Jet engines were applied after World War II, in such types as the Teledyne Ryan Firebee I of 1951, while companies like Beechcraft also got in the game with their Model 1001 for the United States Navy in 1955.

Though Ryan's strikeouts and no-hitters got him considerable media attention, he did not win over Angels general manager Buzzie Bavasi, who dismissed him as a flashy. 500 pitcher ( Ryan was 26 – 27 in the two years both were with the Angels ).

The normally light-hitting Ryan got his Houston years started with a bang in a nationally televised game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on April 12, 1980, when he hit a three-run home run off Don Sutton.

Ryan got his third taste of postseason play in 1980, but the Astros were stopped one game short of the World Series.

In the 1980 NLCS versus the Philadelphia Phillies, Ryan pitched well in Game 2, leaving the game tied 2 – 2 in the seventh ( having contributed to both Astros runs with a run scored following a walk, and a sacrifice bunt leading to a run ) but again got a no decision in a game that went extra innings.

" I got your pudding cups at a gas station in Carbondale ", says the character Ryan Howard ( played by actor B. J.

Dead Ringers also parodied Silent Witness, with Sam Ryan as an overconfident pathologist who makes incredibly specific guesses about the body ; for example, " Just by looking I can tell that this was a man aged 35 – 37 called John, having an affair with his secretary ", only to be proved wrong by one of her assistants, " No that's an onion bagel, I got for your lunch ".

Love Is Hell included a cover of Oasis ' " Wonderwall ", which Adams had previously performed live, and about which Noel Gallagher once said, " I never got my head round this song until I went to Ryan Adams play and he did an amazing cover of it.

* In The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ), Pat Harrigan ( Albert Dekker ) threatens Deke Thornton ( Robert Ryan ): " You've got thirty days to get Pike, or thirty days back to Yuma.

In 1990 the paper got its first woman editor-in-chief when Lise Bissonnette succeeded Lauzière, firmly establishing the paper's sovereignist orientation following the federalist years of Ryan and his successors.

Ex-police officer Bob Reid was everybody's best friend who never got the girl, and was the long-suffering brother of the soap's serial bride Delia Reid Ryan Ryan Coleridge.

After a bit of touring, the band's van broke down and when they decided to cancel the rest of their tour, Ryan went back to Jacksonville where he got a job with Sean Mackin and eventually joined Yellowcard.

Almost every episode ended with either Ryan or JB destroying the monster of the day ( Kaitlin never got to destroy any on her own ), at which point his missing comrade ( s ) would come running up to inquire how the fight went.

One night Tony got a call, the Ryan Brothers had rung to see if he would play after Sasha.

Ryan Keller got the game-winning goal 9: 09 into the 3rd period to win the championship for the Senators.

In the fall of 1969 a vacancy on the Globes Celtics beat was created, and Ryan got the job.

We got a game going on here " when Ryan sideline coached.

In the episode, he got into a boxing match with series co-star Ryan O ' Neal.

A conductor who intervened was " called down by Mr. Ryan, who got in one upper cut before longtime-captain manager Cap Anson stopped the fun ," wrote Tim Murnane of the Boston Globe.

He was replaced by Ryan Drummond in Sonic Shuffle, and later on by Scott Dreier, until he got replaced by Dan Green ( who did the voice of Knuckles in the English dub of Sonic X ), and then Travis Willingham.

As Ethan falls, he looks dumbfoundedly at Ryan ... and then at Ryan's cell phone, the " weapon " that got him killed.

However, in the ninth, the Braves got the tying run off him when Ryan Klesko scored on a sacrifice fly.

Earlier in the final, Ryan McLaren got a hat-trick.

1980 saw one of the best pitching lineups the Astros ever had, with the fastball of Ryan, the knuckleball of Joe Niekro and the terrifying 6 ft 8 in frame of J. R. Richard.

Other than Jackie Robinson ( whose number was retired by the entire MLB ), Ryan is currently the only major league baseball player to have his number retired by at least 3 different teams: the Angels, Astros, and Rangers.

Ryan signed a lucrative free-agent contract with the Houston Astros after the 1979 season.

In the fifth and final game of the series, Ryan and the Astros held a 5 – 2 lead entering the 8th inning.

Ryan pitching for the Astros in 1983

* Ryan Bowen is a former baseball player for the Houston Astros and Florida Marlins who was born, lived, and attended high school in Hanford.

Gwynn also reached 1, 000 career hits on April 22 with a single off Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros.

