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

Out of this background of hunting and fishing, it was only natural that Roy first painted subjects he knew best: hunters in the field, fishermen in the stream, ducks and geese on the wing -- almost always against a vast backdrop of weather landscape.

Their flight was delayed, Dunn said, when a boarding ramp inflicted some minor damage to the wing of the plane.

Umkhonto we Sizwe ( or MK ), translated " Spear of the Nation ", was the military wing of the ANC.

The problem was remedied by adding a " dive flap " beneath the wing which altered the center of pressure distribution so that the wing would not lose its lift.

Although he was a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative Party after 1844, Disraeli's relations with the other leading figures in the party, particularly Lord Derby, the overall leader, were often strained.

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.

The Allied commanders agreed that Marlborough would command 36, 000 troops and attack Tallard's force of 33, 000 on the left ( including capturing the village of Blenheim ), whilst Eugene, commanding 16, 000 men would attack the Elector and Marsin's combined forces of 23, 000 troops on the right wing ; if this attack was pressed hard the Elector and Marsin would have no troops to send to aid Tallard on their right.

Although the SDP was seen as being largely a breakaway from the right wing of the Labour Party, an internal party survey found that 60 % of its members had not belonged to a political party before, with 25 % being drawn from Labour, 10 % from the Conservatives and 5 % from the Liberals.

Their analysis revealed that sufficient lift was generated by " the unconventional combination of short, choppy wing strokes, a rapid rotation of the wing as it flops over and reverses direction, and a very fast wing-beat frequency ".

The first stage was the construction of the northern wing beginning 1906.

* The right wing, composed of knights of Champagne and Burgundy, was commanded by the Duke of Burgundy Eudes and his lieutenants: III Gaucher de Châtillon Count of Saint-Pol, Count Wilhelm I of Sancerre, Count of Beaumont and Mathieu de Montmorency and Adam II Viscount of Melun.

The right wing was composed of men of arms and militia parish of Burgundy, Champagne and Picardy covered by the mounted sergeants from Soissons.

* The left wing, composed of knights and foot soldiers was led by Robert de Dreux, Count William of Ponthieu.

Octavian's fleet was waiting beyond the straits, led by the experienced admiral Agrippa, commanding from the left wing of the fleet, Lucius Arruntius commanding the centre and Marcus Lurius commanding from the right.

Gaius Sosius launched the initial attack from the left wing of the fleet, while Antony's chief lieutenant Publius Canidius Crassus was in command of the triumvir's land forces.

Paddy Ward claimed he was the leader of the Fianna Éireann, the youth wing of the IRA in January 1972.

These changes within the military wing of the Republican Movement were accompanied by changes in the political wing and at the 1986 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis ( party conference ), which followed the IRA Convention, the party's policy of abstentionism, which forbade Sinn Féin elected representatives from taking seats in the Oireachtas, the parliament of Ireland, was dropped.

RAI International's latest politically appointed President ( an avowed right wing nationalist and former spokesperson for Giorgio Almirante, the leader of the post-fascist party of Italy ) had unilaterally terminated a 20-year-old agreement and stripped all of its 1, 500 to 2, 000 annual hours of programming from TLN Telelatino, a Canadian-run channel which had devoted 95 % of its prime time schedule to RAI programs for 20 years since TLN was founded.

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.

It was discontinued as a rank in these services during the postwar period, but as an appointment, the title " commodore " was then used to identify senior U. S. Navy captains who commanded squadrons of more than one vessel or functional air wings or air groups that were not part of a carrier air wing or air group.

Such leftist reforms damaged U. S. economic interests in the country, gaining hostility from the U. S .' s governing Reagan administration, who funded a right wing militia, the Contras, to overthrow Ortega's government.

The craft would take off and land with the low-speed wing across the airflow, then rotate a quarter-turn so that the high speed wing faces the airflow for supersonic travel .. NASA have funded the cointinued study of the proposal.

