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May 11

 * 2013 – After an Israeli Air Force Heron-1 unmanned aerial vehicle flying over the Mediterranean Sea malfunctions, the Israeli Army shoots it down to prevent it from crashing in a populated area. The following day Israel grounds its fleet of Heron-1 unmanned aerial vehicles.

 * 2011 – Libyan rebel forces capture Misrata Airport, which also serves as a Libyan Air Force base.
 * 2010 – Death of Walker Melville "Bud" Mahurin, American WWII and Korean war fighter ace, (only USAF pilot to score in both the European and Pacific Theaters and the Korean War).

 * 2010 – A Dassault Mirage 2000 of the French Air Force crashed in a forest of Bougue close to Villeneuve-de-Marsan (Landes, Aquitaine), 6 km east of Mont de Marsan AB (LFBM), after technical problems. The pilot ejected safely and only received minor injuries.

 * 2009 – Launch: Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-125 at 18:01:56 UTC. Mission highlights: Last Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission (HST SM-04). Final Non-ISS flight.

 * 2007 – After 50 years of service, the English Electric Canberra was finally retired.

 * 2007 – A Republic of China Air Force Northrop F-5 crashes onto a building at an army base in Hukou, Taiwan. The two crew members are killed, as well as two soldiers of the Singapore Army undergoing training at the base. Another nine Singapore Army soldiers are injured, one dies of his injuries 17 days later.

 * 1997 – Continental Airlines Flight 1760, a Boeing 737-524 with 54 people on board attempting to land through low clouds at Corpus Christi International Airport in Nueces County, Texas, mistakenly lands safely at Cabaniss Field, a part of Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, Texas, 5.8 miles (9.3 km) away.

 * 1996 – ValuJet Flight 592, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, crashes in the Everglades near Miami, because of a fire in its cargo hold. All 110 people on board are killed.

 * 1995 – Death of John Geoffrey Sadler Candy, British WWI flying ace who served during WWII.

 * 1990 – Philippine Airlines Flight 143, a Boeing 737, explodes and burns on the ground at Ninoy Aquino International Airport, killing 8 of 120 on board, marking the first loss of a Boeing 737-300.

 * 1987 – First flight of the Learjet 31, American ten seat (two crew and eight passengers) twin-engined, high speed business jet. Manufactured by Learjet (a subsidiary of Bombardier Inc.).

 * 1973 – First flight of the Dassault Falcon 30 F-WAMD.

 * 1970 – Death of William Howard "Hank" Stovall, American WWI flying ace, Businessman and High Ranking officer in WWII.

 * 1970 – A category F5 tornado strikes Lubbock, Texas destroying about one quarter of the city. Nineteen of 23 U.S. Air Force trainers (probably Cessna T-41 Mescaleros) at Lubbock International Airport are destroyed, amongst 100 aircraft damaged.

 * 1969 – A Royal Navy F-4 Phantom of 892 Naval Air Squadron set a new world air speed record between New York and London in 4 hours and 46 min, winning the Daily Mail Trans-Atlantic Air Race. It flew from the Floyd Bennet Naval Air Station to Wisley Aerodrome and was refuelled by a Handley Page Victor aerial tanker over the Atlantic.

 * 1964 – A Bell 533 modified with 2 small sweptback fixed wings to convert the aircraft into a compound helicopter, flew at 357 km/h.

 * 1964 – Jackie Cochran sets a new women's airspeed record of 1,429 mph (2,300 km/h) in a F-104 Starfighter.

 * 1964 – A USAF Boeing C-135B-BN Stratolifter, 61-0332, c/n 18239, crashed on landing at Clark Air Force Base, Philippines, hitting a taxi. 84 on board, 5 survivors, passengers in taxi also killed. Date of 11 August 1964 cited by Joe Baugher. The crash occurred while attempting to land during a rainstorm at approximately 1920 hrs.

 * 1960 – A United States Army Signals Corps balloon ascends to an altitude of 43,890 m (144,000 feet) before bursting setting a record breaking night time altitude ascent.

 * 1957 – Death of Victor Herbert Strahm, American WWI flying ace, who served in WWII and was chief test pilot for the USAAF.

 * 1957 – Nimble Bat 3 – CF-100s of 440 Squadron flown from Bagotville to Zweibrucken.

 * 1953 – INS Garuda becomes the first Indian Navy aircraft carrier, serving as the base for the Indian Naval Air Arm.

 * 1953 – First prototype of the Tupolev Tu-95 Bear, Tu-95/1, first flown 12 November 1952, crashes this date NE of Noginsk, Russia, during its 17th flight and burns due to an engine fire in the starboard inner turboprop. Engine falls off of wing, nine of twelve crew parachute to safety but three are killed, including test pilot Alexey Perelet.

 * 1949 – No. 28 Squadron RAF flies from Malaya to Hong Kong to help reinforce the island against Communist forces on mainland China.

 * 1948 – Maj. Simon H. Johnson, deputy commanding officer of the Eglin AFB, Florida, fighter section, is killed when his Republic F-84 Thunderjet disintegrates during an air demonstration on the Eglin reservation, in front of some 600 witnesses. The public information officer at Eglin stated that the pilot was "engaged in operational tests on the plane" when the accident occurred. Maj. Johnson, a resident of Shalimar, Florida, was originally from Houston, Texas. He had served a year in Italy flying 50 missions in North American P-51 Mustangs with the 31st Fighter Group, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and the air medal with five clusters. He had attended the University of Texas and graduated from the U.S. Army flying school in 1940.

 * 1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of her crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U. S. under her own power.

 * 1944 – Death of Walter "Gulle" Oesau, German World War II fighter ace who served in the Luftwaffe from 1934 until his death in 1944. He rose to command Jagdgeschwader 1 (World War II), which was named in his honor after his death.

 * 1943 – In Operation Landcrab, American forces invade Attu. With an all-F4 F Wildcat airwing consisting of 26 F4 F-4 fighters and three F4 F-3P photographic reconnaissance aircraft, the escort aircraft carrier USS Nassau (CVE-16) supports operations on Attu until May 20; it is the first time that the U. S. Navy employs carrier-based photographic reconnaissance aircraft and the first time in the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II of Operations that an escort carrier engages in combat. The U.S. Navy concludes that bombers should be included in future escort carrier air wings to make them more effective in supporting amphibious operations.

 * 1940 – (Overnight) British bombers interdict German Army troop movement near the Belgium and Netherlands border, as 37 Handley Page Hampdens and Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys bomb road and rail junctions near Mönchengladbach. Three British bombers are lost.

 * 1936 – First flight of The Bristol Type 138 High Altitude Monoplane, British high-altitude research aircraft, single-engine, low-wing monoplane with a fixed, tailwheel undercarriage.

 * 1934 – Sole prototype of U.S. Navy Douglas XO2D-1, BuNo 9412, noses over on water landing near NAS Anacostia, Washington, D.C., after starboard landing gear would not retract, nor support runway landing. Pilot survives. Aircraft salvaged, rebuilt, but no production contract let.

 * 1934 – First flight of the Douglas DC-2.

 * 1932 – The USS Akron, arriving at Camp Kearny, San Diego, California, after a cross-continent transit attempts to moor, but proves too buoyant. The mooring cable is cut to avert a catastrophic nose-stand by the airship and the Akron heads up. Most men of the mooring crew, predominantly "boot" seamen from the Naval Training Station San Diego, let go of their lines but three do not. One man was carried 15 ft into the air before he let go and suffered a broken arm in the process while three others were carried up even farther. Two of these men — Aviation Carpenter's Mate 3d Class Robert H. Edsall and Apprentice Seaman Nigel M. Henton — lost their grips and fell to their deaths. The third, Apprentice Seaman C. M. "Bud" Cowart, clung desperately to his line and made himself fast to it before he was hoisted aboard the Akron one hour later. Akron managed to moor at Camp Kearny later that day.  The stranded crewman provides the template for the very first rescue by George Reeves' portrayal of Superman in the first television episode of "Adventures of Superman", "Superman on Earth", first aired 19 September 1952.

 * 1928 – Death of Ulrich Neckel, German WWI fighter ace

 * 1927 – Charles Lindbergh lands his new Ryan airplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, in St. Louis after a record non-stop overnight flight from San Diego of 14 hours, 25 min.

 * 1926 – 11-14 – Roald Amundsen makes the first airship flight over the North Pole. The Norge leaves Spitsbergen and arrives in Teller, Alaska three days later.

 * 1919 – French Aviator Joseph Sadi Lacointe sets a new altitude record with a Spad Herbemont (8 155 m).

 * 1918 – Death of Kurt Nachod, Austro Hungarian WWI flying ace, from injuries after the crash of his Hansa-Brandenburg C. I 2 days before

 * 1917 – Death of Edmund Nathanael, German WWI fighter ace, killed in action in his Albatros D.III by a SPAD VII.

 * 1911 – Édouard Nieuport, a racing cyclist before he went into aircraft construction (co-founder with his brother Charles of the eponymous Nieuport aircraft manufacturing company), sets a new speed record of 74.4 mph flying his "Nieuport 11-N, " monoplane powered by a 28-hp engine.

 * 1906 – Birth of Jacqueline Cochran, pioneer American aviator, considered to be one of the most gifted racing pilots of her generation. She was an important contributor to the formation of the wartime Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)

 * 1903 – Richard Pearse is claimed to have made a flight of around 1,000 yards (900 m), landing in the semi-dry bed of the Opihi River.

 * 1897 – Birth of Robert Ellsworth Gross, American businessman involved in the field of aviation.

 * 1896 – Birth of Heinrich Henkel, German WWI flying ace

 * 1896 – Birth of Paul Wilhelm Bäumer, German WWI fighter ace.

 * 1892] – Birth of Walter Ewers, German WWI flying ace

 * 1881 – Birth of Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American aerospace engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization.

 * 1875 – Birth of Harriet Quimby, early American aviator and movie screenwriter, first woman to gain a pilot's license in the US and first woman to fly across the English Channel.

