Maxwell Kogon

Maxwell Kogon, DFC, (1920–1980), was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) bomber pilot who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II.
Family Life.
Flight Lieutenant Maxwell (Max) Kogon was born on October 1, 1920 to Edith and David Kogon as the youngest of eight children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He married Annette (Honey) Karry in 1948. He adopted Annette's daughter from her previous marriage, Nancy, and had one son, David. Maxwell Kogon died on October 31, 1980.
RCAF Service.
During World War II, Flight Lieutenant Max Kogon was a member of 428 (Ghost) Squadron. On the first of his 37 missions he was told to bomb Hanover. After he finished this, severe icing on his motors caused them to stop rotating. After crossing the English Coast, both of the engines of his Handley-Page Halifax failed and his airspeed indicator became unusable. He told his crew to bail out, but Maxwell stayed in the aircraft and successfully crash landed it without landing gear. Flight Lieutenant Kogon mainly flew a Halifax but later switched to an Avro Lancaster. He won a Distinguished Flying Cross from the RCAF on September 1, 1944. He was the only member of his squadron to not be killed or captured in 18 months. His most known target was the V-1 Base in Pennemunde. 1n 1945 he was discharged from the RCAF.
Postwar.
After the war, KLM offered Kogon a job as the chief flying instructor, but Kogon declined. As a Jew, he was contacted by the Irgun to be a fighter pilot during the anticipated 1948 Arab–Israeli War but he said he preferred to wait for the Haggana to contact him because it was less intense. However, they never contacted him.


Capital Airport Holding

Capital Airport Holding Company (CAH) is a wholly owned entity of the Civil Aviation Administration of China which operates airports. It is the parent company of Beijing Capital International Airport, the operator of the airport of the same name.
History.
The history of Capital Airport Holding dates back to June 13, 1988 when CAAC Beijing Administration was split into three parts: CAAC North China Regional Administration, Air China and Beijing Capital International Airport.
The current Capital Airport Holding was established on December 28, 2002 from the merger of Beijing Capital Airport Holding Company, Beijing Capital International Airport Company Ltd., Tianjin Binhai International Airport, China Airport Construction Corporation, Jinfei Economic Development Company Ltd. and Civil Aviation Engineering Consulting Company of China.
Market.
CAH operates 40 wholly owned or holding companies in the group with assets of more than ¥100 billion yuan and around 38,000 staff members.
These comprise over 40 airports in nine provinces (municipality directly under the Central Government, autonomous region) including Beijing, Tianjin, Jiangxi, Hubei, Chongqing, Guizhou, Jilin, Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang.
The group also has investments in Shenyang and Dalian Airports. The company controls 30% of passenger throughput in the national civil aviation market.


List of airlines of Uzbekistan

This is a list of airlines currently operating in Uzbekistan.


Great Western Airways


London Heliport

London Heliport , previously called Battersea Heliport and currently known officially as the Edmiston London Heliport for sponsorship reasons, is London's only licensed heliport. The facility, which was built by W. & C. French and opened on 23 April 1959, is located in Battersea on the south bank of the River Thames, southwest of Westminster Bridge and between Wandsworth Bridge and Battersea Railway Bridge.
The heliport, once owned by Westland and then Harrods, is a very small site, making use of a jetty to provide a helipad for take-off and landing, and onshore parking for three to four aircraft, depending upon their size. The heliport provides landing, parking and refuelling services between 08:00 and 21:00 (flights are permitted between 07:00 and 23:00), albeit parking is normally restricted to smaller helicopter categories.
Flight conditions and procedures at the heliport prescribe a circuit height above the Thames, in an extended figure-of-eight over the water, to seek to minimise noise pollution for residents in the area and to constrain flight operations to over the river, away from the built-up area. Ground running of rotors is restricted to a maximum of five minutes for the same reason.
In 2003 London Heliport was acquired by Weston Homes. In 2012 it was bought by the Reuben Brothers, who also own Oxford Airport, for £35 million.
Edmiston announced in August 2019 that they would be taking over the title sponsorship of the heliport with a restyling of the interior & exterior areas as well as repainting the helicopter landing apron.
The nearest main line railway station is and the nearest London Underground station is .
Accidents and incidents.
On 16 January 2013 a helicopter diverting to London Heliport in adverse weather collided with a construction crane and then crashed into the street, killing the pilot and one person on the ground. This was the first fatal helicopter crash anywhere near the heliport since records began in 1976.
London Heliport has a fully licensed rescue and firefighting service who are on duty for all aircraft movements at the port as well as providing an emergency response to any helicopter incident within the London area. The Heliports Fire Service also conducts regular training alongside their colleagues in the London Fire Brigade and RNLI and offer training in helicopter emergencies to any emergency service.


List of airlines of the United Arab Emirates

This is a list of airlines which have an Air Operator Certificate issued by the General Civil Aviation Authority of United Arab Emirates.


Wright Brothers Award


JetFlite International

JetFlite International offers private jet charter and aircraft management services globally.
History.
JetFlite International (JFI) was originally known as Skookum Air, Inc. Skookum Air was created in Alaska in 1993 as a operating a single-engine, piston-powered Cessna 185. Back then, Skookum Air’s primary mission was to fly fishermen, hunters, and supplies from Anchorage to remote Alaskan towns. Very soon after its founding, the company relocated to Long Beach Airport (LGB) in Long Beach, California, changed its name to Air Rutter International (ARI), and started to grow in the executive aircraft charter industry.
In just a few years, ARI built up and managed a fleet of eight Citation 500 series and 650 series jet aircraft. In 1998, ARI moved to John Wayne/Orange County Airport (SNA) in Irvine, California. During this period, ARI grew into a well-respected aircraft management company, operating heavy and midsize jets (including such models as G-II, G-III, and G-IV from Gulfstream, the Challenger 601 from Bombardier, and the Hawker 800/700 from Hawker Beechcraft). As its fleet expanded to include heavy jets, ARI obtained World Wide Operations Specifications and, thus, created a foundation for global expansion.
Under new ownership in 2005, ARI returned to Long Beach Airport and expanded significantly to specialize in heavy jet management and international charters. In addition, the company established an FBO and a fuel farm at Long Beach. In the spring of 2010 ARI changed its name to JetFlite International, LLC (JFI), established an operating base on the East Coast at Farmingdale Republic Airport (FRG), and added an aircraft largely dedicated to serving the Russian market.
JetFlite International has extended its services to include aircraft sales and acquisitions and has earned recognition from both Wyvern Aviation Safety Intelligence and Aviation Research Group/US (ARG/US).


Kurgan West

Kurgan West was an air base in Russia located 25 km west of Kurgan. It was probably active during the 1950s and 1960s and is now abandoned; the remnants are almost completely gone.


