State Plane Coordinate System State Plane Coordinate System The State Plane Coordinate System (SPS or SPCS) is a set of 124 geographic zones or coordinate systems designed for specific regions of the United States. Each state contains one or more state plane zones, the boundaries of which usually follow county lines. There are 110 zones in the contiguous US, with 10 more in Alaska, 5 in Hawaii, and one for Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands. The system is widely used for geographic data by state and local governments. Its popularity is due to at least two factors. First, it uses a simple Cartesian
The President's Plane Is Missing (film) 1971, but due to then-President Richard Nixon's ongoing diplomatic relationship with and planned visit to China it was decided to postpone release of a film which painted China in a negative light until after Nixon's return from his visit to China. "The President's Plane Is Missing" was released on October 23, 1973, as a period piece. In "Cinema and Nation", when comparing "The President's Plane Is Missing" to such films as "JFK" (1991) and "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) reviewers noted that while many films use a premise that actual democracy is an illusion, this one was rare in that it