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 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 located as shown in Figure 1 to serve the area just south of the existing housing area.

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

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.

* 1986 – A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.

The film was re-shot as a pilot program for a new series broadcast by the U. S .- based ABC television network.

A 1974 Mad animated television pilot using selected material from the magazine was commissioned by ABC but the network decided to not broadcast it.

Telefónica is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) initiative ( a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik ) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface, and has run pilot HbbTV services in Spain.

Twin Peaks pilot episode was first broadcast on April 8, 1990 on ABC, which led to another seven episodes being produced and a second season, which aired until June 10, 1991.

* January 4 – The pilot episode of the longest-running TV comedy series in the world Last of the Summer Wine is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

The series was never picked up, although the pilot is currently in the public domain and is available on home video, as is an early television appearance from around the same time on a vaudeville-style comedy series, Camel Comedy Caravan, originally broadcast live on CBS-TV on March 11, 1950, and starring Ed Wynn.

Starting on Whit Monday, 29 May 1950, and continuing with five episodes through that week, a pilot series created by Godfrey Baseley was broadcast to the English Midlands in the Regional Home Service, as ' a farming Dick Barton '.

The pilot programme and Series 1 were broadcast on the BBC Home Service ( renamed BBC Radio 4 in September 1967 ).

It was first broadcast on 3 April 1964 – the pilot programme having been broadcast on 30 December 1963 under the title " Cambridge Circus " – and the ninth series was transmitted in November and December 1973.

The pilot, " Of Funerals and Fish ", received enough positive response that a full series was commissioned to be broadcast before the end of the year.

There are indications that the third broadcast episode, " Contest ", is actually the pilot, the first episode to be recorded.

The pilot episode was never broadcast in 1964 before the actual series as the series had incorporated three significant character and casting changes.

The first episode actually broadcast, " Two on a Raft ", is sometimes wrongly referred to as the series pilot.

Rather than re-shooting the rest of the pilot story for broadcast, the show just proceeded on.

The series pilot aired as a television movie entitled The Homecoming: A Christmas Story and was broadcast on December 19, 1971.

was first broadcast on 8 September 1972 on the BBC, in the form of a pilot for the series Comedy Playhouse.

" In urban legend it is proposed that Ronnie Barker got the idea for Open All Hours when he visited the local Riddifords grocer's-however, Open All Hours ran from 1976, following a pilot in 1973, long before the filming and broadcast of " The Worm That Turned " in 1980.

Dirk Gently ( 2010, 2012 ) starred Stephen Mangan in the title role in a TV pilot broadcast on BBC4 in 2010 and a three episode series broadcast in 2012.

" Having lost out to Jason Priestley and Ian Ziering, respectively, casting director Johanna Ray gave him a small role with two lines in the pilot, but Glenn was barely visible in the final broadcast version.

The pilot episode, titled " The Bed ", was first broadcast in series three of Comedy Playhouse on 28 December 1963.

A pilot and twelve episodes were subsequently recorded, and broadcast in 1984.

The pilot episode was broadcast on ITV on 1 January 1990, with the last television episode, " Goodnight Mr. Bean " broadcast on 31 October 1995.