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89 relations: Aircraft hijacking, Aircraft livery, Airline Deregulation Act, Alaska Airlines, Allegheny Airlines, Banana, Boeing 727, Boeing Field, Bonanza Air Lines, BoPET, California, Canada, Capital punishment, Charleston, South Carolina, Clint Eastwood, Colorado, Copycat crime, Cowboy boot, D. B. Cooper, De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, Delta Air Lines, Denver, Duarte, California, Eastern Plains, Fairchild F-27, Fighter aircraft, Flight attendant, Flight International, Fokker F27 Friendship, General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark, Hollywood Burbank Airport, Howard Hughes, Hughes Airwest Flight 706, John Wayne Airport, Las Vegas, Los Angeles International Airport, Mallard, Mario Armond Zamparelli, McCarran International Airport, McDonnell Douglas DC-9, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, Mexico, Mid-air collision, Naval flight officer, Nellis Air Force Base, New Hampshire, North Central Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Pacific Air Lines, Pacific Northwest, ..., Parachute, Paratrooper, Phoenix, Arizona, Piper PA-31 Navajo, Reno, Nevada, Republic Airlines (1979–1986), Rhombus, San Francisco, San Francisco International Airport, San Mateo County, California, San Mateo, California, Seattle, Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, Sondra Locke, Southern Airways, Southern California, Standard & Poor's, Stapleton International Airport, Summa Corporation, The Gauntlet (film), Trans World Airlines, Unincorporated area, United States, United States Air Force, United States Army, United States Marine Corps, United States Marine Corps Aviation, US Airways, Vertical stabilizer, Vietnam veteran, Washington (state), West Coast Airlines, Western United States, William P. Hobby Airport, 1977 in film, 1979 in aviation, 1980 in aviation, 1986 in aviation, 2010 in aviation. Expand index (39 more) »
Aircraft hijacking
Aircraft hijacking (also air piracy or aircraft piracy, especially within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States and in the US state of Mississippi, and as skyjacking in some nations) is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an individual or a group.
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Aircraft livery
An aircraft livery is a set of comprehensive insignia comprising color, graphic, and typographical identifiers which operators (airlines, but also governments, air forces and occasionally private and corporate owners) apply to their aircraft.
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Airline Deregulation Act
The Airline Deregulation Act is a 1978 United States federal law that deregulated the airline industry in the United States, removing U.S. federal government control over such areas as fares, routes and market entry of new airlines, introducing a free market in the commercial airline industry and leading to a great increase in the number of flights, a decrease in fares, and an increase in the number of passengers and miles flown.
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Alaska Airlines
Alaska Airlines is an American airline headquartered in the Seattle metropolitan area of the state of Washington.
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Allegheny Airlines
Allegheny Airlines was a U.S. airline that operated out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, from 1952 to 1979.
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Banana
A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.
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Boeing 727
The Boeing 727 is a midsized, narrow-body three-engined jet aircraft built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes from the early 1960s to 1984.
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Boeing Field
Boeing Field, officially King County International Airport, is a public airport owned and operated by King County, five miles south of downtown Seattle, Washington.
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Bonanza Air Lines
Bonanza Air Lines was an airline (known at the time as a "local service" air carrier as defined by the federal Civil Aeronautics Board) with routes in the Western United States (and eventually Mexico) from 1945 until it was merged with two other local service air carriers to form Air West in 1968.
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BoPET
BoPET (biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate) is a polyester film made from stretched polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and is used for its high tensile strength, chemical and dimensional stability, transparency, reflectivity, gas and aroma barrier properties, and electrical insulation.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.
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Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the oldest and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston–Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Clint Eastwood
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure.
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Colorado
Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.
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Copycat crime
A copycat crime is a criminal act that is modeled or inspired by a previous crime.
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Cowboy boot
Cowboy boots refer to a specific style of riding boot, historically worn by cowboys.
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D. B. Cooper
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De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
The de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, currently marketed as the Viking Air DHC-6 Twin Otter, is a Canadian 19-passenger STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) utility aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada and currently produced by Viking Air.
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Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines, Inc., commonly referred to as Delta, is a major United States airline, with its headquarters and largest hub at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Denver
Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Duarte, California
Duarte is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Eastern Plains
The Eastern Plains of Colorado refers to a region of the U.S. state of Colorado east of the Rocky Mountains and east of the population centers of the Front Range.
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Fairchild F-27
The Fairchild F-27 and Fairchild Hiller FH-227 were versions of the Fokker F27 Friendship twin-engined turboprop passenger aircraft manufactured under license by Fairchild Hiller in the United States.
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Fighter aircraft
A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat against other aircraft, as opposed to bombers and attack aircraft, whose main mission is to attack ground targets.
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Flight attendant
Flight attendants or cabin crew (also known as stewards/stewardesses, air hosts/hostesses, cabin attendants) are members of an aircrew employed by airlines primarily to ensure the safety and comfort of passengers aboard commercial flights, on select business jet aircraft, and on some military aircraft.
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Flight International
Flight International (or simply Flight) is a weekly magazine focused on aerospace, published in the United Kingdom.
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Fokker F27 Friendship
The Fokker F27 Friendship is a turboprop airliner developed and manufactured by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker.
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General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark
The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark was a supersonic, medium-range interdictor and tactical attack aircraft that also filled the roles of strategic nuclear bomber, aerial reconnaissance, and electronic-warfare aircraft in its various versions.
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Hollywood Burbank Airport
Hollywood Burbank Airport, formerly known as Bob Hope Airport is a public airport northwest of downtown Burbank, in Los Angeles County, California.
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Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.
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Hughes Airwest Flight 706
Hughes Airwest Flight 706 was a regularly scheduled flight operated by American domestic airline Hughes Airwest, from Los Angeles, California, to Seattle, Washington, with several intermediate stops.
