However, the dominance of the Zeppelins over the aeroplanes of that period, which had a range of only a few hundred miles, was diminishing as aeroplane design advanced.

The ring shows different modes of transport, an aeroplane, a car, a container ship, a train and a lorry, for which satellite navigation was developed.

The British Firefox ( 1977 ) by Craig Thomas, detailing the Western ( Anglo – American ) theft of a superior Soviet jet aeroplane, established the techno-thriller, in which technology and its threats determine plot.

First attested in English in late 19th century, the word aeroplane derives from the French aéroplane, which comes from the Greek ἀήρ ( aēr ), " air " + either Latin planus, " level ", or Greek πλάνος ( planos ), " wandering ".

This is exploited by the wing of an aeroplane which is designed to create an area of fast flowing air above its surface.

Imprisoned by him on his aeroplane, she eventually agrees to marry him, and which point he abducts her and takes her to a remote log cabin where he imposes domestic duties on her.

A memorial to the airmen killed when their aeroplane crashed during the Second World War ( 1939 – 1945 ) can be seen on Waddling Way, an un-metalled road to the East of the village which runs to Flixton, near Blundeston.

The cockpit offered a full array of instruments which the pilot used to fly the simulated aeroplane.

The gangsters threaten the family, but Commander Pott throws the switch which transforms the car into an aeroplane and they take off, leaving the gangsters in helpless fury.

Goddard went straight to Downing Street to see Baldwin, as a result of which he was provided with an aeroplane to take him directly to Cannes.

This design was to be reprised in the 1950s Sud Aviation Caravelle transport aeroplane, for which Coandă was a technical consultant.

He sold his second aeroplane ( which he had used to teach himself to fly ) to his new employer for £ 400.

In May 1959 Fleming, Bryce, Cuneo and McClory met first at Bryce's Essex house and then in McClory's London home as they came up with a story outline which was based on an aeroplane full of celebrities and a female lead called Fatima Blush.

127, 9 November 1912, because " The mimetic expression of velocity ( whatever its form may be: the aeroplane, the automobile, and so on ) is diametrically opposed to the character of painting, the supreme origin of which is to be found in inner life.

Beside this example is placed another in which a pilot whose aeroplane is about to crash is deciding whether to steer from a more to a less inhabited area.

His accomplishments as a model aeroplane builder culminated in a man-carrying glider which he and others at the club built in 1912.

Perhaps Eastleigh's most well known ' resident ' is the Spitfire aeroplane which was built in Southampton and first flown from Eastleigh Aerodrome ( now Southampton International Airport ).

He also constructed the first Croatian two-seat aeroplane in 1909, which Dragutin Novak, the first Croatian pilot, used for his first flight.

India Mill is now home to many companies, including Brookhouse ( producers of aeroplane parts ) and Capita Group, which runs TV licensing.

Further tests were hindered by the unusual controls of the aeroplane which no other pilot was familiar with.

The Air Accident Investigation Branch ( AAIB ) report said that the aeroplane was towing a banner, which caught in the tailplane, forcing the nose down.

Nevertheless, Garros inspired aircraft designer Anthony Fokker from the Netherlands ( which, unlike in World War II, was not invaded and remained neutral ) to do exactly the same, fitting his E. I monoplane ( a revolutionary aeroplane in 1915 ) in the same way and thus changing the way in which the air war was fought, as German and Allied aeroplanes fought each other and produced “ ace ” pilots.

The army contingents in Mytilene formed a Revolutionary Committee headed by Colonel Stylianos Gonatas, which despatched by aeroplane the following demands to Athens: the dismissal of the government, the dissolution of the Chamber, the holding of new elections, and the abdication of King Constantine in favour of the Diadoch.

In December 1914, French pilot Roland Garros approached Saulnier to arrange for this device to be installed on his aeroplane but it was not until March 1915 that he took to the air with a forward-firing Hotchkiss 8 mm (. 323 in ) machine gun mounted on his Morane-Saulnier Type L. In addition to the armoured blades, Garros's mechanic, Jules Hue, attached deflector wedges to the blades.

The club took to the aeroplane with relish, and in July 1909 the Short Brothers established Shellbeach Aerodrome on nearby marshland to accommodate six Wright Flyers, moving a few kilometres the next year to Eastchurch where a new more appropriate aerodrome had been built for the club.

