Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Flight 714 to Sydney (French: Vol 714 pour Sydney; originally published in English as Flight 714) is the twenty-second volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly from September 1966 to November 1967 in Tintin magazine.
Kemayoran Airport is the setting for the beginning of The Adventures of Tintin comic, Flight 714 to Sydney, by Hergé. Tintin and his friends, Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and Snowy, transit there for refueling stop on the way to Sydney, Australia.
February 19: Quebecair Flight 714, a 707-123B (C-GQBH), slammed onto the runway at St Lucia, Windward Islands, due to windshear, with no casualties; the aircraft was sold to Aviation Sales as N311AS and later scrapped. [1] April 1: A Uganda Airlines 707-321C (5X-UAL) was destroyed by Tanzanian forces while parked at Entebbe Airport, Uganda. [1]
Makassar: Flight 714 to Sydney (Pilot contacts Makassar airport tower when locating Tintin's inflatable boat) Japan. Tokyo: The Blue Lotus (Mitsuhirato, a Japanese spy, contacts his superiors in Tokyo by telephone) Yokohama: The Blue Lotus, The Crab with the Golden Claws (passed through it) Khemed (fictional): The Red Sea Sharks, Land of Black ...
Homesick for his native Cuba since arriving in the United States in July 1967, Mario Velazquez uses a .38-caliber revolver he smuggled aboard in a milk carton to hijack Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 714 – a Boeing 727-051 (registration N475US) with 92 people on board – as it descends toward Miami, Florida, at the end of a flight from ...
Flight attendants serve beverages aboard an Ethiopian Airlines 787 Dreamliner on a flight to Jomo Kenyatta International airport in Kenya's capital Nairobi on April 27,2013. SIMON MAINA - Getty Images
However, this album marks "the true farewell [of] heroes to the high seas," according to the expression of the professor Michel Pierre, since, in the last adventures of the series, Tintin's maritime escapades and walks in port docks are left behind, although the story of Flight 714 to Sydney is set on a Pacific island. [2]
Spalding appears in Flight 714 to Sydney; he is the British secretary for millionaire Laszlo Carreidas and is one of the hijackers of that flight. Captain Haddock mistakes him for Carreidas when they first meet. Rastapopoulos planned to eliminate him and the other conspirators. He is finally seen being abducted by the aliens and brought to an ...