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On October 16, 1956, Pan Am Flight 6, (a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser long-range airliner developed from the C-97 Stratofreighter military transport) departed on a around-the-world commercial passenger flight (N90943) from Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, at 8:26pm HST on the concluding...
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In the early evening of July 2nd, 1980, at 19:25 Local, Trans American Airlines, a Boeing 707 320B(in service since 1957) was pushed back from gate 89 at LAX and taxied out under dark overcast with 113 passengers on board....
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On the 15th of November 1967; Michael J Adams' took the seventh X-15 flight, in the number three aircraft. At 10:30 in the morning, the X-15-3 dropped away from underneath the wing of Balls 8 NB-52B mothership at 45,000 ft...
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Since mankind first turned our eyes skyward, through endless, tireless and persistent dedication to reach our lofty goals, we have successfully topped the windswept heights with easy grace and flung ourselves through the footless halls of air. However, there has...
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The Hughes H-4 Hercules, registration NX37602, was a heavy strategic airlift military transport aircraft, designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. The mammoth aircraft was intended as a transatlantic flight transport for use during World War II to avoid...
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