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Typhon and his mate Echidna were the progenitors of many famous monsters. Typhon attempted to overthrow Zeus for the supremacy of the cosmos. The two fought a cataclysmic battle, which Zeus finally won with the aid of his thunderbolts. Defeated, Typhon was cast into Tartarus, or buried underneath Mount Etna, or in later accounts, the island of ...
24 August - a Spanish Eurofighter crashes in Spain, killing a Saudi pilot [12] 22 December - 250th Typhoon delivered. [13] 2012 21 December - Oman orders 12 Eurofighter Typhoons. [14] 2013 4 December - 400th Typhoon delivered. [15] 2014 12 December - First full trial installation of Brimstone missile. [16] 2016
The Eurofighter Typhoon is a European multinational twin-engine, supersonic, canard delta wing, multirole fighter. [3] [4] The Typhoon was designed originally as an air-superiority fighter [5] and is manufactured by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo that conducts the majority of the project through a joint holding company, Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH.
Echidna's family tree varies by author. [4] The oldest genealogy relating to Echidna, Hesiod's Theogony (c. 8th – 7th century BC), is unclear on several points. According to Hesiod, Echidna was born to a "she" who was probably meant by Hesiod to be the sea goddess Ceto, making Echidna's likely father the sea god Phorcys; however the "she" might instead refer to the Oceanid Callirhoe, which ...
In French typhon was attested as storm in 1504. [17] Portuguese traveler Fernão Mendes Pinto referred to a tufão in his memoir published in 1614. [18] The earliest form in English was "touffon" (1588), [16] later as touffon, tuffon, tufon, tuffin, tuffoon, tayfun, tiffoon, typhawn. [10] [11]
Radar and avionics development, being upgraded to Tranche 2 standard. German and Spanish contract involved upgrading 130 Eurofighter Typhoon tranche 2 to latest AESA radar and avionics. [6] DA6 Spain Twin-seat, airframe development and handling. DA6 was lost in a crash in Spain in November 2002 after both engines failed. [7]
A female dragon named Delphyne (Δελφύνη; cf. δελφύς, "womb"), [14] and a male serpent Typhon (Τυφῶν; from τύφειν, "to smoke"), the adversary of Zeus in the Titanomachy, who the narrators confused with Python.
A Spanish ship, dubbed as “Malaspina” which had departed on 20th Sep 1867 from British Hong Kong and was traveling to Manila, the Philippines, experienced the full force of the storm and sank, possibly in the South China Sea, on another unknown date. [1] [2] Nothing has been heard from the ship since then and the number of dead remains ...