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17 unusual facts about Langley


A Benihana Christmas

At the end of the day, Jim tells Pam that a helicopter will be arriving to take Dwight to a welcoming party at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

A Death in Vienna

In Langley the CIA admit that Radek was one of many Nazis recruited to set up an intelligence network in Germany in order to spy on the Soviet Union, laying a false trail through Italy, Syria and Argentina as misdirection.

Athletics at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

The full Olympic route was thus from Windsor, via Eton, Slough, Langley, Uxbridge, Ickenham, Ruislip, Harrow, Sudbury, Wembley, Willesden, and Wormwood Scrubs, to White City Stadium.

Bullace

The Langley Bullace, or "Veitch's Black Bullace", is by far the newest variety, being first raised in 1902 by the Veitch nurseries at Langley, Berkshire.

Edward Scheidt

Edward M. Scheidt (born 1939) is a retired Chairman of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Cryptographic Center and the designer of the cryptographic systems used in the Kryptos sculpture at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

Gary Schroen

From 1992-1994, Schroen worked at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, controlling Iranian operations.

Hawker Sea Fury

The first Sea Fury prototype, SR661, first flew at Langley, Berkshire, on 21 February 1945, powered by a Centaurus XII engine.

James Veitch, Jr.

As business expanded, the nursery acquired sites at Feltham, Langley and Coombe Wood.

JMWAVE

Under Ted Shackley's leadership from 1962 to 1965, JMWAVE grew to be the largest CIA station in the world outside of the organization's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, with 300 to 400 professional operatives (possibly including about 100 based in Cuba) as well as an estimated 15,000 anti-Castro Cuban exiles on its payroll.

Langley, Arkansas

The town served as a base for rescuers in the aftermath of the 2010 Arkansas floods.

Langley, Cheshire

The painter Charles Tunnicliffe was born in Langley and painted many birds at the four reservoirs behind the village in Macclesfield Forest.

Langley was mentioned in the first episode of the TV series Ashes to Ashes, in February 2008, when DI Alex Drake, played by Keeley Hawes mentions Langley, Virginia, most famous as home to the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Langley, Washington

The players are instructed to search every store for a box of cards, with a clue to the mystery printed on each card.

London Buses route 81

In April 2008, a Muslim bus driver on route 81 was reported to have stopped a bus at Langley to pray.

McDonnell XP-67

The project was also delayed by intense competition for testing time at the NACA wind tunnel facility in Langley, Virginia.

Nagant M1895

There is an example of a suppressed Nagant M1895 in the CIA Museum in Langley, Virginia, USA.

Pullach

The headquarters of the intelligence agency of the German government, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), is located in Pullach, making it a metonym for the BND just like Langley is for the CIA.


480th

480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing (480th ISR Wing) is headquartered at Langley Air Force Base, Va.

88th Aero Squadron

While at Langley, the 88th flew the DH-4s and the Douglas O-2.

Adria Locke Langley

Adria Locke Langley (1899- August 14, 1983) was an American author best known for her first novel, published in 1945, the best seller A Lion Is in the Streets based on life of Huey Long.

Britwell

Britwell was one of a number of London County Council estates built at the time, with other estates in places including Langley and Swindon.

Chopawamsic

The 1896 tests were witnessed by Langley's friend and colleague, Alexander Graham Bell.

Cultural depictions of Edward II of England

Ben Chaplin in the miniseries World Without End during which he survives his assassination and lives in exile in Kingsbridge under the name of Thomas Langley, the man who had been ordered to kill him.

Durham School

The school was in Langley's time situated on the east side of Palace Green to the north of the cathedral.

Eve Langley

Suzanne Falkiner, writing about women writing about the wilderness, suggests that "Those rare women who have deliberately gone into the landscape alone, and not trailing in the tracks of a protective husband - from Daisy Bates in the 1880s to Eve Langley in the 1930s and Robyn Davidson in the 1970s - have often had to combat being considered eccentric, or even mad".

Fred Weick

It was also at Langley that Weick headed the development of streamlined, low-drag engine cowling technology that was to advance aircraft performance dramatically.

