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Then on 12 November a flight of 22.2 seconds carried the 14-bis some 220 m (720 ft), earning the Aéro-Club prize of 1,500 francs for the first flight of more than 100 m. [39] This flight was also observed by the newly formed Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) and became the first record in their log book.
In 1906, near Paris, the 14-bis made a manned powered flight that was the first to be publicly witnessed by a crowd and also filmed. [2] It was also the first powered flight by a non-Wright Brothers airplane aside from short powered "hops" by Clément Ader [3] and Traian Vuia. [4]
No. 8 was a copy of No. 6 ordered by Edward Boyce, vice president of the Aeroclub of America, [13]: 319 [AZ] having made a single flight in New York; [55]: 6 No. 9, with 261 cubic metres and 3 hp, was a travel airship, in which Santos-Dumont made several flights throughout 1903, [26]: 17 [BA] including the first night flight of an airship on 24 ...
First purpose-built jet bomber to fly: was the Arado Ar 234 which made its first flight on July 30, 1943. [215] First rocket-powered aircraft used in combat: Major Späte of the EK 16 service test unit flew a Messerschmitt Me 163B Komet interceptor against Allied aircraft on May 13, 1944. [216]
While military aircraft made up the majority of Embraer's products during the 1970s and early 1980s, including the Embraer AT-26 Xavante and the Embraer EMB 312 Tucano, [citation needed] it debuted a regional airliner, the Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante, which made its first flight in 1968, [18] and the Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, launched in 1985. [19]
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3 people refused entry to plane. Brazil's UOL news channel reported at least three passengers were refused entry to the plane before it took off from the city of Cascavel in the state of Parana ...
Arianne Risso worked every day to help her patients battle cancer. It crashed in the city of Vinhedo, and footage of the ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop plunging while in a flat spin horrified people ...