So what if he failed, he tried, didn't he? The Hellenic Air Force Academy was renamed after which mythological character in 1967?
"founding of the Air Force Academy. Since then, from the academy have graduated at least 2600 pilots, 1200 aircraft engineers and other specializations according to the Air Force needs. It was founded in 1919 as the Military School of Aeronautics (). The ""Icarus School"" is actually the successor of the ""Air Force School"", founded in 1931 at the airport of Dekeleia, Tatoi in Athens. The first 11 trainees entered the academy on 2 November 1931 and their training was initially performed by ""Avro 621-Tutor"" and ""Avro 626-Prefect"" type aircraft. Training in the academy was common for both the Air Force"
"During the period of monarchy between 1935–1973 the force was known as the Royal Hellenic Air Force (RHAF) (Greek: , ""Ellinikí Vasilikí Aeroporía""). The motto of the Hellenic Air Force is the ancient Greek phrase (""Aièn Hypsikrateîn"", ""Always Dominate the Heights""), and the HAF ensign represents a flying eagle in front of the Hellenic Air Force roundel. The Hellenic Air Force is one of the three branches of the Hellenic Armed Forces. In 1911, the Greek Government appointed French specialists to form the Hellenic Aviation Service. Six Greek officers were sent to France for training, while the first four ""Farman"""
"the Hellenic Armed Forces. In 1931, the Air Force Academy, the ""Scholi Ikaron"", was founded. During the Greco-Italian War, despite its small size and obsolete equipment, the Hellenic Air Force gave good account of itself against the Italians, but after 65 days of war, the RHAF had lost 31 officers killed and seven wounded, plus four NCOs killed and five wounded. Meanwhile, the number of combat aircraft had dropped to 28 fighters and seven battleworthy bombers. The rest of the air force was destroyed, mostly by the Germans, in April 1941. The Air Force was rebuilt in the Middle East"
"Nikolaos Stapas Air Chief Marshal Nikolaos Stapas (, 1937 – 14 June 2011) was a Greek Air Force officer and Chief of the Hellenic Air Force General Staff. He was born in 1937 in the village of Sykea in Laconia. He entered the Hellenic Air Force Academy and graduated in 1958. During the Greek military junta of 1967–1974, Stapas became involved in the abortive Navy attempt to rebel against the regime in May 1973. He was imprisoned and tortured by the Greek Military Police, before being dismissed from service. In 1975, after the fall of the junta, he was reinstated."
"a weeping Achilles looking on, Chiron passes into the stars. Chiron was made a promise by Zeus that as long as he was needed as a trainer of demigods, he will exist in this world. He lives on today as a constellation and an inspiration. Throughout Greek mythology, there were many heroes who were trained by Chiron. Among the students of Chiron are: A didactic poem, ""Precepts of Chiron"", part of the traditional education of Achilles, was considered to be among Hesiod's works by some of the later Greeks. The Romanized Greek traveller of the 2nd century CE, Pausanias, noted"
"aircraft using his pistol. For this extraordinary feat, Mitralexis was promoted and awarded a number of medals, including Greece's highest award for bravery, the Gold Cross of Valour. He was the only Air Force officer to be awarded it during the war. When Greece capitulated to Germany (April 1941) he and the rest of the surviving Greek Air Force personnel and aircraft escaped to North Africa to join the Allied forces there. In September 1948, during a routine training flight in an Airspeed Oxford, he died crashing in the south Aegean Sea. At the outbreak of the Greek-Italian War on"
"the currently stored 6 Lockheed P-3B Orions started, extending the lifetime of 4 airframes until at least 2025. In its early years, the Air Force was considered politically right-wing and royalist; indeed, it was known as the ""Royal Hellenic Air Force"". However, its officer corps proved to be the most politically left-wing of the Armed Forces. During the Greek Civil War, the officers of the Greek Army denounced their Air Force counterparts as ""leftists"" and ""communists"" and considered them disloyal and unreliable. During the Regime of the Colonels, the Air Force aided King Constantine in his failed countercoup of December"
"students and since 2000, female pilot students as happens with the other two branches of the Hellenic Armed Forces (female ""Arms"" students and female combatants respectively). Since 2005, the Hellenic Air Force Academy is under reform of its facilities, equipment and academic curriculum. New facilities are being built and old ones are being renovated, while works are scheduled to end in 2008, year in which the new curriculum and re-organisation of the academy will take effect. In addition, the old and tired ""Rockwell T-2 Buckeye"" will be replaced, after 30 years of service, by a new advanced trainer that will"
