Posts Tagged ‘pilot’

Prince Harry Going Back to Afghanistan

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

After qualifying as Apache pilot.

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Prince qualifies as Apache pilot

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Prince Harry has qualified as an Apache helicopter pilot after 18 months of rigorous training in the UK and the US, the Ministry of Defence says.

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‘Luck’ in hot water with PETA over two euthanized horses

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

“ Luck ,” HBO’s new gritty, realistic (if somewhat confusing) horse racing drama, is in hot water with PETA, after it became public that two horses died during the filming of the series’s first season. As Entertainment Weekly reported , the pilot — which fictionalized a horse being injured and euthanized in one scene — did not carry the American Humane Association’s stamp to assure viewers that “No animals were harmed” during filming. That’s because a horse suffered a severe fracture while filming a race sequence and had to be euthanized. The same fate befell a second horse during episode seven’s filming. Read full article > >

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William starts Falklands duties

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Prince William starts work as an RAF search and rescue pilot in the Falkland Islands, having arrived in the territory on a six-week routine deployment.

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William ready for Falklands duty

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

The Duke of Cambridge arrives in the Falklands for a tour of duty as an RAF pilot amid tensions between the UK and Argentina over the islands.

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‘Bering Sea Gold’: Restoring reality TV’s lost glimmer

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

The state of Alaska and the genre of reality docu-TV have almost animalistic mating urges. They just can’t stay away from one another, which is how we at home came to know too much about crab fishing, gold prospecting, grizzlies, snow machines, ice-road truckers, chartered plane pilots and the taste of the season’s first whale blubber. Add to that a certain out-of-work politician and the humdrum patrols of the state’s troopers, and it’s been a whole lot of defrosted drama. Yet very little of it has made for memorable watching. Read full article > >

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The TV Column: FX rolls dice on Sheen’s new sitcom, ‘Anger Management’

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

PASADENA, Calif. — Picking up a series starring an apparently reformed hard-living warlock Vatican assassin without having seen a single script, much less a pilot, is not a “cynical publicity stunt” — it’s a “roll of the dice,” FX president John Landgraf insisted Sunday at Winter TV Press Tour 2012. Read full article > >

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Probe after BA pilots taken ill

Sunday, January 8th, 2012

An investigation has been launched after a British Airways flight from London to Glasgow had to turn back because the pilots were taken ill.

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More Predator drones fly U.S.-Mexico border

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. — In the dead of night, from a trailer humming with surveillance monitors, a pilot for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency was remotely flying a Predator drone more than 1,000 miles away. From an altitude of 15,000 feet, over the desert ranch-lands of Arizona, the drone’s all-seeing eyeball swiveled and powerful night-vision infrared cameras zeroed in on a pickup truck rattling along a washboard road. Read full article > >

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Funeral for RAF Red Arrows pilot

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

The funeral is taking place at Coventry Cathedral for Red Arrows pilot Flt Lt Sean Cunningham who died when he was ejected from his aircraft.

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RAF safety upgrade after tragedy

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

The RAF completes a £2.8m safety upgrade to all its basic training aircraft after a mid-air crash killed two pilots and two teenage cadets in south Wales.

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Syrian armed forces says 6 elite military pilots killed in ambush in restive Homs province

Friday, November 25th, 2011

BEIRUT — The Syrian armed forces say in a rare televised statement that six elite military pilots have been killed in an ambush. Friday’s statement said the attack happened the day before in Homs province and it marked a dangerous escalation in the conflict. Syria is the scene of the deadliest crackdown against the Arab Spring’s eruption of protests and international pressure has been mounting on President Bashar Assad to stop the bloodshed. Read full article > >

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‘Iron Maiden’ airline shuts down

Monday, November 21st, 2011

Astraeus Airlines – whose pilots include the lead singer of Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson – goes into administration.

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Ex-borders chief: I’m no rogue

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

The ex-head of the UK border force Brodie Clark tells a committee of MPs he “did not extend or alter” a passport checks pilot set by the home secretary.

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Checks were relaxed at 28 ports

Monday, November 14th, 2011

The home secretary has revealed her pilot scheme to reduce passport checks was used at 28 ports and airports.

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