Corporate affairs of Singapore Airlines

Singapore Airlines is majority-owned by Singapore government investment and holding company Temasek Holdings which holds 56% of voting stock.
Subsidiaries.
Singapore Airlines has diversified into related industries and sectors, including ground handling, aircraft leasing, aviation engineering, air catering, and tour operations. It has also restructured itself by hiving off operational units as fully owned subsidiaries to maintain its core business as a passenger airline. The Singapore Airlines Group comprised 25 subsidiaries, 32 associates, and two joint venture companies in the financial year ending 31 March 2007. SIA sold all its equity share of 35.5% in a joint venture, Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise, to the Bank of China for US$980 million on 15 December 2006.
There were suggestions to divest SIA Engineering Company and Singapore Airport Terminal Services, two of SIA's largest subsidiaries. Former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, for one, voiced his opinion in December 2005 that Singapore Airlines should divest these two companies to focus on its core business of air transportation. Singapore Airlines has evaluated the divestment opportunity and Singapore Airport Terminal Services (which was renamed as SATS Group) was diversified from the group on 1 September 2009.
On 18 May 2016, Singapore Airlines established Budget Aviation Holdings, a holding company to own and manage its budget airlines Scoot and Tigerair following the delisting of Tigerair from the Singapore stock exchange.
On 19 May 2017, Singapore Airlines announced that Singapore Airlines Cargo would be re-integrated as a division within the SIA group, expected to be completed in the first half of 2018, after which Singapore Airlines Cargo will become the airline's cargo division.
On 18 May 2018, it was announced that SilkAir would undergo cabin refreshes before being merged with the parent brand Singapore Airlines. At the time, it was anticipated that the cabin revamps would start in 2020.
Companies in the Singapore Airlines Group include:
Scoot.
In May 2011, Singapore Airlines revealed plans to launch a low-fare airline subsidiary within a year. The wholly owned subsidiary, New Aviation, was incorporated on 17 June 2011 with an issued and paid up capital of S$1.
On 1 November 2011, it was announced that the low-cost airline would be named Scoot and would begin flights from mid-2012 with a fleet of four Boeing 777-200 wide-body aircraft. focused on medium- and long-haul routes. The airline will be wholly owned but operated independently and managed separately from Singapore Airlines.
Vistara.
In 2013, Singapore Airlines announced the formation of a joint venture with India's Tata Sons, which was later christened as Vistara (means "limitless expanse" in Sanskrit). The full-service airline, based in New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport commenced operation on 9 January 2015.
As of March 2020, the airline serves 36 cities across India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Nepal, and Singapore with a fleet of Airbus A320, Boeing 787 and Boeing 737-800NG aircraft.
Operational investments.
The airline has invested in other airlines in a bid to expand beyond its Singapore base. In 1989, it formed a tripartite alliance with Delta Air Lines and Swissair, but terminated their partnership in 1999 after divesting their 5% equity stake in each other's company.
The airline also purchased 25% of Air New Zealand in 2000. However following the near collapse of Air New Zealand, the New Zealand government bought into the airline to rescue it from bankruptcy, reducing Singapore Airlines' stake to 4.5%. This was subsequently sold in October 2004 at a substantial loss.
SIA bought a 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic on 30 March 2000 worth £600 million in cash in the hope of leveraging on it on the lucrative transatlantic market, but by 2007, there had been reports of underperformance and the possibility of divesting its stake. On 14 May 2008, the company formally announced an invitation for offers for its Virgin Atlantic stake, and publicly acknowledged that its stake in the airline had "underperformed". On 12 December 2012, Singapore Airlines sold its 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic for US$360 million to Delta Air Lines.
In September 2004, the airline entered the [[low-cost carrier]] market by establishing [[Tigerair|Tiger Airways]] with a 49% stake, in partnership with [[Indigo Partners]] (24%); Irelandia Investments, the private investment arm of [[Tony Ryan]] and his family, (16%); and [[Temasek Holdings]] (11%). Tiger Airways was eventually listed on [[Singapore Exchange]] in February 2010, reducing SIA's share of ownership to 34.4%.
SIA purchased a 10% stake in [[Virgin Australia Holdings]] in October 2012. When it collapsed in April 2020, SIA owned 20%.
Labour.
The Singapore Airlines Group employed a total of 21,534 staff members at the end of the fiscal year on 31 March 2011. The parent airline itself employed 13,942 (47.3%), of which there are 2,174 pilots and 6,914 cabin crew. The group's employees are represented by five labour unions, namely the Singapore Airlines Staff Union (SIASU), the SIA Engineering Company Engineers and Executives Union (SEEU), the Singapore Airport Terminal Services Workers' Union (SATSWU), the Air Transport Executives Staff Union (AESU) and the Air Line Pilots' Association Singapore (ALPA-S).
Relations between the labour unions and the group management have been testy at times, particularly after a series of wage cuts, retrenchments, and early retirement affected staff morale during and after difficult economic conditions such as the [[SARS]] outbreak in 2003. The ALPA-S alone has been involved in no less than 24 disputes with group management since its registration in May 1981 (itself formed after its predecessor, the Singapore Airlines Pilots Association had 15 EXCO members charged and convicted for initiating illegal industrial action in 1980 in the wake of disputes with management and the SIAPA was deregistered on 26 February 1981) up to 30 November 2003, when the [[Ministry of Manpower (Singapore)]] amended the Trade Unions Act to overrule an item in ALPA-S's constitution requiring formal ratification from the general membership for negotiation agreements involving the executive committee. In 2007, the airline was in the spotlight again when ALPA-S disagreed with the management's proposed salary rate for pilots flying the Airbus A380, and the case had to be settled by the Industrial Arbitration Court. The salary ranges of SIA's pilots were made public during the first day of the hearings, and the press noted that the airline's 935 captains who fly the Boeing 777 received higher salaries (over [[S$]]270,000) at the midpoint of their salary brackets compared to the company's 36 vice-presidents (S$233,270).
Disputes have also affected the unions, some so severe that they have attracted the intervention of the government. The internal feuding in ALPA-S which led to the ousting of the entire 22-member executive committee on 17 November 2003 was attributed to "internal politics" and theories that it may involve former pilots, including those involved in the deregistration of SIAPA. In January 2008, NTUC secretary-general [[Lim Swee Say]] spoke up against legal action by parties involved in an internal dispute in SIASU.
On 2 April 2007 the airline group and its unions jointly launched the "Singapore Airlines Group Union-Management Partnership" and the Labour Movement 2011 (LM2011) in a bid to improve their relations, each pledging to be "pro-worker" and "pro-business" respectively. In April 2008, the airline's chairman Stephen Lee described the relations between management and the unions as "stable and cordial" in the last two years, with better communication between them. He alluded that several government figures, including Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, has intervened to help alleviate differences, and that there has been more regular meetings and exchanges between the two sides.
Marketing and sponsorships.
From 2000 until 2015, SIA was the title sponsor of the [[Singapore Airlines International Cup]], a [[Conditions races|Group 1]] [[flat racing|flat]] [[horse racing|horse race]].
In April 2014, SIA announced that it has signed an agreement with the [[Formula One]] Group to be the Title Sponsor of the [[Singapore Grand Prix|Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix]], taking over from [[Singtel]].
Branding.
[[File:Singapore Airlines flight attendants.jpg|thumb|[[Flight attendant]]s, known as the [[Singapore Girl]]s, are heavily marketed as the airline's icon]]
Branding and publicity efforts have revolved primarily around flight crew, in contrast to most other airlines, who tend to emphasise aircraft and services in general. In particular, the promotion of its female flight attendants known as [[Singapore Girl]]s has been widely successful and is a common feature in most of the airline's advertisements and publications. This branding strategy aims to build a mythical aura around the Singapore Girl, and portray her as representative of Asian hospitality and grace and the airline's training program for both cabin and technical flight crew complement this objective. This is similar to the tactics that Pan Am used as they also tried to promote their stewardesses as a big attraction to flying on the airline.
Dressed in a version of the "[[Sarong|Sarong Kebaya]]" designed by [[Pierre Balmain]] in 1968, the uniform of the Singapore Girl has remained largely unchanged. Stewards previously wore light-blue business jackets and grey trousers. Since June 2008, this has been redesigned by Christophe Galibert, artistic Director of Balmain Uniformes. The new steward's uniform now features a single-breasted navy blue suit (jacket and trousers), a sky blue shirt and different coloured striped ties. The tie colours differentiate the four ranks of cabin crew: inflight supervisor, chief steward(ess), leading steward(ess), and steward(ess).
Although a successful marketing image for the airline, the "Singapore Girl" emphasis received criticisms for its portrayal of women as subservient to males. Feminist groups say that its cultural references are outdated and that most Singaporean women today are modern and independent.
On 9 January 2007, the airline announced it would put to tender its existing advertising contract with Batey Ads, the Singaporean company headed by founder Ian Batey, who was responsible for building up the Singapore Girl brand name and its partner since 1972. The image of the Singapore Girl would still remain, although SIA will now focus on advertising and promoting its modern fleet and technology instead. On 16 April 2007, the airline appointed New York-based advertising agent [[TBWA\]] to handle its creative advertising for the airline. The contract is worth S$50 million per year over the following five years. Stephen Forshaw, SIA's Vice-President of Public Affairs, said they will start the new branding campaign "as early as there is a practicable opportunity". This change in advertising agency will not affect SIA's buying media agency, which is presently [[Wavemaker (media agency)|MEC]].
The Singapore Airlines logo is a bird, inspired by a silver kris, which comes from the keris, a dagger from Southeast Asia prominently featured in the region's myth and folklore. The keris is central in Singapore Airline's branding, such as the SilverKris lounge and the KrisWorld entertainment system.
The logo is featured on the tailfin and in the airline's collaterals, and has remained unchanged since Singapore Airlines' inception from the split of Malaysia–Singapore Airlines. The logotype and stripes underwent a minor tweak in 1987. The livery had a recent change, which saw the "Singapore Airlines" logotype enlarged and moved towards the front and the "bird" logo on the tailfin enlarged, in a similar fashion to the livery variant used on the Airbus A380. However, the stripes and the "bird" remain the same.
References.
[[Category:Singapore Airlines]]


Gondreville-sur-Moselle Aerodrome

Gondreville-sur-Moselle Aerodrome was a temporary World War I airfield in France. It was located South of Gondreville, Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.
Overview.
The airfield was built during spring of 1918 with various aircraft hangars, support buildings and quarters for personnel. It was used by 91st Aero Squadron from late May 1918, working for the headquarters of the First Army Observation Group, providing long-range and strategic reconnaissance missions over enemy territory, especially during the St. Mihiel Offensive. It was joined by 24th Aero Squadron in late August, both becoming part of the 1st Army Observation Group formed on 6 September 1918.
The airfield, however, became redundant at the end of September prior to the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, and the group was moved to Vavincourt Aerodrome. Gondreville was vacated and later turned over to the French "Aeronautique Militaire" which used it until March 1919; the airfield was then returned to agricultural use. Today it is a series of cultivated fields located south of Gondreville. The airfield was located to the south of the A31 autoroute, with no indications of its wartime use.


