Women in Aviation: Sustaining mission excellence - Coast Guard Compass | In the complex and competitive field of aviation, the motivation to always better oneself is an important factor in mission success, but can also sustain excellence in performance and the desire for a long career in flight. One Coast Guard senior leader who is doing his part to motivate and enthuse Coast Guard aviators is Rear Adm. Daniel Abel, Deputy Director of Operations at U.S. Northern Command. In an interview at the Women In Aviation, International Conference, Abel shared his perspectives on keeping our aviators safe, encouraging them to be their best, the role of women in our service and the future of Coast Guard aviation. ...
Tuskegee Airmen saga told - Long Beach Press-Telegram | They received a special invitation to President Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009. Today, about 70 pilots are still living, Lumpkin said. Lumpkin and Davis, a former B-25 bomber pilot, visit schools throughout the Southland as part of Tuskegee Airmen ...
Brian Jones: The Right Stuff - AskMen | ... As a guest of Breitling at the Reno Air Races last fall, I was able to meet hockey legend Wayne Gretzky and actor John Travolta, a pilot for Qantas Airlines, and even flew in an old WWII P-51 Mustang fighter plane. But the highlight for me was a hot-air balloon flight in a replica of the Orbiter with none other than Jones himself. Jones gives rides to thrill seekers while raising money for his Winds of Hope Foundation, which aims to eradicate the disfiguring, flesh-eating disease Noma. He is also at work on Solar Impulse, a project attempting to build the first solar-powered airplane capable of flying nonstop around the world. ...
New England Air Museum - Patch.com | The New England Air Museum this week is offering activities for students who are taking their February vacation. The activities have ranged from a LEGO Challenge on Monday to building and launching ...
ULM autogire Xenon RST 912 from Passion pour l'aviation | On April 18, 2010, during a walk on the ground-Plivot Epernay, my eye was attracted to this ultralight gyroplane tandem closed cab: Xenon, I think it looks great. I told myself that I can devote a section as soon as I find information about it, the chance of my research on the Internet allowed me to find an article by Philip Weaver (PDF 4.3 MB) about the published in January 2010 in the magazine Flight Engine . The Xenon created six years ago by Raphael Celier is now manufactured in Poland by Celier Aviation. After trying ...
More Planes, People & Helicopters From The Centennial Of Flight ... by Rob Hurlbut
A few posts back I showed some photos from the time I spent at the Centennial Of Naval Aviation Airshow on Coronado. In looking back at the post and after going through the photos I took at the event, I realized that I had Jurassic ...
MV-22 Osprey Reaches Historical Milestone from photorecon.net | On February 18, 2011, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar hosted a ceremony with all Osprey squadrons located at the base to mark a milestone in the history of the MV-22 – 100,000 hours of mishap free flight. The MV-22 Osprey is currently replacing the 50+ year old CH-46 Sea Knight (aka Frog). The Osprey is [...]
Polish Aviation Museum - Pysall Ruge Architekten | The Muzeum Lotnictwa is one of the largest museums of aviation in the world. It is located in historically preserved buildings and hangars of the former historic airfield of Rakowice-Cyzyny in Cracow, the first airfield on polish terrain, build in 1912 for the air fleet no. 7 of the Austrio-Hungarian Empire. In 2005 a competition was launched for the new main building – the first pan-European competition for architects, after the accession of Poland to the EU, to be won and realised by a German architect. ...
Today in Aviation History – February 25 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club
Joanna Page Performs Flying Stunts For Charity - NDTV.com | Page will participate in an aerobatic flight and perform a series of breathtaking barrel rolls and loop-the-loops to raise money for charity Comic Relief's Red Nose Day, reported Contactmusic. Walsh will also unleash her inner daredevil with a ...
Purdue, state have strong ties to shuttle Discovery - Indianapolis Star | Indianapolis astronaut David Wolf said such experiments are crucial to the space shuttle mission, which he thinks has revolutionized space flight. "It was an extremely aggressive program in which humans took on a very ambitious vision and pulled ...
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