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9 unusual facts about Hornet


Frelon

Frelon is the French for Hornet.

Hackett, Arkansas

The district and school mascot and athletic emblem is the Hornet with school colors of black and gold.

Hazen, Arkansas

The district and high school mascot and athletic emblem is the Hornet with purple and white serving as the school colors.

Hornet

The common European hornet (Vespa crabro) is the best-known species, widely distributed in Europe (but is never found north of the 63rd parallel), in North China and also the only species introduced to North America, Ukraine and European Russia (except in extreme northern areas).

No. 213 Squadron RAF

It was during this time that the squadron derived its Hornet insignia and motto for the squadron badge, after overhearing a Belgian General refer to the squadron's defence of his trenches, "Like angry hornets attacking the enemy aircraft".

SIGSALY

The prototype was called the "Green Hornet" after the popular radio show The Green Hornet, because it sounded like a buzzing hornet — resembling the show's theme tune — to anyone trying to eavesdrop on the conversation.

The Brown Hornet

The Brown Hornet's name is a play on the name of the old time radio hero The Green Hornet.

Originally the Brown Hornet was presented on a radio program by Cosby as an African-American version of the Green Hornet.

The Spooklight

The Spooklight, also called the Hornet Spooklight, Hollis Light and Joplin Spook Light, is a mysterious visual phenomenon allegedly experienced by witnesses in a small area known locally as the "Devil's Promenade" on the border between southwestern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma west of the small town of Hornet, Missouri.


Alice Connor

She is best known for her roles in the television adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson's novel The Illustrated Mum, in the children's television series The New Worst Witch (a spin-off from The Worst Witch), and in the film The Thief Lord as Hornet.

Battle of Derne

Commodore Samuel Barron, the new naval commander in the Mediterranean, provided Eaton with naval support from the USS Nautilus, the USS Hornet and the USS Argus.

The force finally reached the port city of Bomba in late April, up the coast from Derne, where the Argus, the Nautilus and the Hornet along with Captain Hull were waiting.

BSA Hornet

Actor Steve McQueen tested the BSA Hornet and described it as "a keen bike - but I found it awfully heavy".

Christopher Landon

After the war he wrote several novels including: A Flag in the City (1953), his first novel which was about WWII British intelligence in Teheran and their plans to destroy Germany's fifth column operations in Persia; Stone Cold Dead in the Market; Hornet's Nest; Dead Men Rise Up Never; and Unseen Enemy (aka The Shadow of Time).

Clarence E. Vammen, Jr.

The next morning, on 6 June, Vammen joined Hornets planes in attacking the fleeing Japanese heavy cruisers Mogami and Mikuma, a strike that inflicted such severe damage on the latter that she sank later that day.

Creaton UAV

T10 Hornet (Da-Huang-Feng or Dahuangfeng, 大黄蜂) is a micro air vehicle (MAV) that resemble a Boeing Insitu ScanEagle, but propulsion of T10 is provided a two-blade propeller driven by a tractor electric motor mounted in the nose, as opposed to the pusher engine at the rear end of the empennage in ScanEagle.

Cyndee San Luis

Additionally, she appears as Lenore "Casey" Case, the secretary to Britt Reid/The Green Hornet in the Green Hornet segment of Timothy Tau's bio-pic of Keye Luke.

De Havilland

The company followed this with the even higher-performing Hornet, which was one of the pioneers of the use of metal-wood and metal-metal bonding techniques.

Deanna

Deanna Marie Brasseur, retired Canadian military officer and one of the first two female CF-18 Hornet fighter pilots in the world

Firebase Wilderness

In October 2008, the CBS news program 60 Minutes aired a report by Lara Logan from FB Wilderness titled Afghanistan: Fighting In A "Hornet's Nest".

GP Wu

Following the album, the group went their separate ways, with Pop da Brown Hornet being the only one to release a solo album, 2000's The Undaground Emperor.

Himlen runt hörnet

"Himlen runt hörnet" is a song first released as a single by Lisa Nilsson.

Hudson Hornet

The Gran Turismo developer, Polyphony Digital is confirmed the 1954 Hudson Hornet will be rebuild on December, also will feature this car on the racing simulator "Gran Turismo 6", and the former Formula 1 world champion, Mario Andretti to talk about the early racing life story for filming the GT6 and Mario's documentary "First Love".

The Hudson Hornet was featured in the video games, Driver: San Francisco and Forza Motorsport 4 as a part of July Car Pack.

Joe Eubanks

As one of the first competitors to compete in a NASCAR road racing event, Eubanks finished second to Al Keller who was driving a 1951 Hudson Hornet automobile.

John C. Waldron

Without fighter escort, his attack bombers vulnerably underpowered and lacking in defensive armament, and forced by the unreliability of their own torpedoes to fly low and slow directly at their targets, all of the Hornet's torpedo planes soon fell to the undivided attention of the enemy's combat air patrol of Mitsubishi "Zero" fighters.

Kenneth Cecil Bunch

With the extension of his enlistment on 9 March 1941, Bunch was transferred to the Naval Air Station at Norfolk, Va., on 29 August 1941 where he joined VS-8, of the then-forming Hornet (CV-8) Air Group, soon thereafter.

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen

Contributing to the new and more emphatic public presence of the Kunstsammlung - which is now able to display the art collections of this federal state more comprehensively than ever before - is the large-scale mosaic mural "Hornet", composed of colorful tiles and the work of American artist Sarah Morris.

Mark Tennant

He earned the nickname "The Green Hornet", after the comic book and radio serial character of the same name, because he "always knew what the bad guys were doing" during his turn as orderly officer.

Maximums

Hornet has commented that the team seems to spend most of the time fighting itself, most notably a battle with former member the Chaos Witch in which Bowman was killed (a reference to the Scarlet Witch and the events of Avengers Disassembled).

Oriental hornet

The Oriental hornet Vespa orientalis, is a hornet which looks very similar to the European hornet.

Robert Lee, Texas

Dean E. Hallmark, born in Robert Lee on January 20, 1914, served as the command pilot of B-25 #6, the "Green Hornet," on Jimmy Doolittle's Tokyo Raid of April 18, 1942.

Sesia bembeciformis

The Lunar Hornet Moth (Sesia bembeciformis) is a moth of the family Sesiidae.

The Brown Hornet

Black Thought of the hip hop band The Roots mentions the Brown Hornet in the lyrics to Thought @ Work.

Timo Kahlen

His installation at the Aviation Museum in Amberg in 2010 was disrupted when a cleaner mistakenly vacuumed up the two dead hornets he had placed on a loudspeaker: the installation was titled Tanz für Insekten (dance for insects) and the intention was for the dead insects to "dance" as a result of the vibrations.

Weapons officer

Weapon systems officer (WSO), either a United States Navy air flight officer directly involved in all air operations and weapon systems of a fighter aircraft or the aft crew member in a United States Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle or B-1 Lancer or a United States Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornet


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