Pegasus (disambiguation)
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Pegasus can mean many things:
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[edit] Traditional
- Pegasus is the winged horse of Greek mythology.
- Pegasus is a constellation.
- Pegasus is the name of two galaxies.
[edit] Hydronautical and aerospace
- Several Royal Navy ships were named Pegasus:
- HMS Pegasus (1786), a 28-gun frigate, once commanded by Prince William Henry (King William IV)
- HMS Pegasus (1897), a Pelorus class third class cruiser
- HMS Pegasus (1934), an early aircraft carrier or seaplane carrier, originally commissioned as HMS Ark Royal in 1914.
- The Pegasus class of hydrofoils, formerly operated by the U.S. Navy, or USS Pegasus, the first of class (formerly provisionally named Delphinus).
- Two British aero engines were known as Pegasus:
- The Bristol-Siddeley, later Rolls-Royce Pegasus vectored thrust jet
- The Bristol Pegasus radial engine
- The Pegasus rocket is a current satellite launch vehicle produced by Orbital Sciences.
- The Pegasus satellite program was a series of three satellites launched in 1965 with large fold-out panels to characterize the then-unknown micrometeroid environment of low Earth orbit.
- The X-47 Pegasus is a Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle demonstrator.
- The Aero Adventure Pegasus is a home-built aircraft design
[edit] Information technology
- Pegasus Mail is an email client for the DOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
- The Pegasus computer was an early computer made by Ferranti.
- Pegasus was the code name for the Handheld PC and Windows CE 1.0.
- Pegasus is an open-source implementation of the Distributed Management Task Force Common Information Model and Web-Based Enterprise Management standards.
- Pegasus Software is a UK manufacturer of accounting software. It is part of the Infor group.
[edit] In fiction
- Pegasus is the main character of Japan's famous anime Saint Seiya (Knights of the Zodiac), who protects the goddess of war Athena.
- Maximillion Pegasus (Pegasus J. Crawford in the original Japanese anime and manga) is the name of a character from the anime and manga series Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Pegasus is a character in the anime and manga series Sailor Moon.
- The Pegasus ships are a class of mobile suit carriers in the Gundam Universe.
- Pegasus is the name of the old rocking horse owned and cherished by Maud, the youngest of the four title characters in Barbara Willard's The Richleighs of Tantamount.
- The Pegasus (TNG episode), a seventh season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
- The Battlestar Pegasus in both the original and new Battlestar Galactica, and the episode "Pegasus" from the new series.
- The spacecraft Pegasus (BBC) featured in the BBC drama documentary television series Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets (2004), about how humans might one day travel to the planets.
- The Pegasus Galaxy (Stargate) is a dwarf galaxy in the fictional Stargate universe.
- Pegasus is name of a fictional flying horse in Disney's animated film, Hercules.
- In Spooks, Pegasus is an emergency shelter for the British Royal Family located under Hyde Park.
[edit] Symbols and monikers
- Pegasus is the symbol of the magazine, Reader's Digest.
- Pegasus galloping toward the viewer (camera) is the symbol of TriStar Pictures, a subdivision of Sony Pictures.
- Pegasus is the school mascot for the University of Central Florida (UCF).
- Pegasus F.C. was an English amateur football club based in Oxford.
- A stylized image of the mythical flying horse Pegasus, usually rendered in red, was the symbol of Mobilgas service stations [1].
[edit] Military
- Pegasus Bridge was the objective of a British airborne landing at the start of the Battle of Normandy, June 1944.
- Operation Pegasus was the Allied effort to recover soldiers after the failure of the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944.
- Operation Pegasus was the relief of the besieged Marine Corps garrison at Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War, April 1968.
[edit] Popular Music
Pegasus is an instrumental song written by Dickey Betts from The Allman Brothers Band's 1979 album Enlightened Rogues.
[edit] Art
Pegasus is a very complex piece of artwork by American artist Jean Michel Basquiat.
[edit] Other
- Pegasus Airlines is an airline based in Istanbul, Turkey
- Pegasus (genus), or Sea Moth, a genus of fish which includes vulnerable species, belonging to the family Pegasidae, order Gasterosteiformes
- Pegasus is a name for a DIY Hovercraft
- Pegasus (ship)
- Pegasus class
- Pegasus crossing is a road crossing for horse riders in the UK.
- The Pegasus Award is given out for excellence in the field of filk music.
- Pegasus Kid was the ringname of Chris Benoit while wrestling in Japan and Mexico.
- Pegasus is the name of an award winning bitter brewed by Milton Brewery in Cambridge, UK.
- Pegasus is a name of a popular Men's club in Quezon City, Philippines