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  NOVA Online | Teachers | Program Overview | Vanished! | PBS
In 1947, Stardust, an airliner converted from a World War II bomber, disappeared on a flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago without a trace.
reviews the team's final theory on what probably happened: Stardust crashed on the eastern face of Tupangato and its wreckage was first covered by avalanche and then carried away by glacial flow.
speculates the plane crashed because flight crew members encountered stronger winds than they had calculated for, which altered their flight path without the crew's knowledge.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/teachers/programs/2802_vanished.html   (195 words)

  
  Stardust (aeroplane) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Stardust was a British South American Airways airliner that crashed in 1947.
Stardust was a Lancastrian airliner, a civilian design based on the famous Avro Lancaster bomber of World War II.
There was speculation as to the cause and nature of the Stardust disappearing, probably including the unlikely possibility of an extraterrestrial UFO having taken the airplane.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stardust_(crashed_airplane)   (870 words)

  
 Stardust. Who is Stardust? What is Stardust? Where is Stardust? Definition of Stardust. Meaning of Stardust.
Stardust (album), a record album by Willie Nelson.
Stardust (spacecraft), a comet coma sample return spacecraft.
Stardust (comic-book character), a fictional superheroine appearing in Femforce.
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Stardust   (109 words)

  
 NOVA Online | Vanished! | Reading the Wreckage
If determining the cause of modern airplane crashes such as TWA 800 or EgyptAir 990 poses daunting challenges for air-crash experts, imagine trying to glean the reasons why a plane went down over half a century ago.
Stardust, the civilian Lancastrian aircraft whose mysterious loss is chronicled in the NOVA program "Vanished!", disappeared in August 1947 while flying from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile.
Stardust and its 11 passengers and crew remained lost until January 2000, when a glacier high in the Andes began coughing up its wreckage and human remains.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/vanished/wreckage.html   (1457 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Stardust Findings Override Some Commonly Held Astronomy Beliefs
Brownlee is a coauthor of the other six papers on Stardust results being published in Science, which also are the subject of a news conference and scientific presentations at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Stardust mission was launched in February 1999 and met comet Wild 2 (pronounced Vilt) beyond the orbit of Mars in January 2004.
In that case, a probe crashed into the comet surface and the properties of the resulting dust were analyzed using the infrared part of the spectrum.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2006/12/061215091106.htm   (1299 words)

  
 Climb Aconcagua with Aconcagua-Express: Tupungato Chile
Furthermore, the airplane belonged to British South American Airways, founded by a war hero pilot from the British air force, and in fact the plane was a Avro-Lancaster 691, a war plane adapted to commercial flights.
According to the investigation, the "high speed" impact of the airplane occurred at 4,724m of altitude (15,500 pies) against the west face of Cerro Tupungato (6,800m), in the province of Mendoza (1,000 km west of Buenos Aires).
The airplane was found 64 km from where the crew thought it was crossing the border between Chile and Argentina, when it made radio contact five minutes before it crashed, even though it hadn’t crossed the Andes yet.
www.aconcagua-express.com /eng/lancaster_story.shtml   (813 words)

  
 Comets — Infoplease.com
The nucleus of a comet may be up to 10,000 mi in diameter; its coma between 10,000 and 50,000 mi in diameter; and its tail as long as 28 million miles.
The crash emitted the energy of 4.5 tons of TNT, releasing a tremendous plume of dust and gases.
Stardust (U.S.) - Stardust (U.S.) Destination: Comet Wild 2.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0004502.html   (1314 words)

  
 Stardust (crashed airplane)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Stardust was a Chilean airliner that disappeared in 1947.
The meaning of the transmission has never been clearly determined, although theories abound.
There was speculation as to the cause and nature of the Stardust disappearing, including the unlikely possibility of an extraterrestrial UFO having taken the airplane.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Stardust-(crashed-airplane).htm   (508 words)

  
 Celebrating The Success Of The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Airplane
He only was allotted $150 for maintenance of the airplane, but the repairs from his first four months of flying exceeded his appropriation so he had to spend $300 of his own money for the repairs.
Along the way the airplane crashed 16 times and was repaired so many times by Charlie that little was left of the original airplane by the time it arrived in California.
Crutches were strapped to the side of the airplane because he had badly burned his foot on his plane’s exhaust pipe on a previous flight.
www.wrightstories.com /contemporaries.html   (17352 words)

  
 Stendec - Music Home Page New Orleans, LA
Morse code is an early form of digital communication, however unlike modern binary digital codes that use just two states (commonly represented as 1 and 0), it uses five: dot (·), dash (-), short gap (between each letter), medium gap (between words) and long gap (between sentences).
Stardust (comic-book character), a fictional superheroine appearing in Femforce.
A comprehensive search of a wide area, including what is now known to have been the crash site, revealed not the slightest trace of a crash.
www.stendec.us   (1515 words)

