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The genus Chrysuronia was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. [1] Bonaparte did not specify a type species but this was designated as the golden-tailed sapphire in 1855 by George Robert Gray.
The Gemini Hummingbird is a family of American single-seat, twin-engined ultralight aircraft. Designed in 1979 and introduced in 1980, the Hummingbird was created by Ed Sweeney and produced by Gemini International. The aircraft was supplied either assembled and ready to fly, or as a kit for amateur construction. [1] [2] [3]
The following is a list of current commercial operators of the Boeing 767, and any of its variants. As of 2020, there were 764 Boeing 767 aircraft in service, comprising 68 767-200s, 657 767-300s and 37 767-400ERs, [ 1 ] as listed by variant in the following table.
Eugenes fulgens was originally described as the magnificent hummingbird, and by the late 1800s was treated as having two subspecies. Beginning in 2017 the North American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society (NACC), the International Ornithological Committee (IOC), and the Clements taxonomy split them into the current Rivoli's hummingbird and the Talamanca hummingbird ...
Half.com was founded in 1999 by American entrepreneur Josh Kopelman and Sunny Balijepalli. As an advertising gimmick, in December of the same year, the company paid the town of Halfway, Oregon US$100,000 and donated 20 new computers to change its name to "Half.com, Oregon" for a year.
The Boeing KC-767 is a military aerial refueling tanker and transport aircraft developed from the Boeing 767-200ER. The tanker received the designation KC-767A , after being selected by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) initially to replace older KC-135Es .
In response to the Daily Mail Light Aeroplane Competition of 1923, de Havilland built two DH.53s which were named Humming Bird and Sylvia II.The DH.53 was a low-wing single-seat monoplane powered by a Douglas 750 cc (46 cu in) motorcycle engine.
The violet sabrewing is the largest hummingbird of Mexico and Central America. It is 13 to 15 cm (5.1 to 5.9 in) long and weighs 9 to 12 g (0.32 to 0.42 oz). Both sexes have a black bill, though those of subspecies C. h. mellitus are longer than the nominate's. Males of the nominate subspecies have a dusky crown with a bluish green gloss.