Children would also chase crows and divine some of these things from how many birds appeared or the direction the birds flew.

Rumors flew throughout the city that some of the protesters were killed, although there is no evidence to support this.

In some records she is a sororal twin to the Titaness Arke ( arch ), who flew out of the company of Olympian gods to join the Titans as their messenger goddess during the Titanomachy, making the two sisters enemy messenger goddesses.

Some climbed and some flew until they came to an opening in the sky.

Although a message had reached Britain to arrange a new dropping zone near the Hotel Hartenstein, some aircraft flew to LZ ' Z ' where all their supplies fell into German hands.

In some cases he flew through the debris of exploding enemy aircraft, and on one occasion actually collided with his target, which he claimed as a " probable " victory.

Due to the 1973 oil crisis, the team only flew six air shows and was grounded for some time.

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (; born August 8, 1948 ) is a former Soviet female aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova.

Following the Fall of France an Italian air group of CR. 42 and BR. 20 bombers operated from Belgium in October and November 1940 and flew some operations in later stages of the Battle of Britain but with a high loss rate.

The company flew to some 40 European destinations, with Copenhagen Airport, Oslo Airport, Gardermoen and Stockholm-Arlanda Airport as primary hubs.

** On 24 July 1944, some 1, 600 bombers flew in support of the opening bombardment for Cobra.

the 429th and 430th TFS flew some 4000 combat missions with excellent success rates in hitting targets even when visibility was near zero.

The best way to describe such a process is that a flux of so many gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet and heat photons struck matter in a brief amount of time ( photons of high energy and great numbers of them, some overlapping in the same physical space ) that all such matter molecules lost their atomic bonds and " flew apart ", all atoms lost their bonds to each other and " flew apart ", and all nuclei lost their electron shells and became positively charged ions, and each molecule and atom that followed this process in turn emitted photons of a slightly lower energy than they had absorbed which caused the bonds to break.

According to some former CIA Air America pilots, he made a small fortune as an opium warlord as they regularly flew his planeloads of opium to Saigon, he engaged in summary executions, and ran a Hmong Army with child soldiers as young as 14 .( ref.

In total, some 15, 000 people visited the site during their stay ; the adults and both fledged young were seen to leave on 28 August, when they flew off high to the south.

In September 1933 Galland returned to Germany and flew in some minor competitions as a glider pilot, winning some prizes.

The submarines were at some risk of damage due to friendly fire and in an attempt to counter this Lieutenant Honour the captain of HMS X23 acquired and flew an ensign of the size more normally used by capital ships.

The Invaders flew some 60, 000 sorties and were credited with the destruction of 38, 500 vehicles, 3, 700 railway cars, and 406 locomotives.

Ivanchenkov's wife had snuck some brandy-filled chocolates into a box of candy, and when the crew opened the box, the chocolates flew out.

Beginning in 1961, she was also featured as a live performer who flew through the sky at the climax of some of the nightly fireworks displays.

This aircraft is considered by some to be the first aircraft of the Finnish Air Force, since the Finnish Air Force did not officially exist during the Civil War, and it was only the Red side who flew a few aircraft with the help of some Russian pilots.

The French had a nominally Mach 2 Dassault Mirage IIIV fitted with no less than 8 lift engines that flew ( and crashed ), but did not have enough space for fuel or payload for combat missions.

In Korea, Williams flew 39 combat missions before being being withdrawn from flight status in June 1953 after a hospitalization for pneumonia.

Grissom flew 100 combat missions during his time in the war, serving as a wingman protecting the lead fighters.

He eventually managed a transfer to VMF-155 as an F4U Corsair fighter pilot, and flew 59 combat missions in the South Pacific.

He flew his Panther in 63 combat missions during the Korean War, gaining the dubious nickname " magnet ass " from his apparent ability to attract enemy flak.

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

After its withdrawal from France in 1958, this aircraft was eventually assigned to the 8th Tactical Bomb Squadron at Phan Rang Air Base South Vietnam and flew combat bombing missions into the late 1960s.

The Night Witches, a women-only combat regiment of the Soviet Air Forces, flew harassment bombing and precision bombing missions from 1942 to the end of the World War II.

During four months of combat in the Korean War, the group flew 335 sorties with only fourteen aborts and dropped over 6, 500 tons of bombs.

During this campaign he flew over two dozen combat missions over Tunisia, Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, and Panteileria to obtain firsthand information.

The 509th Bomb Wing first flew the B-2 in combat against Serbia in March 1999.

During these operations, the aircraft flew round-trip from Missouri, logging combat missions in excess of 40 hours-the longest on record.

The first combat strike by the F-100D was flown on June 9, 1964 when eight F-100Ds of the 615th Tactical Fighter Squadron flew strikes against targets in the Plaines des Jarres in Laos.

On 1 April 1965, F-100Ds flew MiG combat air patrol for a strike force of F-105s that were hitting the Thanh Hoa Bridge in North Vietnam.

By the end of the conflict in June 1999, B-1Bs from Ellsworth flew 100 combat missions and dropped over 1, 260 tons of Mk-82 general-purpose bombs.

Their combat mission effectiveness was greater than 95 % and they flew 5 % of the total strike aircraft missions.

The 19th BG flew its next combat mission on 4 January against Japanese shipping off Davao, utilizing Samarinda Airfield, Borneo, as a staging base, but on 11 January, when the first aircraft of the 7th Bomb Group arrived, FEAF conducted its operations solely for the defense of the Netherlands East Indies.

He flew 52 combat missions, for which he was awarded the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters.

Late in the war, Messerschmitt also worked on a heavy Amerikabomber design, the Me 264, which flew in prototype form but was too late to see combat.

While the squadron waited for delivery of the scarce Lockheed P-38s, Bong and other 9th FS pilots flew missions with the 39th FS, 35th Fighter Group, based in Port Moresby, New Guinea, to gain combat experience.

Bong's Medal of Honor citation states that he flew combat missions despite his status as an " instructor ", which was one of his duties as standardization officer for V Fighter Command.

They flew their first combat mission the same afternoon.

Rickenbacker flew a total of 300 combat hours, reportedly more than any other US pilot in the war.

He flew sixty-eight combat missions as a fighter pilot for the United States Army Air Corps in World War II and received the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart, and the Air Medal.