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The Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System (LAMPS) is the United States Navy's program that develops crewed helicopters to assist the surface fleet in anti-submarine warfare. The purpose of LAMPS is to scout outside the limits of a fleet's radar and sonar range to detect and track enemy submarines or missile-equipped escort ships and feed the real ...
HSL-43 was established on 5 October 1984 and was the Navy's first operational Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System (LAMPS) MK III squadron. [2] HSL-43's primary mission was to provide fully mission-capable detachments aboard cruisers, destroyers, and frigates assigned to U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Astro lamp has been in continuous production for 60 years and has been handmade in Britain since 1963, [6] and is still made today by Mathmos in Poole. The Mathmos lava lamp formula developed initially by Craven Walker in the 1960s and then improved with his help in the 1990s is still used. Mathmos celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013. [7] [8]
Elizabeth Everts Greene (24 June 1920 – 10 April 1997), known as Betty Greene, was an American missionary pilot. Greene was born in Seattle on 24 June 1920, and started taking flying lessons in 1936. [1] [2] She studied at the University of Washington and served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II. [3]
Jerry Krause is an American pilot who served for 22 years with Mission Aviation Fellowship as a missionary in Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after which he remained in Mali to work for the Sahel Aviation Service. On April 7, 2013, Krause's plane was reported missing off the coast of West Africa, near São Tomé.
JAARS Center and Townsend Field (N52), Waxhaw, North Carolina. Founded in 1948 as Jungle Aviation and Radio Service by William Cameron Townsend, JAARS is a worldwide, non-profit, mission aviation and support organization with a primary focus on Bible translation support operations.
A person connected with missionary aviation will be the guest speaker at the 9:30 a.m. July 21 worship service at Wesley United Methodist Church, 761 Florida Ave., Oshkosh. The speaker is from ...
The frame was reconstructed and is now on display at the headquarters of the Mission Aviation Fellowship in Nampa, Idaho. Operation Auca was an attempt by five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States to bring Christianity to the Waorani or Huaorani people of the rain forest of Ecuador .