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| American Airlines Flight 77 American Airlines Flight 77 was the third flight hijacked as part of the September 11 attacks, and it was deliberately crashed into the Pentagon. The scheduled U.S. domestic flight from Washington Dulles International Airport, near Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles International Airport was hijacked by five Islamic terrorists less than 35Hani Hanjour, one of the hijackers who was trained as a pilot, assumed control of the flight. American_Airlines_Flight_77
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| Boeing 767 Boeing_767
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| Boeing 747 Boeing_747
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| C-17 Globemaster III C-17_Globemaster_III
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| CH-46 Sea Knight CH-46_Sea_Knight
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| E-3 Sentry E-3_Sentry
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| Marie Curie Marie Skłodowska Curie (November 7, 1867 physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes, and the first female professor at the University of Paris.She was born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw (then Vistula Country, Russian Empire; now Poland) and lived there until she was 24. Marie_Curie
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| Robert I of Scotland Robert_I_of_Scotland
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| TWA Flight 800 Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 800 was a scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York to Leonardo da Vinci Airport (FCO) in Rome, Italy, via Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) in Paris, France. On July 17, 1996, at about 20EDT (00UTC), the Boeing 747-131 flying the route (tail number N93119) exploded in mid-air and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York. TWA_Flight_800
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| Tupolev Tu-144 Talk:Tupolev_Tu-144
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| United Airlines Flight 175 United Airlines Flight 175 was a scheduled U.S. domestic passenger flight from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts to Los Angeles International Airport. The flight was hijacked by five al-Qaeda-associated Islamist terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, and flown into the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City as part of the September 11 attacks. United_Airlines_Flight_175
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| United Airlines Flight 93 United Airlines Flight 93 was a scheduled United States domestic passenger flight from Newark International Airport, in Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco International Airport, in San Francisco, California that was hijacked by four Islamic terrorists as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001. United_Airlines_Flight_93
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| United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare branch of the U.S. armed forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on 18 September 1947. It is the most recent branch of the U.S. United_States_Air_Force
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| American Airlines Flight 587 American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300, crashed into the Belle Harbor neighborhood of Queens; a borough of New York City in New York, United States, shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on November 12, 2001. This is the second deadliest U.S. American_Airlines_Flight_587
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| UH-1 Iroquois UH-1_Iroquois
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| Hawker Siddeley Nimrod Hawker_Siddeley_Nimrod
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| Fixed-wing aircraft Fixed-wing_aircraft
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| United Airlines Flight 175 Talk:United_Airlines_Flight_175
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| Contrail Contrail
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| Airliner An airliner (also called a commercial transport) is a large fixed-wing aircraft for transporting passengers and cargo. Such planes are owned by airlines. aircraft with an empty weight above , with two or more engines. Airliner
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| Fokker Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. The company operated under several different names, starting out in 1912 in Schwerin, Germany, moving to the Netherlands in 1919. During its most successful period in the 1920s and 1930s, it dominated the civil aviation market. Fokker went into bankruptcy in 1996, and its operations were sold to competitors. Fokker
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| Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle A multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) warhead is a collection of nuclear weapons carried on a single intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) or a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). Using a MIRV warhead, a single launched missile can strike several targets, or fewer targets redundantly. By contrast a unitary warhead is a single warhead on a single missile. Multiple_independently_targetable_reentry_vehicle
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| Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines Co. () is an American low-cost airline. Southwest is the largest airline in the world by number of passengers carried per year (as of 2007). Southwest, the 6th largest U.S. airline by revenue, maintains the second-largest passenger fleet of aircraft among all of the world's commercial airlines. As of May 3, 2009, Southwest operates approximately 3,500 flights daily. Southwest is headquartered at 2702 Love Field Drive in the Love Field area of Dallas, Texas, adjacent to Love Field airport. Southwest_Airlines
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| Boeing 707 Boeing_707
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| Air India Air India Limited () is the national flag carrier airline of India, flying a worldwide network of passenger and cargo services. Air India is state-owned, and administered as part of the National Aviation Company of India Limited - which was created in 2007 to facilitate Air India's merger with Indian Airlines. The main bases of operation of the airline are Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport and Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport. Air_India
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| Stall (flight) For other uses, see stall.In fluid dynamics, a stall is a reduction in the lift coefficient generated by an airfoil as angle of attack increases. This occurs when the critical angle of attack of the airfoil is exceeded. The critical angle of attack is typically about 15 degrees, but it may vary significantly depending on the airfoil and Reynolds number. Stall_(flight)
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| F-104 Starfighter F-104_Starfighter
