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2 unusual facts about Flights


Flights

Joe Newcombe, Adam Cann and Joel Pearce come from Thornbury, a market town in South Gloucestershire approximately 12 miles (19 km) north of Bristol.

No. 251 Squadron RAF

No. 251 Squadron RAF was first formed in August 1918 from Nos. 504, 505, 506 and 510 (Special Duty) Flights based at Hornsea but operating from Atwick, Greenland Top and Owthorne.


104th Aero Squadron

Other flights went to the Mechanics School at RFC Salisbury, RFC Andover and the motor transport school at RFC Yatesbury.

1998–2002 Argentine great depression

Aerolíneas Argentinas was one of the most affected Argentine companies, canceling all international flights for various days in 2002.

2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash

After news of the tragedy broke, Governor of Luxor Ezzat Saad banned hot air balloon flights in his jurisdiction until further notice.

511th Tactical Fighter Squadron

As the Vietnam War intensified, deployed flights to both Thailand and South Vietnam throughout the 1960s, providing air defense of Bangkok and Saigon as well as other areas from enemy aircraft.

A119

Project A119, "A Study of Lunar Research Flights," a plan developed by the United States Air Force

Aero Cuahonte

Aero Cuahonte was a commuter airline based in Uruapan, Mexico, operating scheduled and chartered passenger flights out of Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport in Guadalajara.

Aerolift

Aerolift was a South African airline based in Bryanston, Gauteng, Johannesburg, operating chartered passenger and cargo flights within Africa using Soviet-built aircraft.

American Airlines

In 1970 American Airlines had flights from St. Louis, Chicago, and New York to Honolulu and on to Sydney and Auckland via American Samoa and Nadi, Fiji.

Auxiliary Pilot Badge

During the campaign to recapture the Philippines, pilots of the 25th Liaison Squadron flew a dozen L-5 aircraft in short 30-minute flights (Dec. 10-25, 1944) delivering supplies (including a 300-bed hospital) to the 6,000 men of the 11th Airborne Division isolated in the mountains of Leyte.

Bălți International Airport

In between rare flights, the runway serves for Moldavian rallies and open air concerts, such as ones organized by the mobile operator Orange Moldova.

Beeville, Texas

TTa operated scheduled passenger flights with Douglas DC-3 prop airliners from Chase Field with service to Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Harlingen, Houston, San Antonio and other destinations in Texas.

Blackoutsabbath

He stated the night prior to June 21 involved mostly planning, including food arrangements, how to get his guitar to the apartment ("one of the old Communist towers on Karl Marx Allee"), and how he would be "going down and up five flights of stairs on the hour" to bring guests up to their room.

Blackwater Airport

QantasLink was the only scheduled operator at the time with daily flights to Brisbane, with some services operating via Emerald.

Bobbi Trout

This was another record broken by Trout and was later recognized by King Carol II of Romania where a representative gave her the Royal Decree and the aviation cross for pilots who made record flights, a distinction which was only given to two other pilots - Earhart and Charles Lindbergh.

Camilo Daza International Airport

In March 2008, was the epicenter for the arrival of direct international flights from Madrid, Miami, San Jose, Quito and Caracas on the grounds of the Peace Without Borders concert held in Cúcuta.

Clark Air Base

During the 1970s, passengers arrived via Trans International Douglas DC-8 and Braniff International DC-8s (the Pickle and the Banana) flights from Travis AFB, California (via Honolulu and Guam).

Cooper Glacier

It was discovered by R. Admiral Byrd on several plane flights to the Queen Maud Mountains in November 1929, and named by him for Kent Cooper, an official of the Associated Press.

Copenhagen Air Taxi

It provide a range of services, including operating regularly scheduled flights from Copenhagen Airport, Roskilde (ICAO: EKRK) to the Danish islands of Anholt and Læsø; managing the airfield on Anholt, and is also a major air taxi operator in Denmark, operating from EKRK.

Córdoba Province, Argentina

The Ingeniero Aeronáutico Ambrosio L.V. Taravella International Airport, known as Pajas Blancas, handles international and domestic air traffic, while the Las Higueras Río Cuarto Airport handles only domestic flights.

Dnepropetrovsk maniacs

Vladimir Suprunyuck, Igor Suprunyuck's father, in his interview to Segodnya stated that he had been employed at Yuzhmash as a test pilot, often flying with Leonid Kuchma, the future president of Ukraine, and continuing to serve as his personal pilot on domestic flights after Kuchma's rise to power.

Don Mueang International Airport

On 16 March 2012, Government of Thailand, Yingluck ordered all low-cost, chartered and non-connecting flights to relocate to Don Mueang International Airport, ending the single-airport policy.

Eugenio María de Hostos Airport

Although the airport has always been a turbo-prop aircraft airport, Pan Am announced, in 2002, intentions to install jet flights between Mayagüez and Las Américas International Airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with Boeing 727s.