Barry Crocker

Barry Hugh Crocker (born 4 November 1935) is an Australian character actor, television personality, singer, and variety entertainer with a crooning vocal style known for his iconic Australian films during the 1970s "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie" and sequel "Barry McKenzie Holds His Own" and singing the theme tune to the Australian soap opera "Neighbours" between 1985 and 1992.
Biography.
Crocker was born in Geelong, Victoria. After undergoing National Service with the RAAF in 1955, Crocker toured with a theatre group and did the club circuit in Melbourne, followed by a partnership with David Clark (aka Dave Nelson), and performed in England and the United States. He returned to Australia in 1966 to star in a TV musical comedy show called "66 And All That", in 1966 hence the title which became the eponymous "The Barry Crocker Show" (1966–67) on Channel 10 Sydney (now Network Ten). This was followed by the musical variety show "Say It With Music" (1967–1969), also broadcast on Ten.
Crocker went on to become the presenter and leading performer on The Sound of Music TV series, taking over from entertainer Bobby Limb which earned him a Gold Logie in 1970 as Australia's top (male) TV personality. His singing talents eventually earned him over 30 Gold record. In 1971 "Sound of Music" was the 11th most popular show in the country.
Crocker made his acting debut on a 1969 episode of "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo". He has been in a relationship with English actress Katy Manning since 1990, although she moved back to the UK in 2010 and they maintain a long-distance relationship.
Music career.
In 1959, after successfully touring and a number of television appearances, he convinced Cyril Stevens of Spotlight Records in Thornbury to give him and his musical partner to see him. Cyril, who was a photographer by trade, had set up a recording studio in the early 1950s. He recorded manly Jazz and musical events around Victoria. Barry and Dave Clark were about to leave, Cyril wasn't impressed, when Cyril's son entered the room. He recognised the pair from television and concerts, and convinced his father to record the team. Two e.p.'s were recorded totaling eight tracks. The records were Spotlights' highest sellers.
In May 1973, he released the album "Music Makes My Day", featuring an updated version of American Rockabilly singer Robin Luke's "Susie Darlin' on the Festival Records label. The recording featured Olivia Newton-John and Pat Carroll on backup vocals and enjoyed chart success, reaching Number 25 in Sydney, Number 7 in Melbourne, Number 3 in Brisbane and Adelaide.
He sang the original recording of the theme song for the soap opera "Neighbours".
Crocker wrote and recorded the theme song for the Australian Rules Geelong Football Club, entitled "Come on the Cats".
Acting career.
Barry Crocker has also had a successful career as a stage, television and motion picture actor, most notably starring alongside Barry Humphries in the title role of Bruce Beresford's 1972 movie "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie" and its 1974 sequel, "Barry McKenzie Holds His Own". The "bogan" character of Barry McKenzie gave rise to Crocker recording such ribald songs as "My One Eyed Trouser Snake" and other "off-colour" songs.
Barry Crocker was Beresford's first choice as lead actor when it came to the filming of David Williamson's popular play "Don's Party", but serious back problems curtailed Crocker's screen career at this point, opening the way for John Hargreaves to achieve film success in the coveted role of Don.
Nevertheless, Barry Crocker was crowned Melbourne's "King of Moomba" in 1976, at the annual entertainment festival
He had the lead role as Governor Alan Smith in the short-lived prison drama "Punishment" (1981). He guest starred on two episodes of the Australian satirical black comedy series "Review with Myles Barlow".
More recent TV roles have included parts in "Pizza", Swift'N'Shift, and Housos for SBS and the Strange Calls, an ABC2 comedy series.
In 1994, Crocker appeared as himself in the worldwide record-breaking film "Muriel's Wedding". Barry proved his acting/comedy credentials once again as the retro-disco-host Donny Destry in the movie "Razzle Dazzle" in 2009.
Crocker appeared as Charles "Hoot" Russell, Greg Russell's father in the "Hey Dad..!" episode "Hoot's Boots". This was the second-to-last episode of the show, which spanned 14 seasons. A DVD box set of "Hey Dad" has had to be abandoned, following the conviction of the original "Dad" – Robert Hughes – on several sex charges.
Crocker was chosen by Chaim Topol to co-star as his nemesis Lazer Wolfe in a long-running Australian season of the musical "Fiddler on the Roof." He also featured in the role of The Lecturer in the 2008 Australian premiere of the stage musical "Reefer Madness".
Crocker presented the Australian version of Behind Mansion Walls on the Crime and Investigation network on Foxtel in Australia.
Crocker published an autobiography called "Bazza – The Adventures of Barry Crocker", in 2003.
Other appearances.
In 2005, Crocker was featured on the Nine Network program "This Is Your Life". It was a rare accolade, as Barry had already been the subject of this prestigious TV program thirty years earlier, in 1975, when the show was hosted by Roger Climpson. Barry was caught by surprise when host Mike Munro and the TV production team arrived, after a lot of careful planning by his long-term partner, Katy Manning, the popular English actress.
At the time, Crocker was still performing his self-created long-running, award-winning one-man show "Barry Crocker's Banjo" on a regular basis, bringing the true-life story of A. B. Banjo Paterson to audiences young and old across Australia.
In popular culture.
During the 1980s, the rhyming slang expression, "Barry Crocker" or simply "Barry" or "Baz" emerged in Australian English, to mean a "shocker", as in "very poor".
The most recent public, and very deliberate, use of this expression was infamously seen on the front page of Sydney's "Daily Telegraph" on Thursday, 17 April 2014, when NSW Liberal Premier Barry O'Farrell was forced to resign, allegedly for accepting a gift of an expensive bottle of wine without declaring it, and then later denying in court that he had even received the gift. The headlines, consisting of almost half the front page, read: "A BARRY CROCKER"


Vavincourt Aerodrome

Vavincourt Aerodrome, was a temporary World War I airfield in France. It was located south of Vavincourt, in the Meuse department in north-eastern France.
Overview.
The airfield was built during the summer of 1918 by the French troops with an approximate area of 498,000 square meters, as an airfield and as an Advanced Air Service Depot to Colombey les Belles Main Depot. It was completed on 30 October 1918 having a capacity for 45 officers and 300 enlisted men with 7 barracks. It was able to accommodate 63 aircraft in 9 hangars.
86th Aero Squadron (Depot) spent here two weeks, 4–18 September 1918, before moving to Behonne, another sub-depot to Colombey.
Vavincourt Aerodrome was used by the 1st Army Observation Group from 22 September 1918, during both the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives, with its three squadrons of aircraft.
In support of the flying squadrons, the 3d Air Park had a flight of mechanics for repair of both aircraft and vehicles. Also, the airfield was the home of Photo Sections #2 and #10 for processing and analyzing aerial photography. The ground support station consisted of various aircraft hangars, support buildings and quarters for personnel.
After the armistice in November 1918, Vavincourt remained active as 1st Army Observation Group HQ stayed here until it was disbanded on 15 April 1919. It this time, the 24th Aero Squadron alone was still present.
Once empty, the airfield was turned over to the 1st Air Depot for de-construction: all hangars and other structures were dismantled and all useful supplies and equipment were removed and sent back to the Depot for storage. Upon completion, the land turned over to the French government.
Eventually the land was returned to agricultural use by the local farmers. Today, what was Vavincourt Aerodrome is a series of cultivated fields located south of Vavincourt. The airfield was located to the east side of the D 28, south of the village of Vavincourt, as seen on the pictures above, with no indications of its wartime use.


Renga (video game)

Renga is a shoot 'em up video game developed and published by British studio wallFour. Designed for movie theaters for up to one hundred players, players are given laser pointers and are tasked with cooperatively building and defending a space ship. It was showcased at 2012's Indiecade, where it won the Developers Choice Award.
Gameplay.
"Renga" is a "theatrical co-op" game. It is designed to be played in a movie theater with up to one hundred players, with each player holding a laser pointer. Players must pilot a space ship by hitting one of four arrows, which causes the ship to move. At the same time, players must also defend the ship from objects such as pentagons and hexagons. Defeating a pentagon, for example, requires five players to hit the five points of the shape simultaneously in order to destroy it. Destroying the hexagons earns the players blocks, which can be used to build engines or silos, the latter of which can capture more blocks.
Development and release.
"Renga" was created by wallFour, former video game industry employees Adam Russell, previously of Lionhead Studios and John Sear, previously of Codemasters. The inspiration for the game came from works of ProjectorGames and Graffiti Research Lab's "L.A.S.E.R. Tag".
"Renga" was selected as one of thirty-six finalists at Indiecade in 2012. It was later featured at Indiecade East in 2013 at the Museum of the Moving Image. It was also shown at the Game Developers Conference, SXSW, New York Film Festival and the GameCity Festival.
Reception.
At 2012's Indiecade, "Renga" was awarded the Developers Choice Award. It also received an honorable mention for the Nuovo Award at 2013's Independent Games Festival.
Luke Larsen from Paste placed it first on his list of "Exciting Games from IndieCade 2012", saying that "it was the one game that had us most convinced of the communal power of video games."
John Walker from Rock, Paper, Shotgun considered the concept of the game to be "splendid".


