The Invention of the Airplane and the Rise of the Airplane Industry for Military and Civilian Purposes
Overview
The development of the airplane is a twentieth-century phenomenon. From the first powere...
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Modern Airplane Technology: 1950-1999
Overview
From the moment Orville and Wilbur Wright (1871-1948 and 1867-1912, respectively) took their famous flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the world fell ...
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Airplanes
December 17, 2003, marked the 100th anniversary of the first heavier-than-air flight, or as pilot Orville Wright put it, "the first in the history of the world in which a machine carr...
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San Francisco (dpa) - Peggy Fossett, the wife of missing
adventurer Steve Fossett, has gone to court to have him declared
legally dead.
She filed a petition i...
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Wellington (dpa) - An air and sea search for a man who disappeared
while trying to paddle a kayak 1,600 kilometres from Australia to New
Zealand was abandoned Monday night. ...
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A year after surviving a fiery plane crash, the state's lieutenant governor and his passenger have sued three companies that worked on the aircraft's engine for negligence.Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer and ...
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Sydney (dpa) - Emergency supplies began arriving Tuesday in the
tsunami-hit western region of the South Pacific's Solomon Islands.
Supply-packed patrol boats were st...
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Firefighters Sunday were battling two raging wildfires in Southern California that forced nearly 2,000 people to evacuate.The larger blaze burned 15,433 acres of dense, dry bush in the San Bernardi...
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Officials in Southern California began deploying firefighting crews and equipment Sunday as meteorologists predicted a return of the dry winds that stoked last month's devastating brush blazes.The ...
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MALIBU, Calif. (Reuters) - A wind-whipped wildfire
that destroyed 49 homes in the exclusive beachside community of
Malibu was partly under control Sunday as firefighters took
advantage of a break ...
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BRUSSELS, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The European Union expects to
launch a long-delayed peacekeeping mission to eastern Chad in
February after France, Belgium and Poland plugged shortfalls in
the 3,500-p...
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BRUSSELS, Jan 11 (Reuters) - European Union military
commanders gave the green light to a long-delayed peacekeeping
mission to eastern Chad on Friday after France, Belgium and
Poland plugged short...
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A plane carrying foreign peacekeepers across the Sinai desert crashed Sunday near a stretch of highway where it had tried to make an emergency landing, killing eight French soldiers and a Canadian,...
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The Invention of the Airplane and the Rise of the Airplane Industry for Military and Civilian Purposes
Airplanes
Wife seeks to have adventurer Steve Fossett declared dead
