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The stormy petrel can outride any storm likely to blow in these parts.

Rienits wrote up the story as a novel, Stormy Petrel, which was published in 1963.

Stormy Petrel, painted by John James Audubon "The Song of the Stormy Petrel" (, ) is a short piece of revolutionary literature written by the Russian writer Maxim Gorky in 1901. The poem is written in a variation of unrhymed trochaic tetrameter with occasional Pyrrhic substitutions.

Telerecordings (also known as Kinescope recordings) of Stormy Petrel are held by National Archives of Australia.

Thornwell Jacobs chose an unusual mascot to represent Oglethorpe's athletic teams: the Stormy Petrel, a seabird said to have been admired by James Oglethorpe for its hardiness and courage. In March 2002, ESPN's David Lloyd named the Stormy Petrel as one of the most memorable college mascot names of all time, second only to the Banana Slugs of UC Santa Cruz.

In November 1960 it was announced that Rex Rienits and Colin Dean would reunite on a sequel that would focus on William Redfern but feature many characters from Stormy Petrel.

The Stormy Petrel is an album by the British punk rock band Leatherface. It was released in the UK in February 2010, their first album to be released on their own label, Big Ugly Fish Records. It was released in North America by No Idea Records. The album takes its title from the nickname of Joseph Ray “Stormy Petrel” Hodgson who was hailed as a hero after risking his life to save others from the stormy seas that battered 19th century Sunderland.

See, e.g., Donald E. Pitzer (1997). America's Communal Utopias (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Richard Press) p. 484; Howard, "William E. McLellin: 'Mormonism's Stormy Petrel'" in Roger D. Launius and Linda Thatcher (eds) (1998).

The Outcasts was a 1961 Australian television serial. A period drama, it was broadcast live, though with some film inserts. All 12 episodes of the serial survive as kinescope recordings. It was a sequel to Stormy Petrel.

The entire "fantasy" was published in Berlin in 1902. "Весенние мелодии (Фантазия)" (Spring Melodies. (Fantasy)) in: The "Song" was first published in the Zhizn magazine in April 1901."Maxim Gorky: The Song of the Stormy Petrel" (in Russian).

Hogarth, Basil. "Igor Stravinsky: The Stormy Petrel of Music". The Gramophone, June 1935. pg. 7. As a stage director, Rosing championed opera in English, and he attempted to build permanent national opera companies in the United States and England.

Alistair Duncan was an English actor who had recently settled in Australia and had played Captain Bligh's secretary in Stormy Petrel. Sets and costumes were by Geoff Wedlock. Nine sets were constructed for the play, including gaols and courtrooms.

Rex Rienits, who had written Stormy Petrel and The Outcasts but not Patriots, wrote episodes in London where he was living and sent them on. Filming started June 1963 at Gore Hill. It was an early TV role for Leonard Teale.

The eleven Ruritanian novels, sometimes known as the Empire series or the Stormy Petrel series, are set in three fictional countries in Eastern Europe: the Empire, Flavonia, and Ornowitza, the latter being a small duchy between the other two. Her first novel, The Black Riders, introduces the hero Dick Fauconbois, known as the "Stormy Petrel". He lives in the Empire, although he visits Flavonia during the course of the novel. It is the story of an orphan boy who becomes a member of a secret rebel movement led by a saint- like figure called Far-Away Moses.

E. Pitzer (1997). America's Communal Utopias (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Richard Press) p. 484Howard, "William E. McLellin: 'Mormonism's Stormy Petrel'" in Roger D. Launius and Linda Thatcher (eds) (1998). Dissenters in Mormon History (Urbana: University of Illinois Press) pp. 76–101.

Avrich (2005), pp. 114-115. It was edited by Maksim Rayevsky and Nikolai Rogdaev. Nineteen issues of Burevestnik were published during its five years of existence. The name Burevestnik was inspired by Maxim Gorky's poem "The Song of the Stormy Petrel" (Песня о Буревестнике).

He was buried in East London Cemetery and Crematorium, Plaistow, London, in a public (aka 'paupers') grave. A new headstone was installed by a relative in 2006 with the following inscription: > The Everyday Hero- JOSEPH RAY HODGSON (STORMY PETREL)- Born 3.10 1829 > Sunderland. Died: 15.10.

