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Senior Master Sgt. Bradley Bennett, U.S. Air Force Band Singing Sergeants ensemble tenor vocalist, speaks with a veteran after a performance at the Eisenhower Regional Recreational Center in The Villages, Fla., Feb. 22, 2017. After performing a variety of musical hits from the 1940s and 50s, members of the Singing Sergeants met with local veterans and received a tour of the center. The facility has numerous displays of historical military memorabilia donated by veterans and their families. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Rustie Kramer)
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Images from the joint research expedition led by the British Exploring Society and the Oman Office for Conservation of the Environment.
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James Borrell is a UK based conservation biologist with a passion for expeditions and adventure having been involved in projects on four continents.
In early 2012 James led the scientific fieldwork of an expedition to the Empty Quarter and Dhofar Mountains of Oman. Here they undertook a wide range of research with a particular focus on establishing the presence of the critically endangered Arabian Leopard, a species thought to number less than 250 in the wild.
For more information, writing and images, please visit www.jamesborrell.co.uk
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Chalk's International Airlines, formerly Chalk's Ocean Airways, was an airline with its headquarters on the grounds of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in unincorporated Broward County, Florida near Fort Lauderdale. It operated scheduled seaplane services to the Bahamas. Its main base was Miami Seaplane Base (MPB) until 2001, with a hub at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. On September 30, 2007, the United States Department of Transportation revoked the flying charter for the airline, and later that year, the airline ceased operations.
The airline was founded by Arthur Burns "Pappy" Chalk, and started ad-hoc charter operations as the Red Arrow Flying Service in 1917 flying a floatplane. After "Pappy" Chalk served in the Army Air Service in World War I, he returned to Miami and commenced scheduled service between Miami and Bimini in the Bahamas in February 1919 as Chalk's Flying Service. Chalk's first base was a beach umbrella on the Miami shore of Biscayne Bay. In 1926 a landfill island, Watson Island, was created in Biscayne Bay close to Miami. Chalk's built an air terminal there, and operated from the island for the next 75 years. During Prohibition, Chalk's was a major source of alcohol smuggled from the Bahamas to the United States.
Pappy Chalk sold the airline to a friend in 1966, but continued to be involved in the daily operations of the airline until he retired in 1975. He died in 1977 at the age of 88.
In the early 1970s, Frakes Aviation bought the rights to the aircraft and began a conversion program, replacing the old Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp radial engines with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 turboprops.[9] By 1985 three of Chalk's eight Grumman Mallards had been converted, with five ex-military piston engined Grumman Albatross aircraft making up the balance of the fleet.
In 1974, Resorts International purchased Chalk's Airlines, which became the primary air carrier to Paradise Island near the Bahamian capital of Nassau, where Resorts International owned and operated hotels and other resort facilities. After Resorts International constructed a short take off and landing (STOL) runway on Paradise Island and switched to using STOL-capable de Havilland Canada DHC-7 Dash 7 turboprop aircraft operated by subsidiary Paradise Island Airlines, it sold Chalk's in 1991 to United Capital Corporation, an Illinois-based investment firm (which was not affiliated with United Airlines).
The television show Miami Vice, a symbol of both Miami and the 1980s, featured a Chalk's seaplane in its opening credits. N2969, which had a fatal accident in 2005, as Flight 101 is featured in an extended scene at the end of the third-season episode Baseballs of Death, when the antagonist attempts to leave the US. The music video for George Michael's "Careless Whisper" and Miami Vice second-season episode One Way Ticket featured a Chalk's seaplane, N2974. In one of the final scenes of the motion picture Silence of the Lambs, Dr Frederick Chilton is seen disembarking a Chalk's aircraft in Bimini, where Hannibal Lecter is waiting to "have him for dinner". A Chalks plane also makes an appearance at the end of the movie 'After The Sunset' with Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek's characters embracing as they stand next to it. Chalk's fleet was as high-maintenance as it was glamorous. It was a unique carrier, its Watson Island base being the smallest port of entry in the United States. Chalk's revenues were about $7.5 million in 1986, when it carried 130,000 passengers. Most were staying at Resorts International properties, although island residents used the airline for shopping trips to Miami.
