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While the aircraft was refueled and serviced in Denver, Skipper purchased aeronautical sectional charts for the planned scenic route. [8] In his testimony before the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Skipper asserted that he had intended to use the charts to identify landmarks and objects of interest to the passengers.
When production of the earlier Martin 2-0-2 was stopped due to problems with wing structural failure the company decided to re-wing an improved version (which had already flown as the Martin 3-0-3).
This list is only of aircraft that have an article, indexed by aircraft registration "tail number" (civil registration or military serial number). The list includes aircraft that are notable either as an individual aircraft or have been involved in a notable accident or incident or are linked to a person notable enough to have a stand-alone Wikipedia article.
October 23, 1970: Gary Gabelich becomes first man to drive a car 1,000 kilometers per hour, reaches 622.407 mph October 4, 1970: Singer Janis Joplin dies of overdose at aged 27 October 10, 1970: Dominion of Fiji becomes independent October 8, 1970: Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize, not allowed to accept it October 9, 1970: Kingdom of Cambodia proclaimed as "The Khmer Republic"
The Eisenhower Tunnel, officially the Eisenhower–Edwin C. Johnson Memorial Tunnel, [1] is a dual-bore, four-lane vehicular tunnel in the western United States, approximately 60 miles (97 km) west of Denver, Colorado.