Sentences with phrase «cardington airfield»

Nazi fighters and bombers raked the English countryside, cities, ports, and airfields with bullets and bombs.

To outside observers, Iran appears in line with the letter of the deal, even after the US's April 7 strike on Assad's airfield.

In 2015, it undertook a return flight from Hahnweide airfield near Stuttgart to Calcinate del Pesce airport in northern Italy.

Trump ordered the launch of 59 tomahawk cruise missiles against a Syria - government airfield on Thursday evening.

One airfield I went against was a MIG - 29 base up near Belgrade.

And Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said that the strike «has severely damaged or destroyed Syrian aircraft and support infrastructure and equipment at Shayrat airfield, reducing the Syrian government's ability to deliver chemical weapons.»

Doctors with his skills were in high demand as the Afghan conflict heated up, and in 2009 he went to Kandahar, where he became the last Canadian in charge of the Role 3 Multinational Hospital at Kandahar Airfield.

North Korea launched a Hwasong - 12 / KN17 intermediate - range ballistic missile on April 28 last year from Pukchang Airfield in South Pyongan Province, The Diplomat reported Wednesday.

Though it is not allowed to fly at night during its test stage, the aircraft managed to take off from Cardington Airfield before sunset at 7:40 p.m. on Wednesday.

The aircraft took off from an airfield in Bedfordshire on Wednesday, circling the air for 20 minutes before landing in the same spot, CNN reports.

Construction will happen at the Moffett Federal Airfield, a site the company has leased from the government since 2014.

Therefore the military would have to target «not only nuclear infrastructure but command and control facilities, key leaders, artillery and missile units, chemical and biological weapons facilities, airfields, ports, and other targets deemed critical to regime survival,» according to the report for Congress.

SEOUL (Reuters)- North Korea said on Saturday U.S. missile strikes against a Syrian airfield on Friday were «an unforgivable act of aggression» that showed its decision to develop nuclear weapons was «the right choice a million times over.»

The U.S. military and NATO are seeking to boost their ability to quickly respond to emerging threats by pre-positioning supplies and equipment across Europe, while upgrading airfields, ranges and other infrastructure after years of neglect.

In the skies above Hullavington airfield in south - west England, there was a time when trainee parachutists would leap out of aircraft into the void, trusting in the kit strapped to their backs to save them from falling to earth.

Yet even after Trump was applauded by many, including McCain, for ordering strikes on a Syrian airfield last year in response to another poison attack, this time around there could be more calls for congressional involvement in any response.

The airfield includes three storage facilities for air or space craft, known as Hangars One, Two and Three, as well as a flight operations building, two runways and a private golf course.

A man looks at damage to the Airlander 10 hybrid airship after a test flight at Cardington Airfield in Britain, August 24, 2016.

Unlike the US's strike in April 2017, the latest one did not target Syrian jets or airfields — though the earlier attack apparently had little impact, as Syrian jets took off from the damaged airfield within 24 hours and reports of chemical warfare persisted.

'' [The agreement] will allow NASA to focus its resources on core missions, while protecting the federal need to use Moffett Field as a continued, limited - use airfield,» said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden in a statement.

Google's plans for the Moffett airfield are unclear, although the agreement could allow limited commercial development, or possibly a museum or education center at the hangar site.

On Monday, Google subsidiary Planetary Ventures LLC was chosen to restore Hangar One at Moffett Field and gain control of the airfield's two runways, according to a report in the San Jose Mercury News.

Command Sgt. Maj. David Inglis, 3rd Infantry Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion command sergeant major, wears a protective suit and is attacked by a military working dog during a demonstration of the dogs» abilities at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2012.

Taken on Jan. 6, 2016, the following pictures show four AH - 64E Apache Guardians assigned to 16th Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB), based at Joint Base Lewis - McChord (JBLM), Washington, preparing for take off from Joint Base Pearl Harbor - Hickam (JBPHH), Hawaii and then flying in formation and landing at Wheeler Army Airfield, to train with 2 - 6 Cavalry, 25th CAB.

