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11me Escadrille de Chasse

The new unit used a unit insignia upon its airplanes that was adopted from Willy Coppens's personal insignia with his consent.

12th Aero Squadron

Arriving on 5 July 1917, the men began assembling Standard J-1 and Curtiss JN-4 training airplanes shipped direct from the factory, and they took part in the training of the flying cadets that began pouring into the field in late July.

Air Hogs

Air Hogs is a line of toy airplanes, helicopters, rockets, and cars manufactured by the Spin Master company in Toronto, Canada.

Aircraft Warning Service Observation Tower

The Aircraft Warning Service Observation Tower in Agnew, Washington was built in 1941 as a spotting station for Aircraft Warning Service volunteers watching for intruding Japanese airplanes during World War II.

Allegations of CIA drug trafficking

In order to provide covert funds for the Kuomintang (KMT) forces loyal to General Chiang Kai-shek, who were fighting the Chinese communists under Mao Zedong, the CIA helped the KMT smuggle opium from China and Burma to Bangkok, Thailand, by providing airplanes owned by one of their front businesses, Air America.

Anne E. DeChant

Examples include Girls and Airplanes (gender equality), Green Hand (supporting troops post-war), Swastika (Holocaust denial), 25 (imbalance in economic status), and Second Class Citizen (prejudice and intolerance toward the gay community).

Aurel Persu

Persu, a specialist in airplanes aerodynamics and dynamics, implemented his idea in 1922–1923 in Berlin, building an automobile with an incredibly low drag coefficient of 0.28 (same as a modern Porsche Carrera) or even 0.22 (still not reached by almost any modern production cars), depending on the source.

Auto-Saharan Company

Every "compagnia" was supported until November 1942 by 3 airplanes, model Caproni Ca.309 and nicknamed "Ghibli".

Aviator hat

With the advent of closed-cockpit airplanes, hats became less necessary (note that Charles Lindbergh still wore one when he crossed the Atlantic in 1927, though his Spirit of St. Louis monoplane had a closed cockpit).

Barry Schiff

In 1995 and with the direct approval of Jordanian King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister, Itzhak Rabin, Schiff contributed to the Middle East peace process by leading a formation of 35 airplanes carrying 135 Americans, Israelis, and Jordanians from Jerusalem to Amman.

Birth of the B-29

The manufacturing of Superfortresses in huge factories is then chronicled, as Americans from every walk of life, black, white, male and female, work together to assemble the giant airplanes, each one larger than the Mayflower.

Brian Calzini

The band recorded a few songs in 2009, including a cover of B.o.B's popular song "Airplanes", featuring Tom Denney (ex-A Day to Remember) and former band mate Kellin Quinn (Sleeping with Sirens).

Carl Andrew Weinman

Among the notable cases heard by Weinman as a federal judge were the appeal of the murder conviction of Sam Sheppard; the antitrust case of Elder-Beerman Stores against the Federated Department Stores, and a lawsuit involving a mid-air collision of two airplanes which was among the first of its kind.

Dan Denney

Dan Denney, of Idaho is the original designer of the Kitfox airplanes and founder of Denney Aerocraft.

Debre Marqos

General Ugo Cavallero, with sixty thousand men and supported by airplanes and tanks, had crushed the revolt by the end of May.

East Texas Regional Airport

LeTourneau constitutes a very large portion of the airport's traffic and has a fleet of airplanes ranging from Cessna 172s to Citabrias and Diamond DA-42 Twinstars.

Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport

On June 24, 1935, internationally renowned Argentinian tango singer Carlos Gardel and a group of his musicians were killed in a collision between two small airplanes at the Olaya Herra Airport.

Escadrille 23

On 19 March 1918, the escadrille earned the fourragere of the Croix de guerre by being cited again, for downing another 23 enemy airplanes.

First Army Air Service

A few pursuit patrols of Fokker airplanes were reported as operating in this sector, but it was quite probable that these were new airplanes received as replacements for the Albatross and Pfalz type formerly in use.

Fokker T.V

It was modern for its time, but by the German invasion of 1940, it was outclassed by the airplanes of the Luftwaffe.

Germán Castro Caycedo

The stories of some pilots in the Colombian Orinoco region, where brave men face extreme jungle conditions, flying old DC-3 airplanes to carry people, food, medical supplies, and sometimes funny payloads, like beer or animals.

Hazel Bishop

In 1942, she worked as an organic chemist for Standard Oil Development Company, designing fuels for airplanes during World War II.

Hitoshi Narita

As a child growing up in Nagoya, Japan, he recalls having been fascinated by large mobile structures—airplanes, ships, trains—anything which was large, mechanical, and moved.