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Silver King (baseball)

Silver King (January 11, 1868 – May 21, 1938), born Charles Frederick Koenig, was an American Major League Baseball player from 1886 through 1897. During his ten-year career, spent primarily as a pitcher, King played for the Kansas City Cowboys (1886), St. Louis Browns (1887–1889), Chicago Pirates (1890), Pittsburgh Pirates (1891), New York Giants (1892–93), Cincinnati Reds (1893), and Washington Senators (1896–97).

Newspapers in St. Louis, Missouri, gave him the nickname Silver King, referring to his prematurely gray hair and shortening his German surname.

Early life
A native of St. Louis, Koenig broke into baseball at age 18, playing for St. Joseph in the Western League.

Career
King was an unusual pitcher for his time. Gripping the ball with unusually large hands, he delivered the ball without a windup. He was also one of the first pitchers in major league history to employ a sidearm delivery. The unconventional methods worked, as he went on to pitch 3,190$2/3$ innings, winning 203 games with 1229 strikeouts and a 3.18 earned run average in 397 games. His strong fastball enabled him to become a notable strikeout artist; he finished among the league's top 10 in that category six times.

King's best season came in 1888, when he led the Browns to their fourth consecutive American Association championship. That year, King led the league with 585$2/3$ innings pitched in 66 games, 45 wins, and a 1.64 ERA. In 1890, he jumped to Chicago of the Players' League and added another ERA title while winning 30 games. On June 21, 1890, King threw a no-hitter for Chicago, the only one in the league's one-year history. (King lost 1–0, and pitched only eight innings in the loss, so this game is not officially recognized by MLB as a no-hitter.)

Personal life and death
After baseball, King returned to St. Louis. and went to work for his father's business.

He died in 1938, at age 70, and was buried at New St. Marcus Cemetery in St. Louis.

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Rennae Stubbs

Rennae Stubbs (born 26 March 1971) is an Australian tennis coach, television commentator, and former professional player. She is the host of "The Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast". She worked at the Seven Network between 2011 and 2018 as an analyst and is now a full time commentator for ESPN tennis. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

Stubbs reached her highest ranking in singles on the WTA TOUR of 64 but it was in doubles that Stubbs was outstanding, winning four Grand Slam doubles titles and two mixed-doubles titles. She was ranked world No. 1 in doubles in 2000. She represented Australia at four successive Summer Olympic Games: Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, and Beijing 2008.

Stubbs has recorded more doubles triumphs than any other Australian woman—60 from 1992 to the conclusion of the 2010 WTA Tour—enjoying success with eleven different partners. In 2001, Stubbs won the season-ending WTA Championships with regular partner Lisa Raymond and the pair were named ITF World Champions.

Stubbs is the longest-serving member of the Australia Fed Cup team, having played for 17 years since 1992, with a 28–9 win–loss record in doubles; the second highest in Australian Fed Cup Team history behind Wendy Turnbull (29–8). She retired from Fed Cup play after the 2011 Fed Cup tie with Italy. Stubbs played on the WTA Tour for the rest of 2011 mostly with Casey Dellacqua and played her last tour match at the 2011 US Open with Dellacqua. She then finished her career winning the World TeamTennis title for the third time with the Washington Kastles, her fifth overall WTT title.

Stubbs transitioned from her playing days immediately into a successful television career as a commentator and host for TV Networks including, ESPN, Tennis Channel and Channel Seven Australia and as the host of her own sports show, The Power Hour on Amazon in 2024. She also worked as the lead female analyst at the 2012 London the 2016 Rio and the 2020 Tokyo and the Paris Olympics for NBC. She is currently hosting the Pod "The French Connection" with Sam Querrey for NBC Sports and Racquet.

In the subsequent years, Stubbs had also began advising and coaching tennis players. From August 2018 until spring 2019, she was coach of the professional Karolína Plíšková. Around this time, Stubbs was one of only two female top ten player coaches alongside Conchita Martínez.

In January 2019, Stubbs received the OLY post-nominal title at the Brisbane International tournament.

Stubbs subsequently had been added to the coaching team of Samantha Stosur. Originally, she was only expected to finish out the 2019 season with Stosur, however, given the success of Stosur at the end of 2019, the pair have decided to continue on in 2020, starting in Australia. With Stubbs as her coach, Stosur won a Grand Slam, the 2021 U.S. Open doubles, with playing partner Zhang Shuai. Stubbs also coached Genie Bouchard throughout 2020 where Bouchard improved her ranking from 330 to 120 on the WTA rankings.

For the 2022 US Open, Stubbs was the coach for Serena Williams’ as she contested her final grand slam tournament.

In 2022, Embassy Row announced that Stubbs will host The Power Hour on Amazon Prime Video. On November 14, 2022, Stubbs made her debut on The Power Hour.

Personal life
In a 2006 newspaper interview, Stubbs identified herself as a lesbian. Her favourite TV show is Lost and describes herself as a very handy Scrabble player.

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Category:Rugby union props

The following rugby union players play or have played as prop.

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Still Waiting (Prince song)

"Still Waiting" was the third US single from Prince's second album, Prince. It was Prince's first ballad to be released as a single and was mildly popular on the R&B chart, reaching number 65. The ballad speaks from the perspective of a young man who has not yet found love but yearns for it. The track is mainly piano, acoustic guitar and synth-based and was often played live with extended instrumental solos and audience teasing. The song is a more traditional R&B ballad, before Prince established himself with trademark sexual romps like "Do Me, Baby" and "International Lover".

The song was remade by Rainy Davis in 1987 and appeared on her album Sweetheart. Her version was also released as a single and charted higher than Prince's version on the R&B chart, reaching number 41.

British female duo Dorothy covered the song in 1988, peaking at number 81 on the UK Singles Chart.

"Bambi"
The B-side of the song was the album track rocker, "Bambi". In Belgium, "Bambi" was released as a single with "Still Waiting" as the B-side.

Personnel
Information taken from Benoît Clerc and Guitarcloud.

 * Prince – lead and backing vocals, piano, Minimoog, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums

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The following rugby union players play as lock.

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Portal:Aviation/Anniversaries/November 12

November 12

 * 2009 – RwandAir Flight 205, a Bombardier CRJ-100, crashes into a terminal shortly after an emergency landing at Kigali International Airport, Rwanda; of the 10 passengers and 5 crew, 1 passenger dies.

 * 2008 – A USAF F-16 caught fire on takeoff. The pilot survived.

 * 2004 – UH-60A Black Hawk from 1–106th Aviation Regiment shot down northeast of Baghdad, wounding three of the four crew members.

 * 2001 – American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300, crashes into a Queens neighborhood in New York City when the plane's vertical tail fin snaps just after takeoff. All 251 passengers and nine crew members on board are killed as well as five people on the ground.

 * 1996 – Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision: Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763, a Boeing 747, collides in mid-air with Air Kazakhstan Flight 1907, an Ilyushin Il-76, near Charkhi Dadri, India. All 312 on board the Boeing 747 and all 37 on board the Ilyushin Il-76 are killed.

 * 1995 – American Airlines Flight 1572, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 with 78 people on board, lands short of the runway at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Only one person is injured.

 * 1995 – Launch: Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-74 at 7:30:43.071 a.m. EST. Mission highlights: 2nd Shuttle-Mir docking. Delivered docking module. IMAX cargo bay camera.

 * 1989 – California Polytechnic State University flies the first human-powered helicopter

 * 1984 – Space Shuttle astronauts snare a satellite, the first ever “space salvage. ”

 * 1983 – McDonnell-Douglas F-15A-16-MC Eagle, 76-076, c/n 0265/A228, of the 71st Tactical Fighter Squadron, 1st Tactical Fighter Wing, jumps chocks during an engine run at Langley AFB, Virginia, and collides with F-15, 76-071, c/n 0259/A223, of the same units. Both are repaired. 76-076 is later placed on display in park near DeBary, Florida, marked as 85-0125, in memory of an airman killed in the Khobar Towers terrorist bombing.

 * 1981 – Launch: Space shuttle Columbia STS-2 at 15:09:59 UTC. Mission highlights: First reuse of a manned orbital space vehicle; first test of Canadarm robot arm; Truncated due to fuel cell problem.

 * 1980 – Delta Air Lines orders 60 Boeing 757s, the largest single order to this time for a single airliner type.

 * 1980 – Voyager 1 makes its closest approach to Saturn, flying 77,000 miles above its surface and taking photo of its rings.

 * 1970 – First flight of the Kawasaki C-1

 * 1944 – 29 Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bombers employing 12,000-pound (5,443 kg) Tallboy bombs score two hits on the German battleship Tirpitz at Altenfjord, Norway, sinking her with heavy loss of life.

 * 1943 – A strike by five Japanese Mitsubishi G4 M (“Betty”) bombers damages the light cruiser USS Denver (CL-58) off Bougainville.

 * 1941 – The British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal was torpedoed on 12 Nov 1941 and it sank the following day in the Mediterranean Sea east of Gibraltar by the German submarine U-81.

 * 1932 – First flight of the de Havilland Dragon

 * 1922 – Japan's first airmail service commences, linking Sakai, Osaka and Tokushima.

 * 1922 – Lt. Cdr. Godfrey DeCourcelles Chevalier, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in June 1910, who was appointed a Naval Air Pilot No. 7 on 7 November 1915 and a Naval Aviator No. 7 on 7 November 1918, crashes in a Vought VE-7 while en route from NAS Norfolk to Yorktown, Virginia, dying in Portsmouth Naval Hospital on 14 November as a result of his injuries. On 26 October 1922 Lieutenant Commander Chevalier made the first landing on the USS Langley's deck, the U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier, in an Aeromarine 39-B, A-606.

 * 1921 – The first air-to-air refueling was made when Wesley May stepped from the wing of one aircraft to that of another carrying a five-gallon can of gasoline strapped to his back.

 * 1919 – Keith and Ross Smith set out to fly a Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU, from England to Australia, the first flight between these two places. They arrive in Darwin on December 18.

 * 1912 – A Curtiss Triad becomes the first aircraft to be launched by catapult, at the US Navy's Washington Navy Yard.

 * 1912 – The first demonstration of naval aircraft at an Imperial Japanese Navy fleet review takes place at Yokohama, with Lieutenant Yōzō Kaneko flying a Farman seaplane and Lieutenant Sankichi Kōno a Curtiss seaplane.

