He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.

The voice was that of Johnson, tail gunner off another crew.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

On the second voyage, he had turned back at the frozen island of Novaya Zemlya and meekly given the crew a certificate stating that he did so of his own free will -- which was obviously not the case.

What the man wanted was four persons to volunteer as hostages, along with the crew.

This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the International Space Station | ISS.

Stradling and half a dozen of the crew survived the loss of their ship, but were made prisoners by the Spanish, as the War of the Spanish Succession was going on ( England and the Netherlands were in conflict with France and Spain over who was to be King of Spain ).

Ken Mattingly had originally been assigned to the prime crew of Apollo 13, but was exposed to the measles through Charles Duke, at that time on the back-up crew for Apollo 13, who had caught it from one of his children.

He never contracted the illness, but was nevertheless removed from the crew and replaced by back-up Jack Swigert three days prior to the launch.

He served on the support crew of Apollo 10 and was a capsule communicator for Apollo 11.

The insignia was designed from ideas originally submitted by the crew of the mission.

The mission's specific landing site was located between two young impact craters, North and South Ray craters — and in diameter, respectively — which provided " natural drill holes " which penetrated through the lunar regolith at the site, thus leaving exposed bedrock that could be sampled by the crew.

The launch itself was nominal, with the crew experiencing vibration similar to that of previous crews.

Following transposition and docking, the crew noticed the exterior surface of the Lunar Module was giving off particles from a spot where the LM's skin appeared torn or shredded ; at one point, Charlie Duke estimated they were seeing about five to ten particles per second.

By the time mission control issued the wake-up call to the crew for flight day two, the spacecraft was approximately away from the Earth, traveling at about.

The crew performed the Apollo light flash experiment, or ALFMED, to investigate " light flashes " that were seen by the astronauts when the spacecraft was dark, regardless of whether or not their eyes were open, on Apollo lunar flights.

After transfers were completed, the crew would sleep before jettisoning the empty lunar module ascent stage the next day, when it was to be crashed intentionally into the lunar surface.

When the wake-up call was issued to the Apollo 16 crew for their final day in space by capsule communicator Tony England, the spacecraft was about out from Earth, traveling just over.

This Aeolus lived on the floating island of Aeolia and was visited by Odysseus and his crew in the Odyssey.

The " open-topped " design format of the Panzerjäger vehicles was succeeded by the Jagdpanzer '(" hunting tanks ") which mounted the gun in true casemate-style superstructures, completely enclosing the crew compartment in armor that would usually be integral to the hull.

It was a mid-summer shoot and while on location on a huge castle set that was built near Acton, California on the edge of the Mojave Desert, the cast and crew endured very hot conditions during the day and very cold temperatures at night.

This is overseen by the signaller at, with the token instruments at the aforementioned five passing loops being operated by the train crew ( the surviving signal boxes at each station having been closed as part of the modernisation scheme and the points converted to automatic operation ).

Boston fans sometimes liked to wring some wry satisfaction out of the fact that most of the great 1923-27 crew were graduates of the Red Sox -- sold to millionaires Huston and Ruppert by a man who could not deny them their most trifling desire.

* 2011: Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema ( Harry Potter series, joined by J. K. Rowling, David Heyman, David Barron, David Yates and Mike Newell, shared with Harry Potter cast and crew )

* 1821 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.

Because of a failure by the crew to activate a certain switch in the LM before sealing it off, it initially tumbled after separation and did not execute the rocket burn necessary for the craft's intentional de-orbit.

Just over three hours before splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, the crew performed a final course correction burn, changing their velocity by.

The spacecraft and its three-person crew were retrieved by the.

# The unlawful act must be committed on board of an aircraft ( that is, by a person being on board of an aircraft, e. g. a passenger or crew member.

At one point, the crew is getting up the anchor in a storm, by means of a pump-style windlass.

In recent years, the Port Authority has established it as one of the most important ports in Spain for cruises, with 72 calls to port made by cruise ships in 2007 bringing some 80, 000 passengers and 30, 000 crew to the city each year.

The actions involved in operating the piece are collectively called " serving the gun " or " detachment " by the gun crew, constituting either direct or indirect artillery fire.

One of the Berbers held on to Abd al-Rahman's vessel as it made for al-Andalus, and allegedly had his hand cut off by one of the boat's crew.

During a ferocious battle, Teach and several of his crew were killed by a small force of sailors led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.

As a former British privateer, Hornigold attacked only his old enemies, but for his crew, the sight of British vessels filled with valuable cargo passing by unharmed became too much, and at some point toward the end of 1717 he was demoted.

Not everybody in the id Software crew was happy with this development ; some, including Jay Wilbur and Kevin Cloud, objected due to legal concerns and in the belief that it would not be of any benefit to the company's business.

A 90-day contract with Benoist was signed on December 17, 1913 ( the 10th anniversary of Wilbur and Orville Wright's historic first airplane flight ), to provide airplanes and crew for two daily round trips across Tampa Bay, dubbed the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line — the world's first scheduled airline.

Time magazine called Carter, Wilbur, and The Inquiry a “ strange and motley crew ,” a “ little band of élite and erudite adventurers .” Some in the American State Department and Navy opposed discussion of Pacific affairs, fearing that it might interfere with strategic planning at a time when Chinese and Japanese nationalism were on the rise.

