There have been many standard sizes of paper at different times and in different countries, but today most of the world uses the international standard ( A4 and its siblings ).

This apart, the A4 was one of very few streamlined steam locomotive designs in the world to retain its casing throughout its existence.

* 1947-The Soviet Union launched its first Long Range Ballistic Rocket 18 October, based on the German rocket A4 ( V-2 ).

The east-west A13 meets the A4 just to the north of Esch, and terminates at Pétange in the west and meets the German Bundesautobahn 8 at its eastern end.

From the M4, the A46 heads to Bath, ending at its junction with the A4 to the east of the city.

The road has been re-numbered A4361 from its junction with the A4 immediately south of Avebury northwards, becoming the A361 again at the junction with the A419 which passes north-east of Swindon.

Its PL45 platform was shared with the first-generation " Typ 8D " Audi A4, which was unveiled 2 years earlier, and saw a return to the Passat sharing its platform with Audi's equivalent model for the first time since the second-generation ( B2 ) Passat, which shared its platform with the second-generation " Typ 81 " Audi 80 / Audi 90 ( the A4 is the successor to the Audi 80 line ).

Unlike its predecessor, the B6 Passat no longer shared its platform with Audi's equivalent model ( the Audi A4 ).

Audi has, since 2000, offered a chain-type CVT ( multitronic ) as an option on some of its larger-engine models, for example the A4 3. 0 L V6.

This was the first Volkswagen Group model to use the " PQ34 " or " A4 " platform, bearing a natural close resemblance to its contemporary, the Volkswagen Golf Mk4.

By the time of its last issue, however, it had become an A4 comic like the others.

The airport is served by an adjacent junction on the A4 Autobahn, which by-passes central Dresden on its route from Aachen, on the Dutch border, to Görlitz, on the Polish border.

Two motorways cross the territory, one being the A4, the other being the A13 ; Padua has also an highway ring surrounding the city and connecting it to its hinterland.

The station has re-roled to be the home of the ' A4 Force ' ( the Royal Air Force's Air Combat Service Support Units ( ACSSUs )), with No 85 Expeditionary Logistics Wing and its subordinate ACSSUs, 2 MT Squadron and 3 Mobile Catering Squadron ( formerly the Mobile Catering Support Unit ( MCSU )) moving in from RAF Stafford.

There are 14 interchanges along its length, mostly of the Parclo A4 configuration.

Desenzano also has its own exit from the A4 motorway, the main road between Milan and Venice.

Ufton Nervet village is in hills south of the River Kennet, and its parish stretches down into the valley to the north as far as the A4 road.

However, its locomotive inheritance was much greater than just the ' A4 Class ', it also produced highly successful mixed-traffic and freight designs.

A more powerful internal combustion engine, larger upgraded brakes, firmer suspension, larger roadwheels, and distinctive sheetmetal, styling clues and badging have always been amongst the many upgrades the S4 receives over its mainstream 100 and A4 siblings.

* A4, the code for permission to use specific land or premises for pubs and bars in town and country planning in the UK

* Southern Winds Airlines, a defunct Argentine airline

The Winds ' game against the Southern California Sun was canceled.

Later on it helped Southern Winds Airlines, another private carrier, to keep afloat by providing its routes and staff in exchange for using Southern Winds ' fleet.

Southern Winds continued to fly under their colours.

LAN took over LAFSA's routes and agreed to help Southern Winds for at least 90 days as well.

Since then Southern Winds has completely disappeared with LAN Argentina in the place of LAFSA and Southern Winds.

Southern Winds Airlines ( or SW Airlines ) was an Argentine commercial air carrier that operated from 1996 until 2005.

Southern Winds was founded by Juan Maggio, who served as president of the company.

Initially a domestic carrier, Southern Winds began offering connections to international flights in 1997.

At its peak, Southern Winds operated an extensive domestic network, international flights within the South American continent, and intercontinental services from Buenos Aires to Miami and Madrid ; and charter destinations like Florianopolis, Porto Seguro, Camboriu, Tacna and Punta Cana.

Southern Winds ' fleet was composed initially by Bombardier CRJ-100 / 200, DeHavilland Canada DHC-8-100 and later Boeing 737, 747 and 767 passenger planes.

In 2003 an alliance was struck between Southern Winds and the Argentine-state owned Líneas Aéreas Federales Sociedad Anónima ( LAFSA ) that involved utilization by LAFSA of Southern Winds ' flight infrastructure.

By 2004, Southern Winds was a leading commercial carrier in the troubled Argentine aviation industry.

That September, however, airport police in Madrid discovered of cocaine packed in four unaccompanied suitcases aboard an arriving Southern Winds flight.

The last Southern Winds flight operated on December 5, 2005, although proposals for the airline's revival continued to surface in 2006.

* 1999 – A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the People's Republic of China, killing 61.

* 1997 – A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on approach into Bao ' an International Airport, killing 35 people.

* 1992 – A China Southern Airlines domestic flight in the People's Republic of China, crashes, killing all 141 people on board.

In 2002 the government merged the nine largest airlines into three regional groups based in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, respectively: Air China, China Eastern Airlines, and China Southern Airlines, which operate most of China's external flights.

Air China owns 17. 5 % of Cathay Pacific ( second largest shareholder ) and the Civil Aviation Administration of China ( CAAC ), an administrative agency of the State Council, owns majority and controlling stakes in China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, and Air China.

They are, respectively, the main hubs for Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines.

** In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on board.

** Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in Wayne County, West Virginia ; all 75 on board, including 37 players and 5 coaches from the Marshall University football team, are killed.

# China Southern Airlines 0. 860 million

He later died in the Southern Airlines Flight 932 airplane crash, that killed most of Marshall University's football team, on November 14, 1970

* Increasing the amount of international airlines serving airport ( are apparently looking into: China Southern Airlines, Thai Airways International, Garuda Indonesia, Vietnam Airlines, AirAsia X, Scoot Airlines, Emirates 4 Weekly services 1 November, Daily from 1 February 2013, Etihad Airways, Qatar Airways as well as some United States operators )

Air Miami became the first affiliate in 1980, and over a dozen other airlines became part of the system, including: Marco Island Airways, Florida Airlines, Key Air, Southern International, Skyway, North American Airlines, National Commuter Airlines, Gull Air, Pompano, Finair, Slocum, Atlantic Gulf and others.

* China Southern Airlines, China's largest airline with main base in Guangzhou

On 17 June 2008, the Civil Aviation Administration of China announced that the 18 return flights available to Chinese airlines will be apportioned such that Air China and Hainan Airlines will fly to Taiwan from Beijing with four return flights and two return flights respectively ; China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines will fly from Shanghai to Taiwan with four return flights and two return flights respectively ; China Southern Airlines fly depart for Taiwan from Guangzhou for four return flights per week, and Xiamen Airlines will connect Xiamen with Taiwan with two weekly return flights.