On 9 August 1961, the Holtaheia Accident took place as a Vickers VC. 1 Viking passenger aeroplane, G-AHPM operated by Cunard Eagle Airways, transporting schoolboys from The Archbishop Lanfranc School in Thornton Heath, London, crashed into the mountainside above the farm ( Holtaheia ).

He was not a confident flyer and just before the aeroplane took off from Munich, he was heard to say: " Well, if this is the time, then I ’ m ready.

Poiret may also have been influenced by observing the behavior of Mrs. Hart O. Berg upon the first aeroplane flight she took in October 1908 with Wilbur Wright, whereon she tied a rope around the bottom of her skirt to keep it from blowing up during the flight.

The first and the historical aeroplane hijack which was to fund the political revolution also took place at the Biratnagar Airport.

The airfield was the one from which the first successful east-west Atlantic crossing by a Junkers W33 aeroplane, the Bremen, took off on 12 April 1928 with Baron Hünefeld, Hermann Köhl and Captain James Fitzmaurice as co-pilot, as well as the first Aer Lingus flight took place on May 27, 1936.

Charlie Chaplin took his first-ever aeroplane flight in one of Syd's planes, as did many other notable personages of the period.

The crossing took 37 minutes in his aeroplane, Blériot XI, built in collaboration with Raymond Saulnier.

On 18 March 1911, the aeroplane of the Belgian pilot, Charles den Bron, successfully took off at the airport in Sha Tin on an aeroplane named Spirit of Sha Tin ().

It was the first aeroplane that took off in Hong Kong.

Originally an aeroplane mechanic in San Francisco, Johnson took on the running of the Society from Samuel Shenton on the latter's death in 1972, from his base on a ranch near Edwards Air Force Base.

He thus took an office job with Commercial Steel and Forge Company, which manufactured aeroplane parts and bomb fuses.

Krantz each took turns during the afternoon in attempting to locate the wecked aeroplane by walking along the bay bottom while equipped in diving suits.

Traveling by aeroplane from Cape Town to Santiago via Rio de Janeiro, he checks out an unusual rendition of " Happy Birthday to You " from the Presidential Palace where the infamous 1973 coup took place.

Randle responded to his critics in robust fashion, frequently throwing his false teeth into the audience and once bombarding Blackpool from an aeroplane with toilet rolls ( according to an episode of Rude Britannia, broadcast by the BBC on 15 June 2010, the toilet roll bombardment actually took place over Accrington, not Blackpool ).

The first landing of a European aeroplane took place on July 13, 1958.

In the United Kingdom and most of the Commonwealth, the term ' aeroplane ' is used for powered fixed-wing aircraft.

* 14 May – Charles Furnas becomes the first passenger in an aeroplane in the United States, piloted by Wilbur Wright.

Happening after Wright brothers flown in the United States, this is recorded as the first officially observed aeroplane flight in Europe and the distance he flies is the first officially recognized airplane distance record.

In December 1953, the CIA established the operational headquarters of their Guatemalan army of liberation in suburban Florida ; then recruited aeroplane pilots and mercenary soldiers, supervised their military training, established the radio station La Voz de la Liberación ( The Voice of Liberation ) to broadcast disinformation and propaganda ; and arranged for increased diplomatic pressure upon Guatemala to reverse Decree 900 — especially as it applied to the United Fruit Company.

He was also a pioneer aviator, becoming one of the first to build and fly his own aeroplane in the United Kingdom, and also went on develop four-wheel drive systems for cars including pioneering their use in Formula One racing cars.

The Grumman OA-12 Duck aeroplane used in this film was restored and flown by Frank Tallman and is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.

In the buildup to the Second World War, the United Kingdom had embarked on a programme to develop cannon-armed fighters and acquired a licence to build the HS. 404, which entered production as the Hispano Mk. I intended as aeroplane armament.

He was not with the Manchester United squad when their aeroplane crashed at Munich on the way home from a European Cup tie on 6 February 1958, killing eight players.

The fatal aeroplane accident, the first that has occurred to United States army aviators stationed at the military aerodrome at North Island in twenty months, came as the climax to a series of looping the loop performed by Lieut.

The Brodie landing system was a method of landing light aeroplane devised by James H Brodie, a Captain of the United States Air Force during World War II.