The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

To the south of the town lies Newtownards Airport, home of the Ulster Flying Club — Northern Ireland's largest, non-commercial training and flying organisation.

Common wildlife species include the Antilopine kangaroo, Agile wallaby, Sugar glider, Northern brushtail possum, Fawn antechinus, Black and Little red flying foxes and the Dingo.

These include a variety of possums and flying foxes as well as Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo and the Northern Quoll.

Flying her " Jason " Gipsy Moth, she left Croydon, south of London, on 5 May of that year and landed in Darwin, Northern Territory, on 24 May after flying.

From 1968, Widerøe started flying to the STOLports built in Northern and Western Norway using DHC-6 Twin Otters, and later also with Dash 7.

File: Northern Fulmar ( Fulmarus glacialis ) flying, side-on. jpg | Northern Fulmar in flight over Faxaflói ( Iceland )

Large birds of prey, such as Northern Goshawks, will take ducks from the ground, and some falcons, including the Gyrfalcon, have the speed and power to catch flying birds.

The alarm-whistle warns other birds about the proximity of a Eurasian Sparrowhawk, a Northern Goshawk, a Common Buzzard or other flying predators that form a potential danger in the air.

In May 1941 the German battleship Bismarck was discovered by a PBY Catalina flying out of Castle Archdale Flying boat base, Lower Lough Erne, Northern Ireland.

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.

In the Pacific Northwest of North America, the Northern Spotted Owl ( Strix occidentalis ) is a common predator of flying squirrels.

The status of the woolly flying squirrel ( Eupetaurus cinereus ) in Northern Pakistan.

The Southern Flying Squirrel ( Glaucomys volans ) is one of two species of the genus Glaucomys, the only flying squirrels found in North America ( the other is the somewhat larger Northern Flying Squirrel G. sabrinus ).

The Northern flying squirrel ( Glaucomys sabrinus ) is one of two species of the genus Glaucomys, the only flying squirrels found in North America ( the other is the somewhat smaller Southern flying squirrel, G. volans ).

The Northern flying squirrel is found in coniferous and mixed forests across the top of North America, from Alaska to Nova Scotia, south to the mountains of North Carolina and west to California.

Two subspecies are found in the southern Appalachians, the Carolina Northern flying squirrel, G. s. coloratus, and the Virginia Northern flying squirrel G. s. fuscus, both of which are endangered, although the Virginia subspecies has recovered enough that it was delisted in August 2008.

The Northern flying squirrel nests in holes in trees, preferring large-diameter trunks and dead trees, and will also build outside leaf nests called dreys.

A Northern flying squirrel gliding. Northern flying squirrel gliding distances tend to be between 5 and 25 metres, though glides of up to 45 m and longer have been observed.

), mink ( Mustela vison ), raccoons ( Procyon lotor ) and even Northern Flickers ( Colaptes auratus ) and red squirrels ( Tamiasciurus husonicus ).

Northern Spotted Owl may select habitats with more coarse woody debris in some areas, possibly due to the apparent dependence of northern flying squirrels ( Glaucomys sabrinus ) and other prey species on coarse woody debris for cover and truffle production.

Northern flying squirrels commonly comprise greater than 30 % of the diets ( all percentages are by mass ) of Northern Spotted owls and California Spotted Owls in conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada.

Timber thinning and prescribed fire projects on the Payette National Forest have proven to expand some of the existing populations of Northern Idaho ground squirrels.

Notable vertebrate species of the Carolina Sandhills include Gopher Tortoise, Northern pine snake, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Bachman's Sparrow, and Pine Barrens Tree Frog also squirrels inhabit the area.

The Northern Pacific Rattlesnake is thriving, as are many ground squirrels, hares, and various species of native and nonnative rodents.

** Central Austro-Bavarian ( along the main rivers Isar and Danube, spoken in the northern parts of the State of Salzburg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, and the Northern Burgenland )

Northern Bosnia contains very fertile agricultural land along the river Sava and the corresponding area is heavily farmed.

The Hanseatic League was a business alliance of trading cities and their guilds that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe.

Company trapping brigades were sent south from Fort Vancouver, along what became known as the Siskiyou Trail, into Northern California as far south as the San Francisco Bay Area.

465 km navigable by small craft, mainly along the Northern coast.

This charter, along with Hamburg's proximity to the main trade routes of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, quickly made it a major port in Northern Europe.

He also led a campaign into Scotland, but from these conquests he was recalled by the Emperor Domitian, and the border gradually solidified along the line of the Stanegate in Northern England.

Scots, as spoken in the lowlands and along the east coast of Scotland, developed independently from Modern English and is based on the Northern dialects of Anglo-Saxon, particularly Northumbrian, which also serve as the basis of Northern English dialects such as those of Yorkshire and Newcastle upon Tyne.

Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian ventured to the west to form alliances to enable for the eventual free movement of Chinese goods to the west ; as early as the first century BC, ivory was moved along the Northern Silk Road for consumption by western nations.

He then commanded the Army's outposts along the upper Potomac River until given command of the cavalry brigade for the army then known as the Army of the Potomac ( later named the Army of Northern Virginia ).

Spreading westward along the coastline it is found in the Ertebølle culture of Denmark and Ellerbek of Northern Germany, and the related Swifterbant culture of the Low Countries.

The same is not true along thousands of kilometres of Trans-Canada Highway in regions such as Northern Ontario as the mostly two-lane road makes its lengthy journey westward through tiny, distant and isolated communities.

The party, along with its Northern Ireland wing, voluntarily deregistered with the Electoral Commission at the end of 2003.

Many newly arrived immigrants and others moved west along the railway to the Prairie Provinces and British Columbia, sparsely settling Northern Ontario.

Northern part of the voivodeship, along the Mała Panew river is densely forested, while the south is covered by arable land.

The Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir lie mainly in Central Asia along the edge of the Indian plate and hence are prone to violent earthquakes where the two tectonic plates collide.

The Northern Areas has five of the world's seventeen highest peaks along with highest range of mountains the Karakoram and Himalayas.

The main chain is long and has smaller branches that extend to the west and die out along the banks of the Río Paraguay in the Northern Upland.

The Alps — including the Julian Alps, the Kamnik-Savinja Alps and the Karavanke chain, as well as the Pohorje massif — dominate Northern Slovenia along its long border to Austria.

Northern Gaul was held by the Romans along a line from north of Cologne to the coast at Boulogne through what is today southern Belgium until 460.

During the Great Northern War, plague stricken Tallinn along with Swedish Estonia and Livonia capitulated to Imperial Russia in 1710, but the local self-government institutions ( Magistracy of Reval and Chivalry of Estonia ) retained their cultural and economical autonomy within Imperial Russia as the Duchy of Estonia.

The Northern Harz Boundary Fault crosses the borough along which the watershed between the Weser and Elbe runs.

* June 20 – Austin Currie, Member of Parliament ( MP ) at Stormont in Northern Ireland, along with others, squats a house in Caledon to protest discrimination in housing allocations.

* June 22 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld leaves Karlskrona on a voyage that will make him the first to navigate the Northern Sea Route, a shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean along the Siberian coast.