Flak can be organized by powerful, private influence groups ( e. g. think tanks ).

He was one of the pilots that flew what will likely be the last-ever formation flight of B-17s across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States to England ( via Canada, the Azores and Portugal ) in 1961, a trip that involved a near-miss with a submarine, a brawl with KGB agents, and just barely missing ending up in jail in Portugal, an epic trip he chronicled in his book Everything But the Flak.

Sturm orders each Black Hole CO to invade and capture each of the four continents controlled by the four other armies from the original game: Orange Star was to be taken by Flak, Blue Moon by Lash, Yellow Comet by Adder, and Green Earth by Hawke.

Flak jackets are now generally considered to be inferior to body armor.

Airfields from which you took off from were defended by 1 stationary Flak gun and could be reinforced by player controlled Flak Panzers or " Flak Panzies " as the players were called due to their lacking flying skills and use of ground based vehicle.

Flak jackets were also developed to give bomber crews some protection from flying shrapnel, though these increased the overall weight of the airplane and reduced the effective bombload that could be carried.

# Flak and the Enforcers: " Flak " refers to negative responses to a media statement or program ( e. g. letters, complaints, lawsuits, or legislative actions ).

* Flak ( or Flack ), an informal term for a media relations representative

The system was tested by the German Bundeswehr but not bought due to budget restrictions and the fielding of the Ozelot Light Flak ( leFla ) System.

In the early phases of World War II, Allied military intelligence initially assumed that the Japanese Type 88 was a copy of the formidable German Flak 41 88 mm gun due to its name.

In Italy, the term " radical chic " ( borrowed from American journalist Tom Wolfe's satirical 1970 book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers ) is used.

The defence systems relied mostly on the Flak arm.

This lack of understanding between the Flak and flying branches of the defence would plague the Luftwaffe throughout the war.

The song was selected as a favourite cover by Flak Magazine.

The museum contains many relics throughout, including an enormous railway collection, a large aircraft section which houses a Messerschmitt Bf 110, Flak cannon, Stuka and a V-1 flying bomb.

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* " Flak ", a class of the Propaganda model advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky

Dr Wurster of Messerschmitt suggested the answer in the form of Flak Rakete 1 in 1943.

Sadly, its distinguishing marks are two disused Flak towers built towards the end of the Second World War.

By late 1944 enough theory had been worked out to allow the Luftwaffe's Flak Command to issue a specification, which demanded a muzzle velocity of and a projectile containing of explosive.

After 1943, as Allied air attacks on German cities increased, many BDM girls went into paramilitary and military services (" Wehrmachtshelferin "), where they served as Flak Helpers, signals auxiliaries, searchlight operators, and office staff.

Unlike male HJs, BDM girls took little part in the actual fighting or operation of weaponry, although some Flak Helferinnen operated anti-aircraft guns.

From 1939 to 1945, during the Second World War, Carstens was a member of an anti-aircraft artillery ( Flak ) unit in the Wehrmacht, reaching the rank of Leutnant ( Second Lieutenant ) by the war's end.

Enlisting the help of a soldiers from a German Flak battery, they pushed the Bf 109 up a hill and he then half-flew, and half-glided down into the valley to the Charleville-Mézières airfield.

During World War II, the area served once again as a military training area, mostly for Flak troops.

Flak jackets were routinely worn by officers in Ballymena in late 2004, and in December 2007 for PSNI officers patrolling in the Greater Belfast & Greater Derry City areas owing to the threat from dissident republicans.

German artilleryman loading a round into an 8. 8cm Flak 36 or 37

In 1912, the Danish government constructed the " Flak Fort " on the Salthom Flak sands just north of the island proper, stationing a number of artillery pieces ranging in calibre from 47 mm to 290 mm.

`` That is, if we can be sure this is Colcord's money '' --

It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.

Even as I said it I realized that an education can be invaluable.

Within their confines, moreover, technological and industrial growth has proceeded at an accelerated pace, thus increasing the cornucopia from which material wants can be satisfied.

And no messages can be transmitted on these circuits until senders and receivers authenticate in advance, by special codes, that the messages actually come from their purported sources.

Additional codes can be used to challenge and counterchallenge the authentications.

Nobody can be absolutely certain of the answers.

All can be connected with the gold circuit from their homes.

The box is internally wired so the door can never be opened without setting off a screeching klaxon ( `` It's real obnoxious '' ).

Unless all gadgets are properly operated -- and the wires and seals from the handles removed first -- no damage can be done.

I do not know if such a way of life can come to be a self-conscious challenge, but I suspect that it can.

As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.

An order can be chanced rather than chosen, and this approach produces an experience that is `` free and discovered rather than bound and remembered ''.

And any sequence can not only change its positions in the work but can even be eliminated from it altogether.

When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )

Something of this can be learned from `` The Way To The Churchyard '' ( 1901 ), an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure.

Similarly experience itself can be conventionalized so that people react to certain preconceived clues for behavior without awareness of the vitality of their experiential field.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

it can be changed ; ;

You've already sent your daughter to Miss X's select academy for girls and your son to Mr. Y's select academy for boys, and you can be as liberal as you please with strict impunity.

In scope and power it can only be compared to Tolstoy's War And Peace.

However, for convenience we will stick to the idea that information can be classified according to Table 1.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.