During World War II, America's P51 Mustang fighter, a single-engine prop plane, creamed the first fleet of German combat jets, the Messerschmitt 262.
Admiral Arthur Phillip, the man who brought the First Fleet into Sydney Harbour in 1788, ended his days tumbling out of an upstairs window in England.
News of the World was the first British Fleet Street newspaper Rupert Murdoch bought, in 1969, as he began to propel himself from Australian newspaper proprietor to international media magnate.
Conversions are likely to catch on first in the fleet market, where what matters most is the long-term cost of keeping vehicles on the road.
Vale docked the first of the fleet, the Berge Everest, at China's Port of Dalian in late December, with a delivery of 350, 000 tons of iron ore.
Sir David gave me my first break on Fleet Street and I soon fell under the spell of his mischievous but ultimately hugely professional approach to tabloid journalism.
It means the 26-year-old winger will miss the FA Cup first round should the Fleet qualify.
In 1931, Bill bought his first aircraft, a Fleet biplane, and his interest in aviation was launched.
He said the first of a new fleet of carriages should start using the line in 2015.
Effectively, all operating 787s have been grounded, the first time a whole fleet is suspended since 1979 when inspectors found wing damage on Douglas DC-10s.
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The first additional catalyst is fleet contracting.
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The first was that a large fleet bringing supplies and settlers to Virginia was scattered.
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The first is how often the fleet of vehicles on the roads turns over.
Newspaper reports suggest the defence ministry will increase Japan's submarine fleet for the first time since 1976, adding two submarines to counter both North Korea and increased Chinese naval activity in seas near Japan.
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The Met's response fleet will be the first to receive the new markings.
It comes after the MoD ordered 22 of the A400Ms to replace its C-130 Hercules fleet, with the first delivery expected in 2014.
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On August 5th Chile's CSAV, which runs the world's eighth-largest container fleet, became the first shipper to make a container-derivative trade (with Morgan Stanley).
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China Southern, which has China's biggest fleet, responded at first by adding flights, slashing prices and speeding up check-ins, but many customers nonetheless switched to the train.
The ferry is part of a small fleet of diesel-electric boats first launched in 1888.
At the Mumm 30 regatta, as in other top-level races around the world, the Kahns compete first against each other, then against the fleet.
Cardiff helped OceanFreight pick up its first dry-bulk vessels, helps manage that fleet and shares office space with OceanFreight.
Japan Airlines has raised its profit forecast despite a decline in earnings for the first three quarters and the grounding of its Dreamliner fleet.
This marks an important milestone in my goal to create a cleaner cab fleet, firstly through introduction of the first ever age limits moving towards zero-emission vehicles as they come to market.
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The six female journalists honoured include Felicity Green, who was the Daily Mirror's women's editor and the first woman to sit on the board of a Fleet Street paper, and the paper's long-serving former agony aunt Marje Proops.
The Air Force's fleet of 75 Predators will likely be the first to carry ground-penetrating radar so new that it has yet to be included on any equipment.
The prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine agreed not for the first time to divide up the Black Sea Fleet and settled terms for letting Russia keep its share in the Ukrainian port of Sebastopol.
Since the shipping fleet takes decades to turn over, energy efficiency first movers will retain a long term advantage, even if other firms belatedly wake up to the advantages.
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But let me also say that the newer reactors -- first, going back -- if you look at the current fleet of reactors, they are constantly being upgraded.
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