In August 1937, as navigator under pilot and commander Caleb V. Haynes on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, he helped locate the battleship Utah despite being given the wrong coordinates by Navy personnel, in exercises held in misty conditions off California, after which the group of B-17s bombed it with water bombs.

Combat and accidents reduced but did not eliminate the P-40 complement, and a muster of approximately a dozen pursuit pilots, called the " Bataan Field Flying Detachment ," continued to fly missions until the last day of the campaign, employing mainly 30-pound fragmentation bombs and machine gun fire as ordnance.

For example at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915 the British Royal Flying Corps dropped bombs on German rail communications.

Some 612 B-17 Flying Fortresses of the Eighth Air Force dropped 1, 500 tons of high explosive and 178 tons of incendiary bombs on the plant.

Flying bombs may be powered or unpowered, piloted or unpiloted, although unpowered flying bombs such as the United States Navy Bat and German Hagelkorn (" Hailstone ") and Fritz X designed during World War II are usually referred to as glide bombs.

Flying out of Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, twenty-seven aircraft used 750 and 1, 000 pound bombs to attack a Viet Cong stronghold.

* March 2 – The Allied air forces make their largest attacks of the Anzio campaign, with 241 B-24 Liberators and 100 B-17 Flying Fortresses escorted by 113 P-38 Lightnings and 63 P-47 Thunderbolts dropping thousands of fragmentation bombs around Castello di Cisterna, Velletri, and Carroceto, Italy.

* 1 November – Flying an Etrich monoplane, Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti drops four small bombs on Turkish troops near Tripoli during the Italo-Turkish War.

L 15 bombs central London, during which Royal Flying Corps pilot John Slessor, flying a B. E. 2c, intercepts her, becoming the first man to intercept an enemy aircraft over the United Kingdom, although he is unable to fire on L 15.

L 48 bombs open fields outside Harwich before Royal Flying Corps Lieutenant L. P. Watkins of No. 37 Squadron shoots her down in flames over Harwich.

On the morning of September 10, 1943, during World War II, American planes launched their bombs from B-17 Flying Fortress planes over a crowded town on market day causing thousands of deaths.

Flying only a few dozen feet above the sea toward their targets, they would release their bombs, which would then, ideally, ricochet across the surface of the water and explode at the side of the target ship, under it, or just over it.

Flying Officer Man Prasongdi took off in a Hawk III armed with four 50 kg bombs and attempted to attack Japanese transports in Manao harbor.

One of the first examples of this was at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915 when the Royal Flying Corps dropped bombs on German rail communications.

Other names for this basic type of missile include: HY-1, SY-1, and FL-1 Flying Dragon ( Chinese designations typically differ for export and domestic use, even for otherwise identical equipment ).

Dwan operated Flying A Studios in La Mesa, California from August, 1911 to July, 1912.

* The Argument Sketch, a sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus

The B-17 Flying Fortress is a heavy bomber from World War II.

In Britain rhyming slang had a resurgence of popular interest beginning in the 1970s resulting from its use in a number of London-based television programmes such as Steptoe and Son, Mind Your Language, The Sweeney ( the title of which is itself rhyming slang —" Sweeney Todd " for " Flying Squad ", a rapid response unit of London ’ s Metropolitan Police ), Minder, Citizen Smith, Only Fools and Horses, and EastEnders.

In 1942 the British established an Advanced Flying Boat base at the East Point Plantation, staffed and equipped from the 205 and 240 Squadrons, then stationed on Ceylon.

* How Flying Cars Will Work from HowStuffWorks

Flying spins may go from a forward spin to a back spin.

He criticised and satirised, from the inside, the various social milieus in which he found himself – provincial town life in A Clergyman's Daughter ; middle-class pretention in Keep the Aspidistra Flying ; preparatory schools in Such Such were the Joys ; colonialism in Burmese Days, and some socialist groups in The Road to Wigan Pier.

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.

Spacey hosted Saturday Night Live twice: first in 1997 with musical guest Beck and special guests Michael Palin and John Cleese from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; and again in the last episode of season 31 with musical guest Nelly Furtado.

Flying kicks are often derived from the basic kicks.

The Knights ' new name changes almost nightly, improvised by the actor playing the lead Knight ( originally Hank Azaria ), but always starting with " Ecky Ecky Ecky F ' tang F ' tang Olé Biscuitbarrel ..." which itself references several famous sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus, including Election Night Special.

Flying in reinforcements and winning air superiority, the Luftwaffe contributed decisively to the German conquest and expulsion of the Western Allies from Scandinavia.

His Edith Van Dyne stories, including the Aunt Jane's Nieces, The Flying Girl and its sequel, and his girl sleuth Josie O ' Gorman from The Bluebird Books, depict girls and young women engaging in traditionally masculine activities.