"Athens. To celebrate the Academy's 150th anniversary (1828-1978), stamps featuring an officer cadet and a College building were printed in 1978. Throughout its long history, the Hellenic Army Academy has taken part in all national rallies and wars. Its presence surpassed the conventional character of a common Military School. Graduates of the Academy have been not only distinguished Army Officers, but also high level scientists, famous authors and the first civil engineers and professors of Physics and Mathematics, until the respective faculties in Greek Universities were founded. The first Hellenic Navy and Hellenic Air Force officers of the Balkan Wars"
"him. At his daughter's funeral Daedalion tried to throw himself onto the pyre three times but was restrained. After a fourth unsuccessful attempt he ran, at an impossible speed, through the fields and the forests, climbed to the summit of Mount Parnassus and jumped. Apollo though took pity on the grieving father, transforming him into a hawk before he could hit the ground. It is said that the hawk's great strength, as well as its propensity for hunting other birds, is a result of Daedalion's former courage and the rage caused by the death of his daughter. Daedalion In Greek"
"liking to the character and wanted to know what happened to him after he was left on Caprica. The producers revised their plans for the series to include the character and his activities on Caprica after the mini-series. Like many of the characters on the series, his name has its origins in ancient Greece, Agathon being the name of an Athenian tragic poet. The Greek proverbial phrase ""kalon k'agathon"" (""the beautiful and the good"") — also written as ""kalos k'agathos"" — was used to describe the ideal man, the epitome of both aesthetics and ethics, as well as the Form"
"into Mount Othrys during the landing approach to Nea Anchialos. Sixty-three people were killed. Hellenic Air Force The Hellenic Air Force (HAF; , ""Polemikí Aeroporía"", literally ""War Aviation"", sometimes abbreviated as ΠΑ) is the air force of Greece (with Hellenic being a synonym for Greek). The mission of the Hellenic Air Force is to guard and protect Greek airspace, provide air assistance and support to the Hellenic Army and the Hellenic Navy, as well as the provision of humanitarian aid in Greece and around the world. The Hellenic Air Force includes approximately 33,000 active troops, of whom 11,750 are career"
"give the aircraft its name. Lockheed had originally dubbed the aircraft Atalanta from Greek mythology in the company tradition of naming planes after mythological and celestial figures, but the RAF name won out. The strategic bombing proponents within the USAAF, called the Bomber Mafia by their ideological opponents, had established in the early 1930s a policy against research to create long-range fighters, which they thought would not be practical; this kind of research was not to compete for bomber resources. Aircraft manufacturers understood that they would not be rewarded if they installed subsystems on their fighters to enable them to"
"a woman in his mouth. He eventually joined the war as a squadron pilot in the Royal Air Force, flying the Tiger Moth, Gloster Gladiator, and Hawker Hurricane. He was among the last Allied pilots to withdraw from Greece during the German invasion, taking part in the air for the Battle of Athens on 20 April 1941. In one of his accounts, he described a crash in the Western Desert, which hurt his head and brought him several other problems during his days in Greece. After the country fell to the Nazis, he went to the Middle East to fight"
"on his own with the sandals lent to him by Hermes. Pegasus and Athena left Bellerophon and continued to Olympus where he was stabled with Zeus' other steeds, and was given the task of carrying Zeus' thunderbolts, along with other members of his entourage, his attendants/handmaidens/shield bearers/shieldmaidens, Astrape and Bronte. Because of his years of faithful service to Zeus, Pegasus was later honoured with transformation into a constellation. On the day of his ""catasterism"", when Zeus transformed him into a constellation, a single feather fell to the earth near the city of Tarsus. During World War II, the silhouetted image"
"left the island to find work in mainland Greece and many foreign countries, especially the United States. Tourism soon came to dominate the local economy, owing a lot to the important excavations carried out by the French School of Archaeology, which began work in Delos in 1873. In Greek mythology, Mykonos was named after its first ruler, Mykonos (Μύκονος), the son or grandson of the god Apollo and a local hero. The island is also said to have been the location of a great battle between Zeus and Titans and where Hercules killed the invincible giants having lured them from"
"loyalty for his younger brother, for his friends and for Athena. Although he dislikes teamwork, he comes to battle whenever Athena's Saints need his help and often arrives at critical moments to save his younger brother and friends from certain death. He has a noble, complex and mature character, who never hesitates to sacrifice himself for his friends. The Phoenix Cloth represents the constellation of Phoenix, which is associated to the immortal bird that is reborn from its ashes found in the folklore and mythologies of diverse cultures. Reflecting this association, the Cloth has the ability to reform itself if"
