During the return trip, Barco kept muttering to himself in meaningless phrases, such as: `` They're under sand dunes They're better off, I tell you I saved their souls ''.

During the second week of operations, Fogg received a telegram from the Post Office Department, asking him to `` put on two airplanes and make two flights daily, plus one Sunday trip ''.

During the trip Selkirk decided that the route through Illinois territory to Indiana and the eastern United States was the best route for goods from England to reach Red River and that the United States was a better source of supply for many goods than either Canada or England.

During this trip he also met Bernard van Orley, Jean Prevost, Gerard Horenbout, Jean Mone, Joachim Patinir & Tommaso Vincidor, though he did not, it seems, meet Quentin Matsys.

During the trip, Stans killed two bongos, and after this, their desirability among wealthy hunters rose substantially.

During this trip, he further conceived the character of Conan and also wrote the poem " Cimmeria ", much of which echoes specific passages in Plutarch's Lives.

During his trip in Russia, Chiang met Leon Trotsky and other Soviet leaders, but quickly came to the conclusion that the Russian model of government was not suitable for China.

During his fourth trip to New York in 1953 Thomas became gravely ill and fell into a coma from which he did not recover.

During a trip to Iraq in June 2011, he said that Iraq should pay back the U. S. for all the money it had spent since the invasion, when it becomes a wealthy country.

During a trip to the Mediterranean, Haeckel named nearly 150 new species of radiolarians.

During his trip, a tempest forced him to stop on an island near Guangzhou, China where he saw the rich merchant Diogo Pereira, an old friend from Cochin, who showed him a letter from Portuguese being held prisoners in Guangzhou asking for a Portuguese ambassador to talk to the Chinese Emperor in their favor.

During this trip Douglass became legally free, as British supporters raised funds to purchase his freedom from his American owner Thomas Auld.

During the standards committee battle over whether the " minimum trip count " for the FORTRAN 77 < CODE > DO </ CODE > statement should be zero ( allowing no execution of the block ) or one ( the " plunge-ahead " < CODE > DO </ CODE >), another facetious alternative was proposed ( by Loren Meissner ) to have the minimum trip be two — since there is no need for a loop if it is only executed once.

During his second trip to America, in November 1493, Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Guadeloupe, while seeking fresh water.

During the train trip from Washington, D. C., to Gettysburg on November 18, Lincoln remarked to John Hay that he felt weak.

During a sightseeing trip to Egypt ( not a regular province, but the personal property of the Emperor ) he seems to have unwittingly usurped several imperial prerogatives.

During his first trip he had encountered a holy man, Shaykh Abul Hasan al Shadili, who prophesied that he would only reach Mecca by travelling through Syria.

During the trip, he ran out of money.

During a trip to Key West, a companion wrote in a newspaper article, " Mr. Audubon is the most enthusiastic and indefatigable man I ever knew ... Mr. Audubon was neither dispirited by heat, fatigue, or bad luck ... he rose every morning at 3 o ' clock and went out ... until 1 o ' clock.

During his trip to Moscow, Ribbentrop's talks with Stalin and Molotov proceed very cordially and efficiently with the exception of the question of Latvia, which Hitler had instructed Ribbentrop to try to claim for Germany.

During the first part of the trip, Lönnrot returned to Akonlahti in Russian Karelia, where he gathered 80 poems and a total of 800 verses.

* 2001 – During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.

During the trip, artificial gravity would be generated by tethering the Habitat Unit to the spent upper stage of the booster, and setting them rotating about a common axis.

During his eventful trip he barely escaped drowning during a typhoon in the East China Sea.

During World War II, notable examples of US aircraft with turbochargers include the B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, P-38 Lightning and P-47 Thunderbolt.

During this period Port Moresby, especially its " villages ", fell into disrepair as the Fifth Air Force under General George Kenney " pushed his bomber line forward 1800 miles " rapidly establishing no less than five air bases around the sparsely populated town, and troops from a variety of nations under MacArthurs ' direction transited through the vicinity ; which became a major allied staging base feeding men and material forward from Brisbane, Australia which lies 1, 800 miles across the Coral Sea and about six hours away by B-17 bomber or C-47 transport.

During the morning of 24 June, 74 American B-17 Flying Fortresses were again dispatched to the bridge ; 38 hit the primary and 36 hit Tours / La Riche Airfield without loss ; escort was provided by 121 of 135 P-51s.

During World War II the Glasgow Army Airfield housed the 96th Bombardment Squadron and 614th Bombardment Squadron, flying B-17 Flying Fortresses, at different times during the war.

During World War II, he served in the Mediterranean Theater as a radio operator / gunner on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers with the 772nd Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group ( Heavy ) of the Fifteenth Air Force.

During WWII, Douglas joined the BVD ( Boeing-Vega-Douglas ) consortium to produce the B-17 Flying Fortress.

* During the Second World War, the four-engined heavy bomber as flown by the USAAF and other Allies and known as " The Flying Fortress ", was also known as the B-17.

During this time, several U. S. B-17 heavy bombers attacked the crippled Ryūjō but caused no additional damage.

During World War II, the Army Air Corps, later Army Air Forces, leased the field for use a training base for B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator bomber crews.

During World War II, Geiger Field was a major training base by Second Air Force as a group training airfield for B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombardment units, with new aircraft being obtained from Boeing near Seattle.

* March 20 – During the evening, aircraft drop naval mines for the first time in the Pacific, when 42 U. S. Navy and U. S. Marine Corps TBF Avengers from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, mine the harbor at Kahili, Bougainville, during a diversionary raid on Kahili Airfield by 18 U. S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortressess.

During World War II, students sold bonds to finance both a B-17 ( The Spirit of New Trier ) and a B-29.

During World War II, Longreach airport became, for a short time in 1942, a base for United States Army Air Forces B-17 bomber aircraft of the 28th and 93d Bombardment Squadrons ( Heavy ).

During World War II, the cape was the location of a notable crash of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber.

During overseas active duty beginning in June 1943, Sundlun served as a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot in the England-based 384th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force at Grafton-Underwood Air Base.

During one of those missions, on 27 June 1944, a B-17 of KG 200, with Luftwaffe Geschwaderkennung code A3 + FB, landed in Manises airport ( Valencia ) and was interned by the Spanish government.

During this time a B-17 aircraft crashed at the Walgrave turning on the A43 leaving all of the American crew dead.

During World War II, the airport was known as Windsor Field and was intensively used by the Royal Air Force in the delivery flights of US-built fighter and bomber aircraft such as the Boeing B-17 and Consolidated B-24 bombers, and the Curtiss P-40 fighter from the aircraft manufacturers to the North African and European Theatres of War.

During World War II, the airport served as a completion and modification center for B-17 aircraft.

During World War II, most USAAF heavy bomber designs such as the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Superfortress used a fixed gunner position with the guns themselves in a separate turret covering an approximately 90-degree rear arc.

During the Second World War a US Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crashed into the area.