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Wading River is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the 2010 census , the CDP population was 7,719. [ 2 ] It is adjacent to Shoreham and shares a school district.
The East Wind was a summer passenger train between Washington, D.C., and resorts along the southern Maine coast. Travel time was about 11.5 hours over the 700-mile (1,100 km) route to Portland, Maine in 1941. Travel time was later reduced to 8 hours by 1955 although it terminated in New York City.
Eastwind was the second of five Wind-class of icebreakers built for the United States Coast Guard. Her keel was laid down on 23 June 1942 at Western Pipe and Steel Company shipyards in San Pedro . She was launched on 6 February 1943 and commissioned on 3 June 1944.
At the height of the airline's operation in 1998, it operated a fleet of three Boeing 737-200 and two Boeing 737-700 aircraft. Throughout its history, Eastwind owned a total of five first-generation 737-200, two were already sold for scrap in 1997.
The proposed Peconic County flag showed the two forks at the east end of Long Island separated by Peconic Bay. The star on the north represents Southold. The stars on the South Fork represent Southampton and East Hampton. Riverhead is at the fork mouth and Shelter Island is between the forks. A map showing the proposed location of Peconic County.
On June 9, 1996, while operating a passenger flight from Trenton, New Jersey to Richmond, Virginia, the crew of Eastwind Airlines Flight 517 temporarily lost control of their Boeing 737-200 because of a rudder malfunction.
In Roman mythology the east wind was represented by Vulturnus. In Native American Iroquois culture, the east wind is said to be brought by O-yan-do-ne, the Moose spirit, [3] whose breath blows grey mist and sends down cold rains upon the earth. The Authorized King James Version of the English Old Testament makes some seventeen references to the ...
Northwind was decommissioned in Wilmington, North Carolina on 20 January 1989 and transferred to the James River Reserve Fleet [3] [4] in Virginia. She was the last remaining of the original seven U.S. built Wind-class icebreakers. [35] Northwind was scrapped at International Shipbreakers, Port of Brownsville, Texas in 1999. The scrapping ...