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Life and career. Gregory was born in Lithonia, Georgia, on May 6, 1946, and worked as a salesman until he was 36, when he began introducing performers at The Punch Line comedy club in Atlanta. His first feature act at the Punch Line was February 17, 1982. [4]
X-15 is a 1961 American aviation drama film that presents a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket aircraft program, the test pilots who flew the aircraft, and the associated NASA community that supported the program. X-15 starred David McLean, Charles Bronson, [Note 1] James Gregory and Mary Tyler Moore (in her first feature film ...
Designer. Ken Wallis. First flight. 2 August 1961. Number built. 10+. The Wallis WA-116 Agile is a British autogyro developed in the early 1960s by former Royal Air Force Wing Commander Ken Wallis. The aircraft was produced in a number of variants, one of which, nicknamed Little Nellie, was flown in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice.
On 5 June 1969, the Tu-144 broke the sound barrier, with Concorde doing the same on 1 October 1969. The Tu-144 passed Mach 2 on 26 May 1970. The French 001 Concorde explored the supersonic transition. The British prototype 002 would explore Mach 2 in late 1970. Concorde 001 reached Mach 2 (1370 mph) on 4 November 1970, for 50 minutes, in a two ...
Boeing put out a statement later in the day defending the safety of its planes, saying that the in 13 years of service, the 787 fleet has safely transported more than 850 million passengers on ...
James Gregory (December 23, 1911 – September 16, 2002) [1] [2] was an American character actor who played roles such as Schaffer in Al Capone (1959), the McCarthy-like Sen. John Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate (1962), the audacious General Ursus in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), and crusty Inspector Frank Luger in the television sitcom Barney Miller (1975–1982).
Box office. US$ 8,011 (Australia and United Kingdom) Living in the Age of Airplanes is a 2015 American epic documentary film written, directed, and produced by Brian J. Terwilliger. Narrated by Harrison Ford, it explores the way commercial aviation has revolutionized transportation and the many ways it affects everyday lives, and it concludes ...
Matt Damon feels for Ben Affleck when it comes to life in the spotlight.. In a new podcast interview, Damon, 53, said he “can’t imagine” dealing with the scrutiny his best friend Affleck, 51 ...