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Flying Tiger Copenhagen (formerly Tiger) is a Danish variety store chain. [3] [4] Its first shop opened in Copenhagen in 1995 and as of 2023, the chain now has 931 shops across 42 countries. Its largest markets are Denmark, the UK, Italy, and Spain. According to the company's annual report, it had more than 93 million customers in 2023.
John Van Kuren "Scarsdale Jack" Newkirk (15 October 1913 – 24 March 1942) was a United States naval aviator and squadron leader with the 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG), also known as the Flying Tigers, who may have led the first American offensive mission of World War II.
Tower Air was co-founded, majority-owned, and managed by Morris K. Nachtomi, an Israeli citizen who had emigrated to the United States. [3] After a 30-year career with El Al, he moved to New York to start a passenger operation for Flying Tiger Line, Metro International Airways.
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On March 21, 1966, Flying Tiger Line Flight 6303, a Canadair CL-44 (N453T), crashed on landing at NAS Norfolk due to pilot error; all six crew survived, but the aircraft was written off. On December 24, 1966, a Flying Tiger Line Canadair CL-44 (N228SW) crashed on landing near Da Nang, killing all four crew and 107 on the ground.
After the unit was disbanded, Hedman and other Tigers pilots joined the China National Aviation Corporation, flying supplies over the Hump from India to China. [5] He later became one of the original partners in fellow Flying Tiger Robert Prescott's Flying Tiger Line. [24] Hennessy, John J. Hill, David Lee "Tex" 10.25, [4] 12.25 [25] or 12.75 ...
Instead, Danes refer colloquially to a 10-kroner coin as a 'ti'er', literally 'tenner' (as a £10 note is referred to in Britain) - this sounds like 'tee-er' in English, and rhymes with the Danish pronunciation of 'tiger', the word for 'tiger'.188.230.248.85 10:47, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
Flying Tigers, a fictional team of pilots in the comic series Buck Danny; Flying Tigers, a 1969 board wargame of aerial combat; Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China, a 2017 video game; Flying Tiger 2, a 2019 crime drama television series; Baa Baa Black Sheep, an American TV series translated into Spanish as Los Tigres Voladores (The Flying Tigers)