The Airscrew Company

The Airscrew Company Ltd (incorporating the Jicwood company) was a British manufacturing company based in Surrey manufacturing propellers.
History.
The Airscrew Company was established in Weybridge, Surrey, England in 1923 when John Dodds Titler bought the assets of Lang, Garnett and Company, otherwise known as the Lang Propeller Company of Riverside Works, Weybridge. Lang Propellers was based at Hamm Moor Lane and at its peak supplied wooden propellers to nearly every aeroplane company in England. Alcock and Brown flew the Atlantic in a Vickers Vimy fitted with Lang propellers; a letter held at Chertsey Museum confirms this and one of these four-bladed propellers survives at Brooklands Museum. The Lang company was absorbed into another aeronautical enterprise and vacated its works in Surrey. The company manufactured 2-blade wooden propellers for the early Spitfires and Hurricanes.
Airscrew became a limited company in 1931, and by 1938 had formed Jicwood Ltd as a joint venture between Itself and Halila, Ltd., of Bush House, London. The nominal capital of £36,000 was taken up between the Airscrew Co. and Halila. The board consisted of Mr. J. D. Titler (chairman), Dr. Henry Charles Watts (co-designer of the Leitner Watts propeller), Mr. R. Bradfield and Mr. F. T. Swann. Mr. Swann, who was a director of Halila, Ltd., joined the board of The Airscrew Co.(Flight of 9 December 1937)
The organisation employed around 200 staff at a site in Hamm Moor Lane, Addlestone. By the beginning of World War II, the company was also making wooden-bladed ventilation fans and wind tunnels. Jicwood Ltd., the subsidiary company, manufactured fully compressed wood for various purposes. An extremely light sandwich material which consists of expanded rubber between either plywood or a light alloy were also manufactured. Samples of this product 24 ins. sq., weighing 52 ozs., were able to withstand a distributive load of 1 ½ tons when supported at two edges. The properties of this material were those required in aircraft flooring, bomb doors, superstructures and bulkheads for motor torpedo boats.
Wartime production requirements raised staff numbers to nearly 2,000 by 1945, and the company had its own Home Guard platoon, fire brigade and St John's Ambulance sections.
Post war work.
Sheppard Robson the architectural firm founded by Richard Sheppard designed The Jicwood Bungalow in 1944 in response to the Need for temporary housing in the post war period and used materials such as stressed timber used in aircraft manufacture.
The company diversified further and developed a wide range of products, notably aircraft and Bus panels and bulkheads, transit containers, ventilating equipment and wind tunnels and most importantly laminate wood products, manufactured as 'Weyroc', and also glass fibre products. The company changed its name to The Airscrew Company and Jicwood Ltd in 1950.
The company was bought by Bryant & May in 1957, shortly after J D Titler's death in April 1957. Under the terms of the agreement Bryant and May invested £500,000 in the company. Eoin Mekie, chairman of British Aviation Services, Frank Lynam became Managing Director (before joining the Airscrew Co., Lynam was with the firm of Metal Propellers Ltd, of Croydon, Surrey and the Airscrew section of the RAE). Airscrew was approached by Saunders-Roe in October,1958 for a fan design for the SR-N1hovercraft.
Under Bryant & May ownership two associated companies were created; Airscrew-Weyroc Canada (a chipboard making facility) & Airscrew Fans Ltd. The company then passed into Swedish control when Bryant & May merged into Swedish Match.In 1961 the company changed its name to Airscrew -Weyroc Ltd (Weyroc being the trade title of their wood chipboard product). W.J.S. King-Smith became the managing director of the Fan Division until he retired (c.1973).
In 1966 Airscrew-Weyroc Ltd, received an order for ten fans for the Anglo-French Concorde. These were required for cooling the electronic equipment on prototype aircraft and for ground testing work to meet the rigid requirements of the cooling specification-, they were of a compact, light-weight, low-noise, high-efficiency type.
The company was bought by the Howden Group in c.1971, developing a range of fans for cooling and extraction purposes. In 1986, the Weybridge site was sold, demolished and redeveloped and Airscrew moved to 111 Windmill Road, Sunbury on Thames.
In December 1990 Airscrew Howden acquired Frazer-Nash Defence Systems for an undisclosed sum, following Frazer-Nash's entry into receivership. The Frazer-Nash Defence Systems division was sold in 1996 to
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Around this time Weyroc products were manufactured in Hexham, Northumberland, with weyroc production having commenced on the site in 1964 and weydec following shortly thereafter, and continue to be so since 1995 when Egger Uk Ltd. acquired Weyroc Ltd.
The Airscrew Company became a principal subsidiary of the Airtechnology Group of the UK and has since been absorbed into Ametek Inc's Aerospace & Defence division based at the Windmill Road site producing AC and DC brushless, mixed flow, tubeaxial and vaneaxial fans, high-pressure blowers, AC and DC brushless motors and drivecsystems, build-to-print and custom subassemblies, electronic and fault sensing devices, electric heaters, switches and sensors.
Airscrew products have been used in various locomotives such as the Gardermoen High Speed Train and the Eurostar train.


List of Pakistan Air Force Bases

This is a list of air bases of the Pakistan Air Force. There are a total of 27 air bases, which are classified into two categories: flying bases and non-flying bases. Flying bases are operational bases from which aircraft operate during peacetime and wartime; whereas non-flying bases conduct either training, administration, maintenance, or mission support.


Kanpur Civil Aerodrome

Kanpur Civil Aerodrome is an aerodrome located inside Kanpur Cantonment and is 5 kilometres east of Kanpur city. It is used by small aircraft of the flying club of Kanpur, the DGCA, the local flying school, and the NCC Air Wing.
Incident and accidents.
On the morning of 18 May 1996, a 19-seater Archana Airways L-410 aircraft operating on the Delhi - Kanpur sector touched down late and could not be stopped within the available runway length, ending up beyond the runway. The aircraft hit the boundary wall of the airport and came to a halt. The aircraft sustained major damages, but there was no fire and no injury to persons on board the aircraft.


Peter Langloh Donkin

Air Commodore Peter Langloh Donkin, (19 June 1913 – 12 July 2000) was a New Zealand reconnaissance pilot with the Royal Air Force (RAF). He is thought to be the first western serviceman to be attacked by the Germans in the Second World War.
Citation for Distinguished Service Order, 22 February 1944:


USS Swallow (AM-65)

USS "Swallow" (AM-65) was an built for the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was the second U.S. Navy ship named after the swallow. "Swallow" earned two battle stars for World War II service. She was sunk by a kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa on 22 April 1945. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 2 June 1945.
Career.
"Swallow" (AM-65) was laid down on 19 July 1941 the General Engineering & Dry Dock Company of Alameda, California; launched on 6 May 1942; and commissioned on 14 January 1943.
"Swallow" completed fitting out at San Francisco, California, and, on 2 March, got underway for Pearl Harbor, where she arrived on the 13th. After almost a month of exercises in Hawaiian waters, she stood out of Pearl Harbor for the Central Pacific. On 7 May, she reached Ebon Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The minesweeper remained in the Marshalls until 24 May, when she sailed for New Caledonia. She entered the harbor at Noumea on 30 May. For the remainder of the year, she escorted convoys steaming among the various American bases in the South Pacific. During that period, she made several visits to Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides Islands, and voyaged once each to Efate and Fiji.
On 17 December 1943, the minesweeper set out upon her first voyage to the Solomon Islands. She arrived in Purvis Bay, Florida Island, on 3 January 1944. Until April, she escorted supply echelons to and between the Solomon Islands, first concentrating on Guadalcanal, and then, as the American forces began to climb the Solomons ladder, branched out to the other islands, notably to the Russell Islands subgroup and to Bougainville. She also periodically made voyages back to Nouméa and Espiritu Santo. She underwent repairs there in April and returned to the Solomons on 10 May.
By late May, she was operating in the vicinity of Tassafaronga, whence she departed on 4 June. "Swallow" reached Kwajalein atoll on 8 June, joined Task Force 53, refueled, and got underway again on the 12th. The Southern Attack Force, otherwise known as Task Force (TF) 53, was assigned the job of retaking Guam during the Marianas operation. Originally the Guam assault was to have come several days after that upon Saipan. However, the invasion of the island was delayed by the Battle of the Philippine Sea and by the realization that additional troops would be needed for the operation. Thus, TF 53 steamed around in the ocean 150 to 300 miles east of Saipan until 25 June when Admiral Spruance ordered the bulk of it to Eniwetok to await additional forces from Hawaii. "Swallow" arrived in Eniwetok lagoon three days later.
She remained at Eniwetok until 17 July, when the task force sortied for Guam. Arriving off Apra Harbor on the 21st, "Swallow" took up her screening station and, for almost two months, screened ships and patrolled in the vicinity. On 3 September, she joined the escort of a convoy bound for Eniwetok. She arrived there on the 9th and sailed for Pearl Harbor two days later. She spent the night of 21/22 September at Pearl Harbor; then continued on to San Francisco, California, where she arrived on the 30th. She immediately commenced overhaul at the General Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Alameda, California, Swallow completed overhaul and trials a few days before Christmas, departed San Francisco, California on 22 December, and reached San Diego, California, on Christmas Eve. For a little more than a month, the minesweeper operated out of San Diego, California.
On 1 February 1945, "Swallow" headed back to the western Pacific. She spent ten days, 9 to 19 February, conducting exercises in Hawaiian waters in preparation for the invasion of Okinawa. On the 19th, "Swallow" stood out of Pearl Harbor and joined the screen of a convoy bound for Eniwetok. She entered the lagoon on 2 March and headed for the Marianas the following day. Following a brief stop at Saipan on the 6th, the minesweeper continued on to Ulithi, where she trained in preparation for the invasion of Okinawa.
On 19 March, "Swallow" and the rest of Task Group 52.3 sortied from Ulithi lagoon. Five days later, she arrived off Okinawa and commenced a week of mine-sweeping operations to clear the approach to the beaches for landing ships and craft. Each night she retired to a relatively safe area far offshore. On 1 April, when the assault waves rolled ashore, "Swallow" shifted from minesweeping duties to antisubmarine patrols and, but for two runs to Kerama Retto for supplies, continued that duty until 22 April. At 18:58 on that day, a Japanese kamikaze suicide plane swooped down out of heavy clouds and crashed into "Swallow's" starboard side, amidships, just above the waterline. Both engine rooms were flooded, and the minesweeper immediately took a 45° list to starboard. The order to abandon ship was given at 19:01. Three minutes later, she capsized and sank in of water. Swallow's name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 2 June 1945. She earned two battle stars during World War II.
On 10 July 1957, 12 years after "Swallow"s sinking, the Secretary of the Navy authorized the donation of her sunken hulk to the government of the Ryukyu Islands.


