The first American spacewalk was performed on June 3, 1965 by Edward H. White, II from the second manned Gemini flight, Gemini 4, for 21 minutes, on a tether.

The 7½ months of flight of Mariner 4 involved one midcourse maneuver on December 5, 1964.

On April 4, 2000, Hazmi took a one-hour introductory flight lesson at the National Air College in San Diego.

Press coverage of punk misbehavior grew intense: On January 4, 1977, the Evening News of London ran a front-page story on how the Sex Pistols " vomited and spat their way to an Amsterdam flight ".

The airplane he chartered for a New Year's Eve flight, a Douglas DC-7, had a history of mechanical problems and sub-par flight personnel, and it was overloaded by 4, 200 pounds.

Afghans sometimes used RPG-7s at extreme range, exploded by their 4. 5-second self-destruct timer, which translates to roughly 950m flight distance, as a method of long distance approach denial for infantry and reconnaissance.

The Enterprise arrives in the past, on April 4, 2063, the day before humanity's first encounter with alien life after Zefram Cochrane's historic warp drive flight.

Its maiden flight was on April 4, 1983, and it completed nine missions before breaking apart 73 seconds after the launch of its tenth mission, STS-51-L on January 28, 1986, resulting in the death of all seven crew members.

These missions had varied success, but the final two unmanned missions — Korabl-Sputnik 4 and Korabl-Sputnik 5 — were outright successes, opening the door for a manned flight.

Mio paid the $ 4, 000 bill for the flight with his credit card.

* March 2 – The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II under Captain James Gallagher lands in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight ( it was refueled in flight 4 times ).

* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.

* May 4 – A Sudanese Federal Airlines jet crashes on a domestic flight in a severe dust storm, while making an emergency landing 325 kilometres northeast of Khartoum, killing all 53 passengers and crew.

* September 4 – 5 – English-born aviatrix Beryl Markham becomes the first woman to make an East-to-West solo transatlantic flight, from Abingdon-on-Thames, England, to Baleine, Nova Scotia.

* June 4 – Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.

* April 4 – First flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger

* April 2 – A bomb explodes on a Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Athens, killing 4 people.

On July 21, 1961, Grissom was pilot of the second Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 4, popularly known as Liberty Bell 7.

This flight made three revolutions of the Earth and lasted for 4 hours, 52 minutes and 31 seconds.

In March 1966 he was selected as Senior Pilot ( second seat ) for the first manned Apollo flight, designated AS-204, along with Command Pilot Virgil " Gus " Grissom, who had flown in space on the Mercury 4 Liberty Bell 7 mission and as commander of the Gemini 3 Molly Brown mission, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who had yet to fly into space.

Early in the morning of 2 October 2000 at the High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility ( HELSTF ), Lightcraft Technologies, Inc. ( LTI ) with the help of Franklin B. Mead of the U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Leik Myrabo set a new world's altitude record of 233 feet ( 71 m ) for its 4. 8 inch ( 12. 2 cm ) diameter,, laser-boosted rocket in a flight lasting 12. 7 seconds.

On 5 March 2004, Dr. Mitchell unveiled a 3 / 4 scale representation of the prototype Spitfire K5054 at the entrance to Eastleigh Airport, Southampton, on the 68th anniversary of its first flight.

Upon boarding United 175, Shehhi and 4 other hijackers waited 30 minutes into the flight to make their attack, which then allowed Shehhi to take over control as pilot, and at 9: 03 a. m., 17 minutes after Mohamed Atta crashed American 11 into the North Tower, 23-year-old Shehhi crashed the Boeing 767 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

Diving penguins reach 6 to 12 km / h ( 3. 7 to 7. 5 mph ), though there are reports of velocities of 27 km / h ( 17 mph ) ( which are more realistic in the case of startled flight ).

Performances are a max weight of 250 kg ( 50 payload ), speed of 110 km / h, and a flight duration about 45 minutes.

However, with the tiltrotor this problem is avoided, because the proprotors are perpendicular to the motion in the high-speed portions of the flight regime ( and thus never suffering this reverse flow condition ), meaning that the tiltrotor has relatively high maximum speed-over 300 knots / 560 km / h has been demonstrated in the two types of tiltrotors flown so far, and cruise speeds of 250 knots / 460 km / h are achieved.

Created in 1945, Matra ( Mechanics / Aviation / Traction ) was the company behind several technological projects: creating a twin-engine airplane prototype able to travel at 800 km / h, breaking the sound barrier at Mach 1. 4 in vertical flight for the first time in Europe.

