The two journalists had viewed successful shuttle landings, so they knew the drill. |
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Among them was 81-year-old Calpin, who served as an able seaman with the Royal Navy during the Normandy landings. |
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The men created a world of their own on the docks, levees, plantation landings, city quays, and steamboat decks of the Mississippi River economy. |
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This was to be a show, but also a cadet competition in short field landings, simulated forced landings, instrument flying and aerobatics. |
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In Borneo two AIF divisions staged through the American-held island of Morotai to launch three amphibious landings in Borneo. |
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Accidents in 1992 and 1994 both saw small planes make forced landings near the airstrip. |
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In turn, they provided transport, approved landings at airstrips for resupply purposes, and selected men for our teams. |
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He was wounded and decorated for bravery in a vicious battle five days after the landings. |
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The Surveyor lunar landers followed in the late 1960s, which dramatically helped in the site selection for the Apollo landings. |
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Over the next several years, I remember it experienced two wheels-up landings from hard landing practice with students. |
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I taxi back for two more take-offs and landings, the last with the left engine at 15-inches and 1500 rpm to simulate an engine failure. |
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This seems to cause fairly consistently reasonable landings and the landing Toll out is still only 500 yards or so, even not using brake. |
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Tailwind landings have you flying down final at an excess groundspeed, but at a given angle of descent. |
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So why is it that even pilots with tens of thousands of hours still make less than perfect landings? |
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The airport handled 246,000 take-offs and landings last year, a number forecast to hit 314,000 in 20 years. |
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Fishermen are tired of bouncing about on rough seas and need a break with more settled water and good landings. |
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The total number of Allied troops involved in the landings was 65,000, a little more than half the strength of the French forces in North Africa. |
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This crust was to disrupt enemy landings long enough to allow the arrival of local reinforcements. |
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Deployed to New Guinea in 1944 she bombarded Japanese positions in the Admiralty Islands and took part in the landings at Sek Island. |
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In the days following the D-Day landings, Allied troops carved a tenuous foothold on the coast of Normandy. |
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Another service will take place on Juno Beach, at which the Queen will make a speech commemorating the role of Canadian troops in the landings. |
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Operationally the landings in November were a complete success, politically a disaster. |
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Mr Walker was on board when it took part in troop landings in Sicily, Salerno and Anzio. |
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This weekend, the world will remember the courage and sacrifice of the Allied troops at the D-Day landings in France. |
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Unfortunately, there is no official list of those Australians who served on the ships and landing craft during the D-Day landings. |
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The island's white sand beaches are bordered by razor wire and concrete structures that are supposed to prevent enemy troop landings. |
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Canada's military played a key role in the D-Day landings, code named Operation Overlord, with about 18,000 troops storming ashore at Juno Beach. |
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Heck, we have beaches especially for dogs, even horses and separate beaches where there are boat landings. |
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And some poles were placed at boat landings to greet visitors arriving by canoe. |
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Members reviewed proposals to renovate the 40 piers and landings that fall within the limits of Victoria Harbour. |
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These make interesting corner or centre compositions which can occupy the pride of place in living rooms, lobbies, staircase landings, and so on. |
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The building itself, however, was a solid concrete structure of staircases, landings and corridors with many rooms leading off them. |
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Communal areas such as gardens, entrances, staircases and landings are all generously proportioned. |
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The designers, of course, figured the nose-wheel on the new tricycle landing gears also needed to be locked during take-offs and landings. |
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Kelsey and Lockheed realized that the brakes would be good for only one or two landings with this emergency lash-up. |
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Medical support for the amphibious operation was meticulously planned and successfully executed in the landings on Utah and Omaha Beaches. |
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All the hard work of the previous day is now paying off as they make clean launches with straight flights and stand up landings. |
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Under the mixed-mode plans, residents would have no respite from landings, as both runways would be used from 4am to 11.30 pm. |
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Most Irish commentators speak in terms of soft landings, corrections, or a reversion to more balanced growth rates from 2008 onwards. |
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The question of the administration of liberated areas was still unresolved when the Allied armies launched the Normandy landings on 6 June. |
