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In art, an imaginary surface for determining points in a drawing. The illusion of three‐dimensional objects on a two dimensional surface can be created by using linear perspective. Firstly, a horizon line is established, with a vanishing point. All other lines parallel to the viewer recede, converge, and disappear at this vanishing point. These receding lines give the artist potential planes that are always in perspective. If the principles of linear perspective are followed, all horizontal and vertical lines will be parallel to one another, ensuring the planes or surfaces created within the work are not distorted.


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The Planet of The Apes
Origins Of Terrorism
Rwanda
VANISHINGS: Amelia Earhart
VANISHINGS: Lost In The Andes
The Boys of H Company
D-Day
The Falklands War
Civ City Rome
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Dambusters
Churchill's Wizards
Decoding the Past
Origins Of Terrorism
Rwanda
5 January 1959

Coral Records release 'It Doesn't Matter Anymore' by Buddy Holly. This was Holly’s last record before his tragic death in a plane crash that also killed singers Ritchie Valens and J.P. 'The Big Bopper' Richardson.

7 January 1610

Italian astronomer Galileo discovers the first four satellites of the planet Jupiter. The group is later named after him. 

12 January 1982
Mark Thatcher, the son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara Desert during the Paris-Dakar Rally. He is spotted by a search plane several days later and rescued.
13 January 1993

American, British and French planes bomb a series of targets over southern Iraq. The action is taken in response to repeated Iraqi breaches of the 'no-fly zone' implemented after the end of the Gulf War in 1991.

25 January 2004

The second NASA rover, sent to explore Mars, lands on the surface of the planet, where it will look for signs of water.

3 February 1959
Musicians Buddy Holly, Jiles P Richardson (the Big Bopper) and Ritchie Valens die as their plane crashes in Iowa, USA.
6 February 1958
7 Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed when their plane crashes in snow and ice during its take-off from Munich Airport.
10 February 1962
US spy plane pilot Gary Powers, shot down by the Soviet Union, is exchanged in Berlin for KGB agent Rudolf Abel, arrested in New York in 1957.
12 February 1915

The First World War: British planes attack the German-occupied coastal towns of Blankenberghe, Ostend and Zeebrugge in Belgium.

13 February 1991

The Gulf War: American planes bomb Baghdad, killing hundreds of Iraqi civilians.

17 February 1959

The plane carrying Turkish Prime Minister, Adnan Menderes crashes near London. Twelve people are killed, but the prime minister survives.

23 February 1972

In Yemen, the Palestinian hijackers who took over a Lufthansa plane in the skies over India on the 21st February release the crew and surrender, after having previously released all the passengers.

26 February 1949

In America, the Lucky Lady II, a B-50 plane, takes off on the first non-stop round the world flight.

27 February 1942

The Second World War: The U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier, the Langley, is sunk by Japanese warplanes