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Three Guys Named Mike

Three Guys Named Mike is a 1951 American romantic comedy film directed by Charles Walters and starring Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Howard Keel, and Barry Sullivan. Originally released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.
Described as a "lighthearted and lightweight story" by Turner Classic Movies, "Three Guys Named Mike" chronicles the story of an airline stewardess (the term at that time) and her three suitors.
Plot.
Marcy Lewis is a young woman from Indiana with an ambition to become an airline stewardess and see the world. She takes an American Airlines training course and passes. Her first flight is nearly her last when, after inadvertently offending the pilot, Mike Jamison, she forgets the passengers' food. Mike's intervention earns Marcy a second chance.
Marcy's home base is moved to Los Angeles and she finds an apartment with one friend from stewardess school. She meets a passenger, Mike Lawrence, who is a graduate research student in science, then also nearly loses her job again by permitting a young passenger to keep her dog in the cabin, against the airline's rules. Marcy is suspended for a week.
When a man named Mike Tracy helps give her stalled car a push, Marcy learns that he works for a Chicago advertising agency. An idea of hers, to let stewardesses endorse soap, pleases Tracy's client, and soon Marcy is invited by a photographer to pose for magazine ads herself.
When all three show up to help Marcy move into her new bungalow she is now sharing with three of her friends from stewardess training, she tries to keep the Mikes straight. Marcy names her male companions, Mike for Mike Lawrence, Mikey for Mike Tracy and Michael for Mike Jamison. All of them are jealous of Marcy and vie for her attention.
During a party later at her bungalow, Marcy is called away when her photographer requests one more picture to send out with the rest of the ad campaign for approval. Marcy finds herself dressed in a very short sarong, totally unlike the regulation company uniform in which all the other pictures were taken. The photographer also is only interested in fixing her a drink and having her relax on the cushion placed on the floor which is part of the props. She objects strenuously, but he ignores her objections.
The three Mikes arrive in time to start a brawl, which makes the newspapers and gets both Marcy and her pilot friend suspended from their jobs, as well as costing Mikey his account. Mike's job as a graduate research student and consideration for a special fellowship award for an outstanding scientist are in jeopardy. The award would get him a teaching position at the college and allow him to continue his research there as well.
Marcy goes to the superiors of all three men personally to plead for their reinstatement. After she succeeds, each of the three Mikes proposes marriage to her. Uncertain what to do, Marcy reacts favorably to Mike Lawrence's "I love you," and the other two Mikes concede that he is the guy for her.
Production.
The credits state that "Three Guys Named Mike" was "based on the story by Ruth Brooks Flippen, from suggestions made by Ethel 'Pug' Wells" (later, Davies). Contemporary publicity states that Wells was a flight attendant for American Airlines; she appeared in a bit part in one scene, playing herself. She is also credited as "Technical Advisor."
Since Jane Wyman was a major star at that time, her co-stars were equally notable, with Van Johnson being one of MGM's leading actors and Keel having recently achieved stardom in "Annie Get Your Gun". American Airlines provided advertising in the film and allowed the producers of the film to use American Airlines aircraft for no charge; during that time aircraft were considered to be expensive props in films. Some early scenes in the film portrayed the training given at the American Airlines school for flight attendants. Sidney Sheldon wrote the screenplay.
American Airlines Douglas DC-6 and Convair 240 airliners were featured in "Three Guys Named Mike".
Reception.
"Three Guys Named Mike" earned an estimated $1,707,000 at the US/Canadian box office and $523,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit to MGM of $577,000.
Reviewer Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" criticized "Three Guys Named Mike", stating that "for services rendered in the advertising line, that company [American Airlines] should award her [Marcy] a gold star (its advertising is all over the film), but if she's still hostessing, it should keep an eye on her. We suspect she spends too much time reading those leather-bound slick magazines rather than attending to the business of serving her real-life passengers" in relation to the glamorized portrayal of airline travel.
Turner Classic Movies points out that many other critics gave a positive reception to the film.


Vincent Mulchrone

Vincent Joseph Mulchrone (1923 – 1 October 1977) was an English journalist active during the post-war period. After nearly three decades at the "Daily Mail", he died of leukaemia at the age of 54.
Early life.
Mulchrone grew up in Morley, West Yorkshire and was educated at Morley Grammar School. He left school at 16 and took a job dressing window dummies before he joined his local paper, the Morley Observer.
Second World War.
During the Second World War Mulchrone was a pilot in the Royal Air Force with active service in Burma, reaching the rank of flying officer.
Daily Mail.
After the war he joined the Daily Mail in Manchester before moving to Fleet Street in 1950. During his career in journalism, he covered events including the withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam, numerous royal tours, and social commentary such as the decline of the English sausage. He was awarded the Descriptive Writer of the Year award in 1964 and again in 1970 when he shared it with Keith Waterhouse.
In 2005 he was entered into a Hall of Fame as one of the 40 greatest journalists by "Press Gazette" magazine, and his likeness was displayed at the National Portrait Gallery.
Family life.
Married to Louie, the couple had three sons. Mulchrone died on the 1 October at St Bartholemews's Hospital in London aged 54.


Owen Maynard

Owen Eugene Maynard (October 27, 1924 – July 15, 2000) was a Canadian engineer who contributed to the designs of the Canadian CF-105 Avro Arrow jet interceptor, and of NASA's Apollo Lunar Module (LM). Maynard was a member of the group of 32 Canadian and British engineers from Avro Canada who joined NASA when the Arrow was cancelled in 1959. Maynard worked on Project Mercury until 1960 and then moved to the Apollo program. Maynard won a U.S. patent (US3300162) in 1967 for a space station design.
Early life.
Owen Maynard was born in Sarnia, Ontario on October 27, 1924. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942, was trained as a Mosquito pilot, and served in England as a Flying Officer during World War II. He earned a B.A.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1951.
Career.
After the war, Maynard was employed by the A. V. Roe company, located at what is now Pearson International Airport in Toronto. He began there as a craftsman, and worked on the CF-100 fighter aircraft and the Avro Jetliner. After taking time off to obtain his engineering degree, he returned to A. V. Roe as a designer, eventually rising to the position of Senior Stress Engineer. He spent much of this period carrying out engineering design and analysis for the CF-105 aircraft, the Avro Arrow.
After the cancellation of the Arrow program in 1959, Maynard was one of the group of top Avro engineers who were "loaned" to the newly formed NASA's Space Task Group, in Langley, Virginia, to work on Project Mercury. (Later, after moving to Houston, this group formed the core of what became NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, later renamed the Johnson Space Center.) Maynard was initially assigned to be Project Engineer for the first flight-test Mercury capsule. Among other activities in that role, he participated in the recovery of the Mercury-Atlas 1 capsule from the sea-floor following the failure of its launch vehicle. During the recovery operations, he performed a 30-foot free-dive to find one particular missing component of the capsule. He stated in an official interview that during the subsequent launch failure review process, his post-flight calculations showed the skin of the launch vehicle just below the spacecraft would have buckled, due to the combined drag and bending loads at the max-Q point exceeding the tensile stress in the skin due to internal pressure. Based on that finding, the NASA specified that future Mercury-Atlas launch vehicles add doublers to the skin structure in that area, and that future launch trajectories be shallowed to reduce pitch angle rate, to reduce the bending stress on the launch vehicle. This failure mode did not recur on those subsequent launches.
Not long after this, Maynard was transferred to a small team (the Advanced Vehicle Team, led by Robert O. Piland ) tasked with developing concepts for possible post-Mercury NASA missions, where he made the initial sketches of a modular, 3-man spacecraft that became the basis for the Apollo spacecraft.
By 1963, Maynard became chief of the LEM engineering office in the Apollo Program Office in Houston, Texas. It was acknowledged at the time that Maynard was the person at NASA most responsible for the design of the Lunar Module, although most of detailed design work was done at Grumman Aircraft in New York under the direction of Thomas J. Kelly.
In 1964, Maynard was promoted to the position of Chief of the Systems Engineering Division in the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office, which put him in charge of systems integration for the Apollo spacecraft. He held this position for most of the remainder of his career at NASA; for a time in 1966 and 1967, he was also Chief of the Mission Operations Division. While at mission operations, Maynard devised the “A” to “G” sequence for Apollo test flights leading to the first lunar landing on Apollo 11. Maynard chose to sleep through the landing itself, so that he could be well rested for the subsequent takeoff (which he felt would be more complex, and require greater concentration on his part).
Maynard left NASA in 1970, following the second lunar landing, and went on to Raytheon in the Boston area. There he worked on many aerospace programs. He also became an advocate for the use of solar power collected on earth for powering spacecraft, and of Solar Power Satellites to collect solar power for usage on Earth. In 1992, he retired from Raytheon, and he and his wife Helen returned to Canada, where they settled in Waterloo, Ontario, where he died on July 15, 2000.


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James E. Walker Library

The James E. Walker Library is the campus library of Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). Opened in 1999 under university president James E. Walker, it replaced an older library in Todd Hall, now home to the Art Department. A four-story, building, the MTSU library contains over 1 million volumes and more than 33,000 periodicals.
Construction on the James E. Walker Library started on the 85th anniversary of the university's founding, September 11, 1996. The old Todd Library, which had been expanded to a capacity of 225,000, held almost three times that many when the new library opened.
Library departments.
The James E. Walker Library houses offerings in 23 distinct departments, including:


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Chinchero International Airport

Chinchero International Airport is an under construction international airport in the town of Chinchero District, Cusco Region, Perú. It is planned to replace Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport. Its altitude will be above sea level.
History.
The idea of an airport in Chinchero began in 1978 when the Peruvian government decided to develop a new airport in the area, though plans were indefinitely delayed due to the internal conflict in Peru. As the conflict subsided, residents in the development area agreed to sell their land in 2011 and in 2012, President Ollanta Humala signed laws to allow the expropriation of land necessary for the airport. On 3 February 2017, President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski announced the beginning of the construction of the new Chinchero International Airport.
Construction of the airport began in 2019. Peru and South Korea announced on 24 October 2019 that South Korea would collaborate on the construction of the airport, providing technical assistance.
At the time of unveiling plans for the airport, the anticipated opening date was 2021. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru, the opening of the airport was delayed to 2025.
Plans.
Chincero is planned to operate around the clock and will open with the capacity to serve five million passengers annually. Expansion plans include an additional capacity of up to eight million passengers.
Controversy.
Cultural impact.
The airport project is opposed by archaeologists and local activists due to its potential to destroy historic landmarks and bring additional tourist traffic that would harm Machu Picchu. In 2019, UNESCO called on Peru to cease plans for construction until a heritage impact study could be performed in regard to Machu Picchu, Cusco and the Qhapaq Ñan. The World Monuments Fund again asked President Francisco Sagasti in February 2021 to delay further construction in respect of the recommendations by UNESCO, with the organization stating "The land removal will mean the irreversible destruction of the cultural landscape of Chinchero".
Environment.
The construction of the airport would directly affect area's ecosystem. According to Óscar Paredes Pando of the National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco, the airport would destroy at least seventeen natural springs that provide water to lakes and other wetlands in Cusco.
Function.
Initial plans to provide direct flights from Europe and the United States provide opportunities for foreign travelers to bypass Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima during their visits to Cusco. The Ministry of Transport and Communications announced months after construction began in 2019 that transoceanic flights were not possible due to the altitude of the airport while Bruno Papi, a veteran pilot of the Peruvian Air Force, said that the airport may not be able to operate at all due to the difficult mountainous terrain and altitude.


