The first mention of aeronautics in history was in the writings of ancient Egyptians who described the flight of birds.

Images and stories of flight have appeared throughout recorded history, such as the legendary story of Icarus and Daedalus.

The club is the third oldest of its kind in the country and has spent the majority of its history, with the exception of the 2006 – 07 season, in the top flight First Division ( known as Serie A since 1929 ).

A second football team, IFK Malmö played in Sweden's top flight for about 20 years and the club's quarterfinal in the European Cup is the club's greatest achievement in its history.

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.

The frieze is located around the inside of the base of the dome and is a chronological, pictorial history of the United States from the landing of Christopher Columbus to the Wright Brothers's flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The Grand Soviet Encyclopedia called this " the first true flight of a heavier-than-air machine in history ".

These images, combined with the recorded flight time history, can be used to obtain critical aerodynamic parameters such as lift, drag, static and dynamic stability, flow characteristics, and pitching moment coefficients.

Swindon went on to win promotion to the top flight for the first time in their history — beating Sunderland in the Play-Off Final — only to have the promotion taken from them ten days later, when the Football League demoted them for irregular payments to players.

* 1935 – First flight of the DC-3, one of the most significant transport aircraft in the history of aviation

On the arm of Valeriy Polyakov, a Poljot 3133 chronograph movement-based watch set a space record for the longest space flight in history.

One of the recurring themes of his work is immigration, the flight from homeland and the return, as well as the history of 20th century Greece.

The history of the Belgian air force began in 1910 when the Minister of War, général Hellebaut, decided after his first flight to acquire « aeroplanes ».

Aviation history was made in St. Petersburg on January 1, 1914 when Tony Jannus made the world's first scheduled commercial airline flight with the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line from St. Petersburg to Tampa.

It follows the history of flight, from the first hot air balloons in the 19th century to 20th century manned space missions.

On July 9, 1982 Clipper Defiance, a Boeing 727 – 235 ( N4737 ), operating as Pan Am flight 759, crashed minutes after takeoff from New Orleans Airport in the worst accident in aviation history involving microburst-induced wind shear.

He also writes a history of San Lorenzo that the narrator reads on his flight to the island.

After winning promotion in 1968 to the top flight for the first time in their history, Rangers were relegated after just one season and spent the next four years in Division 2.

However, the Curtiss flights emboldened the Smithsonian to display the Aerodrome in its museum as " the first man-carrying aeroplane in the history of the world capable of sustained free flight ".

In 1910 Wormwood Scrubs became part of aviation history when a pioneer airship took flight from an improvised landing ground ; The Daily Mail Airship Garage was built shortly afterwards — the site is now occupied by the Linford Christie Stadium.

In 1954, 22d Wing aircrews flew the longest non-stop mass flight in history: from England to California.

A week later, on 19 August, the descending capsule from Discoverer XIV was snared by an aircraft in flight for the first air recovery in history.

a history of human flight, directed by Jim Freeman and Greg MacGillivray and produced for the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum opens with a hot air balloon passing over the Wee House and the United Church of Craftsbury on the Common.

Geophysical Alerts are important to flight crews and maintenance personnel to determine if any upcoming activity or history has or will have an effect on satellite communications, GPS navigation and HF Communications.

The site, extended in later years, was completed with new buildings by Janco down to the mid 1930s ; this pet project resulted in some of the most experimental buildings in the history of Romanian architecture, in striking contrast with the antique design prevalent in the surrounding Hala Traian quarter.

At the beginning of the 20th century, flight pioneers like Aurel Vlaicu, Traian Vuia and George Valentin Bibescu brought important contributions to early aviation history, building revolutionary aeroplanes and changing the age's mentalities.

Ten of them are mentioned by the press: Năftănăilă ( no relation to Lulu Năftănăilă from the later history of the club ), Aurel Stroe, Pitu, Chicomban ( a known family of multiathletes ), Danciu, Pedra, Chirică, Dumitrescu, A. Iftimie, Dănăilă.

In fact, his translator Aurel Stein expressed the view that his was the only true Sanskrit history.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

Ra II, a ship built from papyrus, was successfully sailed across the Atlantic by Thor Heyerdahl proving that it was possible to cross the Atlantic from Africa using such boats in early epochs of history.

She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a " locomotive of women's history " and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France.

The company traces its history to June 1911, when Clyde Cessna, a farmer in Rago, Kansas, built a wood-and-fabric plane and became the first person to build and fly an aircraft between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.

Catapults of all types and sizes are being built for school science and history fairs, competitions or as a hobby.

The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

The Patriots ultimately built Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, their home throughout most of their history, and that plan was abandoned.

Aqueducts were built by the Greeks and Ancient Romans, while the history of China shows they built irrigation and flood control works.

By the later 19th century, history painting was often explicitly rejected by avant-garde movements such as the Impressionists ( except for Édouard Manet ) and the Symbolists, and according to one recent writer " Modernism was to a considerable extent built upon the rejection of History Painting ... All other genres are deemed capable of entering, in one form or another, the ' pantheon ' of modernity considered, but History Painting is excluded ".

As railroads overtook canals for transportation, canal systems were modified and developed into hydropower systems ; the history of Lowell, Massachusetts is a classic example of commercial development and industrialization, built upon the availability of water power.

Tisha B ' Av is a fast day that commemorates two of the saddest events in Jewish history that both occurred on the ninth of Av — the destruction in 586 BCE of the First Temple, originally built by King Solomon, and destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.

Baldwin Locomotive Works became the world's largest by the early 1900s and built the most powerful steam locos in history.

Lebanon's history from independence has been marked by alternating periods of political stability and turmoil interspersed with prosperity built on Beirut's position as a freely trading regional center for finance and trade.

It continues to be the best-selling two-seat convertible sports car in history and by February 2011 over 900, 000 MX-5s had been built and sold around the world.

According to Islamic tradition, the history of Mecca goes back to Abraham ( Ibrahim ) who built the Kaaba with the help of his elder son Ishmael in around 2000 BCE when the inhabitants of what was then known as Bakkah had fallen away from the original monotheism of Abraham through the influence of the Amelkites.

The first mention of Nijmegen in history is in the 1st century BC, when the Romans built a military camp on the place where Nijmegen was to appear ; the location had great strategic value because of the surrounding hills, which gave ( and continues to give ) a good view over the Waal and Rhine valley.

The stadium, known as MetLife Stadium, became the first in the history of the NFL to be jointly built by two franchises.

He built 1470 reservoirs – the highest number by any ruler in the history, repaired 165 dams, 3910 canals, 163 major reservoirs, and 2376 mini reservoirs.

Sikh history is built on examples of brave men and women who defended an ideology built on the fundamentals of human rights and equality of all human beings.

The history of thermodynamics as a scientific discipline generally begins with Otto von Guericke who, in 1650, built and designed the world's first vacuum pump and demonstrated a vacuum using his Magdeburg hemispheres.

" Paley's argument is built mainly around anatomy and natural history.

* Home Insurance Building, the first skyscraper in history, becomes the tallest man-made structure ever built after it officially opened in 1885.

The Quba Mosque is the first mosque in history built by Muhammad upon arrival in Medina