by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It was the manufacturer's first wide-
body twinjet and its first airliner with a two-crew glass cockpit. The
aircraft features two turbofan engines, a conventional tail, and for
reduced aerodynamic drag, a supercritical wing design. Designed as a
smaller wide-body airliner than preceding aircraft such as the 747, the
767 has a capacity of 181 to 375 persons and a design range of 3,850
to 6,385 nautical miles (7,130 to 11,825 km), depending on variant. The
original 767-200 entered service in 1982, followed by the 767-300 in
1986 and the 767-400ER, an extended-range variant, in 2000. Versions for
freight and military use have also been created. The aircraft was
initially flown on domestic and transcontinental routes, before becoming
the first twin-engined airliner to receive regulatory approval for
extended overseas flights. In 1986, Boeing initiated studies for a
higher-capacity 767, ultimately leading to the development of the 777, a
larger wide-body twinjet. In the 1990s, the 767 became the most
frequently used airliner for transatlantic flights between North America
and Europe.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_767>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1615:
The first Recollect missionaries arrived in Quebec City in New
France (now in Quebec, Canada) from Rouen.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recollects>
1805:
Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptured Diamond
Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-
de-France, from the British.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Diamond_Rock>
1848:
As part of the Pan-Slavism movement, the Prague Slavic Congress
began in Prague, the first of several times that voices from all Slav
populations of Europe were heard in one place.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Slavic_Congress,_1848>
1910:
Charles Rolls (pictured), co-founder of Rolls-Royce, became the
first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by
plane.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rolls>
1983:
After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire,
twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 were killed when a
flashover occurred as the plane's doors opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
superannuate:
1. (transitive) To retire or put out of use due to age.
2. (intransitive) To become obsolete or antiquated.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/superannuate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't
save the people, if you don't serve the people.
--Cornel West
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cornel_West>
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