United Capital expanded Chalk's service to Key West, Florida, and Nassau and acquired additional aircraft, but struggled financially. In 1996, United Capital sold Chalk's to a group of investors, who operated the airline under the name Pan Am Air Bridge. In January 1998, Texas-based aircraft lease company Air Alaska purchased 70% of Pan Am Air Bridge, but following the collapse of Air Alaska, Pan Am Air Bridge filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection only a year later on January 11, 1999. James Confalone, a businessman and former Eastern Airlines pilot, purchased Chalk's out of bankruptcy for $925,000 on August 2, 1999; it had been reduced to two aircraft and only 35 staff. Confalone bought five additional Grumman Mallard seaplanes and arranged a contract to buy 14 larger Grumman G-111 seaplanes to expand the operation. On December 17, 1999, the airline was relaunched as Chalk's Ocean Airways.
In late 2001 following the September 11 attacks, Chalk's was forced to leave its longtime operations base on Watson Island due to security concerns over its proximity to the Port of Miami. Helicopter traffic had also increased around Watson Island.Operations moved to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, where Chalk's already had its maintenance base.
The airline suspended operations after the crash of Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 on December 19, 2005. It had planned to resume flights between Fort Lauderdale and the Bahamas under its earlier name of Chalk's International Airlines on November 9, 2006, but its airworthiness certificate issued by the Bahamas had expired. It resorted to using aircraft "wet leased" from and operated by Big Sky Airlines to operate flights from Fort Lauderdale to Key West and to St. Petersburg, Florida. Chalk's added flights between Palm Beach International Airport (PBIA) and destinations in the Bahamas in late May 2007, but carried only 14 passengers through PBIA that August.
Chalk's ceased flying from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after September 3, 2007. After the final report from the Flight 101 crash investigation was released, the United States Department of Transportation revoked the airline's flying authority for scheduled service on September 30, 2007, effectively shutting down the airline. Chalk's continued to hold its FAR 121 operating with a part 298 authority in good standing, and sought to add 60-passenger regional jets to its FAR 121 operating licence, but these efforts never came to fruition.
Chalk's had claimed to be the oldest continuously operating airline in the world, having begun operations in 1917 and scheduled flights in February 1919, and having only ceased operations for three years due to World War II, two days due to 1992's Hurricane Andrew, and eleven months due to an "at altitude tragedy" on December 19, 2005. The title of oldest operating airline is now given to KLM of the Netherlands, founded later in 1919.
In 1994, Captain John Alberto and co-pilot Alan Turner drowned after their aircraft sank due to the failure of the airplane's bilge pump while they were taxiing at Key West. Captain Alberto left behind a wife and two children. Jimmy Buffett dedicated a chapter to Captain Alberto in his book A Pirate Looks At Fifty.
On December 19, 2005, Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 from Fort Lauderdale to Bimini made an unscheduled stop at Watson Island, Miami.[8] Within a minute of taking-off again, it fell into the sea near Miami Beach. Witnesses said they saw smoke billowing from the plane and the separation of its right wing as it plunged into the ocean.[18] None of the twenty people on board – eighteen passengers and two pilots – survived. At first, only nineteen of the twenty bodies were found (by the Coast Guard and Miami Beach Ocean Rescue); on December 23, 2005, the twentieth was found by two Miami-Dade firefighters while fishing on their day off. Investigators later identified cracks in the main support beam connecting the wing to the fuselage. The plane was a Grumman G-73T TurboMallard, registration N2969, manufactured in 1947. It was the second fatal accident for Chalk's Ocean Airways. A few months after the NTSB released its report on the crash, the airline shut down.
Weston Bike Nights 18 June 2015
This weekly Thursday meet during the summer is based at the sea front in the sea side resort of Weston Super Mare, North Somerset, UK.
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Started this in 1999. In late 2007 my oldest son who was 2 at the time snuck in the Lego Room and destroyed it.
