As Rick Loomis, head of Flying Buffalo Inc., put it, " The French edition came out so beautiful that now that I have run out of 5. 5, I am not satisfied to just reprint 5. 5.

* Lafayette Flying Corps, a name given to American volunteer pilots who flew for the French in World War I

He was honored by several countries, receiving the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters, the Distinguished Flying Cross with two oak leaf clusters, the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, the French Légion d ' honneur and the Silver Star.

As the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic, Earhart received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Congress, the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor from the French Government and the Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society from President Herbert Hoover.

Chanute, a French native, was later famed for publishing Progress in Flying Machines, which helped pioneer aviation.

* Harry French Knight, founder of the St. Louis Flying Club

So many volunteered that the Lafayette Flying Corps was formed and many Americans thereafter serving with other French air units such as Michigan's Fred Zinn, who was a pioneer of aerial photography, fought as part of the French Foreign Legion and later the French Aéronautique militaire.

Collins has received the Defense Superior Service Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for service in Grenada ( Operation Urgent Fury ), the French Legion of Honor, NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal and NASA Space Flight Medals, the Free Spirit Award, and the 2006 National Space Trophy.

The President of France bestowed on him the French Legion of Honor and, on his arrival back in the United States, a fleet of warships and aircraft escorted him to Washington, D. C., where President Calvin Coolidge awarded him the Distinguished Flying Cross.

The Operation Pugilist involves the Free French Flying Column ( X Corps ( United Kingdom ), British Eighth Army under General Sir Bernard Montgomery ) and Leclerc's Force ( 2nd Division ( New Zealand )).

The anime was also broadcast in the Arab World ( as " مغامرات نيلز " Nils ' Adventures ), Canada ( in French ), France, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Iran, Iceland ( as " Nilli Hólmgeirsson ") Belgium, Greece ( as " Το θαυμαστό ταξίδι του Νίλς Χόλγκερσον "-" The wondrous journey of Nils Holgersson "), The Netherlands, Poland ( as " Nils and the wild geese "), Portugal, Romania, Spain, Slovenia ( as " Nils Holgerson " with one s ), Hungary ( as " Nils Holgersson csodálatos utazása a vadludakkal "), Czech Republic ( as " Nils Holgersson "), Israel, Turkey ( as " Uçan Kaz " (" The Flying Goose ")), Italy, Hong Kong ( dubbed into Cantonese ), Mainland China, South Africa ( Translated to Afrikaans as " Die wonderlike avonture van Niels Holgerson "), and Albania, but in some countries it was cut to allow for commercials.

Flying activity in France is carried out by a network of bases, platforms and French air defence radar systems.

He was awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, 17 Air Medals, the Navy Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster and Valor device, a Meritorious Unit Commendation, two NASA Distinguished Service Medals, two NASA Outstanding Leadership Medals, four NASA Space Flight Medals, the National Defense Service Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, a Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, the French Legion of Honor, the Medal of King Abdul Aziz ( Saudi Arabia ), the Vietnam Air Gallantry Cross, the Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.

* Flying the Nieuport-Delage NiD 42S, the French pilot Sadi Lecointe wins the Coupe Beaumont race as the only finisher, then continues flying to establish a new world speed-over-distance record over a distance of 500 km ( 310. 69 miles ), averaging 306. 696 km / hr ( 190. 572 mph ).

* October 30 – Flying the Nieuport-Delage NiD 40R, the French pilot Sadi Lecointe sets a new world altitude record of 11, 145 meters ( 36, 565 feet ).

* 4 February – In Paris, Austrian-born French inventor Franz Reichelt, the " Flying Tailor ," dies in a jump from the Eiffel Tower in an attempt to demonstrate his " parachute-suit ," a wearable parachute.

* Flying a Breguet 14, a Capitaine Coli and a Lieutenant Roget of the French Armys Aéronautique Militaire make a double crossing of the Mediterranean Sea, covering 1, 609 km ( 999 miles ).

* June 12 – Flying the Gossamer Albatross from Folkestone Warren, England, to a French beach south of Cap Gris-Nez in 2 hours 49 minutes, Bryan Allen becomes the first person to cross the English Channel in a pedal-powered aircraft.

) of the United Kingdom and with the French and Russian Flying Services.

French Aircraft of the First World War, Flying Machines Press, Mountain View California, 1997, ISBN 0-9637110-4-0

Awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, 10 Air Medals, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, NASA Leadership Medal, 3 NASA Space Flight Medals, the French Legion of Honor and the Saudi Arabia King Fahd Medal.

Both of Wilson's grandfathers served in the two world wars, his paternal grandfather receiving both the British Distinguished Flying Cross and the French Croix de Guerre for his service in World War I ( 32 ).

# Flying the flag of the State are broken, torn, faded, wrinkled, or dull ;

Flying of the flag is permissible from sunrise to sunset.

Flying the flag in Portloe

Flying the flag after sundown is also inappropriate behaviour.

Flying an American flag upside down is not necessarily meant as political protest.