This was for the first flight from the Parc Saint Cloud to the Eiffel Tower and back in less than thirty minutes, necessitating an average ground speed of at least 22 km / h ( 14 mph ) to cover the round trip distance of in the allotted time.

A study testing the flight physics of an " ideal falcon " found a theoretical speed limit at 400 km / h ( 250 mph ) for low altitude flight and 625 km / h ( 390 mph ) for high altitude flight.

Heini Dittmar had been accurately and officially recorded at 1, 004. 5 km / h ( 623. 8 mph ) in level flight on 2 October 1941 in the prototype Me 163 V4.

XS-1 flight number 50 is the first one where the X-1 recorded supersonic flight, at Mach 1. 06 ( 361 m / s, 1, 299 km / h, 807. 2 mph ) peak speed ; however, Yeager and many other personnel believe Flight # 49 ( also with Yeager piloting ), which reached a top recorded speed of Mach 0. 997 ( 339 m / s, 1, 221 km / h ), may have, in fact, exceeded Mach 1.

It has been claimed to be the fastest bird in level flight, reaching speeds of 161 km / h ( 100 mph ), but is disputed whether the White-throated Needletail is faster, reportedly flying at 170 km / h ( 105 mph ).

A Hurricane Hunters flight late on August 15 reported that the depression reached winds of 50 mph ( 80 km / h ); as a result, the NHC upgraded the cyclone to Tropical Storm Alicia.

The following February saw a successful launch which reached a speed of 770 m / s ( 2, 800 km / h ) in vertical flight.

Due to the small eye, Hurricane Hunters at first had difficulties in obtaining the strength ; however a flight late on August 16 recorded a very low pressure of, with winds estimated at 150 mph ( 240 km / h ).

* BBC News report on the ( delayed ) successful launch of the Ariane 5 ECA flight on November 16, 2005.

On September 5, Nami and Saeed al-Ghamdi purchased tickets for a September 7 flight to Newark at Mile High Travel on Commercial Boulevard — paying cash for their tickets.

Flight 19 was a training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared on December 5, 1945, while over the Atlantic.

By 1989 and the election of President Callejas, however, a heavy toll had been taken by regionwide economic recession, civil war in neighboring countries, the drying up of most external credit, and capital flight equaling more than US $ 1. 5 billion.

Mihdhar and Hazmi took flight lessons on May 5, 2000 at the Sorbi Flying Club in San Diego, with Mihdhar flying an aircraft for 42 minutes.

The resulting promotion meant that Blackburn were back in the top flight of English football for the first time since 1966. In the 1992 close season, Dalglish signed Southampton's Alan Shearer for a British record fee of £ 3. 5 million.

On 31 October 2008, Libya paid $ 1. 5 billion, sought through donations from private businesses, to a fund that would be used to compensate both US victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 and the 1986 bombing of the La Belle disco in Germany.

* 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia ( she left on May 5 for the 11, 000 mile flight ).

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.

Cochrane completes his warp flight, and the next day, April 5, 2063, the crew watches as Vulcans, attracted by the Phoenix warp test, land and greet Cochrane.

The 3559. 5 mile flight from Britain to New York City took 108 hours 12 minutes .< p >

Excluding the hijackers, the passengers on the flight included 35 men, 12 women, and three children who were all under the age of 5.

* March 5 – Macedonian Palair Flight 305, a F-100 on a flight to Zurich, crashes shortly after take-off from Skopje killing 83 of the 97 on board.

* October 5 – American aviators Clyde Edward Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., complete the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean, from Misawa, Japan, to East Wenatchee, Washington, in 41½ hours.

* December 5 – A flight of US Navy Avenger torpedo bombers known as Flight 19 disappears on a training exercise.

* August 21 – Gemini 5 ( Gordon Cooper, Pete Conrad ) is launched on the first 1-week flight, as well as the first test of fuel cells for electrical power.

* May 24 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia ( she left on May 5 for the 11, 000 mile flight ).

* October 5 – the British Airship R101 crashes in France enroute to India on its maiden long-range flight.

In fiscal year 2009, NASA budget allocated $ 2. 98 billion for 5 launches to the program, including $ 490 million for " program integration ", $ 1. 03 billion for " flight and ground operations ", and $ 1. 46 billion for " flight hardware " ( which includes maintenance of orbiters, engines, and the external tank between flights.

* The Mariner 5 flight path and its determination from tracking data