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The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.
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Consider a simple, closed, plane curve C which is a real-analytic image of the unit circle, and which is given by Af.
For if it did, the plane of L and l' would contain two generators of Af, which is impossible.
For the lines of any plane, **yp, meeting Q in a conic C, are transformed into the congruence of secants of the curve C' into which C is transformed in the point involution on Q.
Clearly, any line, l, of any bundle having one of these points of tangency, T, as vertex will be transformed into the entire pencil having the image of the second intersection of L and Q as vertex and lying in the plane determined by the image point and the generator of Af which is tangent to **zg at T.
By ( 1 ), the image of this pencil is a ruled surface of order Af which is met by the plane of the pencil in a curve, C, of order Af.
On C there is a Af correspondence in which the Af points cut from C by a general line, l, of the pencil correspond to the point of intersection of the image of L and the plane of the pencil.
In the first case the fixed elements within each pencil are the multiple secant and the line joining the vertex, P, to the intersection of **zg and the plane of the pencil which does not lie on the multiple secant.
In the second, the fixed elements are the lines which join the vertex, P, to the two intersections of **zg and the plane of the pencil which do not lie on the multiple secant.
For any pencil in a plane containing a Af-fold secant of **zg has an image regulus which meets the plane of the pencil in Af lines, namely the images of the lines of the pencil which pass through the intersection of **zg and the multiple secant, plus an additional component to account for the intersections of the images of the general lines of the pencil.
to this he glued and fitted other pieces of paper and four taut strings, thus creating a sequence of flat surfaces in real and sculptural space to which there clung only the vestige of a picture plane.
The various forces result from the reaction of the removed paint chip against the face of the knife and along the shear plane, which makes an angle **yf with the substrate.
An electrostatic system suffers generally from image plane curvature leading to defocusing in the peripheral image region if a flat viewing screen ( or interstage coupler ) is utilized, while a magnetic system requires accurate adjustment of the solenoid, which is heavy and bulky.
I had a pocketful of money, which was unusual when I was in the army, and the plane would be grounded all night.
Area can be defined as a function from a collection M of special kind of plane figures ( termed measurable sets ) to the set of real numbers which satisfies the following properties:
* Abduction ( kinesiology ), a type of movement which draws a limb away from the median plane of the body
On September 11, 2001, Omari boarded American Airlines Flight 11 and assisted in the hijacking of the plane, which was crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, as part of the coordinated attacks.
In analytic geometry, the plane is given a coordinate system, by which every point has a pair of real number coordinates.
Lucifer is the light spirit, which " plays on human pride and offers the delusion of divinity ", but also motivates creativity and spirituality ; Ahriman is the dark spirit, which tempts human beings to "... deny link with divinity and to live entirely on the material plane ", but also stimulates intellectuality and technology.
plane and was
Every plane that could fly was sent into the air.
The expression was his trade-mark, his open sesame to good luck, and his prayer that pilot and plane would always return.
From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.
He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.
The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.
And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.
Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American plane by a demented Algerian with a gun.
The plane was sent back to the United States, for a change, but Castro kept the crazy gunman, who will prove a suitable recruit to the revolution.
It was getting on toward 7 o'clock and the German Me-210 plane had been and gone on its eighth straight visit.
And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.
The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.
Tracks in the snow showed the plane was airborne in less than a hundred feet.
But in the plane there was a concrete reason for it.
Their flight was delayed, Dunn said, when a boarding ramp inflicted some minor damage to the wing of the plane.
To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.
Everybody else was allowed to file off the plane after it touched down at El Paso at 4:18 a.m..
At 12:50 p.m. a ramp was rolled up to the plane.
I was twenty-one back then, in the army, and fog put our plane down at Orly instead of Rhine-Main.
plane and flying
He is thought either to have been killed by the Fascists as soon as he landed or to have killed himself by flying out to sea and crashing his plane.
As a matter of fact, Fogg and his plane didn't get beyond Pennsylvania in the race -- an engine oil leak forced him down -- but the flying service and school he started subsequently were first steps in paying off his wry-faced backers.
United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field as flight attendants and passengers — who had heard about the other three hijacked planes ramming into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — fought hijackers who were likely flying to crash the plane either into the White House or the United States Capitol.
On July 2, 2011, an F-15E intercepted a small two-seat passenger plane flying near Camp David, where President Obama was in residence.
On July 10, 2011, an F-15 Intercepted another small two-seat passenger plane flying near Camp David where President Barack Obama was in residence, totalling the number of interceptions over the July 9 weekend at 3 planes.
These including haranguing CND marchers from the roof of the CPS's Whitehall office and flying a plane over a CND festival with a banner reading, " Help the Soviets, Support CND!
When Tripoli fell under siege by British forces, he and his colleagues made a narrow escape by boarding a German military plane flying to Sicily.
Francis Gary Powers ( August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977 ) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
The Lebanese man was in possession of photographs of Israeli targets and had information on Israeli airlines flying back and forth from Cyprus, and planned to blow up a plane or tour bus.
While damage could be studied later, the energy yield of the untested Little Boy design could be determined only at the moment of detonation, using instruments dropped by parachute from a plane flying in formation with the one that dropped the bomb.
* Red Tail Reborn ( 2007 ), the story behind the restoration of a flying memorial plane.
The air traffic in Romania reached 10. 7 million passengers in 2011, 5. 1 % more than the previous year when there were 10. 2 million people flying by plane.
He was also a major in the Luftwaffe, flying nearly one-hundred combat missions until 22 July 1941, when his plane was hit by Soviet anti-aircraft fire.
Later, while flying to visit his parents in New York City, Meyer happened to be on the same plane with Jason Robards and asked the star to join the cast.
Fangman reported the hijacking, and said that the hijackers were likely flying the plane.
He also said that the plane was flying erratically.
" Corroborating other theories, his conclusion is that a Sukhoi jet ( which he identifies as a Su-15 ' Flagon ') was flying below its minimum allowed altitude, and " without realizing it because of the terrible weather conditions, he passed within 10 or 20 meters of Yuri and Seregin's plane while breaking the sound barrier.
* November 9 – Neil Armstrong records a world record speed in a rocket plane of 6, 587 km / h flying a X-15.
** Cold War: A Soviet Air Force MiG-19 fighter plane flying north of Murmansk, Russia, over the Barents Sea shoots down a six-man RB-47 Stratojet reconnaissance plane of the U. S. Air Force.
* June 24 – British Airways Flight 9 suffers a temporary 4-engine flameout and damage to the exterior of the plane, after flying through the otherwise undetected ash plume from Indonesia's Mount Galunggung.
A local attorney who owned a small plane would take him on flights for a $ 1 fee and taught him the basics of flying an airplane.
A Soviet team investigating the incident was not able to determine the cause of the crash, but hypothesized that the plane was flying low to evade radar and misjudged the plane's altitude.
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