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| Magnetometer A magnetometer is a scientific instrument used to measure the strength and/or direction of the magnetic field in the vicinity of the instrument. Magnetism varies from place to place and differences in Earth's magnetic field (the magnetosphere) can be caused by the differing nature of rocks and the interaction between charged particles from the Sun and the magnetosphere of a planet. Magnetometers are often a frequent component instrument on spacecraft that explore planets. Magnetometer
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| List of photographers Talk:List_of_photographers
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| Boeing 777 Boeing_777
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| Tenerife airport disaster The Tenerife airport disaster was the collision of two Boeing 747 airliners on the runway of Los Rodeos Airport (now known as Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. With 583 fatalities, the crash remains the worst accident in aviation history.The collision took place on March 27, 1977, at 17Pan Am Flight 1736 (the Clipper Victor) under the command of Captain Victor Grubbs, and KLM Flight 4805 (the Rijn) under the command of Captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten. Tenerife_airport_disaster
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| Tenerife airport disaster Talk:Tenerife_airport_disaster
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| Virgin Atlantic Airways Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. (operating as Virgin Atlantic) is a British airline owned by Richard Branson's Virgin Group (51%) and Singapore Airlines (49%). It is headquartered in Crawley, West Sussex, England, near London Gatwick Airport.It operates between the United Kingdom and North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia from main bases at London Heathrow and London Gatwick. Virgin_Atlantic_Airways
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| Airport (film) Airport is a 1970 film based on the 1968 Arthur Hailey novel of the same name. This film, which earned over $100,000,000 at the box office, focuses on an airport manager trying to keep his airport open during a snowstorm, while a suicidal bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 in flight. The film cost $10 million to produce.Airport paved the way for the 1970s disaster film genre, establishing the widely-followed convention of "microcosmic melodrama combined with catastrophe-oriented adventure". Airport_(film)
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| El Al For the place on the Golan Heights, see El Al (place).El Al (, "To The Skies" or "Skywards") (El Al Israel Airlines Ltd) (TASE: ELAL) is the national airline of Israel. It operates regular international passenger and cargo flights between its hub at Ben Gurion International Airport and destinations in Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, and North America, as well as domestic connections to Eilat. El_Al
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| Lockheed L-1011 Lockheed_L-1011
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| Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
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| Hickam Air Force Base For the civil airport use of this facility, see Honolulu International AirportHickam Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in the City and County of Honolulu on the island of O'ahu, Hawai'i. The base is named in honor of aviation pioneer Lt Col Horace Meek Hickam. Hickam_Air_Force_Base
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| Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is located in the city of Phoenix and is the largest and busiest airport in the state of Arizona. Phoenix_Sky_Harbor_International_Airport
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| Columbus Air Force Base Columbus Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in Lowndes County, Mississippi, United States, five miles north of the city of Columbus, ten miles west of the Alabama state border. The residential part of the base is a census-designated place (CDP), with a population of 2,060 at the 2000 census.The host wing is the 14th Flying Training Wing (14 FTW) of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC), which includes staff agencies, an operations group, and a mission support group. Columbus_Air_Force_Base
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| Saint Martin Saint Martin is a tropical island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately 300Puerto Rico. The 872 island is divided roughly in half between France (532) and the Netherlands Antilles (342); it is the smallest inhabited sea island divided between two nations. Saint_Martin
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| Aer Lingus Aer Lingus is the flag carrier of Ireland. Headquartered at Dublin Airport in County of Fingal, it operates 45 Airbus aircraft serving Europe, Africa and North America. The airline is 29.4% owned by Ryanair and 25.4% owned by the Government of Ireland. It was floated on the Dublin and London Stock Exchanges on 2 October 2006, following prior government approval (the government previously owned 85% of the airline). Aer_Lingus
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| Peter Max Peter Max (born Peter Max Finkelstein, October 19, 1937) is a German-born American artist best known for his iconic art style in the 1960s. At first, his “Cosmic 60s” art, as it came to be known, appeared on posters and were seen on the walls of college dorms all across America. Peter_Max
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| Emirates Airline Emirates_Airline
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| Midwest Airlines Midwest Airlines (formerly Midwest Express) is an American scheduled passenger airline based in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, operating from the city's General Mitchell International Airport. Midwest Airlines is largely known for its Signature Service all business class seating arrangement, which includes leather seats arranged 2-by-2 and the iconic fresh-baked chocolate-chip cookies.In early 2008 the airline's publicly traded parent Midwest Air Group was taken over by the private investment firm TPG Capital with a minority investment by Northwest Airlines (now operated by Delta Air Lines). Midwest_Airlines
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| Royal Brunei Airlines Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (Malayflag carrier airline of the Sultanate of Brunei. It is wholly owned by the Government of Brunei. Its home base is the Brunei International Airport in Berakas, just to the north of the capital of Brunei, Bandar Seri Begawan. Royal_Brunei_Airlines
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| Boeing 737 Boeing_737
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| ATA Airlines ATA Airlines, Inc., formerly known as American Trans Air, was an American low-cost scheduled service and charter airline based in Indianapolis, Indiana. ATA operated scheduled passenger flights throughout the US mainland and Hawaii, as well as military and commercial charter flights around the world. The airline maintained focus cities at Chicago Midway International Airport, Honolulu International Airport, and Oakland International Airport. ATA_Airlines
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| McDonnell Douglas DC-10 McDonnell_Douglas_DC-10
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