Before the Second World War, air shows were associated with long distance air races, often lasting many days and covering thousands of miles.

It was based on the small fast aircraft developed before the war for such air races as the Gordon Bennett Cup and Schneider Trophy.

In 1911 Garros graduated to flying Bleriot monoplanes and entered a number of European air races with this type of machine, such as the 1911 Paris to Madrid air race.

However, this results in the supercharger being filled with compressed fuel / air mixture, with a strong tendency to explode should the engine backfire ; this type of explosion is frequently seen in drag races, which for safety reasons now incorporate pressure releasing blow-off plates on the intake manifold, breakaway bolts holding the supercharger to the manifold, and shrapnel-catching ballistic nylon blankets surrounding the superchargers.

Lone Starr, with Yogurt's help in repairing his ship and training in the Schwartz, races to the planet Spaceball to rescue Vespa, and then returns to Druidia, using the Schwartz to reverse the robot's sucking action and returning the air to the planet.

There are also hot air balloon races ( Lovers Aloft, inaugurated in February 2004 ) and the Lovelock Street Fever car show, begun in June 2007.

Most of the races on ABC were chosen so ESPN2 could air major sporting events.

ESPN will still air the 33 other races with only four races ( Las Vegas, Iowa, Charlotte, Michigan ) being shown on ABC.

Air shows sprang up around the country, with air races, acrobatic stunts, and feats of air superiority.

In 1911, Moisant let Quimby be first, because Quimby needed the extra acclaim: She wrote about air races and the thrill of flight.

The week-long summer programme includes yacht and dinghy racing, power boat rides, parades, open air performances in the shelters, sand based games such as egg catching, events such as the golf ball derby and rubber duck races on the River Lym, carnival procession and fireworks.

A licensed pilot, Prince William owned several aircraft and competed in amateur air show races.

However, there is at least one section of the ship that is sealed and filled with air for land-based races.

As a general aviation airfield, however, it attracted the record-breaking pilots of the Golden Age of Aviation because of its superior modern facilities and excellent location for flying, hosting dozens of " firsts " and time records as well as a number of air races in their hey-day, such as the Bendix Cup.

A number of air races were organised by the club

He distinguished four fundamental races: Whites, Blacks, Kalmuck, and Hindustanic, and attributed the variation to differences in environment and climate, such as the air and sun, but clarified by saying that the variation served a purpose and was not purely superficial.

During the 1930s, aircraft designs were often proven in air races and other aerial contests.

* The Czechoslovakian Avia BH-21R racer wins the Czechoslovakian national air races, covering the course at an average speed of 300. 59 km / hr ( 186. 78 mph ).

Nevertheless, air races devoted to floatplanes attracted a lot of attention during the 1920s and 1930s, most notably in the form of the Schneider Trophy.

) Horse races ( and, later, air displays ) were held on the Rock Ddole meadow beside the river.

The music drove them off, or away, and he was free to walk on air in a very few moments, humming and jiving within, beating the rhythm within.

Hutton proposed that the interior of the Earth was hot, and that this heat was the engine which drove the creation of new rock: land was eroded by air and water and deposited as layers in the sea ; heat then consolidated the sediment into stone, and uplifted it into new lands.

At nightfall, Nhung took Tung and Major Lê Quang Trieu, his brother and deputy and drove them to the edge of the air base.

He built a bridge of brass, over which he drove at full speed in his chariot to imitate thunder, the effect being heightened by dried skins and cauldrons trailing behind while torches were thrown into the air to represent lightning.

During Act II of a sold-out performance of Nord-Ost a little after 9: 00 PM, some 40-50 heavily armed and masked men and women drove in a bus to the theater and entered the main hall firing assault rifles in the air.

The company chose him to announce the Packard 120 to the world on air ; he drove one.

The Allies drove Axis air, land and naval forces from the island ; the Mediterranean's sea lanes were opened and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was toppled from power.

