Airplane

Airplane! is an American comedy film, first released on July 2, 1980, produced and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, and starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It is the second of a number of movies produced and directed by the trio (the first being The Kentucky Fried Movie). In some foreign releases (including Australia), Airplane! was entitled Flying High as in those countries airplanes are called aeroplanes. The movie is meant to be a ...

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Airplane: Encyclopedia II - Jefferson Airplane - Jefferson Airplane This rock group formed on the West Coast of the USA during the summer of 1965 in what was called the San Francisco Bay folk boom. Singer Marty Balin recruited another folk musician, Paul Kantner (born March 17, 1941, San Francisco), blues guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, jazz and folk vocalist Signe Toly Anderson, drummer Jerry Peloquin, and acoustic bassist Bob Harvey. They drew inspiration from groups such as the Beatles, the Byrds, and The Lovin' ...

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Airplane: Encyclopedia - Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), based in Renton, Washington, is a unit of The Boeing Company, consisting of the Seattle-based former Boeing Airplane Company (the civil airliner division,) as well as the Long Beach-based Douglas Aircraft division of the former McDonnell Douglas Corporation. It is the second-largest civil aircraft manufacturer, after Airbus. Boeing Commercial Airplanes - Products. Boeing Commercial Airplanes - Discontinued Boeing aircraft. 247 ...

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Airplane: Encyclopedia - America airplane

A Dutch-built tri-motor Fokker VII monoplane, the America was flown in 1927 by Richard E. Byrd, Bernt Balchen, George Noville, and Bert Acosta across the Atlantic Ocean. It was the third aircraft to successfully travel nonstop across the Atlantic. Other related archives1927, Atlantic Ocean, Bernt Balchen, Bert Acosta, Fokker, Richard E. Byrd

Airplane: Encyclopedia - Fixed-wing aircraft

Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are more commonly known as airplanes in North American English and aeroplanes in Commonwealth English. An airplane is a heavier-than-air aircraft where movement of the wings in relation to the aircraft is not used to generate lift. All aircraft wings flex, and some aircraft have wings that can tilt, sweep back or fold, but if none of these movements are used to g ...

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Airplane: Encyclopedia - Airport film

Airport is a 1970 film which tells the story of an airport manager trying to keep his fictional Chicago airport open during a snowstorm, whilst a bomber plots to blow up an airplane (a Boeing 707 in this movie). Although it had a complex plot, Airport paved the way for the disaster movie genre and established many of the conventions for that genre. The movie was adapted by George Seaton from the novel of the same name by Arthur Hailey. It was directed by Seaton and Henry Hathaway. It would be th ...

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Airplane: Encyclopedia - Santos-Dumont 14-bis

The 14-bis, also known as Oiseau de proie (French for "bird of prey"), was an early airplane designed and built by Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont. In November 12 1906, in Bagatelle, France, it performed the first unaided flight by a heavier-than-air aircraft. Earlier flights, such as that made by the Wright Brothers had required favourable wind directions, catapults or other such devises to take off. Santos-Dumont 14-bis - Conception development and initial Tests. In June of ...

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Airplane: Encyclopedia II - Jefferson Airplane - Influence

The original Jefferson Airplane, along with the Byrds, the Doors, the Grateful Dead, The Lovin' Spoonful, the Mamas and the Papas, Tommy James & the Shondells and to some degree Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young will always be associated with the more melodic end of the north American rock spectrum and in due course other groups, such as Steely Dan and Eagles, continued to blend elements of folk, jazz and rock and bring the results to a global audience. Of all these bands, Jefferson Airplane excelled in the psychedelic domain and in their penchant for pretentious track tit ...

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