During this time it emerged that when Aitken was being encouraged to resign, he was chairman of the secretive right wing think-tank Le Cercle, alleged by Alan Clark to be funded by the CIA.

Bourgeois and Desenfans, along with Desenfans ' wife, who funded part of their work, are buried in a mausoleum at the centre of the west wing of the museum.

In 1957, the new commissioner, Albert Trueman, recommended the creation of a separately funded French production wing.

Senator Mundt's gross distortion of President Eisenhower's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to be entirely false, is another case in point.

Lift may also be entirely downwards in some aerobatic manoeuvres, or on the wing on a racing car.

* Micromosaics of Harold " Henry " Dalton: Microscopic mosaics from the 19th century depicting flowers, animals and other objects, made entirely from individual butterfly wing scales and diatoms.

With the thicker airfoils, a cantilever structure contained entirely within the wing was possible, and it had the added bonus that thick airfoils were more efficient than the thin ones previously in use.

Because their prey is entirely caught on the wing they are not dependent on any vegetation type.

Occasionally upper wing feathers of juveniles are also white, or birds lack white on the wing entirely.

Verreaux's Eagle ( A. verreauxii ) are most similar in size and body shape to the Golden but are almost entirely black ( except for some whitish color on the wing primary ) in plumage and are not known to co-occur with the Golden Eagle in Africa.

An existing Jacobean house was entirely rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham ( 1693 – 1750 ), and then reduced to the status of a mere wing by the immense scale of the new great addition made by his son the 2nd Marquess, who was twice Prime Minister, and who established at Wentworth Woodhouse an important Whig powerhouse.

Successes on one wing were compromised by failure on the other, but in the end Condé drew off with heavy losses, the success of his own cavalry charges having entirely failed to make good the defeat of the Spanish right wing amongst the Dunes.

The rooms and galleries along the southern facade and in the western wing of the New Hermitage are now entirely devoted to Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque painting of the 17th century, including the large collections of van Dyck, Rubens and Rembrandt.

Parliament later sold the property to Captain Adam Baynes who demolished the house almost entirely except for a small domestic wing.

One unusual feature of the pipits, which they share in common with the rest of their family but not the rest of the passerines, is that the tertials on the wing entirely cover the primary flight feathers.

Generally it is not possible to arrange the wing so it will lie entirely outside the supersonic airflow and still have good subsonic performance.

The Chinese Sparrowhawk is somewhat similar in appearance but has swollen bright orange ceres and an yellow legs while the wing tips are entirely black.

Although excluded from the more important Duma committees, the Kadets were not entirely powerless and could determine the outcome of certain votes when allied with the centrist Octoberist faction against right wing nationalist deputies.

The Radar Control Wing was an entirely separate entity from CFB North Bay, with its own commander and personnel, although the base provided support to the wing in pay, clothing supply, construction engineering and other administrative and logistical areas.

These arboreal bellbirds feeds entirely on fruit and berries, mainly taken on the wing.

Although initially formed entirely by professional soldiers, with time it also included members of pre-war right wing Jewish-Polish parties such as Betar ( among them Perec Laskier, Lowa Swerin, Paweł Frenkel, Merediks, Langleben and Rosenfeld ), Hatzohar ( Joel Białobrow, Dawid Wdowiński ) ( Political Chair ), and the revisionist faction of the Polish Zionist Party ( Leib " Leon " Rodal and Meir Klingbeil ).

From below, the flying bird is entirely white, apart from the orange belly and black wing bar.

In 2002's election it was one of the few areas of Bahrain not to be entirely represented by an Islamist or right wing MP, with Abdnabi Salman of the formerly communist Democratic Bloc winning the seat.

He demolished the massive house, which had been bought by James I, almost entirely, except for a small domestic wing.

The male usually has much more extensive pigmentation on the wings than other Calopteryx species in its range: in the south east of its range ( the Balkans and Turkey ) the wings are entirely metallic blue while in other areas, there are clear areas at the base and tip of the wing.