"kilometers. This minor planet was named after Icarus, son of Daedalus ""(also see 1864 Daedalus)"" from Greek mythology. They attempted to escape prison by means of wings constructed from feathers and wax. Icarus ignored his father's instructions not to fly too close to the Sun. When the wax in his wings melted he fell into the sea and drowned. The naming was suggested by R. C. Cameron and Dr. Folkman. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center before November 1977 (). Both mythological figures are honored with the lunar craters ""Icarus"" and ""Daedalus"". ""Icarus"" is being"
"he received a commendation from the Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff and the Minister for Mercantile Marine for his role, despite extremely difficult weather conditions, in the rescue of the crew of the steamer ""Stratoniki"", which sank on 7 September 1967. In 1968 he graduated from the Navy War School and was promoted to Commander on 4 September 1968 (later retroactive to 7 April). In 1968–69 he served as Chief of the B1 Bureau (Personnel) of the Hellenic Navy General Staff, then until 1971 he headed the Navy Command's (the renamed HNGS) 5th and 3rd Staff Bureaux. In"
"Hellenic Air Force Academy, the ""Scholi Ikaron"" (Σχολή Ικάρων), was founded. In 1939, an order for 24 Marcel Bloch MB.151 fighter aircraft was placed, but only 9 of the aircraft reached Greece, since the outbreak of World War II prevented the French from completing the order. The aircraft served in the 24th Pursuit Squadron (MD – ""Moira Dioxis"") of the then Hellenic Royal Air Force. During the Second World War, although being severely outnumbered, counting only 79 aircraft against the 380 fighters and bombers available to the Italian Regia Aeronautica, RHAF managed to successfully resist the Italian invasion in 1940."
"Defense Minister. He died in September 1969. Georgios Themelis Georgios Themelis (, 1897-1969) was a Greek politician and officer of the Hellenic Air Force, who served as a Member of the Greek Parliament (1956–67) and as Deputy Defense Minister (1958–61). He was a controversial figure, due to his collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. Son of Angelos Themelis, Georgios Themelis was born in 1897 in Thessaloniki. He graduated from the Hellenic Military Academy in 1918 and was originally an Army officer (serving in Army Aviation) until the Greek Air Force became an independent branch of the Greek Armed"
"fighting chance against the Shadow Angels with the Aquarion, but loses his wings as punishment from the other Shadow Angels. Like Apollonius of Tyana, Aquarion's Apollonius dies and is believed to be reincarnated as the protagonist Apollo, while the Greek god Apollo is stated to have been born in the bank of a lake, Aquarion's Apollo is given his name after he swims in a lake. Atlandia's Tree of Life took on two roles throughout the series. It is basically a large pile of multicolored flowers. The arrangement of the flowers at the end of the top central flowering portion"
"created Hippocrene, the fountain on Mt. Helicon. Pegasus was caught by the Greek hero Bellerophon, near the fountain Peirene, with the help of Athena and Poseidon. Pegasus allowed Bellerophon to ride him in order to defeat the monstrous Chimera, which led to many other exploits. Bellerophon later fell from the winged horse's back while trying to reach Mount Olympus. Afterwards, Zeus transformed Pegasus into the eponymous constellation. The symbolism of Pegasus varies with time. Symbolic of wisdom and fame from the Middle Ages until the Renaissance, Pegasus became associated with poetry around the 19th century, as the fountainhead of sources"
"will of Poseidon, Pegasus checked it by striking the summit with his hoof.""""Since these mortals had taken upon themselves to strive with goddesses, the Muses changed them into nine birds. To this day people refer to them as the grebe, the wryneck, the ortolan, the jay, the greenfinch, the goldfinch, the duck, the woodpecker and the dracontis pigeon."" Pierides (mythology) In Greek mythology, the Pierides (Ancient Greek: Πιερίδες) or Emathides (Ἠμαθίδες) were the nine sisters who defied the Muses in a contest of song and, having been defeated, were turned into birds. The Muses themselves are sometimes called by this"
"the phrase ""the groves of Academe"". Due to this, Akademos' name has been linked to the archaic name for the site of Plato's Academy, the ""Hekademeia"", outside the walls of Athens. The site was sacred to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and other immortals; it had since the Bronze Age sheltered her religious cult, which was perhaps associated with the hero-gods, the Dioskouroi (Castor and Polydeukes), and for the hero Akademos. By classical times the name of the place had evolved into the ""Akademeia"". Its sacred grove furnished the olive oil that was distributed as prizes in the Panathenaic Games"