The name Mother Carey's chicken was used in early literature and often applied to several petrel species while the generic name of stormy petrel referred to the idea that their appearance foretold stormy weather. F. M. Littler and others called it the yellow-webbed storm-petrel.

Maxim Gorky himself would be referred to with the epithet "the Stormy Petrel of the Revolution" (Буревестник Революции);See e.g. numerous references in this Cand. Sc. (Philology) dissertation abstract: monuments, posters, postage stamps and commemorative coins depicting the writer would often be decorated with the image of a soaring aquatic bird.

Stormy Petrel is an early Australian television drama. A period drama, the 12-episode serial told the story of William Bligh and aired in 1960 on ABC. It was the first live TV serial from the ABC. It was based on a script by Rex Rienits adapted from his 1948 radio serial.

The author's treatment is adult in every sense. > This is the type of play television handles best. In fact, this is the first > play in a long time that has made such a dramatic comment on contemporary > affairs. The set was created by Douglas Smith who did the designs for Stormy Petrel.

Gorky was arrested for publishing "The Song", but released shortly thereafter. The poem was later referred to as "the battle anthem of the revolution","A Legend Exhumed", a review of Dan Levin's book Stormy Petrel: The Life and Work of Maxim Gorky. TIME. June 25, 1965. and the epithet Burevestnik Revolyutsii (The Storm Petrel of the Revolution) soon became attached to Gorky himself.

The radio serial was rebroadcast in 1953. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. Stormy Petrel was a critical and popular success and led to the ABC making a number of period drama series set in Australia's past: The Outcasts (1961), The Patriots (1962), and The Hungry Ones (1963). It also inspired ATN-7, a commercial station, to make Jonah (1962).

Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. In the early 1960s, ABC aired a series of historical mini-series: Stormy Petrel (1960), The Outcasts (1961), The Patriots (1962), and The Hungry Ones (1963). The Purple Jacaranda, however, featured a then-contemporary setting. It was based on a 1958 radio serial which in turn was based on a novel.

Clark p 8 He married again and returned to London where he worked writing The Flying Doctors for TV and radio. Rienits returned to Australia in 1959 to be script editor for the ABC. He wrote the first Australian historical TV series, Stormy Petrel, based on a radio serial of Rienits. This was so successful Rienits wrote a follow up series The Outcasts.

The emblem of the VSS Burevestnik Member pin of the VSS Burevestnik Burevestnik (; English: Stormy Petrel) was the All-Union VSS of students and teachers of the most part of high schools and universities in the USSR, established in 1957 (between 1936 and 1957 the society with the same name united workers of Trade Unions of the State trade and State institutions).

The Stormy Petrel (Burevestnik) was the title of the magazine of the Anarchist Communist Federation in Russia around the time of the 1905 revolution, and is still an imprint of the London group of the Anarchist Federation (Britain and Ireland). To honour Gorky and his work, the name Burevestnik was bestowed on a variety of institutions, locations, and products in the USSR.

It had a readership of around 25,000. This newspaper was one of several publications with the name Burevestnik, a name originating in Maxim Gorky's poem Song of the Stormy Petrel. Burevestnik was edited by Apollon Karelin, Iosif Bleikhman, Abba Gordin and V. L. Gordin. Amongst the writers of Burevestnik there were two distinct tendencies; the moderate tendency of Karelin and the radical tendency of the Gordin brothers.

After one abortive attempt the remains of the Flowerpot Men changed their name to White Plains. The 1970s started with a disappointment when Mary Hopkin became runner-up in the Eurovision Song Contest with "Knock, Knock Who's There?", which Carter had written with Stephens. In the following years Carter released records under many names: Stamford Bridge (number 47 with "Chelsea"), Scarecrow and Stormy Petrel.

In this "fantasy", the author overhears a conversation of birds outside his window on a late-winter day: a crow, a raven, and a bullfinch representing the monarchist establishment; sparrows, "lesser people"; and anti-establishment siskins (чижики). As the birds discussing the approach of the spring, it is one of the siskins who sings to his comrades "the Song of the Stormy Petrel, which he had overheard somewhere", which appears as the "fantasy's" finale. In the "Song", the action takes place on an ocean coast, far from the streets of a central Russian town; the language calling for revolution is coded—the proud stormy petrel, unafraid of the storm (that is, revolution), as all other birds cower. The publication of this parody of the Russian society was disallowed by the censors; however, apparently because of a censor's mistake, the siskin's "Song" was allowed to be published as a separate piece.

