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source?] The first non-experimental aircraft that was designed and flown (in 1958) with a fly-by-wire flight control system was the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow...

As part of the Apollo program by NASA, 24 astronauts flew nine missions to the Moon between December 1968 and December 1972. During six successful two-man...

None of the aircraft were flown-in, but arrived via ground transport and assembled in place. The first person to actually fly into an aviation meeting...

France's F-BVFD, and has flown 16,239 hours. G-BOAF (216) first flew on 20 April 1979 from Filton and was the last Concorde to be built. It made Concorde's...

and Nicolas-Louis Robert flew from Paris to Nesles-la-Vallée in a hydrogen-filled balloon on December 1, 1783. First women to fly: The Marchioness and Countess...

aircraft designer and Boeing historian, Peter M. Bowers. The prototype Fly Baby first flew in 1962, becoming the winner of the Experimental Aircraft Association's...

'wing warping' it was relatively unstable and very difficult to fly. The Wright brothers flew it four times in a location now part of the town of Kill Devil...

to the movements of court and tradition. The King's Flag Sergeant is responsible for all flags flown from the palace. Until 1997 the only flag to fly...

Standard should never be flown at half-mast, even after the demise of the Crown, as there is always a sovereign on the throne. It flew at half-mast for several...

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines; Or, How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours and 11 Minutes is a 1965 British epic period comedy film...

off using the fans to provide lift, then transitions to fixed-wing lift in forward flight. Several experimental craft have been flown, but only the F-35...

Memorial on the Embankment, and finally flew under the top span of Tower Bridge. He later wrote of the decision to fly through Tower Bridge: Until this very...

Memphis Belle was flown back to the United States on 8 June 1943 by a composite crew chosen by the Eighth Air Force, airmen who had flown combat aboard;...

flown at half-mast on 7 February, in remembrance of the victims. On 19 July 2014, the Australian flag flew half-mast across the country in tribute to...

has issued guidelines to assist persons in their use of the flag. No permission is needed to fly the flag, and it may be flown on every day of the year—government...

Turnberry golf course, but permission to fly the balloon there was refused by Police Scotland. The balloon has also been flown in France, Argentina, Ireland,...

flown SpaceShipTwo to space previously, and CJ Sturckow has flown to space on the Space Shuttle. Of the four passengers, only Beth Moses had flown to...

to fly into space four times. One of 24 people to have flown to the Moon, Lovell was the first to fly to it twice. He is a recipient of the Congressional...

upper canton next to the staff, defaced in the fly by the word "Customs". Palestinian Arabs sometimes flew their own flags, often variations of the Flag...

proof-of-concept version was flown on 5 October 2011, in Warkworth, Ontario, Canada, by Leng. He flew the next model, named the BlackFly, in August 2014 and then...