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unusual facts about Douglas C. Schmidt


Michael Stal

Douglas C. Schmidt, Michael Stal, Hans Rohnert, Frank Buschmann Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture - Patterns for Cuncurrent and Networked Objects, Wiley & Sons, 2000, ISBN 0-471-60695-2


1951 Ringway Dakota accident

On 27 March 1951 a Douglas Dakota 3 cargo aircraft registered G-AJVZ operated by Air Transport Charter en route from Ringway Airport, Manchester, England, to Nutts Corner Airport, Antrim, Northern Ireland, crashed shortly after take-off following the failure of the aircraft to gain height.

1974 Togo plane crash

The 1974 Togo plane crash refers to an incident on 24 January 1974, when a Togo Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain:5V-MAG carrying several notable political figures crashed at an isolated location near the village of Sarakawa in northern Togo.

2012 SAAF Dakota crash

The 2012 SAAF Dakota crash occurred on 5 December 2012 when a Douglas C-47TP of the South African Air Force crashed in the Drakensburg Mountains, KwaZulu Natal, killing all eleven people on board.

Alfred De Sève

His compositional output includes works for violin and piano, solo piano, and orchestra; many of which were published by Arthur P. Schmidt and Charles H. Ditson.

Arthur P. Schmidt

Schmidt also edited The Old Man and the Sea (1958-directed by John Sturges).

He worked on several of the Bulldog Drummond B-movies, The Blue Dahlia (1946) and When Worlds Collide (1951).

One of Schmidt's sons, Arthur R. Schmidt, is also a notable film editor who has won Academy Awards for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Forrest Gump (1994).

Benno Schmidt

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., former president of Yale University, currently associated with Edison Schools

Biju Patnaik

He flew to Java and brought Sultan Sjahrir aboard from Java islands on 22 July 1947 using a Dakota and reached India via Singapore on 24 July.

Broome International Airport

On 21 January 1974, Douglas C-47A PK-GDC of the Burmah Oil Co was damaged beyond economic repair in an accident.

Catalina affair

The first aircraft to be shot down was an unarmed Swedish Air Force Tp 79, a derivative of the Douglas DC-3, carrying out radio and radar signals intelligence-gathering for the National Defence Radio Establishment.

Crüe Ball

This game was designed by two people who actually worked on pinball games: Mark Sprenger (artist for such games as 1984's Space Shuttle and 1986's High Speed) and Brian L. Schmidt (composer for Black Knight 2000 and various pinball games by Data East Pinball/Sega Pinball (now Stern Pinball, Inc.).

Douglas C-133 Cargomaster

This aircraft had been at the Strategic Air and Space Museum at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska for many years and was donated to the AMC Museum when the SAS Museum moved in the late 1990s to its new location.

Douglas C-74 Globemaster

They were attached to the 554th AAF Base Unit located at Memphis Municipal Airport, Tennessee.

Douglas C. Bennett

Earlham College, during Bennett's tenure, gained national media attention when political analyst and Fox News commentator William Kristol, was hit with an ice cream pie by a student while giving a speech on foreign policy in March 2005.

Evansville Regional Airport

On December 13, 1977, Douglas C-53 N51071 of National Jet Services crashed on take-off from Evansville on a non-scheduled passenger flight to Nashville Metropolitan Airport, Tennessee.

Gnomium

Gerhard Krüss and F. W. Schmidt thought that existence of this element would solve an apparent problem in the periodic table.

Henry Schmidt

Henry C. Schmidt (born 1937), associate professor of history at Texas A&M University

John E. Hunter

Hunter received the Distinguished Scientific Award for Contributions to Applied Psychology (joint with Frank L. Schmidt), and the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) (also joint with Schmidt).

Kalman filter

Stanley F. Schmidt is generally credited with developing the first implementation of a Kalman filter.

LattisNet

SynOptics' co-founder, Engineer Ronald V. Schmidt, had experimented with a fiber-optic variant of Ethernet called Fibernet II while working at Xerox PARC, where Ethernet had been invented.

