Air National Guard intelligence personnel deployed overseas and supported the war effort in signals intelligence by flying Senior Scout missions and augmented RC-135V / W Rivet Joint ELINT crews to “ monitor the electronic activity of adversaries .” Although their pilots sat at controls in the United States, Air Guardsmen also “ flew ” RQ-4 Global Hawk and MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle intelligence missions in Southwest Asia.

However, greatly increased aerial activity over the Romani area began about 17 July, when faster and better-climbing German aircraft quickly established superiority over British aircraft.

Primarily a search and rescue ( SAR ) activity for the Great Lakes, Air Station Chicago was the primary U. S. Coast Guard aerial SAR unit for southern Lake Michigan, responsible for the waters from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Muskegon, Michigan and south to Gary, Indiana.

During the weeks before the September attack, enemy aerial activity dropped markedly ; although during one week in June hostile aeroplanes crossed the British front lines 100 times, mainly on the tip – and – run principle at altitudes of, by the last week in August this number had dropped to 18 and during the three following weeks of September it was reduced to just four enemy aircraft.

This was followed by aerial activity in the capital of Valle del Cauca.

By the time aerial activity over the North resumed, most Navy squadrons had a TOPGUN graduate.

There was in fact an unusual outburst of aerial activity on the day before the hand-over when, due to a slight misunderstanding at the Air Ministry, a number of pilots were given authority to land on the airfield for the purpose of conveying their clients to the races at Newbury.

The RDF equipment was used to monitor U-Boat and aerial activity in the North Atlantic.

Despite this activity, the only real success of the Italian Fleet was the aerial and surface attacks on the Harpoon convoy.

The Air Force Home Guard ( Flyverhjemmeværnet ) FHV, deals with securing airports, aerial environmental patrols of national waters ( oil spill observation ) and reporting enemy air activity.

The Galeras Volcano, aerial image by NASA showing its activity.

The prototype weapon began unpowered flight-tests in 1947, and made its first aerial interception in 1952.

Strategic Air Command began deploying Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers and aerial refueling aircraft to the newly completed airfield facilities in 1987.

Following several weeks of aerial bombardment, a U. S .- led United Nations ( UN ) coalition began a ground assault on 23 February 1991 that completely removed Iraqi forces from Kuwait in four days.

Beginning in August 1940, the German Luftwaffe began a series of concentrated aerial attacks ( designated Unternehmen Adlerangriff or Operation Eagle Attack ) on targets throughout the United Kingdom in an attempt to destroy the RAF ( Royal Air Force ) and establish air superiority over Great Britain.

On Sunday 7 October 2001, American and British forces began an aerial bombing campaign targeting Taliban forces and al-Qaeda.

On October 7, 2001, the War in Afghanistan began when U. S and British forces initiated aerial bombing campaigns in Afghanistan targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda camps, then later invaded Afghanistan with ground troops of the Special Forces.

On 27 September 1991, as the Soviet Union was dissolving after the August 1991 Soviet coup d ' état attempt, President George H. W. Bush began taking SAC bomber and associated aerial refuelling aircraft off continuous nuclear alert.

The battle began on August 23, 1942, and on the same day, the city suffered heavy aerial bombardment that reduced most of it to rubble.

Moreover, when the subsequent V-2 rocket blitz began with only a few minutes from launch to impact, the deception was enhanced by providing locations genuinely damaged by bombing, verifiable by aerial reconnaissance, for impacts in central London, but each time-tagged with the time of an earlier impact that had fallen 5 – 8 miles short of central London.

The bombardment, which had been carefully targeted by means of aerial photography, began on 22 September.

On September 21, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service, commanded by Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, began aerial bombardment of Nanking.

Olga Korbut and Nadia Comăneci pioneered advanced tumbling combinations and aerial skills on beam ; other athletes and coaches began to follow suit.

In February 2010, the 20th Reconnaissance Squadron, a ground control station for unmanned aerial drones, began operation at the base.

Leutnants Otto Parschau and Kurt Wintgens were the pioneers in introducing the Eindecker to combat service in the late spring and early summer of 1915, and with Wintgens scoring his first three aerial victories in the first two weeks of July 1915 ( unconfirmed on July 1 and 4, first confirmed victory on the 15th, all over Morane-Saulnier L two-seaters ) the period of the " Fokker Scourge " began.

The attack began on 18 July with a massive aerial bombardment by the 9th USAAF, and ended on 20 July with a three-pronged drive to capture Bras and Hubert-Folie on the right, Fontenay on the left and Bourguébus Ridge in the centre.

