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    On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside...
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    runway to help U-2 spy planes." Los Angeles Times, 22 November 2012, Retrieved: 8 January 2013. Smith, Sam. "Chasing the U-2 spy plane— in a Pontiac GTO...
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    Euclidean plane is a Euclidean space of dimension two, denoted E 2 {\displaystyle {\textbf {E}}^{2}} or E 2 {\displaystyle \mathbb {E} ^{2}} . It is a...
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    Agency (CIA) Lockheed U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. He later...
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    Lockheed U-2 spy plane specifically designed for high-altitude reconnaissance flight. The overflight program was ended following the 1960 U-2 incident...
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    shipments while the negotiations were ongoing. However, on 27 October 1962, a U-2 plane was shot down over Cuba, deepening the crisis. Kennedy was under intense...
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  • hexadecimal format (U+hhhhhh). Plane 0 is the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), which contains most commonly used characters. The higher planes 1 through 16 are...
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    pilot Gary Powers' helmet and his flight suit and the remains of the U-2 plane on show for everyone in Russia to see. A military man saw my father's...
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    Lake (Area 51) (then known as Watertown Strip) to work on the secret U-2 plane development. Fourteen men (a mix of military staffers and civilian subcontractors...
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  • to mean a "monochromatic" or sinusoidal plane wave: a travelling plane wave whose profile G(u){\displaystyle G(u)}is a sinusoidal function. That is, F(x→...
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    wreckage of Francis Gary Powers' U-2 plane. A 1922 Silver Dollar with Suicide Pin that was made by the CIA for the U-2 program. A Bay of Pigs flag. The...
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    In mathematics, the real projective plane is an example of a compact non-orientable two-dimensional manifold; in other words, a one-sided surface. It...
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    ". stason.org. "Increase in supersonic jets could be threat to ozone U-2 plane trails Concorde, studies exhaust particles". The Baltimore Sun. October...
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  • Planes is a 2013 American animated sports comedy film produced by Disneytoon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed and co-written by Klay...
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    Every plane section of a paraboloid by a plane parallel to the axis of symmetry is a parabola. The paraboloid is hyperbolic if every other plane section...
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    per plane back and forth to Guantanamo Bay, including the pilot, co-pilot, and the photographer. Some biographies credit him with flying the U-2 plane to...
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    plane was given by Jakob Steiner in 1867. Given two pencils B ( U ) , B ( V ) {\displaystyle B(U),B(V)} of lines at two points U , V {\displaystyle U...
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  • Plane Jane (born 1998/1999) is the stage name of Andrew Vladimir Dunayevskiy, an American drag performer competing on season 16 of RuPaul's Drag Race...
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    mathematics, a projective plane is a geometric structure that extends the concept of a plane. In the ordinary Euclidean plane, two lines typically intersect...
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    by the operators of bush planes. On 16 August 1947, the maiden flight of the aircraft, which had received the designation DHC-2 Beaver, took place. In April...
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  • Enclosed Alphanumerics (redirect from )
    these characters in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane named Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement (U+1F100–U+1F1FF), as of Unicode 6.0. Many of these characters...
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  • Private Use Areas (redirect from U+F8FF)
    the Basic Multilingual Plane (U+E000–U+F8FF), and one each in, and nearly covering, planes 15 and 16 (U+F0000–U+FFFFD, U+100000–U+10FFFD). The code points...
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    They were replaced in 2008 by the British Aerospace U-125A. Some have been preserved. Four civilian MU-2 (LV-MCV, LV-MOP, LV-OAN and LV-ODZ) were acquired[clarification...
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    The ecliptic or ecliptic plane is the orbital plane of Earth around the Sun. From the perspective of an observer on Earth, the Sun's movement around the...
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    Angle (redirect from Plane angle measure)
    are also known as plane angles as they lie in the plane that contains the rays. Angles are also formed by the intersection of two planes; these are called...
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  • Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American action horror film directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson. It was released by New Line Cinema...
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  • MH370: The Plane That Disappeared is a British docuseries released on Netflix and directed by Louise Malkinson about the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia...
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  • general counsel. In 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a United States U-2 spy plane. The Soviets captured its pilot, Gary Powers, and tried him for committing...
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    u ∂ r x x 2 + y 2 − ∂ u ∂ φ y x 2 + y 2 = cos ⁡ φ ∂ u ∂ r − 1 r sin ⁡ φ ∂ u ∂ φ , d u d y = ∂ u ∂ r y x 2 + y 2 + ∂ u ∂ φ x x 2 + y 2 = sin ⁡ φ ∂ u ∂...
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    =2.} Two also has the unique property that 2 + 2 = 2 × 2 = 2 2 = 2 ↑↑ 2 = 2 ↑↑↑ 2 =   . . . {\displaystyle 2+2=2\times 2=2^{2}=2\uparrow \uparrow 2=2\uparrow...
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