 * 1906 – First flight certified and registered by FAI: Brazilian Alberto Santos Dumont in Paris in his “14 bis” flies some 720 feet and wins the Aéro-Club de France prize for exceeding 100 m.

 * 1903 – The Lebaudy brothers make a controlled dirigible flight of 54 km (34 miles) from Moisson to Paris.


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Generator Gawl

Generator Gawl (ジェネレイター ガウル) is a 1998 12-episode anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Productions and the Victor Company of Japan (JVC, now JVCKenwood).

Plot
The story is set in 2007, when Professor Takuma Nekasa uncovers a gene code that will unlock the human body's greatest mystery and expose mankind to its greatest threat. As a result, Gawl, Koji, and Ryo—three young scientists from a future period—have time traveled to the past to undo this mistake. Though the trio intended to arrive one year before the calamity, they are instead transported three months prior to the event. In their effort to save the world, they are opposed by the mysterious and cunning Ryuko Saito, a scientist who prefers the future as it is. Saito is assisted by Generators, unearthly assassins posing as humans. As Ryo and Koji try to complete their mission, Gawl himself must "generate"—becoming like his enemies to fight on their terms.

Characters
The hero and main character of the story, Gawl is a Generator with vast power. Though he appears somewhat dim-witted, Gawl shows loyalty and protectiveness for his friends, even if it means putting his life on the line. Even when out of his Generator form Gawl is able to display superhuman feats of athletics, strength, and endurance, such as jumping several meters in the air, and surviving an otherwise crushing blow from falling construction equipment. Despite this, he appears to be very lax and lazy, as he is almost always asleep during classes and car rides, as his transformations and brawls tend to be highly taxing, thus requiring large amounts of sleep and relaxation to compensate. This also implies that he is not as dim-witted as he lets on.
 * :Nobutoshi Canna (Japanese), Vic Mignogna (English)

Koji is the level-headed one of the trio and a true intellectual. He rarely displays much emotion at all and only laughs one time in the series.
 * :Shin-ichiro Miki (Japanese), Jay Hickman (English)

Ryo is the more sensitive of the three, but he is also quite brilliant. He was head of Kubere's Project Achilles to create Gawl and feels intense guilt for his experiments on Gawl.
 * :Tsutomu Kashiwakura (Japanese), Matt Kelley (English)

A girl who met up with the three early on in the series. Masami constantly fights with Gawl due to a poor first impression. Though this may be, it is quite obvious that she has somewhat of a romantic interest in him.
 * :Satsuki Yukino (Japanese), Rozie Curtis (English)

A pink-haired girl who is extremely shy and Masami's best friend. She constantly attempts to calm Gawl and Masami down when they get in a heated conflict but never succeeds.
 * :Konami Yoshida (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)

The antagonist of the story, Saito is a mysterious scientist and time-traveler who attempts to thwart Gawl, Koji, and Ryo. She uses Dr. Tekuma Nekasa's desire to recover his past to bend him to her will. She is constantly calling Generators to do her dirty work and often tries to kill or capture Gawl and his friends.
 * :Yuriko Yamaguchi (Japanese), Kaytha Coker (English)

A professor that uncovers a gene code that will unlock our body's greatest mystery and expose mankind to its greatest threat.
 * :Yoku Shioya (Japanese), John Swasey (English)

A scientist and Ryuko Saito's assistant.
 * :Hideyuki Hori (Japanese), Jason Douglas (English)

Generators

 * Generator: A being with the ability to transform into a metalloid (metallic/organic) warrior with powers far beyond those of humans. There are many types of Generator, such as Gawl ("Razor?"), Cyclops, Manta, and many more. All of which have their own abilities that were either designed for weaponry or for the Reconstruction when they were "officially" introduced. There are also multiple "phases" of Generator, which refers to the power output of a Generator and the stage of development, Gawl likely being Phase 4 and Ryuko Saito being a Phase 5.

There is also a "Control" level to Generators. The First level is completely based on hardwired connections; the Second and Third are semi-autonomous levels with preset commands which the subject is free to use in whatever parameters that are set. Third-level generators, however, are capable of reverting to human form. The Fourth level is where the subject is completely self-aware, capable of full physical control and is able to revert to human form, but is not capable of vocal communication; for example, in the series Gawl's generated form is unable to speak (can only grunt expressions and perhaps yell/scream). The Fifth and final level is where the generator has complete control, can fully communicate, and is capable of using its immense power in any way.

 * Exogenerate: Also known in the American dub as "generate," this is the ability to transform into Generator Form through the mental trigger of activating the transformation gene. Surprisingly, in one of the later episodes, Koji and Ryo generate; they, however, are less powerful than Gawl, being Phase 1. This is because they activated their Include Cells as they are, not like Gawl who was activated before he was born. According to Gawl after an individual's first time generating their body will undergo certain changes, although these changes are never explained in detail.

 * Core: The heart of a Generator, all relays of power and life functions are processed in here. The core is crystalline in hardness and can only be destroyed by another Generator. Once it is shattered, the Generator dies and turns into either energy or dust. It is often exposed on the chest, but in certain designs, such as Sound and Cyclops, it may be hidden within the body (Sound) or exposed on the back (Cyclops).

It is revealed later in the series that Natsume is working for Ryuko, and knew who and what Gawl, Koji, and Ryo were since she first saw Generator Gawl and the Sound type outside the fast-food restaurant Masami works at. She is used as a spy to track them and, in one episode, used as a human bomb. However, at this point Natsumi rebels and leaves a recorded message for the trio and Masami and goes off into the forest so that the bomb inside her body won't destroy the others.

Koji and Ryo are Phase 1 Generators who aren't as powerful as Gawl.

It is known that Koji, Ryo, and Gawl were grown either by in-vitro fertilization or in some form of growth tube. Either way, it is fact that their genetic mother is Natsume, as evidenced later in the series when Ryuko's assistant, who is in fact an older Koji, notices the ID numbers for eggs that Ryuko removed from Natsume shortly before the suicide mission. The ID numbers directly coincided with Gawl, Ryo and Koji's IDs back in their own time, which identify who they were cloned from.

Professor Tekuma Nekasa is Ryo. At the end of the series, Gawl and the others confront Ryuko, only for her to rip out Gawl's core. As a result, two things happen. First is that Ryo and Koji are thrown backwards in time, with Ryo losing his memories of everything except the include cells that allow exogeneration. The second is Gawl speaking to an image of Natsume in his head, and using his desires to control the temporal energies and successfully stop Ryuko's plans by "recreating the world." However, he was unable to bring Natsume back.

Natsume's death drove Gawl into a blind rage, triggering a Rage form. Rage Gawl stands 3 meters tall (according to an on-scene news reporter, however he appears much larger, likely around ten to fifteen meters) and makes quick work out of all others but not without injuries, except Generator Ryuko, who makes quick work out of the now-weakened Gawl.

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Aleš Píša

Aleš Píša (born 2 January 1977) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played 53 games in the National Hockey League with the Edmonton Oilers and New York Rangers during the 2001–02 and 2002–03 seasons. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1993 to 2018, was mainly spent in the Czech Extraliga. He was chosen as an over-age selection in the ninth round of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft, 272nd overall, by the Edmonton Oilers.

Playing career
After spending most of his professional career with his hometown team of Pardubice, Píša made his North America debut with the Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League (AHL) in 2001. He saw spot duty with the Oilers his first year, playing in only two games, but the following season, he remained with the Oilers until the trade deadline. At the deadline, Píša was shipped to the New York Rangers as part of a package that brought back Radek Dvořák.

Píša played just three games for the Rangers to finish the year, and signed with Severstal Cherepovets of the Russian Superleague (RSL) in 2003–04, a team he remained with throughout the 2004–05 NHL lockout.

Píša played the 2005–06 season with Khimik Moscow Oblast of the RSL, and was one of the team's top players, leading all Mytishi Khimik defenceman in points.

Transactions

 * 24 June 2001 — Drafted by the Edmonton Oilers in the ninth round, 272nd overall.
 * 11 March 2003 — Traded with Anson Carter to the New York Rangers in exchange for Radek Dvořák and Cory Cross.

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Reader (academic rank)

The title of reader in the United Kingdom and some universities in the Commonwealth of Nations, for example India, Australia and New Zealand, denotes an appointment for a senior academic with a distinguished international reputation in research or scholarship.

In the traditional hierarchy of British and other Commonwealth universities, reader (and principal lecturer in the new universities) are academic ranks above senior lecturer and below Chaired Professor, recognising a distinguished record of original research. Reader is a professor without a chair, similar to the distinction between professor and chaired professor in Hong Kong and between professor extraordinarius and professor ordinarius at some European universities. Readership is one/two rank(s) more prestigious than senior/permanent Lecturership, which translate to Associate/Assistant Professorship. Readers in the UK would correspond to the start of full professors in China and the United States.

The promotion criteria applied to a readership in the United Kingdom are similar to those applied to a professorship: advancing from senior lecturer to reader generally requires evidence of a distinguished record of original research.

Several UK universities have dispensed with the reader grade, such as the University of Oxford, and the University of Leeds in 2012; those currently holding readerships retain the title, but no new readers will be appointed. In the few UK universities, including the University of Cambridge, that have adopted North American academic titles (i.e. lecturer is equivalent to assistant professor; senior lecturer equivalent to associate professor; professor equivalent to professor), readerships have become assimilated to professorships.

Denmark, Norway and Sweden
In Denmark and Norway, docent was traditionally a title ranking between associate professor and professor, and was virtually identical to a readership in the United Kingdom, although today, the title is used somewhat differently. The traditional Danish/Norwegian docent title is widely translated as reader. Historically, there would often only be one professor (chair) for each institute or discipline, and other academics at the top academic level would be appointed as docents. In Norway all docents became full professors when the docent rank was abolished in 1985.

In Sweden, and countries influenced by Sweden, docent is the highest academic title below that of (chair) Professor, but it is usually not an academic position in itself, but is more like a degree; in this sense it is somewhat comparable to the Habilitation found in certain countries in Continental Europe. The Swedish docent title is translated as either reader or professor in the sense of a title above senior lecturer.

