In Germany, the term was used mainly by proponents of closer adaptation to US policies, chiefly Franz Josef Strauss, but was initially coined in scholarly debate, and made known by the German political scientists Walter Hallstein and Richard Löwenthal, reflecting feared effects of withdrawal of US troops from Germany.

The film would not see a US release until 1992, two years after the game's Japanese release, so the game is often thought to be a standalone adaptation of Little Nemo, not related to the film.

In 1985, a television adaptation of the original stage play was created, directed by Albert Finney and originally aired in the US through HBO in 1985.

Two movies — Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life — have been produced starring American actress Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, the first of which is still the highest-grossing film adaptation of a video game ever released in US, and third worldwide.

US director Dan Ireland made a screen adaptation of Taylor's Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont ( 2005 ), with Joan Plowright in the title role.

This adaptation was broadcast in the US on many PBS stations on Sunday April 13, 2008.

More recently it has been used in the filming of the movies of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and also the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's novel Northern Lights ( the film bearing the title of the US edition of the book, The Golden Compass ).

However the US submarine force ceased using red lighting for night adaptation after studies found little significant advantage of using low level red over low level white lighting.

Beginning with the May 2003 issue, a manga adaptation by Ryo Akizuki was serialized in Dengeki Daioh and has been published in the US as a two volume graphic novel series by DrMaster.

A US adaptation replaced Mark Heap's voice with that of Hank Azaria.

Piscator's stage adaptation premiered in Vienna in April 1932 and made its US debut in April 1935 at the Hedgerow Theatre, Rose Valley.

The disease made it increasingly difficult for him to work, and his last job was in a US TV adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities.

The Red Raven Magic Mirror and its special children's phonograph records, introduced in the US in 1956, was a 20th century adaptation of the praxinoscope.

's Money ( 2000 ), an unsuccessful adaptation of the US hit Win Ben Stein's Money.

In 1985, Marvel Comics produced a pilot for an American adaptation of a Super Sentai series, but the show was rejected by the major US TV networks.

There is also a manga adaptation which has also been published in the US by Tokyopop.

Often praised as a brilliant adaptation with an outstanding performance by Steenburgen, this production has never been released on DVD and has since been shown in the US only once, on Bravo.

In 2004, the USA Network in the US screened an adaptation of the first serial, produced by actor Bruce Willis's production company, Cheyenne Enterprises and starring Jeffrey Donovan as detective Creegan.

Donald starred in a 1960 television adaptation of A. J. Cronin's The Citadel and appeared regularly in many other television dramas in the UK and US, as well as on stage.

The Model S was another adaptation of the Model N. Ford's last US market right-hand-drive model, it featured a more modern cowl, with hood and fenders that flowed into full running boards.

He is also signed as co-writer and co-executive producer for the upcoming US adaptation of Sirens.

A television adaptation was released in the UK in 2010, and in the US in 2011.

A short-lived English adaptation aired in the US in 1984.

* 1915 – Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and pilot of B-29 " Enola Gay " over Hiroshima ( d. 2007 )

* 1962 Russia frees US spy plane pilot

* 1942 – World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island ( the " Akutan Zero ") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.

* 1997 – Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.

ABC took an interest in the pilot and asked Chrysalis / Lakeside to produce the series for US audiences.

The first claimed flight over the Pole was made on 9 May 1926 by US naval officer Richard E. Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett in a Fokker tri-motor aircraft.

After crippling the US economy and becoming a nuclear power, Japan invades and takes the Marianas Islands ; the US and Japan fight a brief war, which the Japanese lose ( they are subsequently denuclearized ); an embittered Japanese pilot and proponent of the war crashes a 747 into the US Capitol Building immediately after Ryan's confirmation as Vice President, killing most of the House and Senate, the President, all nine Supreme Court justices, the senior military establishment ( including the JCS ), and most of the Cabinet.

In 2004, the WFP tasked Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, US, with heading the first student-led War on Hunger effort, after a 2002 Northwestern University pilot.

** Benjamin Foulois, American Brigadier General ( USAF ), first rated US military pilot, trained by the Wright Brothers ( b. 1879 )

* Frank Abagnale Jr., US impostor who wrote bad checks and falsely represented himself as a qualified member of professions such as airline pilot, doctor, attorney, and teacher.

Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).

The " White Paper " also prompted the inception of a number of emergency medical service ( EMS ) pilot units across the US including paramedic programs.

When the show first aired in 1972, there were just six paramedic units operating in three pilot programs in the whole of the US, and the term paramedic was essentially unknown.

Possible versions for Germany ( in 1991 ) and the United States ( in 1993, called Lords of the Game ) were also considered, with a pilot for the US version recorded.

* Duke Cunningham, US Navy fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, former U. S. Congressman ( R ) from California.

In 1949, the US Army Corps of Engineers excavated a 1, 300 foot pilot channel and removed foundation pilings along the Chenango River.

They will be accompanied by their pilot, US Space Corps Major Donald West ( Mark Goddard ), who is trained to fly the ship in the unlikely event that its sophisticated automatic guidance system malfunctions.

The airport was named after Lt-Col. Harold Bauer, a fighter pilot in the US Marine Corps during World War II.