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Boeing anticipated that the Phantom Ray would be the first of a series of new prototype aircraft. [ 3 ] The Phantom Ray was scheduled to make its maiden flight in December 2010 from NASA 's Dryden Flight Research Center , [ 3 ] [ 10 ] but this was later rescheduled, and the aircraft first flew on April 27, 2011, from Edwards AFB , [ 13 ] [ 14 ...
Boeing's new Phantom Ray aircraft made a covert first flight last week, taking to the skies above California's Edwards Air Force Base. The unmanned airborne system (UAS) reached 7,500 feet ...
Missing on a flight from Portreath, Cornwall to Gibraltar, presumed enemy action. Aurel Vlaicu: Romania 1913 Engineer, inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot A Vlaicu II: Câmpina, Romania in attempt to be the first to fly across the Carpathian Mountains: Lothar von Richthofen: Germany 1922 World War One ace pilot LVG C.VI: Fuhlsbüttel ...
LeRoy Wilton Homer Jr. (August 27, 1965 – September 11, 2001) was the First Officer of United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001, and crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all 37 passengers and seven crewmembers, including LeRoy.
American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk collided in Washington, D.C. Authorities believe all 67 on board both aircraft died.
The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1]
A few months after a video of a Boeing plane flying with a gaping hole in its side stunned the country, Boeing whistleblower John Barnett died of an apparent suicide.A quality manager in North ...
The first flight of 6 aircraft, including Lt. Larson, took off with numbers 1 thru 4 in left echelon and numbers 5 and 6 in element 500 ft. behind. Lt. Larson was number 4. All members of the flight were monitoring channel 17, radar departure frequency, and checked in on that freq. prior to takeoff.