In the mid-1980s, the wing was equipped with a fleet of 32 aircraft, which included five HC-130 rescue transports, eight H-3 and seven H-53 heavy lift helicopters or “ Jolly Green Giants ,” and six H-1F and six H1-N light lift helicopters or “ Hueys .” Flying training in the 1550th ATTW included basic aircraft qualifications, instrument and transition flying, aerial refueling of the

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

In the late 1960s other followers of the style included Wayne Wong, Flying Eddie Ferguson, Chico and Cokie Schuler and their mentor Chris Flanagan also, Roger Evans, John Clendenin, Hermann Goellner and Tom Leroy.

* From Fringe to Flying Circus – ' Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960 – 1980 ' – Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980

* Wilmut, Roger, From Fringe to Flying Circus.

* From Fringe to Flying Circus — Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960-1980 — Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980.

* Roger Wilmut From Fringe to Flying Circus – Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960 – 1980, Eyre Methuen, 1980

Flying Nun Records is an independent record label formed in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1981 by music-store proprietor Roger Shepherd.

He is most known for the roles of Captain Hook ( Peter Pan no Bōken ), Dick Dastardly ( Wacky Races & Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines ), Goemon Ishikawa XIII ( Lupin III ), Nezumi Otoko ( GeGeGe no Kitaro ), Denzō Yamada ( Nintama Rantarō ), Professor Moriarty ( Sherlock Hound ), Gol D. Roger ( One Piece ), Master Xehanort ( Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep & Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance ), Doctor Weil ( Mega Man Zero ), Tao Pai Pai ( Dragon Ball ), Doctor Eggman ( Sonic the Hedgehog ( series )) and Wario in the Wario commercials.

" was the second release on Roger Shepherd's Flying Nun label.

* From Fringe to Flying Circus — ' Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960-1980 ' — Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980.

Meanwhile, Brown attracts the appreciative attention of two RAF officers, Wing Commander John Morley ( John Sutton ) and Flying Officer Roger Pillby ( Reginald Gardiner ).

Flying A was one of the first motion pictures studios in California history.

On August 12, 2011, a plaque was unveiled on the Wolff building at Third Ave and La Mesa Bl commemorating Dwan and the Flying A Studios origins in La Mesa, California.

The AVRE version of the Churchill Tank was armed with a Spigot mortar that fired a HE-filled projectile ( nicknamed the Flying Dustbin ).

* Joe was the dachshund of General Claire Lee Chennault, commander of the Flying Tigers and then the China Air Task Force of the US Army Air Forces, and became the mascot of those organizations.

The programme comprised a series of sketches, often bizarre and surreal, frequently satirical with a disjointed style which was to become more famous in the more daring Monty Python's Flying Circus, which followed five months later.

Déjà Vu was the third episode of the second season of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British comedy program.

In April 2012, the International Flying Car Association was established to be the " central resource center for information and communication between the flying car industry, news networks, governments, and those seeking further information worldwide.

* The Maverick Flying Dune Buggy was designed by the Indigenous People's Technology and Education Center as an off-road vehicle that could unfurl an advanced parachute and then travel by air over impassable terrain when roadways were no longer usable.

Orwell was now working on Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and also tried unsuccessfully to write a serial for the News Chronicle.

During this time, he was distracted by concerns about style and possible libel in Keep the Aspidistra Flying.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying was published by Gollancz on 20 April 1936.

In a role-playing game context, it was first used by Flying Buffalo in the 1975 game Tunnels and Trolls, with previous usage in a wargaming context including Guidon Games 1973 ruleset, Ironclad.

Flying rings was an event similar to still rings, but with the performer executing a series of stunts while swinging.

In 2000, on the 40th anniversary of the U-2 Incident, his family was presented his posthumously awarded Prisoner of War Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, and National Defense Service Medal.

The machine's advanced loop-frame pattern was similar to the 1903 Milwaukee Merkel motorcycle ( designed by Joseph Merkel, later of Flying Merkel fame ).

On 10 March 2011, it was revealed that Prince Harry had passed his Apache flying test and he was awarded his Apache Flying Badge on 14 April 2011.

Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record " Hey Joe " and " Purple Haze ", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he had painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and " split-diamond " fret markers that were not found on other 1960s-era Flying Vs.

Britain's Royal Flying Corps ( which merged on 1 April 1918 with the Royal Naval Air Service to form the Royal Air Force ) was founded in 1912.

Bell Aerospace was already under contract for studies of Lunar Flying Vehicles.

According to the sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, it was rendered by a number of Australian university lecturers.

) Although the fictitious faculty first appeared in the Bruces sketch in the TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus, the song itself was not included, making its debut on the album Matching Tie and Handkerchief as a coda for the sketch.

Flying over the Himalayas was extremely dangerous and made more difficult by a lack of reliable charts, an absence of radio navigation aids, and a dearth of information about the weather.

While Ned Jordan is credited with changing the way advertising was written with his " Somewhere West of Laramie " ads for his Jordan Playboy, Reo's Flying Cloud — a name that provoked evocative images of speed and lightness — changed the way automobiles would be named in the future.

He made a " wish list " of 24 possible inventions which included " The Prolongation of Life ", the " Art of Flying ", " perpetual light ", " making armour light and extremely hard ", " A ship to saile with All Winds, and a Ship not to be sunk ", " practicable and certain way of finding Longitudes ", " potent druggs to alter or Exalt Imagination, Waking, Memory and other functions and appease pain, procure innocent sleep, harmless dreams etc ".

It was immortalised in the lines of G. K. Chesterton's poem The Rolling English Road from his book The Flying Inn: " For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen ; Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Initially lacking a synchronizer, the Royal Flying Corps relied on pusher aircraft such as the Vickers F. B. 5 Gunbus and the Airco D. H. 2 in which the propeller was behind the pilot, and therefore out of the way of forward firing guns.

* 12 August – Lieutenant Robin R. Skene and mechanic R. Barlow crash their Blériot monoplane on the way to Dover, becoming the first members of the Royal Flying Corps to die on active duty.

In a meeting at Mabalacat Airfield ( known to the U. S. military as Clark Air Base ) near Manila on 19 October 1944, Ōnishi — visiting the 201st Navy Flying Corps headquarters — said: " In my opinion, there is only one way of assuring that our meager strength will be effective to a maximum degree.

He liked to tell how he helped contribute to the design of the famous " Flying V ." Lover said that he thought up the design as a way to lean the guitar against a wall without it tipping over.

Although the roots of announcing the weapons can also be traced back to Toei's 1968 tokusatsu series, Giant Robo, whose US title was Johnny Sokko And His Flying Robot, or even the way the heroes of chambara eiga and television used to announce their sword techniques before cutting down their opponents.

It is nearly identical to a Gibson Flying V in every way, except for the 24-fret neck and the 27 " baritone scale length.

John Henry Iles, who took over control of Belle Vue in 1925, believed that expansion of the rides and the fun aspect of the park was the way forward, and added attractions such as dodgems, the Caterpillar, the Ghost Train, Jack & Jill, and the Flying Sea Planes.

Only 25 were built but, after the war, 14 aircraft found their way to the fledgling Flying Tiger Line and provided a good start for that company.

When not undertaking solo adventures, she partnered with Supreme and Radar and also joined the independent incarnation of Youngblood, alongside her best friend, Twilight, the Girl Marvel, where her prim moralising and high-handed, supercilious ( as well as out of date ) attitude rubbed most of her teammates, save for Twilight, the wrong way, earning her the derisive nickname " The Flying Nun.

He later recounted that, after seeing Monty Python's Flying Circus for the first time, he felt that there was no way he could perform as well as the Python team and decided to stay behind the camera.

The guards escorting him have been bribed by Jiang Zhong to kill him along the way at Flying Cloud Pool, along with two other assassins.

The ride is called Seggiolini volanti (" Flying chairs ") or calcinculo which literally means " kick in the bottom ", from the ingenious way used to grab the high-placed " tail " and win a free ride.

The Flying Throne of Kay Kāvus was a legendary eagle-propelled craft built by Kay Kāvus, used for flying the king all the way to China.

Flying boats operated from the loch to protect allied shipping making its way to Liverpool or Glasgow either via the North Channel or the Firth of Clyde.