American Airlines Video:Still primarily uses overhead screens. However, all Boeing 777 flights have in-seat video screens and ten channels of on-demand movies (TV programming coming soon). American Airlines Music:The same 14 scratchy stations we've been listening to for years. American Airlines ...
划线词为形容词,修饰的是后文的“goals(目标)”;根据划线词前文的内容“Since the first supersonic flight by the US Air Force in October 1947 and the first commercial supersonic flight in 1976(自1947年10月美国空军首次超音速飞行和1976年首次商用超音速飞行以来。)”可知,自从1947年以来,该目标就是一直...
Pilgrim 100-A (American Airlines) 100, 100-A aka American Pilgrim 1931 (ATC 443, 2-365) = 10pChwM; 575hp P&W Hornet B; span: 57'0" length: 38'1" load: 3388# v: 136/118/65 range: 400-500. Virginius Clark. Essentially a Fairchild product, descended from Fairchild 100. $28,750...
McMechan was a Western Airlines pilot, as well as chief instructor at Yakima Flying Club. POP: 1 [12723] c/n 1; reg expired 2/15/35. McMullen (A B) McMullen Aircraft Corp/Aviation School, Tampa FL. Mac Airliner 1928 = 7pCM; 400hp Liberty 12; span: 54'6" length: 38'3" load...
Defense Department, Department of Defense, DoD, United States Department of Defense, Defense - the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947 United States Air Force Academy, US Air Force Academy - a school for training men and women to...
In June 1947 Pan Am started the first scheduled round-the-world airline flight. In September the weekly DC-4 was scheduled to leave San Francisco at 2200 Thursday as Flight 1, stopping at Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, Manila, Bangkok and arriving in Calcutta on Monday at 1245, where it ...
Pan Am was one of the first three airlines to sign options for the Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde, but like other airlines that took out options – with the exception of BOAC and Air France— it did not purchase the supersonic jet. Pan Am was the first US airline to sign for the Boeing 27...
On Sept. 29 while at the UN, Castro's Cubana Airlines plane was impounded because of non-payment of debts to American creditors. Khrushchev supplied a Soviet plane to fly the Cubans home. In September 1960 Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, took part in talks with Allen W. Dulles, the di...
The six glamorous 314 Clippers that began service in 1939 flew only a few short years, but garnered many firsts. Not only did they fly the first transpacific flight in 1936, but also the first transatlantic flight in 1939, and the first round-the-world flight in 1947. ...
Dragonfly 1947 = 2pChwM rg (manual); 25hp 4-cyl Nelson pusher (some powered by 48hp Nelson H-63CP); span: 47'3" length: 20'4" v (powered): 70/60/x. Our nation's first certified powered sailplane had an engine pod that retracted into the fuselage for soaring flight. Rebuilt fr...