* Starsína-Platoon Sergeant, Flight sergeant ( part of the rank system 1948-1959 )

The Royal Australian Air Force rank of Warrant Officer ( WOFF ) is the Air Force's only rank appointed by warrant and is equivalent to both the Army's WO1 and the Navy's WO ( the equivalent of the Army's WO2 is a Flight Sergeant ).

* March 20 – WWII: RAF Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade's bomber is hit over Germany, and he has to bail out without a parachute from a height of over 4, 000 meters.

Sergeants ( Corporal of Horse, Serjeant ) and Staff Sergeants ( Colour Sergeant and Staff Corporal ) ( and in the RAF Chief Technicians and Flight Sergeants ) are Senior NCOs ( SNCOs ).

* Robert Shaw as Flight Sergeant John Pulford RAF, flight engineer of " George "

* Ewen Solon as Flight Sergeant G. E. Powell, crew chief

* Philip Latham ( uncredited ) as Flight Sergeant

Formation No. 3 was a mobile reserve consisting of aircraft piloted by Flight Sergeant Cyril Anderson, Flt Sgt Bill Townsend, Flt Sgt Ken Brown ( RCAF ), P / O Warner Ottley and P / O Lewis Burpee ( RCAF ), taking off two hours later on 17 May, either to bomb the main dams or to attack three smaller secondary target dams: the Lister, the Ennepe and the Diemel.

Flight Sergeant George Chalmers, radio operator on " O for Orange ", looked out through the astrodome and was astonished to see that his pilot was flying towards the target along a forest's firebreak, below treetop level.

On 15 December 1955, RAF Bristol Sycamore helicopter XG501, crewed by Flight Sergeant P. A.

Biggles is accompanied by his cousin Algernon (' Algy ') Lacey and his mechanic Flight Sergeant Smyth, who are to accompany Biggles on his adventures after the war ; added to the team in 1935 is the teenager Ginger Hebblethwaite.

Support Flight contains communications, signals, field engineering and reconnaissance elements ( including snipers ) and is commanded by a GRDEFO and an ADG Flight Sergeant.

* Flight Sergeant, a non-commissioned officer in some air forces

Camp Squadron Leader M. Hamidullah Khan, later Sub-Sector Commander and as Commander-Sector 11, Flight Lieutenant Liaqat as Battalion Adjutant, Flying Officer Rouf, Flying Officer Ashraf and Flight Sergeant Shafiqullah as company commanders.

; Flight Sergeant Abu Yusuf Khan

; Flight Sergeant Shafiqullah

During a mission over France, just east of Paris, Flight Sergeant Dmytruk's plane was shot down by German anti-aircraft fire.

Kinross was also the home of Flight Sergeant George Thompson whose posthumous Victoria Cross in 1945 is often cited as the best merited of the entire air war.

Frost also met Flight Sergeant C. W. H Cox of the RAF, who had volunteered for the operation ; as an expert radio mechanic, it would be his job to locate the Würzburg radar set and photograph it, as well as disassemble it for transportation back to Britain.

Fortunately Flight Sergeant Cox and several sappers arrived at this time and proceeded to dismantle the radar equipment, placing the pieces on specially designed trolleys.

On 28 April 1945 a No. 313 Ferry Training Unit B-25 Mitchell crashed, killing pilots Flying Officer Leslie William Laurence Davies of England and Flight Sergeant William Gribbin of Scotland.

In the North African campaign, although a Flight Sergeant, he periodically led his unit, No. 260 Squadron, RAF, into battle, a function normally reserved for an officer ; in fact during one flying operation his wingman ( i. e., subordinate ) was the United States Army Air Force lieutenant-colonel commanding the U. S. 57th Fighter Group.

It is the equivalent of Colour Sergeant in the Royal Marines, Staff Sergeant in the Army, and Flight Sergeant in the Royal Air Force.

Caption reads: " Flight of Nicholas Mavrogenes | Prince Mavrogenes in Bucharest while k. u. k.

* Trajectory Reconstruction I: Trace Evidence in Flight, by Petraco, Nicholas and DeForest, Peter, R., Journal of Forensic Sciences, Volume 35, Nov. 1990.

* David Berman of the Silver Jews sings the lyric " Her doorbell plays a bar of Stephen Foster " in the song Tennessee, which appeared on the 2001 album Bright Flight.