Flying his flag in HMS Calcutta, he conducted operations arising from the attack on the British Coaster Arrow, helped destroy the Chinese fleet in June 1857, took Canton in December, and in 1858 he captured the forts on the Baihe ( Hai River ), compelling the Chinese government to consent to the Treaties of Tianjin.

As the green flag waved on the Great American Race, it was Fireball Roberts on pole and " Flying " Fred Lorenzen outside of him.

* Flying the Open Source flag at Gencon

Flying the flag of the Jolly Roger, the gang was extremely successful soon becoming known for kidnapping wealthy men, women, and children for ransom.

Flying his flag in the frigate Rainha de Portugal 46, commanded by Captain F. G. MacDonough and with his stepson Charles Elers Napier as Chief of Staff, on 20 June he sailed from Oporto with his small fleet, transporting the Duke of Terceira and half the constitutional army to the Algarve so that they could open a second front in the south of the country and march on Lisbon.

Figures for total Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force and Royal Naval Air Service war dead were included in the total dead and not listed separately in War Office report.

The squadron became one of the premier RFC / RAF fighter units in 1918 and by the end of the war Douglas had been awarded a Military Cross and a Distinguished Flying Cross.

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 the first world war, Wycliffe Hall housed refugees from Serbia, and trainees from the Royal Flying Corps who built a practice aeroplane in the Dining Hall.

The air base was built to train World War II pilots to fly the P-38 Lightning and B-17 Flying Fortress, two planes that were essential to the war effort.

A vintage Curtiss P-40 aircraft, nicknamed " Joy ", is on display at the riverside war memorial in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, painted in the colors of the Flying Tigers.

Winston Churchill himself departed from Stranraer in a Boeing Flying Boat on the night of the 25 June 1942, when making his second visit of the war to the USA.

From 1915 pilots trained on the Walsh Brothers Flying Boats including Curtiss machines, aircraft of their own design and, later in the war, the first two aircraft made by Boeing.

New Zealanders in the RAF itself included pilots, such as the first RAF ace of the war, Flying Officer Cobber Kain, Alan Deere ( whose book Nine Lives was one of the first post war accounts of combat ) and leaders such as the World War I ace, Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, who commanded No. 11 Group RAF in the Battle of Britain and went on to the air defence of Malta and, in the closing stages of the war, Commonwealth air units under South East Asia Command, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham Air Tactical Commander of D-Day.

Later on in the war, Kunming was targeted by the Imperial Japanese Air Force during their bombing campaigns, and when the Burma Road was lost to the Japanese, the American Volunteer Group, known as the " Flying Tigers ", used Kunming as a base in 1941 and 1942 to fly in supplies over the Himalayas from British bases in India in defiance of Japanese assaults.

Tecumseh's father was Puckshinwa ( in Shawnee, Puckeshinwau, meaning " Alights from Flying ", " Something that drops " or " I light from flying ", also known as Puckeshinwa, Pucksinwah, Pukshinwa, Pukeesheno, Pekishinoah, Pooksehnwe and other variations ), a minor Shawnee war chief of the Kispoko (" Dancing Tail " or " Panther ") band and the Panther Clan of the tribe.

For her war efforts, she received the Distinguished Service Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross.

During the Spanish-American war of 1898, Cámara's Flying Relief Column was a naval task force of Spain's most powerful warships, under the command of Rear Admiral Manuel de la Cámara, to relieve Spanish forces in Manila after the defeat of Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón by the American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey in the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898.

( U. S. airmen and the press continued to use the “ Flying Tiger ” name to refer to USAAF units in China to the end of the war, and the name continues to be applied to certain air force and army aviation squadrons.

At the end of the war, Botterell was a Flight Lieutenant with the Royal Air Force ( the Royal Flying Corps and RNAS had been combined on April 1, 1918 to form the RAF ).

American bomber planes such as the B-17 Flying Fortress had been built before the war as the only adequate long-range bombers in the world, designed to patrol the long American coastlines.

Bomber Command used not only British aircraft but also American-built machines such as the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator ( although less than 2 % of Bomber Command's wartime sorties were flown by US-built aircraft ); in the case of the former they were the first to be put into battle and gave useful information on improvements before the US entered the war.

German raids continued on a smaller and less destructive scale for the rest of the war, and later the V1 Flying Bomb and V-2 ballistic missile were both used against Britain.

In the 1951 war film Flying Leathernecks, John Wayne's character was stationed in Goleta.

The Pup began the famous series of animal-named Sopwith aircraft during the war, which, as a whole, would become renowned in aviation history as " The Flying Zoo ".

Then in March 1918 he decided to enlist in the war, entering the Royal Naval College at Greenwich as a Probationary Flying Officer, a rank he retained till hostilities ended in the following November.

By the mid 1960s the Deltic hauled Flying Scotsman was achieving a 5 hour 55 minute time from King's Cross to Edinburgh with one stop at Newcastle and this was the fastest ever timing, beating the pre war A4 hauled " Coronation " service's 6 hours, and without the priority over other traffic accorded to the earlier LNER train.