1 March 1966
Venera 3, a Soviet probe collides with Venus. It is the first unmanned spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
3 March 2005
Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly a plane solo, non-stop around the world without refuelling.
8 March 1972
A bomb explodes in the cockpit of an empty TWA plane on the tarmac at Los Angles Airport in the U.S.A. 
9 March 1945
The Second World War: American planes start one of the biggest bombing raids of the war over Tokyo, Japan.
13 March 1781
William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
15 March 1981
The passengers and crew of a Pakistan Airways plane held hostage for nearly two weeks after being hijacked on an internal flight in Pakistan and forced to fly to Syria,  are released.
19 March 1916
The first American air combat mission is launched as U.S. planes fly over Mexico in support of troops looking for Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
27 March 1977
583 people are killed in Tenerife as two jumbo jet planes crash into each other on the runway.
29 March 1974
Mariner 10, an unmanned NASA space probe, becomes the first spacecraft to visit the planet Mercury.
2 April 1986
A bomb believed to have been planted by Palestinian terrorists explodes on a TWA plane flying over Greece, killing four people.
3 April 1996
U.S. secretary of commerce Ron Brown dies in a military plane crash in Croatia along with several senior American corporate executives.
5 April 1988
25 hostages are released from a Kuwait Airways plane in Iran, which had been hijacked by Arab terrorists whilst the plane was on its way to Kuwait from Thailand. 
6 April 1994
Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarinana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira are killed in a rocket attack on their plane.
14 April 1918
The First World War: American planes fly their first sorties over the Western Front.
27 April 1977
A Convair 240 airplane crashes near Guatemala City, Guatemala killing 28 people.
1 May 1982
Falklands War: British planes bomb two airstrips near Port Stanley occupied by Argentinean forces.
4 May 2002
An EAS Airline plane crashes in the town of Kano, Nigeria killing 148 people.
7 May 1999
NATO planes accidentally bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo War. 
9 May 1972
Israeli soldiers storm a hijacked Sabena Boeing airplane at Lod airport in Tel Aviv, releasing 100 people on board.
17 May 1987
An Iraqi F-I Mirage fighter plane fires two missiles at the USS Stark while it is on patrol in the Gulf. 37 American seamen are killed and at least 60 others injured.
24 May 1930
Air pioneer Amy Johnson lands her Gypsy Moth plane at Darwin in Australia having completed the first solo flight from England by a woman.
25 May 1979
273 people are killed as an American Airlines Flight plane crashes just after take off in Chicago.
28 May 1987
A 19 year old West German, Mathias Rust, surprises the Soviet authorities by flying a light plane from Helsinki to Moscow and landing safely in Red Square.
30 May 1971
Launch of the US space probe Mariner 9 on its mission to Mars. It is able to send more than 7,000 pictures of the planet back to Earth.
4 June 1977
Five British plane-spotters imprisoned in Greece for spying are released after 10 weeks in jail.
8 June 1995
American pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia. He had avoided capture for six days after ejecting from his plane when it was shot down by Bosnian Serb fire whilst he was patrolling the no-fly zone.
13 June 1983
After more than a decade in space, Pioneer 10, the world’s first outer-planetary probe, leaves the solar system.
22 June 1978
Charon, a satellite of the planet Pluto, is discovered.
1 July 2004
Cassini-Huygens, the international mission to Saturn, goes into orbit around the planet beaming back pictures of Saturn’s rings.
2 July 1944
The Second World War: As part of Operation Gardening, British and American planes drop mines in the Danube River from the air, American aircraft also drop bombs and leaflets on German-occupied Budapest.
3 July 1970
A flight from Manchester to Barcelona goes missing. The next day the wreckage of the plane is found having crashed into the Montseny mountains in Northern Spain. All 105 people onboard were killed.
6 July 1997
Sojourner, a robot onboard the Mars Pathfinder, is released from the probe to explore the red planet.
11 July 1997
A Cubana de Aviacion plane, the national airline of Cuba, crashes into the Caribbean Sea off the south eastern coast of Cuba killing 44 people.
14 July 1965
The American spacecraft Mariner 4 flies past Mars and takes photos of the Red planet.
16 July 1999
In America, John F Kennedy Jr - son of assassinated President John Kennedy - his wife and her sister, are killed in a plane crash off the Massachusetts resort island of Martha's Vineyard.
27 July 1982
In South Africa, mercenary leader Colonel Mike Hoare is found guilty of hijacking a plane to escape from an aborted coup attempt in the Seychelles. Hoare is later sentenced to 10 years in prison.
28 July 1945
In heavy fog a United States military plane crashes into the Empire State Building in New York killing 14 people.
16 August 1987
In America, pilot error causes a plane crash at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Michigan killing 156 people. A four-year-old girl is the only survivor.
17 August 1988
President of Pakistan, General Zia-ul-Haq, dies in a plane crash.
19 August 1980
A fire on a Saudi Airlines flight forces the plane to land at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. The fire spreads throughout the plane killing 301 people.
24 August 2004
Two Russian planes explode as two separate suicide attacks are conducted by what are thought to be Chechen separatists. There are no survivors on either plane.
25 August 1987
U.S. spacecraft Voyager sends pictures to Earth of the planet Neptune and its satellite planets.
1 September 1983
The Soviet Union shoots down a Korean Airlines passenger plane after it accidentally strayed into Russian airspace. All 269 people onboard are killed.
3 September 1998
A Swissair plane crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia killing all 229 people onboard.
5 September 1986
Pakistani troops storm a hi-jacked Pan Am Boeing 747. 22 people are killed -including several of the hostages. The hi-jacking began 16 hours earlier when 4 Palestinian terrorists boarded the plane at Karachi.
