On May 15, 1923, Earhart became the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license (# 6017 ) by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ( FAI ).

" On June 15, 1921, Coleman became not only the first African-American woman to earn an international aviation license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, but the first African American woman in the world to earn an aviation pilot's license.

On 10 June 1910 she received her balloon pilot's licence from the Aéro-Club de France ( Aero Club of France ) (# 281 ).

On 28 August 1997, three days before the crash, Paul successfully passed his annual pilot's physical examination.

On gaining his commercial pilot's license in six months, Kerkorian learned that the British Royal Air Force was ferrying Canadian built de Havilland Mosquitos over the north Atlantic to Scotland.

On September 27, 2007, the National Transportation Safety Board issued a report stating the probable cause of his crash to be as follows: " The pilot's failure to obtain updated en route weather information, which resulted in his continued instrument flight into a widespread area of severe convective activity, and the air traffic controller's failure to provide adverse weather avoidance assistance, as required by Federal Aviation Administration directives, both of which led to the airplane's encounter with a severe thunderstorm and subsequent loss of control.

On 10 April 1910 he obtained his pilot's license on an Aviatik biplane ( also he took over an agency for this aircraft ).

On July 28, Dickinson, who holds an airline transport pilot's licence, flew a Douglas DC3 to Yellowknife and spent a day being filmed as a guest star for a season five episode.

On 5 January 1940 she obtained her private pilot's license after working to pay for her flying lessons.

On any retractable gear aircraft, lowering the landing gear is part of the pilot's landing checklist, which also includes items such as setting the flaps, propeller and mixture controls for landing.

On January 31, 1837, he became senior brigadier general in command of the Texas Army

On September 10, 1861, Johnston was assigned to command the huge area of the Confederacy west of the Allegheny Mountains, except for coastal areas.

On March 29, 1862, Johnston officially took command of this combined force, which continued to use the Army of the Mississippi name under which it had been organized by Beauregard on March 5.

On Monday, 8 May 1972, ground service equipment being used to empty the residual toxic reaction control system fuel in the command module tanks exploded in a Naval Air Station hangar.

On his return Montgomery antagonised the War Office with trenchant criticisms of the command of the BEF and was briefly relegated to divisional command.

On 9 August 48 BC at Pharsalus in central Greece, Gaius Julius Caesar and his allies formed up opposite the army of the republic under the command of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (" Pompey the Great ").

On 14 August, Nelson sent Orion, Majestic, Bellerophon, Minotaur, Defence, Audacious, Theseus, Franklin, Tonnant, Aquilon, Conquérant, Peuple Souverain and Spartiate to sea under the command of Saumarez.

On 19 August, Nelson sailed for Naples with Vanguard, Culloden and Alexander, leaving Hood in command of Zealous, Goliath, Swiftsure and the recently joined frigates to watch over French activities at Alexandria.

On August 8, 449 the Second Council of Ephesus began its first session with Dioscorus presiding by command of the Emperor.

On 8 – 9 July 1960, the soldiers were invited to appoint black officers, and ' command of the army passed securely into the hands of former sergeants ,' as the soldiers in general chose the most-educated and highest-ranked Congolese army soldiers as their new officers.

On 1 October 1977, Naval Support Facility, Diego Garcia, was established as the senior US Navy command on the island.

On 9 January 1897, he was given his first command, the destroyer Ranger, continuing up to June 1897 when he was again seconded to the Egyptian government for the next phase of the campaign.

On the fourteenth day of month, being accurately observed after the equinox, the ancients celebrated the Passover, according to the divine command.

On 28 July Leicester, who was in overall command of the English land troops, asked for instructions regarding Oxford, stating that " he seems most willing to hazard his life in this quarrel ".

On 1 September Admiral Ahsan assumed the command of the Eastern Military High Command, and became a unified commander of Pakistan Armed Forces in East-Pakistan.

On 20 May 1776 the British forces under the command of Lt. Clayton formally took their leave of Port Egmont, while leaving a plaque asserting Britain's continuing sovereignty over the islands.

On November 28 of that year he was with his unit at the Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande when, his officer having been injured, he took command and led an assault on the German position.

