Flight surgeons are medical doctors, either MDs or DOs, who are primarily responsible for the medical evaluation, certification and treatment of military aviation personnel — e. g., pilots, Naval Flight Officers, navigators / Combat Systems Officers, astronauts, air traffic controllers, UAV operators and other aircrew members, both officer and enlisted.

Flight surgeons are typically on flight status ( i. e., they log flight hours ), but are not required to be rated or licensed pilots.

The same policy applies to Army flight surgeons and to Navy flight surgeons, who are considered " aeronautically designated " officers like their Naval Aviator and Naval Flight Officer counterparts.

Flight surgeons have noted on previous flights that the body's basic posture changes while in microgravity.

The Flight Surgeon Badge is presented to those members of the military who are both qualified medical officers and certified flight surgeons.

The Flight Surgeon Badge is a military insignia which is issued to personnel who are qualified as military flight surgeons.

After 1945 Pilot Officer Josef Horák and Flight Lieutenant Josef Stříbrný returned to Czechoslovakia to serve in the Czechoslovak Air Force.

Cassini was chosen to head the northern expedition but, as a royalist, he refused to serve under the revolutionary government after the arrest of King Louis XVI on his Flight to Varennes.

The Columbus, Ohio division of North American Aviation was instrumental in the exclusive development and production of North American's A-5 Vigilante, an advanced high speed bomber that would see significant use as a Naval reconnaissance aircraft during the Vietnam War, the OV-10 Bronco, the first aircraft specifically designed for forward air control ( FAC ), and counter-insurgency ( COIN ) duties, and the T-2 Buckeye Naval trainer, which would serve from the late 1950s until 2008 and be flown in training by virtually every Naval Aviator and Naval Flight Officer in the US Navy and US Marine Corps for four decades.

Many of its homes were built in the 1950s to serve the needs of new employees at the newly established NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which is located immediately to the north.

Alaska Airlines made a Friendship Flight to Provideniya in July 1988 when it became the first American airline to serve a Soviet location.

Mastracchio is currently in training to serve as a Flight Engineer on the International Space Station as a member of the Expedition 39 crew.

During this 10 month assignment, he led 110 test pilots and technicians, participated as an AV-8B project test pilot, instructed students at the Test Pilot School, directed the Naval Air Test Center Museum, and became the first Marine to serve as Deputy Director and Chief of Staff of the Flight Test and Engineering Group.

On May 10, the franchise announced Bob Thornton would serve as head coach and by July Flight was revealed as the team name.

At the outset, serving RAF officers were appointed to serve as CO ( S / L RG Kellett ) and Flight Commanders ( F / L JA Kent and F / L AS Forbes ) alongside the Poles, as the Polish pilots were unfamiliar with RAF Fighter Command language, procedures and training.

New Zealand equerries are appointed to serve the Queen of New Zealand only for the duration of a royal visit to the country, and are always drawn from the officers of the New Zealand Defence Force, typically Captains, Flight Lieutenants, and Navy Lieutenants.

Naval Flight Officers usually serve a six year commitment and Submarine Officers usually serve a five year commitment.

The Dakota did serve solely as a support aircraft for the Flight and as a multi-engine tail-wheel trainer for the Lancaster ; but recently it has also acted as a display aircraft in its own right.

His humorous depictions of the new technologies of his time – he published a volume of cartoons called The Perils of Flight ( Les péripéties de l ' aviation, Garnier Frères, Paris, 1911 )- serve as an important link between the worlds of nineteenth-century illustration and twentieth-century cartooning.

* Flight Lieutenant Phil Carrington ( Robert Wagner ) – Flight Lieutenant Carrington is an American officer who volunteered to serve with the British early in the war.

The Air India Flight 182 bombing, which originated in Montreal, happened during Mulroney's first term.

Microsoft Flight Simulator X will remain available at retail stores and web retailers, the Flight Sim community will continue to learn from and encourage one another, and we remain committed to the Flight Simulator franchise for the long term.

* Temporary Flight Restriction, a term for short-term airspace restrictions in the United States

Marines who fly in the Executive Flight Detachment may be eligible for the Presidential Service Badge after a certain term of service.

The AS400 program also previously included a single academic term Flight Instruction Program ( FIP ) private pilot ground school course.

