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unusual facts about aeroplane



1:35 scale

In recent years, there have been some aeroplane releases in 1:35 as well, typically of vehicles operating in close contact with ground forces, such as the Fieseler Storch liaison aircraft or the Horsa glider.

1918 Michigan Wolverines football team

The start of the game was delayed by lengthy pre-game ceremonies featuring the French Blue Devils, performances by the U. of M. army and navy bands and the M.A.C. bands, parades by the Students' Army Training Corps and Naval Units, and a fly-over by former Michigan football captain Pat Smith in his aeroplane.

2000 Spanish Grand Prix

In the week leading up to the race, Coulthard was leasing the Learjet of friend David Murray when the aeroplane developed engine trouble en route to Côte d'Azur International Airport in Nice, and crashed while attempting an emergency landing at Lyon-Satolas Airport, France.

Aero Spacelines Super Guppy

In the early 1970s, the two Super Guppies were used by Airbus to transport aeroplane parts from decentralised production facilities to the final assembly plant in Toulouse.

Andrzej Stasiuk

Apart from (semi-) fictional writing, Stasiuk also tried his hand at literary criticism (in Tekturowy samolot/"Cardboard Aeroplane", 2000) and quasi-political essayism on the notion of Central Europe (together with the Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych) in Moja Europa. Dwa eseje o Europie zwanej środkową ("My Europe: Two essays on the Europe called 'Central'").

Avro Avis

The Avro 562 Avis was a two-seat light biplane designed and built by the A.V.Roe and Company Limited at Hamble for the 1924 Lympne Light Aeroplane Trials.

Bristol Aerojet

Discussions with Aerojet of California USA took place aimed at exploiting the varied rocket-making skills of the two companies and in 1959 the Banwell works became Bristol Aerojet (BAJ) with a board chaired by Sir Reginald Verdon-Smith of Bristol Aeroplane Company, with Dan Kimball leading the Aerojet representation.

British Army Aeroplane No 1

The British Army Aeroplane No 1 or sometimes Cody 1 was a biplane built by Samuel Franklin Cody in 1907 at the Army Balloon Factory at Farnborough.

David Gaskell

He was not with the Manchester United squad when their aeroplane crashed at Munich on the way home from a European Cup tie on 6 February 1958, killing eight players.

De Bolotoff SDEB 14

The De Bolotoff SDEB 14 was a British two-seat utility biplane designed by Prince Serge de Bolotoff and one example was built at his de Bolotoff Aeroplane Works at Sundridge Aerodrome, Sundridge, near Sevenoaks, Kent.

Economy of Bristol

The Bristol Aeroplane Company diversified into car manufacturing in the 1940s, building luxury hand-built cars at their factory in Filton, under the name Bristol Cars.

Fly My Sky

Mountain Air originally began to develop its aeroplane division in 1988, using a Cessna 172 and 206 to conduct scenic flights over the Tongariro National Park.

Göta Canal

After the canal was opened, Motala Verkstad focused on producing equipment, locomotives and rolling stock for the newly constructed railways, beginning a tradition of railway engineering that continues to this day in the form of AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning (ASJA) that was bought by the aeroplane manufacturer SAAB in Linköping.

Holta

Viking passenger aeroplane, G-AHPM operated by Cunard Eagle Airways, transporting schoolboys from The Archbishop Lanfranc School in Thornton Heath, London, crashed into the mountainside above the farm (Holtaheia).

Inflatable boat

The PBY Catalina made by Consolidated Aircraft and Canadair seems to have been the first aeroplane to have had an inflatable life boat aboard, first as optional, later as standard equipment.

Komando Jihad

On 28 March 1981 five members of Komando Jihad boarded Garuda aeroplane that was on an Indonesian internal flight and took it and the 57 passengers to Bangkok.

Lancashire Aero Club

22 December 1926: John F. Leeming and Bert Hinkler (1892–1933), the chief test pilot of A.V.Roe Avro Manchester, land on Helvellyn in the Lake District (the first aeroplane to land on a mountain in Great Britain)

Méaulte

Henry Potez (1891–1981), aeroplane maker, was born in Méaulte.

N22

The GAF Nomad, or N22 Nomad, a twin engine aeroplane built in Australia

Nigel Tangye

1936: Things to Come (aeronautical advisor; designer of the 1970 Type swallow-winged aeroplane, Raymond Massey’s one man flying wing from the film

Oberon Old and New

A staging that parked an aeroplane on the roof of Glasgow's Theatre Royal on the opening night only seemed to sink the already preposterous plot further into the mire, although Burgess was so taken with the music that he went on to arrange the overture to Oberon for guitar quartet.