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The Turkish battleship Turgud Reis manoeuvred in the Dardanelles to disrupt the Anzac landings, firing across the peninsula. |
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They have also tested fully autonomous landings and semi-autonomous take-offs for the gas-powered rotorcraft. |
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The vehicle is robustly built for carrier take-off and landings and uses a conventional wheeled take-off and landing with an arrestor hook. |
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Both Mars rovers came into their landings faster than expected, only just decelerating in time even with the benefit of braking thrusters. |
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Some taildraggers have a deserved reputation as squirrels during landings, but the Super Decathlon isn't one of them. |
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Try to make all landings main gear first unless you're flying a taildragger. |
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Flying birds have been recognised as the biggest danger for an aircraft and they can hinder the take-off and landings on the runways. |
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Three of the incidents were termed crashes, while three were considered hard landings. |
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There were no flat landings and we all had to scramble up the steep bank pulling on ferns and trees. |
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To frustrate airborne landings, obstacles were set up, areas flooded and a nightmare of antiaircraft batteries were ready. |
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You might want to consider scheduling an annual dual flight with an experienced instructor to review downwind take-offs and landings. |
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The division performed commendably throughout the campaign and was notably brilliant in the initial landings and defense of the beachhead. |
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First there was the need to keep supplied the troops who carried out the initial landings and established the beachhead. |
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Nevertheless, within forty-eight hours of the first landings, all the beachheads were secured. |
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A glass sculpture created in Warminster will be the centrepiece of a memorial to the D-Day landings in France 60 years ago. |
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Also, belly landings usually destroy the trunk which is built in three sections. |
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The addicts gathered on the top floor landings of buildings, which we referred to as shooting galleries. |
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Only the turkey wing clam and the mojarras show recent landings that are above the peak landings on a five-year running mean. |
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Around 130 prisoners from two landings, B3 and D1, refused to return their cells at lunchtime and held sit-down protests. |
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Bayeaux, as a city, remained undamaged in the war even though the Allied beach landings took place just miles from the city. |
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Judgment of landings is also rather harder on snow and once again the nosewheel undercarriage scores. |
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It was one of the first beach landings of the war, and the Americans came under fire. |
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In the full knowledge that nonpilots judge you by your landings, I undershot the runway by 100 ft, fortunately without damage. |
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The situation at the main British landing site at Helles, where the landings had begun at dawn, was equally unpropitious. |
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The area's average annual snowfall of almost 500 inches promises soft landings, too. |
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For approaches, landings, and getting the sail out of the way while rowing, let go the sheet and haul on the brail. |
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In the end the brave man who survived the Normandy landings had to admit defeat and it left him a broken man. |
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First, in the 1950s and 1960s we had the space age, with satellites and moon landings. |
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On March 30, a day after the crash, the FAA issued a second notam for Aspen that explicitly banned all night instrument landings. |
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He had been a staff sergeant during the tank landings on the second day of the D-Day invasion and fought his way through enemy fire to Belgium. |
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He was taken prisoner after the Normandy landings and transported to the Stalag VIIIC PoW camp on the Polish border. |
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This was especially important for students who were learning carrier landings which were carried out at slow speed and close to the stall. |
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After he took it up, felt out the controls and made a couple of stalls, he shot several landings. |
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Air traffic control uses radar to track planes both on the ground and in the air, and also to guide planes in for smooth landings. |
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The fuselage is strengthened for repeated carrier catapult launches and arrester landings. |
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A Horsforth parachutist padre also made the news for his part in the Sicilian landings. |
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As the main port in Ireland for landings of herring, mackerel and horse mackerel it is essential that Killybegs has a 24 hour service. |
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This EU ruling has resulted in any landings of herring mackerel and horse mackerel exceeding 10 tonnes being weighed. |
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House plants come into their own in winter and also bring life to entrance halls and landings, which are often cold, ill-lit and draughty. |
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There was much improvisation in the weeks preceding the implementation of the plan, and little time to practise the landings. |
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The vessel will eventually be used to patrol Scotland's inshore waters, monitoring landings of fish stocks. |
