For the last two years of Clinton's presidency, U. S. aircraft routinely attacked hostile Iraqi anti-air installations inside the Iraqi no-fly zones.

In the 1970s, turbofans replaced turbojets, improving fuel economy sufficiently that the last piston engined support aircraft could be replaced with jets, and making multi-role combat aircraft possible.

While Howland Island was colonized in 1935 as a future aviation facility and is known in popular culture mostly because of its association with the last flight of Earhart and Noonan, no aircraft is known to have ever landed there, although anchorages nearby could be used by floatplanes and flying boats during World War II.

Although large airliners and, increasingly, smaller aircraft now carry their own terrain awareness and warning system TAWS, these are primarily backup systems providing a last layer of defense if a sequence of errors or omissions causes a dangerous situation.

In return, British aircraft would be able to transit through Kenya, RN ships of the East Indies Station and other units could visit Mombasa, communications facilities could be used until 1966, and troops could exercise in Kenya twice a year ( of which the last commitment continues to this day ).

The last normal radio communications from the aircraft to air traffic control occurred at 08: 50: 51.

The last normal radio communications from the aircraft to air traffic control occurred at 08: 50: 51.

The last of the Supermarine aircraft was the Scimitar.

After each of the hijacked aircraft struck the World Trade Center, people inside the towers made calls to family and loved ones ; for the victims, this was their last communication.

The last normal radio communications from the aircraft to air traffic control occurred at 08: 50: 51.

Substantial efforts have been devoted in the last decade to the test and evaluation of speech recognition in fighter aircraft.

There are no commissioned conventional ( non-nuclear ) submarines or aircraft carriers left in the US Navy, since the last conventional carrier,, was decommissioned in May 2009.

Initially Normandie-Niemen received 6 aircraft, next 8 were sent in March 1943 and last 4 at the end of April 1943.

Fokker 70, Fokker's last successful aircraft.

Casse has the last missile, but it jams, so he flies his aircraft into the main weapon bay in a suicide attack, triggering a chain reaction that destroys the alien ship.

It was to be the last Parnall machine to fly, after which Parnall turned his attention to producing aircraft gun turrets to Archie Frazer Nash's design in the Yate factory until the war ended.

The war in the Central American skies over El Salvador and Honduras, is often cited as the last occasion on which piston-engined fighters fought each other, both sides deploying former World War II and Korean War American aircraft.

On the return trip, the aircraft stopped at Wright Field to give Orville Wright his last airplane flight, more than 40 years after his historic first flight.

Perhaps the last major highlight of Orville's life was supervising the reclamation and preservation of the 1905 Wright Flyer III, an aircraft that stands equally in importance with the 1903 Flyer.

Beginning approximately one hour after Earhart's last recorded message, the USCG Itasca undertook an ultimately unsuccessful search north and west of Howland Island based on initial assumptions about transmissions from the aircraft.

GSG 9 officers stormed the aircraft on the ground in Mogadishu, Somalia, with minor help from the Somali Army and British SAS and freed all 86 hostages, killing three terrorists and capturing the last one.

The final scheduled flight from Croydon departed at 6: 15pm on 30 September 1959, followed by the last aircraft ( a private flight ), at 7: 45pm.

The Heron is painted as G-AOXL of Morton Air Services, which was the aircraft that flew the last passenger flight from Croydon on 30 September 1959.

In 1966, a plague called the " wandering sickness " is spread by the unnamed enemy using its last few remaining aircraft.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

Much of her past and her real last name are a mystery, however it appears that she was severely injured in a space shuttle accident and was then cryogenically frozen until she could be healed.

His sixth and last marriage was to Catherine Parr, more a nursemaid to him than anything else, as his health was failing ( it had declined ever since the jousting accident in 1536 ).

Although the uniforms were supposed to debut with the opening of Miller Park, an accident involving one of the cranes damaging the new ballpark, which cost the lives of three workers, delayed the opening of Miller Park one year, so the uniforms spent one year at County Stadium, the old ballpark's last year.

After talking with Elijah in the back room of his studio, David shakes his hand and discovers to his horror that Elijah had orchestrated many of the fatal disasters he had mentioned, causing hundreds of deaths, the last being David's train accident.

After Ono was injured in a car accident, Lennon arranged for a king-sized bed to be brought to the recording studio as he worked on The Beatles ' last recorded album, Abbey Road.

American Airlines retired all its Airbus A300-600 Aircraft from service eight years after the accident ( and 21 years in service ) in August, 2009, with its last flight, flight 1908 from Miami to New York-JFK operating on August 24, 2009.

The last month of her life was filmed from March 30, 2002, including the accident which took her life ; later the footage was made into a documentary called The Last Days of Left Eye.

The person in the front passenger seat was videotaping at the time, so the last seconds leading up to the swerve that resulted in the fatal accident were recorded on video.

Earlier in the documentary, Lopes mentioned that she felt the presence of a " spirit " following her, and was struck by the fact that the child killed in the accident shared her last name, even thinking that the spirit may have made a mistake by taking his life instead of hers.

However, Pat does not really want to leave and his subconscious engineers a convenient accident so that Tom has to take his place at the last minute.

On that day, Heatley skated for the first time since his car accident with Snyder, but it also marked the last win for the Thrashers before an extended losing streak.

This was his last film ; he died in hospital after an automobile accident on 11 March 1931, a week before the film's premiere in New York.

To this date, the last fatal accident suffered by Qantas was in 1951.

On October 25, 2011 the last barrel of HD mustard agent was destroyed and there is no longer a risk of chemical accident in Oregon and Washington.

One of his last roles was as Barney Wile in The Stratton Story, a true story about a ballplayer ( played by James Stewart ) who makes a comeback after having his leg amputed due to a hunting accident.

Penny tried out for cheerleading, but due to having an accident with the stage being converted into a giant CD, LaCienega got the last spot on the cheerleading squad.

* Benjamin Pierce ( 1841 – 1853 ), the last surviving son of U. S. President Franklin Pierce ; died in a train accident just before his father's inauguration

It would be the last film Raoul Walsh acted in, as he soon lost an eye in an accident.

Dylan actually did close his European tour at the hall on 26 and 27 May 1966 ; these were his last concerts before Dylan got into a motorcycle accident.

It has been hinted that Robbie had a terrible accident when he crashed into a tree in his last comic appearance.

But the maid was only on the flight by accident, having been asked to be there at the last moment.

But as he drove down the back straightaway on the last lap, Foyt suddenly remembered an odd premonition that had struck him the night before, when he wondered aloud what would happen in the event of a big last-lap accident.

The fact that the newspaper bears the coat of arms of Bremen in its title stems from an accident of history: when the paper was founded in the rather chaotic post-war occupied Germany, the city of Hamburg refused the use of its coat of arms in a private publication at the last moment ; so instead the space reserved for it on the printing plate was filled with that of the nearby city of Bremen, as one of the founders was a friend of the mayor of Bremen.

At the end of August, 1997, Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed spent their last days together on his father's yacht off Pampelonne Beach near Saint-Tropez, shortly before they were killed in a traffic accident in the Alma Tunnel in Paris.