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

*' Flying Saucers ' Around Saturn Explained-Atlas and Pan born largely from clumps of icy particles in the rings themselves, Space. com, 6 December 2007

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.

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.

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 Northam Flying 50's, a historic car racing event, is held each year in early April and attracts around 5, 000 spectators each year.

The event is named after Flying Childers, a famous 18th-century racehorse bred at Carr House near Doncaster.

Retailer Joe Field of Flying Colors Comics in Concord, California brainstormed the event in his " Big Picture " column in the August 2001 issue of Comics & Games Retailer magazine.

: The idea for this track was suggested by an actual event that is described in The Flying Saucer Reader, a book by Jay David published in 1967.

* Flying – The 1995 US Robot Wars event had a flying competitor: S. P. S.

Furthermore, during the National Railway Museum's ' railfest ' event on 2-10 June 2012, Flying Scotsman was in attendance, being kept in front of Mallard in a siding, still in its Wartime Black livery.

The Flying Broom, Women's Film Festival is an annual event celebrating women's contributions to filmmaking.

Flying kicks are not to be mistaken for jumping kicks, which are similar maneuvers.

Her 1945 scat recording of " Flying Home " arranged by Vic Schoen would later be described by The New York Times as " one of the most influential vocal jazz records of the decade .... Where other singers, most notably Louis Armstrong, had tried similar improvisation, no one before Miss Fitzgerald employed the technique with such dazzling inventiveness.

In December 1915, the Vickers-Challenger interrupter gear was put into production for the Royal Flying Corps and in a few weeks a similar order for the Scarff-Dibovski gear was placed for the RNAS.

During a visit to Germany in 1933, Gresley had been inspired by the high-speed streamlined " Flying Hamburger " diesel trains, and indeed the LNER had considered purchasing similar trains for use from London to Newcastle.

Its format was similar to Monty Python's Flying Circus, including sketches that lasted from a few seconds to several minutes.

His own solo LP from 1975, Subtle as a Flying Mallet, was similar in style.

" Flying artillery " wore " wings ", similar to an epaulette but with only a bit of fringe on the outside, which matched the shoulder seam.

The other two attractions at Cars Land are family attractions with smaller height requirements: Mater's Junkyard Jamboree, a tea-cup-like attraction ; and Luigi's Flying Tires, which is similar to the 1960s Tomorrowland Flying Saucers attraction.

The contemporary 1797 – 98 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, contains a similar account of a ghost ship, which may have been influenced by the tale of the Flying Dutchman.

The school was rebranded again in 2010, changing the logo to one similar to the Seagate logo, and changing the motto to Never Stop Flying.

* Tanton's master rides a flying cloud similar to the Flying Nimbus.

* Flying fox ( cablecar ), similar to an aerial runway or zip-line

The Flying Elephants were replaced by a similar ride themed to Marvin the Martian and a live stage show replaced the Kiddie Himilaya.

Following the divestiture of Specialized Undergraduate Navigator Training ( SUNT ) from the Air Force's 12 FTW at Randolph AFB and its relocation to NAS Pensacola as the 479th Flying Training Group, a geographically separated unit ( GSU ) of the 12 FTW, a select number of Student NFOs slated for the P-3, EP-3, and eventually the P-8 Poseidon are being sent directly to VP-30, the FRS for P-3s, EP-3s and the P-8, as part of a prototype advanced training program similar to that historically utilized by the E-2 community ( i. e., NFO " winging " at the FRS ), before beginning the normal FRS syllabus.

1UP. com's Michael Vreeland compared Aerodactyl to the Pokémon Archen due to its similar combination of Rock and Flying which he wrote is considered " infamous " due to " the ever-annoying Aerodactyl ".

* Flying Dutchman was a dark ride similar in theme to Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean but without the animatronic figures.

* Flying Carpets Over Agrabah is a spinner ride similar to Dumbo the Flying Elepant where riders sit in magic carpets and act as extras in Genie ’ s directorial debut.

These games included Mowin ' Maniac ( a Pac-Man clone based on the " Mowin ' Man "/" Mowin ' Boris " modules ), Roof Rats ( similar to SameGame and variants ), " Solitaire " ( After Dark themed ), Toaster Run ( a 3D adventure game featuring several After Dark Characters, more notably the Flying Toaster ), Zapper ( a trivia game ), Hula Girl ( another 3D adventure game based on the " Hula Twins " module from After Dark 4. 0 ), two word scramble games — Bad Dog 911 ( based on the " Bad Dog " modules ) and Fish Shtix ( based on the " Fish " modules, mainly " Fish World "), Foggy Boxes ( a connect the boxes type game based on the " Messages 4. 0 " module ), MooShu tiles ( a Mahjong-like game featuring many After Dark characters throughout the years ), and Rodger Dodger.

A similar episode occurred two months before in February when the Peacock and the Flying Fish briefly bombarded the island of Upolu, Samoa following the death of an American merchant sailor on the island.

The Budd Company used the experience learned in building the Zephyr to build similar trains ( such as the Flying Yankee ) for other railroads, as well as a number of other Zephyrs for the Burlington.

* Flying Yankee — A very similar streamlined trainset that operated on the Boston and Maine Railroad ; it is undergoing restoration to operating condition as of 2006.