Boeing Commercial Airplanes designed and built 1,050 of them for 54
customers from 1981 to 2004. The twinjet has a two-crewmember glass
cockpit, a conventional tail, a low-drag supercritical wing design, and
turbofan engines that allow takeoffs from relatively short runways and
at high altitudes. Intended for short and medium routes, variants of the
757 can carry 200 to 295 passengers for a maximum of 3,150 to 4,100
nautical miles (5,830 to 7,590 km). The 757 was designed concurrently
with a wide-body twinjet, the 767, and pilots can obtain a common type
rating that allows them to operate both aircraft. Passenger 757-200s
(the most popular model) have been modified for cargo use; military
derivatives include the C-32 transport, VIP carriers, and other multi-
purpose aircraft. All 757s are powered by Rolls-Royce RB211 or Pratt &
Whitney PW2000 series turbofans. Eastern Air Lines and British Airways
were first to place the 757 in commercial service, in 1983. The airliner
had recorded eight hull-loss accidents, including seven fatal crashes,
as of April 2015.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_757>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1388:
During the Battle of Buyur Lake, General Lan Yu led a Chinese
army forward to crush the Mongol hordes of Toghus Temur, the Khan of
Northern Yuan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Buyur_Lake>
1869:
One day after surrendering at the Battle of Hakodate, Enomoto
Takeaki turned over Goryōkaku to Japanese forces, signaling the
collapse of the Republic of Ezo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ezo>
1896:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case Plessy v.
Ferguson, upholding the legality of racial segregation in public
transportation under the "Separate but equal" doctrine.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson>
1955:
Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000
Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French
Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of
the First Indochina War, ended.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Passage_to_Freedom>
2005:
A second photo by the Hubble Space Telescope confirmed the
discovery of two new moons of Pluto: Nix and Hydra.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(moon)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
upend:
1. (transitive) To end up; to set on end.
2. To tip or turn over.
3. To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/upend>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite
answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be
known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves;
because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible,
enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance
which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because,
through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the
mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the
universe which constitutes its highest good.
--Bertrand Russell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell>
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