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Plane Crazy is an airplane combat / racing video game for Microsoft Windows and Sony PlayStation in which contesting pilots race planes through 3D courses. Plane Crazy was based around arcade racers rather than flight simulation, focusing on action rather than realism. It was originally planned for release in arcades as one of the first games ...
English. Plane Crazy is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The cartoon, released by the Walt Disney Studios, was the first appearance of Mickey Mouse and his girlfriend Minnie Mouse, and was originally a silent film. It was given a test screening to a theater audience on May 15, 1928, and an executive ...
Voepass Linhas Aéreas Flight 2283 was a scheduled domestic Brazilian passenger flight from Cascavel to Guarulhos.On 9 August 2024, the ATR 72-500 serving the flight crashed in Vinhedo, São Paulo State.
TWA Flight 800. / 40.650°N 72.633°W / 40.650; -72.633. N93119, the aircraft involved in the accident, in May 1995. Trans World Airlines Flight 800 ( TW800/TWA800) was a scheduled international passenger flight from New York ( John F. Kennedy International Airport) to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. On July 17, 1996, at approximately 8 ...
World map. A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known as the Andes flight disaster ( Tragedia de los Andes, literally Tragedy of the Andes) and the Miracle of the Andes ...
On 28 April 1960, a U.S. Lockheed U-2 C spy plane, Article 358, was ferried from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey to the US base at Peshawar airport by pilot Glen Dunaway. Fuel for the aircraft had been ferried to Peshawar the previous day in a US Air Force C-124 transport. A US Air Force C-130 followed, carrying the ground crew, mission pilot ...
The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a large long-range airliner developed from the C-97 Stratofreighter military transport, itself a derivative of the B-29 Superfortress. The Stratocruiser's first flight was on July 8, 1947. [ 3] Its design was advanced for its day; its relatively innovative features (though neither completely new) included two ...