Paul Bloomquist

Paul A. Bloomquist (30 October 1932 – 11 May 1972) was an American pilot and officer of the United States Army, who was the first American killed by the Red Army Faction. A veteran of the Vietnam War stationed in West Germany, Bloomquist died in a bombing attack at the IG Farben Building on 11 May 1972.
Biography.
Paul A. Bloomquist was born on October 30, 1932, in Utah, United States. He served extensively with the United States Army during the Vietnam War, from 1964 to 1965 with the 57th Med. Det., a medical helicopter unit, and from 1968 to 1969 in the 498th Medical Company. Bloomquist received the Purple Heart three times, the Air Medal 37 times, the Distinguished Flying Cross four times, and was the 1964 "Army Aviator of the Year". After his time in Vietnam, he was appointed chief of a battalion stationed in Frankfurt, West Germany, and by 1971 was a major serving as the commanding officer of the 45th MB 3AD based in Hanau. Later that year he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and was on assignment to the V Corps working on a drug rehabilitation program for troops.
Death.
On 11 May 1972, Bloomquist was killed by a bombing attack on the headquarters of the V Corps in the IG Farben Building in Frankfurt. The attack was committed by the Red Army Faction, a West German far-left militant organization that targeted US military facilities and personnel in West Germany. The bombing was one of the Red Army Faction's first attacks, and was one of a series of bombings as part of the "May Offensive", and operation in retaliation for the United States' re-escalation of the Vietnam War.
Posthumous awards.
Bloomquist was inducted into the DUSTOFF Association Hall of Fame, which honors Army Medical personnel engaged in Army aeromedical evacuation programs. The Dustoff Hall of Fame states the following: "LTC Paul A. Bloomquist exemplified the DUSTOFF spirit throughout his career. Spending nearly 35 months in Vietnam, he earned 4 awards of the Distinguished Flying Cross, 37 Air Medals, and 3 Purple Hearts. One DFC citation reports that even though he was wounded himself, he continued flying for nearly 13 hours during which time he rescued many casualties under heavy enemy fire. He was selected "Army Aviator of the Year" in 1964 and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce honored him as an "Outstanding Young American." Following a battalion command in Germany, his life was cut short when a terrorist group exploded several bombs at the V Corps Headquarters in Frankfurt. In recognition of his service, the US Army installation at Ziegenberg, Germany, home of the 68th Medical Group, was renamed "Camp Paul Bloomquist." Paul Bloomquist was inducted into the DUSTOFF Hall of Fame on 22 February 2003."
Bloomquist was also inducted into the Utah Aviation Hall of Fame, which is located at the Hill Aerospace Museum at Hill AFB, in 2010.
The quarters of the 68th Medical Group were renamed Camp Paul Bloomquist in his honor.
Popular culture.
The song "Terror Couple Kill Colonel" by Bauhaus subtly mentions the murder of Paul Bloomquist.


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HMT Lincoln City

HMT "Lincoln City" was an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) trawler in the service of the British Royal Navy during World War II. She was bombed during an air raid and sank on 21 February 1941 at the Faroe Islands.
Construction and Ownership.
Smiths Dock Company built the ship as the fishing vessel "Pembroke Castle" in 1933. The ship was of 398 tons and was equipped with a 1x3 cylinder triple expansion engine. The ship began her life with the Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Compmnay, Ltd., and served as a fishing boat for the company from 1933 until 1939. In April 1938, her name was changed to "Lincoln City".
Requisition by the Admiralty.
During World War II, the Royal Navy requisitioned hundreds of civilian ships for war service in various roles, with many ending up as minesweepers or anti-submarine warfare trawlers. The Royal Navy requisitioned "Lincoln City" in 1939, equipping her with a single 4-inch (102-mm) gun. Commissioned as HMT "Lincoln City", she was put under the command of Skr. Frederick William White Burnett of the Royal Navy Reserve. He served aboard "Lincoln City" from 1 December 1939 until 18 March 1940, at which point T/S. Lt. Francis Albert Seward took over until "Lincoln City" was sunk.
Loss.
In 1941, "Lincoln City" was stationed in Tórshavn, located in the Faroe Islands, a constituency of Denmark. The British occupation of the Faroe Islands had been ongoing since April 1940 in order to prevent a German invasion of the strategically important location. During a German air raid on 21 February 1941, "Lincoln City" shot down a German bomber but was sunk, killing eight crewmen on board.


CFB Picton

Canadian Forces Base Picton (CFB Picton) was a military installation located in Picton, Ontario. The base was active from the Second World War to 1969 and served the Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and Canadian Army. Today, the site functions as the Picton Airport.
Second World War.
The base at Picton originated as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. An airfield was built on a high plateau overlooking Picton and the Royal Air Force's No. 31 Bombing & Gunnery School officially opened in April 1941. Five bombing ranges were also created to allow the students to practice. Aircraft flown at the base included the Avro Anson, Fairey Battle, Bristol Bolingbroke and Westland Lysander. The school offered six week courses in bombing, navigation and air gunnery until it was disbanded in November 1944, at which point the Royal Canadian Air Force established the No. 5 Reserve Equipment Maintenance Unit at Picton. This unit was responsible for aircraft storage and maintenance of the airfield itself. This unit operated until January 1946 when its functions were absorbed by a unit at RCAF Station Trenton.
Aerodrome Information.
In approximately 1942, the aerodrome was listed at with a Var. 11 degrees E and elevation of . The aerodrome was listed with three runways as follows:
Canadian Army.
After the departure of the maintenance unit, most of the base was taken over by the Army for use as the Royal Canadian School of Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) (RCSA(A.A.)). The school provided training for anti-aircraft gunners, gunnery radar operators, technical assistants and artillery instructors. A number of operational artillery units were also located in Picton, including the 127th and 128th Medium AA Batteries, Royal Canadian Artillery (RCA) and the 2nd and 3rd Light AA Batteries of the 1st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RCA. The RCAF also maintained a small detachment at the base to provide aircraft targets for the gunners. In July 1960, the base was officially renamed Camp Picton and the RCSA (A.A.) disbanded a few weeks later. Two new units were formed later that year, namely the 1st Surface-to-Surface Missile (SSM) Battery and the 2nd SSM (Training) Battery of The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery. Both units were transferred; the 1st went to Europe in December 1961 to be equipped with Honest John rockets and the 2nd was transferred to Camp Shilo in 1962. The 1st Battalion of the Canadian Guards then transferred to Camp Picton from their previous base in Germany. With the unification of the Army, RCAF and Royal Canadian Navy to create the Canadian Forces, Camp Picton was renamed Canadian Forces Base Picton. However, reductions in the Canadian military meant that the base was no longer required and CFB Picton was closed in September 1969.
Affiliated facilities.
The Bombing & Gunnery School and Artillery School also operated a number of ranges in other parts of Prince Edward County. The Point Petre and South Bay Training Areas were located in the southeast corner of the county near Cherry Valley. Point Petre had been in use as an artillery range since 1938 and the area continued in that role with the formation of the RCSA. Sections of the site were also used for test firing of the Velvet Glove air-to-air missile. The South Bay Training Area was used for mortar, recoilless rifle and anti-tank rocket training. In 2015, Point Petre is a Provincial Wildlife Area. A transmitter site for the Military Aeronautical Communications System based at CFB Trenton is also located there.
After closure.
After CFB Picton was closed, much of the base housing was sold to the Government of Ontario. Originally run by the Ministry of Health, it was later transferred to the Ministry of Community and Social Services and was named Prince Edward Heights. The "Heights" as it was known locally, at its peak, was home to approximately 450 individuals with developmental disabilities and employed just as many staff, until deinstitutionalization became the norm and it closed in September 1999. A developer has since purchased the homes, renamed the development "Macaulay Village" and resold them as individual properties. Much of the main base also remains, with some of the original buildings in use for assorted industrial and institutional purposes. The airfield remains in operation as Picton Airport. The base and Point Petre were also used to film "Dieppe" (1993), a TV movie by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).