"pilot's license in 1939. His popularity at work and at home enabled him to convert from an illegal alien to a lawful immigrant worker in the United States. For convenience people started calling him ‘Steve’ a short name that was later to replace his original Greek name. After the war broke out and Greece was attacked in 1940, he tried to join the United States Army Air Forces but he was denied due to US neutrality. However, the Royal Air Force (RAF) was informally recruiting aviators in English-speaking countries; Britain, being an ally of Greece, accepted him. Candidates were evaluated"
"- with his own hands because he dishonored his family while he had been living on the island of Agios Konstantinos, opposite of Itea, where he had been sent to attend the local school. Konstantaras died in 1755 and his jurisdiction was shared to his three - second in command - men. The tradition of the local fighters was continued by the famous fighter Astrapogiannos, who was also born in Agia Efthymia and his real name was Giannos Zacharis. Astrapogiannos was praised by popular folk songs too and the poet Aristotelis Valaoritis was inspired by Astrapogiannos' last moments after he"
"help or hinder him in his adventures. Other characters from the film that appear are the evil god Hades (voiced by James Woods) and winged stallion Pegasus (voiced by Frank Welker). Corey Burton portrayed Hercules' father Zeus, as Rip Torn did not return. The series follows Hercules, as a teenager, training as a hero, as well as trying to adjust to life. With his free-spirited friend Icarus, his future-seeing friend Cassandra, and his teacher Philoctetes (""Phil""), he battles his evil uncle Hades. Like all teenagers though, Hercules has to worry about peer pressure when the snobbish prince Adonis ridicules him."
"characters, and failed to translate into animation comedy. Animator Joe Haidar also suggested pitching a story from Greek mythology, but thought his chances plummeted when work on ""The Odyssey"" was discontinued. Nervously, he produced a pitch sketch of Hercules, and delivered a brief outline set during the Trojan War where both sides seek the title character for their secret weapon. Hercules makes a choice, without considering the consequences, though in the end, he learns humility and realizes that strength is not always the answer. With the pitching session concluded, ""Hercules"" was approved for development in which Haidar presented a page-and-a-half"
"Carina (the ""keel"" of the ship Argo) and the second-brightest star in the night sky after Sirius. Canopus (mythology) In Greek mythology, Canopus or Canobus () was the pilot of the ship of King Menelaus of Sparta during the Trojan War. Canopus is described as a handsome young man who was loved by the Egyptian prophetess Theonoe but never reciprocated her feelings. According to legend, while visiting the Egyptian coast Canopus was bitten by a serpent and died. His master Menelaus erected a monument to him at one of the mouths of the River Nile, around which the town of"
"History of the Hellenic Air Force The Hellenic Aviation was first established in 1911, with help from French experts. The air force of Greece, the Hellenic Air Force, participated in the Balkan Wars, World War I, the Asia Minor War, World War II, the Greek Civil War and the Korean War. In 1911 the Greek Government appointed French specialists to form the Hellenic Aviation Service. Six Greek officers were sent to France for training, while the first four ""Farman"" type aircraft were ordered. The first Greek aviator was Emmanuel Argyropoulos, who flew in a Nieuport IV.G ""Alcuin"" fighter, on February"
"flight was carried on with the Prime Minister of Greece, Eleftherios Venizelos as passenger. Venizelos, impressed by the potential of air warfare, suggested that Greece should take advance of this new weapon. The following months a French military mission took up the development of Greek aviation by creating a fleet of four Maurice Farman MF.7 airplanes. In June 1912, aviator Dimitrios Kamperos modified one of the Farmans into a hydroplane, giving it the name of the mythical hero ""Daedalus"". When the Balkan Wars broke out in October 1912, these airplanes performed a number of reconnaissance and bombing missions; the most"
"is a proposed target for ""Lucy"", a mission to several asteroids, mostly Jupiter trojans. The mission's targets with their flyby dates are: This minor planet was named after the Greek hero Patroclus from Greek mythology. Friend of Achilles, he was killed by Hector during the Trojan War ""(see also and )"". The minor planet's name was proposed by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa. The official naming citation was mentioned in ""The Names of the Minor Planets"" by Paul Herget in 1955 (). ""Patroclus"" is the only object in the Trojan camp to be named after a Greek rather than a Trojan"