While Howland Island was colonized in 1935 as a future aviation facility and is known in popular culture mostly because of its association with the last flight of Earhart and Noonan, no aircraft is known to have ever landed there, although anchorages nearby could be used by floatplanes and flying boats during World War II.

While damage could be studied later, the energy yield of the untested Little Boy design could be determined only at the moment of detonation, using instruments dropped by parachute from a plane flying in formation with the one that dropped the bomb.

While flying Endeavour's last mission, the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-20 departed from the ISS and paused at a distance of 200 meters.

While technically a UFO refers to any unidentified flying object, in modern popular culture the term UFO has generally become synonymous with alien spacecraft ; however, the term ETV ( ExtraTerrestrial Vehicle ) is sometimes used to separate this explanation of UFOs from totally earthbound explanations.

While in England, he undertook flying lessons and was awarded a British pilots ' licence in 1932.

While flying P-40E A29-60 on 7 September 1942, he was forced to land due to an incorrectly set fuel cock.

While they pursue any type of flying insect, honey bees predominate in their diet.

While to a reader today it might seem that Earhart was engaged in flying " stunts ," she was, with other female flyers, crucial to making the American public " air minded " and convincing them that " aviation was no longer just for daredevils and supermen.

While speaking in California in late 1934, Earhart had contacted Hollywood " stunt " pilot Paul Mantz in order to improve her flying focusing especially on long distance flying in her Vega and wanted to move closer to him.

While the eagles generally seem to prefer flying lemurs where available, most other animals found in the Philippines, short of adult ungulates and humans, may be taken as prey.

While flying, his tails can be used to attack enemies.

While the unit ( as an administrative entity ) departed to save Air Force dollars for development of new follow-on B-1 munitions, the organization ’ s aircraft remained at Ellsworth ( in a flying reserve status ) under the able care of its sister unit, the 37th Bomb Squadron.

While unwilling to follow all of Divine's teachings, Julian nonetheless identified with Divine and gave flying lessons to Divine followers.

While Fretilin had sought the return of the Portuguese Governor, pointedly flying the Portuguese flag from government offices, the deteriorating situation meant that it had to make an appeal to the world for international support, independently of Portugal.

While at the University of South Dakota ( USD ), along with other like-minded students, Foss convinced authorities to set up a Civil Aeronautics Authority flying course at the university ; he built up 100 flight hours by graduation.

While this can involve the infliction of actual pain, it is usually done in order to release pleasurable endorphins, creating a sensation somewhat like runner's high or the afterglow of orgasm, sometimes called " flying " or " body stress ".

While there, Bong enrolled in the Civilian Pilot Training Program and also took private flying lessons.

While flying, Lappet-faced Vultures have large, broad wings held with the front edges held parallel and slightly pointed, serrated-looking wingtips.

While Beebe's flying cage was criticized as being based on an inaccurate understanding of birds ' needs, it ultimately proved very successful.

While the unit is marched around the field by the drill sergeant ( Pete ), Donald is distracted by Douglas C-47 Skytrains flying overhead, reminding him that he would rather be flying.

While with Yorktown, Adams flew Northrop BT-1s, later transitioning with the rest of the squadron to the SBD Dauntless aircraft, flying escort for North Atlantic convoys until the U. S. entered the war.

While the New Zealand Air Force overhauled the Southern Cross free of charge Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm were taken on a triumphant tour of New Zealand, flying in Bristol Fighters.

While a Minister he was also Chairman of a War Cabinet Committee for defence against German flying bombs and rockets, where he frequently clashed with the scientist and intelligence expert RV Jones.

While a General Contact Unit ( GCU ) does not strictly need a crew ( and could construct artificial avatars when it did ), a real human crew adds richness to its existence, and offers distraction during otherwise dull periods.

While the three propulsion stages were the " muscle " of the Saturn V, the Instrument Unit ( IU ) was the " brains.

While it is modelled on the British SAS, with which it shares the motto " Who Dares Wins ", the regiment also draws on the experience of World War II Australian special reconnaissance and commando units, such as Z Special Unit (" Z Force ").

While in government, Campbell established a Strategic Communications Unit, a central body whose role was to coordinate the party's media relations and ensure that a unified image was presented to the press.

While there, Money was involved with the Sexual Behaviors Unit, which ran studies on sex reassignment surgery.

While on death row, Willingham was initially incarcerated in the Ellis Unit,

While rescuing over 750 men, Radford and Nicholas had to reengage the enemy three times, they were awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for their rescue.

While the exact calibration methods vary slightly, the calibration method used by the INS National Firearms Unit is fairly typical.

While on death row, Karla Faye Tucker was incarcerated in the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas.

While in Okinawa, the 307th was awarded the Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for its air strikes against enemy forces in Korea.

While Attorney General, Sandoval led the state's legal fight against the storage nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, developed Nevada's first Public Integrity Unit and sponsored legislation strengthening Nevada's laws against domestic violence, drug abuse and human trafficking.