In the film version of the Stephen Coonts novel Flight of the Intruder, new A-6 Intruder pilot LTJG Jack Barlow is given the call sign " Razor " because he didn't look old enough to shave.

The A-6 Intruder was featured in a 1986 novel by Stephen Coonts called Flight of the Intruder, with a plot line somewhat similar to the book Thud Ridge about pilots flying into Hanoi restricted by militarily dubious rules of engagement.

His son, Stephen, was a casualty of the 9 / 11 attacks when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower.

In November 1980 two pilots, Royal Australian Air Force Flight Lieutenant Noel Anthony and RAF Flying Officer Stephen Belcher were killed when their aircraft struck birds on take off and crashed in woods to the east of Kinloss airfield.

Her literary career began in 1935 when her book of poetry, Theory of Flight, based on flying lessons she took, was chosen by the American poet Stephen Vincent Benét for publication in the Yale Younger Poets Series.

* In Stephen Coonts ' novel Final Flight, terrorists set out to steal nuclear weapons from the aircraft carrier USS United States, anchored off Naples, Italy.

On March 8, 2006, he was appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to lead a public inquiry into the Air India Flight 182 bombing and the resulting trials.

Its twice-yearly catalog includes works on history, biography, professional military education, and occasional works of popular fiction, including Tom Clancy's first novel, The Hunt for Red October ; and Stephen Coonts ’ Flight of the Intruder.

Stephen Poole of PC Gamer US stated the game's predecessor's limited environments did not create a believable flight experience, but wrote, " However, with its exquisite terrain, impressive flight-physics models, and meticulous attention to the details and procedures of civilian aviation, Flight Unlimited II now offers the closest experience to actual flight that you can get on a PC.

Entitled The Best of The Colbert Report, the three-hour disc contains two " The Wørd " segments ( including " Truthiness " from the first episode and " Wikiality "), one " Threat Down ", various " Better Know a District " segments ( including Robert Wexler ), and interviews with Bill O ' Reilly, Willie Nelson, and Jane Fonda ( also included is Fonda's appearance with Gloria Steinem in a segment called " Cooking with Feminists "), as well as the special segments " Green Screen Challenge ", " Stephen Jr. – Flight of a Patriot ", " Indecision 2006: Midterm Midtacular ", and Colbert's " Meta-Free-Phor-All " with Sean Penn.

Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School ; by Stephen Coppel, Publisher: Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995.

In 1923, the U. S. Army Air Service was interested in pursuing a mission to be the first to circumnavigate the earth by aircraft, a program called " World Flight ".

In 1920 the squadron got Felixstowe F. 5 flying boats, and it moved to RAF Calshot in May 1922, where on 1 April 1923 it was renumbered to 480 Flight RAF.

The 1923 adaptation replaced him with a black guy Tom Jackson, a move very popular in early Soviet cinema to display Soviet internationalism ( compare Circus or Flight to the Moon ).

* 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1966 – Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska killing all 42 on board.

* 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.

* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.

* 1976 – Nawaf al-Hazmi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 ( d. 2001 )

* 1972 – Hani Hanjour, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 ( d. 2001 )

* 1985 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.

* 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

* 1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

* 1944 – Uli Derickson, Czech-American flight attendant, TWA Flight 847 survivor

* 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522 en route from Larnaca, Cyprus via Athens, Greece to Prague, Czech Republic crashes near Athens, with at least 121 on board.

* 1987 – Northwest Airlines Flight 255 a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crashes after take off in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus 2 people on the ground.

* 1985 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.

* 1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.

* 2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.

* 1986 – Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.

* 1987 – Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.

* 1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.

* 1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.

An airport security guard and Imam, Abdulaziz al-Omari (,, also transliterated as Alomari or al-Umari ) ( May 28, 1979 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11 attacks.

* 1954 – South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH. 106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.

* 1968 – BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off.

* 1994 – Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack FedEx Express Flight 705 and crash it to insure his family with his life insurance policy.

A former law student and muezzin, Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Nami ( Arabic: أحمد بن عبد الله النامي, ; also transliterated as Alnami ) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 7, 1977 – September 11, 2001 )</ span > was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi (, ) ( October 11, 1980 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.