The main pilot was Antón de Alaminos, the other pilots were Juan Álvarez ( also known as el Manquillo ), Pedro Camacho de Triana, and Grijalva.

The main pilot was Antón de Alaminos, the premiere navigator of the region who had accompanied Christopher Columbus on his initial voyages ; The pilots of the other two ships were Juan Álvarez and Camacho de Triana.

In 1972, she played the lead role in two television films that were each intended as pilots for upcoming series for NBC, Madame Sin with Robert Wagner, and The Judge and Jake Wyler, with Joan Van Ark, but in each case, NBC decided against producing a series.

Their pilots decided to land in Chicago to refuel.

To inject more realism into the training, ATC made arrangements with Strategic Air Command to allow instructor pilots to fly intercept missions against SAC bombers with F-86D ( later L ) Sabre, With the addition of interceptor crew training and the acquisition of interceptor aircraft, HQ USAF decided effective 20 October 1953 to assign ATC responsibility for supporting Air Defense Command's interceptor forces.

The pilots planned on an emergency landing in Nairobi after seeing the two missiles streak past them, but decided to continue to Israel.

The pilots briefly considered executing a 360 degree turn to reduce speed and altitude, but decided that they did not have enough altitude for the maneuver.

After Andrade threatened to sail upriver without permission, the naval commander finally decided to let him pass, granting him pilots to assist his travel.

Oberleutnant Rudolf Schoenert of 4 ./ NJG 2 decided to experiment with upward firing guns in 1941 and began trying out upward-firing installations amidst scepticism from his superiors and fellow pilots.

Malan and his senior pilots also decided to abandon the " vic " formation used by the RAF, and turned to a looser formation based on the " finger-four " that the Luftwaffe had developed during the Spanish Civil War.

* There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially because of this, by executives of those companies whose activities require employing pilots.

EVS Enhanced Vision System is an industry accepted term which the FAA decided not to use because " the FAA believes could be confused with the system definition and operational concept found in 91. 175 ( l ) and ( m )" In one EVS installation, the camera is actually installed at the top of the vertical stabilizer rather than " as close as practical to the pilots eye position ".

In August, the V-5 flight training program ended when the Navy decided to move all flight training to naval air bases under Navy pilots.

Stalin – a man noted for his paranoia towards anything he believed could possibly develop into a rival cult of personality – decided that deliberately elevating pilots to make them popular with the population at large posed no political risk to him or his government.

P & W's president, Frederick Rentschler, faced with a tough decision, decided to acquiesce to the airline pilots ' unanimous demand.

Although Max's superior, Lt. Rick Hunter realized what he was doing, Hunter decided to take the same approach as a final gesture for peace in the face of hopeless odds, while other Terran pilots began to join in.

The aircraft had been operating Flight 211 from Pago Pago to Apia, when the pilots decided to divert to Faleolo Airport.

The pilots from 71 Squadron decided they wanted to go to Singapore to fight the Japanese and a proposal was put to RAF Fighter Command, but it was turned down.

During that time, to save time, he decided to fly during the night, using light beacons and flares as guides, and his fellow pilots, for once, were a bit reluctant to see him do it, because they knew it would be their turn next.

At the end of the lap, the weather changed back to dry and most pilots pitted for dry tyres, leaving Mass with the second place behind Peterson, who decided to go on wet tyres for another lap.

At 05: 45 UTC, the pilots decided to divert to Lajes Air Base in the Azores, still unsure if they really had a fuel leak or not.

As a protest, one of the pilots decided to fly his aircraft under the Clifton Suspension Bridge, but he crashed into a hillside on the Leigh Woods side of the Avon Gorge, near Sea Mills, Bristol, and was killed.

And he decided to integrate a civilian force of female pilots into the AAF, after speaking with Major Robert M. Love, ATC staff officer, and his wife Nancy.

Just before reaching the runway threshold, at an altitude of approximately 67 metres ( 220 feet ), the pilots realised the aircraft had drifted too far to the left of the runway centre line to make a safe landing, so they decided to initiate a go-around.

A group of pilots who had run out of Hot Cross Buns on Good Friday decided to fly to the closest open bakery on Rottnest Island.

At approximately the same time, the War Ministry decided to follow the French military's example and have pilots earn a civil pilot's brevet before their military one.

Burlington aviator John J. Burns suggested the parade ground southwest of Fort Ethan Allen, and soon a dozen hastily-summoned National Guard pilots were bringing their wide-winged `` Jenny '' and DeHaviland two-seaters to rest on the frozen sod of the military base.

Fiedler went on to make several other test flights before German pilots took over the Reichenberg missiles.

The Airbus A380 glass cockpit featuring pull-out keyboards and two wide computer screens on the sides for pilots.

Weather systems such as weather radar ( typically Arinc 708 on commercial aircraft ) and lightning detectors are important for aircraft flying at night or in instrument meteorological conditions, where it is not possible for pilots to see the weather ahead.

Due to the flight's routine delay, the pilot and crew were notified of the previous hijackings and were told to be on the alert, though within two minutes Jarrah had stormed the cockpit leaving the pilots dead or injured.

The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.

* 1987 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.

Neither of the Air Force fighter pilots saw anything exit the airliner, either visually or on radar, nor did they see a parachute open ; but at night, with extremely limited visibility and cloud cover obscuring any ground lighting below, an airborne human figure clad entirely in black clothing could easily have gone undetected.

As Snake pilots the glider into the city, there are three screens on his control panel displaying wireframe animations of the landing target on the World Trade Center and surrounding buildings.

The success or failure of a belligerent's efforts to gain air supremacy hinges on several factors including the skill of its pilots, the tactical soundness of its doctrine for deploying its fighters and the numbers and performance of those fighters.

This flexible formation allowed the pilots to maintain greater situational awareness, and the two Rotten could split up at any time and attack on their own.

For the next month he remained on the Finback, and participated in the rescue of other pilots.

The series focuses primarily on the Gundam pilots: Heero Yuy ( an alias, not to be confused with the martyred pacifist ), Duo Maxwell, Trowa Barton, Quatre Raberba Winner, and Chang Wufei.

The Gundam pilots each start out on separate missions, but encounter each other and then join forces later while on Earth.

Later on, the Gundam pilots return to outer space, only to find that the colonies they were sent from have now sided with OZ.

Wanting to capitalize on the countries aviation craze, Fox immediately bought Hawks's original story for The Air Circus, a variation of the male friendship plot of A Girl in Every Port about two young pilots.

In the sport's early days, pilots were restricted to gliding down small hills on low-performance hang gliders.

The inquest concluded that " the death of the deceased Wessel Johannes ( Hansie ) Cronje was brought about by an act or omission prima facie amounting to an offence on the part of pilots.

The Berghaven is a small harbour on the Nieuwe Waterweg where the Rotterdam and Europort pilots are based.

* 1944 – World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-Lô, France.

There are also competing claims on behalf of fellow pilots Robert Loraine, James Henry Joyce and A. E. George.

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.