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Secondly, they were used to signal the control tower at the aircraft's home base to switch on the flare-path for night landings. |
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Near the pointed corner, an external pylon bears steel beams that pierce the curtain wall to support the staircase landings inside. |
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A special exhibition has been mounted to mark the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings. |
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His ship supported the American landings on Omaha Beach on D-Day, picking up survivors. |
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The raid also had a major influence on the success of the Allied troop landings on the Normandy beaches on D-Day a year later. |
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The guys who do the best deadstick landings in the simulator are all glider pilots. |
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Because of its high wing loading, I did not attempt any deadstick landings. |
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I like practicing my deadstick landings so I can get more comfortable with the plane just in case that unplanned-for event occurs. |
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Both airplanes had stalled and crashed during desperate attempts to make deadstick landings after careless fuel exhaustion. |
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The way I do deadstick landings is to put most of the drag out early and stay very tight to the field. |
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Training will include deadstick landings, crosswind take-offs and landings, go-arounds, and engine failure after takeoff. |
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Communal areas such as gardens, entrances, staircases, and landings are all generously proportioned. |
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During the war, the airfield was used by Dakota aircraft and gliders preparing for the D-Day and Arnhem landings. |
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We huddled together, on our landings, in the laundromat, at the corner deli. |
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No freezing corners, icy lofts, or windswept landings and one simple direct heat source. |
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Although there were only a limited number of estuarial harbours capable of sheltering a large fleet, successful landings were frequent. |
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He was drafted into the Royal Army Service Corps shortly after and saw action throughout the war, including the D Day landings. |
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He was mentioned in despatches for his part in the Normandy landings. |
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Once at sea, the ship will join a flotilla of military vessels that played a part in the landings in a ceremonial crossing of the Channel before berthing at Caen. |
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I keep the trim moving and the power up to try to cushion the actual touchdown, and most of my landings are acceptable, if not always worth bragging about. |
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At present, planes use one runway for landings and one for take-offs, changing over at 3pm in order to give people living under the flight-path some relief from the noise. |
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The pilot practiced landings and take-offs by taking off and following a racetrack pattern that brings the aircraft back to the start of the runway to land. |
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The airport control tower is presently responsible for handling take-offs and landings, as well as the organization of traffic at the airport itself. |
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The D-day landings marked the final and long anticipated leap from England across the Channel to the Continent. |
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Several films gave the impression that the D-Day landings broke the back of the German army and it was all over after then, which was wrong, of course. |
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Cape Clear Island, one of the last large islands in Ireland without a helipad is to have a helicopter pad to cater for both day and night time landings. |
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The ABC bridge instead recalls the decks of ferry landings on the harbour. |
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They have thus far been successful in opening several area ski trails, purchasing grooming equipment for the Noquemenon trail, and developed kayak and canoe landings. |
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During small-deck RAST landings, the pilot who isn't at the controls is responsible for backing up the flying pilot by scanning the deck for fore and aft drift. |
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There is a tendency to conceive of the Allied landings on D-day as a single event, but in fact it was just the first step. |
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Concrete flooring at the stair landings, stained an earthy gold, and the liberal use of slate and steel, bring the basement out of the 19th century. |
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During the second world war Dr Pollock served as a captain in the Black Watch and then with No 5 Commando, and took part in the D Day landings and the recapture of Mandalay. |
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Hauling scientists and supplies to the stations gives aircrews a chance to practice icy take-offs and landings and get a feel for being on the ice. |
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The landings culminated years of debate, planning, construction, bickering, invention, training, deception of the enemy and more. |
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She was told the caretakers would provide a basic service including sweeping and mopping where necessary of halls, landings and stairs and cleaning of accessible windows. |
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Constructed of various concrete caissons and pontoons, the Mulberrys were the innovation that made the Normandy campaign following the D-Day landings possible. |
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Tom Fitzgerald said fish landings were down on the previous year because of the ban on tuna drift net fishing and severe restrictions on quotas of other species. |
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One of his favourite books was about the Apollo moon landings. |
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Voskhod capsules also had larger parachutes to permit ground landings. |
