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Mission highlights: Comsat deployments, first untethered spacewalk by Bruce McCandless II with Manned Maneuvering Unit; first landing at KSC; dry run of equipment for Solar Max rescue. 1978 – Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314 , a Boeing 737-200, from Edmonton crashes at Cranbrook Airport after thrust reversers did not fully stow following a ...
Due to the less-than-expected performance figures, SIA cancelled its 20-aircraft MD-11 order on 2 August 1991, and ordered 20 A340-300s instead. [31] A total of 200 MD-11s were sold, versus 380 A340s. [20] The first flight of the A340 occurred on 21 October 1991, [20] marking the start of a 2,000-hour test flight programme involving six ...
A worrying sign of the A340’s imminent demise is that there are currently no airlines operating the A340-500 variant, which Airbus introduced in 2003 as the world’s longest-range commercial ...
The aircraft involved was an Airbus A340-311, registered G-VSKY with manufacturer serial number 016. It made its first flight on 3 November 1993 and was delivered soon after to Virgin Atlantic on 21 January 1994. At the time of the accident, the aircraft had flown 19,323 hours.
Deli Mike or Deli Mayk (English: Crazy Mike) is a nickname given to an Airbus A340-300 operated by Turkish Airlines with civil registration TC-JDM.The aircraft joined the Turkish Airlines fleet in 1996 to replace the McDonnell Douglas DC-10s of the airline and was used to operate long-haul flights out of Turkey.
Delivered the first crew, flying expedition EO-1, to Mir, then undocked, flew to and docked with Salyut 7 before returning to Mir. Remains the only spacecraft to have visited two space stations during one mission. [4] [5] 2. Soyuz TM-2: 5 February 1987 21:38:16 ~172 days 30 July 1987 01:04:12 Yuri Romanenko. Aleksandr Laveykin
By the mid-1960s, several European aircraft manufacturers had drawn up competitive designs, but were aware of the risks of such a project. For example, in 1959 Hawker Siddeley had advertised an "Airbus" version of the Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy, [8] which would "be able to lift as many as 126 passengers on ultra short routes at a direct operating cost of 2d. per seat mile".
Mission Shuttle Crew Duration Landing site Mission details 2 Q4 1991 2K1: 1.02: None 2d Baikonur: First flight of 1.02 3 Q1-Q2 1992 2K2: 1.02: None 7-8d Baikonur: Mir docking 4 1993 1K2: Buran: None 15-20d Baikonur: 5 1994 3K1: 2.01: Igor Volk; Aleksandr Ivanchenkov; 1d Baikonur: First crewed flight First flight of 2.01 6 1994 two cosmonauts ...