Moisture from previous rains and transpiration by plants drove up the humidity to record levels and the most humid air mass originated over Iowa previous to and during the early stages of the heat wave.

It was probably the evasion of predators that drove most birds into the air, so their flightless cousins evolved because they had few enemies.

The next day CCR captured Hohenheide and Fröndenberg after an air strike drove 4 German tanks out of the town.

ET early on the morning of Oct. 22, 1975, when Fisk drove a 1-0 fastball from Cincinnati right-hander Pat Darcy high into the air, heading down the left-field line.

As Donahue and Halloran drove out of the parking lot, Weeks signaled Bulger by stating, " The balloon is in the air ", over a hand held radio.

The old plan of a “ drop ” was discarded for a more merciful machine, by which the prisoner is jerked up from a platform on the ground level by a weight of 280 lbs, which is suspended by an independent rope pending the execution … At the words ‘ Forgive us our trespasses ,’ the executioner drove his chisel against the light rope that held the ponderous iron at the other end of the noose, and in an instant the heavy weight fell with a thud, and the pinioned body was jerked into the air and hung dangling between the rough posts of the scaffold.

Mayor Smith was suspended in the air when State Agent Ben Danbaum drove a high-powered automobile into the throng right to the base of the signal tower.

Japanese forces met stiff resistance from III Corps of the Indian Army, the Australian 8th Division and British units during the Battle of Malaya, but Japan's superiority in air power, tanks and infantry tactics drove the Allied units back.

While they waited for air support, the Americans holding Albany drove off assaults by NVA troopers and sniped at the exposed enemy wandering around the perimeter.

In 1892, an order from the Guinness brewery in Dublin for a Carbon Dioxide liquefaction plant drove Linde's research into the area of low temperature refrigeration, and in 1894 he started work on a process for the liquefaction of air.

The establishment of the Royal Air Force in 1918 and the creation of the Italian Air Force ( Regia Aeronautica ) and the French Air Force during the 1920s drove the idea of uniting Brazilian air power under the same organization.

The report chronicled gruesome details of the events in 1953: how, by spending a meager sum of $ 1 million, the CIA " stirred up considerable unrest in Iran, giving Iranians a clear choice between instability and supporting the shah "; how it brought " the largest mobs " into the street ; how it " began disseminating ' gray propaganda ' passing out anti-Mossadegh cartoons in the streets and planting unflattering articles in local press "; how the CIA's " Iranian operatives pretending to be Communists threatened Muslim leaders with ' savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh '"; how the " house of at least one prominent Muslim was bombed by CIA agents posing as Communists "; how the CIA tried to " orchestrate a call for a holy war against Communism "; how on August 19 " a journalist who was one of the agency's most important Iranian agents led a crowd toward Parliament, inciting people to set fire to the offices of a newspaper owned by Dr. Mossadegh's foreign minister "; how American agents swung " security forces to the side of the demonstrators "; how the shah's disbanded " Imperial Guard seized trucks and drove through the street "; how by " 10: 15 there were pro-shah truckloads of military personnel at all main squares "; how the " pro-shah speakers went on the air, broadcasting the coups ' success and reading royal decrees "; how at the US embassy, " CIA officers were elated, and Mr. Roosevelt got General Zahedi out of hiding " and found him a tank that " drove him to the radio station, where he spoke to the nation "; and, finally, how " Dr. Mossadegh and other government officials were rounded up, while officers supporting General Zahedi placed ' unknown supports of TP-Ajax ' in command of all units of Tehran garrison.

He and Taylor immediately drove his Buick at high speed to Haleiwa in order to join the air battle.

He drove an entire lap on two tyres, the right front was in the air and the left rear was shredding rubber and sparking with the pavement.

He then drove over Berger's wheel launching the rear of his McLaren into the air.

He then drove the P50 through the corridors of the office building, which included the background of BBC News 24 while it was on air and used a standard passenger lift ( elevator ) to get to a meeting, which he attended inside the P50.