Thirty stations, operated by 16 national governments party to the Antarctic Treaty, have landing facilities for either helicopters and / or fixed-wing aircraft ; commercial enterprises operate two additional air facilities.

Thomas Dover led the landing party who found Selkirk.

The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.

Already in autumn 1940 Stalin received a warning of the Dutch communist party, via the network of the Red Orchestra ( espionage ), that Hitler was preparing for a winter war by letting construct thousands of snow landing gears for the Junkers Ju 52 transport planes.

Most of the crew struggled ashore and were taken prisoner by a landing party from the destroyer.

A landing party from the vessel encounters Ralph as he desperately tries to escape the onrushing " savages ", and the British officer leading the party, at first mistaking the violence for a game, expected better from British boys.

* July 26 – French landing party raids and burns Teignmouth in Devon, England.

He leaves the rest of the landing party to explore Martian ruins.

The fort surrendered without firing a shot as the landing party approached.

The siege was broken off due to the start of the tropical rainy season, after weeks of intense fighting in which the British landing party was successfully repelled by the Spanish and native forces led by commander General Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta ( 1689 – 1741, death in aftermath of the Cartagena battle ), a Basque from the Gipuzkoa lands of Spain.

The first party came by boat by way of the Tennessee River, landing in May at " the easteward curve of the Tennessee " at Cerro Gordo.

Rather than radio for help and risk an embarrassing international incident, the captain sends a nine-man landing party headed by his second-in-command Lieutenant Yuri Rozanov ( Alan Arkin ) to find a motor launch to help free the sub from the bar.

At the beginning of The Cage, Pike and his crew are recuperating from a mission to Rigel VII during which several members of the landing party were killed by the inhabitants.

A British landing party reported that the population of Messena was close to mass starvation.

The first three occur randomly after each set of turns during a party, while " Battle " can only be triggered by landing on the corresponding space on the board.

During the Crimean War when the Royal Navy was blockading Russian Baltic ports, the busy yet still unfortified port of Liepāja was briefly captured on 17 May 1854 without a shot being fired, by a landing party of 110 men from HMS Conflict and HMS Amphion.

The landing party discovers that the planet is at roughly a late 20th-century level of technology but its society is similar to the Roman Empire.

The village of Ulvik was nearly totally destroyed on 25 April 1940, during the German invasion of Norway, when fighting erupted between a German landing party arriving in boats, and a Norwegian force on land.

On the morning of 17 June the party, its size swelled to 49 or about 60 including chief surveyor Frederick Tuckett and others who had joined the party after landing, approached the Māori camp.

In his memoirs published in 1614, Portuguese adventurer turned author, Fernão Mendes Pinto placed himself in that first landing party, although this claim has been roundly discredited and in fact contradicts with his claims to be simultaneously in Burma at the time.

A last-minute squabble over seniority and precedence led to the command of the first landing party being split.

Once ashore, Lt. Kikuchi and the two other members of his crew ( Warrant Officer Yumoto Noriyoshi and Petty Officer ( 1st Class ) Narasaki Hironori ) either refused capture and were killed, or else committed suicide when an American landing party tried to capture them.

Upon completing their initial adjustments, the pair configured Orion for their three-day stay on the lunar surface, removed their spacesuits and took initial geological observations of the immediate landing site.

A later inquiry found that trolly wires normally strung over the bridge – which would have incidentally prevented his landing there – had been removed for maintenance that very morning, and were replaced the day after.

The chasers removed the chokers once the logs were at the landing.

The objectives for this mission were to: ( 1 ) perform a lunar soft landing ( in an area well removed from the maria to provide a type of terrain photography and lunar sample significantly different from those of other surveyor missions ); ( 2 ) obtain postlanding TV pictures ; ( 3 ) determine the relative abundances of chemical elements ; ( 4 ) manipulate the lunar material ; ( 5 ) obtain touchdown dynamics data ; and, ( 6 ) obtain thermal and radar reflectivity data.

The redundant lifts were removed but the lift shaft remains in use as a ventilation shaft hidden behind a small door on the first landing of the Cranbourn street entrance stairs.

He was sympathetic to American filibusterers and was instrumental in having Commodore Hiram Paulding removed from command for his landing of Marines in Nicaragua and compelling the removal of William Walker to the United States.

