Whichever euphemism is used, there are 15 total people in four tiers ( 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 ) in the scheme-with the Airplane Game as the example, the person at the top of this tree is the " captain ," the two below are " co-pilots ," the four below are " crew ," and the bottom eight joiners are the " passengers.

In particular, The Byrds ' influence can be discerned in mid-1960s recordings by acts such as The Turtles, Simon & Garfunkel, The Lovin ' Spoonful, Barry McGuire, The Mamas & the Papas, Jefferson Airplane, We Five, Love, and Sonny & Cher.

A feature of live Airplane sets at the time were free-form improvisational jams, with Dryden's licks complementing Casady's fluid style, examples of which can be heard on " Thing " and " Bear Melt " from Bless Its Pointed Little Head.

A recount of this performance can be seen on the " Fly Jefferson Airplane " documentary DVD released in 2004.

An LSAP can also mean a Loadable Software Airplane Part.

Manager Bill Thompson had struck a deal with RCA to allow Jefferson Airplane to run Grunt Records as they saw fit, but still use RCA's distribution.

) These problems were exacerbated by escalating drug use — especially Slick's alcoholism — which caused the Airplane to become increasingly unreliable in their live commitments and led to some chaotic situations at concerts.

Immediately following the release of You're Living All Over Me, supergroup The Dinosaurs ( featuring ex-members of Country Joe and the Fish, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Hot Tuna, Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane ) sued them over the use of the name, prompting the addition of " Jr ."

They also had a long form of Type and Model Number system used between 1920 and 1943, a short designation system akin to that of the United States Navy in use between the late 1920s and 1945, a system of popular names introduced to replace type numbers from 1943 through 1945, and finally an SADP ( Service Airplane Designation System ) number used from 1939 onward.

was owned at the time by Paramount, the makers of Airplane !, also a Paramount picture, were able to use the screenplay almost verbatim.

Though Jefferson Airplane was the only psychedelic San Francisco band to have a major national hit, with 1967's " Somebody to Love " and " White Rabbit ", the Grateful Dead, a folk, country and bluegrass-flavored jam band, " embodied all the elements of the San Francisco scene and came ... to represent the counterculture to the rest of the country "; the Grateful Dead also became known for introducing the counterculture, and the rest of the country, to the ideas of people like Timothy Leary, especially the use of hallucinogenic drugs like LSD for spiritual and philosophical purposes.

Covington had met veteran jazz-blues violinist Papa John Creach in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s ; he invited Creach to sit in with the Airplane for a concert at Winterland in San Francisco on October 5, 1970.

Upon arrival, he used his last $ 5 to see the Butterfield Blues Band and Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore Auditorium.

Subsequently, the Airplane's more ferocious rock and roll version became the band's first and biggest success ; the single by Jefferson Airplane scored at # 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Commercial Airplane Group, by far the largest unit of Boeing, went from 83, 700 employees in 1968 to 20, 750 in 1971.

During World War II, Miyazaki's father, Katsuji, was director of Miyazaki Airplane, owned by his brother ( Hayao Miyazaki's uncle ), which made rudders for A6M Zero fighter planes.

His last full study was on the Orbital Rocket Airplane which used both tripropellant and ( in some versions ) a plug nozzle, resulting in a spaceship only slightly larger than a Lockheed SR-71, able to operate from traditional runways.

In November 1965, Jefferson Airplane signed a recording contract with RCA Victor, which included an unheard-of advance of US $ 25, 000.

During this period the band gained their first international recognition when rising British pop star Donovan, who saw them during his stint on the US West Coast in early 1966, mentioned the Airplane in his song " The Fat Angel ," which subsequently appeared on his Sunshine Superman LP.

Key influences on the group's new direction were the popularity and success of Jimi Hendrix and the British supergroup Cream, which prompted the Airplane ( like many other groups ) to adopt a ' heavier ' sound and to place a greater emphasis on improvisation.

Jefferson Airplane ended 1970 with their traditional Thanksgiving Day engagement at the Fillmore East ( the final performance of the short-lived Kantner / Balin / Slick / Kaukonen / Casady / Creach / Covington line-up ) and the release of their first compilation album, The Worst of Jefferson Airplane, which continued their unbroken run of chart success, reaching No. 12 on the Billboard album chart.

* The cartoon " Mickey's Airplane Kit " ( 1999 ) from the series Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse featured a similar premise in which Mickey built his own airplane to impress Minnie.

