Israeli shelling of civilian areas in the cities of Port Said, Ismailia, and Suez on the west bank of the canal, led to high civilian casualties ( including the virtual destruction of Suez ), and contributed to the flight of some one million Egyptian internal refugees.

The river and canal part company at the base of the Hanwell flight of locks ( 92-97 ), before two more locks take the canal to Norwood Green.

Half a mile ( 800 m ) further on, the canal reaches the top of the Marsworth flight of seven locks, which begin the descent to the Vale of Aylesbury.

After rising through Cosgrove Lock, ( and passing the start of the abandoned Buckingham Arm ) another long level section brings the canal to the bottom of the Stoke Bruerne flight of seven locks.

At the top of this flight is the Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum followed shortly by Blisworth Tunnel, at 3056 yards ( 2794 m ) one of the longest on the canal network.

At Whilton, the canal reaches the bottom of the Buckby flight of seven locks which raise it to Braunston summit although the village of that name is still 5 miles ( 8 km ) distant.

The canal then drops down the Braunston flight of six locks until it reaches Braunston Junction, just over 93 miles ( 150 km ) from Brentford.

After a 3-mile ( 5-km ) level, the canal descends into the valley of the River Leam by the Stockton flight of ten locks ( often known as ' the Itchington Ten ').

After half a mile the mainline reaches the bottom of the Hatton flight of 21 locks that lift the canal up out of the Avon Valley.

This canal and flight of locks are actually within the boundary of Southall but are named after the local village of Hanwell, which is much closer than either of the villages of Norwood or Southall.

Geographically, Wigan Pier is the name given today to the area around the canal at the bottom of the Wigan flight of locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

When the flight of locks finally opened in 1810, allowing the same vessel to navigate the entire canal, the rate of carriage per ton from London to Bath was £ 2 9s 6d.

The easy cruising is interrupted by the Wilmcote flight of eleven locks in just over a mile ( 1. 6 km ), soon after which the canal reaches Stratford-upon-Avon.

By the 1950s, the southern section was un-navigable by canal boats, as several of the locks could not be operated, and some of the small pounds between the locks of the Wilmcote flight were dry.

Holborn Hill bridge carries the railway to Aston station over the canal, just before the bottom lock of the flight is reached.

After winding round Napton Hill, the canal ascends the Napton flight of nine locks to a summit level.

The canal then reaches the Claydon flight of locks and descends into the valley of the River Cherwell at Cropredy ( the canal descends the river valley all the way from here to Oxford ).

Foxton Locks are the largest flight of such staircase locks on the English canal system.

The canal then has to climb out of the Cheshire Plain by means of a flight of 15 locks at Audlem.

An inclined plane is quicker, and wastes less water, than a flight of canal locks, but is more costly to install and operate.

Water is extracted from the canal below the lowest lock of a flight and is pumped back to the top of the flight, ready for the next boat to pass through.

The flight of 16 consecutive locks at Caen Hill Locks | Caen Hill on the Kennet and Avon Canal, Wiltshire, England

To cross a wide valley ( where the journey delay caused by a flight of locks at either side would be unacceptable ) the centre of the valley can be spanned by an aqueduct-a famous example in Wales is the Pontcysyllte aqueduct across the valley of the River Dee.

Each flight of locks will be accompanied by nine water reutilization basins ( three per lock chamber ), each basin being approximately 70 meters ( 230 ft ) wide, 430 meters ( 1410 ft ) long and 5. 50 meters ( 18 ft ) deep.

The first ten locks are spaced out but from the middle lock the flight is tightly spaced.

Another 3 miles ( 5 km ) lead to the Knowle flight of five locks.

The albatrosses and giant petrels share a morphological adaptation to aid in flight, a sheet of tendon which locks the wing when fully extended, allowing the wing to be kept up and out without any muscle effort.

The Hanwell flight of six locks raises the Grand Union Canal by just over and has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by English Heritage.

At the top of the flight of locks towards Norwood Green is the Three Bridges designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

During its working life, packet boats provided an express passenger service between Preston and Lancaster, and later to Kendal at, with passengers walking up or down the flight of locks at Tewitfield and embarking on a second boat.

There are several flights of locks in the Bingley section, the famous Five Rise Locks, the smaller Three Rise and a further two lock flight at Dowley Gap.

The northern section from Kings Norton in the suburbs of Birmingham to Lapworth is level for the first, following the Birmingham Level, but then descends quite rapidly through the Lapworth flight of 18 locks, to reach the junction.

It was only a fifteen-minute flight, but before it was through Greg felt himself developing a case of claustrophobia.

He was about to make a gas check on his flight when Todman's voice broke in: `` Sweeneys!!

during long weeks the plan for his flight was rehearsed.

for what had happened on the common was only terror and flight ; ;

He was prancing along the hall, heading for the next flight of stairs.

Their flight was delayed, Dunn said, when a boarding ramp inflicted some minor damage to the wing of the plane.

It was probably man's first successful flight in a missile.

Her first actual flight, for she and her kind had made mock flights on dummy panels since she was eight, showed her complete mastery of the techniques of her profession.

The first manned flight of Apollo was in 1968 and it succeeded in landing the first humans on Earth's Moon in 1969 through 1972.

While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited Earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and eventually to a lunar landing.

The rival forces met at Sievershausen on 9 July 1553, and after a combat of unusual ferocity Albert was put to flight.

Scalich saved his life by flight, but Funck was executed.

In the general engagement which followed, Abner was defeated and put to flight.

Peter felt insulted: the flight of the tsarevich to a foreign potentate was a reproach and a scandal, and he had to be recovered and brought back to Russia at all costs.

American Airlines Flight 77 was a passenger flight which was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks.

Hani Hanjour, one of the hijackers who was trained as a pilot, assumed control of the flight.

By the time mission control issued the wake-up call to the crew for flight day two, the spacecraft was approximately away from the Earth, traveling at about.

As the Apollo 16 spacecraft was not due to arrive in lunar orbit until flight day four, flight days two and three were largely preparatory days, consisting of spacecraft maintenance and scientific research.

The remainder of flight day four was spent making observations and preparing for activation of the Lunar Module, undocking, and landing the next day.

The penultimate day of the flight was largely spent performing experiments, aside from a twenty minute press conference during the second half of the day.

Today automated flight control is common to reduce pilot error and workload at key times like landing or takeoff. Autopilot was first invented by Lawrence Sperry during World War II to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit precision targets from 25, 000 feet.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.