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Seattle's two current runways are too close together to allow simultaneous landings during bad weather, forcing planes to line up in single file to land. |
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In a real plane, dead stick landings are pretty uncommon, but simulated power failures and deadstick landings are a required part of the curriculum. |
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The planes could be equipped with either wheels or floats for both land and water landings, but only by replacing one type of gear with the other. |
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The ships held five long skiffs that were used for landings. |
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Two of the in-flight events ended in successful deadstick landings. |
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Churchill then decided to embark on a British cruiser, the Belfast, and watch the landings from offshore. |
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This is the 45th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings, a feat of rocketry that the Russians have never matched. |
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While 820 Squadron was embarked the ship spent more than 1,000 hours at flying stations, achieved 1,100 deck landings and transferred over 2,000 loads by air. |
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Technically perfect, she stuck her landings with sureness and confidence. |
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He had as a helpful ally in this Adolf Hitler, who kept refusing to believe the Normandy landings were the main landings. |
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To summarise, today we have been remembering the Anzac landings at Gallipoli, and all those who have given their lives in the service of this country since then. |
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They take short cruises to perfect their take-offs and landings. |
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In the end, it was the ability of the senior non-coms and junior officers to adapt and adjust that made the landings successful. |
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His remarks are also particularly insensitive as we approach the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings when so many soldiers gave their lives to help liberate Europe. |
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It will also commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings, and many veterans' groups are already lined up to take part in a special event. |
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It was just as well that the maintenance of total secrecy was the one unqualified success of the landings, as this resulted in their being largely unopposed. |
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The decision to send the jets, famous for their vertical take-offs and landings, comes as Afghanistan faces a tense period in the run-up to elections. |
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Boyle by then was a grizzled veteran of amphibious landings, having witnessed four of them in the Mediterranean Theater. |
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In Manchester, a maroon was fired from the Town Hall to mark the start of the silence, and all take-offs and landings at the airport were put on hold until it was over. |
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A cracker bus driver refuses to let him aboard, and our hero coolly spins a yarn about being a wounded veteran of the Normandy landings which shames the man into submission. |
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A very simple quick mission builder is included, allowing players to practise take-offs and landings, aerial-combat manoeuvring, gunnery and formation flying. |
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The classic example was the Allied air attacks on the French rail network in 1944 to interdict German troop movements that might interfere with the Normandy landings. |
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No more skittish landings because of sluggish control columns. |
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The airport's runways currently stagger their take-off and landings, and switch them around during the day to allow residents some relief from noise. |
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We were an emergency landing strip, and we had emergency landings. |
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Halfbeak landings were highest in 1991-92, but have fluctuated considerably between years. |
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The leading leg for each traceur was used for all trials and all roll landings were performed over the preferred shoulder. |
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Effects of sea-surface temperature cycles on landings of American, European and Norway lobsters. |
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The purpose of airport deicing operations is to ensure safe aircraft departures, landings, and travel on airport grounds. |
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United Kingdom forces played an important role in the Normandy landings of 1944, achieved with its United States ally. |
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Deer and wild turkey graze on millet, rye, and fescue grasses between helicopter landings. |
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Today's jazz shoes come in lots of colors with features like microfibers and shock absorbers to protect joints from hard landings. |
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Monday's problems reduced the number of landings and takeoffs to about 60 an hour. |
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Horse mackerel and hake are the most important species, together representing almost half of the landings. |
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These included an attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, landings in Thailand and Malaya and the battle of Hong Kong. |
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These landings were successful, and led to the defeat of the German Army units in France. |
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However, he was also one of the political and military engineers of the disastrous Gallipoli landings in the Dardanelles. |
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A significant number of the aircraft not shot down after the resort to night bombing were wrecked during landings or crashed in bad weather. |
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Vertical takeoffs and landings are riskier because of threats such as foreign object damage. |