Trump responded by launching Navy cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield.

Chalk 2 stopped twice to refuel, at one point on a French Foreign Legion airfield, rendezvousing with the Air Force C - 130s at each location.

He was returning from Kandahar Airfield after trying to meet local officials when his lightly armoured G - Wagon was struck by a bomb - laden vehicle on a busy thoroughfare at the edge of the city.

FILE PHOTO: Russian MiG - 31 interceptor aircraft takes off from an airfield while carrying the hypersonic Kinzhal missile on March 11, 2018.

He said: «If you and we confirm we were going to send $ 10,000 to California today, the fastest way to for us to do it, would be to drive to the airfield and fly it there.

Ukraine's Acting President, Oleksandr Turchynov, said an airfield in the eastern town of Kramatorsk had been taken back from pro-Russian separatists, Reuters reported Tuesday.

The missiles struck infrastructure at the airfield, according to the administration, but did not target chemical weapons storage facilities because of the potential for civilian casualties.

Conde was killed in an operation in which another U.S. service member was wounded and medically evacuated to Bagram Airfield north of Kabul for medical treatment in a military hospital.

The material that was burned at Bagram Airfield was removed from the library of a detainee center «because of extremist inscriptions and an appearance that these documents were being used to facilitate extremist communications,» a military official said Tuesday.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Baghram Airfield in Afghanistan on Tuesday, spurred by reports that soldiers had burned a copy of the Quran at the base.

His death was a tissue of ironies: a man who had fought for monastic solitude for over 25 years died thousands of miles from his Kentucky hermitage; this passionate pacifist was flown back from Thailand in a military plane, from an airfield that was part of the network of military bases that prospered during the Vietnam years.

I didn't see any pushing or anger - not even at the long queues waiting for water at that scorching airfield.

Organisation, of course - too many people couldn't get into the main airfield even though they had tickets.

Mechanized masses of men have invaded the southern seas, and up - to - date airfields have been permanently installed on what were until yesterday the poetically lost islands of Polynesia.

Surrounded by four major airports in San Diego, Los Angeles, Ontario and Orange County, as well as two local airfields, Temecula is never more than an hour and 1/2 driving distance by car or shuttle.

Formula 1 has raced on a wide variety of race tracks since its inception in 1950, from tight and twisty street circuits to undulating old - school venues and airfield runways.

In combination with the car that we keep at the airfield (a donation that we received last year) and the tow - out kit that we are building ourselves, this means that preparing the glider for flight becomes a one - man job.

To ensure that we can also fly as much as possible at our home airfield during the soaring season, the committee is planning to purchase a set of all - weather covers for FEF, our Astir, so that it can stay rigged outdoors.

Both of these expeditions will allow members to experience soaring at a different airfield than Bicester, and both airfields also offer ridge and possible wave soaring.

The Hotel Oceano is now a small paradise with ravishing food; Mexicana Airlines flies into a local airfield; and the Benoists own not one but two apartados in an old palace on the hill.

Oh, who am I kidding, it was just another fairly boring flat airfield circuit.

So to discover that the bumpy old airfield on a remote bit of moorland a few minutes drive from where I live not only had a motorsport history, but a (tenuous) Formula 1 history?

In 1954 and 1955 the Davidstow airfield held three Formula 1 races, but amusingly no F1 cars actually turned up for either of the races in 1954.

A week after the launch the car had a quick straight - line test at a very wet airfield in Leeds (a far cry from the glamour and sunshine of F1's Barcelona tests!)

The event has the hashtag «Respect The Bumps» - that's not just a gimmick, because the bumps on the airfield circuit (Sebring is the USA's oldest road course) are properly savage, testing the limits of both the cars and the drivers.

After a one - off race at the unloved Zeltweg Airfield circuit in 1964, the Austrian Grand Prix found a home at the Osterreichring from 1970 to 1987.