The term " Para Jumper " is a retronym of the initials ' PJ ' that were used on an Air Force Form 5 ( Aircrew Flight Log ) to identify anyone who is on board in order to jump from the aircraft.

On September 1, 1983, the Soviet Union shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a Boeing 747 with 269 people aboard, including sitting Congressman Larry McDonald, when it violated Soviet airspace just past the west coast of Sakhalin Island near Moneron Island — an act which Reagan characterized as a " massacre ".

Naval Flight Officers ( NFOs ) are the men and women who operate some of the advanced systems on board most multi-crew naval aircraft, and some may also act as the overall tactical mission commanders of single or multiple aircraft assets during a given mission.

In the course of his activities, King recruits upper class British RAF officer, Flight Lieutenant Peter Marlowe ( James Fox ) to act as a translator.

While most of this group was continuing to act as Alpha Flight in the present day, the temporal copy of Snowbird had married Yukon Jack and become queen of his tribe.

Skutnik is a retired printing and distribution assistant for the Congressional Budget Office who is generally known for an act of heroism following the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 on January 13, 1982 in the Potomac River, Washington, DC.

Flight Instructor and Examiner ratings extend the holder's privileges to act, respectively, as an instructor and to act as an examiner for proficiency checks and, or, skill tests.

The Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 concluded that Talwinder Singh Parmar " is now believed that he was the leader of the conspiracy to bomb Air India flights " The bombing attack, the worst act of airliner terrorism before 9 / 11 was followed by at least six other terrorist incidents, plots or threats which were linked to Babbar Khalsa sect in British Columbia, Hamilton and Montreal.

The worst act of terrorism against the United States prior to 9 / 11, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 189 Americans, happened during the Reagan years.

In April of that year, Rear Admiral Ralph Davison personally selected Lieutenant Commander Roy Marlin " Butch " Voris, a World War II fighter ace, to assemble and train a flight demonstration team, naming him Officer-in-Charge and Flight Leader.

* 2005 – Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U. S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.

* 1961 – Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team, several coaches and family members.

* 1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.

* 1977 – German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board.

The team of hijackers on United Airlines Flight 175 was led by Marwan al-Shehhi, from the United Arab Emirates.

* October 13 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft transporting a rugby union team crashes at about 14, 000 ' in the Andes mountain range, near the Argentina / Chile border.

** Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in Wayne County, West Virginia ; all 75 on board, including 37 players and 5 coaches from the Marshall University football team, are killed.

* LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007, a flight that crashed in 1980, killing Polish singer Anna Jantar and the entire US amateur boxing team

Music in Flight is an airshow held at Sywell, where an orchestra play classical music to accompany flying aircraft, hot air balloons, the Red Devils parachute display team and a fireworks display.

* Herbert " Flight Time " Lang, current member of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team and 2 time participant of the Amazing Race.

He later died in the Southern Airlines Flight 932 airplane crash, that killed most of Marshall University's football team, on November 14, 1970

A team of rescue elves called the ELFS ( Effective Liberating Flight Squad ) free Scott from jail by tying up the front desk guard and using tinsel to break through the bars ( which Scott is very impressed by ).

A team of ATIC analysts monitored the MiG-15 flight test program at Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa, which included flights by one Major Charles E. " Chuck " Yeager from the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base.

* In 1961, the entire United States Figure Skating team died in the crash of Sabena Flight 548.

On January 22, 2009, it was reported that the development team was heavily affected by Microsoft's ongoing job cuts, with indications that the entire Microsoft Flight Simulator team had been laid off.

The star is named after the discovery team leader, Bonnard Teegarden, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

The World Figure Skating Championships have been cancelled 15 times in its history: from 1915 – 1921 due to World War I, from 1940 – 1946 due to World War II, and in 1961 as a result of the loss of the entire American team in the crash of Sabena Flight 548.

Previously, the way Wernher von Braun's team at the Marshall Space Flight Center, and the old N. A. C. A.

Following the British failure to win the Schneider Trophy in 1925, Trenchard ensured that finances were available for an RAF team and the High Speed Flight was formed in preparation for the 1927 race.

On March 14, 1980, his younger brother, Paul Palomino, was killed in the crash of LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 as a member of the U. S. boxing team on its way to Poland for a competition.

Whitcomb's designs were flight-tested in 1979 – 80 by a joint NASA / Air Force team, using a KC-135 Stratotanker based at the Dryden Flight Research Center.

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.