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.
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.
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.
It means the 26-year-old winger will miss the FA Cup first round should the Fleet qualify.
The first is how often the fleet of vehicles on the roads turns over.
He said the first of a new fleet of carriages should start using the line in 2015.
The Met's response fleet will be the first to receive the new markings.
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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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.
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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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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Japan Airlines has raised its profit forecast despite a decline in earnings for the first three quarters and the grounding of its Dreamliner fleet.
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.
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.
The first was that a large fleet bringing supplies and settlers to Virginia was scattered.
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Tokyo (CNN) -- A Boeing 787 Dreamliner took off Sunday from a Tokyo airport, the first such flight in Japan since safety issues grounded the Dreamliner fleet, officials told CNN.
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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.
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.
The decision meant that the full fleet of buses should begin picking up children again Wednesday, the first day back following a school vacation.
But people are thinking about cars probably for the first time since the beginning of the last century and what they need in their fleet, whether they want a car at all.
In 1702, the first English daily newspaper to meet with some success, The Daily Courant, was launched near Fleet Street in London.
Among the first actions: a quota system in 1995 to limit the harvest and ease the pressure the oyster fleet was putting on the dwindling population of shellfish.
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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Investec Loyal took the lead for the first time on Tuesday night after the pair had broken away from the rest of the 88-strong fleet from the start in Sydney Harbor on Boxing Day.
The oldest orbiter in the fleet, it had experienced engineering problems before during a long career that begin with the first shuttle mission more than 20 years ago.
The first possible example of a maritime attack that impacted the US was on September 13, 1814 when the British fleet staged an attack on the Port of Baltimore (they identified this as the most strategic attack point in the country).
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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