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  • Thumbnail for Aeroplane chess
    cross-and-circle board game similar to the Western game of Ludo and the Indian game of Pachisi. Developed in the 20th century, aeroplane chess features airplanes...
    8 KB (1,033 words) - 16:39, 6 May 2024
  • music video debuted on 6 August 2013 and features Oh Land, along with four backing dancers, dancing in an empty warehouse. "Pyromaniac" was released on 2 September...
    13 KB (568 words) - 15:47, 27 February 2024
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    Airplane (redirect from Aeroplane)
    An airplane (American English) or aeroplane (Commonwealth English), informally plane, is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from...
    55 KB (6,348 words) - 20:28, 5 April 2024
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    Hubert Latham (category Deaths due to buffalo attacks)
    of two attempts to cross the Channel, he became the first person to land an aeroplane on a body of water. In August 1909 at the Grande Semaine d'Aviation...
    46 KB (5,456 words) - 04:32, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bristol Aeroplane Company
    The Bristol Aeroplane Company, originally the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was both one of the first and one of the most important British aviation...
    45 KB (5,043 words) - 20:24, 17 February 2024
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    Trespass to land is a common law tort or crime that is committed when an individual or the object of an individual intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently)...
    10 KB (1,357 words) - 12:34, 3 March 2024
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    development of the modern aeroplane by 1910. The story of modern flight begins more than a century before the first successful manned aeroplane, and the earliest...
    113 KB (14,958 words) - 05:33, 1 June 2024
  • and middle wing are made from high-quality composite material. On land, the aeroplane can take off after a 50–70 metres (160–230 ft) run. Meanwhile, the...
    4 KB (499 words) - 13:35, 11 December 2023
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    a Sopwith Pup on the deck of HMS Furious in 1917, to become the first person to land an aeroplane on a moving ship. Stanley Goble – commanded No. 5 Squadron...
    43 KB (4,694 words) - 20:22, 3 June 2024
  • kept our economic aeroplane above the towering peaks of our credit structure and the massive wall of our tariff, in Cloud-Cuckoo Land". Paul Krugman used...
    12 KB (1,458 words) - 21:05, 2 April 2024
  • fully blocked and the only way to extract the delegation would be to land an aeroplane at the air-strip at Glamoč and fly them out. The mission would require...
    41 KB (6,385 words) - 12:06, 28 May 2024
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    Bermuda (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    service began to operate, using land-based aeroplanes landing at Kindley Field (now L.F. Wade International Airport), helping tourism to reach a peak in...
    207 KB (20,596 words) - 16:32, 7 June 2024
  • form of a mnemonic used by pilots to remember the sequence of actions required when an aeroplane is on approach to land. A shorter version for simple aircraft...
    3 KB (328 words) - 13:13, 24 May 2024
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    Lancashire Aero Club, becoming its chairman. In 1926 he was the first to land an aeroplane on a mountain (3,117 ft up Helvellyn in the English Lake District)...
    58 KB (9,205 words) - 11:23, 9 March 2024
  • born deaf-blind; in another, Fini Straubinger and her friends ride in an aeroplane. In the final scene, a man examines a tree with his hands, and embraces...
    3 KB (186 words) - 21:03, 1 November 2022
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    Igor Volk (category Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class)
    mission was to evaluate the effects of long-duration spaceflight on a pilot skills and ability to fly and land an aeroplane safely (in order to prove Volk's...
    12 KB (962 words) - 00:42, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company
    the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company) was an American company which designed and built aircraft. The founder, Allan Lockheed, went on to form the similarly...
    12 KB (1,410 words) - 05:20, 22 May 2024
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    Somaliland (redirect from Somali land)
    required two aeroplanes for purposes of demonstration, and suggested that two aeroplanes from the Royal Air Force Detachment at Aden should fly over to Berber...
    178 KB (17,576 words) - 18:35, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Military aircraft
    helicopters and gliders can transport troops and supplies to areas where other aircraft would be unable to land. Calling a military transport aircraft a "cargo...
    19 KB (2,148 words) - 12:43, 22 April 2024
  • Geoffrey Norris, at the time, it was considered to be impossible to construct a land-based aeroplane of such size and weight that still possessed acceptable...
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