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In 1954 the fixed wing aircraft had been joined by a flight of Bristol Sycamore helicopters for Search and Rescue duties.
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The Second World War led to the Anglo-American Administration in Trieste until the border was fixed with the Memorandum of London in 1954.
* PAC Fletcher-( 1954 ) Single-engine two-seat ( side-by-side ) low-wing monoplane with fixed tricycle undercarriage.
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As the 1954 congressional elections approached, and it became evident that the Republicans were in danger of losing their thin majority in both houses, Eisenhower was among those blaming the Old Guard for the losses, and took up the charge to stop suspected efforts by the right wing to take control of the GOP.
Founded in 1954, the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) succeeded Messali Hadj's Algerian People's Party ( PPA ), while its leaders created an armed wing, the Armée de Libération Nationale ( National Liberation Army ) to engage in an armed struggle against French authority.
Deployed as a wing to RAF Brize Norton, England, 5 June – 4 September 1954, and Andersen AFB, Guam, 5 October 1956 – 11 January 1957.
The wing deployed to RAF Upper Heyford, England from December 1953 to March 1954.
The first calculations were done on April 1, 1954 and BESK handled weather data for Carl-Gustaf Rossby and the SMHI meteorological agency, statistics for the telecommunications service provider Televerket, wing profiles for the attack aircraft Saab Lansen, and road profiles for the road authority Vägverket.
Thomas E. Dewey, governor of New York from 1942 to 1954 and the Republican presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948, was the leader of the moderate wing of the Republican Party in the 1940s and early 1950s, battling conservative Republicans from the Midwest led by Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, known as " Mr. Republican.
As tensions with the western wing grew due to the demands for greater provincial autonomy in East Bengal, Governor-General Ghulam Muhammad dismissed the United Front government on 29 May 1954 under Article 92 / A of the provisional constitution of Pakistan.
The Flemish Movement's moderate wing was for a long time dominated by the Volksunie (" People's Union ") – a party that from its onset in 1954 until its collapse in 2002 greatly advanced the Flemish cause, though severely criticised by hardliners for being too accommodating.
Another change of designation took place on 1 September 1954, when the wing was redesignated 3510th Combat Crew Training Wing to describe its mission better.
The initial bomber wing deployed was the 303d Bombardment Wing with B-47 Stratojets, arriving on 17 March 1954 from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona.
The wing deployed to England in 1953 and to French Morocco in 1954.
The USAF transferred thirteen combat wings from its Tactical Air Command plus one air depot wing from Air Material Command, and relocated the units to USAFE during the period from April 1951 through December 1954.
The wing relocated to Canberra in 1954, but returned to Richmond four years later.
The squadron reequipped with the Canberra in March 1953 and in August 1954 it relocated to RAF Ahlhorn in West-Germany, where it joined 125 wing of Royal Air Force Germany.
As the Armistice took hold, the U. S. Air Force redeployed all but one tactical fighter wing from the peninsula, and in November 1954, the 314th Air Division replaced Fifth Air Force's advanced headquarters at Osan-Ni AB.
In June 1954 the first Boeing RB-47E Stratojet arrived, the wing being redesignated 90th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, Medium, taking over the mission of the 55th SRW which had moved to Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico.
The 93d Bombardment Wing, Medium, received Boeing B-47s in May 1954, but its involvement with the new Stratojet was curtailed on June 29, 1955, when the wing received the first production line Boeing B-52B Stratofortress, making it the first SAC bomb wing to receive the new aircraft.
A library and automotive wing were completed in 1954.
In October 1954, the wing received RB-57 Canberras and then acquired RF-84 Thunderjets in July 1955.
The wing formally assumed a global strategic reconnaissance mission in 1954 and transited to the RB-47E " Stratojet.
When the mapping and charting functions originally assigned to the 55th Reconnaissance Group were transferred on May 1, 1954, the wing assumed the mission of global strategic reconnaissance, including electronic reconnaissance.
In 1954, she helped form the National Federation of Indian Women, the women's wing of CPI but left the party in 1956 following Nikita Khrushchev's disowning of Stalin.
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Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.
* 1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
* Saab 90 Scandia ( 32 passenger short -/ medium-haul aircraft ) ( manufactured 1946 – 1954, 18 built )
The design was accepted by the ministry and a contract was placed for two aircraft ( XG900 and XG905 ) to meet Specification ER. 143D dated 15 October 1954.
* Fairey Delta 2 ( 1954 )-1st aircraft to break 1, 000 mph, rebuilt as BAC 211 for high speed delta research for Concorde
All Comet 1 aircraft were grounded in April 1954 after four Comets crashed, the last two being BOAC aircraft at altitude.
* On June 1954, a C-47 ( registered OO-CBY ) was attacked by a fighter aircraft near Maribor, Yugoslavia.
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.
In 1954 TAA became the first airline outside Europe to introduce the Vickers Viscount ' propjet ', and in 1981 it introduced the Airbus A300, the first wide-body aircraft to be purchased by an Australian domestic airline.
Effective 1 January 1954, the school graduated its last Combat Crew Training Class and assumed, as its primary mission, the training of aircraft gunnery instructors.
The Royal Lao government military also received its first aircraft from the French in 1954 ; nine Morane-Saulnier MS-500 Criquets were supplied for support and medevac.
In 1949, a swept-wing version, the F-84F Thunderstreak, was developed but additional development and engine problems resulted in the aircraft not entering service until 1954.
The force became one of the best services of the Soviet Armed Forces due to the various types of aircraft being flown and their capabilities and the strength and training of its pilots, and its air defense arm became an independent component of the armed forces in 1949, reaching full-fledged force status in 1954.
US Navy Lockheed Neptune | Lockheed P2V-5 Neptune patrol aircraft visiting the USN facility at Blackbushe in September 1954
The paved runways were built in 1954, to make way for the jet aircraft, Meteor and Vampire.
After the Soviet Union shot down an RB-29 aircraft on November 7, 1954, the 39th provided fighter escort for all friendly reconnaissance aircraft flying near Soviet territory and the Northern Air Defense Sector.
Air-launches from a CF-100 started in 1954, with the aircraft flying from Trenton to fire over Picton.
* 1954 Richard T. Whitcomb for his discovery of the area rule, a design method for supersonic aircraft.
Repeated structural failures of aircraft types occurred in 1954, when 2 de Havilland Comet C1 jet airliners crashed due to decompression caused by metal fatigue, and in 1963-4, when the vertical stabilizer on 4 Boeing B-52 bombers broke off in mid-air.
The first aircraft type to be operated was the twin-engined Douglas DC-3 and this was followed from 1954 by the larger four-engined Douglas DC-4, which was used on services to Paris.
** Hunter F 6, a 1954 production variant of the Hawker Hunter fighter aircraft with Sapphire 101 engine
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