In February 1951, Christopher Strachey tried to run a draughts ( checkers ) program he had written for the Pilot ACE.

In 1956 the young graduate Norbert Kitz ( also known as Norman Kitz ), who had worked on the early British Pilot ACE computer project, had a chance meeting with some of the directors of Control Systems Ltd., of which the Bell Punch Company was then a subsidiary.

* James H. Wilkinson, Turing's Work at the National Physical Laboratory and the Construction of Pilot ACE, DEUCE and ACE ( in Nicholas Metropolis, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, ( editors ), A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, New York, 1980 )

The long-tailed pair was very successfully used in early British computing, most notably the Pilot ACE Model and descendants, Wilkes ' EDSAC, and probably others designed by people who worked with Blumlein or his peers.

Pilot ACE console

The Pilot ACE was one of the first computers built in the United Kingdom, at the National Physical Laboratory ( NPL ) in the early 1950s.

The Pilot ACE ran its first program on May 10, 1950 and was demonstrated to the press in December 1950.

The Pilot ACE was shut down in May, 1955, and was given to the Science Museum, where it remains today.

* James H. Wilkinson, Turing's Work at the National Physical Laboratory and the Construction of Pilot ACE, DEUCE and ACE ( in Nicholas Metropolis, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, ( editors ), A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, New York, 1980 )

* Martin Campbell-Kelly, Programming the Pilot ACE ( in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol.

* How Alan Turing's Pilot ACE changed computing BBC News, 15 May 2010

* The Pilot ACE at the Science Museum

* How Alan Turing's Pilot ACE changed computing

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The lab had successfully built a reduced version of Turing ’ s Automatic Computing Engine ( ACE ) the concept of which dated from 1945: the Pilot ACE.

The game completely exhausted the Pilot ACE ’ s memory.

It was the production version of the Pilot ACE, itself a cut down version of Alan Turing's ACE.

In March 1966 he was selected as Senior Pilot ( second seat ) for the first manned Apollo flight, designated AS-204, along with Command Pilot Virgil " Gus " Grissom, who had flown in space on the Mercury 4 Liberty Bell 7 mission and as commander of the Gemini 3 Molly Brown mission, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who had yet to fly into space.

Gable and Tracy also made two other films together, Test Pilot and Boom Town, before Tracy eventually insisted on the same top billing clause in his MGM contract that Gable had enjoyed, effectively ending the American cinema's most famous screen team.

Earlier parties had referred to the most prominent peaks of the Teton Range as the Pilot Knobs.

Enthusiasts within the British armed forces were inspired in the creation of airborne forces ( including the Parachute Regiment, Air Landing Regiments, and the Glider Pilot Regiment ) by the example of the German Luftwaffe's Fallschirmjäger, which had a major role in the invasions of Norway, and the Low Countries, particularly the attack on Fort Eben-Emael in Belgium, and a pivotal, but costly role in the invasion of Crete.

The Command Module Pilot and navigator, Michael Collins, had to have back surgery and was replaced by his backup, James Lovell, reuniting Borman with his Gemini 7 crewmate.

The Pilot Grove Cooperative Elevator had been cleaning conventional seeds for decades before the development of genetic engineering and developments in patent law led to the existence of issued patents that cover seeds.

Air Commodore Lukis, Air Officer Commanding, North East Area, reported on 28 May 1942, that Pilot Officer Trench, RAAF had inspected the countryside near Portland Roads ( also known as Weymouth Bay ), with Colonel Mills and Captain Herman G. Cox of the USAAF.

Pilot Arch Hoxsey flew the president around for over three minutes in one of the Wright Brothers ' six planes they had brought in.

In preparation for this transfer, Air Training Command had activated the 3650th Pilot Training Wing at Columbus on February 15.

Up to 11 September 1941, Mitford is reported to have had an affair with RAF Pilot Officer John Andrews, a test pilot, who was stationed at the nearby RAF Brize Norton.

Baker O-1 Bird Dog Artillery Spotter Pilot husband had been shot down in Vietnam ) who was a nurse in a doctor's office.

Engle had been the original selection as Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 17, but was bumped in favor of Harrison Schmitt when it became clear that the mission would be the last lunar landing.

Pilot Crispín García Fernández and navigator Juan González Romero, in B-26 serial 940, diverted to Boca Chica, but late that night they attempted to fly back to Puerto Cabezas in B-26 serial 933 that Crespo had flown to Boca Chica on 15 April.

Butch O ' Hare had been well aware of the deadly danger of friendly fire in this situation-he radioed to the Avenger Pilot of his section, " Hey, Phil, turn those running lights on.

Purportedly, the first person to read this poem later that same day was fellow Pilot Officer Michael Le Bas ( later Air Vice-Marshal M H Le Bas, Air Officer Commanding No. 1 Group RAF ), with whom Magee had trained, in the officers ' mess.

… I am a Kentish man, born in a town called Gillingham, two English miles from Rochester, one mile from Chatham, where the King's ships do lie: from the age of twelve years old, I was brought up in Limehouse near London, being Apprentice twelve years to Master Nicholas Diggins ; and myself have served for Master and Pilot in her Majesty's ships ; and about eleven or twelve years have served the Worshipfull Company of the Barbary Merchants, until the Indish traffic from Holland began, in which Indish traffic I was desirous to make a little experience of the small knowledge which God had given me.

Gable and Tracy also made two other films together, Test Pilot and Boom Town, before Tracy eventually insisted on the same top billing clause in his MGM contract that Gable had enjoyed, effectively ending the American cinema's most famous screen team.

These toys featured red reflective holograms on the nose to represent the scanner ( however, they were located on the point of the nose, rather like the early mock-up of KITT seen in the Pilot ) as opposed to altering the basic model design to incorporate the scanner as commonly seen in the series.

The town's highest point is above sea level on a spur of the Pilot Range on the town's eastern boundary.

* In " The Pilot ," Russell Dalrymple's love for Elaine drives him to the point near the end of the show that he joins Greenpeace just to impress her and dies in the aftermath.

Examining the Pilot Charts for this area, however, it becomes clear that the main concern lies in the changes in winds that occur at about the point at which Cape Bojador is passed in sailing down the coast.

The highest point in the county is Pilot Hill, which reaches the height of 286m / 938ft.

Pilot Turku describers Turku Region as " the meeting point of the East, the West and the Nordic countries " and as " the multimodal transport centre of the Nordic Triangle ".

He ’ d been despatched from Sydney to find a new Eden, but from his vantage point atop a craggy promontory, now Pilot Head, he dismissed the turbulent estuary as dangerous and unworthy of further examination, before sailing away.

She remained in the top 50 in 2007 with her best result being a semifinal at the Pilot Pen Tennis, where she beat Dinara Safina in the quarterfinals after saving a match point.