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* 1976 – Concorde makes the world's first commercial passenger-carrying supersonic flight
Boeing launched its first passenger-carrying waterjet-propelled hydrofoil Boeing 929, in April 1974.
The programme made MTR the world's first railway to undertake the retrofitting of PSDs on a passenger-carrying system already in operation.
The first passenger-carrying public railway was opened by the Oystermouth Railway in 1807, using horse drawn carriages on an existing tramline.
Running from the town's High Street to the River Lea near the present-day Cheshunt railway station, this horse-drawn line was the first passenger-carrying monorail and the first railway line to be built in Hertfordshire.
* July 15 – Varney Speed Lines ( later to be Continental Airlines ) makes its first passenger-carrying flight.
Charles Bianconi established his horse-car services in the south in 1815, the first of many such passenger-carrying operations.
He invented the injector and the Giffard dirigible, an airship powered with a steam engine, and weighing over 180 kg ( 400 lb ); it was the world's first passenger-carrying airship ( then known as a dirigible ).
The first scheduled heavier-than-air passenger-carrying flights were Pan American's Boeings in summer 1939.
Between 1974 and 1977, the line was upgraded to passenger-carrying standard and the first passenger train ran on 1 June 1977, hauled by the ' Nord ' - a French locomotive and ' 1178 ' - another Swedish tank engine, pulling a set of ex-BR electrical multiple unit coaches owned by the Southern Electric Group.
On 1 August 1930, the R100 airship arrived after what was possibly the first non-stop passenger-carrying powered flight across the North Atlantic to land in Canada.
One section of it was the first urban underground passenger-carrying railway in the world, for although the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel in New York City, opened in 1844, is sometimes called the " world's oldest subway tunnel ", this had no stations and was used for long-distance as well as suburban trains.
It was the world's first passenger-carrying airship ).
This long-defunct railway is of interest as it was the world's first passenger-carrying monorail and the first railway line to open in Hertfordshire.
Alaska Airlines was the first airline in the world to manually land a passenger-carrying jet ( Boeing 737 ) in FAA Category III weather ( dense fog ) made possible with the Head-Up Guidance System
KLM, the Royal Dutch Airline, was the first airline to operate a passenger-carrying flight using biofuel.
The first vehicles which were delivered to Wilts and Dorset, now part of Go-Ahead group, continue to operate in daily passenger-carrying service and in total Optare Solos in the UK alone are estimated to have clocked up over a billion miles.
The first passenger-carrying airline flight happened in 1913 with the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line.

first and hovercraft
During the 1960s he took part in the first hovercraft expedition up the River Amazon.
* July 25 – The SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours, on the 50th anniversary of Louis Blériot's first crossing by heavier-than-air craft.
Six months after the events of the first movie, Morpheus receives a message from Captain Niobe of the Logos calling an emergency meeting of all of Zion's hovercraft.
The first practical design for hovercraft derived from a British invention in the 1950s to 1960s.
The British aircraft manufacturer Saunders-Roe developed the first practical man-carrying hovercraft, the SR. N1, which carried out several test programmes in 1959 to 1961 ( the first public demonstration in 1959 ), including a cross-channel test run in July 1959 piloted by Peter (" Sheepy ") Lamb, an ex-naval test pilot and the Chief Test Pilot at Saunders Roe.
Two 98 seat AP1-88 hovercraft were introduced on this route in 1983, and in 2007 these were joined by the first 130 seater BHT130 craft.
The world's first car-carrying hovercraft was made in 1968, the BHC Mountbatten class ( SR. N4 ) models, each powered by four Rolls-Royce Proteus gas turbine engines.
Avon Fire and Rescue Service became the first Local Authority fire service in the UK to operate a hovercraft.
The world's first passenger hovercraft service operated in 1961-62 between Leasowe and Rhyl in North Wales.
By 1955, he had built a working model from balsa wood and had filed his first patent for the hovercraft, No 854211.
In the autumn of 1958, the NRDC placed an order with Saunders-Roe for the first full-scale hovercraft.
At first it was supposed to consist of two Hamina class missile boats ( already built at this date ) and four Tuuli class hovercraft.
During the 1960s, Britten-Norman were involved in the development of hovercraft via their subsidiary Cushioncraft Ltd ; their first craft, the CC1, was the world's second hovercraft.
It is the place where the first hovercraft was tested.
They also developed and tested the first hovercraft, the SR. N1.
In 1959 it demonstrated the first practical hovercraft built under contract to the National Research Development Corporation to Christopher Cockerell's design, the SR. N1.
The Airboard is the first commercially marketed single-person hovercraft / hoverboard.
The first service was operated using a passenger-only hovercraft in the 1980s.
Moreton witnessed the world's first commercial passenger and mail hovercraft service.
Seaspeed were not the first hovercraft service between Dover and Calais, Townsend Car Ferries had operated a passenger only SRN 6 in 1966.
The story of the first game, Heavy Gear, followed the crew of the CNCS landship ( an enormous hovercraft carrier ), ' Vigilance ' as they played a cat-and-mouse game across the Badlands with a rival landship from the AST, the ' Draco '.
A collection of approximately 20, 000 objects are currently kept in six of the hangars, from the first hovercraft to MRI scanners, and computers to ( de-activated ) nuclear missiles.

