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unusual facts about AIM-47 Falcon


AIM-47 Falcon

The missile was renamed AIM-47 in the fall of 1962 as part of the transition to common naming for aerospace vehicles across the U.S. Department of Defense in 1962.


328th Armament Systems Wing

The wing performed cradle-to-grave management of air dominance weapon system programs, including the AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM), AIM-9X Follow-on Sidewinder, High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) Targeting System, Miniature Air Launched Decoy, and aerial target systems.

807 Naval Air Squadron

Before leaving for the Far East in October 1961 the aircraft were modified to carry AIM-9 Sidewinder air to air missiles and AGM-12 Bullpup air to ground missiles.

Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation

In response to this threat AIM was founded in 1998 by former adult entertainer Dr. Sharon Mitchell, who had left the industry in 1996 to qualify in public health counseling and sexology.

Aerodrome

The Canadian Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) says "...for the most part, all of Canada can be an aerodrome", however there are also "registered aerodromes" and "certified airports".

Alternative Investment Market

On 29 January 2009 it was announced that AIM is to form the basis of an Asian-orientated growth or incubator market called 'Tokyo AIM', which will be run as a joint venture between the Tokyo Stock Exchange and LSE.

AN/APG-69

The APG-69 was capable of guiding the AIM-7 Sparrow missile, making it the first of Emerson's offerings to reach production with beyond visual range capability.

Anne Helm

Alicia is involved with two outlaws, Cass and Willard, played by Ron Hayes and Gregory Walcott, respectively, who aim to steal a mining payroll.

Anthony Davies

In April 2008 he worked on a pilot scheme, called ‘KIS’ Kids Into Snooker, set up by Cuefactor in conjunction with the Paul Hunter Foundation, the aim being to help generate interest in snooker amongst disadvantaged young people.

Attic Records

ATIC Records, Manchester, United Kingdom electronic / Hip Hop label, founded by Aim in 2005

Audiobulb Records

The label was founded in 2003 by David Newman with the aim of promoting a new generation of innovative electronic artists.

Battle of Chawinda

The aim of the attack was to seize the key Grand Trunk Road around Wazirabad and the capture of Jassoran which would enable domination of Sialkot-Pasrur railway, thus completely cutting off Pakistani supply line.

Battle of the Cigno Convoy

Their aim was to isolate and defeat the bulk of the German Afrika Corps and the Regio Esercito (Italian Royal Army) in Tunis by strangling their supply lines.

Betws-y-Coed

The Conwy Valley Line was constructed by the London and North Western Railway with the primary aim of transporting dressed slate from the Blaenau Ffestiniog quarries to a specially built quay at Deganwy for export by sea.

BioSLAX

Their aim was to effectively create a "BioSLAX CLOUD" where students and staff may instantiate any number BioSLAX servers dynamically for research and education (conduct bioinformatics practical labs by having students connect to the servers via suitable X Window clients such as X-Win32, VNC, Exceed and NoMachine NX) or deployed in such a manner which when used in conjunction with the UD Grid mpagent may be used to form a cluster for processing large jobs.

Caplinger Mills, Missouri

In 1897, Austin was visited there by Emma Goldman, who gave several well-attended talks on subjects such as "The Aim of Humanity," "Religion," "Anarchy," and "Free Love.".

Chilwell Olympia

It is run by Broxtowe Borough Council with the aim of meeting the recreational and sporting needs of the locality as well as the physical education needs of the pupils at Chilwell School.

Cordaid

Cordaid was founded in 1999 in The Hague, with the aim of helping people in distress and fighting structural poverty.

Dopefish

Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe (2009) (TV show) appears as graffiti in an unnamed game where the aim is to push Myleene Klass in a canal.

Edwin B. Hooper

Hooper gained approval for the development of the AIM-9 Sidewinder.

Foreign involvement in the 2006 Lebanon War

A spokesman indicated that the aim of the aid was "finish the work of UN Resolution 1559," and that the additional assistance would go towards "some very basic issues, such as providing spare parts and maintenance and other kinds of things for trucks and personnel carriers and other vehicles".

Fred Joseph Nichol

Nichol was the presiding judge over the 1974 U.S. District Court trial of AIM (American Indian Movement) members who had taken over the village of Wounded Knee, South Dakota for 71 days in 1973.

Garsdale railway station

It is the long term aim of the Wensleydale Railway to extend their rails along the former route from Redmire to connect with services here, allowing through journeys to Northallerton on the East Coast Main Line.

GDF Suez

With the stated aim of reaching a total production capacity of 10GW by 2013, three gas-fired thermal power plants at Fos-sur-Mer, Montoir-de-Bretagne and Saint-Brieuc are currently in various stages of development, as is a solar panel project in Curbans.

Grigory Langsdorff

With the aim of illustrating and documenting his findings, the Baron hired painters Hércules Florence, Johann Moritz Rugendas and Adrien Taunay.