  
 Transportation - Events (Harper's Magazine)
airplane crashed in Paris; two amateur Hungarian photographers snapped a picture of the doomed plane with flames shooting from its engines, which were manufactured by Rolls Royce, just before it destroyed a small hotel near the airport.
airplane from the Florida Keys on his first solo flight and ended up in Cuba, where he suffered a “hard landing” and was hospitalized.
Manolo Blahnik removed a pair of titanium-heeled sandals from his fall collection because they have 3.5 inch heels that narrow to a point so sharp that they damage floors and could be used as a terrorist weapon on an
www.harpers.org /subjects/Transportation/SubjectOf/Event   (2267 words)

  
 stardust - OneLook Dictionary Search
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stardust : Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
Phrases that include stardust: 'the rise & fall of ziggy stardust, a sky of stardust, daigo stardust, stardust awards, stardust best supporting actor award, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=stardust&ls=a   (161 words)

  
 The Las Vegas Dealer
Two of which he crashed before even one plane came off the assembly line.
Having crashed most of his models millions were wasted as Hughes, not much of a pilot having received his license on the set of Hell's Angels and only having a few hundred hours of actual flight time he decided to take a very high powered airplane he wasn't rated for and crashed it.
He couldn't explain why he took another experimental aircraft he also wasn't rated to fly and crashed that one but now he had taken two lives in a home on the ground that the airplane had crashed into.
gamemasteronline.com /Archive/MysteryDealer/TheLastGreatAviator.shtml   (2353 words)

  
 Science Math Teaching New York City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Students are introduced to the various measuring and testing techniques used to develop "composite" materials for airplanes and space vehicles.
Using scientific inquiry, our detectives design and build an airplane by using common household materials and learn about the fourbasic components of flight; lift, thrust, drag, and gravity.
While building their airplane, the tree house detectives use what they’ve learned to design and build an "egg-tra-ordinary" flying machine.
www.smtnyc.org /catalog/catalog.htm   (16971 words)

  
 Romney Story, A Night on Antelope Island, The Story, Page 3 of 3 Pages
Apparently the airplane had crossed the island when the fire in the wing reached the main gas tank and caused the airplane to explode and fall down onto the island where the other fuel tanks exploded and burned.
The airplane struck an animal when it fell, so the wreckage contained burnt animal remains and the remnants of the spare parachutes.
This led the rescue parties at the crash site to conclude that we probably died in the crash.
www.rb-29.net /HTML/86RomneyStory/05.03.TheStory.htm   (624 words)

  
 news from me - ARCHIVES
The producers realized the mistake during the taping and since the game had run short and they had time to fill, they arranged for a phone call from Mel Blanc to correct the record.
Peter Tomarken, R.I.P. Game show host Peter Tomarken and his wife Kathleen were killed this morning when a small airplane crashed just off the Pacific Coast, apparently due to engine trouble.
Portraying her alter-ego — the beautiful version of W.W. — was Linda Harrison, who was then the actress cast in every role at Twentieth-Century Fox that called for someone stunning but didn't have much dialogue.
www.newsfromme.com /archives/2006_03_13.html   (1074 words)

  
 Character Limit Breaks   C L O U D
This usually completely blows away weaker enemies, but bosses and large enemies will come crashing down for massive damage instead.
This is a great limit break that should only be used against strong enemies, don't waste it on weak opponents.
You can find the airplane by going underwater, it is near the east coast of the continent with the Gold Saucer on it.
www.geocities.com /tinsgh/limits.htm   (2375 words)

  
 XenoEtone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
You can do this by going to the safe in the upper right room and enter the combo Right 36, Left 10, Right 59, Right 57.
The Highwind is in the cargo bay of the crashed airplane the Gelnika.
The plane is underwater on the east coast of the continent with Gold Saucer on it.
www.xenoetone.com /games/ffvii/limits.shtml   (470 words)

  
 A Fighter Pilot Story, Chapter 3, Introduction to Combat
His group in England was to be the pioneering group that would take the Mustang into combat, and he clearly remembers his introduction to the airplane.
I FLEW a P-40, but in the P-51, I was PART OF the airplane..
He pulled up, off came the canopy, and he jumped out, but too low for the chute to open and the airplane crashed.
www.rb-29.net /HTML/50FtrPltStory/FtrPltStory/50.03.00.htm   (606 words)

  
 UPI NewsTrack Entertainment News | Web hosting news
LAS VEGAS, July 22 (UPI) -- The 49 Cuban performers in the Las Vegas Stardust casino's "Havana Night Club" show have been granted asylum to stay in the United States.
AP - A small airplane crashed close to the German parliament and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's office Friday and burst into flames, killing the pilot but harming no one on the ground, police said.
AP - The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, which said Friday it carried out the London bombings, has claimed responsibility for a wide range of attacks — and even for a massive U.S. power flout.
www.wehostlog.com /node/7466   (833 words)

  
 apulrang   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
All 309 people escaped the last few minutes of Air France Flight 358 from Paris to Torono, and next time I fly, will definitely pay closer attention when the flight attendants go through the safety routine.
Here is a picture of the actual airplane that crashed at Pierson Airport.
One of the things I like about the Coverville podcast is that there's a good chance that I'll be re-introduced to the music of a really good band that I'd underappreciated in the past, by listening to cover versions of their songs.
home1.gte.net /vze2rc66   (3137 words)

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