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bei ner Che Fahne und Toi Häuschen - danke an WBS70 :)
Japanese Submarine JS Takashio (SS 597) and her crew pulls into the submarine piers at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for a port visit, Oct. 30. Takashio is the eighth ship in the Oyashio-class of submarines and was commissioned in 2005. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Steven Khor/Released)
Annapurna Base Camp Trekking is called Annapurna Sanctuary Trekking wherein you can see view in 360 diploma attitude with sunrise and sunset as we asll wonderful one-of-a-kind landscape in every distance in this journey and standard neighborhood subculture tradition with wealthy mountain vistas, terraced fields, quaint gurung villages and a large variety of plant life and fauna all through your journey with Treks Himalaya. Get the view of Annapurna Sanctuary Trek over three dozens of mountains trekking in Nepal. Mt. Annapurna (8091m) of nepal is the 10th quality viable mountain in the world and the adventure to its base camp, which is at 4130m peak, is one of the maximum famous walks on the earth. The Annapurna Base Camp Trek is one of the most famous treks in annapurna vicinity of Nepal trekking. Furthermore, we reach our destination by manner of mt. Machapuchhre (fishtail) which is respected with the useful resource of the nepalese for its special beauty and most famous treks inside the international. Furthermore properly groomed itinerary of Annapurna Base Camp package it is a well-known choice among various out of doors enthusiasts, from a solo female traveler to hikers traveling in businesses in nepal. Many landscapes and convey you so shut to the bottom of 7,000 and eight,000 meter peaks around Annapurna Base Camp. www.trekshimalaya.com/annapurna-base-camp-trekking.php
14 days Annapurna Base Camp Trekking itinerary
Day 01:- Kathmandu-Pokhara (820m.) by drive 6 to 8 hrs, air 25 minute O/N hotel.
Day 02:- Drive to Nayapul same day Tikhedhunga (1540m.) 4 hrs walk O/N hotel.
Day 03:- Tikhedhunga-Ghorepani (2850m.) 6 hours walk and overnight hotel.
Day 04:- Climb up to Poon Hill (3210m.) in the morning, see sunrise in 180 degree
back to hotel in Ghorepani & trek to Tadapani (2590m.) 6 hrs walk O/N hotel.
Day 05:- Tadapani-Chhomrong (2340m.) 5 hours walk and overnight hotel.
Day 06:- Chhomrong-Himalaya Hotel (2920m.) 6 hours walk and overnight hotel.
Day 07:- Himalaya Hotel-Annapurna Base Camp (4130m.) 6-7 hrs walk O/N hotel.
Day 08:- Morning view from ABC & trek to Bamboo (2335m.) 6 hrs walk O/N hotel.
Day 09:- Bamboo-Jhinu (1780m.) 5 hours walking and overnight hotel.
Day 10:- Rest day in Jhinu and enjoy with hot spring and overnight hotel.
Day 11:- Jhinu-Ghandruk (1940m.) 4 hours walking and overnight hotel.
Day 12:- Ghandruk-Deurali (2000m.) 6 hours walking and overnight hotel.
Day 13:- Dhampus Phedi (1130m.) walk & drive to Pokhara 5 hrs O/N hotel.
Day 14:- Pokhara-Kathmandu by drive 6 to 8 hours, air 25 minute O/N hotel.
Further information contact below:-
Treks Himalaya Pvt. Ltd.
P.O.Box: 23044, Tarakeshwor-5,
Lolang, Kathmandu, Nepal
Phone: 0097715169092
Mobile: 009779841433205
guidenepal@gmail.com
Critically acclaimed best-selling author Mark Bowden (2nd,L), who wrote Black Hawk Down, shakes hands with US Army SSGT Edwin Orellane of Rialto, California, as Spc Jimmy Scherer of Phoenix, Arizona and SSGT Kris Stallard of Fontana, California wait to greet him during an off duty moment at a Transit Center in Southwest Asia as part of the "Operation Thriller II" USO tour on November 4, 2011. During their time downrange the authors will sign autographs, share insider writer techniques, pose for photos and shake hands with troops to boost morale. USO Photo by Mike Theiler