Associate professor in place of reader
At some universities in Commonwealth countries, such as India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Malaysia, and in Ireland, the title associate professor is used in place of reader, and similarly ranks above senior lecturer and below (chair) professor. This associate professor title should not be confused with the associate professor title used in the North American system; like the reader title it ranks higher than an associate professor in the North American system, as the North American associate professor corresponds to the senior lecturer rank in Commonwealth universities. About half as many people hold the full professor title in Commonwealth universities as compared to U.S. universities; hence the reader and associate professor ranks in the Commonwealth system broadly correspond to the lower half of the U.S. full professor rank.

Comparison
The table presents a broad overview of the traditional main systems, but there are universities which use a combination of those systems or other titles. Note that some universities in Commonwealth countries have adopted the American system in place of the Commonwealth system.

Notable examples
This rank was the highest academic rank reached by Alan Turing, Chaim Weizmann, Mary Cartwright and Anita Brookner.

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Kim Ljung

Kim Ljung (born 17 October 1971) is a musician from Tønsberg, Norway. He is best known as the bassist in Norwegian alternative rock band Seigmen and industrial band Zeromancer. He also appeared as guest vocalist on SubGud's Time Machine.

Early career
Kim Ljung started his musical career as bass player and songsmith in the band Klisne Seigmenn in 1989. In addition to Kim, the band consisted of his kindergarten buddy Marius Roth Christensen on guitar, singer Alex Møklebust, drummer Noralf Ronthi and guitarist Sverre Økshoff.

In the beginning, the band viewed it more as fun than as a serious outlet for their musical and artistic inspirations, playing a punkish style of rock but that changed rapidly.

Seigmen
In 1992, the band changed its name to Seigmen and released its first official album – the dark and unpolished Pluto – which took both the musical underground and many journalists by storm. On it they combined dark progressive rock elements with punk rock, grunge, heavy metal and perhaps a little Gothic rock. During the summer and fall, the CD was reissued in several editions to satisfy the growing number of fans. Combined with a powerful and memorable stage act, the band soon turned into a household name in the underground music scene.

In the mid-1990s, with albums such as Ameneon (1993) and Total (1994), the band cemented its position as one of the most important and innovative in Norwegian music history and the number of fans swelled well beyond underground status.

The apex of commercial success was reached with the album Metropolis in 1995. It made its debut, in week 44, at the number 1 spot on the VG Album Charts. Within a few days it sold to Gold (25,000 copies) and didn't stop until it had passed 50,000. This is a good figure for any artist in a small country like Norway. The second half of the decade saw the band move in a more electronic direction with Radiowaves, their last proper studio album, in 1997.

In 1999, by the time their greatest hits album, Monument 1989–1999, was released, Sverre had decided to leave the band to focus on his family. An old agreement among the members was that if one of them left, they should disband Seigmen. And that is what happened after their final concert at Rockefeller concert hall in Oslo on March 6, 1999.

Seigmen played live at the 2012 Slottsfjell festival in Tønsberg, which was a celebrating its 10th anniversary. In 2015 Seigmen released a new album "Enola".

Zeromancer
With the departure of Sverre the other members were free to form new constellations. Somehow, Marius got left out so he went on to take an education in classical music and has since appeared on both TV and radio as lead singer for choirs. The remaining three - Kim, Alex and Noralf - formed the industrial group Zeromancer with former Vampire State Building keyboard-player Erik Lunggren and the American Chris Schleyer.

Zeromancer never managed to reach the same heights, neither with respect to musical innovation nor in popularity, as Seigmen had. But they've toured extensively both in Europe and America, and they seem to have grown fairly popular in Germany with their take on industrial metal.

So far the band has released six albums, Clone Your Lover in 2000, Eurotrash in 2001, ZZYZX in 2003, Sinners International in 2009, The Death Of Romance in 2010 and Bye-Bye Borderline in 2013.

Ljungblut
Kim Ljung has also been active on his own. Over the years material that didn't fit in with Zeromancer has gathered weight until at some point in 2004 he felt compelled to collect some of the songs and release his first solo album. And due to the number of songs it turned out to be a double album!

The double CD, The other side of all things, was released on Pleasuredisc Records on February 26, 2005 under the alias Ljungblut. The sound is a lot more acoustic and melancholic than what we ever heard from Seigmen, but the melodies and lyrics are strong and personal and this is certainly a contender for the title Best Norwegian Album of the Year.

The future
Ljungblut and Zeromancer are both scheduled for new releases next year. As well as a Seigmen DVD containing the reunion show, videos, interviews, and a documentary with unreleased material.

Different members are actively pursuing their own side projects; Alex has been working as producer for a few Norwegian artists - such as Gåte and Don Juan Dracula, Erik has lent his keyboard and computer skills out to such various artists as the Swiss electro band Undergod and Norwegian black metal acts Satyricon.

Even Seigmen may still have a future, though all the members deny it, because they agreed to do "one last" concert during the UKA-festival in Trondheim on October 20, 2005. Six years after disbanding the band they stood on stage together again, in front of an audience of more than 5000 people. After this success they went on a small tour in Norway in the summer of 2006.

Full Kim Discography
Seigmen
 * 1) Det Finnes Alltid En Utvei [Demo] (1990)
 * 2) Pluto [EP] (1992)
 * 3) Ameneon [Album] (1993)
 * 4) Monsun [Single] (1993)
 * 5) Total [Album] (1994)
 * 6) Hjernen er Alene [Single] (1994)
 * 7) Döderlein [Single] (1994)
 * 8) Lament [Single] (1994)
 * 9) Metropolis [Album] (1995)
 * 10) Metropolis [Single] (1995)
 * 11) Slaver av Solen [Single] (1995)
 * 12) Metropolis - The Grandmaster Recordings [Album] (1995)
 * 13) Radiowaves [Album] (1997)
 * 14) The First Wave [Single] (1997)
 * 15) The Next Wave [Single] (1997)
 * 16) The Opera For The Crying Machinery [Promo] (1997)
 * 17) Mørkets Øy [Single](1997)
 * 18) Monument [Album](1999)
 * 19) Rockefeller [Album] (2006)
 * 20) Döderlein [live single] (2006)
 * 21) Enola [Album] (2015)

DVD
 * 1) Fra x til døden (2006)

Zeromancer
 * 1) Clone Your Lover [Album] (2000)
 * 2) Clone Your Lover [Promo] (2000)
 * 3) Eurotrash [Album] (2001)
 * 4) Eurotrash [Promo] (2001)
 * 5) Doctor Online [Single] (2001)
 * 6) Need You Like A Drug [Promo] (2001)
 * 7) Zzyzx [Album](2003)
 * 8) Famous Last Words [Promo] (2003)
 * 9) Famous Last Words [Single] (2003)
 * 10) Erotic Saints [Promo] (2003)
 * 11) Eurotrash [DVD] (2004)
 * 12) Doppelganger I love you [Promo] (2007)
 * 13) I'm yours to lose [Single] (2007)
 * 14) Sinners International [Album] (2009)
 * 15) It Sounds Like Love (But It Looks Like Sex) [EP] (2009)
 * 16) The Death of Romance [Album] (2010)
 * 17) Bye-Bye Borderline [Album] (2013)
 * 18) Something for the Pain – Best of [Album] (2013)
 * 19) Orchestra of Knives [Album] (2021)

Ljungblut
 * 1) Family Album [Promo] (2004)
 * 2) Influences For a New Album (2005)
 * 3) The Other Side of All Things [Album, Russian Edition] (2005)
 * 4) Capitals [Album] (2007)
 * 5) Capitals [Album, Russian Edition] (2007)
 * 6) Over Skyene Skinner Alltid Solen (2011)
 * 7) Ikke Alle Netter Er Like Sorte (2016)
 * 8) Villa Carlotta 5959 (2018)
 * 9) Saudasjøen (2023)

Guest appearances in songs
 * 1) SubGud - Time Machine (Kim did vocals, released on Magnet)

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Category talk:People of the Three Kingdoms

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This category was created to replace the former Heroes of the Three Kingdoms. The discussion leading up to the renaming is included below. --Plastictv 15:31, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Category:Heroes of the Three Kingdoms

 * The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

 * The result of the discussion was: Rename Category:People of the Three Kingdoms   ∞ Who ? ¿ ?  08:27, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

i believe that this category should be renamed to "Personages of the Three Kingdoms" because

 * While i do agree that in popular Chinese literature and culture, the people living in the Three Kingdoms period were generally known as "heroes", regardless of their achievements or characters. However, it is unacceptable to term them so here because Wikipedia is not a fiction or novel, it is academic.

 * Secondly, some people living during that period such as Elder and Younger Qiaos (see Elder Qiao and Younger Qiao) who are not considered "heroes" even in folklore are also listed under this category. Shouldn't the term "personages" be more all-encompassing then?

