The AIM-54 Phoenix is a radar-guided, long-range air-to-air missile, carried in clusters of up to six missiles — formerly on the U.S. Navy's and currently on the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force's F-14 Tomcat interceptors/multi-role fighters, which is the only aircraft capable of carrying it.

The AIM-54 was originally developed in the early 1960s for the canceled F-111B naval variant, and based on the Eagle project for the canceled F6D Missileer. Both were based on the idea of long-range, slow-cruise, non-maneuvering missile carriers to counter long-range bombers carrying low-flying cruise missiles. It had no use for close-range air superiority.

The phoenix (Ancient Greek: Φοίνιξ, phoínix) is a mythical sacred firebird in ancient Phoenician mythology, and in myths derived from it.

Phoenix is the second single by the industrial music duo Decoded Feedback. The original song appears on their album Shockwave.

The Phoenix was a ship of the British East India Company, involved in the sea otter trade in the Pacific. Her captain was Hugh Moore, and her home port was Bombay. She is known to have visited the Pacific Northwest in 1792, and wintered in the Columbia River in 1794. She is the namesake of the Phoenix, the first ship built in the Russian colony of Alaska by Alexandr Baranov.

This may be the same ship mentioned in The History of Sumatra from Project Gutenberg.

Arlyn Sharon Phoenix (born December 31, 1944), commonly known as Heart Phoenix, is the mother of acclaimed performers River Phoenix , Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix , and Summer Phoenix. She is currently the president of blank">The Peace Alliance, an organization which supports the creation of a _United States Department of Peace.

She was born Arlyn Sharon Dunetz in the Bronx, New York. Her parents were Jewish immigrants; her mother, Margaret, from Hungary, and her father, Mayer, from Russia. She has two sisters, Rhoda and Merle. By the time Arlyn was born, the Dunetz family had become more 'culturally Jewish'; they celebrated Jewish holidays, but did not attend synagogue. Once out of school, she married a computer programmer, moved to Manhattan, and began working as a secretary. She eventually grew tired of this lifestyle:

"At eighteen, I was just a clone, totally unconscious. I didn't know that the air was polluted and I didn't care. I just went to work and thought that everything the Government told me was right and true. It took some time before I awakened. I became aware. It was difficult because my parents weren't seeing the same things, but I knew I had to change my life."

Wanting to seek new horizons, she left New York in 1968 and headed west towards California. While hitch-hiking she met John Lee Bottom. John, born on June 14 1947, is from Fontana, California. They got married on September 13, 1969 in California. blank">Rio's Attic - Timeline of a Phoenix

Soon after their first son River was born in 1970, they joined the religious cult, _The Children of God, touring Mexico and South America as Christian missionaries for several years. Arlyn and John renamed themselves for a brief period, taking the Bible names Jochebed and Amram, respectively.

They eventually grew disillusioned with the Children of God and left in 1977. Arlyn would later state that she and her husband were opposed to the cult's increasingly distorted rules of the sect, particularly the practice of Flirty Fishing:

"The group was being distorted by a leader David Berg who was getting very full of power and wealthy," she explained. "He sought to attract rich disciples through sex. No way."

They returned to the U.S. in 1978 and landed in Winter Park, Florida, where Arlyn gave birth to her last child, Summer. In order to mark their new beginning, they legally adopted the surname "Phoenix" (Arlyn later changed her name to "Heart" in 1988) and began to embrace veganism as their new diet and lifestyle. The parents next took their brood of five children and headed back towards California, where Arlyn got a job as a secretary for NBC. She was able to hire an agent, Iris Burton, who eventually got all of her children acting work.

John and Arlyn divorced in 1997. She is now re-married to Jeffrey Weisberg, treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Peace Alliance Foundation.