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1. Amy Johnson -- London Aeroplane Club
   Through her flying experience with the London Aeroplane Club, Amy Johnson developed the self confidence needed for her future flights. She was one of a growing number of female aviators who started to break records and make pioneering long-distance flights.
2. United Airlines Flight 93 -- Passengers
   United Airlines Flight 93 was hijacked on September 11, 2001 near Cleveland, Ohio. The aircraft crashed some time later in a field in south-western Pennsylvania. The hijackers can be heard twice mistakenly transmitting messages intended for the passengers over the Cleveland ARTCC frequency. Please note that this tape is not chronologically accurate; periods of dead air (silence) have been removed for brevity. This file is nearly 4Meg in size.
3. Dope
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4. Amy Johnson -- Australia
   Amy Johnson’s most famous flight was her epic journey from England to Australia. Although she did not finish the trip in the fastest time achieved by earlier flyers, she did become the first solo female flyer to complete the journey.
5. Saab -- Saab Automobile
   Saab Automobile AB is a subsidiary of General Motors. Once an exclusively Swedish automobile maker, Saab Automobile now manufactures cars in Japan, the USA and Sweden. Until 1990 the company was owned by SAAB, an acronym for "Svenska Aeroplan AB" (The Swedish Aeroplane Company), which ... included SAAB Aerospace and truck manufacturer Scania. General Motors bought half of Saab Automobile in 1990, with an option to acquire the entire company within a decade. Before exercising that option GM shared its ownership of Saab Automobile with Investor AB, the main owner of Saab.
6. Sopwith -- Sopwith Camels
   A replica Sopwith Camel can be found at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. Another replica is currently under construction by the Northern Aeroplane Workshops for the Shuttleworth Collection.[2].
7. Lodging -- Hotels
   DALLAS, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- hotels.com, the leading provider of lodging worldwide, today announced it has signed a new long-term strategic partnership with Air Canada. The multi-year agreement enables Air Canada customers to access the full range of hotels.com inventory -- more than 75,000 properties worldwide -- on aircanada.com. They ... have the opportunity to earn Aeroplan miles for qualified hotel bookings they make on the airline's site.
8. Spanish Civil War -- World War
   The man who piloted the English Dragon Rapide aeroplane that brought Franco from the Canary Islands was a Welsh mercenary, Captain Cecil Bebb, without whom the Spanish Civil War might never have got off the ground. Bebb was twice decorated by Franco in recognition of his services: in 1938, with the Spanish Civil War drawing towards its close, Bebb was presented by Franco with the Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of Red Arrows and other Spanish decorations. The aircraft that carried Franco to Tetuán in Morocco, DM89 Dragon Rapide (G-ACYR), was later presented to him after World War II and is now preserved in the Museo del Aire near Madrid. In 1970 Bebb was again invited to meet Franco, who conferred on him the Order of Merit and the White Cross in Madrid.
9. Bomber -- World War Ii
   One of the best known airplanes of World War II, the B-25 bomber was ... one of the most flown, most versatile, and most successful of all the combat planes of the era. The B-25 bomber was designed and built by North American Aviation beginning in 1939, and it was used throughout the war for bombing, photoreconnaissance, submarine patrol, fighting, and strafing (attacking ground troops from a low altitude). Sixteen of these twin-engine bombers famously flew in the Tokyo Raid of April 18, 1942, the U.S. counterattack on the Japanese four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
10. Saab -- Saab Aero
    Saab is a Swedish automaker that is a marque of General Motors. Up until 1990, the company was independently owned by SAAB, an acronym for "Svenska Aeroplan AB" (The Swedish Aeroplane Company). Early versions of Saab’s cars found great success in the rally sport racing and created quite a following for the Saab cars. Currently, Saab is trying to boost its North American sales since it’s main sales market is in Europe.

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