Although Jamison claimed before this that an entire flight of missiles -- which he confidently assigned not merely to Oscar Flight, but to one of four possible locations -- had failed, the introduction of the originating source of this information -- the unnamed NCO -- had never been discussed prior to July 2010.

One of the most extreme examples of a single flight number, same aircraft, with multiple stops, was the routing flown by a DC9-14 originating in Miami, then on to Orlando, Tallahassee, Panama City, Eglin AFB, Mobile, Gulfport, New Orleans, Birmingham, Atlanta, Huntsville, Memphis, St Louis and terminating in Chicago ( Midway Airport ), a total flight time start to finish of 14hr 32min.

The flight continues to operate today with the flight no longer originating in Bangkok and is strictly a Hong Kong-Taipei route.

STS-69 will see the first flight of the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker ( IEH-1 ), the first of five planned flights to measure and monitor long-term variations in the magnitude of absolute extreme ultraviolet ( EUV ) flux coming from the Sun, and to study EUV emissions from the plasma torus system around Jupiter originating from its moon Io.

A transatlantic flight may proceed east-to-west, originating in Europe or Africa and terminating in North America or South America, or it may go in the reverse direction, west-to-east.

British Airtours Flight 28M, was an international passenger flight, originating from Manchester International Airport's Runway 24 in Manchester, England, en-route to Corfu International Airport on the Greek island of Corfu.

On 26 May 1991, at 23: 02 local time, Flight NG004 ( originating from Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport ), a Boeing 767-3Z9ER, registration OE-LAV, ship name Mozart, took off from Old Bangkok International Airport ( Don Mueang International Airport ) for its flight to Vienna International Airport with 213 passengers and 10 crew, under the command of Captain Thomas J. Welch ( American ) and First Officer Josef Thurner ( Austrian ).

In addition, commercial pilots must hold an instrument rating, or be restricted to flying for hire only in daylight, under visual flight rules ( VFR ), within 50 miles of the originating airport.

American Airlines Flight 625, a Boeing 727, crashed at St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands on April 27, 1976 while on a domestic scheduled passenger flight originating at T. F. Green Airport in Rhode Island and ending at Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands with an intermediate stop at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Other aviation milestones originating at North Island included the first seaplane flight in 1911, the first mid-air refueling and the first non-stop transcontinental flight, both in 1923.

According to Kildall, the IBM representatives took the same flight to Florida that night that he and Dorothy took for their vacation, and they negotiated further on the flight, reaching a handshake agreement.

* 1980 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.

They were followed by three hijacker-pilots, Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah early in the summer of 2000 to undertake flight training in south Florida.

During his stay in the U. S., he quietly settled in Florida, planning out how the attacks would commence and training on flight simulators.

The Florida flight school where Jarrah had been studying also said he was in school there until January 15, 2001.

* October 18 – The first flight of Pan American Airways takes off from Key West, Florida, bound for Havana, Cuba.

After attending flight school at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida and Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, Chaffee was awarded his aviator wings in early 1959.

Later in the year, Earhart began her second, ill-fated attempt with the unpublicized first leg of her proposed transcontinental flight mapped from Oakland to Miami, Florida.

Glenn is honored by President Kennedy at temporary Manned Spacecraft Center facilities at Cape Canaveral, Florida, three days after his flight.

In 1974 he entered the U. S. Navy and completed flight surgeon school in Pensacola, Florida.

He subsequently entered flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas and Pensacola, Florida, and received his Naval Aviator wings in 1947.

Allen also attended the Air Tactical Course at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, and next he returned to Carswell Air Force Base as a flight instructor and as an assistant Special Weapons Officer for the 7th Bombardment Wing.

Flown cover autographed by pilot Cy Caldwell and carried from Key West, Florida | Key West, FL, to Havana, Cuba, on the first contract air mail flight operated by Pan American Airways, Oct 19, 1927

In August 2000, Ziad Jarrah attempted to enroll bin al-Shibh in a Florida flight school.

