Nolan Ryan Nolan Ryan Lynn Nolan Ryan Jr. (born January 31, 1947), nicknamed The Ryan Express, is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher and a previous chief executive officer (CEO) of the Texas Rangers. He is currently an executive adviser to the owner of the Houston Astros. Over a record 27-year baseball career that spanned four decades: 1966, 19681993, Ryan pitched for the New York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999. Ryan, a hard-throwing, right-handed pitcher, threw pitches that were regularly clocked above 100 miles per hour (161
Gabardini G.9 Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947), King of Italy (1900-1946), visited Cameri airfield, where he observed a demonstration of the G.9"bis". Flown by Lodovico Zanibelli, the G.9"bis" achieved a maximum speed of 250 kilometers per hour (155 miles per hour) during the demonstration. However, the "Regia Aeronautica" was no more interested in the G.9"bis" version of the aircraft than it had been in the G.9 version, and no production order resulted. Gabardini G.9 The Gabardini G.9 was an Italian single-seat biplane fighter prototype produced by Gabardini in 1923. Gabardini designed the G.9 in parallel with its work on its first fighter design,