 * Thirdly, both the Chinese and Japanese Wikipedias use terms roughly translated to "Personages of the Three Kingdoms" (see zh:Category:三国人 and ja:Category:三国志の登場人物) and the French... well the French have a problem of their own. :p

Noting that a CFD had previously been conducted and the decision reached was keep, i raised the issue again in the discussion page of the category on 21 Apr, but no one responded since. Therefore i now propose renaming of the abovesaid category and open it for a second round of votes. --Plastictv 13:02, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Rename to "Three Kingdoms characters" (for consistency). Radiant_ >|< 13:28, August 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry. Consistent with what? Please clarify. --Plastictv 14:15, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * That makes no sense. It'd be like saying "World War II characters" True, Douglas MacArthur was a character, but George Marshall wasn't. 132.205.3.20 18:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, good point. Very well, I'd prefer "people" to "personages", and kind of dislike "heroes". Radiant_ >|< 09:15, August 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Rename Plastictv's reasoning makes sense. TexasAndroid 14:35, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. "Personages" is barely a word. I don't have a better suggestion, but I don't like the nomination suggestion. -Splash 18:09, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Why isn't "personages" a word? The next closest is "characters" but that kinda makes the people sound fictional. Especially when a lot of people are misconceived about the true history of the Three Kingdoms and the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, we should try to avoid creating ambiguity. --Plastictv 21:10, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * "Personages" makes me think of the French "personnages," not that this matters at all. ♥purplefeltangel 19:35, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nearly every meaning the Oxford English Dictionary gives it at (subscription needed) is marked as "Obsolete". -Splash 19:39, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Perhaps it might suit the subject (which is China 1,800 years ago) better if we use an obsolete term? :) Well i'm just suggesting. "People of the Three Kingdoms" sounds perfectly fine, too. --Plastictv 13:36, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * OBJECT, previous vote was to Keep. 132.205.3.20 18:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * NOTE: previous discussion here: Category_talk:Heroes_of_the_Three_Kingdoms
 * Perhaps opinions voiced during a previous vote could be taken into consideration but the decision of it should hardly be taken into account when deciding the current vote. Why vote again otherwise? --Plastictv 21:10, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - Wouldn't "People of the Three Kingdoms" be better than "Personages"? JW 10:59, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Rename to Category:People of the Three Kingdoms as per JW. --Kbdank71 17:24, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Rename to People or Personages. -Sean Curtin 04:55, August 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Rename to People. mikka (t) 15:34, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Rename to People, though it's much more hamfisted than it is in Chinese. siafu 15:57, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Rename - I don't have an especially strong opinion, but I slightly prefer Category:People of the Three Kingdoms. JW 19:25, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Run-up to a close
After three days with no new votes or comments coming in, i guess it's safe to say that the vote is running up to a close. Currently the decision lies between "Personages of the Three Kingdoms" and "People of the Three Kingdoms". Please cast your final votes if you wish to and then we'll conclude this vote. Cheers! --Plastictv 07:49, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Persons of the Three Kingdoms 132.205.44.43 20:25, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

 * The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Categorising of Three Kingdoms people
What's the period associated with this category? Is it 184-280 (Yellow Turbans to defeat of Wu), or 220-280 (abdication of Xian to defeat of Wu)

If 184-280, then there is an overlap between this category and Han Dynasty in the years 184-220. Should people active during these years be placed in both categories, or just this one? If 220-280, this would mean that the likes of Cao Cao, Guan Yu and Zhou Yu, who are generally associated with Three Kingdoms, would be categorised only in Han Dynasty. My personal preference is for 184-280, with Han Dynasty covering everyone up to 184.--Omdal 03:31, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Strictly speaking a Chinese dynasty or historical period begins with the reign of its first sovereign. If you possess a standard Chinese dictionary, a timeline of Chinese history at the back would clearly define the beginning of the Three Kingdoms period as 220, the year in which Cao Pi declared himself the emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.

 * However, few, if any, dynastic transistions are well-defined. This ambiguity is especially pronounced in the shift from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period because of the practically powerless Emperor Xian and the massive scale of civil war.

 * My suggestion is to include these characters in the Three Kingdoms category only, as they are commonly considered by historians and laymen alike to belong to that era. Nonetheless, this is only a rule of the thumb as some people living during the 184–220 period are still more appropriately considered people of the Eastern Han Dynasty. --Plastictv 06:30, 21 November 2005 (UTC)


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Portal:Aviation/Anniversaries/April 1

April 1

 * 2011 – A Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II from Spangdahlem Air Base crashed near Laufeld, Germany. The pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Scott Hurrelbrink, ejected and was not seriously injured.

 * 2011 – Southwest Airlines Flight 812, the Boeing 737-3HR N632SW with 123 people on board, suffers an in-flight structural failure which opens a six-foot (1.8-meter)-long hole in its fuselage and triggers an explosive decompression and the deployment of oxygen masks. Only two people suffer minor injuries, and the airliner makes a successful emergency descent and landing at Yuma International Airport in Yuma, Arizona. Southwest Airlines grounds all 80 of its 737-300s for inspection.

 * 2011 – In the Libyan Civil War, a coalition airstrike attacking a Libyan government ground convoy in eastern Libya causes a truck carrying ammunition to explode, destroying two nearby houses. Seven civilians die and 25 are wounded.

 * 2011 – A Libyan rebel convoy near Brega fires into the air with an anti-aircraft gun, perhaps in celebration. A U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft believing it was under attack by Libyan government forces then returns fire, killing at least 13 people.

 * 2011 – Introduction: Denel Rooivalk

 * 2009 – A Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma (G-REDL) flying from the BP Miller Oil Platform located 168 nautical miles (270 km) north-east from Aberdeen, Scotland to the heliport at Aberdeen Airport crashes into the North Sea 11 nmi east of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. The Super Puma helicopter owned by Bond Offshore Helicopters made a brief mayday call at 12:54 pm BST and was then seen to crash 2 nmi from a supply vessel resulting in the death of 2 crew and 14 passengers. The cause of the accident was the catastrophic failure of the main rotor gearbox, which caused the main rotor to detach and severed the pylon and tail boom.

 * 2006 – AH-64D Apache from 4–4th Aviation Regiment shot down southwest of Baghdad, killing the two crewmen.

 * 2006 – F-14A Tomcat 158620 'NF-104' of VF-154 crashes; the pilots survive.

 * 2003 – AV-8B+(R) Harrier 165391 of HMM-263 crashes off USS Nassau; the pilot was rescued.

 * 2003 – S-3A Viking 160584 of VS-38 crashes off USS Constellation; two pilots survive.

 * 2001 – Hainan Island incident- An American Lockheed EP-3E Aries II surveillance plane, BuNo 156511, coded 'PR-32', of VQ-1, collided with a Chinese Shenyang J-8IID fighter jet, reported as 81192, and was forced to make an emergency landing at Lingshui air base on Hainan Island, China. The U.S. crew was detained for 10 days; the Chinese fighter pilot, Wang Wei, was reported missing and presumed dead. The Chinese refused to let the Orion be flown out, so it was dismantled and transported on chartered Antonov An-124-100 of Polyot.

 * 1993 – Queen Elizabeth II of England reviews 70 Royal Air Force aircraft on the ground in celebration of the air force's 75th anniversary. A mass flypast is cancelled due to poor weather.

 * 1982 – Air France flies the Concorde over to Rio de Janeiro and Caracas, Venezuela for the last time.

 * 1978 – The Canadian Snowbirds aerobatic team officially becomes the 431 Air Demonstration Squadron.

 * 1976 – Lufthansa's first two Airbus A300B s enter service. They will fly between Frankfurt and Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart and London.

 * 1975 – Republic of Singapore Air Force is formed

 * 1972 – BOAC and British European Airways are merged to create British Airways

 * 1971 – Entered Service: Hawker Siddeley Trident 3 B with British European Airways

 * 1965 – Entered Service: NAMC YS-11 with Japan Domestic Airlines

 * 1965 – Tasman Empire Airways becomes Air New Zealand

 * 1965 – Tripartite Evaluation Squadron Hawker Siddeley Kestrel FGA.1, XS696, catches fire on take-off at RAF West Raynham and crashes.

 * 1964 – In an unusual accident, the Number Three deck elevator of the USS Randolph tears loose from the ship during night operations and plunges into the Atlantic off Cape Henry, Virginia, taking with it a Grumman S-2D Tracker, five crewman, and a tractor. Three crew are rescued by the USS Holder, but two are lost at sea.

 * 1961 – Venezuelan airline VIASA commences operations

 * 1956 – TWA Flight 400, a Martin 4-0-4, crashes on takeoff at Greater Pittsburgh International Airport, killing 22 of the 36 on board; 14 survive.

 * 1955 – post-World War II bans on powered flight in West Germany are lifted

 * 1954 – Last operational flight by an RAF Spitfire, a photo-reconnaissance sortie against bandits in Malaya

 * 1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.

 * 1953 – The CF-100 entered Squadron service.

 * 1953 – British European Airways and Air France introduce "tourist class" fares

 * 1951 – U. S. Navy carrier-based jets are used as fighter-bombers for the first time as F9F Panthers of Fighter Squadron 191 (VF-191) aboard USS Princeton (CV-37) attack a railroad bridge near Songjin, Korea, with 100- and 250-pound (45- and 113-kg) bombs.

 * 1949 – Tip tank of Dow AFB-based Republic F-84B Thunderjet comes off during Lewiston, Maine parade flyover and hits Lewiston Public Works Garage.

 * 1949 – Entered Service: Boeing Stratocruiser with Pan American World Airways

 * 1948 – First flight of the Convair XF-92, America's first delta-winged airplane

 * 1947 – First flight of the Blackburn Firecrest

 * 1945 – The Nakajima Aircraft Company comes under the control of the Japanese government and is renamed the First Munitions Arsenal.

 * 1945 – Ohkas score hits on the USS West Virginia and three of her escorts.

 * 1944 – U. S. Navy Task Force 58 carrier aircraft strike Woleai. During the March 30-April 1 raids on the Palau Islands, Yap, and Woleai, Task Force 58 aircraft have sunk or badly damaged 36 Japanese ships totaling 130,000 tons, trapped 32 more in harbors with naval mining, and destroyed many Japanese aircraft in exchange for the loss of 25 U. S. planes.

 * 1943 – The Imperial Japanese Navy begins the I Operation, a land-based air offensive over the Solomon Islands and New Guinea, with a fighter sweep by 58 Japanese Mitsubishi A6 M Zeroes from Rabaul down New Georgia Sound toward Guadalcanal. Over the Russell Islands, 41 U. S. F4 F Wildcats, F4U Corsairs, and P-38 Lightnings intercept them. The Japanese lose 18 Zeros in exchange for six American fighters.

 * 1943 – (1-2 ) U. S. Army Fifth Air Force bombers attack a Japanese convoy bound for Kavieng, sinking a merchant ship and damaging the heavy cruiser Aoba and a destroyer. Aoba is never again capable of steaming at maximum speed.

 * 1942 – At Malta's submarine base, German aircraft sink the British submarine HMS Pandora, damage the submarine HMS P36 beyond repair, and badly damage the submarine HMS Unbeaten.

 * 1940 – First flight of the Grumman XF5F Skyrocket

 * 1939 – First flight of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero (Allied reporting name “Zeke”).

 * 1939 – During a promotional sales tour of Europe, the Seversky 2PA-202 is wrecked after a demonstration in England.