Gungsangnorbu

In 1912, in the aftermath of the Xinhai Revolution, Gungsangnorbu made some attempts to form an alliance with Bogd Khan and the Khalkha Mongols in the newly independent state of Mongolia, with the Pan-Mongolist aim of annexing China's Inner Mongolian territories to an independent, Mongol-dominated Greater Mongolia.

Harbour Town Golf Links

The red and white striped Harbour Town lighthouse can be seen in the background and is often a good target for golfers to aim their shots into the green.

Hereditary Disease Foundation

In 1968, after experiencing Huntington's disease (HD) in his wife's family, Dr. Milton Wexler was inspired to start the Hereditary Disease Foundation, with the aim of curing genetic illnesses by coordinating and supporting research.

Iofina

The Group successful completed its IPO and was admitted for trading on 9 May 2008 on the London Stock Exchange AIM market.

Ivideon

The software was launched with the aim to make life easier for people to monitor environments using online IP cameras.

James Godwin

These programs included delivering the cornerstone of Naval Aviation, F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, as well as the early operational fielding of the Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR), Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS), the Shared Reconnaissance Pod (SHARP), Improved Capability III Airborne Electronic Attack (ICAP III) system, and latest version of the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile, the AIM-9X.

Jamie Reeves

When Reeves saw Bill Kazmaier win his third World's Strongest Man title in 1982, on BBC television, he decided that would be his aim, and took up weights.

Jews for Judaism

They aim to help Jews strengthen and rediscover their Judaism.

John H. McGlynn

In 1987, along with four Indonesian writers, Goenawan Mohamad, Sapardi Djoko Damono, Umar Kayam, and Subagio Sastrowardoyo, he founded the Lontar Foundation with the aim of promoting Indonesian literature and culture to the international world through the translation of Indonesian literature.

Joint Services Expedition to Elephant Island

The expedition was sponsored by the Joint Services Expedition Trust with the aim of climbing, exploring and carrying out a preliminary scientific survey of islands in the Elephant group for the Directorate of Overseas Surveys.

Language professional

Examples of associations providing continuing professional development activities are EATAW, the Council of Science Editors, the European Medical Writers Association, the European Association of Science Editors, the Society for Editors and Proofreaders and Mediterranean Editors and Translators, the first association to specifically aim to bring together different types of language professionals.

Marcus Williamson

In 2009 the AIM-listed spyware company Phorm created a website Stopphoulplay.com to attack Williamson and fellow campaigner Alexander Hanff.

NaN

most processors (including those of the Intel/AMD x86-32/x86-64 family, the Motorola 68000 family, the AIM PowerPC family, the ARM family, and the Sun SPARC family) set the signaled/quiet bit to non-zero if the NaN is quiet, and to zero if the NaN is signaling.

Operation Acid Drop

Each raid consisted of one officer and 14 men, their targets were the beaches at Hardelot and Merlimont in the Pas-de-Calais, France with the aim of carrying out reconnaissance and if possible, to capture a German soldier.

Pacific Missile Test Center

Among the missiles developed and tested there include the Sparrow family and the Phoenix air-to-air missiles and the Regulus surface-to-surface missile in addition to numerous prototypes of military rockets and sounding rockets.

Pershyttan

With the aim to research and explore techniques for building an underground base on the moon.

Polish National-Territorial Region

The Polish autonomist movement (the leaders of which included Jan Ciechanowicz) was related to the Yedinstvo movement and had tacit support from Moscow (thus, when following the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania the Soviets applied a blockade against Lithuania, the areas of Eastern Lithuania with significant minority population were mostly spared of the blockade, with the aim of gaining minorities' support for Moscow).

Richard E. Gray

He served as chief test director for the AIM-7F Sparrow in 1975-76 before being assigned as an F-14A project pilot on the Air Combat Evaluation/Intercept Missile Evaluation (ACEVAL/AIMVAL) program.

St Piran's Day

Dan Rogerson MP said of the 2012 event "The aim is to increase understanding of Cornwall’s Celtic heritage and culture in order to inform future debates on devolution, identity and government policy... and we are aiming to go bigger and better next year."

Tonnage war

Alternatively, the aim may be to target ships carrying particularly valuable cargos such as treasure or munitions, and ships carrying less critical cargoes or steaming in ballast are assigned a lower priority.

Unity of opposites

For example, Michael Maier stresses that the union of opposites is the aim of the alchemical work.

Wani Ardy

In 2011, Wani's song Hujan was selected to be played throughout the month of May on Dandelion Radio, an internet radio station founded in June 2006 with the aim of pursuing the musical legacy of the popular and influential BBC Radio 1 disk jockey John Peel.

Wounded Knee incident

Afterward AIM leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means were indicted on charges related to the events, but their 1974 case was dismissed by the federal court for prosecutorial misconduct, a decision upheld on appeal.

Zero-K

Zero-K run on Spring engine and by 2013 the engine now include an alternative pathfinding algorithm and multi-core support that aim to address this performance issue.


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