Helicopter - Helicopter A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or two large horizontal rotors (propellers). Helicopters are classified as rotary-wing aircraft to distinguish them from conventional fixed-wing aircraft. The word helicopter is derived from the Greek words helix (spiral) and pteron (wing). Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22. The idea of the helicopter was first conceived by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century, but it was not until after the invention of the powered aeroplane in the 20th century that actual models were produced. Developers such as Louis Breguet, Juan de la Cierva, Emile Berliner, and Igor Sikorsky pioneered this type of aircraft. A flight of the first fully controllable helicopter Focke-Wulf Fw 61 was.
Gazelle helicopter - Gazelle helicopter The Gazelle is a helicopter developed as part of an Anglo-French venture between the Westland and Aerospatiale companies in 1968..
Kamen - December 1945 : With $2,000 and his invention of the servo-flap controlled rotor , 26-year-old Charles Kaman founds the company. January 15, 1947 : K-125 : Kaman's first helicopter July, 1949 : K-225 An improved version, the U.S. Navy buys two and Coast Guard one for $25,000 each. Later, they will receive the H-22 designation. December 1951 : A modified K-225 equipped with a Boeing 502 engine becomes the world's first gas turbine powered helicopter , ushering in the turbine age for helicopters. This aircraft is now at the Smithsonian 1953 : Kaman produced the first electrically powered drone April 1953 : HOK (OH-43) 1954 : K-16 A V/STOL designed around a rotoprop March 1954 : A modified Kaman HTK-1 becomes the world's first twin-turbine powered helicopter September, 1956 : HH-43.
KARE - new transmitter greatly increased the station's reception area. WTCN was first operated by Minnesota Television Service Corporation, but the station changed ownership several times over the following years. It was sold to the H.M. Bitner Group in 1955, Time Life Broadcasting in 1957, Criss Craft Industries in 1964, Metromedia in 1971, and finally Gannett Corporation in 1983. Other notable events 1957 - WTCN's first news team is formed. 1973 - The current studios are built in Golden Valley. 1979 - WTCN joins NBC as an affiliate 1983 - The purchase by Gannett causes a reshuffling of the station's staff. News anchors Paul Magers and Diana Pierce, amorg others, come to the station. 1985 - The station's call letters are changed to WUSA 1986 - On July 18 a helicopter pilot working.
Khan Yunis - town in the Gaza Strip which was the cite of Israeli helicopter attacks in August 2001 and October 2002..
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - went to Afghanistan and joined the fight against the Soviet Union during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. (Some sources believe he was fighting in Afghanistan before he came to the United States.) While he was in the Philippines in late 1994 and early 1995, he said that he was a Saudi or a Qatari plywood exporter named Abdul Majid. He had parties with alcohol and spent lavish times with Manila women. He often went to go-go bars and karaoke clubs and held meetings at expensive hotels. He made large tips. He is widely reported to have buzzed a tower with a rented helicopter to impress a female dentist who was one of his girlfriends. He called her on a cell phone while buzzing the tower, telling her to wave. At the.
Kiowa - Kiowa, a United States Army helicopter The Kiowas are a nation of Native Americans who lived mostly in the plains of west Texas, Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico at the time of at the time of the arrival of Europeans. Currently the Kiowa Nation is a registered tribe, with about 6000 members living in southwestern Oklahoma in 1989. The Kiowas originated in the northern basin of the Missouri River, but migrated south to the Black Hills around 1650 and lived there with the Crow. Pushed southward by the invading Cheyennes and Sioux who were being pushed out of their lands in the great lake regions by the Objiwe tribes, the Kiowas moved down the Platte River basin to the Arkansas River area. There they fought with the Comanches, who already occupied.