Lee Bass

In 1991, under the presidency of Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., he donated $20 million to Yale University to start a new program in Western civilization.

Linz Airport

On 8 January 1968, Douglas C-47B YU-ABK of Jugoslovenski Aerotransport was operating an international scheduled cargo flight from Riem Airport, Munich, West Germany to Pleso Airport, Zagreb, Yugoslavia when a fire developed in one of the engines.

M22 Locust

The prototype was designated the Light Tank T9 (Airborne), and was designed so that it could be transported underneath a Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft, although its dimensions also allowed it to fit inside a General Aircraft Hamilcar glider.

Manfred Schmidt

Manfred G. Schmidt (born 1948), German professor of political science

Mark Alan Hewitt

Hewitt, Mark Alan, Architecture of Mott B. Schmidt, Rizzoli, New York 1991, ISBN 978-0-8478-1399-5

Michael Schmidt

Michael S. Schmidt (born 1983), correspondent for The New York Times

Mont Pilat

On 1 November 1944 a U.S. Army Douglas C-47 Skytrain crashed due to bad weather carrying five crew members, army nurse lieutenant Aleda E. Lutz and fifteen wounded of whom some were German prisoners.

Oliver Huntemann

The early sessions in Frerichs' studio, aided by jazz musician H.G. Schmidt, led to the creation of the Humate project.

Operation Most III

A Dakota of No. 267 Squadron RAF flew from Brindisi, and landed at an Armia Krajowa outpost codenamed Motyl (butterfly), which was in a village near Jadowniki Mokre.

PAF Base Lahore

In 1950, a transport squadron consisting of Dakotas and Bristol Freighters moved into the base from Peshawar before eventually relocating to Chaklala in 1960.

Palmietfontein Airport

On 15 September 1952, a South African Airways Douglas C-47A-30-DL(DC-3) ZS-AVI with 19 occupants was written off when they landed at Carolina after becoming lost on a flight from Livingstone, Zambia to Palmietfontein.

Pitcairnia loki-schmidtiae

The species is named after Hannelore "Loki" Schmidt, wife of former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt.

Reinhold O. Schmidt

The film, Edge of Tomorrow, begins with Schmidt being interviewed by an actor resembling Long John Nebel.

Richard Schmidt

Richard E. Schmidt (1865–1958), American architect of the Chicago School

Richard J. Schmidt, American, first person convicted of a crime on evidence from viral DNA analysis

Rimouski Airport

On 29 May 1973, Douglas C-47A CF-QBB of Air Gaspé crashed on approach, killing all four people on board.

Section Seven of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

In Canada v. Schmidt (1987), the Supreme Court found that government decisions to extradite people are bound by section 7.

Slovenian Museum of Natural History

The insect collection of Ferdinand J. Schmidt includes several interesting specimens, notably the "narrow-necked" blind cave beetles (Leptodirus hochenwartii) that were described in 1831 as the first cave insect.

Stanley F. Schmidt

From 1962 to 1966, Dr. Schmidt was a senior Staff Scientist with Philco's Western Development Laboratory.

From 1946 to 1961, he was with NASA Ames Research Center, where he discovered the utility of the Kalman filter as applied to data processing for the nonlinear navigation equations of the manned lunar mission.

Ta'izz International Airport

On 19 March 1969, Douglas C-47 4W-AAS of Yemen Airlines crashed shortly after take-off due to an incorrectly assembled elevator trim tab which operated in the opposite manner to normal.

Tachikawa air disaster

The Tachikawa air disaster occurred on the afternoon of Thursday, June 18, 1953 when a United States Air Force (USAF) Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed just three minutes after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board.

VOF de Kunst

The group has also produced albums of traditional festive songs and songs based on nursery rhymes and the works of Annie M. G. Schmidt.

Whiteman Air Force Base

Pilots flew C-46 or C-47 transports and several types of cargo and personnel gliders, usually the Waco CG-4A.

William R. Schmidt

He stayed in this position until 1923, when he was transferred back to the Hawai.


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