The lack of adequate data on the aerated lagoon system prompted the developer to construct an aerated lagoon pilot plant to determine its feasibility for treating domestic sewage.

The pilot plant was a circular lagoon 81 ft in diam at the surface and 65 ft in diam at the bottom, 4 ft below the surface, with a volume of 121,000 Aj.

The pilot lagoon was designed to handle the wastes from 314 persons with a 4-day aeration period.

Also, many of the series concepts seem to be based on the 1982 ABC series Tales of the Gold Monkey, including the main concept of a cocky flying boat cargo pilot and his rocky relationship with his girlfriend ( although in TaleSpin, Rebecca Cunningham is merely Baloo's boss ), his scatterbrained mechanic sidekick, the era and designs of the aircraft and costumes, the Pacific Islands setting, the secondary character relationships, even the visual appearance of the lagoon.

Based on an internationally supported pilot projects undertaken in Sri Lanka, considering that problems in Sri Lankan and Indian lake regions are similar, CReNIEO initiated the " Integrated Fisherfolk Development Project " for adoption in the Pulicat lagoon.

One of the better-known pilots was John Benn, originally a shipwright from Mossel Bay, appointed as pilot in 1868 and whose name is borne by a double-deck pleasure cruiser currently operating as a tourist attraction on the Knysna lagoon.

On 9 August 2007, an Air Moorea Flight 1121 with 19 passengers and one pilot on board crashed into the lagoon about a minute after takeoff from Moorea Airport ( Tamae Airport ) on the French Polynesian island of Moorea, with the loss of 20 lives.

His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.

The expression was his trade-mark, his open sesame to good luck, and his prayer that pilot and plane would always return.

And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.

`` On trial in Jakarta for having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, U.S. pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence of Indonesia.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).

The pilot plant was equipped with a 3-hp. turbine aerator ( Figure 2 ).

Wires whined as a cold November blast rocked the silver wings, but the engine roar was reassuring to the pilot bundled in the open cockpit.

Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

Hani Hanjour, one of the hijackers who was trained as a pilot, assumed control of the flight.

He had wanted to be a commercial pilot for the Saudi national airline but was rejected when he applied to the civil aviation school in Jeddah in 1999.

Today automated flight control is common to reduce pilot error and workload at key times like landing or takeoff. Autopilot was first invented by Lawrence Sperry during World War II to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit precision targets from 25, 000 feet.

In at least one case, a plane was hijacked by the official pilot.

A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

American 11 was hijacked 15 minutes after the flight departed by Omari and four other hijackers, which allowed trained pilot Mohamed Atta to crash the Boeing 767 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of an attack that killed thousands of people.

It was also quickly determined that Mohamed Atta was the pilot among the hijackers.

* portal. telegraph. co. uk ( Article which reports that the Saudi Arabian Airlines pilot named Omari was not involved with the terrorist attacks )

The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.

Jean Navarre was the pilot who was tasked to make the flight, but he died on 10 July 1919 when he crashed near Villacoublay while training for the flight.

In the pilot, Banacek's car pulls into his Beacon Hill home, the historic Second Harrison Gray Otis House located at 85 Mount Vernon Street.

Marlow does not provide the name of the river that he is to pilot the steamer on, but we can assume it is ( the Congo River ) located within the centre of Africa.

Da Gama and his crew contracted the services of a pilot whose knowledge of the monsoon winds allowed him to bring the expedition the rest of the way to Calicut ( Kozhikkodu ), located on the southwest coast of India.

The most common design is the pusher configuration, where the engine and propeller are located behind the pilot and rotor mast, such as in the Bensen " Gyrocopter ".

In this version the engine and propeller are located at the front of the aircraft, ahead of the pilot and rotor mast.

In human spaceflight, a " pilot " is someone who directly controls the operation of a spacecraft, while located within the same craft.

Adrian Marks, pilot of the plane that located sailors after the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in July, 1945

Farwell built a " snug house where Garibaldi is now located perhaps in expectation of becoming a bar pilot.

In most cockpits the pilot's control column or joystick is located centrally ( centre stick ), although in some military fast jets and in some commercial airliners the pilot uses a side-stick ( usually located on the outboard side and / or at the left ).

A mode control panel, usually a long narrow panel located centrally in front of the pilot, may be used to control heading, speed, altitude, vertical speed, vertical navigation and lateral navigation.

There is a municipal airport located 14 km south east of Chatham featuring a paved, lighted runway, with refuelling facilities, tie-down services, pilot training and chartered flights.

The pilot may use this pointer to home directly towards the beacon, or may also use the magnetic compass and calculate the direction from the beacon ( the radial ) at which their aircraft is located.

The armament was two Lewis mounted on twin Foster mountings in preference to the synchronized Vickers preferred for day fighting located at the upper center-section or fixed to fire upwards in a position that prevented the pilot from losing his " night vision " when the guns fired.

The SAP subcarrier is located at 78. 670 kHz, which is five times the 15. 734 kHz MTS pilot signal.

This channel is located at 6. 5 times the pilot ( 102. 271 kHz ), and is also part of the MTS standard.

There are also two pilot stations at Harwich and Ramsgate, which are located beyond the estuary and the Port of London.

* The Port Operations Centre for Cork Harbour is located in the town including the Harbour pilot base at the Camber.

On civilian airplanes the FE is positioned so that he can monitor the forward instruments, pilot selections and adjust the thrust levers located on the centre pedestal ; the FE's chair can travel forward and aft and it can swivel laterally 90 degrees, which enables him to face forward and set the engine power, then move aft and rotate sideways to monitor and set the systems panel.

When necessary, these markings supplement location signs located alongside the taxiway and assist the pilot in confirming the designation of the taxiway on which the aircraft is located.

The Tone Generation Module ( or TGM ) generates a pilot tone at 3300 Hz which is then sampled by the Line Equalisation Module ( or LEM ) which each channel on each radio high site has 2 of located back at the main control site.

Hardwar places the player in the role of a freelance " Moth " pilot in the city of Misplaced Optimism, a space colony located on Saturn's moon, Titan.

The payphone was a touch tone and was located on the left of the " Restrooms " door in the pilot episode.