Anatoly Lyapidevsky

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lyapidevsky () (1908–1983) was a Soviet aircraft pilot and one of first people to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (in June 1934). A graduate of the Soviet Air Force Academy, he reached the rank of Major-General of the Soviet Air Force at 1946.
Birth and Youth.
Anatoly Lyapidevsky was born at March 23 (10), 1908 in the Belaya Glina village in Stavropol Governorate (now Krasnodar Krai) in the family of a clergyman. His family is of a dynasty of clergymen from Tula Governorate. At childhood he dwelt at Staroshcherbinovskaya stanitsa, later at Yeysk. Lyapidevsky worked as apprentice in a smithy, apprentice of a metalworker, an engine man of a mowing machine, driver assistant at an oil mill.
In 1926 he was conscripted into the Red Army. In 1927 Anatoly has graduated from Leningrad Military Theory School of the Air Force, in 1928 – from Sevastopol School of Naval Pilots. Lyapidevsky served in a frontline unit of Naval Aviation of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, then as an instructor pilot at Yeysk School of Naval Pilots. He was discharged in 1933.
Pilot.
He worked as a pilot with the Far Eastern department of the Civil Air Fleet. Lyapidevsky took part in an aerial search and rescue operation for the crew of the steamship "Cheliuskin", under extremely difficult conditions, after it was sunk in Arctic waters after February 13, 1934.
Rescue.
Together with six other pilots, Lyapidevsky rescued 104 people from the wrecked freighter. The rescue operation took two months, as survivors waited to be rescued on ice floes. Lyapidevsky personally made 29 scouting flights despite blizzards. Lyapidevsky made his first landing on one of the floes on March 5. It was a great feat of flying. Not only was the weather horrid but the floe was only 500 by 1,300 feet. Lyapidevsky took off from the floe with 10 women and 2 children on board his plane. He flew the stranded "Cheliuskintsi" from their makeshift airstrip on the floating ice field of the Chukchi Sea to the town of Uelen. Lyapidevsky was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union for this deed at April 20, 1934. After the Gold Star medals had appeared, at November 4, 1939 No.1 medal was handed over to him.
The heroics of the fliers in the Cheliuskin Rescue prompted the government to create the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The title later became the Soviet Union's highest military honor.
After the Feat.
At 1935 Lyapidevsky returned to the Army. At 1939 he graduated from Department of Engineering of Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy. Beginning in 1939, he was deputy of the head of the Main Inspectorate of People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry and head of Aviation Factory No.156 (Moscow, after October 1941 – Omsk).
Lyapidevsky participated in the World War II. From May to September 1942 he was head of 4th Department of the Air Force Research Institute, from September 1942 to September 1943 he took position of Deputy Commander of Air Force of 19th Army, then head of field repair service of 7th Air Army (Karelian Front).
At 1943 Lyapidevsky returned to his work as head of an aviation factory. After the end of the war he worked as main inspector of Ministry of State Control, deputy of Minister of Aviation Industry. From 1949 to 1954 Lyapidevsky was head of Factory No.25 of Ministry of Aviation Industry. After in May 1954 the factory was handed over to Ministry of Medium Machine Building, he was first deputy of head of Design Bureau-25 and head of Experimental Factory No.25 (now All-Russian Research Institute of Automation). From 1962 to 1983 he was the lead constructor, the deputy of main engineer of Mikoyan Design Bureau. Major-General Lyapidevsky was discharged in 1961.
He died at April 29, 1983, after catching cold at funeral of Vasily Molokov. Lyapidevsky is buried in Moscow, at Novodevichy Cemetery.


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Alec Ogilvie

Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander "Alec" Ogilvie CBE (8 June 1882 – 18 June 1962) was an early British aviation pioneer, a friend of the Wright Brothers and only the seventh British person to qualify as a pilot. During World War I Ogilvie served with the Royal Naval Air Service before transferring to the Royal Air Force on its creation in 1918. During the War he was chiefly employed in technical posts and after the War he worked as a consulting aeronautical engineer.
Early life.
Alexander Ogilivie was born in 1882 in the Marylebone district of London. He was educated at Rugby School and Cambridge University.
Early aviator.
In 1908 Ogilvie watched Wilbur Wright carry out a demonstration flight in France and within two months he had ordered a Wright Biplane for himself. Before the biplane was delivered in 1909 he practised flying at Friston, Sussex using a glider. Ogilvie established a flying base on Camber Sands near Rye, Sussex and took part in a number of aviation meetings around the country. He joined the Royal Aero Club on 11 May 1909 and gained only the seventh Royal Aero Club aviator's certificate on 24 May 1910. In 1910 using a Wright racing biplane he entered the Gordon Bennett competition at Belmont Park in New York, he was placed third in the competition (for which he was awarded the Silver medal of the Royal Aero Club) and brought the aircraft back to England. The following year he had more success in that race, coming in fourth in his Wright at an average 55 mph. In 1912, Ogilvie invented an airspeed indicator which was later adopted by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). In 1911 he joined Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, United States during Wright's experiments with soaring making several flights. He continued to use a Wright aircraft up to 1914 including in 1913 flying H.G. Wells as a passenger.
First World War.
On 19 February 1915 Ogilvie was commissioned as an RNAS officer in the rank of squadron commander. Ogilvie initially was given responsibility for overseeing flying training at the Naval Flying School, Eastchurch. On 5 April 1916 he took command of the aircraft repair depot at Dunkirk, and was promoted acting wing commander on 31 December 1916. On 5 March 1917 he became a member of the Air Board, eventually serving as controller of the technical department. The rank of wing commander was confirmed on 30 June 1917. In early 1918, Ogilvie reported on flight tests of the Sopwith Snipe, stating that "its flying qualities are bad"; however, he was overruled by Trenchard and Brooke-Popham and orders were placed. On 1 April 1918, along with all other RNAS personnel, Ogilvie transferred to the newly established Royal Air Force in the rank of major (temporary lieutenant-colonel). A note in his new RAF service record states, "[He has] flown most types of aircraft except single seaters." He was injured in a flying accident on 8 June 1918.
Post-war.
Ogilvie resigned from the Air Board in 1919, being placed on the RAF unemployed list on 10 March. He then worked as a consulting aeronautical engineer under the name "Ogilvie and Partners", which in 1919 became the Limited company "Ogilvie and Partners Ltd.", of which he was "Permanent governing director and chairman". He subsequently moved to Australia for some years.
Personal life.
In September 1934 he married Angela Le Cren, née Newbold (1886–1958) in East Grinstead, Sussex. Her sister was the statistician and epidemiologist Ethel Newbold and her brother was rugby player and chemist Charles Joseph Newbold. Ogilvie died, aged 80, on 18 June 1962 at his home in Ringwood, Hampshire.


List of Iranian aviation accidents and incidents

This is a list of major aviation accidents and incidents that took place in Iran, or involved aircraft traveling to and from Iran.


Rheine-Hopsten Air Base

Rheine-Hopsten Air Base is a former German Air Force military airfield, located 9.3 km north east of Rheine in Westphalia, Germany. The runway was closed in 2005 with the retirement of the F-4F Phantom II aircraft.
History.
In 1939 works to build an airfield for the Luftwaffe began. These works were completed in 1940.
World War II.
Hopsten airfield played only a secondary role as an operational base for the Luftwaffe in the opening stages of World War II. In the years between 1939 and 1944, the airfield was used only for short periods by different day and night fighter units as well as various bomber wings.
As part of the "Defense of the Reich Campaign" begun in 1944 as Allied air attacks became more intense against Germany, Hopsten airfield became a hub for a multitude of Luftwaffe activity. Daily operations were conducted with the Bf 109. Bf 110, Heinkel He 111, He 219 and Focke Wulf 190 aircraft. Starting in September 1944, the Me 262 equipped Kampfgeschwader 51 (KG 51) "Edelweiß" was stationed at Hopsten. Known Luftwaffe units assigned to the airfield were:
Towards the end of the war, Hopsten Airfield was a frequent target for allied air raids. But due to the extremely heavy air defence - with up to 500 AAA guns based in the vicinity of the airfield- and the fast repairs done to the runways, it remained relatively intact. Good camouflage and widely dispersed aircraft parking kept the airfield operational until the occupation by British troops. During the last days of the war, German units destroyed the infrastructure and made the airfield useless.
RAF Advanced Landing Ground B-112.
British forces moved through the area in early April 1945 after their crossing of the Rhine (Operation Varsity) at Wesel. The RAF (Royal Air Force) established a temporary presence at the airfield and it was designated as Advanced Landing Ground B-112 Hopsten on 6 April 1945.
After the war ended in May, the British decided it was not worth the effort to rehabilitate the airfield and it was abandoned.
Return to German military control.
In 1956, only a few months after the establishment of the Bundeswehr, the new German Air Force began to set up new units and therefore needed airfields. In 1959, three years later, the German Defence Ministry decided to use the area of the former Hopsten airfield to build a new airfield from the ruins of the former World War II airfield .
Paid with NATO funds, specialized companies from the region were tasked to build a completely new airfield to modern NATO Standards, the north to south runway was 3,000 meters long and 30 meters wide, was constructed between the villages of Dreierwalde and Hopsten in the North and Hörstel in the South.
Ramp space, airfield infrastructure and roads, as well as a housing and administration complex in the city of Rheine eight kilometers away, were completed to new NATO standards for Western Europe. The old name of Hopsten was kept. It was the first new German airfield built to NATO standards.
In 1961 the new "Jagdbombergeschwader" 36 (JG 36) was equipped with United States Republic F-84F Thunderstreak jet fighter-bomber aircraft. The Wing held its first Open House on 16 June 1962. A crowd of 150,000 visitors attended from the Münster region, acknowledging the achievements of the wing personnel during the build-up phase.
In 1965 JG 36 received Lockheed F-104G Starfighters. On 4 February 1975, the Wing Commander Oberst Winfried Schwenke would bring the first assigned F-4F Phantom II with the serial 37+97 to Hopsten. As the F-4F Phantom II was a multirole aircraft, JG 36, would gain the secondary task of air defence.


List of Garuda Indonesia incidents and accidents

This is a list of incidents involving Indonesian airline Garuda Indonesia. The airline suffered 49 incidents.


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Skyhaven Airport (Missouri)

Skyhaven Airport is a public-use airport located three miles (5 km) northwest of the central business district of Warrensburg, a city in Johnson County, Missouri, United States. It is owned by the University of Central Missouri.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Skyhaven Airport is assigned RCM by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned RCM to Richmond Airport in Richmond, Queensland, Australia).
Facilities and aircraft.
Skyhaven Airport covers an area of which contains two asphalt paved runways: 01/19 measuring 4,206 x 75 ft (1,282 x 23 m) and 14/32 measuring 2,801 x 60 ft (854 x 18 m).
For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2011, the airport had 74,325 aircraft operations, an average of 203 per day: 99.6% general aviation, 0.4% air taxi and <0.1% military. At that time there were 54 aircraft based at this airport: 88% single-engine, 5% multi-engine and 7% glider.


