Named by US-ACAN for Lieutenant John R. Swadener, U. S. Navy, navigator of the ski-equipped R4D in which Rear Admiral George J. Dufek made the first aircraft landing at the geographic South Pole, on October 31, 1956.

Between October and February, there are several flights per day of ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules aircraft from McMurdo to supply the station.

On February 2 1982, a ski-equipped plane carrying several State Troopers landed at the lake to check McCunn's campsite.

Helicopter pads are available at 27 stations ; runways at 15 locations are gravel, sea-ice, blue-ice, or compacted snow suitable for landing wheeled, fixed-wing aircraft ; of these, 1 is greater than 3 km in length, 6 are between 2 km and 3 km in length, 3 are between 1 km and 2 km in length, 3 are less than 1 km in length, and 2 are of unknown length ; snow surface skiways, limited to use by ski-equipped, fixed-wing aircraft, are available at another 15 locations ; of these, 4 are greater than 3 km in length, 3 are between 2 km and 3 km in length, 2 are between 1 km and 2 km in length, 2 are less than 1 km in length, and data is unavailable for the remaining 4.

On April 12, 1951, Lieutenant John W. Hodgkin flew his ski-equipped Piper J-3 Cub from Spanaway Air Strip to the top of Mount Rainier ( 14, 410 feet ), establishing a world record for a high-altitude landing.

However, as it got colder, the ski-equipped LC-130s landed on a snow-covered skiway on the Ross Ice Shelf a few miles from the station.

Over the years, small ski-equipped aircraft have occasionally landed on the glacier to the east of the station.

In 1952 the Air Force began flight to supply the Antarctic scientific bases using ski-equipped C-47s and establishing Marambio Base on 25 September 1969.

He arrived in his new ski-equipped Bellanca monoplane on February 5.

On December 31, 1993, a ski-equipped Hercules ( LC-130 ) aircraft crashed on Lucy Glacier, near Mount Isbell.

The Air Guard had supported military operations in Greenland and the Arctic ( including classified U. S. Navy operations ) since the mid-1970s with the ski-equipped C-130s of the 109th Airlift Wing.

In December 1966 the Navy transported the expedition and its supplies from Christchurch, New Zealand to the U. S. base at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, and from there in a ski-equipped C-130 Hercules to the Sentinel Range.

Ski warfare, the use of ski-equipped troops in war, is first recorded by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus in the 13th century.

A total of twelve ski-equipped C-130Ds were built in 1958.

The 109th, which operated ski-equipped LC-130s, had been flying some National Science Foundation support missions to Antarctica since 1988.

This is how the Ski Plane operation started, aimed at taking tourists to skifields and glaciers in ski-equipped light aircraft.

Produced at Fairchild Semiconductor, it was made of silicon, whereas Kilby's chip was made of germanium.

During 1955-85, solid state technology research and development at Stanford University followed three waves of industrial innovation made possible by support from private corporations, mainly Bell Telephone Laboratories, Shockley Semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Xerox PARC.

Crawford made three more TV appearances, as Stephanie White in an episode of The Virginian ( 1970 ), entitled " The Nightmare "; as a special guest who performed in multiple sketches on The Tim Conway Comedy Hour ( also in 1970 ) ; and as Joan Fairchild ( her final performance ) on an episode of the television series, The Sixth Sense, entitled, " Dear Joan: We're Going To Scare You To Death " ( 1972 ).

Compatible parts were made by Motorola, AMD, Fairchild, Intel, Intersil, Signetics, Mullard, Siemens, SGS-Thomson and National Semiconductor, and many other companies, even in the Eastern Bloc ( Soviet Union, GDR, Poland, Bulgaria ).

The Apollo integrated circuits were resistor-transistor logic made by Fairchild Semiconductor.

Kirkpatrick has said that Karen Fairchild, Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman and Philip Sweet have made him feel like the 5th member of the band.

Later Fairchild pioneered the planar process developed by Jean Hoerni in 1958, which was a huge improvement — transistors could be made easier, cheaper, and with much higher performance.

The merger made Fairchild Aviation the second-largest manufacturer of commercial airplanes and the fourth-largest aviation organization in the United States.

Many familiar actors made guest appearances, and others who were newcomers went on to become well-known, including: Susan Dey, Gail Edwards, Shelley Fabares, Morgan Fairchild, Ed Flanders, Mark Goddard, Larry Hagman, Linda Harrison, David Hedison, Don Johnson, Tommy Lee Jones, Don Keefer, Vera Miles, Patrick O ' Neal Sean Penn, Daniel J. Travanti, Joan Van Ark, Carl Weathers, Robert Webber, Eve McVeagh, and James Woods, among many others.