 * 1938 – Nationalist leader Francisco Franco announces that the Spanish Civil War has ended in a complete Nationalist victory. During the 32½-month war, the Nationalists have used about 1,300 aircraft and the Republicans about 1,500; about 10,000 people have died in air attacks. Early Republican numerical air superiority had been challenged almost immediately by the technical superiority of Italian Fiat CR.32 fighters and Savoia-Marchetti SM.81, and German Junkers Ju 52 bomber-transports; Soviet Polikarpov I-15 and I-16 fighters had given the Republicans air superiority in the winter of 1936-1937, but the Nationalists had achieved lasting air superiority after German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters and Heinkel He 111 bombers and Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 bombers had arrived in 1937. Germany has sent about 600 aircraft to Spain, Italy about 660, the Soviet Union 1,000, and other countries (principally France) about 350. The German, Italian, and Soviet air forces have learned a great deal about the employment of modern aircraft in warfare through their involvement, and the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion in particular has used the conflict to test new aircraft and revolutionary new air warfare concepts.

 * 1937 – No. 3 Repair Depot authorized to form at Vancouver.

 * 1935 – First flight of the North American T-6 Texan

 * 1935 – Swissair begins services between Zürich and London

 * 1933 – The Indian Air Force is formed

 * 1928 – The Imperial Japanese Navy forms its first seagoing aircraft carrier organization, the First Carrier Division.

 * 1926 – Italian airline Società Italiana Servizi Aerei begins operations linking Trieste, Venice, Pavia, and Turin with CANT 10 flying boats.

 * 1924 – Most of the aviation work that had been done in British Columbia up to 1924 was done in conjunction with the Air Board, then the Canadian Air Force and finally the Royal Canadian Air Force which came into being. The RCAF withdrew from patrol duties despite its success in this role. A few of the people who had been flying for the military until this time decided to strike out on their own. They wanted to form independent companies, and still make a living doing what they enjoyed most – Flying. Don McLaren was one such person and he formed a company called Pacific Airways, in February 1925

 * 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

 * 1924 – Britain's Fleet Air Arm is established

 * 1924 – Imperial Airways is formed, with the backing of the British government.

 * 1923 – The Royal Air Force abandons the squadron as the basic organizational unit for those of its aircraft operating from Royal Navy ships, reorganizing them into six-plane flights.

 * 1921 – French pilot Adrienne Bollard takes off from Mendoza, Argentina in a Cauldron biplane to become the first woman to fly over the Andes. She completes the historic Andean crossing to the Chilean capital, Santiago in 10 hours.

 * 1918 – The Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service combine to form the Royal Air Force. The Women's Royal Air Force is formed at the same time.

 * 1916 – US Coast Guard Third Lieutenant Elmer F. Stone begins flight training at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida. He is the first US Coast Guard aviator.

 * 1915 – French pilot Lt Roland Garros scores the first kill using a non-synchronised machine gun when he shoots down an Albatros observation plane from his Morane Saulnier Type L.

 * 1916 – French ace Jean Navarre, with an observer Lt. Robert, score the first kill.

 * 1911 – The first flying unit of the British Military, the Air Battalion Royal Engineers formed.

 * 1911 – First flight of the Avro Type D

 * 1904 – Captain Ferdinand Ferber makes a failed attempt to fly an Archdeacon glider at Berck sur Mer, Picardy.

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The following rugby union players play as scrum-half

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2005 IBF World Championships

The 2005 IBF World Championships (14th World Badminton Championships) was held in Anaheim, southern California, United States, from August 15 to August 21, 2005.

2004 Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia won the men's singles over China's Lin Dan, while Peter Gade of Denmark and Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia received bronze medals.

In the women's singles category, Xie Xingfang won the gold medal beating compatriot 2004 Olympic gold medalist Zhang Ning. Germany's Xu Huaiwen and Chinese Taipei's Cheng Shao-chieh won bronze medals. Cheng Shao-chieh also created some surprise results in the tournament.

Women's doubles was almost an all-China show. 2004 Olympic gold medalists Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen repeated their 2004 Olympic performance with victory over silver medalists Gao Ling/Huang Sui.

In the mixed doubles, number 1 seeds Nathan Robertson/Gail Emms of England backed out before commencement of the tournament due to an injury to Robertson. This paved the way for several pairs to contest the medals. Indonesia's Nova Widianto and Liliyana Natsir secured the gold over China's up and coming Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen. Zhang Yawen also become the only double medalist in this games winning the silver in mixed doubles and bronze in the women's doubles.

The biggest surprise in the tournament came in men's doubles. Though former Indonesian star Tony Gunawan had long been recognized as one of the premier men's doubles players in the game, he and his American partner Howard Bach were only the 13th seeded team in the competition. However, from the round of 16 through the semifinal they routinely defeated higher seeded pairs to reach the final. There, before a surprisingly large "hometown crowd", they overcame the second seeded Indonesian team of Sigit Budiarto and Candra Wijaya in three close games to become the first American winners of any event since the IBF first held an official World Championships in 1977.

Host city selection
Anaheim (United States) and Aarhus (Denmark) were the candidates for the host of the championships. Singapore withdrew its bid before the council meeting which later awarded the event to Anaheim.

Venue
The championships were held at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, now known as Honda Center.

Medalists
China had an excellent tournament, winning seven medals in total, including the gold medals in the women's singles and women's doubles, as well as four of the five silvers. Indonesia won both the men's singles and mixed doubles. The men's doubles tournament was won by the 13th seeds, Tony Gunawan and Howard Bach, winning the United States's first ever gold at the World Championships.

Participating nations
A total of 50 nations entered players at the 2005 IBF World Championships. The number of competitors is indicated in parentheses.

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The following rugby union players play as fly-half

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Portal:Aviation/Anniversaries/April 3

April 3

 * 2009 – Quebec Service Aérien Canadair CL-415 C-GQBG makes a belly landing at Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport, Canada and suffers substantial damage.

 * 2008 – In the 2008 Suriname plane crash, an Antonov An-28 operated by Blue Wing Airlines crashes near Benzdorp in Suriname. All nineteen on board are killed.

 * 2008 – ATA Airlines ceased all operations due to unrecovering bankruptcy.

 * 2006 – USAF Lockheed C-5B Galaxy, 84-0059, of 436th Airlift Wing/512th Airlift Wing AF Reserve, crashes in a field one mile (1.6 km) short of the runway during landing approach to Dover AFB, Delaware. All 17 on board survive, although three are seriously injured. The cause was found to be aircrew error as the pilots and flight engineers did not properly configure, maneuver and power the aircraft during approach and landing.

 * 1996 – 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash: A USAF Boeing CT-43, 73-1149 (c/n 20696), call sign IFO 21, of the 76th Airlift Squadron, 86th Airlift Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on an official trade mission, crashed on approach to Dubrovnik Airport, Croatia, killing United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 34 other people. The crash board findings, announced 7 June 1996, blamed the crash on a failure of command, aircrew error and an improperly designed instrument approach procedure.

 * 1985 – First Kamov V-80-01, prototype of Kamov Ka-50 "Hokum", '010', crashes, killing the pilot.

 * 1982 – First flight of the Airbus A310

 * 1981 – Pan Am founder Juan Trippe dies in Los Angeles.

 * 1980 – The prototype of the Bombardier Challenger 600 crashes in the Mojave Desert in California, killing its pilot.

 * 1970 – A USAF Boeing B-52D-60-BO Stratofortress, 55-089, c/n 464-17205, of the 28th Bomb Wing caught fire and crashed during landing at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, skidding into a brick storage building containing 25,000 gallons of jet fuel. Heroic efforts by crash crew save all nine on board, although one suffered broken limbs, and three firefighters were injured. One of the eight jet engines ran for forty minutes following crash.

 * 1968 – The RCAF’s Lockheed P2V Neptune flew its last operational mission. A few would later be activated when the Canadair Argus was grounded after cracks were discovered in some.

 * 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration restricts American bombing of North Vietnam to targets south of the 19th Parallel.

 * 1965 – United States Air Force and U. S. Navy aircraft begin covert Operation Steel Tiger armed reconnaissance flights over southeastern Laos.

 * 1965 – The first jet-to-jet combat of the Vietnam War occurs. Although all American aircraft involved return safely, the North Vietnamese Air Force claims to have shot down a U. S. Navy Vought F-8 Crusader fighter and in future years celebrates April 3 as "North Vietnamese Air Force Day. "

 * 1965 – The U. S. Air Force mounts the first and largest U. S. air strike against the Thanh Hoa Railroad and Highway Bridge in North Vietnam, which the bridge survives. Despite 873 sorties against it over the next seven years, the bridge will not be destroyed until April 1972.

 * 1954 – Qantas introduces tourist-class services on its Kangaroo route from Sydney to London.

 * 1953 – BOAC introduces a weekly service to Tokyo by de Havilland Comet jet airliner.

 * 1952 – A United States Air Force Boeing B-29A-65-BN Superfortress, 44-62164, crashes at night. Suspected reason – Fuel line issues. The crew bailed out over a farmer's field 8 miles (13 km) N/5.5 miles W of Onaga, Kansas, United States. The captain died in the crash and one airman perished when his parachute failed to open. In addition, several cattle were killed. The surviving crew was fired at by the farmer, who believed them to be invading "ruskies".

 * 1951 – Sole prototype Hawker P.1081, converted from second prototype Hawker P.1052, VX279, with 5,000 lb (2,300 kg). s.t. Rolls-Royce Nene turbojet, first flown 19 June 1950, crashes this date at high speed on the South Downs, killing pilot Squadron Leader T. S. "Wimpy" Wade, DFC, AFC, Hawker's chief test pilot. He attempts ejection but his non-Martin-Baker seat fails. Cause was never fully established, but aircraft may have gone out of control during dive and exceeded limitations, witnesses reported hearing sonic boom as it came down. Australian interest in building type under license disappears, both they and the Royal Air Force acquiring Canadair Sabres to fill requirement for a high-speed fighter. Program abandoned.

 * 1948 – Alitalia recommences services to the United Kingdom

 * 1944 – American aircraft raid Wotje.

 * 1944 – The U. S. Army Forces’ Fifth Air Force resumes attacks on Japanese airfields around Hollandia on New Guinea with the heaviest raid yet, including nearly a hundred Douglas A-20 Havoc bombers. They encounter only sporadic Japanese resistance.

