Glenn flew for a time with Ted Williams, a future hall of fame baseball player for the Boston Red Sox, as his wingman.

Glenn flew a second Korean combat tour on an interservice exchange program with the United States Air Force.

In 1908 U. S. inventor, businessman and engine builder Glenn Curtiss flew an aileron-controlled aircraft, with wingtip ailerons of a similar form to what the contemporaty Bleriot VIII used, and the famous 1911-vintage Curtiss Model D pusher biplane had interplane ailerons of a similar nature to those on the final form of the Santos = Dumont 14-bis.

Glenn Curtiss made several modifications to the Aerodrome and successfully flew it in 1914 — the Smithsonian Institution thus continued to assert that Langley's Aerodrome was the first machine " capable of flight ".

Laura H. Ingalls flew a Lockheed Air Express, powered by a Pratt & Whitney engine, from Glenn Curtiss Airport, North Beach, NY, on a tour of South America, including a solo flight across the Andes.

After being chosen for Project Mercury in 1959, Carpenter served as backup pilot for John Glenn, who flew the first U. S. orbital mission aboard Friendship 7 in February 1962.

This record was surpassed in 1998 by his fellow Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn, who at the age of 77 flew on space shuttle mission STS-95.

In a similar move taken by the Soviet Union and the United States ( with national space flight heroes Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn, respectively ), an official decision to no longer assign him to spaceflight missions was made ( note: Glenn subsequently flew a second space flight on October 29, 1998, on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95 ).

59-year-old Brand was the oldest astronaut to fly into space until Story Musgrave, 61 on STS-80 in 1996, and U. S. Senator John Glenn, 77 when he flew on STS-95 in 1998.

In 1912 Scott contracted to fly for Glenn Martin and became the first female test pilot when she flew Martin prototypes before the final blueprints for the aircraft had been made.

During the Korean War, Williams also served in the same Marine Corps unit with John Glenn, and in the last half of his missions, Williams was flying as Glenn's wingman.

* 1962-1963-Convair-produced Mercury-Atlas rockets launch four manned Mercury missions into low Earth orbit, including John Glenn.

Some accounts of Glenn's years at NASA suggest that Glenn was prevented from flying in Gemini or Apollo missions, either by President Kennedy, or by NASA management, on the grounds that the subsequent loss of a national hero of such stature would seriously harm or even end the manned space program.

The first American to orbit Earth was in February 1962 astronaut John Glenn in the Mercury capsule that previously was tested as unmanned and made manned suborbital missions ( first of Alan Shepard on May 1961 ).

46 B-29s of this variant built by the Glenn L. Martin Company at its Omaha plant were used as the aircraft for the atomic bomb missions, modified to Silverplate specifications.

* June 19 – Glenn Dunnaway wins the inaugural NASCAR race at Charlotte Speedway, a 3 / 4 mile oval in Charlotte, North Carolina, but is disqualified due to illegal springs.

Before season 2008, the Archer-Hird Medal was created honouring Hird and former North Melbourne Football Club star Glenn Archer.

North went on to win the 1996 premiership, with Carey again a stand out in all three finals games, including the Grand Final against Sydney, where he was runner-up to Glenn Archer in Norm Smith Medal voting.

* The popular big band leader Glenn Miller lived in North Platte during his childhood and started his musical career there when his father bought him a mandolin.

" In Saigon, Ambassador Graham Martin refused to believe the SIGINT ( signals intelligence ) reporting that detailed the massive North Vietnamese military buildup taking place all around ( Saigon ) ... and repeatedly refused to allow NSA's station chief, Tom Glenn, to evacuate his forty-three man staff and their twenty-two dependents from Saigon.

* North Sacramento Valley ( Shasta, Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Colusa )

The county is divided into eleven townships, which are both numbered and named: 1 ( North Marshall and South Marshall ), 2 ( Laurel ), 3 ( Mars Hill ), 4 ( Beech Glenn ), 5 ( Walnut ), 6 ( Hot Springs ), 7 ( Ebbs Chapel ), 8 ( Spring Creek ), 9 ( Sandy Mush ), 10 ( Grapevine ), and 11 ( Revere Rice Cove ).

Elementary-aged students attend John Glenn Elementary, while older students travel to Eldridge to attend either North Scott Junior High School or North Scott High School.

In the early 19th century, a large migration from Rockingham, North Carolina, brought the Adams, Allen, Barnes, Cyrus, Fields, Glenn, Irion, Johnson, Peay, Scales, Taylor, Vernon, Wisener and other families to the area.

Adjacent cities are: DeSoto and Duncanville to the Northhwest ; Dallas to the North ; Ferris to the East ; Palmer to the Southeast ; Glenn Heights and Ovilla to the West ; Lancaster to the North and Northeast ; and Waxahachie to the South.

The unincorporated communities of Busseyville, Carcajou, Glenn Oaks Beach, Koshkonong Manor, and North Shore are also located within the town.

The most widely distributed format, the North American CD, features the alternate " chest / cross " album cover, a cropped black-and-white close-up of the photograph of Glenn Danzig found on the back of the LP sleeve and on the interior of all formats.

* William R. Ferris ; Glenn Hinson The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 14: Folklife The University of North Carolina Press ( 2009 ) ISBN 0-8078-3346-0 ISBN 978-0-8078-3346-9 ( Cover: phfoto of James Son Thomas )

* William Ferris ; Glenn Hinson The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 14: Folklife The University of North Carolina Press ( 2009 ) ISBN 0-8078-3346-0 ISBN 978-0-8078-3346-9

For a brief period during the late 1980s, North Stars games were telecast over Saint Cloud-based UHF station KXLI ( with Doug McLeod on play-by-play and former Islander goalie Glenn " Chico " Resch on color ), but given the station's distant transmitter location near Big Lake, Minnesota, reception in the Twin Cities ranged from mediocre to non-existent.

