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Motorised ships (first running on steam coal, ... I note that the Hindenburg in 1937 could transport passengers across the Atlantic in 2.5 to 3 days. Its four engines delivered a total of 3600 kW for 72 passengers, or 50 kW per passenger. With a little less luxury she could easily have carried 100 passengers, for 36 kW...
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www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/06/ocean-liners.html
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Concorde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde aircraft was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport (SST). It was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, combining the manufa...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
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This is a web site about Florida in the War for Southern Independence. ... 1914 The first scheduled commercial airplane flight was made today from St. Petersburg to Tampa. Tony Jannus, a pioneering aviator, opened the service with his flying boat, the Benoist, which could haul one passenger and a small amount of freight.
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www.coolchange.net/archives/january.htm
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Honoring 100 Aviation Heroes; ... Langley's free-flight tests of unmanned model aircraft were climaxed in 1896 by flights of more than three quarters of a mile and by somewhat shorter flights in the world's first gasoline-engine, ... The "unsung hero of aviation," who built the engine that powered the Wrights' first airplane.
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www.firstflightcentennial.org/100_Aviation_Heroes.html
www.firstflightcentennial.org/100_Aviation_Heroes.html
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Top bidder Julian Hayward, 38, a Briton who lives in Sydney, paid more than 100,000 US dollars "to be a part of history", he said before boarding. ... The plane also carried two top chefs, one from Singapore and another from Sydney, who were in charge of a champagne brunch for all the passengers, SIA said. ... On the first flight,
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www.spacemart.com/reports/Airbus_superjumbo_takes_off_o...
www.spacemart.com/reports/Airbus_superjumbo_takes_off_on_first_commercial_flight_999.html
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The most common result would be increased pilot workload, and having to deal with less than 100% equipment, ... 1. Can cell phones interfere with airplane's navigation systems or not? 2. Do people like it when people talk on the cell phone on airplanes? I haven't seen the research on the first issue (show us a link,
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www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/cellphones-could-disrupt-ai...
www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/cellphones-could-disrupt-airplane-systems-study/
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It also pioneered airplane launch and recovery techniques that would later be used on the U.S. airships, ... Its first trip to the United States took 60 hours, and the return trip took only a quick 50. In 1936, it carried more than 1,300 passengers and several thousand pounds of mail and cargo on its flights. It had made 10...
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www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Lighter_than_air/zeppe...
www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Lighter_than_air/zeppelin/LTA8.htm
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Amtrak carried fewer than 100 passengers a day, on average, in 12 of these states. Figure 2: Amtrak’s Average Daily Ridership by State, Fiscal Year 2001; Note: Based on number ... For example, during the first quarter of 2001, the number of air passengers (as measured by the number of trips) flying between Chicago,
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www.gao.gov/new.items/d02522t.pdf
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They watched him bank into a turn, slide to a landing, and, with the propeller spinning backward, roll to a stop in less than a hundred feet. They had seen, for the first time in history, a man fly on wings powered ... WORLD’S FIRST Steam-Driven Airplane (Jul, 1933) ... Train Picks Up and Drops Passengers Without Stopping (607 views)
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blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/11/03/worlds-first-steam-d...
blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/11/03/worlds-first-steam-driven-airplane/?Qwd=./PopularScience/7-1933/steam_plane&Qif=steam_plane_1.jpg&Qiv=thumbs&Qis=XL
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