Sentences with phrase «of aviation pioneer»

The third holds leader is Paula McLain's Circling The Sun (RH / Ballantine), a fictionalized bio of aviation pioneer Beryl Markham.

To honor the long partnership, last year KLM applied a special livery featuring the portrait of aviation pioneer and airplane manufacturer Anthony Fokker to an aircraft that it retired on October 28.

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First presented in 1952, previous recipients of the Churchill Medal include Sir Frank Whittle who is credited with inventing the turbojet engine and Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, the British aviation pioneer.

The Aviator is based on the life of one of the great pioneers of aviation in the 20th Century, Howard Hughes, who made quite a fortune, and a good share of fame, as one of the most prominent American figures in the 20s through the 40s, which is where John Logan's (The Last Samurai, Sinbad) script dedicates its focus on.

Based on the life of Frank «Spig» Wead, an aviation pioneer whose devotion to the Navy took priority over his family.

That pic's fictional aircraft manufacturer, Piccolo, was widely noted to be based on the real Italian aviation pioneer Giovanni Caproni, who appears in «The Wind Rises» as a kind of spirit guide, visiting Horikoshi in his dreams and uttering the Paul Valery quotation from which pic takes its allusive title: «The wind is rising!

A visually stunning overview of international aviation pioneers, women who broke gender barriers.

They cover the development of military and civilian aviation on the Alaska Highway, The Arctic, Denali (the glacier pilots), pioneering the US airmail, and the golden age of barnstorming.

Reading this historical account definitely makes one aware of that dangerous journey and those courageous men whose vision and guts brought us to this point... Author John Ross offers a thoroughly researched (from primary sources), engaging, well written biography about this memorable 20th century WWI ace pilot and aviation pioneer.

Early flyers - «Birdmen,» as they were called — were pioneers, heeding the same draw to riches or fame or illumination of the unknown that motivated those who had crossed uncharted oceans centuries before, and so aviation was replete with outsized personalities, brutal competition, and staggering bravery.

It is astonishing because although everyone knows of the famous couple — Charles, an aviation pioneer, and Anne, writer of Gift from the Sea — and, of course, of the terrible kidnapping of their firstborn child — the whole story of their relationship is not widely known.

«Hilton has long pioneered the concept of airport hotels and in recent years has added new properties in aviation hubs including London Heathrow, Istanbul Ataturk and Amsterdam Schipol airports,» said Patrick Fitzgibbon, senior vice president of development, Europe and Africa, for Hilton Worldwide.

From early aviation pioneers to Google Earth and drone surveillance, At Altitude explores how the Earth has been photographed from above, as well as the social, political and cultural inferences of new technologies that allow us to see ourselves — and be watched — as never before.

Inspired by Brazilian - born pioneer aviator Alberto Santos - Dumont, widely considered the father of aviation in France, the kinetic airship sculpture was completed in 2015 after a decade of research and work by Burden.

Parlá's grandfather was an aviation pioneer who flew between Key West and Mariel, Cuba, on a biplane made of sugarcane and bamboo, which he named Caña Brava.

Cathay Pacific Airways has made a strategic equity investment in Fulcrum BioEnergy — a pioneer in the development and commercialization of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into sustainable aviation fuel (earlier post)-- as part of the airline's biofuel strategy and to help it achieve a target of carbon - neutral growth from 2020.

Demonstration of pioneering processes for risk aversion in high - impact strategic long - term investments for the aviation energy future.

We were the first commercial airline to test a biofuel flight and we continue to lead the airline industry as the pioneer of sustainable aviation.

Mineola has hosted some of the most famous pioneer pilots in history, including Glenn Curtiss and the Wright Brothers, as well as one of the first aviation units in the National Guard.