NASA utilized synthetic vision for test pilots on the HiMAT program in the early 1980s ( see photo ), but the advent of more autonomous UAV autopilots, greatly reduced the need for this technology.

From the 1980s equipment has continued to improve and the number of paragliding pilots and established sites has continued to increase.

The Soviet space program viewed its crews as passengers more than pilots ; the new cosmonauts received only three to four months of training, perhaps the briefest in space history other than that received by the American politicians Jake Garn and Bill Nelson for Space Shuttle flights in the 1980s.

* Both ABC and the CW have ordered pilots for television shows based on the classic fairy tale with the CW version being a remake of the 1980s television series ..

In the 1980s the Air Force made serious efforts to raise the educational level and improve the training of its pilots.

Between the 1960s and 1980s, pilots from Vladivostok Air became pioneers in servicing the region's various whaling and fishing towns.

Experience in Afghanistan lead to the realisation that TIALD was outdated, as described by an RAF Wing Commander: " was designed in the 1980s, to allow pilots to drop laser guided bombs on targets like bridges, big buildings and aircraft hangars ... TIALD as an air interdiction targeting pod is very good and has done this reasonably well over the last decade, as was proved in Deliberate Force ( 1995 ), Allied Force ( 1999 ), and Operation Telic ( 2003 ).

She appeared in a number of television pilots through the 1980s, individual episodes and series, including The Young and the Restless, B. J. and the Bear and Night Court.

Castle Air enjoyed a growth spurt in the 1980s, as a number of ex-Navy pilots wishing to continue flying professionally joined the team.

While executive-producing TV pilots at Paramount Pictures in the early 1980s, Grazer met current long-time friend and business partner Ron Howard.

A veteran of both the 1965 and the 1971 Wars, he was one of the pioneer batch of eight pilots selected for conversion on the Jaguar Interdiction aircraft when it was inducted in 1980s.

The Engineering department at the University of Victoria, conducted a series of tests in the 1980s, to quantify the perceptions of airline pilots in flight simulation and the impact of motion on the simulation environment.

:: An armed version of the Jet Provost trainer, itself a jet version of the radial-engine Provost, the Strikemaster, or ' Blunty ' was used by the RNZAF as an advanced jet trainer for pilots progressing onto the A4 Skyhawk in the 1970s and 1980s.

In the early 1980s political disputes between the GLC run by Ken Livingstone and the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher led to the GLC's abolition in 1986, with most of its powers relegated to the London boroughs.

Music critic Ken Emerson writes that the " apocalyptic romanticism " in Orbison's music was well-crafted for the films his songs appeared in in the 1980s because the music was " so over-the-top that dreams become delusions, and self-pity paranoia ", striking " a postmodern nerve ".

Ken Norman, the Clippers ' scoring leader in 1988 – 89 NBA season | 1988 – 89, was a key part of the team's nucleus during the late 1980s and early ' 90s

Cooper City is also the birthplace of famous Troy State defensive end Ken Wagner, who was a part of their National Championship team in the late 1980s.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, under editors Ken Goudie and Julian Holland, Today made moves to broaden its appeal away from broadcasting a lot of national politics with London-centric bias.

In the 1970s and 1980s in his eleventh-floor, two-room apartment at the Westover Hotel at 253 West 72nd Street, Pomus wrote songs with Dr. John, Ken Hirsch and Willy DeVille for what he said were "... those people stumbling around in the night out there, uncertain or not always so certain of exactly where they fit in and where they were headed.

It was originally designed in the early 1980s at Bell Labs by Rob Pike with the help of Ken Thompson and other Unix developers for the Blit windowing terminal running on Unix ; it was later ported to other systems.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Roberta and her husband, Ken Williams, were leading figures in the development of graphical adventure games.

In the 1980s the football team was coached by Ken Hatfield and established itself as a powerful running team.