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John Wayne Airport
John Wayne Airport is an international airport in Orange County, California, United States, with its mailing address in the city of Santa Ana, hence the IATA airport code.
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Las Vegas
Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.
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Los Angeles International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles, California.
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Mallard
The mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Falkland Islands, and South Africa.
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Mario Armond Zamparelli
Mario Armond Zamparelli (c. 1921 – September 8, 2012) was an American artist and designer, best known for his connection with Howard Hughes.
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McCarran International Airport
McCarran International Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the Las Vegas Valley, a major metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Nevada.
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McDonnell Douglas DC-9
The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 (initially known as the Douglas DC-9) is a twin-engine, single-aisle jet airliner.
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McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed for the United States Navy by McDonnell Aircraft.
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Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
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Mid-air collision
A mid-air collision is an aviation accident in which two or more aircraft come into unplanned contact during flight.
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Naval flight officer
A naval flight officer (NFO) is a commissioned officer in the United States Navy or United States Marine Corps who specializes in airborne weapons and sensor systems.
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Nellis Air Force Base
Nellis Air Force Base ("Nellis" colloq.) is a United States Air Force installation in southern Nevada with military schools and more squadrons than any other USAF base.
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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North Central Airlines
North Central Airlines was a regional airline in the midwestern United States.
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Northwest Airlines
Northwest Airlines Corp. (often abbreviated as NWA and stylized as nwa) was a major United States airline founded in 1926 and absorbed into Delta Air Lines, Inc. by a merger.
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Pacific Air Lines
Pacific Air Lines was a regional airline (then called a "local service" air carrier as defined by the federal Civil Aeronautics Board) on the West Coast of the United States which began scheduled passenger operations in the mid 1940s under the name Southwest Airways.
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Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Cascade Mountain Range on the east.
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Parachute
A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag (or in the case of ram-air parachutes, aerodynamic lift).
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Paratrooper
Paratroopers are military parachutists—military personnel trained in parachuting into an operation and usually functioning as part of an airborne force.
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Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona.
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Piper PA-31 Navajo
The Piper PA-31 Navajo is a family of cabin-class, twin-engined aircraft designed and built by Piper Aircraft for the general aviation market, most using Lycoming engines.
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Reno, Nevada
Reno is a city in the U.S. state of Nevada, located in the western part of the state, approximately from Lake Tahoe.
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Republic Airlines (1979–1986)
Republic Airlines was a United States airline formed by the merger of North Central Airlines and Southern Airways on July 1, 1979.
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Rhombus
In plane Euclidean geometry, a rhombus (plural rhombi or rhombuses) is a simple (non-self-intersecting) quadrilateral whose four sides all have the same length.
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San Francisco
San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.
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San Francisco International Airport
San Francisco International Airport is an international airport south of downtown San Francisco, California, United States, near Millbrae and San Bruno in unincorporated San Mateo County.
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San Mateo County, California
San Mateo County (Spanish for "Saint Matthew") is a county located in the U.S. state of California.
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San Mateo, California
San Mateo (Spanish for "Saint Matthew") is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California's Bay Area, approximately south of San Francisco, and northwest of San Jose.
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Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.
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Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, also referred to as Sea–Tac Airport or Sea–Tac, is the primary commercial airport serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington.
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Sondra Locke
Sandra Louise "Sondra" Anderson (née Smith; born May 28, 1944), professionally known as Sondra Locke, is an American actress and director.
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Southern Airways
Southern Airways was a regional airline (known at the time as a "local service air carrier" as designated by the federal Civil Aeronautics Board) operating in the United States from its founding by Frank Hulse in 1949 until 1979 when it merged with North Central Airlines to become Republic Airlines, which on October 1, 1986, then became part of Northwest Airlines, which, in turn, was merged into Delta Air Lines in 2008.
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Southern California
Southern California (colloquially known as SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's southernmost counties.
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Standard & Poor's
Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC (S&P) is an American financial services company.
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Stapleton International Airport
Stapleton International Airport was the primary airport serving Denver, Colorado, United States from 1929 to 1995.
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Summa Corporation
Summa Corporation was the name adopted for the business interests of Howard Hughes after he sold the tool division of Hughes Tool Company in 1972.
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The Gauntlet (film)
The Gauntlet is a 1977 American action thriller film directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Eastwood and Sondra Locke.
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Trans World Airlines
Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major American airline from 1924 until 2001.
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Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.
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United States Marine Corps Aviation
United States Marine Corps Aviation is the air component of the United States Marine Corps.
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US Airways
US Airways (formerly known as USAir) was a major American airline that ceased to operate independently when the Federal Aviation Administration granted a single operating certificate (SOC) for US Airways and American Airlines on April 8, 2015.
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Vertical stabilizer
The vertical stabilizers, vertical stabilisers, or fins, of aircraft, missiles or bombs are typically found on the aft end of the fuselage or body, and are intended to reduce aerodynamic side slip and provide direction stability.
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Vietnam veteran
A Vietnam veteran is someone who served in the armed forces of participating countries during the Vietnam War.
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Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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West Coast Airlines
West Coast Airlines was a regional airline (then called a "local service" airline as defined by the federal Civil Aeronautics Board) linking smaller destinations in the Pacific Northwest with larger cities in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Montana, California and north to Alberta in Canada.
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Western United States
The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West, the Far West, or simply the West, traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States.
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William P. Hobby Airport
William P. Hobby Airport is an international airport in Houston, Texas, from downtown Houston.
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1977 in film
The year 1977 in film involved some significant events, the biggest and most important of which was the release of Star Wars.
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1979 in aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1979.
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1980 in aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1980.
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1986 in aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1986.
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2010 in aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 2010.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Airwest
