The " New Flying Finn " won three Scandinavian championships, then in 1988 the Opel Lotus Euroseries championship before winning the 1990 British Formula Three championship.

Frankland had served as a navigator in RAF Bomber Command, winning a Distinguished Flying Cross.

* William B. Duke, enshrined in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, trainer of Flying Ebony, winner of the Kentucky Derby in 1925, and Coventry, who won the Preakness Stakes the same year ; then winning the Travers Stakes at Saratoga in August.

On Feb 12th, 2010, a year after the crash of Continental Express / Colgan flight 3407, Frontline ( U. S. TV series ) premiered its WGA Award winning exposè on the industry entitled " Flying Cheap ".

As a one-design, all Flying Scot boats are built to the same specifications and thus have equal chances in winning a race, no matter when the boat was built.

Sande was winning the race for a record third time following wins on Zev and Flying Ebony.

One of the Pilots in the display was Flying officer C. W. A. Scott who later became famous for breaking three England Australia solo flight records and winning the MacRobertson Air Race with co-pilot Tom Campbell Black in 1934.

Blaine Pardoe is an award winning author, having won the Historical Society of Michigan's State History Award in 2011 and the Silver Medal from the Military Writer's Society of America the same year for his book Lost Eagles ( University of Michigan Press ) about Frederick Zinn of the Lafayette Flying Corps.

In June 1961, a film about the sport called The Flying Feather was made by the Chinese central news movie company, winning a gold medal at an international movie festival.

* 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.

The territory has nevertheless maintained a Government Flying Service, formerly the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force, that is responsible for search and rescue operations, air ambulance services, and other air services for the Hong Kong Government.

* 1943 – The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.

Flying at lower altitudes, where the air density is much higher, drag on the B-58 was significantly higher and limited its range and speed.

** ( 12: 30 a. m .) – B-17 Flying Fortress air crash near Auckland.

It was the site for the first Irish commercial aircraft, a Desoutter Mark II aircraft " EI-AAD ", and the first commercial air taxi service, the Iona National Air Taxis and Flying School.

By 1916 the lack of co-ordination of the Army's Royal Flying Corps and the Navy's Royal Naval Air Service had led to serious problems, not only in the procurement of aircraft engines, but also in the air defence of Great Britain.

The Royal Flying Corps launched a determined effort to gain air superiority over the battlefield in support of the spring offensive.

Flying close to a surface increases air pressure on the lower wing surface, known as the " ram " or " cushion " effect, and thereby improves the aircraft lift-to-drag ratio.

He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross upon completion of 300 hours of operational flight in transport aircraft over dangerous and difficult India-China air routes and the Oak Leaf Cluster Award.

The City of Terrell, in partnership with the No 1 British Flying Training School Museum, host an annual World War II veterans reunion and air event on the first Saturday of October.

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.

Later bilateral arrangements with individual NATO powers ( 1959 – 1983 ), the Military Training Assistance Plan, which has trained aircrews from developing countries since 1964 and NATO Flying Training in Canada ( NFTC ), since 1998, a partnership of the Canadian Forces, Bombardier Aerospace Corporation and participating air forces.

* Civil Aid Service-works in conjunction with the Hong Kong Fire Services Dept and the air support from the Government Flying Service

In the mid 1960s, Disneyland introduced hovercraft-based bumper cars called " The Flying Saucers ", which worked on the same principle as an air hockey game ; however the ride was a mechanical failure and closed after a few years.

* Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ) – comedy about " pioneer era " ( 1903-1914 ) air racing & barnstorming in Europe

In the spring of 1955, under their second commander / leader ( September 1954 – February 1957 ), Captain Jacksel M. Broughton, they moved to the swept-wing F-84F Thunderstreak aircraft, in which they performed 91 air shows, and received their first assigned support aircraft, a C-119 Flying Boxcar.

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.

During the air battle over Mersa Matruh Sergente Maggiore Davide Colauzzi and Sergente Mario Turchi from 368 < sup > a </ sup > Squadriglia, while escorting SM. 79 bombers, shot down the Hurricanes of 33 Squadron that were flown by 26-year-old Canadian Flying Officer Edmond Kidder Leveille ( RAF no.

In April 1916 No. 30 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps carried out the first air supply operation in history.

The unit is aided by the Government Flying Service in the air and Hong Kong Fire Services on the ground.

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.

Moorer also received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his valor three months later when he braved Japanese air superiority to fly supplies into, and evacuate wounded out of.

During 1916, the German High Command, in response to the then current Allied air superiority, reorganised their forces by creating several types of specialist units, most notably single seat fighter squadrons, or Jastas in order to counter the offensive operations of the Royal Flying Corps and the French Aviation Militaire.

Zocchi has designed a few games himself, including Alien Space, Star Fleet Battle Manual ( not to be confused with Star Fleet Battles ), The Battle of Britain, Luftwaffe, Flying Tigers, Hardtack, and Battle Wagon Salvo.

* Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe in Gold with Pennant " 400 "

* Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe in Gold with Pennant " 1300 "

* Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe in Gold for fighter pilots ( 14 November 1942 )

* May 10 – Flying via Vichy French-controlled Syria, aircraft of the German Luftwaffe begin to arrive at Mosul, Iraq, to support Iraqi forces against the British under the command of Fliegerführer Irak.

* August 9 – Flying a Dornier Do 215B-5 night fighter, Luftwaffe Oberleutnant Ludwig Becker achieves Germanys first aerial victory employing airborne radar, using a Lichtenstein radar to detect and close with a British Vickers Wellington bomber participating in a raid on Hamburg, Germany, before shooting down the Wellington.

** Flying a Messerschmitt Bf 109, Luftwaffe fighter pilot Erich Hartmann scores his final aerial victory, shooting down a Soviet Yakovlev Yak-9 fighter over Brno, Slovakia.

In response, the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe ( OLK or Air Force High Command ) sent Fliegerkorps X ( Flying Corps Ten ) to Sicily, which arrived in January 1941, to strike at naval forces in and around Malta, as well as RAF positions on the island to ease the passage of supplies.

* Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe for Bomber Pilots in Gold with Pennant " 200 "

** Bundeswehr Luftwaffe: 1 Geschwader is divided in a Technical Gruppe ( de: Technische Gruppe ), a Flying Gruppe ( de: Fliegende Gruppe ) and 2-3 Squadrons ( de: Staffeln ).

The increasing number and frequency of USAAF Eighth Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated B-24 Liberator daylight heavy bomber raids over Occupied Europe and Germany made the Luftwaffe to move out the bomber units and assign day interceptor fighter units to attack the American bombers as part of the Defense of the Reich.

Luftwaffe ace Heinrich Ehrler was originally sentenced to death because of this, but was never executed: He died in combat when he rammed an American B-17 Flying Fortress over Germany.

* Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe in Gold with Pennant " 900 "

* Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe in Gold

* Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe for fighter pilots in Gold with penant " 600 "

This B-17 was the first Flying Fortress to be studied by the Luftwaffe.