*** The Houston Astros and Texas Rangers, both for Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan.

When he left the Astros in 2010 his win ( 143 ) and strikeout total ( 1, 593 ) was second in franchise history to Joe Niekro ( 144 ) and Nolan Ryan ( 1, 866 ).

Game 2 saw the Mets knot the series at one game apiece as New York scored two runs in the fourth inning and then got three more in the fifth against Astros ' starter Nolan Ryan en route to a 5 – 1 victory.

In 1980, Richard was now teamed with seven-time American League strikeout champion Nolan Ryan, who had joined the Astros as a free agent.

Nolan Ryan broke his Astros record for career strikeouts in 1987.

* On February 6, 2008, Nolan Ryan became the Rangers ' team president after being the special assistant to general manager, scouting players, and holding pitching camps with the Astros for the past three seasons.

( Nolan Ryan was also the only person to be named DHL Hometown Hero by two organizations, the Rangers and Astros, respectively.

Ryan Thomas Drese ( born April 5, 1976 ) is an American professional baseball pitcher currently in the Houston Astros organization.

After the franchise lost its 10, 000th game in 2007, its core of young players, including infielders Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, and Jimmy Rollins and pitcher Cole Hamels, responded by winning the National League East division title, but they were swept by the Colorado Rockies in the Division Series.

After entering Ramelle, Ryan is told of his brothers ' deaths, and their mission to bring him home, and that two lives had been lost in the quest to find him.

But after Bears defensive coach Buddy Ryan told the press that the team " wasted " their first round draft pick on him, Perry lost some weight and ended being an effective defensive tackle.

* June 12 – In Michigan, the wooden steamer Ryan is lost near Thunder Bay Island.

The studio's candidate for Best Picture the previous year, Saving Private Ryan, lost to Shakespeare in Love, so the studio took a new approach by hiring outsiders to provide input for the campaign.

Ryan led the successful federalist campaign in the 1980 Quebec referendum on Québec sovereignty, but then lost the 1981 election.

Following the 1954 general election Fianna Fáil lost power and Ryan moved to the backbenches once again.

Elsewhere, Anastasia ( Meg Ryan ), now under the name " Anya ", leaves the rural orphanage where she grew up, having lost her memory prior to arriving there.

I think that the character of Ryan is a kid that always seems a little lost and has a sense of mystery and danger ; Benjamin has all those qualities.

He participated at qualifying stages of the German Masters, but lost in the second round 1 – 5 against Jimmy Robertson, White reached the last qualifying round of the Welsh Open, but was whitewashed by Ryan Day, and has qualified for the final stages of the China Open, by defeating Liu Chuang, Peter Lines and Dominic Dale.

Traficant lost the election to his former aide Tim Ryan, to whom he lost an earlier race in 2002, in which Traficant ran as an independent from his prison cell.

The advertisements did warn viewers that it would be darker than what Ryan and Broderick are usually associated with, using the taglines " A comedy about lost loves and last laughs " and " A comedy about two people who are getting off on getting even.

In the few times he played the man in the scene, the producers were making further fun of his baldness ( e. g. Colin was Samson, and Ryan was his girlfriend, and Samson had lost all his strength because Ryan had cut off his hair ).

Fogle first came to media attention in April 1999, after Ryan Coleman, a former dormmate of Fogle, ran into him and hardly recognized him because of the lost weight, and wrote an article for Indiana Daily Student about Fogle's weight loss.

He had outbid a competing ownership group led by ex-pitcher and Rangers executive Nolan Ryan, but lost the deal before the Rangers played the San Francisco Giants in the 2010 World Series.

He frequently makes errors, for example failing to identify players correctly ( one example was calling the England spinner Monty Panesar " Monty Python ", and paceman Ryan Sidebottom " Ryan Stringfellow "), and is quite often lost for words in the more exciting passages of play.

John Ryan was appointed as the club's new manager, but his reign was a short one and he was dismissed when the club lost seven of its first eight matches in the 1995 – 96 season.

But within the space of two years, Saracens had lost Leonard to Harlequins, Ryan to Wasps and Clarke to Bath and they were fast becoming a nursery for the more prestigious clubs.

Ryan convinced her not to do this but a shot was fired and she lost her memory.

He beat Mark King 6 – 3 in the first round and Ryan Day 6 – 1 in the quarter-finals, but lost 3 – 6 in the semi-finals against Mark Selby.

However, he was unable to duplicate his rookie season success in the seasons that followed and eventually lost his job as the Orioles closer to B. J. Ryan at the end of 2004.