After flying B-17 combat missions from Great Britain and receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross ( DFC ), Hurlburt was assigned in mid-1943 to the First Proving Ground Electronics Test Unit at Eglin Field.

During the fourth Test at Adelaide, Gower walked out to the crease to the tune of Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines.

Overmyer was awarded the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal in 1969 for duties with the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory Program ; awarded the Marine Corps Meritorious Service Medal in 1978 for duties as the Chief Chase Pilot and support crewman for the Shuttle Approach and Landing Test Program ; received an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from Baldwin Wallace College, December 1982 ; awarded the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School Distinguished Engineers Award, January 1983 ; the Distinguished Flying Cross ( 1983 ); and the NASA Space Flight Medal ( 1983 ).

In 1967 Griggs entered the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland and upon completion of test pilot training was assigned to the Flying Qualities and Performance Branch, Flight Test Division, where he flew various test projects on fighter and attack-type aircraft.

He has earned the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 7 Oak Leaf Clusters, the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, the Liethen-Tittle Award ( for Outstanding Student at the USAF Test Pilot School ), the Royal Air Force Cross, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, and NASA Space Flight Medals.

He has been awarded the Test Pilot School Outstanding Academic Instructor, the Test Pilot School Outstanding Flying Instructor, and the Distinguished Astronaut Engineering Alumnus award of Purdue University.

He has received the Air Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, three Air Force Commendation Medals, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Liethen-Tittle Award ( Top Graduate from USAF Test Pilot School ), three NASA Space Flight Medals, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, and the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal.

Naval Safety School Top Graduate ; Naval Test Pilot School Distinguished Graduate Award ; Defense Superior Service Medal ( 2 ); Distinguished Flying Cross ; Navy Meritorious Service Medal ; NASA Distinguished Service Medal ; NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal ( 2 ); NASA Exceptional Service Medal ( 2 ); NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal ; NASA Silver Snoopy Award ; AIAA System Effectiveness and Safety Award ; AIAA Barry M. Goldwater Education Award ; Aviation Week & Space Technology Laureate ( Space and Missiles ).

After flying combat missions from Great Britain in B-17s and receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross ( DFC ), Lieutenant Hurlburt was assigned in mid-1943 to the First Proving Ground Electronics Test Unit at Eglin Field.

Neither the Federal Aviation Administration's Practical Test Standards nor its Airplane Flying Handbook discuss touch-and-goes, they note.

* Test Flying Memorial website entry

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In China, the Flying Tigers also used the same tactics with some success, although they were unable to stem the tide of Japanese advances there.

In a role-playing game context, it was first used by Flying Buffalo in the 1975 game Tunnels and Trolls, with previous usage in a wargaming context including Guidon Games 1973 ruleset, Ironclad.

Thus for the movement category there are powers that can be used for Running, Swimming, Climbing, Leaping, Gliding, Flying, Tunneling through solid surfaces, and even Teleportation.

Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record " Hey Joe " and " Purple Haze ", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he had painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and " split-diamond " fret markers that were not found on other 1960s-era Flying Vs.

" The Funniest Joke in the World " is the title most frequently used for written references to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, which is also known by two other phrases that appear within it, " Joke Warfare " and " Killer Joke ", the latter being the most commonly spoken title used to refer to it.

Poltava Air Base, as well as Mirgorod Airport, were used as eastern locations for landing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers involved in those operations.

* 31 December 1999: the BBC Balloon was Flying during 2000 Today and used throughout 2000

Brooklands Flying Club are based at Sywell and fly the Aero AT-3 and Cessna 172 which are used as trainers for Private Pilot Licenses ( PPL ), Joint Aviation Requirements ( JAR ) and night rating training.

At RKO, Linwood Dunn used a travelling matte to create " wipes " – where there were transitions like a windshield wiper in films such as Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ).

Only one Boeing 707 was used:, a 707-349C leased from Flying Tiger Line.

Aircraft used at Orland included the B-17 " Flying Fortress.

It was used by the Army Air Forces Flying Training Command, Southeast Training Center, with the 29th Flying Training Wing for primary ( phase 1 ) flight training, in which flight cadets were taught basic flight using two-seater training aircraft.

The HC-130 and HH-60G were used by the 347th Rescue Group, the T-6 and T-38 by the 479th Flying Training Group

To accommodate the ever increasing number of trainees and aircraft, and several satellite airfields were used as part of the Columbus Army Flying School.

In 2005, the " Flying Tigers Memorial " was built in Huaihua, Hunan Province, on one of the old airstrips used by the Flying Tigers in the 1940s.

Combat and accidents reduced but did not eliminate the P-40 complement, and a muster of approximately a dozen pursuit pilots, called the " Bataan Field Flying Detachment ," continued to fly missions until the last day of the campaign, employing mainly 30-pound fragmentation bombs and machine gun fire as ordnance.

The Sopwith Aviation Company was a British aircraft company that designed and manufactured aeroplanes mainly for the British Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Flying Corps and later Royal Air Force in the First World War, most famously the Sopwith Camel.

The programs featured inserts of animation of puppet photo cutouts done mainly by Michael Nicholson, in a manner reminiscent of Terry Gilliam's work on Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Flying mainly to small airfields in mountainous, tropical Laos, the airline acquired a not-too-favorable reputation for safety, several flights being lost over the years.

The boats are operated mainly by Hellenic Seaways using its high-speed Flying Dolphin and Flying Cat vessels as well as conventional ferries.

These games included Mowin ' Maniac ( a Pac-Man clone based on the " Mowin ' Man "/" Mowin ' Boris " modules ), Roof Rats ( similar to SameGame and variants ), " Solitaire " ( After Dark themed ), Toaster Run ( a 3D adventure game featuring several After Dark Characters, more notably the Flying Toaster ), Zapper ( a trivia game ), Hula Girl ( another 3D adventure game based on the " Hula Twins " module from After Dark 4. 0 ), two word scramble games — Bad Dog 911 ( based on the " Bad Dog " modules ) and Fish Shtix ( based on the " Fish " modules, mainly " Fish World "), Foggy Boxes ( a connect the boxes type game based on the " Messages 4. 0 " module ), MooShu tiles ( a Mahjong-like game featuring many After Dark characters throughout the years ), and Rodger Dodger.

* China Air Task Force: An interim unit formed mainly from the Flying Tigers after their disbandment on July 4, 1942 and before their reunion, in part, within the 14th Air Force in 1943.

The first was the Flying Evaluation Board.

The National Film Board of Canada produced a short animated film of this The Legend of the Flying Canoe ( La Chasse-galerie ).

President Calvin Coolidge appointed Bingham to the President's Aircraft Board during his first term in the Senate ; the press quickly dubbed the ex-explorer " The Flying Senator ".

In 1949, the Civil Aeronautics Board awarded Flying Tiger Line the first commercial air cargo route in the U. S., a transcontinental route from Los Angeles and San Francisco, California to Boston, Massachusetts.

At Kelly, Brereton successively became Assistant Commandant of the Advanced Flying Training School, Director of Attack Training, and President of the Board of Attack Aviation.

Restless in the inter-war years, however, Cobby retired from the Air Force to join the Civil Aviation Board as Controller of Operations in 1936 ; he also contributed to aviation magazines such as Australian Airmen and Popular Flying.

Brett served on several committees and Air Force boards, including Flying Pay Board, the Air

Advocates of the Pastafarianism parody religion, which was created in 2005 to protest the decision by the Kansas Board of Education to require the teaching of intelligent design, have designed their own version of the Ichthys, with the Flying Spaghetti Monster's characteristic " noodly appendages " and eye stalks.