Kris Kristofferson - songs and working with manager Larry Parnes; he recorded for Top Rank Records under the name Kris Carson but was unsuccessful. In 1960, Kristofferson graduated with a master's degree in English literature and married an old girlfriend, Fran Beir. He joined the United States Army and became a helicopter pilot. During the early 1960s, he was stationed in West Germany and returned to music and forming a band. Kristofferson sent some of his compositions to a friend's relative, Marijohn Wilkin, a successful Nashville, Tennessee songwriter. Kristofferson moved to Nashville after resigning his commission in 1965, intent on becoming a professional songwriter. He worked a variety of odd jobs while struggling to make it in the music business, burdened with expensive medical bills as a result of his son's defective esophagus. He.
KV Svalbard - Her primary operating area is in the Arctic waters north of Norway, the Barents Sea and around the Svalbard islands. Svalbard is the largest ship in Norway's military armed forces, designed to supplement the 3 other helicopter carrying ships of the Norwegian Coastguard - the Nordkapp-class patrol vessels. She is NBC-protected with constant overpressure, and is capable of icebreaking or towing up to 100,000 tons. General Characteristics Missions: fishery inspection enforcement of sovereignty search and rescue environmental protection research and expedition support Displacement: 6500 tons Length: 103.7 meters overall, 89.0 meters waterline Beam: 19.1 meters Height: 8.3 meters Draft 6.5 meters Power: four 3390 kilowatt BRG-8 diesel generators Propulsion: two five-megawatt Azipod electric thrusters Aircraft: capacity for two helicopters; one Lynx carried initially Cost: NKr575 million (US$64 million).
KXJB-TV mast - 15 miles northeast of Valley City, North Dakota which was sold to KOVC, an FM radio station. The tower has fallen and been rebuilt twice. The first collapse occurred at 9:08 A.M. February 14, 1968 when the rotor of a Marine helicopter severed some guy wires (all four aboard the helicopter were killed in the mishap). The television station was off the air for eight days, finally resuming broadcasts from their previous (KOVC) tower. A replacement mast of the same height as the one destroyed was completed in four and a half months. The second tower fell during an ice storm which hit the area on April 6, 1997, subjecting it to wind gusts of 70mph and causing at least four inches of ice to accumulate on the structure, resulting in.
Jack Ryan - of his novels. As background, the novels say that Ryan is a former marine lieutenant who left the service after a helicopter accident. He also briefly worked as a stockbroker, a job he was successful at although had little interest in. Ryan chose to become an author and history teacher at the United States Naval Academy. He also began working as a CIA analyst in the early books of the series (Sum of All Fears) as an expert on the Soviet political bureau. As the series progresses, he helps a Soviet missle submarine captain defect The Hunt For Red October and eventually progresses to positions such as National Security Advisor and Deputy Director of the CIA. In Debt of Honor, Ryan was named as Vice President of the United States after.
January 2003 - associations, and activities. [1] The Pentagon orders 62,000 US troops to the Persian Gulf Gordon Campbell, premier of British Columbia, is arrested for drunk driving on vacation in Maui. He is the first sitting Canadian premier to be arrested. A scandal ensues. January 8, 2003 North Korea threatens war if the United Nations applies economic sanctions. Air Midwest airplane crashes during take off from Charlotte, North Carolina's international airport, killing all 21 people aboard. The plane, headed to Greer, South Carolina, was not able to maintain altitude after take-off, crashing onto a USAirways plane hangar. In another crash, in Turkey, at least 74 of the 77 people on board died when a plane of the Turkish Airlines company, crashed while attempting an emergency landing at the Diyarbakir airport. January 7, 2003.
James P. Fleming - Lieutenant at the time. On November 24, 1968 while he was in the 20th Special Operations Squadron, he landed his Bell UH-1F helicopter after one failed attempt, rescued the troops (under heavy enemy fire), and returned to a forward base..
