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Josef Carl Peter Jacobs was born in Kreuzkapelle, Rhineland, German Empire on 15 May 1894, and learned to fly in 1912, [1] aged 18. As a schoolboy in Bonn, he had been fascinated by the activities he saw at the nearby flying school in Hangelar.
The first flight of an SR-71 took place on 22 December 1964, at USAF Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, piloted by Bob Gilliland. [122] [123] The SR-71 reached a top speed of Mach 3.4 during flight testing, [124] [125] with pilot Major Brian Shul reporting a speed in excess of Mach 3.5 on an operational sortie while evading a missile over Libya ...
Falcon 1 on Pad 3W.. SLC-3W was originally built for Atlas-Agena launches and the first flight off the pad was the launch of Samos 1 on October 11, 1960. The facility was extensively damaged 11 months later when Samos 3's booster exploded on the pad, but it was repaired quickly and hosted its next launch slightly under two months afterwards.
Maiden flight of Maia. H2 2025 (TBD) [208] Neutron: MARS LC-3: Rocket Lab: Rocket Lab: Low Earth: Flight test Maiden flight of Neutron, lifting off from Launch Complex 3 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. [207] 2025 (TBD) [209] Nova: Cape Canaveral LC-14: Stoke Space: Stoke Space: Low Earth: Flight test Maiden flight of Nova. 2025 (TBD ...
OTV-7 is the fourth mission for the second X-37B built, and the seventh X-37B mission overall. It was flown on a Falcon Heavy in the expendable center core-recoverable side cores configuration, and launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A. It is the second classified flight of Falcon Heavy, awarded in June 2018.
Freddie Falcon hangs from the catwalk prior to an NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on October 3, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Robert Lindsey, The Flight of the Falcon: The True Story of the Escape and Manhunt for America's Most Wanted Spy, Simon & Schuster, 1983, ISBN 0-671-45159-6; Christopher Boyce, Cait Boyce, Vince Font, American Sons: The Untold Story of the Falcon and the Snowman, Glass Spider Publishing, 2013/2017, ISBN 978-0-9997070-3-6
Star Wars: Flight of the Falcon is a 3D first-person shooter video game developed by British company Pocket Studios and published by THQ for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. Based on the events of the original Star Wars trilogy of films, the game allows the player to pilot various space ships in the battles against the antagonistic Galactic Empire.