Ilmor

In 2001 Paul Morgan was killed while landing one of his vintage airplanes, a Hawker Sea Fury at Sywell Aerodrome, Northamptonshire.

Jules Wabbes

Other works included the fittings of the Science Library for the Université catholique de Louvain, the fittings of the Sabena airplanes and the fittings of the United States embassies in London, Brussels, Dakar and Rabat.

Kallang Airport

In the early 1950s, the increasing size of airplanes and the need for longer runways resulted in it being extended beyond Mountbatten Road in the eastern boundary of the facility into what is now Old Airport Road.

Kill Speed

The film is set in the scorched desert of Southern California and Keegan, Quinn, Natalia Cigliuti, Nick Carter, Reno Wilson, Christian Monzon and Greg Grunberg play characters involved in a high-octane “TOP GUN” meets “FAST & FURIOUS” type tale about best friends who fly super fast, high-tech, experimental airplanes to deliver Mexican manufactured crystal meth throughout California in order to fund their Hollywood, rock-star lifestyle.

Kurdish rebellions in Turkey

Turkish military used air force against the rebels using five airplanes in Mardin.

Load balancing

Weight distribution, the apportioning of weight within a vehicle, especially cars, airplanes, and watercraft

Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball

A 1986 Sports Illustrated article stated, "A Lady Techster is likely to be a good student and a devout Christian, probably favors needlepoint over Madonna tapes on airplanes and fears a drug test about as much as she does an airport metal detector." The same article stated that Hogg's insistence that her players act like ladies gave the team an "almost antebellum image" that was well-suited to a conservative town like Ruston.

Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum

It housed a wide variety of historic Marine Corps vehicles/tanks (both wheeled and tracked), equipment, artillery pieces and aircraft (both fixed wing (airplanes) and rotary wing (helicopters)) to trace the evolution and significance of the Marine Air-Ground Team.

Matthew Frew

He had destroyed 14 German airplanes, 12 of them solo, and the other two shared with fellow aces Kenneth Barbour Montgomery and Raymond Brownell.

Maurice Prather

Instead, he found work as a photographer of wartime airplanes for North American Aviation in Kansas City.

Multilingual titling

In the live performing arts, multilingual options (with possibility of individual choice) were introduced in 1998 at Santa Fe Opera by mean of custom individual displays set mainly on the back of the seats, as in airplanes.

Multiplex

Multiplex Modellsport, a manufacturer of radio control equipment and radio-controlled airplanes

Noise Free America

# Quieting jet aircraft: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) should set stricter noise thresholds for existing private and commercial internal combustion engine airplanes and mandate significantly quieter engines for future aircraft of this type.

Patent pool

In 1917, the two major patent holders for airplanes, the Wright Company and the Curtiss Company, had effectively blocked the building of new airplanes, which were desperately needed as the United States was entering World War I.

Pneumatic motor

Air Hogs, a toy brand, also uses compressed air to power piston engines in toy airplanes (and some other toy vehicles).

Private member's bill

NDP MP Lynn McDonald succeeded in getting her private member's bill, the "Non-smokers' Health Act" (aka Bill C-204), passed in 1986, (given Royal Assent on 28 June 1988) restricting smoking in federally regulated workplaces and on airplanes, trains and ships.

Saraksh

Such lack of airplanes only supports the dominant theory of Hollow Earth.

SEASPRAY

SEASPRAY operated many air assets, including various Cessna and Beechcraft light fixed-wing airplanes, and modified FLIR-equipped Hughes 500MD rotary-wing aircraft equipped to transport up to nine operators.

Second East Turkestan Republic

These airplanes participated in the battle between Ili rebels and the Kuomintang for Shihezi and Jinghe in September 1945.

Speedwell Motor Car Company

The company's factory rented space for the Wright Company to build its airplanes from February to November 1910 while the Wright Company built its own factory building in west Dayton.

Sphingosine kinase

During "100,000 Airplanes", a third season episode of The West Wing, sphingosine kinase is fictitiously described as "the enzyme believed to control all signal pathways to cancer growth."

Tailored fiber placement

Further the TFP heating elements can be applied in CFRP wing structures of airplanes or blades of wind mills for anti- and de-icing tasks.

Team 60

The year after another two airplanes was added, and in spring of 1976 the first display under the new name Team 60 was flown in Gothenburg.

Travel Air Type R Mystery Ship

The Type R "Mystery Ships" were a series of wire-braced, low-wing racing airplanes built by the Travel Air company in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Wilfred Beaver

In the final analysis, Beaver and his observers (including fellow aces M. B. Mather and Ernest Deighton) were credited 11 enemy airplanes destroyed and eight driven down out of control.


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