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2 unusual facts about VFA-154


VFA-154

Thus VF-154, and sister squadron VF-21, were among the last units to convert to the F-14A.

After a cross Pacific transit to Pearl Harbor the air wing cross decked to their new home - USS Kitty Hawk.


113 Squadron

VFA-113 (Strike Fighter Squadron 113), a unit of the United States Navy

1972 NASCAR Winston Cup Series

:*Motor State 400 David Pearson led 154 laps in an easy win, finishing sixteen seconds ahead of Bobby Allison and half a lap ahead of Richard Petty.

2003 loya jirga

Then Mojaddedi was elected chairman, winning 252 votes, over Abdul Hafiz Mansoor's 154.

81 Squadron

VFA-81 (Fighter Attack Squadron 81), a unit of the United States Navy

83 Squadron

VFA-83 (Strike Fighter Squadron 83), a unit of the United States Navy

94 Squadron

VFA-94 (Strike Fighter Squadron 94), a unit of the United States Navy

All-Russia Exhibition Centre

Later there is another little square facing the Space Pavilion which in the center of the square standing a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, placed there in the 1960s after the pavilion of "agricultural machinery" become the "space pavilion".

Bill Raftery

His 154 wins as a coach places him fourth on the all-time list at Seton Hall behind Honey Russell, P.J. Carlesimo, and Frank Hill.

Cato Salonianus

His birth was in 154 BC, when his father had completed his eightieth year, and about two years before the death of his half-brother, Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus.

Fred Goldberg

Goldberg's first major success in poker came in the 2006 World Series of Poker main event, where he finished in 10th place winning $1,154,527.

George E. Mayer

He would later fly with other NAS Lemoore-based squadrons, the “Fist of the Fleet” of Attack Squadron 25 (VA-25) and the "Flying Eagles" of VA-122, the latter as an A-7 instructor pilot.

Georgia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

The song went on to win the contest, receiving 154 points and a total of eight 12-point votes out of 14 countries, the second-highest proportion of 12 points received by a winner in either Eurovision Contests, just beaten by Anastasiya Petryk in 2012.

Girolamo Dalla Casa

The transaction, made though the Spanish resident ambassador in Venice, Diego Guzmán de Silva, came to the considerable sum of 154 scudi, 3 lire, and 20 soldi in gold.

Govardhana sila

Govardhan, a very famous place of Hindu pilgrimage, is located 26 km west of Mathura (154 km from New Delhi) on the state highway to Deeg.

Guyana–Russia relations

In the 1980s Guyana Airways operated a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet on lease from TAROM of Romania, and purchased three additional Tu-154s from the Soviet Union and Romania in a barter deal in exchange for bauxite.

Huang-Lao

Chao Cuo (d. 154 BCE), Chancellor to Emperor Jing, was another Huang-Lao official.

Jim Britt

At the close of the 1950 season, that co-operative arrangement ended and each team decided to air a full schedule of 154 games, home and away.

Joondalup

Joondalup has a large Christian majority, comprising 49% of the city's religious following, with the two largest denominations being Anglican (12,208 or 24.6%) and Catholic (12,154, 24.1%).

Liangyuan District

The name Liangyuan, or "the garden of Liang", follows from the name Emperor Xiao of Liang, who built the garden around 154 BC centered in the area of nowadays Shangqiu.

Maserati Tipo 154

During the official Le Mans testing weekend in May, driver Lloyd "Lucky" Casner was killed in this car after leaving the road as he exited out of the Mulsanne Straight kink, barrel rolling the Tipo 154 and wiping out two trees in the process.

Menachem Mautner

His article "'The Eternal Triangles of the Law': Toward a Theory of Priorities in Conflicts Involving Remote Parties", 90 Michigan Law Review 95-154 (1991), substantially influenced the case-law and the scholarship in the area of conflicts over rights in both Israel and the United States.

Minuscule 181

The manuscript was given by Christina of Sweden to Cardinal Dezio Azzolino, and bought from him by Alexander VIII (1689-1691) — like codices 154, 155, 156.

Nathan Sassaman

In a heralded victory in the annual Army-Navy Game, Sassaman ran for 154 yards and two touchdowns, and later led Army to a rare post-season appearance with a win over Michigan State in the Cherry Bowl.