In addition to writing three episodes, " Death Has a Shadow ", " Family Guy Viewer Mail 1 " and " North by North Quahog ", MacFarlane voices Family Guys main characters – Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin and Glenn Quagmire as well as Tom Tucker, his son Jake and additional characters.

* William Ferris ; Glenn Hinson, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 14: Folklife, University of North Carolina Press ( 2009 ).

* Ferris, William and Glenn Hinson The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 14: Folklife The University of North Carolina Press ( 2009 ) ISBN 0-8078-3346-0 ISBN 978-0-8078-3346-9 ( Cover: phfoto of James Son Thomas )

After playing one more season with the Prince Albert Raiders, Modano joined the North Stars for the 1989-90 season and scored his first career NHL goal against Glenn Healy of the New York Islanders.

The group included Sweeney ; Gerald McEntee of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ( AFSCME ); Owen Bieber of the United Auto Workers ( UAW ); George Becker of the United Steelworkers of America ( USWA ); Ron Carey of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters ( IBT ); Arthur Coia of the Laborers ' International Union of North America ( LIUNA ); Wayne Glenn of the United Paperworkers International Union ( UPIU ); Frank Hanley of the International Union of Operating Engineers ( IUOE ); George Kourpias of the International Association of Machinists ( IAM ); Sigurd Lucassen of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America ( UBC ); and Richard Trumka of the United Mine Workers of America ( UMWA ).

Once Republicans regained control of the Senate, Glenn also served as the ranking minority member on a special Senate investigative committee chaired by Tennessee senator Fred Dalton Thompson that looked into illegal foreign donations by China to U. S. political campaigns for the 1996 election.

* Glenn Melancon, " Peaceful Intentions: The First British Trade Commission in China, 1833-5 ,” Historical Research 73 ( 2000 ) password required.

In 1942, he played opposite Gene Tierney in China Girl, jazz musician Glenn Miller in Orchestra Wives, and Ginger Rogers in Roxie Hart.

Glenn Kittler has been twice to Africa, once spending a week with Dr. Albert Schweitzer.

* 1962 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms ' First Piano Concerto.

In the latter part of the 1990s Waugh himself, along with his twin brother Mark, scored heavily for Australia and fast bowlers Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie made a serious impact, especially the former.

It was directed by Glenn Casale with original music and lyrics by Ben Schatz.

In 1950, Glenn T. Seaborg, Albert Ghiorso, and Stanley G. Thompson bombarded < sup > 241 </ sup > Am with helium ions, which produced atoms with an atomic number of 97 and which closely resembled the neighboring lanthanide terbium.

Time Out was followed by several albums with a similar approach, including Time Further Out: Miro Reflections ( 1961 ), using more 5 / 4, 6 / 4, and 9 / 8, plus the first attempt at 7 / 4 ; Countdown: Time in Outer Space ( dedicated to John Glenn ) ( 1962 ), featuring 11 / 4 and more 7 / 4 ; Time Changes ( 1963 ), with much 3 / 4, 10 / 4 ( which was really 5 + 5 ), and 13 / 4 ; and Time In ( 1966 ).

Day said: " During this long, boring period, I used to while away a lot of time listening to the radio, sometimes singing along with the likes of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller [...].

As a result he, along with outspoken young goaltender Glenn Hall, was promptly traded to Chicago ( which was owned by James D. Norris, Bruce's elder brother ) after his most productive year.

ABLE Engineering developed the concentrator technology and built the solar array for DS1, with Entech Inc, who supplied the Fresnel optics, and the NASA Glenn Research Center.

# ( 15½ ) Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Cake ( 1982, ISBN 0-590-07843-7 ) ( Co-written with Glenn Andrews )

Capra's final theatrical film was with Glenn Ford and Bette Davis, named Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ), a remake of his 1933 film Lady for a Day.

In March 2001, Connick starred in a television production of South Pacific with Glenn Close, televised on the ABC network.

Eugenie Scott, along with Glenn Branch and other critics, has argued that many points raised by intelligent design proponents are arguments from ignorance.

In 1981, Frankenheimer travelled to Japan to shoot the cult martial-arts action film The Challenge, with Scott Glenn and legendary Japanese star, Toshiro Mifune.

The film will also look at Downey's relationship with Al Sharpton and other important 80's figures, as well as Downey's role as a predecessor for conservative commentators like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh.

Davis ' film career began with minor roles in 1949's The Doctor and the Girl with Glenn Ford, and followed with East Side, West Side starring Barbara Stanwyck.

* 1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.

On May 17, 2010, Patti Smith received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Pratt Institute, along with architect Daniel Libeskind, MoMA director Glenn Lowry, former NYC Landmarks Commissioner Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, novelist Jonathan Lethem, and director Steven Soderbergh.

Preacher is a comic book series created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, published by the American comic book label Vertigo ( an imprint of DC Comics ), with painted covers by Glenn Fabry.

In January 2010 the RFC editor function was moved to a contractor, Association Management Solutions with Glenn Kowack serving as interim series editor.

A song he recorded named " Life Fades Away ", written with friend Glenn Danzig, was featured in the film Less Than Zero.