With partner Ken Opstein, he won the 1982 Sixty Sails Handicap with Targa, and the 1993 La Brea Stakes with a daughter of Targa, Mamselle Bebette, which he raced under the name of his Big Train Farm, a stable he named for Hall of Fame baseball pitcher, Walter Johnson, In the 1980s, John Forsythe served as the regular host for the annual Eclipse Awards.

There is only one sports star lives in Market Drayton and that is darts player Ken Summers who competed in the 1980s.

During the 1980s the then powerful Labour-controlled GLC led by Ken Livingstone was locked in conflict with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.

Njudge was originally written in the late 1980s by Ken Lowe as a project to learn C as well as to serve local interest in Diplomacy.

In the 1980s and 1990s the field developed through the works of such authors as Jean Houston, Stanislav Grof, Ken Wilber, Michael Washburn, Frances Vaughan, Roger Walsh, Stanley Krippner, Michael Murphy, Charles Tart, David Lukoff, Vasily Nalimov, Margret Rueffler and Stuart Sovatsky.

Game Freak was originally a self-published gaming magazine created by Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori in the 1980s.

Scully also contributed to the network's tennis and PGA Tour golf coverage in the late 1970s and early 1980s, usually working the golf events with Pat Summerall, Ken Venturi, and Ben Wright.

Ken Livingstone, the first directly elected Mayor of London, saw the London Assembly as a recreation of the Greater London Council, which he had led before it was abolished in the 1980s.

Ken Hamblin, " The Black Avenger ," also hosted a popular and long-running show during the 1980s.

The 1980s would see a string of memorable performances from Kamiya, including Shutaro Mendou in Urusei Yatsura, Suguru Kinniku in Kinnikuman, Kenshirou in Hokuto no Ken ( Fist of the North Star ), Roy Focker in Macross and Ryo Saeba in City Hunter.

A short finished scene from the planned original ending, featuring King Richard and revealing himself to vulture henchmen Nutsy and Trigger, appeared in the Ken Anderson episode of the 1980s Disney Channel documentary series " Disney Family Album.

A strong actor, as with Al Pacino in his 1980s Circle in the Square production ( and in 2006, in a Los Angeles production ), or as with the Ken Russell movie Salome's Last Dance, Herod completely dominates the play.

It parodied a Hollywood telling of the 1980s takeover of the Greater London Council by Ken Livingstone and the subsequent disbanding of that body by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, re-imagining the story as a Charles Bronson / Sylvester Stallone-style action movie.

KDWN AM 720 had produced and broadcast a local morning show The Snoozebusters from the early 1980s until 2006 hosted by Ken Stahl and Hart Kirsch.

He hosted the Ken Bruce Show on the BBC World Service in the late 1980s.

After the passing of Chiang Kai-Shek, the next president, Chiang's son, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Chiang Ching-kuo's successor, Lee Teng-hui a native Taiwanese, would, in the 1980s and 1990s, increase native Taiwanese representation in the government and loosen the many authoritarian controls of the early era of ROC control in Taiwan.

Mr. Lee also wrote the Gamelords ' supplement " Lee's Guide to Interstellar Adventure " in the early 1980s.

During the 1980s, the show incorporated the real-life experiences of the show's cast and crew, including the death of Will Lee ( Mr. Hooper ) and the pregnancy of Sonia Manzano ( Maria ) to address affective concerns.

* Mark Lee ( Australian rules footballer ), Richmond ruckman of the 1980s

Fate of Atlantis is based on the SCUMM story system by Ron Gilbert, Aric Wilmunder, Brad P. Taylor, and Vince Lee, thus employing similar gameplay to other point-and-click adventures developed by LucasArts in the 1980s and 1990s.

During the 1980s, notable players followed in the footsteps of players such as Juan " Pachin " Vicens ( Named Greatest Basketball Player in the World at the Basketball World Championship, held in Santiago, Chile, 1959 ) and Butch Lee, the first Puerto Rican and BSN player to enter the NBA.

