At our table, he perched in the B-29's gutted gunner station, his face sealed to an oxygen mask, his knees in his ears, his left hand gripping the extension lever, and his right hand ready to guide the nozzle, connecting the boom to the airplane positioned behind him at 30,000 feet.
At the beginning of each flight the airplane was positioned at the head of the rail.
New satellite images, obtained by the Satellite Sentinel Project, showed what appear to be nine northern armored tanks, attack helicopters, pickup trucks and a fixed-wing airplane that have been positioned in the contested area over the past two months.
Talking about how airlines charge for extra legroom, Bruno pulled his leg up by his head to mimic his airplane seating position.
We repeated the procedure with a Cessna positioned like the Boeing airliner as the imagined airplane.
Bomb, a container carrying an explosive charge that is fused to detonate under certain conditions (as upon impact) and that is either dropped (as from an airplane) or set into position at a given point.
Midwings, positioned in the middle of the fuselage, leave the airplane belly free of spars, with room for bombs or cargo.
Because flight data recorders are principally intended for post-crash analyses, the boxes are positioned in the most crash-resistant part of the airplane, the tail.
Without changing altitude, the flock, now precisely positioned like the wings of a stealth bomber, passed well above a Delta airplane headed toward La Guardia and well below a higher American outbound airplane.
"We're positioned to take advantage of a battlefield full of smoldering tanks and downed airplanes," says IDT's chief executive, James Courter.
The film builds to a shocking, inevitable, frenzied finale so intense that at one Sundance screening an audience member assumed the head-in-lap airplane-crash position.