This time flying west to east, the second attempt began with an unpublicized flight from Oakland to Miami, Florida, and after arriving there Earhart publicly announced her plans to circumnavigate the globe.

The Sabre Dancers made what was probably their most widely viewed flight on 22 April 1950, when they performed before an Armed Forces Day audience at Eglin AFB, Florida, that included President Harry S. Truman, most of his Cabinet, and numerous other political leaders.

* Joseph D. Helton Jr Monroe, Georgia, 1st Lieutenant, Officer, Killed in action, Iraq, ( b. September 30, 1984, d. September 8, 2009 ), 732d Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Detachment 2 flight commander ( police officer ) Police Transition Mission, 6th Security Forces Squadron, MacDill Air Force Base Florida ( Tampa ) action: ( IED detonation ; near FOB FALCON, Mahmudiyah District of Baghdad, on September 8th )

During the late 1970s and early 1980s Air Florida had a hub at MIA, with a nonstop flight to London which it acquired from National upon the latter's merger with Pan Am.

U. S. Navy Captain Richard A. Stratton in 2005 recalled that the phrase was the punchline of a dirty joke he had heard while attending flight school in Pensacola, Florida in 1955.

In September 1922, he made the first of many pioneering flights, flying a de Havilland DH-4 – which was equipped with early navigational instruments – in the first cross-country flight, from Pablo Beach ( renamed Jacksonville Beach ), Florida, to Rockwell Field, San Diego, California, in 21 hours and 19 minutes, making only one refueling stop at Kelly Field.

Air Florida was well known for its attractive flight attendants and, on international flights, four-star cuisine.

When operations ceased, Air Florida had over 18 months of unprocessed credit card ticket purchases and dozens of flight crews idle at home because management had failed to renew leases on all DC-10-30 aircraft.

On January 31, 1961, Ham was secured in a Project Mercury mission labeled MR-2 and launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a suborbital flight.

In the test, a " red-eye " transcontinental flight was picked at random by Skunk Work engineers.

Detailed information about the radio frequencies used by the spacecraft were made public before Titov's flight ; listening posts around the world picked up voice and telemetry signals from Vostok 2, allaying suspicions that the spaceflight might have been faked.

After departing MBS, the flight dropped off and picked up passengers at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport before crashing on takeoff en route to Phoenix, Arizona, killing 148 passengers and 6 crew members.

There was little optimism about their return to the top flight as they were picked by German football magazine Kicker as one of the clubs most likely to be relegated.

Unnoticed by Perrin or Rand, Mat had picked up a dagger that he carried with him on the flight from Shadar Logoth.

They feed mainly by capturing insects in flight but their prey include other insects such as termites and earwigs that may be gleaned or picked from the ground.

They had no furniture, they constantly played flight simulator games, and limousines picked them up for short rides in the middle of the night.

Often led by the skills of Salvadoran Mágico González, the club managed to miraculously maintain its top flight status in the 1990 – 91 season, thanks to youth graduate Kiko ( and 25 minutes of his inspiration against Real Zaragoza ), who picked up the offensive burden after González left.

Twenty to thirty aircrews had been picked to drop SD2s and SD10s ( 10 kg submunitions ) on key Soviet airfields, a flight of three aircraft being assigned to each field.

I picked up that girl and ran up that flight of stairs like it was nothing.

In flight, they discover they have picked up a passenger, Tegan Jovanka, an airline stewardess who wandered in the TARDIS to call for help to fix her aunt's flat tyre ; the Doctor informs her the Master has killed her aunt with his Tissue Compression Eliminator.

The flight data recorder was picked up the same day at 17: 05 local time ( 09: 05 UTC ).

and I was punched and kicked and dragged by my feet to the stairway, thrown down the first flight of steps, picked up, slammed down on the platform and kicked down the second flight.

Yang Liwei was picked for the flight, with Zhai Zhigang ranked second ahead of Nie Haisheng.

Animal prey is either picked out of the air or off plants with a dedicated sally flight, or gleaned from vegetation.

Fruit, e. g. from Alchornea glandulosa, are typically picked off when perched or during hovering flight.