Jean Chrétien - month before the war was launched. A UN offer for an increased deployment of Canadian peacekeepers to Afghanistan prompted Chretien to scrap his plans for Iraq. This revelation led some of Chretien's anti-war critics on the left to accuse the Prime Minister of never really being fully opposed to the war. In October 2003, Chrétien, a strong supporter of the decriminalization of marijuana in Canada, raised eyebrows with comments concerning his plans to smoke marijuana after his retirement. "I don't know what is marijuana," he said. "Perhaps I will try it when it will no longer be criminal. I will have my money for my fine and a joint in the other hand." Retirement In August 2002, to quell internecine strife in the party primarily between his supporters and those of.
John C. Stennis Battle Group - (VF-211) Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA-314) Fighter Attack Squadron 146 (VFA-146) Fighter Attack Squadron 147 (VFA-147) Electronic Attack Squadron 138 (VAQ-138) Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 112 (VAW-112) Sea Control Squadron 33 (VS-33) Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron 8 (HS 8) Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 30 Detachment 4 (VRC 30) Ships of DESRON 21 Lake Champlain (CG 57) Port Royal (CG 73) Decatur (DDG 73) Elliot (DD 967) Jarrett (FFG 33) Bridge (AOE 10) Other elements of JCS Battle Group Salt Lake City (SSN 716) Jefferson City (SSN 759).
Victor Emmanuel, Prince of Naples - to Umberto II, the last king of Italy and Princess Marie José of Belgium. After an 11-year engagement, Vittorio Emmanuel, then a banker and helicopter salesman, married Swiss biscuit heiress Marina Doria (born Geneva, February 12, 1935) in Teheran on October 7, 1971. A gold-medal-winning trick-ski champion, Doria -- a daughter of René Ricolfi Doria and Iris Benvenuti -- also had been a star attraction at the Florida amusement park Cypress Gardens in the 1950s, highlights that did not endear the groom's father to the marriage; the former king refused to attend. The Prince and Princess of Naples have one son, Emanuele Filiberto Umberto Reza Rene Maria, Prince of Venice, born Geneva, June 22, 1972. He was married to a pregnant French actress, Clotilde Courau, on September 25, 2003. On the.
John Keel - John Keel is a parapsychologist who posited that the "black helicopter conspiracy theory" has similar origins to those regarding UFO's, ghosts and fairies; that they are part of modern mythology; in this case, representing a fear of the government and its technology. Book The Mothman Prophecies, by John Keel, Saturday Review Press, 1975 and Tor Books, (paperback) 2002 ISBN 0765341972.
Jonina Dourif - http://www.psitech.net/training.htm ] In 1999, the company's founder retired and Joni took over the helm as President. She continues to lead PSI TECH into the future on the cutting edge of PSI and mind technology. In July 2000, PSI TECH became the sister company of Mind-Tek Research [ http://www.mind-tek.com ], whose CEO, Dane Spotts, came on board as an executive partner. PSI TECH now enjoys a rich and productive research and development department. Joni was raised on the Hawaiian Islands, and formally educated in Lausanne, Switzerland. She speaks French and Spanish and currently lives and conducts business in Beverly Hills, California, Seattle, Washington, Maui, Hawaii and Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. Watch Joni remote view the cause of a a police helicopter crash for a TV news crew. Quicktime Video Link.
July 18 - B. Johnson and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. 1969 - After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Edward Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowns. Kennedy doesn't report the incident for 10 hours. 1984 - In San Ysidro, California, 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty sprays a McDonald's restaurant with gun-fire killing 21 people before being shot dead by police. 1986 - A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter. 1994 - In Buenos Aires, an explosion destroys a building housing several Jewish organizations killing 96 and injuring many more. 1996 - Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec, beginning one of Canada's costliest.
Juan de la Cierva - accomplishment was the invention of the autogyro in 1923. The autogyro is a highly maneuverable aircraft with an unpowered rotor. It was a predecessor to the modern helicopter. During the Spanish Civil War, he supported Francisco Franco's side. He died in a fixed-wing plane accident..
