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The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was a United States trade union of air traffic controllers that operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following an illegal strike broken by the Reagan administration; in striking, the union violated 5 U.S.C. (Supp. III 1956) 118p (now 5 U.S.C. § 7311), which prohibits strikes by federal government employees.
H2X, officially known as the AN/APS-15, [2] was an American ground scanning radar system used for blind bombing during World War II. It was a development of the British H2S radar, the first ground mapping radar to be used in combat. [3] It was also known as the "Mickey set" [4] and "BTO" for "bombing through the overcast" radar. [5]
The Paco Park (originally named as Cementerio General de Dilao) is a recreational garden and was once Manila's municipal cemetery built by the Dominicans during the Spanish colonial period. It is located on General Luna Street and at the east end of Padre Faura Street in Paco , Manila , Philippines .
US work culture revolves around employees putting in eight hours a day, five days a week — a schedule immortalized by Dolly Parton in her 1980 song “9 to 5.” It’s just the norm, many ...
The film set a record at the time for the biggest animated film launch ever with $244.5 million and went on to win the Oscar for best animated feature. “Toy Story 3” also won the Oscar and ...
In early 1966 the number of MACV spokesmen increased from 1 to 4, creating two alternating teams of two briefers each. One officer on a team specialized in the ground war, and the other dealt only with the air war. Later a third briefer was added to each team to cover actions involving the U.S. Navy. [4]: 239–40
Israel has launched a ground operation across its northern border into Lebanon targeting the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, opening a new and dangerous phase in almost a year of war.
The sector clock was a fundamental part of ground-controlled interception (GCI) before modern computerized systems were put in place for airspace control. The clock face is marked with five-minute red, yellow and blue triangular segments. [4] It has an outer 12-hour ring and an inner 24-hour dial.