Also in July, the American embassy began to contract for aerial resupply for RLA troops, hiring Robert Brongersma and his Beech 18.

Freestyle boards began to diverge more noticeably in design from wave boards in the early part of the 2000 decade, as aerial tricks ( the Vulcan, Spock, Grubby, Flaka, and related New School maneuvers, almost all involving a jump-and-spin component ) became the predominant part of the freestyle repertoire, superseding Old School moves, in which the board did not leave contact with the water.

The MQ-1 Predator drone was when " CIA officers began to see the first practical returns on their decade-old fantasy of using aerial robots to collect intelligence ".

A species of strategic bombing, the aerial bombing of cities began in 1915 during World War I, grew to a vast scale in World War II, and continues to the present day.

The original airport was the base where aviation pioneer Cecil Robinson began flying aerial photography missions.

The report of China even after hostilities began and also criticised the decision to not allow the Indian Air Force to target Chinese transport lines out of fear of Chinese aerial counter-attack on Indian civilian areas.

The term began to appear in the American press in the early 1940s, describing the largest of aerial bombs: single bombs capable of destroying a city block, also known as " cookies " during the firebombing of Hamburg.

Operation Plunder began at 21: 00 on 23 March after a week-long aerial bombardment of Luftwaffe airfields and the German transport system, involving more than ten thousand Allied aircraft.

Risking an aerial attack, the force began the journey before sun set on 8 January in order to have enough time for the force to reach El Magruntein.

An aerial view of a Soviet Union | Soviet-made Spoon Rest A ( P-12 ) early warning radar unit, part of radar installation operated by Somalia | Somali troops at the Berbera airport.

The " Jackson High " football stadium seen early in the movie in aerial footage was Corcoran Stadium, the home of Xavier University's ( Cincinnati ) football team from 1929 to 1973.

Three major land battles, seven large naval battles ( five nighttime surface actions and two carrier battles ), and continual, almost daily aerial battles culminated in the decisive Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in early November 1942, in which the last Japanese attempt to bombard Henderson Field from the sea and land with enough troops to retake it was defeated.

Originally opened in 1957 as an Air Defense Command ( ADC ) base, it became a major Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) base in the early 1960s, with both nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles and manned bombers and aerial refueling aircraft.

During the early 1960s, Boyd, together with Thomas Christie, a civilian mathematician, created the Energy-Maneuverability theory, or E-M theory of aerial combat.

The first aggressive action by the new air force was the aerial movement of Royalist troops to the Plaine de Jarres in early 1955.

* Conventional radar is mostly associated with aerial traffic control, early warning, and certain large scale meteorological data.

Perhaps the most notable design was the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber, one of the Luftwaffe's most effective aerial weapons ( at least in the early war period ) and continually used for bombing attacks as an integral part of the Blitzkrieg strategy.

He developed this terminology and many early concepts of landscape ecology as part of his early work, which consisted of applying aerial photograph interpretation to studies of interactions between environment and vegetation.

The decisive naval / aerial Battle of Midway that took place in early June 1942, however, changed the momentum of the war.

There is some evidence that preparations based on the aerial parts of Echinacea purpurea might be effective for the early treatment of colds in adults but results are not fully consistent.

A handful of N-9s were used in the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane project to develop an " aerial torpedo " or flying bomb, an early RPV.

The number of aerial victories necessary to receive the award continued to increase during the war ; by early 1917, it generally required destroying 16 enemy airplanes, and by war's end the approximate figure was 30.

As with most aerial bombardment of the early stages of WW2, the damage against the Finnish industry and railways was quite limited.

* Fairchild K-20 An early aerial camera

In late April 1945 the house was damaged by British aerial bombs, set on fire by retreating SS troops in early May, and looted after Allied troops reached the area.

In his early years his notable abilities were strong marking ( his outstanding aerial abilities recognised when he won the 1989 Mark of the Year award ) and heavy tackling.

The following morning, the trio got up early and arranged for an aerial tower to be positioned near the house.

These missions are done with fixed-wing aircraft including cargo planes, as well as light helicopters, early types of unmanned aerial vehicles, and custom-built autogyros that are modular and man-portable.

Clearly, the move of the Ottoman garrison from El Arish had not a sudden, panicked reaction ; indeed it was first noticed by Allied aerial reconnaissance planes as early as 25 October.

Markings of the foundations can be seen in discolorations in the grass on some aerial images taken in the early 1990s.