Gil Langley

Langley's skills behind the wicket were recognised by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, who proclaimed him "the safest wicketkeeper in the game" and named him one of its five cricketers of the year in 1957.

Langley played his last Test match against India at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in November 1956 and retired from first class cricket a month later after scoring a century for South Australia against New South Wales at the Adelaide Oval.

John W. Langley

Langley was elected in March 4, 1907 as a Republican to the Sixtieth and to the nine succeeding Congresses where he became known as "Pork Barrel John." He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses).

Joseph Lekuton

He taught at The Langley School in McLean, Virginia, before leaving for Harvard University where he earned a Masters degree in International Education policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Kaydee

In October 1997, Tara Egan-Langley (now better known as Tara Blaise) joined Kaydee on vocals from the Wilde Oscars.

Kings Langley

Kings Langley was the home of the makers of Ovaltine and the listed factory facade is now all that is left and still stands alongside the railway line among a new housing development.

Langley Aerodrome

Aerodrome No. 5, the first Langley heavier-than-air craft to fly, is on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Aerodrome No. 6 is located at Wesley W. Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh, and was restored in part by the Pitt engineering students.

Langley Field

In 1917, the new proving ground was designated Langley Field for one of America's early air pioneers, Samuel Pierpont Langley.

Mulford T. Hunter House

Mulford Hunter was a captain of Great Lakes steamships, earning enough to become wealthy and, in 1894, he commissioned architect William P. Langley to design a home.

Orteig Prize

Stanton Hall Wooster, are killed when their Keystone Pathfinder, American Legion, fails to gain altitude during a test flight at Langley Field, Virginia, about a week before they expected to attempt the New York to Paris flight.

Owoye Andrew Azazi

In the autumn of 2010, he met with then-CIA Director Leon Panetta at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

Paddy McAloon

Songs written by McAloon have also been recorded by Kylie Minogue ("If You Don't Love Me"), Cher ("The Gunman"), Wendy Matthews ("God Watch Over You" and "Ride"), Sondre Lerche ("Nightingales" - the song appeared in "From Langley Park to Memphis" and Lerche sang it with the Faces Down Quartet as a tribute to Prefab Sprout), Danny Seward ("Home (Where The Heart Is)"), Momus ("Green Isaac Pt. 2") and various songs for Jimmy Nail.

Philippa Langley

Langley is best known for her contribution to the 2012 exhumation of Richard III of England.

Samuel Bourn the Elder

His maternal uncle was Robert Seddon, who (after receiving Presbyterian ordination on 14 June 1654) became minister at Gorton, Lancashire and Langley, Derbyshire, where he was silenced in 1662.

Scramjet

A series of scramjet ground test were completed at NASA Langley Arc-Heated Scramjet Test Facility (AHSTF) at simulated Mach 8 flight conditions.

St Giles in the Wood

Firstly, immediately beneath the above inscription, a small brass plaque with portrait of a kneeling lady, to commemorate Johanna Risdon (d.17/5/1610), daughter of George Pollard of Langley and mother of Tristram Risdon of Winscott in the parish of St Giles in the Wood, the author of "The Survey of Devon" (c. 1630).

Thomas Langley

In October 1404, Langley was elected Bishop of London but the new Pope, Innocent VII, refused to allow his installation and on 2 March 1405 he was appointed Chancellor for the first time.

TWU

Trinity Western University, a private university in Langley, British Columbia, Canada

U.S. military response during the September 11 attacks

NEADS responded to this report by giving a scramble order to three fighters from the 1st Fighter Wing on alert at Langley Air Force Base at 9:24, and by 9:30 they were in the air.

Virginia State Route 123

East of the center of McLean, SR 123 passes by the preserved Salona estate and close to Hickory Hill—a historic house on Chain Bridge Road that was home to Robert F. Kennedy—in Langley, where the state highway meets the eastern end of SR 193 (Old Georgetown Pike).

WGSS

Walnut Grove Secondary School, a secondary school in Langley, British Columbia, Canada

Willowbrook Shopping Centre

These routes run from Langley City, southern Langley or Aldergrove to Surrey Central Station of the SkyTrain system.