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Championships. European 250cc - 1960, 1961. Wins. 18. David Geoffrey Bickers (17 January 1938 – 6 July 2014) was an English professional motocross racer from Coddenham, Suffolk. [1] He competed in the Motocross World Championships from 1959 to 1969. Bickers won two European motocross championships, and was a member of British motocross teams ...
Scrambling (military) Pilots running to their Hawker Hurricane aircraft during the Battle of Britain. In military aviation, scrambling is the act of quickly mobilising military aircraft. Scrambling can be in reaction to an immediate threat, usually to intercept hostile aircraft.
Though known as scrambles racing (or just scrambles) in the United Kingdom, the sport grew in popularity and the competitions became known internationally as "motocross racing", by combining the French word for motorcycle, motocyclette, into a blend with "cross country". [1] The first known scramble race in the Camberley, Surrey in 1924. The ...
Exclusive: Nearly 3,000 Afghans, many of whom worked for the British army, have been stranded in Islamabad for months after the UK stopped chartering flights last year
Scrambling Mount Galwey in Waterton Park, Alberta, Canada. Scrambling is a mountaineering term for ascending steep terrain using one's hands to assist in holds and balance. [1] ". A scramble" is a related term, denoting terrain that could be ascended in this way. It can be described as being between hiking and rock climbing.
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Pedestrian scramble. One of the world's most heavily used pedestrian scrambles, the Shibuya Crossing at Hachikō Square in Tokyo. A pedestrian scramble (or exclusive pedestrian interval) is a type of traffic signal movement that temporarily stops all vehicular traffic, thereby allowing pedestrians to cross an intersection in every direction ...
In the 1950s and 1960s, training as a fighter controller in the UK was at MRS Bawdsey (RAF Bawdsey). The main central control was known as ADOC, which monitored the UK Air Defence Region (UK ADR). It was similar to the USA's and Canada's NORAD at Peterson Air Force Base. The ROTOR system was developed in the 1950s. [23]