The association of the storm petrel with turbulent weather has led to its use as a metaphor for revolutionary views, the epithet "stormy petrel" being applied by various authors to characters as disparate as Roman tribune Publius Clodius Pulcher, a Presbyterian minister in the early Carolinas, an Afghan governor, or an Arkansas politician. A 1901 poem by Russian writer Maxim Gorky is invariably titled in English as "The Song of the Stormy Petrel", although that may not be a perfectly accurate translation of the Russian title "Песня о Буревестнике", because "Буревестник" (the name of the bird in Russian) translates to the English general term "storm bird". The poem was called "the battle anthem of the revolution", and earned Gorky the nickname "The Storm Petrel of the Revolution". Various revolutionary anarchist groups adopted the bird's name, either as a group identifier, as in the Spanish Civil War, or for their publications.

In the 1930s, the lease was owned by Dr Angas Johnson, who purchased it on advice from Arthur Searcy and made it a sanctuary for seals, Cape Barren geese, rock parrots and the Stormy petrel. He had no intention of grazing goats on it, or allowing the activity to occur there. The island had a reputation for being snake infested, but this was not observed by all landing parties.

Due to its influential role in the field,Warner Jr., Harry. "F. Towner Laney: A Survey" in Stormy Petrel 1 (1959) it is indexed in the Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Weird Fiction Magazine Index compiled by Stephen T. Miller & William G. Contento.,Magazines Index as well as fanzine indexes. It was nominated for the 1946 Retrospective Hugo Award for Best Fanzine, losing to Forrest J Ackerman's Voice of the Imagi-Nation.

Avrich, Russian Anarchists, p. 137. After university, Rayevsky became an anarcho-syndicalist and moved to Paris, where he and Nikolay Rogdayev founded Burevestnik ("The Stormy Petrel"), which has been described by anarchist historian Paul Avrich as "the most important anarchist journal of the postrevolutionary period" (i.e., the period after the Russian Revolution of 1905).Avrich, Russian Anarchists, p. 114. The two men published Burevestnik from 1906 to 1910.

The suggestion that the word refers to St Peter walking on the waves is a later invention. "Storm" arises from seamen's association of this bird with bad weather. In English, the name of the species was written as "stormy petrel" by some 19th-century authors. The scientific name derives from Ancient Greek; Hydrobates is from hudro, water, and bates, walker,: 'one that treads or covers' and pelagicus is from pelagikos, of the sea.

Sketch of JB Ebden from 1849. John Bardwell Ebden M.L.C. (9 April 1787 - 22 September 1873) was a businessman and politician of the Cape Colony, South Africa. He dominated Cape Town commerce for over sixty years in the 19th century, and was an unofficial member of the Cape Legislative Council. An ambitious and combative personality, he was known by the nickname "the stormy petrel", due to his reputation of frequently being in fights.

Admiral Charles Wilkes when retired Some historians speculate that Wilkes' obsessive behavior and harsh code of shipboard discipline shaped Herman Melville's characterization of Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick.The Stormy Petrel and the Whale, by David Jaffe, Port City Press, c1976. Such speculation is not mentioned in the U.S. Naval historical archives. In addition to his contribution to U.S. Naval history and scientific study in his official Narrative of the Exploration Squadron (6 volumes), Wilkes wrote his autobiography.

Prior to this, he had been rector of the church of St. Mary-le-Bow in London and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, where he gave the Bampton Lectures for 1814. Van Mildert is often described as a 'stormy petrel' on account of his outspoken expression of his views. As Bishop of Llandaff he broke with the practice of his predecessors and actually resided in the diocese. As the bishop's palace had fallen to ruin, he rented Coldbrook House near Abergavenny.

Mrs. Hauksbee is a fictional character in many short stories by Rudyard Kipling. In the first, "Three and - an Extra", she is introduced as: > Mrs Hauksbee appeared on the horizon; and where she existed was fair chance > of trouble. At Simla her by-name was the 'Stormy Petrel'. She had won that > title five times to my certain knowledge.... She was clever, witty, > brilliant, and sparkling beyond most of her kind; but possessed of many > devils of malice and mischievousness.