Field-sequential color system

Early Space Shuttle flights (from 1981 to 1995) used cameras with interchangeable lenses.

Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport

Aerolíneas Argentinas used to use Jujuy Airport for refuelling before long flights to Bogotá, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Lima.

Hans Guido Mutke

Only after learning about the supersonic flights of Chuck Yeager in 1947 did he attribute these phenomena to the effects of supersonic flight and claim to have broken the sound barrier—years before Yeager did.

Hobart International Airport

The major domestic airlines that serve the airport are Qantas, Jetstar Airways, Virgin Australia and Tiger Airways Australia, which are all running flights on the main route to Melbourne Airport.

Humanitarian response by for-profit organisations to the 2010 Haiti earthquake

American Airlines operated relief flights and allowed employees and customers to donate miles with a company match.

Khovd Province

The Khovd Airport (HVD/ZMKD) has two runways, one of which is paved, and gets served by regular flights from and to Ulan Bator, Mörön, and Bulgan.

KrasAvia

Vanavara with Mil Mi-8 (flights also operate from these destinations back to Vanavara) to

Latécoère 521

Operated by Air France on route proving flights the 521 was militarised in 1939 and operated by the Vichy government until stored at Marignane, finally being destroyed when axis troops retreated from advancing Allies.

Lukla

Weather permitting, twin-engined Dornier and Twin Otters make frequent daylight flights between Lukla and Kathmandu.

Military history of Chad

In addition to the wages paid its forces, Chad received economic benefits from three years of use as a major route for Allied supply convoys and flights to North Africa and Egypt.

Minoan Air

In June 2012 Minoan Air based an airliner in Spain (in either Burgos Airport or León Airport) to operate charter flights for Spanish tour operator Good Fly.

Moranbah Airport

The airport averages 65 QantasLink flights each week, most of these are Dash-8 Q400 aircraft.

Moss Airport, Rygge

In October and November, Ryanair established itself at the airport, and started flights to Alicante, Barcelona, Brussels, Bremen, Madrid, Milano and London.

Pirinçlik Air Base

Subsequent installation of another AN/FPS-17 radar on Shemya, a western island in the chain of Aleutian Islands off Alaska, made it possible for U.S. observers to monitor Soviet missile test flights to the Kamchatka peninsula.

Puerto Princesa

Puerto Princesa is accessible by direct flights from the major Philippine cities Manila, Cebu, Davao and Iloilo as well as Busuanga and El Nido and the Malaysian city of Kota Kinabalu.

Range safety

Space vehicles for sub-orbital and orbital flights from the Eastern and Western Test Ranges were destroyed if they endangered populated areas by crossing pre-determined destruct lines encompassing the safe flight launch corridor.

Sabana de la Mar Airport

Sabana de la Mar National Airport is located in Sabana de la Mar, Hato Mayor, northeast Dominican Republic, and is only used for emergency landings and private flights.

Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Saint-Pierre Airport, the international airport of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, is located south of the settlement of Saint-Pierre and is served by Air Saint-Pierre with flights both to Miquelon Airport and five Canadian airports.

Stockton Metropolitan Airport

America West Express, the regional affiliate of America West Airlines, started Canadair CRJ-200 flights to Phoenix in 2000-2001 but then ceased service and left the terminal empty in 2003.

Tamale Airport

The Airport has already received some international flights from South Africa, Tunisia and Angola during the CAN 2008 African Cup of nations, and it is hoped that with the addition of more facilities it would now be in the position to fly pilgrims from the north straight to Mecca, Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj.

Tempelhof Central Airport

From 1895-1918 field served also as a demonstration area for balloons, airships, and aircraft, including flights in 1908 by Orville Wright and his Wright Flyer.

The Pheasant Aircraft Company

Red Cherry Airlines started the first private airline in Saskatchewan with a Pheasant H-10 in 1928, using the aircraft for barnstorming charging passengers by weight for flights.

Timeline of aviation – 20th century

March 16–20 - Daniel Maloney is launched by balloon in a tandem-wing glider designed by John Montgomery and makes three successful flights at Aptos, CA, the highest launch being at 3,000 feet with an 18 minute descent to a predetermined landing location.

Transport in Macau

It was inaugurated on December 1995 and has since established a number of regulars flights between Macau and major cities in Northeast and Southeast Asia, for example Bangkok, Beijing, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, etc.

Widerøe Flight 710

In May 2013 the investigation board was made aware of that two passengers had each their Mobira NMT-450 mobile telephone with them on the flights.

Wine critic

The tasting methodology of different outlets varies; for example, the American publication, Wine Spectator, has editors taste wines blind in flights of similar vintage and varietal.

Zaire Province

Soyo Airport and Mbanza Congo Airport have paved runways and regular flights to Luanda.


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