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The longship had a long, narrow hull and shallow draught to facilitate landings and troop deployments in shallow water. |
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Many of the German radar stations on the French coast were destroyed in preparation for the landings. |
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The Allies wanted to schedule the landings for shortly before dawn, midway between low and high tide, with the tide coming in. |
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A major storm battered the Normandy coast from 19 to 22 June, which would have made the beach landings impossible. |
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In the weeks preceding the landings, lists of messages and their meanings were distributed to resistance groups. |
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A group of destroyers arrived around this time to provide fire support so landings could resume. |
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Pegasus Bridge, a target of the British 6th Airborne, was the site of some of the earliest action of the Normandy landings. |
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It is exposed to strong cross winds around the rock and across the Bay of Algeciras, making landings in winter particularly uncomfortable. |
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The Royal Navy did not fight any other ships after 1850 and became interested in landings by Naval Brigades. |
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The landings were successful, but the force made little progress thereafter. |
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On 2 April 1982, Argentine forces mounted amphibious landings off the Falkland Islands. |
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Later, concrete surfaces would allow landings, rain or shine, day or night. |
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Weather observations at the airport are crucial to safe takeoffs and landings. |
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The official landings figures for Scotland indicate over 2,000 tonnes of winkles are exported annually. |
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Wind, fire and smoke prevented helicopter landings and no further instructions were given, with smoke beginning to seep into the personnel block. |
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If landings at the ports were achieved, the forces involved would be doomed unless they were relieved by the advance of the armies in Flanders. |
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Had an invasion taken place, the Bf 110 equipped Erprobungsgruppe 210 would have dropped Seilbomben just prior to the landings. |
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The advantages of surprise and darkness were thus lost, while the Germans had manned their defensive positions in preparation for the landings. |
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Preparing the ground for the main landings, four destroyers were bombarding the coast as landing craft approached. |
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Indeed, on the day of the raid itself, the BBC announced it, albeit at 0800, after the landings themselves had taken place. |
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This misled the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. |
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Many of the German radar stations on the French coast were destroyed by the RAF in preparation for the landings. |
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Allied planners considered tactical surprise to be a necessary element of the plan for the landings. |
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Information on the exact date and location of the landings was provided only to the topmost levels of the armed forces. |
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The airborne landings west of Utah were not very successful, as only ten per cent of the paratroopers landed in their drop zones. |
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Casualties were heavier than all the other landings combined, as the men were subjected to fire from the cliffs above. |
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In the immediate aftermath of the landings, the priority for the Allies at Utah Beach was to link up with the main Allied landings further east. |
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The British were able to take advantage of the Navy's position to develop plans for amphibious landings on the coast. |
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The Normandy invasion began with overnight parachute and glider landings, massive air attacks and naval bombardments. |
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The Normandy landings were the first successful opposed landings across the English Channel in over eight centuries. |
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Many dramatisations focus on the initial landings, and these are covered at Normandy Landings. |
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The test featured 124 catapults, 222 touch-and-go landings, and 124 arrestments. |
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Some Western sources considered this to be the first landing at the Pole until the Soviet landings became widely known. |
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The major outlet for US landings of yellow and silver eels is the EU market. |
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By 1968, landings for the fish peaked at 800,000 metric tons before a gradual decline set in. |
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The guns at the Batteries also fired on German torpedo boats attempting night landings. |
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In some situations it can also be safer compared to landings on the ground. |
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Canoeing can be carried out on most parts of the river, with the two clubs having navigable sections protected by weirs next to their landings. |
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Due to frequent arctic travel, the plane was equipped with long skids for snow and ice landings. |
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Prior to 1990, landings data were collected only from individuals holding quinaldine permits. |
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We have practiced single-engine field landings far more often than single-engine shipboard arrestments. |
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But a private assault course and lawn suitable for helicopter landings is pretty extraordinary, we reckon. |
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Within a single day a commuter pilot might have to make five takeoffs and an equal number of landings. |
