All British troops would leave by 12 December 1964, the British would assist the army, resource and train a new Kenya Air Force, and create a new Kenya Navy.

WWII: The Army Air Corps piano was an acoustic instrument invented by Harold Rhodes during World War II in an effort to create a piano that injured soldiers could play while lying in a hospital bed.

Air Force Chief of Staff John P. Jumper started a program to create these persistent UAVs, but this was stopped once he was replaced.

The Regional Air Quality Council ( RAQC ) was formed in 1989 to create plans to address the problem.

The decision to terminate the Shuttle / Centaur program spurred the United States Air Force to create the Titan IV, which, in its 401A / B versions, used the Centaur-T, also with a 14-foot-diameter ( 4. 3 m ) hydrogen tank, as its final stage.

In 1952, the House Armed Services Committee authorized acquiring by eminent domain large tracts to create Pease Air Force Base, which opened on June 30, 1956.

The investigative and enforcement functions ( including investigations, deportation, and intelligence ) were combined with INS and U. S. Customs investigators, the Federal Protective Service, and the Federal Air Marshal Service, to create U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ).

Doubts were raised about the ability of the BLU-109 / B to penetrate such fortified structures, so the USAF Air Armament Division at Eglin AFB, Florida, was asked to create a weapon that could.

From 1917 to 1919, he was also one of five members of the British War Cabinet, helping to create the Royal Air Force.

In 1918, Smuts helped to create a Royal Air Force, independent of the army.

When Marshall requested a reorganization study from the Air Corps, Arnold submitted a proposal on October 5, 1940, that would create an air staff, unify the air arm under one commander, and grant it autonomy with the ground and supply forces.

On October 1, 2010, Fort Sam Houston joined Lackland and Randolph Air Force Bases to create Joint Base San Antonio, under Air Force administration.

This combined the capabilities of Wilford Hall Medical Center located at nearby Lackland Air Force Base to create the largest medical treatment facility and teaching hospital in the Department of Defense.

For Waitangi Day 2007, Air New Zealand commissioned a number of New Zealanders living in Los Angeles and Southern California to create a sand sculpture of a silver fern on the Santa Monica Beach creating a stir in the surrounding area.

Terry Riley originally employed the technique of tape looping in the 1950s ; later producing such pieces as " Music For the Gift " ( 1963 ) and " Bird of Paradise " ( 1964 ) and culminating in his use of two tape recorders ( collectively described by Riley as the " Time Lag Accumulator ") in live solo performances to create long delays, during which he would play both saxophone and organ, as heard on the album Reed Streams ( 1966 ) and the piece " Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band " ( on the 1969 album A Rainbow in Curved Air ).

It is difficult to create a reasonable overview of the Air force of Zimbabwe aircraft inventory since there are few credible sources of information documenting the subject on the internet or in the open literature.

Design work started in 1960 and was announced in 1961 at the Paris Air Show, but was later merged with similar work at the British Aircraft Corporation ( originally the Bristol 223 ) to create the Concorde project in November 1962.

His influence was crucial in awarding contracts so as to create four major domestic airlines: United, American, Eastern, and Transcontinental and Western Air ( TWA ).

As a former officer of the Polish Air Force, he volunteered to create an allied espionage network in France in 1940.

In what was effectively a redesignation, the headquarters staff and resources were used to create Fifteenth Air Force, which became the first Numbered Air Force of the new Strategic Air Command ten days later.

Ross enlisted in the U. S. Air Force at age 18 after graduating from Elizabeth Forward High School in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania and was living in Florida early in his military career when the Air Force transferred him to Eielson AFB ( in Alaska ), where he first saw the snow and mountains that later became recurring themes in his artwork ; he developed his quick-painting technique in order to be able to create art for sale in brief daily work breaks.

Iqaluit's first permanent inhabitant was Nakasuk, an Inuk guide who helped American Air Force planners to choose a site with a large flat area suitable for a landing strip.

The landscape varies greatly, with large swaths of flat land ( typically in Bon Air, Central City and Gladeview ) to areas with gentle slopes, and even steep cliffs and hillsides in certain areas.

A libertarian at heart, he campaigned on a platform of free trade with the United States, privatizing government-owned Crown corporations like Air Canada, Petro-Canada and Canadian National Railway, retiring the national debt and, most radical of all, a flat tax — a fixed rate of income tax everyone who earned more than a minimum salary would pay.

by the character Mrs Slocombe: " I haven't forgotten being flung flat on me back on Clapham Common by a land mine — and the German Air Force was responsible.

" to which Mr Lucas ripostes: " All the other times she was flat on her back the American Air Force was responsible.

* 2012, Lagoon installed Air Race in the concrete flat near Jet Star II.

In 2012, a new ride called Air Race was placed on the concrete flat next to Jet Star II.

However, in fact, Arnold was never quoted at the time using the term " flying boomerangs ", instead describing the shape as like a saucer or disc or pie pan, and also drew a picture for Army Air Intelligence of an irregular flat rounded object with a trailing point.

Air ducts and other mechanical services are located in the flat channels between the vaults.

According to an interview on NPR's Fresh Air, the group's name " the Black Keys " came from a schizophrenic artist named Alfred McMoore that the pair knew ; he would leave incoherent messages on their answering machines referring to their fathers as " black keys " such as " D flat " when he was upset with them.

A 2005 study of Royal Australian Air Force recruits that tracked the recruits over the course of their basic training found that neither flat feet nor high arched feet had any impact on physical functioning, injury rates or foot health.

En route to Heathrow Airport to start her new job as a stewardess with Air Australia, her aunt Vanessa's vehicle ( in which she is riding ) suffers a flat tyre.

Fully flat herringbone seat on Air Canada

The M1 is straight and flat on the stretch between Junctions 9 and 10 and on the stretch between Junctions 12 and 13, and an urban myth exists claiming that these were to be used as supplementary runways by the United States Air Force in the event of a major conflict with the Soviet Union.

The U. S. Army Air Corps decided the endless belt computer cost too much to manufacture, so later in 1937 Dalton morphed it to a simple rigid, flat wind slide, with his old Model B circular slide rule included on the reverse.

Royal Air Force personnel were housed in a ground floor flat ready to launch the balloon when necessary.

All of the Air Cargo Short SD3-30 and SD3-60 aircraft have been converted from a passenger configuration to cargo with an expanded cargo door and strengthened flat floor for quick and easy loading of cargo.

* A June 27, 1950, movie of a " flying disk " over Louisville, Kentucky, taken by a Louisville Courier-Journal photographer, had the USAF Directors of counterintelligence ( AFOSI ) and intelligence discussing in memos how to best obtain the movie and interview the photographer without revealing Air Force interest.

On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field ( RAAF ) public information officer Walter Haut in Roswell, New Mexico, issued a press release stating that personnel from the field's 509th Bomb Group had recovered a crashed " flying disk " from a ranch near Roswell, sparking intense media interest.

Included with the music CD was a CD-Rom disk exploring the On Air theme.

By the first week of July 1947, Pentagon officials were expressing alarm about the flying disk reports, due in no small part to a remarkable series of close encounters in and near the restricted airspace near Muroc Army Air Base ( now Edwards AFB ).

* Demonization of national symbols of the United States (" Miss Victory " waves the reverse side of 48-star U. S. flag, and the WW2-era Army Air Corps roundel -- of small red disk within white star on large blue disk -- is shown on one of the wings ).