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A cockpit or flight deck [1] is the area, on the front part of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft. Cockpit of an A380. Most Airbus cockpits are glass cockpits featuring fly-by-wire technology. 1936 de Havilland Hornet Moth. Note the bifurcated split stick control column.
Flight attendant or Cabin Crew, is the crew member responsible for the safety of passengers. Historically during the early era of commercial aviation, the position was staffed by young 'cabin boys' who assisted passengers. [15] Cabin boys were replaced by female nurses, originally called 'stewardesses'. The medical background requirement for ...
1955–1989. Number built. 104. The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed " Dragon Lady ", is an American single- engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated from the 1950s by the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It provides day and night, high-altitude (70,000 feet, 21,300 meters), all-weather intelligence ...
March 8: Raymonde de Laroche of France becomes the world's first woman to earn a pilot's license. [17] August 29: Marthe Niel of France becomes the world's second woman to earn a pilot's license. [17] September 3: Hélène Dutrieu of Belgium is the first woman in the world to fly with a passenger.
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force.He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
In aerobatics, the cobra maneuver (or just the cobra ), also called dynamic deceleration, [1] among other names (see Etymology ), is a dramatic and demanding maneuver in which an airplane flying at a moderate speed abruptly raises its nose momentarily to a vertical and slightly past vertical attitude, causing an extremely high angle of attack ...
48 in (120 cm) The Resolute desk, also known as the Hayes desk, is a nineteenth-century partners desk used by several presidents of the United States in the White House as the Oval Office desk, including the five most recent presidents. The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the oak ...
List of episodes. " Death Has a Shadow " is the series premiere and the first episode of the first season of the American animated television series Family Guy. Written by series creator Seth MacFarlane and directed by Peter Shin, the episode aired as a sneak peek on the Fox network in the United States on January 31, 1999, following Super Bowl ...