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During the repairs, take-offs and landings of executive jets and chartered flights will be diverted to other airports during peak hours. |
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Emergency procedures included touchdown autorotations, hydraulic-off landings, and tail-rotor failure procedures. |
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The motorbike fan joined the Royal Corps of Signals as a dispatch rider at 19 in 1941 and was at the D-Day landings in France. |
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The seaborne landings in Morocco and Sicily had been relative cakewalks. |
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Billfishes and dolphinfish were noted among landings from pelagic gillnet and longline fisheries. |
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On 31 December 1943, Eisenhower and Montgomery first saw the COSSAC plan, which proposed amphibious landings by three divisions, with two more divisions in support. |
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The amphibious assaults in North Africa followed three months after the Dieppe Raid, and the successful Normandy landings took place two years later. |
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Less than 10 hours after the first landings, the last Allied troops had all been either killed, evacuated, or left behind to be captured by the Germans. |
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If the landings were to be made at the same time, methods would have to be devised to disembark men, vehicles and supplies at all states of the tide. |
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German intelligence changed the Enigma codes right after the Allied landings of 6 June but by 17 June the Allies were again consistently able to read them. |
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Mackerel makes up more than half of the catch in Shetland by weight and value, and there are significant landings of haddock, cod, herring, whiting, monkfish and shellfish. |
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The long takeoffs and landings also had much more dangerous implications. |
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Chicago's O'Hare International Airport handled more takeoffs and landings than any other airport in 2004, but it is still behind its rival Atlanta in number of passengers. |
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Some 1,200 aircraft departed England just before midnight to transport three airborne divisions to their drop zones behind enemy lines several hours before the beach landings. |
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On 31 December 1943 Eisenhower and Montgomery first saw the plan, which proposed amphibious landings by three divisions with two more divisions in support. |
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Southwest said Goodyear Flight Radials on the nose landing gear of 133 Boeing 737-700 aircraft registered 28 percent more landings per tread compared to bias-ply tires. |
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During takeoffs and landings, water can be injected into the turbine section of the AV-8B's engine to provide an additional 1,500 pounds of thrust if required. |
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Consequently, the landings met no practical opposition in Algiers, and the city was captured on the first day along with the entire Vichy African command. |
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In January 1944, the Allies launched a series of attacks in Italy against the line at Monte Cassino and tried to outflank it with landings at Anzio. |
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Eisenhower referred to the landings as the initial invasion. |
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Two close calls at the airport last week indicate airport officials should consider changing the way takeoffs and landings are handled, Nance says. |
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The battle group standing offshore opened fire, giving covering fire for the landings and causing considerable damage to the Egyptian batteries and gun emplacements. |
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Roads and landings were constructed, and camp sites established. |
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A LEAMINGTON church is to hold a special exhibition to mark the centenary of World War I and to remember the D-Day landings of the Second World War. |
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The heliport averages more than 20,000 take-offs and landings a year. |
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Substantial decline in numbers and fishery landings of American eels over their range in eastern Canada and the US was noted, raising concerns over the status of this species. |
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The Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history, with nearly 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. |
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The landings were to be preceded by airborne operations near Caen on the eastern flank to secure the Orne River bridges and north of Carentan on the western flank. |
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Officials said the men appeared to have been practicing touch-and-go landings, which is common at Fox because the airfield is relatively uncrowded. |
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Rough seas and risky landings did not daunt the Chumash people. |
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Ever since its actions in Denmark in 1659, involving many landings to liberate the Danish Isles, the Dutch navy had made a special study of amphibious operations. |
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He was present at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. |
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The program's two high fidelity E-3 AWACS operational flight trainers enable aircrews to practice takeoffs, landings, aerial refuelings and emergency procedures. |
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In the latter part of the Second World War the town was a base for American forces and one of the departure points for Utah Beach in the D Day landings. |
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Much of the surrounding countryside and notably Slapton Sands was closed to the public while it was used by US troops for practise landings and manoeuvres. |
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A WAR hero who fought in the Normandy landings today condemned a Liverpool hospital after his hip replacement operation was cancelled for a second time. |
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