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The first prototype, Fw 200 V1, upgraded with extra fuel tanks and redesignated Fw 200 S-1, made several record flights. It was the first heavier-than-air craft to fly nonstop between Berlin and New York City , about 4,000 miles (6,400 km), making the flight from Berlin-Staaken to Floyd Bennett Field on 10/11 August 1938 in 24 hours and 56 ...
Operation Gearbox (30 June – 17 September 1942) was a joint Norwegian and British operation to occupy the Arctic island of Spitsbergen during the Second World War.It superseded Operation Fritham, an expedition in May, to secure the coal mines on Spitsbergen, the main island of the Svalbard Archipelago which had failed when attacked by four German Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor reconnaissance bombers.
He believed that he survived the test flight partly because he was a shorter man, de Havilland having suffered a broken neck possibly due to the violent oscillation. [42] Test instrumentation on Brown's flight recorded during the oscillations accelerations of +4 and −3g's at 3 Hz. Brown described the DH 108 as; "A killer. Nasty stall.
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG (German pronunciation: [ˌfɔkəˈvʊlf]) was a German manufacturer of civil and military aircraft before and during World War II. [1] Many of the company's successful fighter aircraft designs were slight modifications of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190.
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The aircraft departed Oslo-Gardermoen Airport at 23:11 hours local time for a flight to Tromsø Airport.The aircraft carried 4.5 tonnes (4,500 kg; 9,900 lb) of mail. The aircraft was in cruise at flight level 330 (nominal 33,000 feet [10,058 m]) before the aircraft transmitted a Mayday call at approximately 00:31, after which communications and radar contact with the flight were lost by air ...
In October 2022, Flyr announced they would cut their winter schedule by half to save nearly 40 Million Euros due to significantly decreased demand. [6] As of November 2022, the airline was in the process to acquire additional funds from investors stating that it otherwise cannot guarantee to maintain its future operations, it however failed to reach the requested sum during the first try.
TV3 Norway is a commercial television channel targeting Norway owned by Viaplay Group.It was separated from the earlier Pan-Scandinavian version in 1990. [1]Unlike its main rivals, NRK, TV 2 and TVNorge, the channel does not broadcast from Norway but from West Drayton, Middlesex in the United Kingdom, even if the channel is almost solely aimed at Norwegian viewers.