The " Dead Parrot Sketch ", alternatively and originally known as the " Pet Shop Sketch " or " Parrot Sketch ", is a popular sketch or one act from Monty Python's Flying Circus, and one of the most famous in the history of British television comedy.

Michael Palin ( left ) and John Cleese ( right ) of Monty Python performing the Cheese Shop sketch. The Cheese Shop is a well-known sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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

It was set in a ' virtual ' computer-generated world created by young computer game designers, and starred Jack Ryder ( from EastEnders ) as Titus, with Terry Jones ( Monty Python's Flying Circus ) narrating.

The most complex designs use vine choppers and shakers, along with a blower system or " Flying Willard " to separate the potatoes from the plant.

The first such game offered via major e-mail services was WebWar II ( based on Starweb and licensed from Flying Buffalo ) from Neolithic Enterprises who accepted e-mail turns from all of the major E-Mail services including CompuServe in 1983.

Flying an F-15C Eagle, Royal Saudi Air Force Captain Ayedh al-Shamrani, using AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, shoots down two Iraqi Air Force Mirage F1 jets as they approach British Royal Navy ships in the Persian Gulf.

Flying more than 1, 000 total sorties, pilots flew into heavily defended skies, littered with surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft fire.

Flying for the first time in 1959, the RP-76 was most often launched from a F-89 Scorpion fighter of the United States Air Force, and was extensively used by the U. S. Army for training the operators of surface-to-air missiles ; the drone was also used for training USAF fighter pilots in air-to-air gunnery.

* Rods: Flying Absurdities-Do these invisible flying creatures really exist?

Flying discs are thrown and caught for free-form recreation and as part of many different flying disc games.

Flying rings are also available ; they typically travel significantly farther than any traditional flying disc.

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.

* LaBiche Aerospace's LaBiche FSC-1 is a developmental prototype Flying Car and is an example of a practical flying car capable of utilizing today's automotive and aviation infrastructure to provide true " door-to-door " travel.

* Flying Car Reviews – pictures, specifications, and reviews of the leaders in the flying car industry

Flying spins include the flying camel, flying sit spin, death drop, and butterfly spin.

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.

Mihdhar and Hazmi took flight lessons on May 5, 2000 at the Sorbi Flying Club in San Diego, with Mihdhar flying an aircraft for 42 minutes.

On May 5, Hazmi and Mihdhar took a lesson for one hour, and additional lessons on May 10 at the Sorbi Flying Club, with Hazmi flying an aircraft for 30 minutes.

The LAA, formerly the Popular Flying Association or PFA, is the UK's body for amateur aircraft construction, and recreational & sport flying.

In 1911 the Royal Navy graduated its first aeroplane pilots at the Royal Aero Club flying ground at Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey under the tutelage of pioneer aviator George Bertram Cockburn, but in May 1912 naval and army aviation were combined to become the Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ).

" Flying swing outs " and " flying circles " are Lindy Hop moves with tap footwork.

The task was made all the more dangerous with the arrival of additional German flying squadrons, including Manfred von Richthofen's highly experienced and well equipped Jasta 11, which led to sharp increase in Royal Flying Corps casualties.

Dubbed the " Flying Housewife ", " the flying Dutchmam ", and " Amazing Fanny " by the international press, she was welcomed back home in Amsterdam by an immense crowd.

All flying programs at the Academy are run by the 306th Flying Training Group, which reports to the Air Education and Training Command, ensuring uniformity of flight training with the rest of the Air Force.

To the south of the town lies Newtownards Airport, home of the Ulster Flying Club — Northern Ireland's largest, non-commercial training and flying organisation.

After flying B-17 combat missions from Great Britain and receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross ( DFC ), Hurlburt was assigned in mid-1943 to the First Proving Ground Electronics Test Unit at Eglin Field.

On 11 June 1952, the 3550th Training Wing was redesignated as the 3550th Flying Training Wing as ATC reorganized its flying training program under Flying Training or Crew Training Air Forces.

On 2 April 2001, the 479th FTG expanded to a second squadron with the activation of the 3d Flying Training Squadron, flying the T-6A Texan II.

* World War II flying ace Colonel Gregory " Pappy " Boyington was born in Coeur d ' Alene on December 4, 1912, and was a member of the AVG ( Flying Tigers ) and later the commander of the famous Black Sheep Squadron.

The Curtiss-Wright Flying Service operated a flying school at the airport.

In the novel Peter Wilkins and the Flying Indians, by Robert Paltock, these fictional flying Indians take off and land on suitable stretches of rivers called ' arkoes '.