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After arresting a man for blowing up an airplane federal agents learned that it was not in fact a federal crime to blow up an airplane. Colorado instead charged the man for the single murder of his mother, a passenger on the plane.
how many man made objects are in space?
Ethel Merman's last film appearance was "Airplane!," where she played a man who thought he was Ethel Merman.
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what was the first manned supersonic airplane?
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In 1989 a Russian fighter jet pilot had to eject from his airplane causing the aircraft to fly pilotless over Western Europe and crashed into a solitary house in Belgium killing a 19-year old man that was taking a nap for his finals
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Navigating by the stars is still used, the SR-71 (the fastest ever manned airplane) used a computer to automatically track the stars giving it <300m accuracy at Mach 3+. It could even track stars during the day.
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The band "Twenty One Pilots" got their name from the book "All My Sons" by Arthur Miller. In the book, a man sends out faulty airplane parts and causes the death of 21 pilots in World War II
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During WWII the US 4th Infantry Division used Comanche Code Talkers in Europe. In their code substitution, the word for tank was "turtle," for bomber "pregnant airplane, for machine gun "sewing machine," and for Adolf Hitler "crazy white man"
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Peter Nielsen, an air traffic controller involved in an airplane collision resulting in 71 fatalities, was tracked down and murdered two years after the events, by a man whose wife and daughters died in the crash.
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A man blew up an airplane with his wife onboard, in order to collect her life insurance. All 23 onboard died in the crash.
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Native Americans operated as "code talkers" during WW1 and WW2, using their languages for secret communication of intelligence. The Comanche code word for tank was "turtle", bomber was "pregnant airplane", machine gun was "sewing machine" and Adolf Hitler was referred to as "crazy white man".
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The fastest manned airplane ever built was the 'North American' X-15, an experimental rocket-powered plane. One test pilot reached 4,519 MPH in 1967, a record which still stands. The X-15 could fly so high that 8 pilots technically qualified as astronauts, according to Air Force standards
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Airplane checklists were developed after a prototype B17 crashed when the pilot forgot to unlock the control surfaces prior to take off. It was initially thought the B17 was too sophisticated for a pilot to fly. It was later discovered that it was simply too complex for any one man’s memory.
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A man flew safely home after using a massive amount of duct tape to repair his airplane that was almost totally destroyed by a bear.
Why is manitoba important to canada?
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An oregon man resides inside a 727 airplane sitting in the woods.
Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge was the first airplane fatality in 1908. The pilot, Orville Wright, had turned down the man Selfridge would replace as his passenger, Teddy Roosevelt. - source
A man planted a bomb in a suitcase of his mother, who was about to board an airplane. He wanted revenge for his childhood and a large life insurance payout. The bomb exploded mid-air and the explosion killed all 39 passengers and all 5 crew members. - source
At the end of WWI War Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker got to see the first moments of the armistice from his airplane over No-Man's Land. German, American and French soldiers in trenchlines poured out and hugged/kissed each other, dancing and handing out cigarettes and chocolate.
On September 11, 1994, a man stole an airplane and then died while crashing into the Whitehouse lawn, apparently trying to hit the building. - source
When was the first man made object sent to space?
In 2000, a man boarded a commercial flight with a gun, stole the passengers' valuables and jumped out of the airplane with a homemade parachute to his death.
How many man made objects orbit the earth?
A man ate an entire airplane in the span of two years.
About The man who ate an airplane piece by piece
John Wildey a man with no flight experience who landed a single engine airplane at night when his friend and pilot had a heart attack.
In 2000, Bill Murray replaced his agents with an automated 800 number and lost almost 20+ movies including Iron Man, Toy Story, Monsters Inc, Shrek and Airplane.
A man ate an entire airplane, piece by piece (Ripley's Believe it or Not)
