The Wing
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| Founded | October 2016 |
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| Headquarters location | New York, New York, United States |
| Number of locations | 8 (2019) |
| Founders | Audrey Gelman |
| Lauren Kassan | |
| Type of business | Privately held company |
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| ID | 2426118 |
About The Wing
The Wing is a women-focused, co-working space collective and club with offices in New York City, Washington, D. C. , San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Boston. It was founded by Audrey Gelman and Lauren Kassan in 2016. As of July 2019, the club has about 10,000 members.
French pilot sentenced for decapitating skydiver with wing of plane
...By Thomas MackintoshBBC NewsA French pilot has been banned from flying after he decapitated a skydiver with The Wing of a plane...
Rogue Russian pilot tried to shoot down RAF aircraft in 2022
... We had been told that the second missile simply fell from The Wing - suggesting the weapon either malfunctioned or that the launch was aborted...
Ukraine war: Drone attack on Pskov airbase from inside Russia - Kyiv
... He said the drones targeted the tops of the aircraft - the location of the fuel tanks and a critical section of The Wing spar...
Grant Shapps: Who is the new defence secretary?
... As a teenager, he was taken under The Wing of his local MP Sir Rhodes Boyson, who encouraged him to forge a career in business before entering politics...
Moscow drone attack: What we know about the strikes
... We showed this video and images of the debris to drone specialist Steve Wright, of the University of the West of England, who said The Wing span suggests a potential range of " at least tens, even hundreds, of kilometres...
Their plane went down - how this WW2 Canada crew survived
... " The skipper dived and then pulled up, and the flames did die down a little, but flared up and spread over The Wing as we dived to hold flying speed, " recalled MacCallum...
'Prison jobs aren't like you see on TV and films'
... The first time stepping on The Wing " kind of hits you - the smell, the atmosphere, " she says...
Iran protests: Jailed activist Sepideh Qolian describes brutality in letter
... Ms Qolian describes a scene she witnessed on 28 December 2022 as she was taken to The Wing for her exam...
Moscow drone attack: What we know about the strikes
By Thomas Spencer & Olga Robinson & Jake HortonBBC Verify
Russia says Ukraine has launched " a terrorist drone attack" on Moscow , with several buildings damaged.
It is the First Time Moscow has been so heavily targeted in a single operation, but Ukraine denies carrying out The Strikes .
What was hit by The Drones ?The Russian military says eight drones were used in The Strikes .
It says, five were shot down and three stopped with signal jamming Technology - causing them to lose control and miss their targets.
By piecing together visual clues in video footage - Such as building exteriors and Parks - Bbc Verify has confirmed the location of three drone strikes in south-west Moscow :
We have also verified footage on the western outskirts of Moscow . It shows an unidentified drone flying over roofs in a village where affluent Muscovites live.
" We don't know what they were targeting yet, a proportion were intercepted by air defence systems, but some struck targets, " Jack Watling , an expert on Land Warfare , told Bbc Radio 4 's Today Programme.
Russia said it shot down five of The Drones in the Moscow region with the Pantsir-S surface-to-air missile system. This system appeared to have been.
What type of drones were used?There was initial online speculation that the Ukrainian-manufactured UJ-22 drone had been used.
However, we know the UJ-22 was not The Drone pictured in several videos we checked. These drones have a different wing, wheel position and fuselage design.
Instead, The Drone pictured has a short set of wings at The Front and larger ones to the rear. The unconventional design has prompted some to wrongly conclude that the aircraft was flying backwards, or that the footage was reversed.
We showed this video and images of the debris to drone specialist Steve Wright , of the University of The West of England, Who Said The Wing span suggests a potential range of " at least tens, even hundreds, of kilometres. "
" However, as with the Kremlin attack on 3 May, I expect that it was launched much closer than that for tactical reasons, " Mr Wright added.
Elsewhere, a commercial plane flying over Moscow - a Cessna 172 - has been wrongly identified as a drone on the Telegram social messaging platform, popular in Russia.
Throughout The War , both Russia and Ukraine have used commercially-sourced drones as well as established military designs.
Bbc Verify is working to identify the exact type of drones used in these reported attacks.
How many times has Russia been targeted?Since the start of 2023, The Bbc inside Russia and Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine.
This includes an.
However, most of the suspected strikes have focussed on the Bryansk and Belgorod regions in Russia near the north-eastern border, as well as in Crimea.
Oil facilities, airfields and energy infrastructure have all been targeted.
Layla Guest, an analyst at Sibylline security consultancy, says: " Ukrainian forces will highly likely prioritise targeting oil refineries, as well as railway infrastructure and wider Russian logistics, to cause maximum disruption as part of their strategy ahead of the impending counter-offensive. "
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