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    Women have been involved in aviation from the beginnings of both lighter-than air travel and as airplanes, helicopters and space travel were developed...
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    Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 (category Aviation accidents and incidents in 1973)
    continued flying eastwards into the Sinai at a speed of 325 miles per hour (282 kn; 523 km/h), until the crew realised they had had problems with their instruments...
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    Aviation 1956–1976. Hinckley, Leicestershire, UK: Midland Counties Publications. ISBN 0-904597-03-2. "A West African Rarity". Air International. Vol. 29...
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    Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (category Aviation accidents and incidents in 2014)
    not been determined. It is widely regarded as the greatest mystery in aviation history, and remains the single deadliest case of aircraft disappearance...
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  • Aviation portal This is a list of aviation-related events from 1944: United States Coast Guard pilot Lieutenant, junior grade, Stewart Graham makes the...
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    Wright brothers (category American aviation record holders)
    History of aviation John Joseph Montgomery List of covers of Time magazine (1920s) List of firsts in aviation National Aviation Heritage Area The Winds of Kitty...
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    The North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie is a retired prototype version of the planned B-70 nuclear-armed, deep-penetration supersonic strategic bomber...
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    North American A-5 Vigilante (category North American Aviation aircraft)
    American carrier-based supersonic bomber designed and built by North American Aviation (NAA) for the United States Navy. Before the 1962 unification of Navy and...
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    Flight altitude record (category Aviation records)
    not all of the records were certified by the non-profit international aviation organization, the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). One reason...
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    Wayback Machine." Civil Aviation Department. Retrieved on August 11, 2014. "Director-General of Civil Aviation, Civil Aviation Department Headquarters...
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    Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet (category Naval aviation)
    budget cuts and considerable restructuring. At the same time, U.S. Naval Aviation faced a number of problems. The McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II Advanced...
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    2013. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-282 Advanced FAP-351 Andoas". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved June 7, 2022. Ranter, Harro. "ASN...
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  • This is a list of aviation-related events from 1954: The United States Navy adopts the probe-and-drogue aerial refuelling system. January 6 – A Royal Air...
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    Naval History & Heritage Command, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009,  p. 282 Oil Pollution on Wake Island from the Tanker R.C. Stoner, Reginald M. Gooding...
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  • Aviation portal This is a list of aviation-related events from 1953: The first year in which the world's airlines carried more than 50 million people....
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  • Aviation portal This is a list of aviation-related events from 1943: Watanabe Iron Works transfers its aircraft manufacturing business to a new subsidiary...
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    "Three pitch control systems for vertical axis wind turbines compared". Wind Engineering. 16 (5): 269–282. Pawsey, N. C. K. (November 2002). Development...
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  • Aviation portal This is a list of aviation-related events from 1962. The United States Navy develops vertical replenishment (VERTREP) techniques to supply...
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  • (perpendicular to the wind), broad reach (wind behind the vessel at an angle), and running downwind, running before the wind, or simply running (wind directly behind...
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    North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco (category North American Aviation aircraft)
    & West Sahara since 1972". ACIG.org. Retrieved 1 January 2016. Mobile Training Team 1-81 Operational Orders Document, Marine Corps Archives aviation-safety...
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    some 100,000 people are estimated to have been killed. A grand total of 282 of the 339 B-29s launched for "Meetinghouse" made it to the target, 27 of...
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    Will Rogers (category Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1935)
    appearances increased his visibility and popularity. Rogers crusaded for aviation expansion and provided Americans with first-hand accounts of his world...
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    numbers for observation, transport, and medical evacuation. The Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri synchropter—using the same basic configuration as Anton Flettner's...
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    North American P-51 Mustang (category North American Aviation aircraft)
    The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War...
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    originated with a request by the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM, Ministry of Aviation) for a jet aircraft capable of one hour's endurance and a speed of at least...
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    aerodynamics, aerology, aircraft engines, aerial gunnery and communications, and 282.75 hours of flight time that included some night flying. On 18 April 1936...
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    until the 1990s. It remains in service, although it is being phased out in aviation applications in favor of the more advanced AIM-120 AMRAAM. The early Sparrow...
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    Reserve Command (AFRC) and the Air National Guard (ANG). As of 2017[update], 282 A-10C aircraft are reported as operational, divided as follows: 141 USAF...
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    ISBN 978-0-7864-3937-9. Matthews, Birch (2001). Race with the Wind: How Air Racing Advanced Aviation. Zenith Imprint. ISBN 0-7603-0729-6. Nowarra, Heinz J. (1993)...
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  • him. Steve goes to the bowling alley and speaks to Jonas Tevron (Frank De Vol), a friend of Terri's. Steve asks him about Terri and finds out some concerning...
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