nontoxic ammunition

— nuclear ammunition

— nuclear special ammunition

— observing ammunition

— passive cluster ammunition

— phosphorous ammunition

— pin-fire ammunition

— point detonating fuzed ammunition

— practice ammunition

— primary killing element ammunition

— propaganda ammunition

— quick-firing ammunition

— radiation effect nuclear ammunition

— ranging and target indication ammunition

— RAP ammunition

— reduced caliber ammunition

— reloadable training ammunition

— remote mining ammunition

— restraining effect chemical ammunition

— rifle ammunition

— rifle-bore ammunition

— rimfire ammunition

— riot-control ammunition

— rocket ammunition

— rotor ammunition

— run out of ammunition

— sabot ammunition

— salvo ammunition

— salvo squeeze bore ammunition

— scatterable ammunition

— search and destroy armor ammunition

— secondary impact effect ammunition

— secondary killing elements ammunition

— segregate ammunition

— selective effect nuclear ammunition

— self-destroying ammunition

— semi-armor piercing ammunition

— semifixed ammunition

— semiperforating ammunition

— separate loading ammunition

— separated ammunition

— service ammunition

— short-range training ammunition

— short-shell ammunition

— shot-gun-type ammunition

— signal ammunition

— simulated ammunition

— small arms ammunition

— small caliber ammunitions

— smoke ammunition

— smoothbore ammunition

— smouldering ammunition

— SP ammunition

— SP small arms ammunition

— special ammunition

— special-purpose small arms ammunition

— star blank ammunition

— subcaliber ammunition

— supercaliber ammunition

— super-yield nuclear ammunition

— tank ammunition

— tank-defeating ammunition

— tank-killing ammunition

— target ammunition

— target practice ammunition

— telescoped caseless ammunition

— terminal homing ammunition

— thermonuclear ammunition

— toxic ammunition

— toxic smoke ammunition

— tracer ammunition

— training ammunition

— triplex ammunition

— tube-launched ammunition

— unfixed ammunition

— unlinked ammunition

— unserviceable ammunition

— volume effects ammunition

— zone ammunition

SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace

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He was educated at HMS Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, from 1880 to 1882. He sailed on HMS Duke of Wellington, Agincourt, Northampton and other ships and resigned from the navy on 18 April 187 after seven years at sea. In June 1887 he was apprenticed at Randolph, Elder \& Co.'s shipyard at Govan, and was then an apprentice moulder at Cairn \& Co., Glasgow. For some time he "studied" at London University (though there is no official record of his doing so) while living with his sister at Phillbeck Gardens, South Kensington. In May 1890 he was working for John H.Biles, Manager of the Southampton Naval Works Ltd. Biles was later appointed Professor of Naval Architecture at Glasgow University with Pilcher as his Assistant Lecturer. In 1895 he was building his first glider, the Bat, which was built mainly of Riga pine and weighed 44 lb (20 kg). In succeeding months he travelled to Lichterfelde to study the gliders made by the German Lilienthal and built a further three machines, the Beetle, the Gull and the Hawk. In 1896 he applied for his only aeronautical patent, for "Improved flying and soaring machines", which was accepted on March 1897. In April 1896 he resigned his position at Glasgow University to become Assistant to Sir Hiram Maxim, who was also doing experiments with flying machines at his Nordenfeld Guns and Ammunition Co. Ltd at Crayford. He took up residence in Artillery Mansions, Victoria Street, later taken over by Vickers Ltd. Maxim had a hangar at Upper Lodge Farm, Austin Eynsford, Kent: using this, Pilcher reached a height of 12 ft (3.66m) in 1899 with a cable launch. He planned to build a 2 hp (1.5 kW) petrol engine In September 1899 he went to stay with Lord Braye at Stanford Hall, Northamptonshire, where many people came to see his flying machine, a triplane. The weather was far from ideal, windy and raining, but Pilcher would not disappoint them. A bracing wire broke, the tail collapsed and the pilot crashed to the ground suffering two broken legs and concussion. He did not regain consciousness and died the following day. He was buried in Brompton Cemetery.

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