When Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into the Andes on October 13, 1972, the survivors resorted to eating the deceased during their 72 days in the mountains.

When the Air Force project wound down, the Lab turned their attention to an effort to build a version of the Whirlwind using transistors in place of vacuum tubes.

When he failed in his attempts to meet General Yahya Khan, Masud too resigned from his position as Commander of Eastern Air Command, and took retirement from Air Force.

When Resnicoff later served as Special Assistant for Values and Vision for the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the U. S. Air Force, he would meet with Falwell to discuss issues linked to religious rights in the military, including the role and responsibilities of U. S. military chaplains.

" When " Air steps " or " aerials " such as the Hip to Hip, Side Flip, and Over the Back ( the names describe the motion of the woman in the air ) began to appear in 1936, the old guard of dancers such as Leon James, Leroy Jones, and Shorty Snowden disapproved of the new moves.

When the Second World War began, the Luftwaffe was one of most technologically advanced Air Forces in the world.

When Lemmy was three months old, his father, an ex-Royal Air Force chaplain, separated from his mother.

* When the SR-71 was retired by the military in 1990, one was flown from its birthplace at United States Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California to Dulles, setting a coast-to-coast speed record at an average 2, 124 mph ( 3, 418 km / h ).

When the film was followed by The Air Up There, they began to speculate on how many movies Bacon had been in and the number of people he had worked with.

When Burton joined the Port Talbot Squadron of the Air Training Corps as a cadet, he re-encountered Philip Burton, his former teacher, who was the commander.

When the sighting was made public in 1992, the British Defence Secretary Tom King was told, " There is no knowledge in the MoD of a ' black ' programme of this nature, although it would not surprise the relevant desk officers in the Air Staff and Defence Intelligence Staff if it did exist.

When he lost, the Rouse family moved from Bel Air, Maryland to Easton.

When the Second World War began, Milland tried to enlist in the U. S. Army Air Forces, but was rejected because of an impaired left hand.

When the Army Air Forces officially asked for a range extension solution it was ready.

When the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II, he left college to enlist in the U. S. Army Air Corps ; however, the Army did not call him up, and in March 1942 he enlisted as a United States Navy aviation cadet.

When the distinction is made, proper nouns are limited to single words only ( possibly with the ), while proper names include all proper nouns ( in their primary applications ) as well as noun phrases such as United Kingdom, North Carolina, Royal Air Force, and the White House.

When the U. S. entered World War II in December 1941, LeMay was a major in the United States Army Air Forces ( he had been a 1st lieutenant as recently as 1940 ), and the commander of a newly created B-17 Flying Fortress unit, the 305th Bomb Group.

When World War II ended, he was appointed to the permanent rank of brigadier general in the Regular Army but held his temporary rank of major general in the Army until promotion to lieutenant general in the now separate United States Air Force in 1948.

When Bimini Island Air existed, its headquarters were in an unincorporated area.

When Charles Portal was made Chief of the Air Staff in October 1940 he supported Douglas, moving Park and Dowding and appointing Douglas to replace Dowding as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief ( AOCinC ) of Fighter Command.

When the Royal Canadian Air Force donated land adjacent to RCAF Station Downsview to the Institute, the operations were quickly moved.

When Arnold became Chief of the Air Corps in 1938, the service was given a renewed focus on Research and Development.

When the automobile was in its embryonic stage, such roads as existed were pretty much open roads with the tacit understanding that horses should not be unduly terrified being about the only rule governing where, when and how fast a car could go.

When analog television was developed, no affordable technology for storing any video signals existed ; the luminance signal has to be generated and transmitted at the same time at which it is displayed on the CRT.

When Tiso proved reluctant to do so on the grounds that the autonomy that had existed since October 1938 was sufficient for him, and to completely sever links with the Czechs would leave Slovakia open to being annexed by Hungary, Ribbentrop had the German Embassy in Budapest contact the Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy.

When Vasco da Gama, exploring for Portugal, reached the coast of Mozambique in 1498, Arab trading settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries, and political control of the coast was in the hands of a string of local sultans.

When one of the two programmers left CompuNet, the remaining programmer, Alan Lenton, decided to rewrite the game from scratch and named it Federation II ( at the time no Federation I existed ).

When Diary of a Camper was created, no software tools existed to edit demo files into films.

When the Germans asked him to declare himself in favour of their desire for national unity, he replied that he would not as this would weaken the Habsburg state: “ Truly, if it were not that Austria had long existed, it would be necessary, in the interest of Europe, in the interest of humanity itself, to create it .”

When the temporal weapon fires on an object, it moves that object outside the space-time continuum, eliminating the object from causality not only in the present and the future, but also the past, changing history to a state where the object never existed.

When it began, North and South Korea existed as provisional governments competing for control over the Korean peninsula, due to the division of Korea by outside powers.

When the sea otter finally received federal protection in 1911, Washington's sea otter had been hunted to extinction, and although a small remnant population still existed in British Columbia, it soon died out.

When Ogden came to lead the Union Pacific, the railroad wasn't fully funded and hadn't yet laid a single mile of track — the railroad existed largely on paper created by an act of Congress.

When Portuguese explorers reached East Africa in 1498, Swahili commercial settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries.

When things settled down, the Privy Council of Denmark had lost some of its influence, and that of Norway no longer existed.

When the Fourth Red Army under Zhang Guotao was formed in the Sichuan-Shaanxi border area from several smaller units, no standard nomenclature of the armies of the Communist Party existed ; moreover, during the Chinese Civil War central control of separate Communist-controlled enclaves within China was limited.

When Chalk's International Airlines existed, its headquarters was on the grounds of the airport in an unincorporated area.

When the Temple existed, most sacrifices and offerings could only be conducted by priests.

When the airline Busy Bee of Norway existed, its head office was on the grounds of Fornebu Airport.

When we hear the word ' matriarchy ', we are conditioned to a number of responses: that matriarchy refers to the past and that matriarchies have never existed ; that matriarchy is a hopeless fantasy of female domination, of mothers dominating children, of women being cruel to men.

When Mendeleev proposed his periodic table, he noted gaps in the table, and predicted that as-yet unknown elements existed with properties appropriate to fill those gaps.

When the Romans took control of Egypt, the Roman legal system which existed throughout the Roman Empire was imposed in Egypt.

When the district existed, it operated Lucilia Wood Elementary School and Elaine High School.

When it existed, Crown Books had its headquarters in Lake Arbor.

When Air Holland existed, its head office was in Oude Meer, Haarlemmermeer.