The runway at 45 / 225 degrees is now largely removed, though a paved portion remains crossing taxiway F near the Alabama Air National Guard facilities, used as a location for airport equipment and helicopter landing / parking.

* USS Cape May County ( LST-521 ), a United States Navy tank landing ship in commission from 1944 to 1945 and later reactivated for non-commissioned service as USNS Cape May County before being removed from service in 1955

Since the heading is not aligned with the runway, the slip must be removed before touchdown to avoid excessive side loading on the landing gear, and if a cross wind is present an appropriate side slip may be necessary at touchdown as described below.

Ever resourceful, he removed a flight boot, took off his sock, and created a peep hole to reference his chase plane wingman all the way to landing.

An ornamental bridge high over the Naniken River had its central portion removed in the 1980s, though the Roman-style building at the mansion-side landing point remains, while a " Druidic Circle " of Giant's Causeway basalt was lost at an earlier stage.

Such project implied the special one-place helicopter design were its fuselage was manufactured of welded steel tubing that was sized so that it could be stowed with rotor blades and landing gear removed in a compact area ( 5. 9 ft / 1. 8 m in diameter by 18 ft / 5. 5 m long ) and its pressured hangar for carriage in the U-boat plan.

Two hours after landing, they depressurized the LM and removed the top hatch and docking mechanism.

With assistance from Japan Self-Defense Forces, enough debris was removed in a few hours to allow Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft to begin landing with more equipment, personnel, and supplies.

Built to minimize injuries to players, it was removed due to the " Missed Stair Effect ", a phenomenon that occurs when the body senses where the floor should be upon landing after a jump.

The remainder of flight day four was spent making observations and preparing for activation of the Lunar Module, undocking, and landing the next day.

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.

Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys each had top twenty albums on small labels, with the former's Float landing at number four in 2008.

The Maritime Operations Element consists of four Pacific class patrol boats and two Balikpapan class landing craft.

Supporting Prince Tanu were landing parties from four British and American warships.

Supporting Prince Tanu were landing parties from four British and American warships.

The Sheridan's only air drop in combat occurred during the United States invasion of Panama ( Operation Just Cause ) in 1989, when fourteen M551s were deployed: four were transported by C-5 Galaxys and ten were dropped by air, though two Sheridans were destroyed upon landing.

After taking this Vernon news, immediately sent four ships to its fleet to intercept Spanish ships, finally getting these English circumvent controls and enter the port of Cartagena on April 21, 1740, landing there the new governor and several hundred of valuable veteran soldiers.

As part of Operation Husky, four airborne operations ( two British and two American ) were carried out, landing during the nights of July 9 and 10.

In four days of intense effort, the supplies were moved from the landing beach into dispersed dumps within the perimeter.

On Fox Green, at the eastern end of Omaha, four sections of L / 16 had survived their landing intact and were now leading elements of I / 16, K / 16 and E / 116 up the slopes.

After a crash landing, the pilot dies, but not before telling the four ( in Chinese, which Conway knows ) to seek shelter at the nearby lamasery of Shangri-La.

Before the Soviet Luna 9 mission ( landing four months before Surveyor 1 ) and the Surveyor project, it was unknown how deep the dust on the Moon was.

Thus, the Surveyor 1 landing in June 1966, only four months after the Soviet Luna 9 probe landed in February, was an indication the programs were at similar stages.

Hippolytus furthermore stated that the ark floated to and fro in the four directions on the waters, making the sign of the cross, before eventually landing on Mount Kardu " in the east, in the land of the sons of Raban, and the Orientals call it Mount Godash ; the Armenians call it Ararat ".

Lord King was further angered by the subsequent decision of the CAA to transfer two pairs of unused landing slots that British Airways held at Tokyo's Narita Airport to Virgin to let it increase its frequency between Heathrow and Tokyo from four to six weekly round trips, making it easier for Virgin to compete against British Airways.

The successful soft landing of Surveyor 1 on the Ocean of Storms was the first one by an American space probe onto any extraterrestrial body, and it occurred just four months after the first Moon landing by the Soviet Union's Luna 9 probe.

The descent stage was a cylindrical body with four protruding landing legs, fuel tanks, a landing radar, and a dual descent engine complex.

The landing capsule had four triangular petals which would open after landing, righting the spacecraft and exposing the instrumentation.

The landing capsule had four triangular petals which would open after landing, righting the spacecraft and exposing the instrumentation.