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unusual facts about Tupolev Tu-124


Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge

In 1963, an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-124 landed on the Neva just behind the bridge in what remains one of the very few successful controlled water landings in aviation history with no lives lost.


Afterburner

The handful of civilian planes that have used them include some NASA research aircraft, the Tupolev Tu-144 and Concorde, and the White Knight of Scaled Composites.

Air data inertial reference unit

On 1 August 2005 a serious incident involving Malaysia Airlines Flight 124, occurred when a Boeing 777-2H6ER (9M-MRG) flying from Perth to Kuala Lumpur also involved an ADIRU fault resulting in uncommanded manoeuvres by the aircraft acting on false indications.

Alebachew Teka

Alebachew died on Sunday, January 16, 2005, in a car accident while traveling from Addis Ababa to Jimma, a city some 124 miles west of the capital, to film a documentary for a new show.

All-Russia Exhibition Centre

Later there is another little square facing the Space Pavilion which in the center of the square standing a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, placed there in the 1960s after the pavilion of "agricultural machinery" become the "space pavilion".

Arnold Moss

He played Prospero in Margaret Webster's 1945 production of Shakespeare's The Tempest for a combined total of 124 performances, the longest run of the play in Broadway history.

Berezin B-20

In 1946, an electrically-fired version was created for the turrets of the Tupolev Tu-4 bomber until the Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 cannon became available.

Boo Cheng Hau

He was cotested on the DAP party ticket and get 23,124 votes with the majority of 12,854 votes.

Dresba

It was intended to be a strategic bomber air base along the shore of the Arctic Ocean, giving it access to northern resupply ship routes, and was presumably for either forward deployment or weather diversion for the Soviet Union's Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-22 bomber force.

Escadrille 124

Escadrille SPA.124 (Jeanne d'Arc) was raised on 19 February 1918 as a replacement for Escadrille N.124 and still exists

Fabián Caballero

Caballero left the club in 2005, having scored 21 goals in 124 league appearances, joining Club Olimpia of the Paraguayan Primera Division.

France–Libya relations

In late 1987, there were 1,300 French troops in Chad, primarily defending the Chadian capital N'DJamena from attack, including an air attack using Tupolev Tu-22 strategic bombers; France also gave $90 million in military aid to Chad that year.

General-purpose bomb

In the Iran–Iraq War, FAB-5000 (5,000 kg / 11,000 lb) and FAB-9000 (9,000 kg / 20,000 lb) bombs were dropped by Iraqi Air Force Tupolev Tu-22 bombers, generally against large, fixed targets in Iran.

Geography of Djibouti

The Dagouein Mountain sit at an elevation of 1,124 m (3,688 ft) above sea level.

Giovanni Bellini

St. Francis in Ecstasy (c. 1480) - Oil on panel, 124 x 142 cm, Frick Collection, New York, United States

Goussainville, Val-d'Oise

Goussainville was the site of the crash of the supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 during the 1973 Paris Air Show which led to the deaths of all six people on board and eight more on the ground and is less than 6km from Gonesse, the site of the crash of the supersonic Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000.

Guyana–Russia relations

In the 1980s Guyana Airways operated a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet on lease from TAROM of Romania, and purchased three additional Tu-154s from the Soviet Union and Romania in a barter deal in exchange for bauxite.

Holmes v. California National Guard

Andrew Holmes v. California National Guard, 124 F.3d 1126 (9th Cir. 1998) was a federal court case heard by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, that upheld the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that restricted service by gays and lesbians in the California National Guard of the United States.

I124

Japanese submarine I-124, an I-121 class submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy

James Tyson

Enid Moberly Bell (1947:124-126) recounts a chance meeting between Tyson and Flora Shaw on a long train journey: although vastly different in background, they had "a fundamental agreement on values - indifference to wealth, delight in adventure, satisfaction in work accomplished ..." - see E.M.Bell (1947) Flora Shaw: Lady Lugard, D.B.E. Constable.

Krausirpi

In the 2009 presidential election Elvin Santos obtained 152 votes in the sector, Porfirio Lobo 124 votes, Cesar Ham 9 votes, Felicito Avila 3 votes and Bernard Martinez 3 votes.

Kyoto design declaration

When signed in 2008 by the 124 global members of cumulus including the executive Board of Cumulus, President Christian Guellerin, Past President Yrjö Sotamaa, Rector Kan Shimamoto, Kyoto Seika University, and Industrial Designer Takuo Hirano from Japan.

Landing Craft Infantry

In another instance, Lt. Alec Guinness RNVR made numerous trips as the Commanding Officer of HMS LCI(L)-124 delivering troops to the beach near Cape Passero lighthouse on 9 July 1943 during the Allied invasion of Sicily.

Le Petit Vingtième

Cigars of the Pharaoh (published as "Tintin in the Orient"): December 8, 1932 - August 2, 1934 (124 pages)

Maillé massacre

The Maillé Massacre refers to the murder on 25 August 1944 of 124 of the 500 residents of the commune of Maillé in the department of the Indre-et-Loire.

Mark Romanchuk

Romanchuk represents the 124,475 residents of Richland County, including Mansfield, Shelby, Ontario, Lexington and Bellville, Ohio.

Market Shipborough

Market Shipborough is fictionally positioned 24.8 miles north north east of the town of Swaffham, 21 miles west of Cromer and 124 miles north north east of London.

Monarch Pass

An automated weather station (AWOS), provided by the Federal Aviation Administration, is located atop Monarch Pass, broadcasting at 124.175 mHz, providing pilots of small aircraft access to real-time weather conditions near the summit.

Mutual assured destruction

However, with the development of aircraft like the American Convair B-36 and the Russian Tupolev Tu-95, both sides were gaining a greater ability to deliver nuclear weapons into the interior of the opposing country.

Organizational information theory

Karl E. Weick, "The Nontraditional Quality of Organizational Learning," Organization Science 2 (1991): 116-124.

Orly Air Base

In 1954 USAF C-124 transports assisted the French by airlifting 500 paratroop/commandos and their equipment to Indochina, landing at Da Nang's Tourane Airfield.

Peculiarities of the National Hunt

The plot can be divided into several vignettes – an incident with a bear in a sauna, the fireworks, the story of the rural policeman who lost his pistol, the scene on the farm, the story about the cow being transported in the weapons bay in a modern bomber (Tupolev Tu-22M) in exchange for a bottle of vodka, the drive in a "borrowed" police car UAZ to get to know some local milkmaids, etc.

Ptolemy VIII Physcon

About 124 BC, Physcon sent his second daughter by Cleopatra III, Tryphaena, to marry Antiochus VIII Philometor.

Raffaele Cadorna, Jr.

He was also awarded the Legion of Merit - Degree of Commander for service between September 1943 to May 1945 (General Order 124, 27 December 1945).

SEAT 124

The car's initial production in Zona Franca was transferred in 1976 to the Landaben - newly acquired from Authi - plant in Pamplona, resulting in the elimination of the '124 Familiar' station wagon 5-door versions.

Seeking a Sanctuary

Stephen Hunt, Journal of Religious History, 32:1 (March 2008), p123–124 (full text available through ATLA)

Smolensk North Airport

A Polish government Tu-154M Lux carrying President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and an official delegation crashed during the final approach to the airport on 10 April 2010.

Spencer Larsen

Larsen earned SuperPrep All-Farwest honors and was named First-team All-State by The Arizona Republic as a senior at Highland High School in Gilbert, Arizona after recorded 124 tackles as a senior.

Supersonic aircraft

Projects for both large-scale and business jet (see lower) passenger supersonic and hypersonic airliners (Aerion SBJ, HyperMach SonicStar, Next Generation Supersonic Transport, Tupolev Tu-444, Gulfstream X-54, LAPCAT, Reaction Engines A2, Zero Emission Hyper Sonic Transport, SpaceLiner, etc.) were proposed and now are under development.

Supersonic transport

In the 21st century some supersonic airliners and business jets (Aerion SBJ, HyperMach SonicStar, Next Generation Supersonic Transport, Tupolev Tu-444, Gulfstream X-54, LAPCAT, Reaction Engines A2, Zero Emission Hyper Sonic Transport) were under development.

Third Dynasty of Ur

Akkad's primacy instead seems to have been usurped by Gutian invaders from the Zagros, whose kings ruled in Mesopotamia for an indeterminate period (124 years according to some copies of the kinglist, only 25 according to others.) An illiterate and nomadic people, their rule was not conducive to agriculture, nor record-keeping, and by the time they were expelled, the region was crippled by severe famine and skyrocketing grain prices.

Torus knot

Unknot, 171 knot (7,2), 819 knot (4,3), 91 knot (9,2), 10124 knot (5,3)

Tryphaena

In 124 BC Ptolemy VIII no longer supported his pretender for the Seleucid throne, Alexander II Zabinas, but Antiochus VIII Grypus, the son of Demetrius II Nicator and Cleopatra Thea.

Tupolev Tu-123

Mass production was assigned to the Voronezh Factory Number 64, and from 1964–1972 a total of 52 units were manufactured.

Tupolev Tu-2

3 × 7.62 mm (0.30 in) rear-firing ShKAS machine guns (later replaced by 12.7 mm (0.50 in) Berezin UB machine guns) in the canopy, dorsal and ventral hatches.

Tupolev Tu-4

A Tu-4A was the first Soviet aircraft to drop a nuclear weapon, the RDS-1.

VF-21

VF-21 now transitioned to the F-14 Tomcat, the process was managed by VF-124 and it was not until later half of 1984 that VF-21 was declared fully operational, the first cruise was with CVW-14 aboard USS Constellation (CV-64) in early 1985.

William Thaw II

He flew a Nieuport in Escadrille 65, before transferring into a French unit composed of American volunteers, known as the Escadrille Americaine, Escadrille 124 under its new designation became nicknamed the Lafayette Escadrille.

Wrath of the Math

Label = PayDay/FFRR/PolyGram Records
124 119 (U.S.)
828 846 (international)

WS-125

The novel Steam Bird (1984) by Hilbert Schenck explored the possibilities if the WS-124/B-72 had actually been built and put in service.


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