Selase Agbenyefia

Selase Agbenyefia or Selase Yaaya Agbenyefia (born 1978) is an officer in the Ghana Air Force and she became the first Ghanaian female helicopter pilot.
Life.
Agbenyefia was born in 1978 and 1989 she started at Mawuko Girls Secondary School. Two years later she was at Mawuli Secondary School. She took a BSc in Business Administration at the University of Ghana, graduating in 2009. Agbenyefia also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Public Administration from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration.
Agbenyefia had gained the unusual ambition of becoming a pilot. She applied to join the air force but when she turned up with the other recruits she found that she had been assigned to the army. She challenged this with Major General Joseph Narh Adinkra and she was told that the air force did not take women. She challenged this and her tenacity was rewarded when she was sent away with other prospective pilots for training.
The prospective candidates were reduced to 20 and then to 15 when they were based at the Ghana Military Academy at Teshie in Accra. Her first flight was in an Aero L-29 Delfín Jet Trainer which she first flew with Air Commodore Philip Ayisa in September 1998. There had been women pilots before in Ghana but the two who did fly retired after the 1966 coup in Ghana, so she was the first for 35 years, it is said that she is the first woman pilot of military helicopters in West Africa for 48 years.
In 2015 she was credited with saving President John Mahama's life when she made an unscheduled landing.


Warren Spears

Warren Spears (May 2, 1954 - January 8, 2005) was an American dancer and choreographer. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he studied dance as a child, then moved to New York City in 1972 to study at the Juilliard School.
While in school, he came to the attention of Alvin Ailey, who invited him to join his dance troupe. Spears danced with Ailey's troupe from 1974 to 1977, when he left to concentrate on his own choreography.
Spears was a choreographer for the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, including choreographing dances in honor of the centennial of the Wright brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The piece, evoking the courage of wartime flight, included a tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen.
Spears returned to New York, where he founded his own dance company, the Spears Collection. He also worked with the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble and the Joyce Trisler Danscompany.
In the 1980s, he moved to Denmark, where he founded the New Danish Dance Theater in 1983. He was knighted by Queen Margrethe in 2003.
Spears appeared in the film "Dancer in the Dark" for Lars von Trier.
Spears died of multiple myeloma in Copenhagen, at the age of 50.


Shivamogga Airport

Shivamogga Airport is a greenfield airport to be built at Sogane Village, from Shivamogga and from Bhadravathi in Karnataka, India. The airport was to be built under Public–private partnership (PPP) with the Government of Karnataka (GoK). However, due to delays in project execution, the contract was terminated in January 2015. On 15 June 2020, Karnataka chief minister B. S. Yediyurappa laid the foundation to start the construction of Shivamogga airport at the cost of The ₹220-crore. The chief minister said the airport, to be constructed in two phases, will be completed in about a year.
History.
A team of experts from Airports Authority of India visited the two identified sites at Sogane near Shimoga and Nagarabavi Village near Ayanur on 4 April 2006. Of the two sites inspected by the AAI team, the one at Sogane was found most suitable due to its wind direction and velocity conditions. The only concern was that the land was uneven and needed to be levelled. The other site near Ayanur was found inadequate in width for the runway of the proposed airport
Nineteen companies, had shown interest in developing the airport when the Government had called for an Expression of Interest (EoI) to develop airports in Gulbarga, Bijapur and Shivamogga. The project was awarded to a consortium of Maytas Infra Ltd), NCC Infrastructure Holdings Ltd (NCC) and VIE India Project Development and Holding on 15 November 2007, on a BOT basis. Concession period was to be 30 years, to be extended for a further period of 30 years, by Mutual Agreement.
Shivamogga Airport Developers Pvt Ltd (SADPL), a Special Purpose Company, was established to sign the Project Development Agreement (PDA) with the Infrastructure Development Department (IDD) of the Government of Karnataka. The Shareholding pattern of Maytas Infra, NCC and VIE was 37%, 37% and 26% respectively in SADPL. The project development agreement was signed on 2 April 2008.
The foundation stone for the Phase I construction was laid by former Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri B. S. Yeddyurappa on 20 June 2008. Due to a change in the project shareholding ratio, a Supplementary Development Agreement was signed on 21 December 2010. Bengaluru-based company Regional Airport-Holdings International Limited (RAHI) acquired 22% in the project and overall management and financial control.
In January 2015, the government decided to annul the land allotment for Shivamogga airport because of “indifference and infighting” among the promoters. As no construction work had begun at the Shivamogga airport, the government plans to re-tender the project.
On 15 June 2020, Karnataka CM B. S. Yeddyurappa relaunched the long pending airport project in Shivamogga. The airport will be built at the cost of ₹220 crore in about 662.38 acre land area has been initiated earlier at Sogane, It will be built as a part of the UDAN scheme.
Land acquisition and lease.
The government had acquired 662.38 acres of land, and 58.3 million released for acquisition and development. Compensation for formers given, for private land 600,000 for an acre of dry land and 700,000 for an acre of wetland, and for farmers using government land 200,000 per acre. About 130 acres of private land and 530 acres of government land acquired for the project. Families living in the affected area were provided monetary compensation and alternate housing.
The Land Lease Deed signed on 21 December 2010 commits the lessee to the rent 20,232 per acre annually to the GoK (13.4 million). The lease rent will increase by 10% every three years during the lease period.
Construction.
Work on Phase I of the construction started on 12 April 2011. However, out of the proposed 3.1-km runway, only the work of levelling a 0.5-km stretch with boulders and concrete mixture was completed. After this, differences cropped up between the partners of the contractor and all work on the project was stopped.
On 15 June 2020, Karnataka CM B. S. Yeddyurappa relaunched the long pending airport project in Shivamogga. The airport will be built at the cost of ₹220 crore in about 662.38 acre land area has been initiated earlier at Sogane, It will be built as a part of the UDAN scheme.
The state government said the airport is designed to operate ATR-72-600 with a seating capacity of 70 passengers and can handle about 200 peak hour passengers. The state said it has enough land available for future expansion of the airport to operate higher types of aircraft like Boeing B-737/Airbus A-320 based on the demand (3,000 m of runway). The project will be taken up in two phases. It is expected to be completed in a year's time.
The construction of the Shivamogga airport started about seven months after air operations began in Kalaburagi and Bidar.


RAF Wilmslow

RAF Wilmslow was a Royal Air Force station that existed from 1938 until 1962 in Wilmslow, Cheshire. It was known as "No. 4 School of Recruit Training."
History.
The station was used for training new recruits. The recruits would learn about living RAF procedures and other information for a period of weeks then would be transferred to their operational station.
Current use.
The station was demolished shortly after closing in 1962. During the 1980s the eastern part of the camp was developed with housing by local construction company Jones Homes, forming the 'Summerfields' development. During the early 1990s the A34 bypass of Wilmslow was constructed, which cut the site in two. Between 1996 and 2015 the remaining western part of the site was developed for housing, forming 'The Villas' and 'Regents Park' developments.


Verdun Aerodrome

Verdun, in the Meuse department, is a small city on the river Meuse, which had been heavily fortified before WW1 started. A military airfield was created in 1912 out of the eastern part of the city, in a place called "Faubourg Pavé" (Paved Suburb...); yet navigation charts did not mention the airfield, but three different military grounds elsewhere in Verdun (one with an airship hangar), with a projected new airfield north of the city, at Charny.
From the beginning of the war until the outbreak of the Battle of Verdun, in February 1916, the Faubourg Pavé airfield was widely used by the French Air Service. As the battle developed, many airfields were built further away from the front line and "Faubourg Pavé" had to be abandoned.
In 1918, many American Air Service squadrons flew from airfields around Verdun, as Julvécourt, Souilly, Lemmes or Béthelainville. Sources also mention temporary detachment of the 95th Aero Squadron to a "Verdun" airfield, without any further details, which could probably mean any of those airfields as it stayed there for a rather long time; 27th, for itself, stayed only a few days, 7–11 November, which could be any of those airfields, or a now-forgotten temporary airstrip... As the front line moved eastwards away from Verdun during the last weeks of the war, wa can also imagine aircraft landing back at "Faubourg Pavé"...


Roland Rohlfs

Roland Rohlfs (February 10, 1892 – February 28, 1974) was an American aviator.
Biography.
Roland Rohlfs was born in Buffalo, New York on February 10, 1892, the son of Anna Katharine Green, the crime novelist; and Charles Rohlfs, the actor and furniture craftsman.
Rohlfs flew a hydro-aeroplane called the "Dunkirk Fighter" for Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company in 1918. Later that year he broke the flight airspeed record while flying a Curtiss Wasp, his speed was clocked at 163.1 mph (262.4 km/h).
In 1919 he broke another world record when he flew to an altitude of 34,610 feet in a Curtiss L-3 triplane (at - 47 degrees Fahrenheit).
He died on February 28, 1974.


Nuugaatsiaq Heliport

Nuugaatsiaq Heliport is a heliport in Nuugaatsiaq, a village in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. The heliport is considered a "helistop", and is served by Air Greenland as part of a government contract.
Airlines and destinations.
Air Greenland operates government contract flights to villages in the Uummannaq Fjord region. These mostly cargo flights are not featured in the timetable, although they can be pre-booked. Departure times for these flights as specified during booking are by definition approximate, with the settlement service optimized on the fly depending on local demand for a given day.


List of airlines of Djibouti

This is a list of airlines currently operating in Djibouti.