Tracking the 'Cedar Pollen Front'

The first war sortie was flown on March 1, 1918 over Naistenlahti.

The map below shows the progression of the cedar pollen front or sugi kafun zensen (スギ花粉前線) across the country. Is your runny nose from a cold?

On average, each aircraft performed 360 sorties a year, a total considerably higher than that of any other combat aircraft in Afghanistan.

The original Learjet 23 was a six to eight seater and first flew on October 7, 1963, with the first production model being delivered in October 1964.

Amidst a crumbling economy, the country remains belligerent, using its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, to launch at least one successful drone flight above Israel and reportedly initiating recent cyber attacks.

On 1 March 1941, he progressed to the Luftkriegsschule 2 in Berlin Gatow, making his first flight with an instructor four days later, followed in just under three weeks by his first solo flight.

Japanese media tracks and reports on the pollen season each year in much the same way it reports on the blooming of the cherry blossoms.

Serbaian Air Force, made first transport of wounded soldiers from Serbia through Albania to Corfu.That was the first Medevac operation in air historyIn 1916, Serbian Air Forces conducted over 3.000 sorties mostly on Salonika Front.

Were they to be replaced in this capacity by more widely available precision guided weapons, using laser or infrared tracking, an attack could only be made on a single part of the target for each aircraft pass.

If it means a number of fixed or static targets over a large area, such as armour in defensive positions, these could in theory be attacked by a number of GPS (global positioning system) guided weapons released from a single aircraft in a single pass.

When you think of springtime in Japan, the first thing that comes to mind is iconic clouds of cotton candy pink blossoms, known as sakura (桜) in Japanese. The flowers bloom earliest in Japan's southwest, advancing north and eastward across the archipelago in what is known as the cherry blossom front or sakura zensen (桜前線).