This action 31 October enabled Wilderness and Niphon to capture the chase a short time later. On 7 December, while Admiral David Dixon Porter and General Benjamin F. Butler planned joint operations against Wilmington to close that vital Confederate port once and for all, Kansas was one of the Union gunboats which were making blockade-running in that quarter hazardous. That day they forced steamer Stormy Petrel ashore where she was abandoned by her crew and, a few days later, destroyed by a gale.

It is likely that the experience gained from these productions allowed ABC to later produce dramatic programs with more local interest, such as Stormy Petrel. The program was originally shown in Sydney (on ABN-2) on 15 July 1959. A kinescope ("telerecording") was made of the program and later shown in Melbourne on 5 August 1959 (on ABV-2). In 1959, two additional ABC stations began operations, in Adelaide and Brisbane respectively, and it is not known of the program was also shown in these two cities.

Afzal ul-Mulk was killed by his uncle, Sher Afzal, the stormy petrel of Chitral and a long-time thorn in his father's side. He held Chitral for under a month, then fled into Afghan territory upon Nizam ul-Mulks return. Nizam, Afzal ul- Mulk's eldest brother and the rightful heir, then succeeded in December of the same year. At about that time, Chitral came under the British sphere of influence following the Durand Line Agreement, which delineated the border between Afghanistan and the British Indian Empire.

In her seventies she went to live in Cornwall where she wove, taught crafts and wrote. She published two novels: the first of them a biographical novel, Stormy Petrel, in 1964 and The Foolish Virgin, inspired by her post-war aid work, in 1966. Thurstan went on travelling, leading a pilgrimage of Cornish women to Rome in 1958, and going to Greece in 1966 as a crafts adviser. She continued to be involved in textile arts within the UK and attended a World Crafts Council meeting in London in 1967.

Herron's sermon was published in The Christian Union magazine and thereafter reprinted as a pamphlet, gaining the author a national readership for the first time.Beardsley, "Professor Herron," pg. 784. Quint notes that Herron was unceasing and outspoken in his condemnation of the excesses of the rich, calling Herron a "stormy petrel" who "compellingly challenged the social right of the wealthy to their possessions and vigorously preached a powerful gospel of social redemption" and was "likened by his admirers to the Old Testament prophets."Howard Quint, The Forging of American Socialism, pg. 126.

Hurley Burley (born 1895) was an American Thoroughbred race horse. Her breeder and owner was Edward Corrigan who raced out of the old Washington Park Race Track in Chicago, Illinois. In Corrigan's time, he was the most powerful man in Midwestern racing. Known as the "stormy petrel" of the American Turf, Corrigan was the subject of many articles about him (the Kansas City Times, the Courier-Journal, The Louisville Times, to name only a few), all attesting to his murderous temper as well as his loyalty to those he liked.

Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl (1899), The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901), My Childhood (1913–1914), Mother (1906), Summerfolk (1904) and Children of the Sun (1905). He had associations with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov; Gorky would later mention them in his memoirs. Gorky was active in the emerging Marxist communist movement. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov's Bolshevik wing of the party.

Munro was, therefore a busy builder and designer, though closely associated with the Catholic church, when Mrs Ramsay and the Learmonths commissioned him to build the school-hall on Dobroyde estate in 1861.O'Connell, 1973 In July 1861 the foundation stone of the hall was laid by Percy Ramsay, the youngest child of Dr and Mrs Ramsay. On 26 June 1862 the building was opened at a ceremony dominated by Dr John Dunmore Lang, the stormy petrel of Presbyterianism in New South Wales. A grandson of Dr and Mrs Ramsay was baptised during the ceremonies.

8, page. 85 (February 19, 1880) An Irish nationalist, though not a Fenian,Montreal Herald, 12, 24 July, 9, 22 Aug. 1867; McGee, "Account of Attempts," Montreal Gazette, 22 Aug. 1867; Canadian Freeman, 21 May 1868 and a highly visible and articulate champion of justice, Devlin had broad appeal among the Irish working classes of Montreal, and a reputation as the 'stormy petrel' of the Irish community.Dr. Tumblety, the Indian Herb Doctor, by Michael McCulloch, Department of Philosophy, History and Politics, University College of the Cariboo, Kamloops, British Columbia, CBMH/BCHM/Volume 10:1993 / p.

On completion, the two ships rejoined the fleet, but were again mistaken for Italian warships and nearly fired on before Sydney raised the White Ensign and cut down her disguise. Admiral Cunningham congratulated Sydney with the message "Well Done. You are a stormy petrel.", which was adopted as a nickname for the cruiser. On her return to Alexandria, the Australian cruiser underwent another short refit, which was completed late in the month: on 24 September Sydney supported during the interception of a French merchant ship, then completed a two-day patrol west of Cyprus.