6 September 1970
The Palestinian militant group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, hijacks four airplanes all on their way to New York, America. 
11 September 1997
NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor reaches the red planet.
12 September 1970
The Palestinian militant group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, blow up three planes which they hijacked and subsequently forced to land in Jordan. 
17 September 1908
Lt Thomas Selfridge of the U.S. Army Signal Corps is the first person to be killed in a plane crash when flying with air pioneer Orville Wright as their plane crashes at Fort Meyer in Virginia.
23 September 1846
German Astronomer Johann Galle discovers the planet Neptune.
4 October 1992
An Israeli El Al plane crashes into an apartment block on the outskirts of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. A total of 51 people are killed. 
5 October 1969
A Cuban defector enters U.S. air space undetected and lands his plane at Homestead Air Force Base, in Florida.
8 October 1919
The first transcontinental air race in the United States begins, with 63 planes competing in the round-trip aerial derby between California and New York.
10 October 1985
The Palestinian hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, who were seeking to escape on an Egyptian airliner, are apprehended in Sicily when U.S. fighter planes intercept the jet and force it to land at the NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily.
13 October 1977
Palestinian terrorists’ hi-jack a Lufthansa jet beginning a four day siege in which the plane is forced to land and take off from a number of airports in the Middle East before stopping at Mogadishu, Somali, where German security forces storm theplane and end the hi-jacking. 
14 October 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis: An American U-2 spy plane flying over Cuba provides evidence that there are Soviet missiles on the island.
18 October 1967
The Soviet space probe Venera 4 enters the atmosphere of the planet Venus, the first such probe to achieve this.
19 October 1967
The American spacecraft Mariner 5 successfully transmits data back to Earth as it flies past the planet Venus.
21 October 1944
The Second World War: The first kamikaze attack by a Japanese plane takes place against the HMAS Australia during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the seas surrounding the Philippines.
25 October 2000
A Russian military plane crashes into a mountain in Georgia, killing all 83 people on board.
30 October 1938
In America, the radio broadcast of Orsen Welles’ adaptation of the H. G. Wells’ novel War of the Worlds causes widespread panic - its realism convincing many listeners that beings from another planet have landed on earth.
3 November 1973
NASA launches Mariner 10, an unmanned space mission to fly by the planet Mercury.
4 November 1956
Soviet troops enter Budapest as Soviet planes bomb part of the city putting an end to Hungary’s move towards independence from the Soviet Union.
6 November 1935
In Britain, the RAF’s first monoplane fighter, the Hawker Hurricane makes its maiden flight.
12 November 2001
An American Airlines plane crashes in the Queens neighbourhood off New York after takeoff killing 265 people.
13 November 1971
The American space probe, Mariner 9, flies around Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
14 November 1910
In America, Eugene Ely performs the first plane take-off from the cruiser USS Birmingham. 
15 November 1978
A plane carrying Muslim pilgrims from Mecca to Indonesia crashes in Sri Lanka killing 183 people.
16 November 1965
The Soviet Union launches the unmanned spacecraft Venera 3, which eventually lands on the surface of the planet Venus, becoming the first space probe to successfully land on another planet.
17 November 1970
Soviet spacecraft Lunokhod 1 lands on the Moon and releases the first moonwalker vehicle to travel across the planet’s surface.
23 November 1996
A hijacked Ethiopian Airlines plane crashes into the Indian Ocean after running out of fuel, killing 125 people.
28 November 1979
A New Zealander sightseeing plane travelling over Antarctica crashes, killing all 257 people on board.
29 November 1975
Ex-formula One world champion Graham Hill dies as a plane he is flying crashes in south-east England.
5 December 1945
The legend of the so-called Bermuda Triangle is born in the Atlantic Ocean, as five U.S. Navy bombers from Fort Lauderdale in Florida disappear while flying over the area. No trace is ever found of any of the planes or the pilots.
7 December 1995
NASA’s unmanned spacecraft Galileo reaches the planet Jupiter after being launched in October 1989. 
10 December 1967
In America, a plane crash in Madison, Wisconsin kills soul singer Otis Redding and members of the Bar-Kays band.
12 December 1937
During the battle for Nanking in the Sino-Japanese War, the U.S. gunboat Panay is attacked and sunk by Japanese warplanes in Chinese waters.
14 December 1962
U.S. spacecraft Mariner II becomes the first spacecraft to fly by the planet Venus sending data back to Earth.
16 December 1998
U.S. and British planes launch Operation Desert Fox, a four day bombing campaign against Iraq, after United Nations weapons inspectors are expelled from the country contrary to assurances given by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
21 December 1988
Terrorists blow up a Pan-Am jumbo jet carrying more than 270 passengers and crew as it flies over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. All on board are killed as well as 11 people in the town when the plane crashes.
22 December 1972
14 survivors are found by the Chilean Air Force in the Argentine Andes over two months after there plane crashed.
24 December 1994
Four Islamic extremists hijack Air France plane in Algiers. The plane is allowed to land in Marseilles, France where it is eventually stormed and the siege ended.  
27 December 2006
The French space agency launches the spacecraft COROT from Kazakhstan in a search for extra solar planets. 
3 December 1973
The NASA spacecraft, Pioneer 10, sends back the first close-up images of the planet Jupiter.
 

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