The Mollisons also flew in record time from Britain to India in 1934 in a de Havilland DH. 88 Comet as part of the Britain to Australia MacRobertson Air Race.

* Air Comet begins airline operations.

Near the war memorial, the Air Crash Memorial is a memorial to several young people from the town killed on 3 July 1970 when a Dan Air de Havilland Comet deviated from its intended course and crashed into high ground at Sierra Del Montseny, Girona in north-eastern Spain.

* Air Comet, a defunct Spanish airline

In 1934, the MacRobertson Air Race from England to Australia took place with the winning de Havilland Comet flown by C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black.

* MPD, the ICAO airline designator for Air Comet

In 1947, the Silver Comet was introduced by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad during the height of passenger rail use.

The scene in which Scott takes off with Courtney clinging to the wing, switches to a shot of a Travel Air 4U Speedwing fitted with a round cowl over its Comet engine to resemble the Nieuports.

* May 18 – Seaboard Air Line Railroad inaugurates the Silver Comet passenger train between New York City and Birmingham, Alabama.

Air Comet ( formerly Air Plus Comet ) was an airline based in Madrid, Spain.

The airline was established in 23 December 1996 as Air Plus Comet and started operations in 1 March 1997, with base at Madrid Barajas Airport.

) became the foundation of Air Plus Comet.

It relaunched as a full service carrier under the Air Comet name in January 2007.

In January 2007, Air Comet took over some of the now defunct Air Madrid airline's Latin American routes.

Air Comet Airbus A310-300 at Madrid-Barajas

Air Comet Airbus A320-211 ( EC-KBM ) lands at Almería International Airport

On 11 February 2009, Air Comet has been suspended from IATA Clearing House due to non-payment of January balance.

On 21 December 2009, a High Court in London emitted a verdict favouring the German bank HSH Nordbank, which had sued Air Comet for not meeting the terms of payment for their leased aircraft.

Air Comet flew to the following destinations ( as of December 2009 ):

This project was carried out under sponsorship of the Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Research and Development Command, U.S. Air Force, and had as its goal the investigation of the transport by diffusion of the heat energy of chemical binding.

( The Senate, on its own, decided to provide additional B-52 and other long-range bombers for the Strategic Air Command.

The Symphony Of The Air, greatly assisted by Van Cliburn, last night got its seven-concert Beethoven cycle at Carnegie Hall off to a good start.

It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be included in the MSC.

" The other item was a commemorative medal issued by the United States Air Force, which was celebrating its 25th anniversary in 1972.

The sites were Moscow for the USSR and Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, since its Safeguard facility was already under construction, for the US.

Delta Air Lines maintains its largest hubs at the airport.

The Italian Air Force was expected to procure up to 250 missiles for its Tornado ECR aircraft.

Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by Dennis Potter, takes its title from " Into My Heart an Air That Kills " from A Shropshire Lad, the cycle also providing the name for the James Bond film Die Another Day: " But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day ".

During the 1970s the Air Force was at the apogee of its power, possessing at least 500 modern combat aircraft in its inventory.

The branches of Burkina Faso's military include its Army, Air Force, National Gendarmerie, National Police, and People's Militia.

The main body of GC & CS, including its Naval, Military and Air Sections, was on the ground floor of the mansion, together with a telephone exchange, a teleprinter room, a kitchen and a dining room.

This translation of go ' el in Job 19: 25-26 as " Redeemer " has been made famous by its use in Handel's Messiah, the Air I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the lectionary during the Easter season.

While Allied Air Forces were tied to the support of the Army, the Luftwaffe deployed its resources in a more general, operational way.

In contrast to the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force, the British Army does not include Royal in its title.

The Second World War saw the British army develop its Special Air Service, Commando units and the Parachute Regiment.

In Sept 1956, the team added a sixth aircraft to the flight demonstration in the Opposing Solo position, and gave its first performance outside the United States at the International Air Exposition in Toronto, Canada.

In January 1957, the team left its winter training facility at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California for a ten year period.

In 2012, the US Air Force alleged that two of its female airmen were subjected to cyber-bullying after receiving Bronze Star Medals for meritorious non-combat service.

The awards sparked a debate as to whether or not the Air Force was awarding too many medals to its members, and whether the Bronze Star should be awarded for non-combat service.

This prompted the Air Force to take down stories of the two posted to the internet, and to clarify its criteria for awarding medals.

To implement this doctrine, which the Air Force and its supporters regarded as the highest national priority, the Air Force proposed that it should be funded by the Congress to build a large fleet of U. S. based long-range strategic heavy bombers.