Ed Davenport was known as a "stormy petrel" of Los Angeles politics and was called "one of the most colorful figures in city legislative history and an active participant in every controversial issue brought before the Council." He was said to have introduced more resolutions, often controversial, than any other council member. He "took a prominent part in enactment of the city employees' loyalty oath program.""Councilman Ed Davenport Dies in Sleep," Los Angeles Times, June 25, 1953, page 1 One of his resolutions would have required "all members of the Communist Party living here" to register with the chief of police.

A complication arose as the official "call" had been sent care of Rev. Storie, who neglected to pass it on to Gardner, but a way was found to circumvent this lapse of protocol. > People of all classes were sorry when he left [Adelaide], and will be > gratified if in Victoria his experiences are more pleasant than they have > been in Launceston, if, in fact, his lot becomes more like what it was in > South Australia. He was more a man of war than of peace, more resembled a > stormy petrel than a dove, yet had a warm heart and sympathizing nature.

A siskin, unafraid to sing to his comrades about the stormy petrel As a poet, Gorky would not pay too much attention to precisely identifying the birds species appearing in his "Song". The Russian word burevestnik (modified by appropriate adjectives) is applied to a number of species in the families Procellariidae (many of whose species are known in English as petrels) and Pelecanoididae (diving-petrels). According to Vladimir Dal's Dal's Dictionary, Russia's favorite dictionary in Maxim Gorky's time, burevestnik could be understood as a generic word for all Procellariidae (including the European storm petrel).The entry Burya ["storm"] in: Толковый словарь живого великорусского языка.

However, since the Russian burevestnik can be literally parsed by the speaker as 'the announcer of the storm', it was only appropriate for most translators into English to translate the title of the poem as "Stormy Petrel" (or, more rarely, "Storm Petrel"). Other avian characters of the poem are generic seagulls, loons (also known as "divers"; Russian, гагара), and a penguin. While North Hemisphere loons and south hemisphere penguins are not likely to meet in the wild, their joint participation in the poem is a legitimate example of a poetic license. Or the penguin might refer to the extinct great auk, genus Pinguinus, once known commonly as "penguins".

It was first-class in all fields — writing, acting, camera work, and music background. I would say that here was a play which could well hold its own in any part of the world." Filmink magazine said "Steinbeck’s TV appearances in the early sixties tended to be “wives” – Thunder on Sycamore Street (1960) and Stormy Petrel (1960)... But she had one outstanding chance on the small screen, in the original Australian TV play Reflections in Dark Glasses (1960). She plays a wife and a mother, sure, but this time the part had some meat on its bones – her character has a breakdown convinced that her child has been stolen.

In the tropics, some species can be found breeding throughout the year, but most nest in discreet periods. Procellariiforms return to nesting colonies as much as several months before laying, and attend their nest sites regularly before copulation. Prior to laying, females embark on a lengthy pre- laying exodus to build up energy reserves in order to lay the exceptionally large egg. In the stormy petrel, a very small procellariiform, the egg can be 29 percent of the body weight of the female, while in the grey-faced petrel, the female may spend as much as 80 days feeding out at sea after courtship before laying the egg.

Barcelona:Lynx Edicions, In the Russian language, many petrel species from the Hydrobatidae and Procellariidae families of the order Procellariiformes are known as burevestnik, which literally means 'the announcer of the storm'. When in 1901, the Russian writer Maxim Gorky turned to the imagery of subantarctic avifauna to describe Russian society's attitudes to the coming revolution, he used a storm-announcing petrel as the lead character of a poem that soon became popular in the revolutionary circles as "the battle anthem of the revolution"."A Legend Exhumed", review of "STORMY PETREL: THE LIFE AND WORK OF MAXIM GORKY" by Dan Levin. 329 pages. Appleton-Century.

Admiral Stirling, self-styled "stormy petrel" of the Naval Service, devoted his energies after retirement to writing books, newspaper articles and lecturing.Bronxville Review-Press, November 4, 1937 Outspoken and critical of naval policies and procedures as well as U. S. international policies, he had long urged a two-ocean Navy second to none. He published a controversial anti-Soviet article in 1935 while still on active duty that evoked a proclamation from the Secretary of the Navy that active duty naval officers were not to speak out on international policy. He urged U.S. intervention against Germany in 1939 and failing to interest the country, pleaded that the American people at least pray for a British-French victory.