first and enter
East Greenwich was one of the first Rhode Island towns to enter into contract agreement with the Rhode Island Development Council for planning services we could not provide for ourselves.
The Secretary of the Interior or any duly authorized representative shall be entitled to admission to, and to require reports from the operator of, any metal or nonmetallic mine which is in a State ( excluding any coal or lignite mine ), the products of which regularly enter commerce or the operations of which substantially affect commerce, for the purpose of gathering data and information necessary for the study authorized in the first section of this Act.
The theorem which we prove is more general than what we have described, since it works with the primary decomposition of the minimal polynomial, whether or not the primes which enter are all of first degree.
) His first case was " The Affair at the Victory Ball ", which saw Poirot enter the high society and begin his career as a private detective.
Along with the Pontificale, Ealdred may have brought back from Cologne the first manuscript of the Cambridge Songs to enter England, a collection of Latin Goliardic songs which became famous in the Middle Ages.
* 1828 – René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
In 1991, it gained its first South Australian team, Adelaide, which paid five million dollars to enter the AFL.
In that poem Bragi at first forbids Loki to enter the hall but is overruled by Odin.
That Bragi was also the first to speak to Loki in the Lokasenna as Loki attempted to enter the hall might be a parallel.
This view has the advantage of anchoring Numbers to the Pentateuch as a whole, but an alternative is to see it as structured around the two generations of those condemned to die in the wilderness and the new generation who will enter Canaan, making a theological distinction between the disobedience of the first generation and the obedience of the second.
* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.
During Celebrity Big Brother 6, LaToya Jackson was first to enter and walked straight into the bedrooms-which are usually locked until everyone has arrived-and entered a private bedroom.
Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.
Rabbani's forces were the first mujahideen elements to enter Kabul in 1992 when the PDPA government fell from power.
As more and more programs enter the realm of firmware, and the hardware itself becomes smaller, cheaper and faster as predicted by Moore's law, elements of computing first considered to be software, join the ranks of hardware.
The first jet aircraft to enter service in October 1980 were six Alpha Jet CI light attack and advanced training aircraft ; six more were ordered, but were subsequently cancelled.
Despite its difficulty of learning, this method remains popular in Chinese communities that use traditional Chinese characters, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan ; it is also the first method that allowed users to enter more than a hundred Chinese characters per minute.
A keen interest in science, especially botany and lepidopterology, led him to enter the Honours Science program the University of Toronto in 1963, but he switched to Honors English Language and Literature later in his first year.
He was the first European known to sight and enter the Congo River and to explore the West African coast between Cape St. Catherine and Cape Cross, almost from the equator to Walvis Bay in Namibia.
The first, or material men, will return to the grossness of matter and finally be consumed by fire ; the second, or animal men, together with the Demiurge, will enter a middle state, neither Pleroma nor hyle ; the purely spiritual men will be completely freed from the influence of the Demiurge and together with the Saviour and Achamoth, his spouse, will enter the Pleroma divested of body ( hyle ) and soul ( psyché ).
In 2001 Enya recorded " May It Be ", which was featured in the first installment of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Fellowship of the Ring, and was her second consecutive single to enter the German charts at number one.
Field lines emanating from stationary charges have several key properties: first, that they originate at positive charges and terminate at negative charges ; second, that they must enter any good conductor at right angles, and third, that they may never cross nor close in on themselves.

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