The 4042d SW was a B-52H Stratofortress dispersal wing, a part of SAC's plan to disperse its big bombers over a larger number of bases, thus making it more difficult for the Soviet Union to knock out the entire fleet with a surprise first strike.

* April 29, 1962 The 30th Bombardment Squadron, a unit assigned to the 4133d Strategic Wing, received its first B-52H Stratofortress.

The scope of operations grew as the Air Force transferred the 525th Bombardment Squadron from the 19th Bombardment Wing at Homestead AFB, Florida, on 8 March 1961, followed by the first B-52H Stratofortress on 10 July 1961, nicknamed " Peace Persuader ".

Dubbed Operation Desert Strike, the mission came in response to Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein's attacks on Kurds in northern Iraq and was the first combat employment of the B-52H in history.

The first capability is represented by a combination of manned bombers, carrier-based aircraft, and intercontinental and intermediate range missiles.

The `` Barre Aviation Field '' was set to receive its first aircraft the Sunday following the flood.

* In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in an aircraft ( between New York City and Paris ).

* In 1931, Bert Hinkler made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight across the South Atlantic in an aircraft.

* 1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.

* 1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.

* 1991 – The Airbus A340 aircraft makes its first flight.

* 1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the.

* 1965 – The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.

* 1937 – The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London – it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.

* 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

The first recorded aircraft hijack took place on February 21, 1931, in Arequipa, Peru.

The convention, for the first time in the history of international aviation law, recognizes certain powers and immunities of the aircraft commander who on international flights may restrain any person ( s ) he has reasonable cause to believe is committing or is about to commit an offense liable to interfere with the safety of persons or property on board or who is jeopardizing good order and discipline.

The Wright brothers were the first to fly in a powered and controlled aircraft.

In contrast to small non-rigid blimps, giant rigid airships became the first aircraft to transport passengers and cargo over great distances.

The war brought many innovations to aviation, including the first jet aircraft and the first liquid-fueled rockets.

On June 21, 2004, Space Ship One became the first privately funded aircraft to make a spaceflight, opening the possibility of an aviation market capable of leaving the Earth's atmosphere.

Edgar Cayce first mentioned Atlantis in 1923 and later suggested that it was originally a continent-sized region extending from the Azores to the Bahamas, holding an ancient, highly evolved civilization which had ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious form of energy crystal.

* 2005 – The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.

With the information contained in Chanute's book, the personal assistance of Chanute himself, and research carried out in their own wind tunnel, the Wright brothers gained enough knowledge of aerodynamics to fly the first powered aircraft on December 17, 1903.

E. Mark cites Caproni Ca 30 and Bristol TB. 8, both of 1913, as one of the first of heavier-than-air aircraft purposely designed for bombing.

The upgrade is being carried out by Embraer and Elbit ; it includes a new avionics suite, a full glass cockpit with three MFDs, HOTAS configuration and a new multimode radar, the Italian Grifo F. The first F-5EM was handed over on September 21, 2005, and it is scheduled at a rate of two aircraft being delivered each month from that date onwards.

The first is compiling a list of text forms, assigning an information cell to each, and replacing text occurrences with the information cell assigned to the form of each occurrence.

It will not, however, be used for symbolic assignment until all other index words or electronic switches have been assigned for the first time.

If the first item in the operand is omitted, the symbolic name IOCSIXF will be assigned.

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

Muri Amt was assigned to Zurich, Lucerne, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug and Glarus, while the Ämter of Meienberg, Richensee and Villmergen were first given to Lucerne alone.

Phillip assigned a convict, James Ruse, land at Rose Hill ( now Parramatta ) to establish proper farming, and when Ruse succeeded he received the first land grant in the colony.

Most of the brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603, in his star atlas Uranometria ( named after Urania, the Greek Muse of Astronomy, along with Uranus, the Greek god of the sky and heavens ).

Those assigned to the Sunday office underwent the least revision, although noticeably fewer psalms are recited at Matins, and both Lauds and Compline are slightly shorter due to psalms ( or in the case of Compline the first few verses of a psalm ) being removed.

In the first month and half after the October Revolution ( 1917 ), the duty of " extinguishing the resistance of exploiters " was assigned to the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee ( or VRK ).

Emperor Temmu is the first monarch of Japan, to whom the title tenno was assigned contemporaneously — not only by later generations.

Each unit ( 1, 2, ..., 9 ) is assigned a separate letter, each tens ( 10, 20, ..., 90 ) a separate letter, and the first four hundreds ( 100, 200, 300, 400 ) a separate letter.

In March 1970 he became the first of the scientist-astronauts to be assigned to space flight, joining Richard F. Gordon, Jr. ( Commander ) and Vance Brand ( Command Module Pilot ) on the Apollo 15 backup crew.

The most important was the first group, which was divided in four columns, each assigned to a landing area at a harbor and an inland target on which to advance.

These modifications of the basic 8086 design were one of the first jobs assigned to Intel's then new design office and laboratory in Haifa, Israel.

The UIN was first invented by Mirabilis, as the user name assigned to each user upon registration.

The skaldic god Bragi is the first to respond to Loki by telling him that Loki will not have a seat and place assigned to him by the gods at the feast, for the gods know what men they should invite.

The 32 first minority ( FM ) seats are assigned to the first runner-up per party and the Federal District.

All variables are dynamically created at the first time a value is assigned.

Meritocracy, in the first, most administrative sense, is a system of government or other administration ( such as business administration ) wherein appointments and responsibilities are objectively assigned to individuals based upon their " merits ", namely intelligence, credentials, and education, determined through evaluations or examinations.

The first ongoing music scene that was assigned the punk label appeared in New York City between 1974 and 1976.

Credit for naming the first probe has been attributed to Stephen A. Saliga, who had been assigned to the Air Force Orientation Group, Wright-Patterson AFB, as chief designer of Air Force exhibits.

In 1896, Baden-Powell was assigned to the Matabeleland region in Southern Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ) as Chief of Staff to Gen. Frederick Carrington during the Second Matabele War, and it was here that he first met and began a lifelong friendship with Frederick Russell Burnham, the American born Chief of Scouts for the British.

Ten days later, Fifteenth Air Force was assigned to the command as its first Numbered Air Force.

But due to the massive post-World War II demobilization of the U. S. armed forces, Kenney's position at the UN Military Staff Committee in New York, and Kenney's unhappiness with being assigned to SAC, for the first two years of its existence, there was some lack of urgency.