* " Chief Wilbur Wetfeather " ( Performed by Eric Harley ) ( a Native American meteorologist, often apologizes for bad weather claiming that he accidentally performed a Native American dance which caused it, and warns the crew of what they believe to be bad weather – such as " Strong Wind ", only to learn that Wilbur is warning them of one of his relatives ).

Other lesser known MCs and DJs included Johnny Rock, DJ Candido, DJ Muscle and DJ Shiz ( today known as B. Boy Omega ) who were all Puerto Ricans from The Bronx, while Mr. L of the TDR crew was half Puerto Rican and half Dominican.

* 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

Captain Thomas Truxtun's insistence on the highest standards of crew training paid dividends as the frigate USS Constellation captured L ' Insurgente and severely damaged La Vengeance.

Utilizing many of the same cast ( L. Q. Jones, Strother Martin ) and crew members of The Wild Bunch, the film covered three years in the life of small-time entrepreneur Cable Hogue ( Jason Robards ) who decides to make a fortune after discovering water in the desert.

** The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

To inject more realism into the training, ATC made arrangements with Strategic Air Command to allow instructor pilots to fly intercept missions against SAC bombers with F-86D ( later L ) Sabre, With the addition of interceptor crew training and the acquisition of interceptor aircraft, HQ USAF decided effective 20 October 1953 to assign ATC responsibility for supporting Air Defense Command's interceptor forces.

The crew of STS-7 included Robert L. Crippen, commander, making his second Shuttle flight ; Frederick H. Hauck, pilot ; Ride, John M. Fabian and Norman Thagard, all mission specialists.

Other suggested improvements included a new main weapon ( 10. 5 cm KwK L / 68 ), stabilized sights, stabilized main gun, automatic ammunition feed, a Zeiss stereoscopic range finder, heated crew compartment, stowage for an additional 12 rounds, and an overpressure and air filtration system to protect against poison gas, but these either never got beyond the proposal stage or did not enter production before the war ended.

On 15 September 1763, Bougainville set out from the port of Saint Malo with the frigate " L ' Aigle " ( Eagle ) ( captain: Nicolas Pierre Duclos-Guyot ) and the sloop " Le Sphinz " ( Sphinx ) ( captain: François Chenard de la Giraudais ) with a crew of a hundred and fifty people.

The Green Island Light was kept lit by day due to the obscuring smoke, but the three-masted schooner George L. Newman was wrecked offshore ; the crew was fortunately rescued without loss.

All 156 passengers and 15 crew members died, including Bonnie Pugh, wife of the American ambassador to Chad, Robert L. Pugh.

The gun, a Bofors 105mm L / 62, able to use the same ammunition as the British 105 mm L7, would be equipped with an autoloader allowing a rate of fire of 15 rounds / minute, also allowing the crew to be reduced to two-most designs of the era used a crew of four-gunner / driver and commander.

The five-man crew included Robert L. Crippen, commander, on his third shuttle flight ; pilot Francis R. Scobee ; and mission specialists James D. A. van Hoften, Terry J. Hart and George D. Nelson.

The STS 41-B crew included commander Vance D. Brand, making his second Shuttle flight ; pilot Robert L. Gibson ; and mission specialists Bruce McCandless II, Ronald E. McNair and Robert L. Stewart.

They included commander Robert L. Crippen, making his fourth Shuttle flight and second in six months ; pilot Jon A. McBride ; three mission specialists – David C. Leestma, Sally K. Ride and Kathryn D. Sullivan – ( the first time two female astronauts had flown together ); and two payload specialists, Paul Scully-Power and Marc Garneau, the first Canadian citizen to serve as a Shuttle crew member, as well as the first Canadian in space.

* February 17-In the American Civil War, the tiny Confederate hand-propelled submarine H. L. Hunley torpedoes the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, becoming the first submarine to sink an enemy ship ( although the submarine and her crew of eight are also lost ).

* July-The tiny Confederate States of America hand-propelled submarine H. L. Hunley is first tested successfully ( although thirteen crew – including her inventor Horace Lawson Hunley – are lost in two sinkings later in the year ).

Even these modifications could not provide sufficient range to achieve the necessary distance that the mission required, and so all weapons except one were removed, one member of crew was left behind, and the fuel load was increased to 5, 000 L ( 1, 320 US gal ).

The six-person flight crew consisted of Henry W. Hartsfield Jr., commander, making his second shuttle mission ; pilot Michael L. Coats ; three mission specialists – Judith A. Resnik, Richard M. Mullane and Steven A. Hawley ; and a payload specialist, Charles D. Walker, an employee of McDonnell Douglas.

The five-person flight crew consisted of Frederick H. Hauck, commander, on his second flight ; pilot David M. Walker ; and three mission specialists – Anna L. Fisher, Dale A. Gardner and Joseph P. Allen.

The crew members included Robert F. Overmyer, commander ; Frederick D. Gregory, pilot ; Don L. Lind, Norman E. Thagard and William E. Thornton, mission specialists ; and Lodewijk van den Berg, of EG & G Energy Management, Inc., and Taylor G. Wang, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, both payload specialists.