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Flight is the process by which an object moves, through an atmosphere (especially the air) or beyond it (as in the case of spaceflight), by generating aerodynamic lift, propulsive thrust, aerostatically using buoyancy, or by ballistic movement, without direct support from any surface.
The engineering aspects of flight are studied in aerospace engineering which is subdivided into aeronautics, which is the study of vehicles that travel through the air, and astronautics, the study of vehicles that travel through space, and in ballistics, the study of the flight of projectiles.
Humans have managed to construct lighter than air vehicles that raise off the ground and fly, due to their buoyancy in air and water.
An aerostat is a system that remains aloft primarily through the use of buoyancy to give an aircraft that has the same overall density as air. Aerostats include free balloons, airships, and moored balloons. An aerostat's main structural component is its envelope, a lightweight skin containing a lifting gas to provide buoyancy, to which other components are attached.
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr. Philip Chandler for six years. He has received much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Melvin B. Tolson, Frank Lucas and Herman Boone.
Washington has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe awards, and a Tony Award. He is notable for winning the Best Supporting Actor for Glory in 1989; and the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2001 for his role in the film Training Day.
Denzel Washington was born in Mount Vernon, near New York City, New York on December 28, 1954. His mother, Lennis "Lynne", was a beauty parlor-owner and operator born in Georgia and partly raised in Harlem. His father, Reverend Denzel Hayes Washington, Sr., a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, served as an ordained Pentecostal minister, and also worked for the Water Department and a local department store, S. Klein.
Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor and producer who is involved in film, musical theatre, and television.
Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as action/superhero, period and romance characters. He is known for his role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series, as well as for his leads in Kate & Leopold, Van Helsing, The Prestige, Australia, and Real Steel. Jackman is a singer, dancer, and actor in stage musicals, and won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz.
In November 2008, Open Salon named Jackman one of the sexiest men alive. Later that same month, People magazine named Jackman "Sexiest Man Alive."
A three-time host of the Tony Awards, winning an Emmy Award for one of these appearances, Jackman also hosted the 81st Academy Awards on 22 February 2009.
Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the youngest of five children of English parents Chris Jackman and Grace Watson, and the second child to be born in Australia (he also has a younger half-sister, from his mother's re-marriage). One of his paternal great-grandfathers was Greek. His parents divorced when he was eight, and he remained with his accountant father and siblings, while his mother moved back to England. As a child, Jackman liked the outdoors, spending a lot of time at the beach and on camping trips and vacations all over Australia. He wanted to see the world: "I used to spend nights looking at atlases. I decided I wanted to be a chef on a plane. Because I'd been on a plane and there was food on board, I presumed there was a chef. I thought that would be an ideal job."
Actors: Danny Donahue (producer), Danny Donahue (actor), Michael Matzur (writer), Michael Matzur (actor), Michael Matzur (director), Luke Hystad (actor), Chellie Newman (actress), Sam Hedlund (miscellaneous crew), Tommy Domingo (editor), Michael Steppe (actor), Logan Stahley (composer), Fallon Walker (miscellaneous crew), Erik Skybak (miscellaneous crew), Caitlin Maldonado (miscellaneous crew), Troy William Dunn (actor),
Plot: Shortly after a major disaster aboard the XOEH (zoh.ee) space station, Alan Brahm awakes to find himself trapped in the airlock/escape pod, with a torn space suit, and the room rapidly decompressing. With his attempts to force the airlock's door open failing, and only minutes left, Alan must make the choice of living to see his family again or sacrificing himself to save the lives of his stranded crew.
Keywords: airlock, astronaut, computer-malfunction, mission-control, self-sacrifice, space, space-stationActors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin (actor), Matt Bettinelli-Olpin (writer), Matt Bettinelli-Olpin (director), Chad Villella (actor), Chad Villella (writer), Rob Polonsky (actor), Rob Polonsky (writer), Jonah Goldstein (director), Jonah Goldstein (actor), Jonah Goldstein (writer), Tyler Tuione (actor), Jon Peele (actor), Liz Martinez-Nelson (actress),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Short,Actors: Carol A. Compton (miscellaneous crew), Clifton Powell (actor), Keith Neal (miscellaneous crew), Wood Harris (actor), Daniel Rezende (editor), Terrence Mann (actor), Arian Simone Reed (miscellaneous crew), Roger Payano (actor), Robert Lee Hardy (actor), Mikal Evans (actress), Ryan Shanahan (miscellaneous crew), Kawan Kean (actor), Andre Strong (writer), Molyneau DuBelle (actress), Andre Strong (actor),
Plot: When Jasmine "Jazz" Morgan loses her mother to a long-time battle with lung cancer, she can only focus on one thing - becoming a famous singer. Ignoring the wishes of her father, Blair Morgan a strict doctor who prefers that she return to college, Jazz spends the summer entrenched in the hyper-sexualized, drug-influenced DC music scene, dragging along her younger, more naive, sister Leah). One night, after an impromptu audition, Jazz is invited to join a popular go-go band managed by a charismatic barber, Gabe and supported with drug money provided by the lead MC, Flight. With ease, she falls in line with the band and in love with the stage and together they all reach new heights of popularity. But just as quickly as her success rises, so does the pressure and Jazz recklessly tries to maintain control.
Keywords: gogo-music, washington-d.c.Actors: Marc Wolff (miscellaneous crew), John Sessions (actor), Ronald Lacey (actor), Adrian Dunbar (actor), Pauline Hume (miscellaneous crew), Marc Wolff (miscellaneous crew), Betsy Heimann (costume designer), Alfi Kabiljo (composer), Margaret Nolan (actress), Terence Harvey (actor), Derek Ware (actor), Miles Anderson (actor), Bobbie Johnson (miscellaneous crew), Scott McGinnis (actor), Tony Sibbald (actor),
Plot: When two cowboys are captured in the old west trying to rob a bank, they are exiled to the front lines of World War I to fight alongside the British. They get into a bet to see if they can fly a Gunbus, they do but then end up in another base under an officer who is determined to hunt down a German airship.
Keywords: 1910s, aerial-combat, airplane, army, automobile, bank, bank-robber, bank-robbery, blimp, cowboy