In 1978, Fairchild made the television film The Initiation of Sarah and also had a recurring role on the sitcom Mork & Mindy.

DTL was also made by Fairchild and Westinghouse.

What made the Fairchild House different from every other Brown Stone in New York was its views.

The initial hardware implementations were built out of the CTL Family originally made by Fairchild Semiconductor but with the introduction of the B1955 in 1979 the series employed the more popular ( and more readily obtainable ) TTL logic family.

He made millions on stock options he acquired as a marketing manager for Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, and retired at 32.

When Allen Sides sold Western to Rick Adams, the equipment inventory was also purchased from Ocean Way Recording, including a collection of rare vintage microphones, as well as vintage outboard gear including valuable studio effects units such as the legendary Fairchild 670 limiters, no longer made, which were a crucial element of the sound of many classic pop recordings of the Fifties and Sixties.

Historic greats who once made Fairchild Stadium their home field include another Red Sox legend, Luis Tiant, and longtime New York Yankees pitcher and coach Mel Stottlemyre.

Around this time, Deering made the acquaintance of botanist David Fairchild and allowed the US Department of Agriculture to establish an experimental station on part of his property.

This Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II | A-10 made a belly landing at Edwards AFB.

Only six new games were released after the debut of the second system before its death, several of which were developed at Fairchild before they sold it off.

At the time of the U. S crash, there were numerous consoles on the market, including the Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, the Bally Astrocade, the ColecoVision, the Coleco Gemini ( a 2600 clone ), the Emerson Arcadia 2001, the Fairchild Channel F System II, the Magnavox Odyssey < sup > 2 </ sup >, the Mattel Intellivision ( and its just-released update with several peripherals, the Intellivision II ), the Sears Tele-Games systems ( which included both 2600 and Intellivision clones ), the Tandyvision ( an Intellivision clone for Radio Shack ), and the Vectrex.

Over the years they acquired several companies like Fairchild Semiconductor ( in 1987 ), and Cyrix ( in 1997 ).

After several years, Fairchild developed into a formidable presence in the sector.

RQF aircrews regularly perform “ practice ” mountain training missions in conjunction with Survival School operations, but also launch out of Fairchild several days a week.

She wrote four novels, and several non-fiction books on regional topics including Florida birdwatching and David Fairchild, the entomologist turned biologist who imagined a botanical park in Miami.

Although the 7400 series was the first de facto industry standard TTL logic family to be second-sourced by several semiconductor companies, there were earlier TTL logic families such as the Sylvania SUHL ( Sylvania Universal High-level Logic ) family, Motorola MC4000 MTTL family ( not to be confused with RCA CD4000 CMOS ), the National Semiconductor DM8000 family, Fairchild 9300 series, and the Signetics 8200 family.

Currently, Fairchild is a three year board member of the Guild and has served on several diverse committees, including co-chair Legislative Committee, National Executive Committee, SAG-AFTRA Relations Committee, Commercials Contracts Committee, Honors and Tributes Committee ( HATS ), and Guild Governance and Rules Committee.

By 1996, several original cast members had already left the series, including Anthony-Rodriguez, Ballard, Chang, Dye, Fairchild, and Heinle.

It did so through an injection of capital and by replacing the Latécoère 28's with several Fairchild 71's.

Although it was a cargo company operating up to three Fairchild Metro and several Piper Seneca, it was most known for its Pilot school as it was one of the first and with the best reputation in Spain.

Following the demise of Swift Aire after an unsuccessful merger with Golden Gate Airlines, Wings West Airlines established its headquarters in San Luis Obispo and operated several different turboprop aircraft types on behalf of American Eagle including the BAe Jetstream 31 and 32 series, Beechcraft 99, Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner and Saab 340.

In 1968, Capital Cities entered the publishing business by acquiring Fairchild Publications, publisher of several magazines including Womens Wear Daily.

After several more years travelling with his father on plant collecting expeditions, Fairchild realized he needed to focus on something likely to provide a paying job.

Fairchild TV does have several reporters based in both cities to cover local news.

Bonanza Airlines, which merged with several other airlines to form Air West, flew from the airport prior to the Air West service and also operated Fairchild F-27 turboprops.

In 1875, during elections for a new chairman of the board, James Fairchild Baldwin and several faculty members left the school and in 1876 founded another medical school, the Columbus Medical College.