William Francis Readdy is a former Associate Administrator of the Office of Space Flight, at NASA Headquarters.

Readdy is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, the Explorers Club, and the Royal Astronautical Society and is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA.

Readdy is also currently a member of the Board of Directors of Astrobotic Technology, a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company that is competing for the Google Lunar X Prize.

In 1986 Readdy transferred into the Naval Reserve to join NASA and served as an instructor pilot and unit commander until his naval retirement in August 2000.

Readdy joined NASA's Johnson Space Center in October 1986 as a research pilot at Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, where he served as program manager for the highly-modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

* William Readdy, astronaut

Readdy has logged over 672 hours in space.

He selected as Comptroller of Defense, not a veteran accountant, but a former Rhodes Scholar, Charles Hitch, who is author of a study on The Economics Of Defense In The Nuclear Age.

The new school superintendent is Harry Davis, a veteran agriculture teacher, who defeated Felix Bush, a school principal and chairman of the Miller County Democratic Executive Committee.

The Vienna meeting will bring together a seasoned, 67-year-old veteran of the cold war who, in Mr. Kennedy's own words, is `` shrewd, tough, vigorous, well-informed and confident '', and a 44-year-old President ( his birthday is May 29 ) with a demonstrated capacity for political battle but little experience in international diplomacy.

Among all the Yankees, he is the veteran most friendly to rookies.

Skyjacked ( film ) is a 1972 film about a crazed Vietnam war veteran hijacking a Boeing 747 and demanding to be taken to Russia by the captain, Charlton Heston.

All Quiet on the Western Front () is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I.

In the company of Edwin and his loves are a dramatic array of thinly veiled representations of theatrical personages of the time, amongst them Daniel Mendoza, an exacting and powerful impresario, who controls the lives of his leading ladies ; the goatish, démodé manager, Matthew Lewis, who promotes Julia Scarlet as “ the American Sarah Bernhardt ”; the worldly-wise veteran of the stage, Ottilie Potter, who has gotten where she is because, “ Men had what I wanted, and I had what they wanted ”; and the huge, manlike Helen Sampson, chief among theatrical agents.

Angry, impatient and short-tempered, Buzzcut is a Vietnam War veteran who served in the Marine Corps and, with the possible exception of Principal McVicker, hates the duo more than any other character.

She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on May 23, 2011, as a crew member of Expedition 27 after logging 159 days in space.

American Revolutionary War veteran Henry Hall is credited as first to farm cranberries in the Cape Cod town of Dennis around 1816.

At the end of the book there is a poem written from the point of view of a veteran comparing World War I to the Trojan War.

The veteran gets a voucher good only for educational expense and he is completely free to choose the school at which he uses it, provided that it satisfies certain standards.

* 1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes.

A former Marine and Vietnam War veteran, Reed is a police writer, an occasional war correspondent, and an aficionado of raffish bars.

He is the most recent president to have been a World War II veteran.

Powers is buried in Arlington National Cemetery as an Air Force veteran.

Although Andrew Jackson served as a courier in a militia unit at age thirteen, Monroe is regarded as the last U. S. President who was a Revolutionary War veteran, since he served as an officer of the Continental Army and took part in combat.

* 2004 – The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.

Several suspects exist, including competition director and former pageant winner Kathy Morningside ( Candice Bergen ); her unpleasant assistant Frank Tobin ( Steve Monroe ); veteran emcee Stan Fields ( William Shatner ) who, like Morningside, is being replaced with a younger person ; and Rhode Island's Cheryl Frasier ( Heather Burns ), possibly a radical animal rights activist.

* 1944 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.

* The 2008 biolgraphical film Flash of Genius is about famed American inventor and OSS veteran, Robert Kearns.

The 2004 action-drama film Out of Reach is about a pen pal relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a 13-year-old orphaned girl from Poland.

Usually, if the 149 is denied by the service department, there is nothing more a veteran can do and will not be awarded the Purple Heart.

Another method of assuring a clean hole is to first drill a small pilot hole all the way through, then drill half way with the dimensional bit, turn the piece over, and finish from the other side.

This is a pilot operation sponsored by a new entity chartered in Delaware as the Tri-State Pipeline Corporation, with principal offices in New York State.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

* 1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.

* 1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.

* 1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.

One of the key challenges in glass cockpits is to balance how much control is automated and how much the pilot should do manually.

Today automated flight control is common to reduce pilot error and workload at key times like landing or takeoff. Autopilot was first invented by Lawrence Sperry during World War II to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit precision targets from 25, 000 feet.

In most cases, the pilot is forced to fly according to the orders of the hijackers.

To communicate to air traffic control that an aircraft is being hijacked, a pilot under duress should squawk 7500 or vocally, by radio communication, transmit "( Aircraft callsign ); Transponder seven five zero zero.

" If the aircraft is not being hijacked, the pilot should not squawk 7500 and should inform the controller accordingly.

A pilot under duress may also elect to respond that the aircraft is not being hijacked, but then neglect to change to a different squawk code.

* 1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

These vary according to the rating of the pilot / crew, the type of aircraft and the way the aircraft is being flown.

The basic pilot training is concentrated in Pirassununga ( AFA-Academia da Força Aérea ) and uses the Neiva T-25 and the well known Embraer T-27 Tucano for basic instruction.

It is still widely used today for springs, bearings, bushings, automobile transmission pilot bearings, and similar fittings, and is particularly common in the bearings of small electric motors.

According to the Official Buffy Watcher's Guide, Whedon wrote the pilot to the TV series as a sequel to his original script, which is why the show makes references to events not occurred in the film.

One notable difference in the pilot, as in many pilots, is the casting.

Another significant difference is that the character of Prince Edmund presented in the pilot is much closer to the intelligent, conniving Blackadder of the later series than the snivelling, weak buffoon of the original.

Set in the year 1582, the script of the pilot is roughly the same as the episode " Born to be King ", albeit with some different jokes, with some lines appearing in other episodes of the series.

Starting in 2009, vehicular traffic is banned at Times Square between 47th and 42nd Streets, and at Herald Square between 35th and 33rd Streets as part of a pilot program ; the right-of-way is intact and reserved for cyclists and pedestrians.