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He had been responsible for downing No. 4 Squadron's first balloon at Merville earlier in May ; although vulnerable to attack with incendiary bullets, these large observation platforms, nicknamed Drachen ( Dragons ), were generally well protected by enemy fighters and anti-aircraft defences, and were thus considered a dangerous but valuable target.

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In January 1989, there was another encounter over the Gulf of Sidra between U. S. and Libyan aircraft which resulted in the downing of two Libyan jets.
* 1991 – American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
** American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials, in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
World crises continued to flare and included the downing of two Libyan Su-22s by American F-14s over the Gulf of Sidra, an Israeli F-16 raid to destroy an Iraqi nuclear reactor, two Iranian hijackings, Iranian air raids on Kuwait, and the release of American hostages in Iran.
While flying " top cover " for another Schwarm, Hartmann attacked a flight of four P-51s over Bucharest, Romania, downing two, while the other two P-51s fell victim to his fellow pilots.
Schirra was credited with downing one MiG-15 and damaging two others.
Unaccompanied suitcases led to the downing of two flights, when a bomb inside the suitcase exploded:
But he is repeatedly frustrated when the Pandavas succeed in downing the two Kuru legends, and is emotionally distraught when Arjuna kills Jayadratha, the king of Sindhu to avenge Abhimanyu.
After downing a Hawker Hurricane on 20 May 1940, on 22 May he claimed two Breguet 690 bombers and a Potez 63 near Cambrai.
Another of the balloons was forced to land while the third landed safely over two hours after the initial downing.
The two side effects of Earnest Will – Praying Mantis and the downing of the airliner – helped convince Iran to agree to a ceasefire on 18 July and a permanent end to hostilities on 20 August 1988, ending its eight-year war with Iraq.
Gloria brought strong wind gusts to the area, downing thousands of trees and leaving over two million people without power.
Ehrler attacked the lead 714th Bombardment Squadron, downing two B-24 Liberator bombers Lt.
It supplied decision makers with intelligence support concerning the final Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, events surrounding the downing of two Libyan jets, the civil war in Liberia, the Flight 103 investigation at Lockerbie, Scotland, and the Tiananmen Square incident in China.
A crew could receive an award by achievement of eight points ( two for downing an aircraft unassisted, one for downing an aircraft assisted, and five for aiding in the downing of aircraft for radar, searchlight or other such units ).

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400, lifting the roof off of one house on north Canal Road ( Simcoe Road # 8 ), and downing power lines and trees and ruining at least one house along Fraser Street.

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Although the false glamour surrounding bourbon or other whisky commercials is possibly no more fatuous than the pseudo-sophistication with which TV soft-drinks are downed or toothpaste applied, there is a sad difference between enticing a viewer into sipping Oopsie-Cola and gulling him into downing bourbon.
The play will begin with the snap of the ball ( typically but not exclusively to the quarterback ), and it will end when the effort by the offensive squad to advance the ball has either succeeded in scoring, or has been frustrated by the ball being downed before the aim of the offensive play is accomplished, or by the defensive squad having managed to come into possession of the ball without first downing it.
Relations have further been degraded with the downing of a Turkish plane as well as Turkey closing it's embassy in Damascus.
Cold War tensions were exacerbated by the downing near Moneron Island by Soviet fighters of a civilian jet liner, Korean Air Flight KAL-007 with a complement of 269 passengers and crew, including a congressman from Georgia, Larry McDonald.
In addition, DIA supported decision makers with intelligence concerning the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, events surrounding the downing of several Libyan jets, the civil war in Liberia, and the investigation of the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in which an agent was killed.
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit this city with winds of about, downing numerous trees and power lines.
In general, of accumulation is all that is required, especially in combination with breezy conditions, to start downing power lines as well as tree limbs.
This downing was not an isolated victory ; five more German airships were similarly destroyed between October and December 1916, and caused the airship campaign to gradually be diminished over the next year with fewer raids mounted.
Tangier was credited with downing three aircraft.
It was the subject of a celebrated 1985 Heineken beer TV advertisement, which depicts a poet having difficulties with his opening lines, only able to come up with I walked about a bit on my own or I strolled around without anyone else until downing a Heineken and reaching the immortal I wandered lonely as a Cloud ( because " Heineken refreshes the poets other beers can't reach ").
* 5 October – Sergeant Joseph Frantz and Corporal Louis Quenault of the French Escadrille VB24 are the first aviators in history to shoot down another aircraft with gunfire, downing a German Aviatik B. II with machine gun fire from their Voisin III over Jonchery, Reims.
On 17 March 1917, Fonck scored the second time, downing an Albatros in conjunction with his observer, Sergeant Huffer.
Nine months after the downing of Iran Air Flight 655, on March 10, 1989, Rogers ' wife Sharon escaped with her life when a pipe bomb attached to her minivan exploded, while she was driving.
In 1994, the representative of South Korea to the United Nations General Assembly linked this incident with the downing of Korean Air Flight 858 which he alleged was sponsored by the same government acting with impunity.
To encourage pilots to attack enemy balloons, both sides counted downing an enemy balloon as an " air-to-air " kill, with the same value as shooting down an enemy aircraft.
Across Georgia, winds of to, with gusts to led to the downing of tree branches and power lines.

