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The wing has flown nearly 40 percent of the daily missions out of McChord Field ; deployed professionals from a wide range of specialties to locations around the globe and continuously supported the mission here at home.
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In some parts of the country, however, a co-operative movement has begun to grow, under the wing of state governments, whereby, with the financial help of the state, libraries share their book resources on a county-wide or regional basis.
This act was unpopular with the right wing of the Conservative Party, most notably Lord Cranborne ( later the Marquess of Salisbury ), who resigned from the government and spoke against the bill, accusing Disraeli of " a political betrayal which has no parallel in our Parliamentary annals.
It has made its presence firmly known in the philosophy of language and epistemology-a modern revival of rationalism-as well as constituting a substantial wing of modern linguistics.
The flugelhorn (— also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn — from German, wing horn, ) is a brass instrument that resembles a trumpet but has a wider, conical bore.
Fatah has since its inception created, led or sponsored a number of armed groups and militias, some of which have had an official standing as the movement's armed wing, and some of which have not been publicly or even internally recognized as such.
The party's youth wing, Young Fine Gael, was formed in 1977, and has approximately four thousand members.
However, because Government House has not been a residence for fifteen years, O ' Farrell also announced that the Governor will initially move into a smaller adjacent building, called the chalet, while refurbishments of the main wing occur, with a proposed move into the main house " before Christmas ".
Additionally, the wing of the new Weymouth High School Chemistry department has been named in his honor.
Accords signed in Helsinki created a framework for military de-escalation in which the government has reduced its military presence, as members of GAM's armed wing decommission their weapons and apply for amnesty.
Reiman Gardens has since grown to become a site consisting of a dozen distinct garden areas, an indoor conservatory and an indoor butterfly " wing ", butterfly emergence cases, a gift shop, and several supporting greenhouses.
For instance, 翼 ( yì, wing ) is unambiguous in written Chinese, but has over 75 homophones in spoken Mandarin.
In the Philippines, the Maoist-oriented Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New Peoples Army has been waging armed revolution against the Philippine government since 1968.
Some ideologies, notably Christian Democracy, claim to combine left and right wing politics ; according to Geoffrey K. Roberts and Patricia Hogwood, " In terms of ideology, Christian Democracy has incorporated many of the views held by liberals, conservatives and socialists within a wider framework of moral and Christian principles.
Historically, the term “ priest ” has been more associated with the “ High Church ” or Anglo-Catholic wing, whereas the term “ minister ” has been more commonly used in “ Low Church ” or Evangelical circles.
While historically thought of as simple, leathery structures composed of skin, research has since shown that the wing membranes of pterosaurs were actually highly complex and dynamic structures suited to an active style of flight.
There has been considerable argument among paleontologists about whether the main wing membranes ( brachiopatagia ) attached to the hind limbs, and if so, where.
Through the marketing wing of 40 Acres and a Mule, Lee has directed commercials for Converse, Jaguar, Taco Bell and Ben & Jerry's.
It has an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen or so overlapping feathers, usually goose or duck and from the left wing only, embedded into a rounded cork base.
The party has an active youth wing, the Young Scots for Independence, as well as a student wing, the Federation of Student Nationalists.
The group has disparate views of social policy: Thatcher herself was socially conservative and a practising Methodist but the free-market wing in the Conservative Party harbour a range of social opinions from the civil libertarian views of Michael Portillo, Daniel Hannan, Douglas Carswell and David Davis to the traditional conservatism of William Hague.
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The failure to follow procedures resulted in the delamination in flight of a section of one Cessna 400's wing skin from the spar while the aircraft was being flown by an FAA test pilot.
* Blackburn Sidecar ( 1919 ) single engine two seat mid wing monoplane ultra light: may not have flown
When a wing is flown very close to the ground, wingtip vortices are unable to form effectively due to the obstruction of the ground.
In this case, the wing can be flown at higher lift coefficient ( closer to stall ) to produce more overall lift.
In 1995 aircraft from Fairchild flew to Travis AFB, California in support of its first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) mission, transporting Russian inspectors to sites in the Western U. S. The wing has flown START missions in the U. S. every year since.
At 12: 52pm, the Su-27 aircraft – flown by two experienced pilots – entered a rolling maneuver with a downward trajectory at low altitude ; having rolled upright once more the aircraft was still descending rapidly and the left wing dropped shortly before the aircraft hit the ground, at which point the crew initiated ejection.
* Frenchman Charles Fauvel designed the AV3 glider, successfully flown in 1933, featuring a self-stabilizing airfoil on a straight wing.
This aircraft, first flown in 1944, combined a flying wing, or Nurflügel, design with twin jet engines in its second, or " V2 " ( V for Versuchs ) prototype airframe flown by Erwin Ziller, until a flameout in one of its Junkers Jumo 004 jet engines caused Ziller to lose his life in the crash.
Although they will take prey on the ground if the opportunity presents itself, most prey is caught on the wing: insects by hawking, birds are flown down: even swifts and swallows often cannot outpace or outmaneuver a hobby.
Also by convention, most airplanes are flown nominally counter-clockwise as viewed from above, with the leadout cables exiting the left wing.
The wing was flown by Rogallo as a model glider with small payloads hung beneath the wing ( thus model hang glider ) and as a kite.
On December 1, 1984 a remotely-piloted Boeing 720 aircraft was flown into specially built wing openers which tore the wings open, fuel spraying everywhere.
The aircraft was an hour and 40 minutes late because a " fifth pod " ( a spare engine ) was installed under the aircraft below the left wing to be flown to India for repairs.
The plane had flown from Perth to Port Hedland without incident until about 10 minutes before landing it suffered a catastrophic right hand spar failure with the wing separating from the fuselage.
He has flown over 120 different types of fixed wing and rotary aircraft and three different types of spacecraft.
By September 1979, the wing had flown the highest number of hours ever recorded in a fiscal year by an F-111 unit.
On seeing this, the DH. 9 flown by Captain Anderson, despite itself receiving damage that required his gunner, Lt Mitchell to climb onto the wing and block a leaking fuel tank with his thumb, landed next to the striken aircraft to rescue its crew.
Inexpensive ( under $ 200 for the airframe ) kits with wing areas of are flown with. 40 size engines that can be purchased for less than $ 100.
When Desert Storm ended, the wing had deployed 458 personnel, flown 1, 798 combat sorties without a loss, and dropped 4, 714 tons of ordnance.
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