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"Watching Airplanes" is a song written by Jim Beavers and Jonathan Singleton, and recorded by American country music singer Gary Allan. It was released in July 2007 as the first single from Allan's 2007 album Living Hard and as the twelfth of his career.
The high engine position on this USAF A-10 Thunderbolt II is an easily observed distinguishing feature of this aircraft.. When spotting aircraft, observers generally notice the key attributes of an aircraft, such as a distinctive noise from its engine, the number of contrails it is producing, or its callsign.
Retired U.S. Airways captain John Cox gave his own inside scoop in a blog post for USA Today.
The first in-flight film screened during the 1921 Pageant of Progress Exposition in Chicago [1] Movie screening in a DC-8 of SAS, 1968. The first in-flight movie was screened by Aeromarine Airways in 1921, showing a film called Howdy Chicago to passengers on a Felixstowe F.5 flying boat as it flew around Chicago. [2]
During World War I, the airplane was not generally used as a long-range fighting machine. However, during the period from 1919 to the start of World War II, the heavy bomber was created, capable of ranging far from its home base and carrying a lethal load of high explosives. It soon became clear that a warning system was needed to protect ...
A flight attendant revealed the secret meaning behind the airplane chime sounds you hear during a flight.
Pitts was fascinated with flying as a child and spent much of his free time at the local airfield, watching airplanes and dreaming. He designed and built his first aircraft while still in high school, a Parasol wing craft with a modified automobile engine, but Curtis crashed it during taxi tests. In 1933 he found work as a railroad carpenter in ...
Next time you’re in an airplane, scan the walls.