While in Okinawa, the 307th was awarded the Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for its air strikes against enemy forces in Korea.

While at QNX he discovered a bug in the Instruction Fetch Unit of Intel Pentium II and Pentium III processors.

While appearing on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Hermann met lead actress, Mariska Hargitay, whom he married on August 28, 2004, in Santa Barbara, California.

While he was at the BBC's Script Unit in early 1987 he was contacted by script editor Andrew Cartmel.

While third rail electrification was expanding on the Southern region, it was not then considered to be justified to extend beyond Bournemouth and so, in 1966, D6580 was fitted with experimental push-pull apparatus, high-level brake pipes and jumper cables to make it compatible with Multiple Unit stock.

While the greatest players of the time, among them Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca, clearly did not allow their play to be hobbled by blind adherence to general concepts that the center had to be controlled by pawns, that development had to happen in support of this control, that rooks always belong on open files, that wing openings were unsound — core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy as popularly understood — beginners were taught to think of these generalizations as unalterable principles.

While much of the urban areas were now under the control of the KMT, much of the countryside remained under the influence of weakened yet undefeated warlords and Communists.

While many of these systems involve cars permanently attached to the cable, the system developed by Poma-Otis, a company formed by the merger of the cable car interests of the Pomagalski ski lift company and the Otis Elevator Company, allows the car to be decoupled from the cable under computer control, and can thus be considered a modern interpretation of the cable car.

While Duck Hunt does not have a traditional multiplayer mode, the manual states that a second player may plug in a standard NES controller in the other controller port and control the duck that appears.

While he had programmed extensively in machine code in the 1950s, he was known for his low opinion of the GOTO statement in computer programming, writing a paper in 1965, and culminating in the 1968 article " A Case against the GO TO Statement ", regarded as a major step towards the widespread deprecation of the GOTO statement and its effective replacement by structured control constructs, such as the while loop.

While Fascism claimed that corporatism gave workers power alongside employer in workplaces in reality the concept of " Fuhrerprinzip " gave employers and State-appointed workplace managers absolute control over the workplace as dictated by the State-owned German Labor Front ; based on the Social Darwinist ideology that certain individuals are " gifted " and " born to rule ", employers thought to be part of that group.

While the side-stick offers the advantages of being lighter, mechanically simpler, and unobtrusive, The Boeing Company's aerospace engineers decided that the lack of visual feedback ( none given by side-sticks ) is a significant problem, and so they designed conventional control yokes in the Boeing 777 and the Boeing 787, which entered service on 26 October 2011 with All Nippon Airways.

While traditional mechanical or hydraulic control systems usually fail gradually, the loss of all flight control computers could immediately render the aircraft uncontrollable.

While " glasnost " is associated with freedom of speech, the main goal of this policy was to make the country's management transparent and open to debate, thus circumventing the narrow circle of apparatchiks who previously exercised complete control of the economy.

While the states issued their own decorations, and some had their own armies, the military forces of the smaller ones were put under Prussian control.

While Philip I could hardly control his Parisian barons, Philip IV could dictate popes and emperors.

While Julia Maesa tried to position herself as the power behind the throne and thus the most powerful woman in the world, Elagabalus would prove to be highly independent, set in his ways, and impossible to control.

While in theory insurers could encourage investment in loss reduction, some commentators have argued that in practice insurers had historically not aggressively pursued loss control measures-particularly to prevent disaster losses such as hurricanes-because of concerns over rate reductions and legal battles.

While under attack by his fellow comrades Northstar and Aurora-under mind control, Bobby was essentially blown up in his human form.

While the outer islets and water rights are part administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service, the actual land mass remains under Navy control for cleanup purposes.

While he was sick with a fever, he professed his full belief in Christ and asked God to take control of his destiny.

While a law student, Hoover became interested in the career of Anthony Comstock, the New York City United States Postal Inspector, who waged prolonged campaigns against fraud and vice, and also was against pornography and birth control.

While he ceded much of the authority of the imperial government to the cities, Julian also took more direct control himself.

While struggling for control of the plane, Dahl and Homer managed to transmit to the ground twice, screaming " Mayday!

While dream control and dream awareness are correlated, neither requires the other — LaBerge has found dreams that exhibit one clearly without the capacity for the other ; also, in some dreams where the dreamer is lucid and aware they could exercise control, they choose simply to observe.

While, theoretically relying on Michel Foucault ’ s theory of discipline and governmentality, as well as related insights in the social control literature, this paper examines Project Carnivore relative to the larger context of state rationality and related privacy issues.

While faculty committees assert substantial control over many areas of MIT's curriculum, research, student life, and administrative affairs, the chair of each of MIT's 32 academic departments reports to the dean of that department's school, who in turn reports to the Provost under the President.

While police control barriers are a common sight on African highways, and while illicit demands for bribes at such stops are common in many countries, the main Malian highway heading south from Bamako to the Burkina Faso border was singled out in late 2008 as the worst in West Africa.