Balin, in search of a drummer for the band he was organizing ( which became Jefferson Airplane ) convinced Spence to switch instruments and groups.

The Boeing Fuel Cell Demonstrator Airplane has a Proton Exchange Membrane ( PEM ) fuel cell / lithium-ion battery hybrid system to power an electric motor, which is coupled to a conventional propeller.

The band has released three EPs, Evil Ways, Airplane, and Live, which came packaged with a documentary video cassette.

which fondly spoofed the clichés of the genre to surprising box office success, producing a sequel of its own, Airplane II: The Sequel, in 1982.

The record was released in early 1968, at a time when there was a receptive audience for “ underground music ” which combined musical experimentalism with radical social and / or political lyrics – other examples, in their very different ways, including the Velvet Underground ( who shared a common background in the New York experimental music scene ; according to Moskowitz, Nico at one point tried to join the USA ), Frank Zappa ( whom Byrd considered a niche-marketer " subsumed in a self-referential loop "), Love ’ s Forever Changes, Country Joe and the Fish, and Jefferson Airplane.

* Boeing Airplane Company, with western US manufacturing, which later became The Boeing Company

Afterwards, he entered the Moscow Institute of Airplane Engineering ( Moscow Aviation Institute ), which was evacuated to Alma Ata after Germany's attack on the Soviet Union.

According to researchers later exploring studio history for Hyde Street Studios, the first release out of studio C was the Jefferson Airplane ’ s Volunteers ; which was also the first album they recorded in their hometown.

AirTran Airways featured Graves in a series of web-only " Internetiquette " videos in 2009 in which Graves appeared in a pilot's uniform and references classic Airplane!

Airplane manufacture in the Turin area began in 1910 with SIT and continued with Pomilio and Ansaldo, which built the SVA reconnaissance biplane.

Boeing Defense, Space & Security is a consolidated group which brought together major names in aerospace ; Boeing Military Airplane Company ; Hughes Satellite Systems ; Hughes Helicopters minus the commercial helicopter products ( which were divested as MD Helicopters ); Piasecki Helicopter, subsequently known as Boeing Vertol and then Boeing Helicopters ; the St. Louis-based McDonnell division of the former McDonnell Douglas Company ; and the former North American Aviation division of Rockwell International.

Together they wrote the first single to be taken from i Megaphone, the angst-ridden " Getting Scared ," which Sigsworth also produced, and the B-side to the album's second single, " Shine ," entitled " Airplane.

The first official Frou Frou release was a remix of " Airplane " ( renamed " Aeroplane ") which the duo had completed for the Japanese re-release of Heap's debut album.

There was no difference between the two titles, as far as the Observer Badge appeared, and towards the end of the First World War the badge was commonly referred to as the " Airplane and Balloon Observer Badge ", although the ratings for which the badge was issued remained distinct.

Patrick, however, obtained a rating of Junior Airplane Pilot despite being 59 years old and became both an airpower advocate and a proponent of an independent air force.

Internet folklore sometimes suggests that lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas ( Airplane jet turbine engine auxiliary mechanic non-commissioned officer student ) would be the longest word in Finnish, but evidence of it actually being used is scant and anecdotic at best.

* Jack Casady ( born 1944 ), best known for being the bass guitarist for the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane

http :// media. guardian. co. uk / mediaguardian / story / 0 ,, 2036930, 00. html He pointed out that Frank did not discuss a single article Polk ever wrote and that his military record is amply substantiated in a range of military documents, including a picture of Polk being decorated by Vice-Admiral John McCain on November 30, 1943, on behalf of the " Airplane Cruiser Detachment for their heroic role during the Battle for the Solomons.

They are also one of the major elements in movies such as The V. I. P. s, Airplane !, Airport, Die Hard 2, Soul Plane, Jackie Brown, Get Shorty, Home Alone, Liar Liar, Passenger 57, Final Destination, Unaccompanied Minors, Catch Me If You Can, Rendition and The Langoliers.

* Manila Airport Hotel-PAL Drive, Airplane Village, NAIA Terminal I Complex, Vitalez

The so-called Ryan M-1 of the 1920s is in actuality a monoplane designed and engineered by William J. Waterhouse of Glendale, California's Grand Central Airport in 1924 ( Waterhouse and Royer Airplane Company ).