There is lost material in all genres – as late as 1993, a large number of videotaped children's programmes from the 1970s and 1980s were irretrievably wiped by Adam Lee of the BBC archives on the assumption that they were of " no use ", without consulting the BBC children's department itself.

The Prima-Butera arrangements and recordings continued to be copied by younger musicians, including David Lee Roth, who covered his medley of " Just a Gigolo "/" I Ain't Got Nobody " in the 1980s, and Brian Setzer, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and other nouveau swing bands of the 1990s, covering such Prima standards as " Jump, Jive and Wail ".

Studies commissioned by Lifespring in the 1980s by researchers at Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF, including Lee Ross, Morton Lieberman, and Irvin Yalom, found that an overwhelming majority of participants in these trainings called them either " extremely valuable " or " valuable " ( around 90 %).

By the 1980s, the McPhatter group included Rodgers, Robert Lee Davis, Pete Lawford, and Bruce Martin.

By the mid 1970s and early 1980s, the original wave of singer-songwriters had largely been absorbed into a more general pop or soft rock format, but some new artists in the singer-songwriter tradition ( including Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Mark Heard, Lucinda Williams, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, Cyndi Lauper, Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Stevie Nicks, Cheryl Wheeler, Loudon Wainwright III, The Roches and Warren Zevon ) continued to emerge, and in other cases rock and even punk rock artists such as Peter Case, Paul Collins and Paul Westerberg transitioned to careers as solo singer-songwriters.

Divine was gay, and during the 1980s had an extended relationship with a married man named Lee, who accompanied him almost everywhere that he went.

Lido Anthony " Lee " Iacocca ( ; born October 15, 1924 ) is an American businessman known for engineering the Ford Mustang and Ford Pinto cars, being let go from Ford Motor Company, and his revival of the Chrysler Corporation in the 1980s.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Sonny Chiba, Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, who are famous for both choreographing and acting in martial arts action films, were influential in the development of stage combat on film.

Since the 1980s, musicians such as Wayne Toups, Roddie Romero and the Hub City Allstars, Lee Benoit, Damon Troy, Kevin Naquin, and Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys have popularized this modern form of Cajun music.

Beginning in 1975, Lee and collaborators established the field of non-topological solitons, which led to his work on soliton stars and black holes throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

In the mid 1980s four leaders who had been with Witness Lee for years believed the churches were no longer practicing the Biblical oneness and resigned as elders and coworkers.

The Jane Gifford was gifted to the Waiuku Historical Society by Captain Bert Subritzky and his wife Moana in 1985, where it was re-masted and re-rigged to its original splendor, while the Owhiti, which had starred in the 1983 movie Savage Islands ( starring Tommy Lee Jones and amongst others Kiwi icon and singer Prince Tui Teka as King Ponapa ), was sold to Captain Dave Skyme in the late 1980s and fully restored to its 1924 sea worthiness.

He also became the celebrity spokesman for Lee Myles Transmissions in the New York City area, appearing on dozens of television commercials from the mid-1970s to the mid 1980s.

In the 1980s, the Government handed over the redevelopment project of Lee Tat Street () and Cheung Shui Street () in Yau Mei Tei ( the two streets were later removed during redevelopment ) to the Hong Kong Housing Society.

" Known as " Baldie Lee " in the 1980s prior to an overdose on cheese.

In the 1980s he and his Singaporean secretary, Je Lan Lee, entered into a relationship.

In the 1980s, Saxon collaborated with several bands — including Redd Kross and The Chesterfield Kings — before reforming the original Seeds in 1989 to headline " The Summer of Love Tour ", along with Big Brother and the Holding Company, Arthur Lee and Love, The Music Machine, and The Strawberry Alarm Clock.

In the 1980s, Lee was regarded as one of the next key leaders in the People's Action Party ( PAP ) leadership transition that was taking place in the mid-1980s, as Lee Kuan Yew had declared that he would eventually step down as Prime Minister in 1984.