In the suborbital flight, the space craft went directly from launch to re-entry at the highest point ( point E on the picture ); in the orbital mission on the other hand, the craft went into an orbit around the Earth.

Mary Bergman died February 14, 1953, aboard a National Airlines DC-6 which went down in the Gulf of Mexico during a thunderstorm on a flight from Tampa to New Orleans.

Étienne went to the capital to make further demonstrations and to solidify the brothers ' claim to the invention of flight.

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.

Breckinridge went with Davis during the flight from Virginia as the Confederacy collapsed, while also assisting General Joseph E. Johnston in his surrender negotiations with William T. Sherman at Bennett Place.

Tlillan-Tlapallan ' Place of the black and red colour ' is a legendary place or region on the Gulf Coast of Mexico where king Quetzalcoatl went on his flight from Tollan in order to burn himself and change into the Morning Star.

The flight crew, with the exception of the instructor pilot, bailed out when the engines went quiet.

About half the pilots in the Air Force today went through basic and primary flight training at Columbus AFB.

In addition to Jamison, Robert Salas has also claimed that the entire flight of ten missiles failed, but it is a matter of record that his story has changed significantly since he first went public with his claims in 1996.

Prince Andrew then went on to serve aboard HMS Brazen as a flight pilot until 1986, including deployment to the Mediterranean Sea as part of Standing NRF Maritime Group 2, and undertook the Lieutenants ' Greenwich Staff course.

On Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 10: 20 PM, a Continental Connection flight operated by Colgan Air went down in Clarence Center killing all 44 passengers and 5 crew members, along with 1 resident on the ground whose house the plane impacted.

As he wanders through the airfield he calls out, demanding to know where flight 107 is, what happened to it, and why it went down.

A contract was signed for a rematch and Cerdan went to training camp for it, but before camp began he boarded an Air France flight to visit Piaf in New York, where she was singing.

With both engines stopped, the system went dead, leaving only a few basic battery-powered emergency flight instruments.

As her husband Wally went to her, he fell on a flight of stairs and broke both wrists.

* Neerja Bhanot, was a flight attendant for Pan Am airlines, based in Bombay, India, who died while saving passengers from terrorists on board the hijacked Pan Am Flight 73 on September 5, 1986, she went on to become the youngest recipient of India ’ s highest civilian award for bravery, the Ashoka Chakra.

The aircraft was on a ferry flight to Prince Rupert Airport when the starboard propellor went into overspeed and the decision was made to return to Vancouver International.

The Spacelab effort went so well that the mission was extended an additional day to 10 days, making it the longest-duration shuttle flight at that time.

His father was soon remarried to a flight attendant, and Corgan and his brother went to live with them in Glendale Heights, Illinois.

Based on research done in the 1950s by the U. S. Air Force, in which it was discovered that bullets are more stable in flight for longer distances and more resistant to crosswinds if the center of gravity is somewhat to the rear of the center of pressure, the MatchKing bullet ( which is still in wide use and holds many records ) is a hollow point design with a tiny aperture in the jacket at the point of the bullet and a hollow air space under the point of the bullet, where previous conventional bullets had had a lead core that went all the way up to the point.

After the primary mission was completed, ISEE-3 went on to accomplish other goals, including a flight through the geomagnetic tail and a comet flyby.

This flight went from Spitsbergen ( Svalbard ) to Alaska nonstop, so there is little doubt that they went over the North Pole.

A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it didn't seem possible they were in flight.

The photograph, Figure 1 of the completed frieze, shows how, having been separated from his fellows in useless isolation for eighty years, he has now been given a hand, and by juxtaposition ( and the permission of the Committee ), given a new job, to represent the witnesses of the first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.

And so, after a flight southeast to Savannakhet, we found ourselves bouncing along in a Jeep right behind the Land-Rover of Prince Boun Oum of Champassak, a tall man of Churchillian mien in a bush jacket and a ten-gallon hat from Texas.

A flight originating in Florida picked up guests on the East Coast and Midwest and a plane left from Seattle taking on passengers at West Coast points.

Other FBI men, talking with the pilot from the tower, conspired with him to delay the proposed flight to Havana.

Putting on local musicians at this place in the program serves a triple purpose: it saves the top flight jazz men from being wasted in this unenviable spot, when the audience is cold, restless, and in flux ; ;

Here, in the most eagerly awaited novel of the season ( his first since The Catcher In The Rye, ) he tells of a college girl in flight from the life around her and the tart but sympathetic help she gets from her 25-year-old brother.

* Later in 1919, a British aeroplane piloted by Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight, from Newfoundland to Ireland.

* 1947 – A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile.

* 1969 – The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.

By the time mission control issued the wake-up call to the crew for flight day two, the spacecraft was approximately away from the Earth, traveling at about.

Just before the end of flight day three at 59 hours, 19 minutes, 45 seconds after liftoff, while from the Earth and from the Moon, the spacecraft's velocity began increasing as it accelerated towards the Moon after entering the lunar sphere of influence.

The penultimate day of the flight was largely spent performing experiments, aside from a twenty minute press conference during the second half of the day.

Today automated flight control is common to reduce pilot error and workload at key times like landing or takeoff. Autopilot was first invented by Lawrence Sperry during World War II to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit precision targets from 25, 000 feet.

Commercial aircraft cockpit data recorders, commonly known as a “ black box ”, store flight information and audio from the cockpit.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

Future suicide hijackers most likely will encounter greater resistance from passengers and flight crews, making another successful hijacking more unlikely.

An example of active passenger and crew member resistance occurred when passengers and flight attendants of American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami on December 22, 2001, teamed up to help helped prevent Richard Reid from igniting explosives hidden in his shoes.

# An aircraft should be “ in flight ” ( that is, according to Article 1, paragraph 3 of the Tokyo Convention, from the moment when power is applied for the purpose of take-off until the moment when the landing run ends );

* 2005 – The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.

* Rifled Traditionally, artillery projectiles have been spin-stabilised, meaning that they spin in flight so that gyroscopic forces prevent them from tumbling.

Abd-ar-Rahman IV was murdered the same year he was proclaimed at Cadiz, in flight from a battle in which he had been deserted by his supporters.