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The term chord is also applied to the width of wing flaps, ailerons and rudder on an aircraft. Many wings are not rectangular, so they have different chords at different positions. Usually, the chord length is greatest where the wing joins the aircraft's fuselage (called the root chord) and decreases along the wing toward the wing's tip (the ...
Anwar first read "Aku" at the Jakarta Cultural Centre in July 1943. [1] It was then printed in Pemandangan under the title "Semangat" ("Spirit"); according to Indonesian literary documentarian HB Jassin, this was to avoid censorship and to better promote the nascent independence movement. [2] "Aku" has gone on to become Anwar's most celebrated ...
Location of Bawean. The incident began at 11:38 UTC+7:00 on 3 July 2003 when military-civilian radar at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali detected suspicious movement of several aircraft northwest of Bawean Island, with the altitude observed to be between 15,000 ft (4,600 m) to 35,000 ft (11,000 m) and speed of 450 kn (830 km/h).
After the death of four students in the 1998 Trisakti shootings, the media used the lyrics gugur satu, tumbuh seribu as a slogan for the reformation movement and to indicate that the students had not died in vain. Today the line gugur satu, tumbuh seribu has entered common usage, with the meaning of "One falls, a thousand arise". [2]
On 30 June 2015, a Lockheed KC-130B Hercules (registration number A-1310) operated to the Indonesian Air Force with 12 crew and 110 passengers on board, crashed near a residential neighbourhood shortly after taking off from Medan, Indonesia, en route to Tanjung Pinang.