These features allowed for an innovative autopilot system which, in turn, enabled long distance terrain-following sorties as crew workload and pilot input had been greatly reduced.

These missions increased from two to 200 sorties per week by the end of 1965.

These aircraft include one of only two surviving Vickers Wellingtons left in the world and the Avro Lancaster S-Sugar, which flew 137 sorties.

These were Lysanders of No. 26 ( Army Cooperation ) Squadron, used for photo-reconnaissance sorties over occupied Europe.

These " round-robin " missions marked the beginning of the operation's Air Force component and are the longest known aircraft combat sorties in history ( more than 14, 000 miles and 35 hours of flight ).

These operations lasted through the end of the year, bringing the grand total of sorties for 1948 to 8, 907 combat and 9, 891 transport, with the loss of twelve airmen.

These were their final combat sorties of ' Market '.

These observations formed the basis of his explorations of the laws of optics that would culminate in Astronomiae Pars Optica.

These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.

These explorations in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans were soon followed by France, England and the Netherlands, who explored the Portuguese and Spanish trade routes into the Pacific Ocean, reaching Australia in 1606 and New Zealand in 1642.

These developments were to have a profound effect on his poetry, and his subsequent explorations of Irish identity had a significant influence on the creation of his country's biography.

These explorations were followed, notably in the case of Spain, by a phase of conquest: The Spaniards, having just finished the Reconquista of Spain from Muslim rule, were the first to colonize the Americas, applying the same model of governing to the former Al-Andalus as to their territories of the New World.

These explorations were parallel to Coleman's in many respects but Harriott's work was barely known outside of England.

These lakes were first noted on Joseph Nicollet's 1842 map based upon his explorations of the late 1830s and early 1840s.

These early explorations became the foundation of the technology he would later implement in his evaporator.

These explorations into the achievement motive seem to turn naturally into the investigation of national differences based on Max Weber's thesis that the industrialization and economic development of the Western nations were related to the Protestant ethic and its corresponding values supporting work and achievement.

These include explorations into the " collective identities " and " collective action frames " of movements and movement organizations.

These works have often been analyzed as explorations of contemporary political debates about reproduction and pregnancy.

These further explorations led to many discoveries along the Oregon and Washington Coasts.

These southern explorations eventually led to Mormon settlements in St. George, Utah, Las Vegas and San Bernardino, California, as well as communities in southern Arizona.

" These ethnological artifacts were important because they established a field of collection for the British Museum that was to increase greatly with the explorations of Captain James Cook in Oceania and Australia and the rapid expansion of the British Empire.

These are principally concerned with Jack ’ s explorations and adventures in the Invisible Realms.

These explorations gave depth, a tragic dimension and catharsis to what he called the ' one great drama that concerns us most, the supreme mystery, man.

These space music explorations diverged from traditional pop-song formats into longer less structured compositions.

These expeditions were successful, but brought no lasting victories.

These expeditions measured very similar depths of.

These expeditions have now brought the total number of well-described meteorites found in Algeria and Libya to over 2000.

These expeditions, among others, produced numerous, well-documented objects now in the museum's collection.

These expeditions were typically carried out by African kingdoms, such as the Oyo empire ( Yoruba ), the Ashanti Empire, the kingdom of Dahomey, and the Aro Confederacy.

These were followed by military expeditions into the Frankish territories of Gaul, former provinces of the Roman Empire.

These blades became notorious among Han settlers, given their alternative use to decapitate Highland tribal enemies in customary headhunting expeditions.

These initial tests were inconclusive, and ape conservation expert Ian Redmond told the BBC that there was similarity between the cuticle pattern of these hairs and specimens collected by Edmund Hillary during Himalayan expeditions in the 1950s and donated to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and announced planned DNA analysis.

These kings were also known to have ordered mining expeditions, raids or military campaigns beyond the borders, erecting monuments or statues to the consecration of deities, evinced by a panel recording official acts of the royal court during this time.

These early settlers were sometimes visited by the Native Americans who recently been relocated from Georgia to the Indian Territory, a few miles to the west, and who periodically came into the area on hunting expeditions.

These expeditions were formed by groups of navigators, merchants, adventurers and missionaries.

These expeditions laid the foundations of an extensive knowledge of the distribution of marine life.

These expeditions were made with modern offroad vehicles into the Empty Quarter, but even with modern technology, the trips were difficult ones.

These practices differed from those of other animal-collecting expeditions of the time and, as a result, Durrell was broke by the end of his third expedition.

These expeditions formed the basis for a large quantity of writing for both popular and academic audiences, including an account of his pheasant expedition titled A Monograph of the Pheasants and published in four volumes from 1918 to 1922.

These strategoi had duties which included planning military expeditions, receiving envoys of other states and directing diplomatic affairs.

These formed the basis of larger forces which were raised for defence against invasion, or for expeditions up the Nile or across the Sinai.

These stories helped fuel Spanish expeditions to what is now the U. S. state of California.

These expeditions often involved African slaves and Native American men or women who often had more training than the troops.

These expeditions were a response partly due to the popular search for the missing British explorer John Franklin, and partly to search for the elusive Northwest Passage and / or reach the North Pole.

These included Vitus Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition of 1733 – 43, expeditions to observe the 1769 transit of Venus from eight locations in Russian Empire, and Peter Simon Pallas's expeditions to Siberia.

These expeditions, particularly the last, led by Han Pritcher and Bail Channis, are very nearly successful.

These mainly private expeditions ended after the peace treaty of Tartu.