Francis Gary Powers ( August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977 ) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.

In the latter continent, there was talk of the Union Jack flying from " Cairo to Cape Town ", which only became a reality at the end of World War I.

Confederates said the Union flag was still flying over the fort, which indicated that the force had not formally surrendered.

In addition to Nazi Germany, there was also at least one portion of the Galactic Empire that was based on the Soviet Union, which is the various military personnel and TIE Fighters are flying in formation as Palpatine arrives on the Death Star in Return of the Jedi.

Two Indian leaders, Josiah Francis, a Red Stick Creek, also known as the " Prophet " ( not to be confused with Tenskwatawa ), and Homathlemico, had been captured when they had gone out to an American ship flying the British Union Flag that had anchored off of St. Marks.

During World War II, Nome was the last stop on the ferry system for planes flying from the United States to the Soviet Union for the Lend-lease program.

* Francis Gary Powers, American pilot whose CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace.

The English lion stands on the viewer's left and holds a gold-pointed silver lance flying the Union Flag.

Christ Church in Lisburn with the Union Flag flying on the left.

Appearing in later editions of Theatrum Scotiae, the North East View of Edinburgh Castle engraving depicts the Scotch ( to use the appropriate adjective of that period ) version of the Union Flag flying from the Castle Clock Tower.

File: Union Flag and St Georges Cross. jpg | Flag of the United Kingdom, ( Union Flag since 1801 ), flying alongside the Flag of England ; the Cross of Saint George.

In Sweden this is observed by flying the Swedish flag side by side with the European Union flag on public flag poles and buildings.

The first was the " polar strategy ", that involved NATO aircraft flying nuclear weapons into the Soviet Union.

* 1960-U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace

It was speculated that the Pope delayed his elevation to the Sacred College because a group from St. Patrick's Cathedral had stoned the nearby Union Club for flying a British flag, but Pius nevertheless warmly greeted Hayes at the consistory as " dear little brother ".

The flagstaff is flying ( left-right ) the Flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand, the Ensign of the Royal New Zealand Navy and the Union Flag, 5 February 2006.

The airport was originally built by one of the first flying clubs in southern California, The Friends of Ontario Airport, and dates back to 1923, when a landing field was established east of Central Avenue ( three miles west of the current airport ) on land leased from the Union Pacific Railroad.

The flag pole at Waitangi, Northland | Waitangi, flying ( left-right ) the Flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand, the Ensign of the Royal New Zealand Navy and the Union Flag, 5 February 2006.

If the Union Flag is flying above Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle instead of the Royal Standard, the Queen is not in residence.

After the Soviet Union shot down an RB-29 aircraft on November 7, 1954, the 39th provided fighter escort for all friendly reconnaissance aircraft flying near Soviet territory and the Northern Air Defense Sector.

The weather improved and on 1 May, fifteen days before the scheduled opening of an East – West summit conference in Paris, captain Francis Gary Powers, flying Article 360, 56 – 6693 left the US base in Peshawar on a mission with the operations code word GRAND SLAM to overfly the Soviet Union, photographing ICBM sites in and around Sverdlovsk and Plesetsk, then land at Bodø in Norway.

Before reading the proclamation, Pearse and other Republican leaders seized the GPO and made it their military headquarters, flying the new flag of the republic ( see image below ) from the flag-pole instead of the Union Flag.

They failed of their primary purpose, however, because Welles maintained the Union blockade, and international trade continued as before, carried in ships flying foreign flags.

For instance, in Who's on First, Oakes deliberately chooses not to stop the Soviet Union from launching Sputnik ahead of the otherwise-superior US satellite program, in order to protect the life of a Soviet contact ( and thus the seeming Soviet technological triumph was actually authorized by a US agent, who allowed it to happen ); in Marco Polo, if You Can, Oakes is the real-life U2 pilot Gary Powers, and allows himself to be captured while flying over the Soviet Union in order to create a cover story for a secret US intelligence operation ( and thus the U2 incident was actually planned from the start, Gary Powers was not shot down by the Soviet military but deliberately set up his own capture, and U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's subsequent humiliation by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev never happened ).

Clockwise from top left: The central street of Dubrovnik, the Stradun ( street ) | Stradun, in ruins during the Siege of Dubrovnik ; the damaged Vukovar water tower, a symbol of the early conflict, flying the Flag of Croatia | Croatian tricolour ; soldiers of the Croatian Army getting ready to destroy a Republic of Serbian Krajina | Serbian tank ; the Vukovar Memorial Cemetery ; a Serbian T-55 tank destroyed on the road to Drniš

* Flag flying days in Mexico

Avala by taking an aerial tramway over the harbor, but on April 17 of that year a U. S. Navy plane, flying overhead as part of the Flag Day celebrations, struck the cable ; the plane crashed into a wing of the Rainmaker Hotel.

