* 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command ( NORAD ).

As part of this defense, Canada and the US established the North American Air Defense Command ( now called North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD ).

Canada and the US signed the Air Quality Agreement in 1991.

Burroughs sold a D82 to Air Canada to handle reservations for trips originating in Montreal and Quebec.

*" U. S .- Canada Test Of Air Defence A Success ", The New York Times, October 16, 1961.

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.

* 1956 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.

* Air Georgian, an airline based in Ontario, Canada

* 1978 – Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine.

* 1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open.

* 1970 – Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 109 people.

As chairman of the international advisory board of Cerberus Capital Management, he recruited former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, who would have been installed as chairman if Cerberus had successfully acquired Air Canada.

* 1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.

He entered the United States Army Air Forces right out of high school ( Crystal Beach, Ontario, Canada ).

Aeroplan began in 1984 as Air Canada ’ s frequent flier program, but since 2008 has been owned by Groupe Aeroplan Inc. and operates as a more widely based coalition program.

Harbour Air De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter in Valletta Harbour before a flight to Gozo in 2007

His preference was for navigator rather than pilot, for which he underwent extensive training in Canada, to qualify as an Air Navigator with the rank of Sergeant in 1944.

NATO maintains lists of these names and the assignment of the names for the Russian and Chinese aircraft is handled by the five-nation Air Standardization Coordinating Committee ( ASCC ) which consisted of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and U. S. authorities ordered the United States Air Force to surround the plane and force it to land in Whitehorse, Canada and to shoot down the plane if the pilots did not cooperate.

With the unprecedented implementation of Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation Aids ( SCATANA ) plan, all civilian airplane traffic in the United States and Canada was grounded until September 13, 2001.

The USAF, USMC, US Army, US Navy, and FAA as well as a number of international ATC training organizations such as the Royal Australian Air Force and Civil Aviation Authorities in Italy, Brazil, and Canada are currently using ATC simulators with speech recognition from a number of different vendors.

His government also made the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation a crown corporation in 1936, created Trans-Canada Airlines ( the precursor to Air Canada ) in 1937, and formed the National Film Board of Canada in 1939.

To re-arm Canada he built the Royal Canadian Air Force as a viable military power, while at the same time keeping it separate from Britain's Royal Air Force.

He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

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.

A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

A trim green and silver-painted craft only 22-1/2 feet long, the Waco was entered to compete in the `` On-to-Spokane '' Air Derby of 1927.

So with all this experience, Bob Fogg was a natural choice to receive the first Emergency Air Mail Star Route contract.

The Air Force's, and the game's, final play, was a long pass by quarterback Bob McNaughton which Gannon intercepted on his own 44 and returned 22 yards.

I thought he was the Air Force recruiter ''.

For a short while in 1918, he was employed acquiring provisions at the Air Ministry.

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.

Air felted to create the flat disk of the earth, which he said was table-like and behaved like a leaf floating on air.

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

A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

Although the role of the ground attack aircraft significantly diminished after the Korean War, it re-emerged during the Vietnam War, and in the recognition of this, the US Air Force authorised the design and production of what was later to become the A-10 dedicated anti-armour and ground-attack aircraft of the Cold War.

The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.

The 100th Air Assault Brigade of the Russian Airborne Troops was based in the city until ca.

The first batch of herbicides was unloaded at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in South Vietnam, on January 9, 1962.

An elevated power cable from the mainland to Arapawa Island over Tory Channel was struck by an Air Albatross Cessna 402 commuter aircraft in 1985.

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.

In 1964, the Admiralty was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence along with the War Office and the Air Ministry.

The biggest change Robbins made was a new opening number to replace " Love Is in the Air " and introduce the show as a bawdy, wild comedy.

Notes: The song " Love Is in the Air " was originally intended as the opening number.

Naval Air Station Alameda ( NAS ), at Alameda Point, was decommissioned in 1997, and is in process of being turned over to the City of Alameda for civilian development.