Oh Schuks... I'm Gatvol

The film's initial budget was R 2,000,000, but an extra R 6,000 was spent for the extras on board the aeroplane.

On the aeroplane Shucks and Alf are discovered and sing the song 'I don't want to sit next to Manto.'

Paul Keetch

Former military medic Leonardo Freitas was on board sitting next to him and treated him as the pilot turned the aeroplane back to London, and he was admitted to London Chest Hospital.

Rechts der Isar Hospital

Two of them, Manchester United player Duncan Edwards and aeroplane co-pilot Ken Rayment, died at the hospital as a result of their injuries; 21 others had died at the scene or on their way to hospital.

Ricardo Araújo Pereira

He was born in Lisbon, 28 April 1974, his father is a TAP aeroplane pilot and his mother an aeroplane hostess.

Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8

Although never a popular aeroplane, it was reasonably satisfactory for the tasks demanded of it and was even regarded with some affection, gaining the rhyming slang nickname "Harry Tate" (after a popular music hall artist of the time).

Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.4

The prospective design, although yet to fly, was mentioned at a February 1914 meeting of the Royal Aeronautical Society by Brigadier General David Henderson, who said:"If anyone wants to know which country has the fastest aeroplane in the world-it is Great Britain".

S. Rangachari

Later, he bought a Puss Moth aeroplane for Rs. 60,000 to travel quickly and easily around the Presidency.

Saab 90

:Saab 90 is also the name of an aeroplane, the Saab 90 Scandia.

Sh-Tandem

Designed by Peter Grushin at the Moscow Aviation Institute (hence the MAI designation), the aeroplane featured an unusual tandem wing, with the tail planes as large as 45% of the wing area.

Short Satellite

At the Air Ministry's Two-Seater Light Aeroplane competition at Lympne in 1924, where the Satellite was flown by the company's Chief Test Pilot J. Lankester Parker.

South Ronaldsay child abuse scandal

The objects seized during the raids were later returned; they included a videotape of the TV show Blackadder, a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh, and a model aeroplane made by one of the children from two pieces of wood, which was identified by social workers as a "wooden cross".

Spirit of Progress

The Spirit of Progress was launched on 17 November 1937 in a blaze of publicity, which included dramatic footage being taken of the new train racing Airco DH.4 aeroplane VH-UBZ Spirit of Melbourne on its demonstration run to the Victorian city of Geelong.

Sutton Wick air crash

The aeroplane was carrying freight, a relief crew and eight RAF policemen with their dogs.

The Joy Ride

It is Autumn 1921, and following the death of his aunt Kate, Lady Castleton, James uses some of the money he has been given in her will to buy himself an Avro 504 aeroplane for £375.

The Ultimate Alphabet

For instance the A painting includes a statue of Adam (which is listed), depicted with a prominent Adam's apple (which is not); likewise, an aeroplane is not also identified as an aircraft or airplane.

Theodore Goddard

Goddard went straight to Downing Street to see Baldwin, as a result of which he was provided with an aeroplane to take him directly to Cannes.

U Street Music Hall

U Street Music Hall has hosted the Washington D.C. debuts of Disclosure, Hudson Mohawke, Rudimental, Flume, RL Grime, Aeroplane, Joy Orbison, Fred Falke and Nina Kraviz, among many others.

Vickers R.E.P. Type Monoplane

The sixth aircraft, built for the 1912 British Military Aeroplane Competition was noticeably different, with side-by-side seating for its two crew, a shorter wingspan (35 ft (10.67 m) rather than 47 ft 6 in (14.5 m) for the earlier aircraft), while a 70 hp (52 kW) Viale radial engine was fitted.

Victor Tatin

In 1890 Tatin and Charles Richet experimented on a steam powered aeroplane with fore and aft propellors and in 1911 he collaborated with Louis Paulhan on the design of the Aéro-Torpille, a monoplane with a remarkably streamlined design.

Walter Warlimont

On 22 July, Warlimont travelled to France to meet with Field Marshal Rommel (who had been wounded a week earlier by an Allied aeroplane attack), and Rommel's naval aide Vice Admiral Friedrich Ruge, to discuss the deteriorating battlefield situation in Normandy.

Westwood, Wiltshire

Additionally, by the end of 1942 the Westwood tunnels had "probably housed the greatest and most valuable collection of cultural and artistic artifacts assembled in one location anywhere in the world", including exhibits from British Museum, pictures from the National Portrait Gallery, tapestries from the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Elgin Marbles, and the Wright brothers' aeroplane.

William Russell Grace

His nephew Cecil Grace attempted a crossing of the English Channel in December 1910 in an aeroplane.


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