Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

The fish hawk flew on and was lost from sight.

The small car flew on relentlessly.

The first thing every morning when she washed her face she could see the scar on her chin where he'd cut her with a boot cleat, and maybe she saw him heaving it again, the dirty sock popping out as it flew.

Rumors flew from lip to lip that Fidel Castro was on his way to Havana, coming from the mountains where he had fought Batista for five years.

Subsequently, Roosa and Mitchell were recycled to serve as members of the backup crew after returning from Apollo 14, while Pogue and Carr were re-assigned to the Skylab program where they later flew on Skylab 4.

The Arc de Triomphe is so colossal that three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919, ( marking the end of hostilities in World War I ), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane through it, with the event captured on newsreel.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

Between 2 and 4 September 2011 on labor day weekend, the Blue Angels flew for the first time with a 50 – 50 blend of conventional JP-5 jet fuel and a camelina-based biofuel at Naval Air Station Patuxent River airshow at Patuxent River, Maryland.

McWherter flew an F / A-18 test flight on 17 August and stated there were no noticeable differences in performance from inside the cockpit.

France then flew in 300 troops and put three Dassault Mirage F1 jet fighters based in nearby Gabon on standby.

The first problem that caused the pause in reconnaissance flights took place on August 30, an Air Force Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) U-2 flew over Sakhalin Island in the Far East by mistake.

In December 1936, Chiang flew to Xi ' an to coordinate a major assault on the Red Army and the Communist Republic that had retreated into Yan ' an.

Subsequently, B-52G bombers flew more than 200 17-hour bombing missions over 44 days and dropped more than of bombs on Iraqi forces in Iraq and Kuwait.

Thomas flew to the States on 19 October 1953 for his final tour.

Kaye flew his own plane to 65 cities in five days on a mission designed to help UNICEF.

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

Before the Ethiopian civil war, the national carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, flew to numerous African, Asian, and European cities, and had sole rights on domestic air traffic.

In addition to performing for the Pope, the singer participated in a live broadcast on British television for Christmas Eve in 1997, before she flew home to County Donegal to join her family at midnight Mass.

In 1956, Sullivan flew to Europe and was able to film an interview with Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes on the set of the film Anastasia.

New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters ( who replaced Goff in late 2005 ) flew into Fiji on 8 February 2006 for three days of talks with Fijian government officials.

British colonies typically flew a flag based on one of the ensigns based on this flag, and many former colonies have retained the design to acknowledge their cultural history.

With his engine afire, Bush flew several miles from the island, where he and one other crew member on the TBM Avenger bailed out of the aircraft ; the other man's parachute did not open.

Kelly was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party which occasionally created difficulty for him as his period of greatest prominence coincided with the McCarthy era in the U. S. In 1947, he was part of the Committee for the First Amendment, the Hollywood delegation which flew to Washington to protest at the first official hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

On January 2, Kenneth Hawks and his crew flew three planes ( two with cameras, one with a stunt actor ) over Santa Monica Bay when the two camera planes crashed into each other, killing ten men.

The party flew on three planes ( pilots Ivan Cherevichnyy, Vitaly Maslennikov and Ilya Kotov ) from Kotelny Island to the North Pole and landed there at 4: 44pm ( Moscow Time, UTC + 04: 00 ) on April 23, 1948.

She flew on five Space Shuttle program missions ( three on Columbia and one each on Endeavour and Discovery ) and logged 1512 hours in space.

For the next three years Hadfield flew CF-18s for the North American Aerospace Defence Command ( NORAD ) with 425 Squadron, during which time he flew the first CF-18 intercept of a Soviet Tupolev Tu 95 " Bear " aircraft.

* In 1967, Ann Dearing Holtgren Pellegreno and a crew of three successfully flew a similar aircraft ( a Lockheed 10A Electra ) to complete a world flight that closely mirrored Earhart's flight plan.

He turned himself into a swan and they flew away, singing beautiful music that put all its listeners asleep for three days and nights.

In September 1938, the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, flew from Heston to Germany three times in two weeks for talks with Adolf Hitler, and he returned to Heston from the Munich Conference with the paper referred to in his later " Peace for our time " speech from 10 Downing Street.

His first take off ended badly, but according to a modern newspaper report ' He flew a distance of almost three miles along the foreshore at a low altitude varying between fifty and five hundred feet '.

At the time of its activation, the group's three squadrons ( the 27th, 71st, and 94th Fighter Squadrons ) flew Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star ( after 11 June 1948 F-80 ), America's first operational jet fighter.

Pilot Arch Hoxsey flew the president around for over three minutes in one of the Wright Brothers ' six planes they had brought in.

Confidential, Mann flew Crowe down from Canada where he was in the middle of filming Mystery, Alaska on the actor ’ s one day off and had him read scenes from The Insider screenplay for two to three hours.

In November 1999, President Bill Clinton flew from Ankara, Turkey, to Cengiz Topel Naval Air Station outside Izmit, Turkey, aboard a marked C-20C ( Gulfstream III ) using the call sign " Air Force One ", escorted by three F-16s.

The two P-35s on Mindanao flew to Bataan Field on 4 April, and they also evacuated three pursuit pilots in their baggage compartments.

For most of what would turn out to be Minardi's final season on the grid, the black cars were emblazoned with OzJet, a three aircraft Boeing 737-300 business class only airline in Australia owned by Stoddart, that flew for a few months but is now operating as a Charter service.

When American Airlines Flight 11 flew by overhead, Jules turned the camera to follow the plane and taped one of only three known recordings of the first plane hitting the North Tower ( Tower 1 ) of the World Trade Center, the others being a video shot by Pavel Hlava and a sequence of still frames taken by Wolfgang Staehle.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov (; born December 8, 1927 in Petropavlovsk ) is a former Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10.

Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev (; born July 13, 1934 in Zhizdra ) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10.

Nikolay Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov (; September 18, 1932, Tomsk – October 19, 2002 ) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, and Soyuz 33.

A total of 11 Fiats flew together with a S. 79 and a S. 81 as " pathfinders " and transport aircraft, while three SM. 82s transported weapons for the campaign.

In February 1968, the RLAF suffered a serious loss, when a flight of three T-28s on a close air support mission in poor weather flew headlong into a ridge in Military Region 2.

Edward England, for example, flew three different flags: from his mainmast the black flag depicted above ; from his foremast a red version of the same ; and from his ensign staff the English National flag.