Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. Aircraft includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air aircraft such as hot air balloons and airships .

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British Airways Boeing 747-400. The Boeing 747 is a widebody commercial airliner, often referred to by the nickname Jumbo Jet.It is among the world's most recognizable aircraft, and was the first widebody ever produced.Manufactured by Boeing's Commercial Airplane unit in the United States, the original version of the 747 was two and a half times the size of the Boeing 707, one …

Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. Aircraft includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air aircraft such as hot air balloons and airships .

Portal: Aviation/Categories. Add languages. Add links. Portal; Talk; English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; General ... Aviation is also part of the wider category Transport This page …

1958 – Congress approves a bill creating the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) to regulate all US commercial and military aviation. 1957 – USAF Captain Joe Bailey Jordan reaches a new altitude record of 31,513 m (103,389 ft) in a Lockheed F-104C-5 …

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October 24. 2004 – Martinsville plane crash occurred on when a Beechcraft Super King Air 200 aircraft owned by Hendrick Motorsports crashed into Bull Mountain, seven miles from Blue Ridge Airport, Martinsville, Virginia. All ten aboard the plane were killed, among them members of the Hendrick family including John Hendrick, president of Hendrick Motorsports; and former …

1898 – Birth of John William Pinder, British WWI fighter ace and aviation pioneer in South America. 1898 – Birth of William Newton “Bill” Lancaster, pioneering British aviator. 1897 – Birth of Laurent Baptisti Ruamps, French WWI flying ace.

August 21. 2012 – Afghan insurgents fire rockets at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, damaging the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III of United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey while Dempsey is in his quarters on the base. The damage forces Dempsey to use a different aircraft when he departs Afghanistan later in the day. [1]2009 – An Indian Navy British …