first developed for making railcars then adapted for aircraft.
Curtiss was quick to have Falklands campaign aircraft adapted for mid-air refuelling so that they could cover distances undreamt of, in single sorties travelling halfway across the globe.
The latest innovation is unmanned, miniature aircraft (adapted from army models) that can loiter over trouble spots, feeding images to police on the ground.Vast computerised collections of information have become popular too.
Using three-axis autopilots adapted from German aircraft, the V-2 was controlled by large vertical fins and smaller stabilizing surfaces to dampen roll and by vanes attached to the horizontal fins to modify pitch and yaw.
Short of flying a crew to the moon, the only way to test things out in lunar gravity is by hopping onto NASA's adapted DC-9 aircraft that can fly a roller-coaster path so the researchers did just that.
The design was adapted for use in aircraft and by troops on the ground.
Military aircraft were adapted for passengers, and trainers and fighters were used for mail service.
The three other options are reduced patrols and fewer submarines, missiles carried by aircraft, and adapted submarines to carry both conventional and nuclear warheads.
The two other aircraft, specially adapted Black Hawk helicopters, flew on to Abbottabad.
The Seafire, a name derived from Sea Spitfire, was a naval version of the Spitfire specially adapted for operation from aircraft carriers.