downing and Berlin
The most tense involved the Berlin Blockade ( 1948 – 1949 ), the Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ), the Suez Crisis ( 1956 ), the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis ( 1962 ), the Vietnam War ( 1959 – 1975 ), the Yom Kippur War ( 1973 ), the Soviet war in Afghanistan ( 1979 – 1989 ), the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 ( 1983 ), and the “ Able Archer ” NATO military exercises ( 1983 ).

downing and bombing
The explosion and downing occurred within an hour of the fatal Narita Airport bombing, which also originated from Canada.
In 1992, Rogers and his wife Sharon co-wrote a book, Storm Center: A Personal Account of Tragedy & Terrorism which describe the events surrounding the downing of Iran Air 655 and the minivan bombing from their personal perspectives.

downing and pattern
Driving the Colts down the field and poised to score the team's first touchdown of the game, Unitas threw a crossing pattern to one of his wide receiver's in the end zone, but Beverly stepped in front and caught the ball in the end zone, downing it for a touchback.

downing and attacks
The tanks lit yellow smoke flares to identify themselves to their own aircraft but the attacks continued, forcing the column to return fire which resulted in the downing of one aircraft.
The latter was posted on the higher elevations of Corregidor and was able to respond successfully to the Japanese air attacks, downing many fighters and bombers.

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* 1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
After the downing of the Rwandan and Burundian presidential plane 10 Belgian peackeepers were kidnapped, mutilated and murdered by the Hutu-dominated government army.
It also recorded the first jet-to-jet aerial kill, downing a MiG-15 in Korea, although by this time the F-80 ( as it came to be known in June 1948 ) was already considered obsolete.
That same month, pressure on him to act by Syria, Saudi Arabia, and the PLO, as well as the general Arab populace, mounted after an aerial battle between Syria and Israel resulted in the downing of six Syrian planes.
" This was interpreted by some supporters of Israel as supporting the downing of Israeli jets by the United States in order to prevent an attack on Iran.
F-4 Phantom II pilot Steve Ritchie ' 64 and F-4 Phantom II weapon systems officer Jeffrey Feinstein ' 68 each became aces by downing five enemy aircraft in combat.
The first " confirmed " victory, in the official German records of that time, would finally go to Wintgens on July 15, 1915, after he was re-assigned to Feldflieger Abteilung 48 near Mühlhausen im Elsaß by downing a third Morane Parasol.
After claiming yet another Fokker D. VII on September 27, he became a balloon buster by downing observation balloons on September 28, October 1, October 27, and October 30, 1918.
** Leutnant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first aerial victory by a true fighter plane in history, flying his Fokker M. 5K / MG production prototype of the Fokker Eindecker, downing a Morane-Saulnier two-seat " parasol " observation aircraft, and beginning the period that will become known as the " Fokker scourge.
A drawing of the downing of LZ37 by Rex Warneford
Welsh injured his favoured right hand in the sixth round, forcing him to box left-handed for the next eleven rounds, and won the match by technical knockout after downing Keys twice in the sixteenth round, and again in the seventeeneth.
Twenty percent of the world's oil is shipped through the Strait of Hormuz, which has seen previous conflicts such as the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by American missiles in 1988.
* At the Royal Veterinary College, University of London, you may be required to funnel your drink instead of just downing it, however this is subject to appropriate chanting by surrounding drinkers.
The downing of the aircraft of the Algerian president by a Surface-to-Air missile becomes a serious international incident and marks the entrance of the People's Liberation Party.
* a member of the kicking team possesses a kicked ball beyond the line of scrimmage ( e. g. " downing " a punt allowed to roll by the receiving team by holding it to stop its roll );

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