On 25 June, General Claude Auchinleck — Commander-in-Chief ( C-in-C ) Middle East Command — relieved Ritchie and assumed direct command of Eighth Army himself.

On the other hand, his experience was limited to command of at most 1000 men, and came only in remote frontier conditions that were far removed from the urban situations he faced during the Revolution at Boston, New York, Trenton and Philadelphia.

On this occasion, the two armies were combined into one, the consuls having to alternate their command on a daily basis.

On February 1, 1950, contract N8ss-2660 was approved for 1, 000 units “ especially adapted for general reconnaissance or command communications ” and “ constructed for short period underwater operation such as encountered in landing and fording operations.

On Tiberius ' request, Germanicus was granted proconsular power and assumed command in the prime military zone of Germania, where he suppressed the mutiny there and led the formerly restless legions on campaigns against Germanic tribes from 14 to 16 AD.

" On May 17, 1847, President James K. Polk offered Davis a Federal commission as a brigadier general and command of a brigade of militia.

On March 1, Davis appointed General P. G. T. Beauregard to command all Confederate troops in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, where state officials prepared to take possession of Fort Sumter ; Beauregard was to prepare his forces but avoid an attack on the fort.

On 7 September 2012, Captain Wales as he is known in the military, arrived at Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan as part of the 100-strong 662 Squadron, 3 Regiment, Army Air Corps, to begin a four-month combat tour as a co-pilot and gunner for an Apache helicopter.

" On 6 October 2001 Laura Whittle was a naval gunner on HMAS Adelaide ( FFG 01 ) under orders to implement a new border protection policy when they encoutered the SIEV-4 ( Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel-4 ) refugee boat in choppy seas.

On one occasion, the gunner of a B-29 aircraft managed to hit one with gunfire, causing it to break up into several large pieces which fell on buildings below and set them on fire.

On September 23, Rockwell was killed when his Nieuport was downed by the gunner in a German Albatross observation plane and in October Norman Prince was shot down during battle.

He attended the Embassy School of Acting in London and appeared in rep. On the outbreak of war in 1939, he joined the Royal Air Force, serving in Bomber Command as a radio operator and front gunner.

On seeing this, the DH. 9 flown by Captain Anderson, despite itself receiving damage that required his gunner, Lt Mitchell to climb onto the wing and block a leaking fuel tank with his thumb, landed next to the striken aircraft to rescue its crew.

On the standard Sherman tank, there was a single hatch in the turret through which the tank commander, gunner and loader entered and left the tank.

On 12 September 1918 near Laventie, France, when his company was held up by enemy machine-gun fire at short range, Lance-Corporal Wilcox rushed to the nearest enemy gun, bombing it and killing the gunner.

On 29 May 1855 in the Sea of Azov, Crimea, Lieutenant Buckley of HMS Miranda, with a lieutenant ( Hugh Talbot Burgoyne ) from HMS Swallow and a gunner ( John Robarts ) from HMS Ardent, volunteered to land at a beach where the Russian army were in strength.

On 15 September 1940 over Antwerp, Belgium, after a successful attack on German barges, the Handley Page Hampden bomber ( serial P1355 ) in which Sergeant Hannah was wireless operator / air gunner, was subjected to intense anti-aircraft fire, starting a fire which spread quickly.

On 23 October 1918 at Bois-l ' Évêque, Landrecies, France, when his company was held up by a line of enemy machine-guns in a sunken road, Private Miles, alone and on his own initiative went forward under exceptionally heavy fire, located a machine-gun, shot the gunner and put the gun out of action.

On 24 September 1918, Lieutenant ( Junior Grade ) McCormick received fatal injuries in battle while an aerial gunner with the Northern Bombing Group in a mission near Calais.

On modern tanks, the turret houses all the crew except the driver — two or more crewmen, typically a tank commander, gunner, and often a gun loader.

On May 21 1942 he flew his Breguet 19 biplane and defected with his gunner Mišo Jazbec to Partisans.

On 17 August 1943, Hughes was flying his 21st mission as a gunner in a Lancaster bomber, which was participating on a raid on Peenemünde.