The real U-571 was never involved in any such events, was not captured, and was in fact sunk in January 1944, off Ireland, by a Short Sunderland flying boat from No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.

She was hit by depth charges, dropped from a Short Sunderland Mk III flying boat, EK577, callsign " D for Dog ", belonging to No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ).

Gorton completed his training at RAF Heston and RAF Honiley, with No. 61 Operational Training Unit RAF, flying Supermarine Spitfires.

No other ascents were then recorded until 1931, when several climbers were killed by flying lava on the descent.

Britain ’ s first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941, when ' X ' Troop, No 11 Special Air Service Battalion ( which was formed from No 2 Commando and subsequently became 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ) dropped into southern Italy from converted Whitley bombers flying from Malta and demolished a span of the aqueduct near Tragino in a daring night raid named Operation Colossus.

The following day, a search of the Bay of Biscay was undertaken by " N / 461 ", a Short Sunderland flying boat from No. 461 RAAF Squadron.

Sawyer AFB KC-135A ( AF Serial No. 61-0313 ) became famous throughout the SAC community as " the glider " when it ran out of fuel on a short final approach prior to landing at its home base after flying practice approaches at nearby Kincheloe AFB to complete requalification training.

In 1904, Santos-Dumont shipped his new airship No. 7 ( also called Racer ), from Paris to St. Louis to fly at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to compete for the Grand Prize of $ 100, 000 which was to be given to a flying machine ( of any sort ) that could make three round-trip flights over a 24 km ( 15 mile ) “ L ”- shaped course at an overall average speed of 32 kph ( 20 mph ), later reduced to 24 kph ( 15 mph ).

On December 14, 2007, Georges Jaspis, a former World War II pilot in No. 609 Squadron RAF and the SABENA pilot with the most flying hours ( 27, 000 ) died.

* Sir George Reid ( RAF officer ) ( 1893 – 1991 ), World War I flying ace in No. 20 Squadron RAF

She was introduced to flying as a hobby, gaining a pilot's " A " Licence, No. 1979 on 6 July 1929 at the London Aeroplane Club under the tutelage of Captain Valentine Baker.

Formation No. 2 flew further north, cutting over Vlieland and crossing the IJsselmeer before joining the first route near Wesel and then flying south beyond the Möhne to the Sorpe River.

This was done after pilots saw a photograph of a P-40 of No. 112 Squadron RAF in North Africa, which in turn had adopted the shark face from German pilots of the Luftwaffe's ZG 76 heavy fighter wing, flying Messerschmitt Bf 110 fighters in Crete.

RAAF Amberley is currently home to No. 1 and No. 6 Squadrons flying the Boeing F / A-18F Super Hornet.

No. 36 Squadron ( flying C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft ) are also based out of Amberley.

The airbase is currently being expanded and will eventually also house No. 33 Squadron ( flying Airbus A330 MRTT tanker-transports ) and several Army units.

Several reconnaissance flights by Martin Maryland bombers ( of the RAF's No. 431 General Reconnaissance Flight ) flying from Malta confirmed the location of the Italian fleet.

After 10 hours of refresher training he was approved to start flying once more and was sent to Serny on the Western Front, where he rejoined No. 8 Naval Squadron, now renamed No. 208 Squadron RAF.

On 30 October Moore-Brabazon was also the first to cover a mile ( closed circuit ) in a British aeroplane, flying the Short No. 2 biplane, and so winning a prize of £ 1000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper.

No. 431 Squadron formed on 11 November 1942, at RAF Burn ( in North Yorkshire ), flying Wellington B. X medium bombers with No. 4 Group RAF Bomber Command.

* Daimler's nose dive: After reporting Germany's worst loss ever, the company dumps Dutch planemaker Fokker as diversification fails article in TIME International February 5, 1996 Volume 147, No. 6

** No – handed over the top rope suicide dive

The group consisted of No. 77 Wing, operating A-31 Vengeance dive bombers, and No. 78 Wing, operating P-40 Kittyhawk fighters, as well as various ancillary units.

No. 25 Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force was formed at Seagrove, Auckland in July 1943 with Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers and served in the Southern Pacific based at the Piva Airstrip on Bougainville, flying missions against Japanese forces on Bougainville and at Rabaul.

No More Censorship was notably the first album by the band to be released by Reggae label RAS Records, at the time RAS was attempting to dive into a rock market.

No Southern novelist has done for Atlanta or Birmingham what Herrick, Dreiser, and Farrell did for Chicago or Dos Passos did for New York.

No consideration of risk urges itself upon him now: for this is what the mind does with the ideas on which it has not properly focussed.

No good can come of contemplating the sad, inevitable fact that once youth has passed `` a worse and worse time still succeeds the former ''.

No action has been taken, however, on such major problems as ending the fee system, penal reform, modification of the county unit system and in outright banning of fireworks sales.

-- No doubt there have been moments during every Presidency when the man in the White House has had feelings of frustration, exasperation, exhaustion, and even panic.

No one who has studied the radical Right can suppose that words are their sole staple in trade.

No one has sponsored more progressive and important legislation than has Sam Rayburn.

No greater pleasure has come to me in my own service in this House than to be present today to participate in this tribute to this great Speaker, this great legislator, this great Texan, this great American.

No satisfactory solution has been found, but this is due more to the difficulties inherent in the problem than to a lack of interest or diligence on the part of the assessors.

No good way to evaluate teaching ability has yet been discovered, although some institutions use inventory sheets for a list of criteria.

No manufacturer has taken the initiative in pointing out the costs involved.

No generalization of these results to spaces of more than three dimensions has so far been found possible.

No general installation should be made until a model installation has been proved and its maximum capability determined.

`` No one has come.

Kournikova's forte has been doubles, where she has at times been the World No. 1 player.

No neuron ever has more than one axon ; however in invertebrates such as insects or leeches the axon sometimes consists of several regions that function more or less independently of each other.

No one has lived in these houses since the time of the Famine, however the families that moved to Dooagh and their descendants, continued to use the village as a ' booley village '.

The mens rea for assault is simply " evil intent ", although this has been held to mean no more than that assault " cannot be committed accidentally or recklessly or negligently " as upheld in Lord Advocate's Reference No 2 of 1992 where it was found that a " hold-up " in a shop justified as a joke would still constitute an offence.

# No playable tiles-Per 2008 rules, a player that has no legal plays because all 6 tiles in his or her hand are unplayable may reveal his or her hand, set aside his or her unplayable tiles, and draw six new tiles at the beginning of his or her turn.

No poet has ever presented evil in such stark and tragic terms yet he had an exalted view of Zeus, whom he celebrated with a grand simplicity reminiscent of David's Psalms, and a faith in progress or the healing power of time.

* No person who has an office under the monarch, or receives a pension from the Crown, can be a Member of Parliament ( MP ).

He declares at the start: " No matter what sort he is, everyone who has to his credit what are or really seem great achievements, if he cares for truth and goodness, ought to write the story of his own life in his own hand ; but no one should venture on such a splendid undertaking before he is over forty.

No show with a cappella orchestrations has ever run on Broadway.