Percy Ellingsen

Following his VFL career, Ellingsen moved to the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1920 where he was suspended for a season, a sentence later overturned as an act of clemency during the visit of the Prince of Wales.

Polish Corridor

A further 154,000 colonists, including locals, were settled by the Prussian Settlement Commission in the provinces of Posen and West Prussia before World War I. Military personnel was included in the population census.

Rose Museum

The Rose Museum, located on the second floor of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall at 154 West 57th Street, is a small museum dedicated to the history of Carnegie Hall.

Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet

He argued that Tsarist Russia would attack and absorb Khokand, Bokhara and Khiva (which they did) and would invade Persia (present-day Iran) and Afghanistan as springboards to British India (Meyer 154).

SixNationState

Within the band's first year, they had performed 154 shows, played music festivals in Spain and supported Nine Black Alps and Babyshambles.

Smolensk North Airport

A Polish government Tu-154M Lux carrying President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and an official delegation crashed during the final approach to the airport on 10 April 2010.

Solveig Gulbrandsen

She has previously played for Kolbotn, Stabæk and FC Gold Pride, and the Norwegian national team where she was capped 154 times and won the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Sonnet 153

Sonnets 153 and 154 are filled with rather bawdy double entendres of sex followed by contraction of a venereal disease.

Trudie Chalder

"Cognitive behavior therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome: a randomized controlled trial." American Journal of Psychiatry 154, no. 3 (1997): 408-414.

VFA-102

With the disestablishment VF-33, VF-102 became America's sole F-14 unit, completing its final deployment on February 24, 1996.

VFA-136

The Knighthawks next deployed aboard the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, USS George Washington (CVN-73) for her maiden cruise in May 1994.

VFA-137

The Kestrels returned home in June 2003, and began the transition to the new Lot XXV F/A-18E Super Hornet.

VFA-14

Once past the Rock of Gibraltar, VF-14 began flying air superiority and reconnaissance missions in the Adriatic Sea in support of UN policies in the former Yugoslavia.

VFA-147

Attack Squadron 147 was commissioned as the Navy's First A-7E Corsair II squadron on February 1, 1967 in Lemoore, California.

VFA-195

VFA-195 was originally established as Torpedo Squadron 19 (VT-19), at NAAS Los Alamitos, California on 15 August 1943, flying the TBM-1 Avenger.

VFA-2

A notable pilot in the squadron was fighter ace Arthur Van Haren, Jr. From November 1943 to January 1944, VF-2 saw action during the invasion of the Gilbert Islands, Makin Atoll and Tarawa Atoll.

There are pictures of 27 of the unit's Aces including Roy "Butch" Voris, later to become Blue Angel 1 in the original Blue Angels flight demonstration team, Connie Hargreaves, who became an Ace in a Day, and Wilbur "Spider" Webb, another Ace in a Day.

VFA-201

Later the unit would also be able to conduct TARPS reconnaissance missions, which were originally carried out by VF-202.

In March, VF-201 deployed to NAS Key West for a two-week detachment providing training to new F-14 crews from VF-101.

In July 1996 VF-201 deployed to NAS Key West in Florida to provide dissimilar air training for VFA-106 Gladiators, the U.S. East Coast F/A-18 training squadron.

VFA-27

At the Al Faw peninsula long range artillery guns and 155mm howitzers near Az Zubayr were targeted.

VFA-37

On 29 Sep 1970, VA-37 participated in an air power demonstration for President Richard Nixon during his two day visit to Saratoga while she steamed in the Med.

From October 1992 to April 1993, the Bulls deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and were key participants in Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq and Operation Provide Promise in the airspace near the former Yugoslavia.

VFA-41

If not that situation had been solved by other means, it's quite probable that VF-41 (and its sister squadron VF-84) would have been employed in the same way as VF-74 and VF-103 during the Achille Lauro incident, to intercept the hijackers and force them down to be arrested.

VFA-81

Their first deployment was with CVG-17 in late 1956 aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Suez Crisis.

VS-41

The squadron history or lineages should not be confused with the VS-41 "Tophatters" that flew the SBD-3 Dauntless torpedo bombers during World War II from the deck of USS Ranger.


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