 * 1944 – In Operation Tungsten, a raid launched from the British aircraft carriers HMS Victorious, HMS Furious, HMS Emperor, HMS Fencer, HMS Pursuer, and HMS Searcher, 42 Fleet Air Arm Fairey Barracuda aircraft escorted by 40 fighters scores 14 hits with 1,600-lb (726-kg) bombs on the German battleship Tirpitz in Altenfjord, Norway, badly damaging her and killing 122 of her crew. Two Barracudas are lost.

 * 1942 – The US 303rd Bomb Group, activated at Pendleton Field, Oregon, on 3 February 1942, suffers its first fatal aircraft accident when three flying officers and five enlisted crew are killed in the crash of a Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress, 41-9053, six miles (10 km) N of Strevell, Idaho during a training mission.

 * 1941 – The British aircraft carrier HMS Argus (I49) flies off 12 Royal Air Force Hawker Hurricanes to Malta from a point south of Sardinia.

 * 1939 – First flight of the Gloster F.9/37 (or Gloster G.39), a British twin-engined design for a cannon-armed fighter.

 * 1933 – United States Navy airship USS Akron (ZRS-4), encounters severe weather and crashes into the Atlantic off the coast of New Jersey. 73 passengers and crew, including Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, were killed. It did not have the Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawks deployed aboard when it was lost. The new Naval Airship Station at Sunnyvale, California is named Moffett Field in honour of the lost admiral.

 * 1933 – The Royal Air Force reinstates the squadron of nine to 12 planes as the basic organizational unit for its aircraft assigned to Royal Navy aircraft carriers, retaining the six-plane flight as the basic organizational unit only for aircraft assigned to operate from battleship and cruiser catapults.

 * 1933 – Two British aircraft, the Westland PV-3 and Westland PV-6 make the first flight over Mount Everest

 * 1926 – Gus Grissom, American astronaut, was born (d. 1967). Virgil Ivan Grissom, more widely known as Gus Grissom, was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts and a United States Air Force pilot. He was the second American to fly in space. Grissom was killed along with fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a training exercise and pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at the Kennedy Space Center. He was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross and, posthumously, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

 * 1904 – Gabriel Voisin successfully flies a modified Archdeacon glider at Berck sur Mer, Picardy. Voisin added a canard to the design. His longest flight on this day was 25 seconds.

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Bernard Cohen (physicist)

Bernard Leonard Cohen (June 14, 1924 – March 17, 2012) was born in Pittsburgh, and was Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Cohen was a staunch opponent of the so-called Linear no-threshold model (LNT) which postulates there exists no safe threshold for radiation exposure. His view which has support from a minority. He died in March 2012.

No-threshold and plutonium toxicity debates
Cohen claimed: "All estimates of the cancer risk from low level radiation are based on the linear-no threshold theory (LNT) which is based solely on largely discredited concepts of radiation carcinogenesis, with no experimental verification in the low dose region of the most important applications. These risk estimates are now leading to the expenditure of tens of billions of dollars to protect against dangers whose existence is highly questionable. It is therefore of utmost importance to test the validity of this theory."

A conclusion, with an update to the landmark study published 1995, continues: "Since no other plausible explanation has been found after years of effort by myself and others, I conclude that the most plausible explanation for our discrepancy is that the linear-no threshold theory fails, grossly over-estimating the cancer risk in the low dose, low dose rate region. There are no other data capable of testing the theory in that region.

An easy answer to the credibility of this conclusion would be for someone to suggest a potential not implausible explanation based on some selected variables. I (or he) will then calculate what values of those variables are required to explain our discrepancy. We can then make a judgement on the plausibility of that explanation. To show that this procedure is not unreasonable, I offer to provide a not-implausible explanation for any finding of any other published ecological study. This alone demonstrates that our work is very different from any other ecological study, and therefore deserves separate consideration."

Cohen's debates in academic periodicals and published correspondence with R. William Field, Brian J. Smith (assistant professor of biostatistics, University of Iowa), Jerry Puskin (from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Sarah Darby, and Sir Richard Doll and others regarding his radon-related ecologic studies are well known. Among other expert panels, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer discussed at length Cohen's results then concluded: "The weight of evidence is that the ecological analyses of Cohen can be rejected."

In March, 2011, Professor Cohen stated, reflecting on his study and its controversial results, that low levels of radiation can have beneficial health effects and reduce the risks of cancer, "There is evidence on both sides. Whether low-level radiation is protective against cancer, a theory called radiation hormesis, is debated in the scientific community. Furthermore, ...[on his viewpoint, and its support found in his exhaustive studies] it could go further and say that no confounding factors (like socio-economic, geography, ethnicity, medical care access, and beyond 500 explored in the analysis) can explain the results. However, my study was designed to test the assumption that the danger of radiation is simply proportional to the radiation dose, which is the only evidence that low-level radiation may be harmful. My conclusion was that that assumption is false." Other scientists disagree and more research has been called for.

Subsequent research would join a profound array of positions including a 1982 United Nations' work-group study -UNSCEAR- concluding: "There appear to be no nonspecific effects from low doses of radiation that result in a shortening of the life span."

In 1983, Cohen proposed that uranium is effectively inexhaustible, and could therefore be considered a renewable source of energy.

Scholarly achievements
Professor Cohen earned his under-graduate degree from Case-Western Reserve University [1944], Masters from University of Pittsburgh [1947] and Ph.D from Carnegie-Mellon University [1950]. He taught at UP (Pitt) from 1958 as Professor of Physics, Adjunct Prof. of Chemistry, Adjunct Prof. of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Adjunct Prof. of Radiation Health at the Graduate School of Public Health; there also as Adjunct Prof. of Environmental and Occupational Health. He was awarded Professor-Emeritus standing in 1994.

From 1965-1978, he was Director of the Scaife Nuclear Laboratory.

A testimony to his conviction on the human safety of background low-level radiation was his offering rewards of up to $10,000 if people provided evidence that the inverse association he found between radon (county averages) and lung cancer (county averages) was due to some factor other than failure of the linear-no threshold theory. Puskin, Smith, Field and others have claimed that his findings are due in part to his inability to control for the inverse association between smoking and radon.

When Ralph Nader described plutonium as "the most toxic substance known to mankind", Cohen, then a tenured professor, offered to consume on camera as much plutonium oxide as Nader could consume of caffeine, the stimulant found in coffee and other beverages, which in its pure form has an oral of 192 milligrams per kilogram in rats. Nader did not accept the challenge.

Publications
Professor Cohen has written six books, including Heart of the Atom (1967) with translations in French, German, Italian, and Japanese, Concepts of Nuclear Physics (1970) with translation in Arabic, Nuclear Science and Society (1974), Before It's Too Late: A Scientist's Case for Nuclear Power (1983), and The Nuclear Energy Option, Alternative for the Nineties, (1990) in translation for Japanese and Spanish. He has written about 135 research papers on basic nuclear physics, about 300 scientific papers on energy and environment (e.g. nuclear power, health effects of radiation, radioactive waste, risks in our society), and about 80 articles in popular magazines such as Physics and Society, National Review, Oui, Science Digest, Catholic Digest, and Scientific American. He has authored scientific studies and editorial contributions on a vast array of subjects in nuclear industry trade journals such as Public Utilities Fortnightly, Reviews of Modern Physics, Nuclear Engineering International, and American Journal of Physics.

Awards and honors
Dr. Cohen received in 1981 the Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics from the American Physical Society. He was also elected Chairman of the American Physical Society, Division of Nuclear Physics (1974–75).

Dr. Cohen received the 1992 Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the Health Physics Society, and the 1996 Walter H. Zinn Award from the American Nuclear Society (ANS), for his "notable and sustained contribution to the nuclear power industry that has not been widely recognized." The ANS also granted Cohen its 1985 "Public Information Award", and its 1996 "Special Award", for his "meritorious contributions in research" on Linear Dose Model [Versus] Other Models for Critical Dose Values. He was elected to member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2003, "for fundamental contributions to our understanding of low-level radiation" and Chairman of the American Nuclear Society Division of Environmental Sciences (1980–81).

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May 23

 * 2013 – Solar Impulse aircraft HB-SIA completes the second and longest leg of its trip across the continental United States, arriving at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Texas after a 957-mile (1,541-km) flight from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona, at an average speed-over-ground of 52 mph (83.7 km/h), reaching an altitude of 27,000 feet (8,230 meters). The flight, which takes 18 hours 21 minutes, sets a new world distance record for a solar-powered flight, exceeding the previous record, also established by HB-SIA, in a flight from Switzerland to Spain on 25 May 2012.

 * 2012 – A Pakistan Army School of Aviation Schweizer 300C crashed into the Chenab river in Pakistan, two occupants killed.

 * 2011 – France and the United Kingdom announce that they will begin to use attack helicopters in Libya to increase the accuracy of NATO airstrikes and allow more precise strikes against urban targets.

 * 2006 – A Greek Lockheed Martin F-16C Block 52 Fighting Falcon, 514, of 343 Mira, and Turkish Lockheed Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon, 93-0684, of 192 Filo, collide over the Aegean Sea as the Greek pilot attempts to intercept the Turkish, after an alleged airspace violation. The Greek pilot, Flight Lieutenant Konstantinos Iliakis, is presumed dead, but the Turkish pilot, 1st Lieutenant Halil Ibrahim Ozdemir, is rescued.

 * 2004 – Frontier Airlines begins service to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Billings, Montana; and Spokane, Washington.

 * 1988 – Shamu One, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 painted like and named after a SeaWorld killer whale, begins flying for the airline.

 * 1982 – Argentina loses seven aircraft during raids against British warships in Falkland Sound and San Carlos Water.

 * 1969 – A drunken U.S. Air Force assistant crew chief, Sgt. Paul Adams Meyer, 23, of Poquoson, Virginia, suffering anxiety over marital problems, starts up a Lockheed C-130E Hercules, 63-7789, c/n 3856, of the 36th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 316th Tactical Airlift Wing, on hardstand 21 at RAF Mildenhall and takes off in it at 0655 hrs. CET, headed for Langley AFB, Virginia. At least two North American F-100 Super Sabres from RAF Lakenheath, a C-130 from Mildenhall, and two RAF English Electric Lightnings are sent aloft to try to make contact with the stolen aircraft. The Hercules crashes into the English Channel off Alderney (5000N, 0205W) ~90 minutes later. In the last transmission from Meyer, to his wife, in a link-up over the side-band radio, he stated "Leave me alone for about five minutes, I've got trouble." There is speculation whether the Hercules was shot down. Some wreckage was recovered but the pilot's body was never found. Meyer had been arrested for being drunk and disorderly earlier in the morning in the village of Freckenham and had been remanded to quarters, but sneaked out to steal the Hercules.