In 1984, the National Flag of Canada Manufacturing Standards Act was passed to unify the standards used for flying the flag both indoors and outdoors.

File: Gijeong-ri Flag. jpg | The world's third tallest flagpole flying a Flag of North Korea.

The Tino Rangatiratanga flag flying alongside the Flag of New Zealand on the Auckland Harbour Bridge, Waitangi Day, 2012.

After considerable debate in the public arena the group adopted a diversity of tactics to raise awareness around the issues including lobbying Transit NZ and Parliament, submissions to the Human Rights Commission and holding an annual ' Fly the Flag ' competition, to more direct protest actions including bungee jumping off the Harbour Bridge, traffic jamming the Harbour Bridge, and flying the largest Tino Rangatiratanga flag ever made over the Harbour Bridge.

Flag flying on Leeds Town Hall.

The Flag of England flying alongside the Flag of the United Kingdom.

On 1 July 2005, the Agressor flying squadrons of the 57th OG were split off into the new 57th Adversary Tactics Group, which consolidated all Aggressor activities under one group is to provide the Combat Air Forces with the opportunity to train against a realistic, fully integrated threat array during large-and small-scale exercises such as Red Flag – Nellis, Red Flag – Alaska, Maple Flag, Green Flag and dissimilar air combat training deployments.

In 1996 he was taken seriously ill but recovered. The Flag of Austria | Austrian flag flying at half-staff before the Austrian Parliament Building, due to the death of President Thomas Klestil, on July 7, 2004.

The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

He turned from the flying trees to look ahead and saw with an inward boy's eye again the great fieldstone house which, built on one of the many acres of ancestral land bordering the west harbor, had been Izaak's bride-gift to his cousin-wife as the last century ended.

A recent example of this problem is the flying of six airplanes, on December 31, 1960, from the Newport Airpark in Middletown, to the North Central Airport in Smithfield.

He glanced up in time to see Roberts hurtling down on him from above, literally flying through the air, his bloody face twisted.

The progressive closing of Afro-Asian ears to the Christian message is epitomized in a conversation I had three years ago while flying from Jerusalem to Cairo.

The aircraft involved, a Boeing 757-223, was flying American Airlines ' daily scheduled morning transcontinental service from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.

He was flying a postal route for the Mexican company Transportes Aeras Transcontinentales, ferrying mail from San Luis Potosí to Toreon and then on to Guadalajara.

Any person who is seen as a threat to civil aviation is banned from flying.

In recent times, it has become customary to invite units from France's allies to the parade ; in 2004 during the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, British troops ( the band of the Royal Marines, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Grenadier Guards and King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ) led the Bastille Day parade in Paris for the first time, with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

The ships are firing on eight ships flying the British flag that are steadily approaching them from the right of the picture.

Running vertically from the foreground to the background is a line of 14 anchored ships flying red, white and blue tricolour flags.

The outer edge of the board is raised a bit to keep errant shots from flying out, with a gutter between the playing surface and the edge to collect discarded pieces.

During the Cenozoic, mammals proliferated from a few small, simple, generalized forms into a diverse collection of terrestrial, marine, and flying animals, giving this period its other name, the Age of Mammals, despite the fact that birds still outnumbered mammals two to one.

The Chicago Cubs retired numbers are commemorated on pinstriped flags flying from the foul poles at Wrigley Field, with the exception of Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers player whose number 42 was retired for all clubs.

These including haranguing CND marchers from the roof of the CPS's Whitehall office and flying a plane over a CND festival with a banner reading, " Help the Soviets, Support CND!

When the reconnaissance missions were re-authorized on October 8, weather kept the planes from flying.

The " flying donkeys " nickname was originally a derogatory term from a match chant sung by fans from crosstown rivals Hellas Verona, which said that " donkeys would fly before Chievo made it to Serie A ".

Investigators have shown that rods are mere tricks of light which result from how images ( primarily video images ) of flying insects are recorded and played back.

It reported the events from May to June of the same year at Tonghua Zhenguo Pharmaceutical Company in Tonghua City, Jilin Province, which debunked the flying rods.

The difficulty with this scheme phylogenetically was that some flightless birds, without strong carinae, are descended directly from ordinary flying birds with carinae.

It is bordered ( clockwise from north ) by Vulpecula the fox, Sagitta the arrow, Aquila the eagle, Aquarius the water-carrier, Equuleus the foal and Pegasus the flying horse.

Kaye was flying home from an appearance in London in 1949 when one of the plane's four engines lost its propeller and caught fire.

Eos in her chariot flying over the sea, red-figure krater from South Italy, 430 – 420 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen