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Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five General Motors TBF Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945, after losing contact during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Pre-flight lavatory relief was both physically and psychologically encouraged by the prospect of a long flight ahead. [129] During the war, the allied aircrews developed the superstition of "wheel pissing." The wheel pissing took place prior to any mission. [129] The crew would urinate on the tail wheel prior to each mission. [129]
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These are lists of national symbols: List of national animals; List of national anthems; List of national birds; List of national dances; List of national emblems; List of national flags; List of national flowers; List of national founders; List of national fruits; List of national instruments (music) List of national poets; List of national trees
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
This is a chronological list of spaceflights to the International Space Station (ISS), including long-term ISS crew, short term visitors, replacement/rescue missions and mixed human/cargo missions. Uncrewed visiting spacecraft are excluded (see Uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station for details).
Like the other planes used in 9/11, it was a cross-country flight – in this case, bound for Los Angeles – which meant that it was fully loaded with highly flammable jet fuel. "Everything ...
Wang Haoze (Chinese: 王浩泽; born March 1990), is a Chinese aerospace engineer and astronaut.She is China's third female astronaut to space, and first woman engineer, as one of the crew members of Shenzhou 19 mission.