 * 1967 – First flight of Hawker Siddeley Nimrod

 * 1967 – President Lyndon B. Johnson‘s administration prohibits any American air attacks within a 10-mile (16-km) radius of Hanoi.

 * 1966 – Death of Ernest William Norton, Welsh WWI flying ace and RAF senior officer post WWI.

 * 1966 – (23-26) Round-the-world demonstration flight by a new Learjet 24 to exhibit its capabilities; flight time was 50 hours and 20 min.

 * 1960 – Death of Julius Buckler, German WWI fighter ace.

 * 1958 – Flying a Douglas F4D-1 Skyray, USMC Major Edward N. LeFaivre breaks 5 world climb-to-height records, including 15,000 m (49,221 feet) in 2 min 36 seconds.

 * 1958 – A Nike Ajax missile of Battery B, 526th AAA Missile Battalion, exploded accidentally at a battery at Site NY-53 near Leonardo, New Jersey at 1315 hrs. on this date, setting off six other missiles of A Section, killing 6 soldiers and 4 civilians. The nearest missile in B Section had its booster ignited by flying shrapnel and it flew into a nearby hill, but the warhead fortunately failed to explode. This was the first fatal Nike Ajax accident. A memorial can be found at Fort Hancock in the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area.

 * 1958 – First flight of The PZL-102 Kos, Polish two-seat touring and training monoplane.

 * 1958 – Birth of Thomas Arthur Reiter, European astronaut and Brigadier General in the Luftwaffe.

 * 1958 – Explorer 1 (first Earth satellite of the USA) stopped transmission of data when its batteries died. It remained in orbit for more than 12 years

 * 1958 – The Short SC.1 VTOL aircraft makes its first hovering flight on 26 May while tethered. The first free hover was 6 Apr 1960

 * 1956 – Retired: of the Douglas X-3 Stiletto

 * 1950 – AWhile flying Supermarine Attacker F.1, WA469, to test airbrakes, Supermarine pilot Leslie R. Colquhoun makes a high-speed run over South Marston airfield, experiences a sudden nose-down pitch as the starboard wingtip folds upwards. Using only the rudder - the ailerons had jammed - he makes a wide circuit and touches down at ~200 knots (370 km/h), coming to a stop just short of the end of the runway with a burst tyre. He receives the George Medal for saving the aircraft under daunting circumstances.

 * 1948 – In the early evening, ex-RAF Handley Page Halifax C.MK 8, registered G-AIZO, ex-PP293, and operated by Bond Air Services Ltd. carrying a cargo of apricots from Valencia, Spain, crashes at Studham, Bedfordshire while on a Standard Beam Approach (SBA) to RAF Bovingdon in bad weather. After a steep turn to port and losing height rapidly, the Halifax sideslips towards the ground until, seeming to recover and flying straight and level and with engines at full power, the aircraft strikes the ground flat and disintegrates, breaking into its component sections. Miraculously, the crew escape alive. After initial suspicions that the cargo may have shifted in flight, the subsequent AAIB report blames loss of control by the pilot while the aircraft was too close to the ground for recovery.

 * 1947 – First flight of the SNCAC NC.1070, French twin engine carrier born bomber prototype.

 * 1945 – (23-25) The seventh Kikusui attack off Okinawa involves 165 kamikazes. They sink a destroyer-transport and two smaller ships and damage a destroyer and a destroyer-transport on May 25.

 * 1944 – First flight of the British Martin-Baker MB 5 (actually second Martin-Baker MB 3), prototype fighter aircraft.

 * 1943 – An aircraft sinks an enemy submarine with air-to-surface rockets for the first time, as a Fairey Swordfish from the British escort carrier HMS Archer sinks the German submarine U-752 in the Atlantic.

 * 1941 – German aircraft attack British positions around Fallujah for the first time, with little effect.

 * 1941 – 24 German dive bombers attack the British destroyers HMS Kelly and HMS Kashmir as they attempt to retire after a patrol north of Crete the previous night, sinking both. Among the survivors is Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten.

 * 1940 – S/L FM Gobeil, an RCAF exchange officer and CO of No. 242 Squadron RAF, was the first RCAF officer to enter combat. He engaged a Messerschmitt Bf 109 near Berck, France.

 * 1938 – First flight of the Fiat CR.42, Italian single-seat sesquiplane WWII fighter.

 * 1933 – Birth of Bruce A. Peterson, American engineer and NASA test pilot. He flew a wide variety of airplanes including the F5D-1, F-100, F-104, F-111 A, B-52, NT-33 A Variable Stability Trainer, the wingless lifting bodies and numerous general aviation aircraft as well as several types of helicopters and sailplanes.

 * 1930 – President Herbert Hoover presents the crew of the flying boat NC-4 with gold medals for completing the first transatlantic flight in 1919.

 * 1928 – Umberto Nobile commands the Italian airship Italia on an ill-fated flight over the North Pole. The airship crashes on its way back, and Roald Amundsen is killed trying to rescue survivors.

 * 1925 – Death of Rudolf Rienau, German WWI flying ace, Post War instructor, killed in a flying accident.

 * 1924 – The first scheduled air service in Canada began. Laurentide Air Service Ltd. (which still exists today) offered flights between Angliers, Lake Fortune and Rouyn, Quebec.

 * 1923 – Birth of Walter Wolfrum, German WWII fighter ace (127 credited), and later a successful aerobatics pilot, winning the German Championship in 1962 and taking second place in 1961, 1963, 1964 and 1966.

 * 1923 – Belgian airline SABENA is formed, adding new European routes to SNETA's routes in Belgian Congo that it takes over.

 * 1918 – Death of George Edwin Thomson, Scottish WWI fighter ace, Killed in a flying accident on take off.

 * 1917 – First flight of the 5 F.1 Sopwith Dolphin, British WWI biplane fighter aircraft.

 * 1916 – Birth of Tiberiu Vinca, Romanian WWII flying ace

 * 1915 – Birth of James A. "Jim" Chamberlin, Canadian aerodynamicist who contributed to the design of the Canadian Avro Arrow; and NASA's Gemini spacecraft and the Apollo program.

 * 1915 – First flight of the Fokker Eindecker, German WWI monoplane single-seat fighter aircraft.

 * 1915 – Italy enters World War I, declaring war on Austria-Hungary.

 * 1914 – Death of Gustav Hamel, pioneer British aviator, over the English Channel while returning from Paris in a new 80hp Morane-Saulnier monoplane he had just collected

 * 1908 – Crash of the AEA White Wing (or Aerodrome #2), early US aircraft. Unusual for aircraft of its day, it featured a wheeled undercarriage. The wings were equipped with ailerons controlled by a harness worn around the pilot's body; leaning in one direction would cause the aircraft to bank to follow.

 * 1908 – First Airship disaster in the USA. A Morrell airship, 450 ft. long, collapsed 300 ft. above the earth, hurling its 16 occupants at Berkekey Ca.

 * 1908 – The first airplane flight in Italy is made by Léon Delagrange in Rome.

 * 1908 – Birth of Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix who set altitude and speed records, pupil of Michel Detroyat.

 * 1894 – Birth of Edward Robert "Ted" Pennell, British WWI flying ace who served during WWII.

 * 1893 – Birth of Jean Charles Romatet, French WWI flying ace and WWII high-ranking officer.

 * 1881 – Birth of Artur de Sacadura Freire Cabral, known simply as Sacadura Cabral, Portuguese aviation pioneer.

 * 1848 – Otto Lilienthal, key figure in the history of flying, is born in Anklam, Germany. He became the first man to fly (glide) with both regularity and control. The Wright brothers regarded his 1899 book as their bible.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bloomingpedia

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 01:41, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Bloomingpedia
This seems to be a vanity page on a minor topic. 69.237.198.2 15:33, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep --Please read the Talk:Bloomingpedia talk page for Bloomingpedia. -- Suso 2005-08-18 16:08 GMT
 * Keep -- It should NOT be deleted just because someone does not like it. This is the whole point to have an online encyclopedia so people from anywhere can make their contribution. Marinochka13 23:01, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete—Brand-new, totally non-notable website. Wikipedia is not a Web directory. Thanks for the links to DavisWiki and SeattleWiki which will be VfDed in short order. --Tysto 16:20, 2005 August 18 (UTC)
 * Comment: This was never listed on VfD itself. I've put it there now and the 5 days should restart since very few people will have seen this listing yet. Angela. 15:47, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable, Wikipedia is not a webdirectory. Yes, and those other two articles should be VfDd as well, thanks Tysto. Sdedeo 16:22, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable Wiki. Wikipedia is not a webdirectory. android  79  16:35, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not yet notable. May be worth an entry in the furure. --GraemeL (talk) 16:41, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Tysto. ~⌈Markaci⌋ 2005-08-23 T 21:20:30 Z
 * Delete, being a Wiki doesn't make you notable. No Alexa traffic rank at all, either. -Splash 22:41, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; While nn, this is advertisment. Advertising on WP is evil and repulsive. Advertising Wiki's dosn't change that | Celcius 00:05, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Non-notable -- it's not even a month old! --Botsie 03:41, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, then redirect to the only blooming 'pedia. Radiant_ >|< 08:17, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
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Mid-Hudson Library System

The Mid-Hudson Library System (MHLS) is a public library system in the Hudson Valley of New York. It was established in 1959 by the State of New York.

MHLS comprises libraries in five counties: Columbia County, Dutchess County, Greene County, Putnam County and Ulster County. The System's headquarters is in the city of Poughkeepsie.

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Celestial Recordings

Celestial Recordings is a record label founded in 2010 by Steve Kelley. The label specialises in Electronic Music, focusing mainly in Deep and Tech House.

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Category:Rugby union wings

The following rugby union players play as wing.

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