The popularity of the poem in Russia's revolutionary circles, and the later "canonization" of Gorky as a preeminent classic of the "proletarian literature" ensured the wide spreading of the image of the Burevestnik ("stormy petrel") in the Soviet propaganda imagery. A variety of institutions, products, and publications would bear the name "Burevestnik", including a national sports club, a series of hydrofoil boats,Russian River Ships an air base in the Kuril Islands, a labor-union resort on the Gorky Reservoir, a Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod express train, and even a brand of candy.The Burevestnik candy was essentially chocolate-coated sugar: (See Burevestnik for a very partial list of entities so named). Naturally, Burevestnik-themed names were especially popular in Gorky Oblast.

He and his wife left London for Australia during the docks disputes of the 1880s, where Esther died in 1895. He returned to Limehouse and remarried- at the age of 70- to Elizabeth Nimmo, a woman 14 years his junior. But, despite his fame due to his many rescues, he died a poor man – forced to pawn his 8 bravery medals to survive. He spent his last few years in lodgings in Suffolk Street, Poplar -the same street that Will Crooks, Labour MP and former mayor of Poplar, was born. Crooks visited the old man in 1908, and wrote to the Carnegie Hero Fund on his behalf; but in vain, as ‘The Stormy Petrel’ died of pneumonia later that same year.

Early Australian TV drama production was dominated by using imported scripts but Stormy Petrel was made when the ABC was undertaking what has been described as "an Australiana" drive. It was directed by Colin Dean who called the Rum Rebellion "virtually the colony's first revolt against what was thought to be the tyranny of government vested in the person of the Governor himself." The sets were designed by Douglas Smith who was on staff at the ABC; he started working on them in December 1959. Smith says it was difficult to get sets to be authentic as while there were plenty of written descriptions there were few pictures so he had to source the latter from the army records in London.

It also has strong associations with three prominent Presbyterian layfolk - Sir James Burns and Colonel and Mrs Goodlet. Other important associations include Simeon Lord, Peter McCormick who published his "Advance Australian Fair" , Dr John Dunmore Lang - a stormy petrel of Presbyterianism in NSW and Prince Albert, The Duke of Edinburgh. The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales. The St David's Church precinct has considerable aesthetic significance within the local area as a sizable landscaped precinct of contrasting but compatible structures - including church, hall, manse and private burial ground - each item having important aesthetic qualities of its own and set within an area of relatively open grounds and large trees.

Later in his reign, Habibullah named Nasrullah his heir to the throne in preference to Habibullah's own sons. By contrast, Nasrullah's younger brother Mohammed Omar Jar, and Mohammed's mother the Queen Dowager Bibi Hallima, both of whom were powerful political forces potentially of danger to Habibullah, were kept by Habibullah as "practically state prisoners" confined in private quarters under the guise of protection by a strong detachment of the Imperial Bodyguard (Mohammed Omar Jar having been stripped of his own personal bodyguard – and state positions – by Habibullah in 1904). The level of influence Nasrullah enjoyed led Angus Hamilton in his 1910 book Afghanistan to describe Habibullah as a "weak-willed" ruler, and the possibility of Nasrullah making an attempt on the throne caused Hamilton to describe him as a "stormy petrel in the Afghan sea of domestic politics".

In 1950 American Overseas Airlines merged with Pan American World Airways. Blair was hired on as a Chief Pilot at Pan Am. Charles Blair's Excalibur III on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (NASM) In 1950 Pan American World Airways purchased a P-51 Mustang to allow Blair a chance to attempt a new long distance record. A P-51C equipped with long range internal fuel tanks, the aircraft had been flown by Paul Mantz, winning the transcontinental Bendix Trophy air races in 1946 and 1947, and finishing second in 1948 and third in 1949. Rechristening the plane "Stormy Petrel" and then "Excalibur III", Blair began setting records. On 31 January 1951 Blair flew non stop from New York to London to test the jet stream, traveling at an average speed of in seven hours and 48 minutes setting a record for a piston engine plane. On 29 May of the same year he flew from Bardufoss, Norway to Fairbanks, Alaska flying 3260 non stop miles across the North Pole.