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The bubble canopy of a Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor Canopy of an F-22 Raptor. An aircraft canopy is the transparent enclosure over the cockpit of some types of aircraft.An aircraft canopy provides a controlled and sometimes pressurized environment for the aircraft's occupants, and allows for a greater field of view over a traditional flight deck.
Bongrace, the stiffened back of the hood when flipped over the forehead to provide shade; also a separate headdress to provide shade, worn with a hood or coif, Tudor/Elizabethan; Bonnet head; Capirote, traditionally worn by the Nazarenos of a Spanish Brotherhood during solemn penitence
September 17: Pan Am Flight 292, a 707-121B, crashed into the side of a mountain in a storm on the island of Montserrat, killing all 30 passengers and crew on board. [8] 1966. January 24: Air India Flight 101, a 707-437, crashed into Glacier des Bossons on the southwest face of Mont Blanc in the French Alps. All 106 passengers and 11 crew were ...
The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype first flown in 1954, the initial 707-120 first flew on December 20, 1957. Pan Am began regular 707 service on October 26, 1958.
Pan Am Flight 217 was operated by a Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) Boeing 707-321B (registration N494PA, named Clipper Malay). [1] The aircraft was less than a year old — its first flight was on March 7, 1968, and it was delivered to Pan Am on March 28.
1959 Arlington Boeing 707 crash; 1971 Qantas bomb hoax; 1973 Kano Nigeria Airways Boeing 707 crash; 1975 Agadir Royal Air Maroc Boeing 707 crash; 1976 Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Boeing 707 crash; 1977 British Airtours Boeing 707 crash; 1983 TAMPA Colombia Boeing 707 crash; 1991 RAAF Boeing 707 crash; 2002 Prestige Airlines Boeing 707 crash
Iranian king wearing headband A hard plastic headband, or Alice band Baby wearing a headband. A headband or hairband [1] is a clothing accessory worn in the hair or around the forehead, usually to hold hair away from the face or eyes. Headbands generally consist of a loop of elastic material or a horseshoe-shaped piece of flexible plastic or ...
A kamikaze pilot receives a hachimaki before his final mission, 1945.. The origin of the hachimaki is uncertain, but the most common theory states that they originated as headbands used by samurai, worn underneath the kabuto to protect the wearer from cuts [1] and to absorb sweat. [2]