'Synergy' Aircraft Revealed, Prepares To Lead A Revolution - AirPigz | These illustrations and the 1/4 scale model seen here are of an all new aircraft called Synergy that's getting close to being completed in full scale form. Even more, this aircraft truly represents a 'synergy' of advanced aerodynamic ideas that just might see it revolutionize the world of aviation...
Benefit for Kyle and Amanda Franklin to be Held May 14 - The Aero Experience | A fundraiser is being organized to help raise money for Amanda and Kyle Franklin, who were seriously injured while performing in an air show earlier this year...
Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell takes the plunge - Washington Post | Update, 6:50 p.m.: Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell, along with her daughter Cailin, participated in a tandem parachute jump with the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights Parachute Team this morning in Dinwiddie. The first lady and her daughter jumped as part of her ongoing work to raise awareness of the need to support Virginia’s military families...
Women in Aviation: Coast Guard aviators of tomorrow - Coast Guard | It was 1911 when small town girl Harriet Quimby moved from Michigan to New York. Inspired by the challenge of flying an “aeroplane,” Quimby took flying lessons and on August 1, 1911, became the first American woman to get her pilot’s license. In the 100 years since, women have gone on to fly around the world and launch into space...
“My other ramp is on a C-17.” The CV-22 ramp may not be the biggest - You Like Airplanes, Too? | U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Eric Wiggins, an Air Force CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft flight engineer from the 8th Special Operations Squadron (SOS) “Black Birds,” sits on the back ramp Jan. 26, 2011, scanning the area during a local training mission at Hurlburt Field, Fla...
WASP program part of OTC observance - Wings 1944 | Texas Gov. Ann Richards once said that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, only she did it backward and in high heels. That sentiment certainly resonates with Nancy Parrish, whose mother, Deanie Parrish, was a member of the Women's Air Force Service Pilots...
ebook: Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation through World War I - EBooksFreeDownload | At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903. Fifteen years later, however...
Retweeted by StephenForce and others - @usairforce | Today in 1918, Lt. Edward V. Rickenbacker downed his first enemy aircraft.
Indianapolis Aero Club - Since 1933: May 10, 2011 Meeting: Jonathan Gaffney - President National Aeronautic Association - Indy Aero Club | 100th Anniversary of the Collier Trophy - JONATHAN GAFFNEY became 31st President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Aeronautic Association in 2007. Since that time, he and the staff of NAA have transformed one of the world’s oldest aeronautical organizations into a vibrant, sustainable association dedicated to itsoriginal charter: "...the advancement of the art, sport and science of aviation in the United States."...
VIDEO: NASA's AirSTAR Model Plane - AIRBOYD | Courtesy: NASA Langley Research Center. The remotely-piloted Airborne Subscale Transport Aircraft Research (AirSTAR) generic transport model demonstrates software and control systems that may some day make airliners safer.
The Spirit of Kitty Hawk Moves to Its New Home - Nuts About Southwest | While it hasn’t been a secret, we really haven’t publicized our exciting preservation/museum project yet. However, you certainly will know something is different if you pass the corner of Lemmon Avenue and Mockingbird Lane starting today here at Love Field. A big shiny Southwest 737 is half-inside and half-outside the Frontiers of Flight Museum...
Airline pilots visit fifth-grade classrooms in Glendale - AZ Central | Legend Springs Elementary School fifth-graders got a taste of what it's like to be an aviator from four pilots. The visits were part of Southwest Airlines' Adopt-A-Pilot program that pairs a pilot with a fifth-grade class to learn about the science of aviation, the career of a commercial pilot and goal setting...
NASA Heavy-Lift May Result in Bid Protests - Spaceports | As NASA hashes out an acquisition strategy for building a congressionally mandated heavy-lift launch vehicle that leverages space shuttle and Ares rocket technologies, agency officials are hoping to minimize the potential for a formal protest from industry...President Visits Astronauts After Delay - Spaceports | President Barack Obama meets with Space Shuttle Endeavor commander Mark Kelly, husband of wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and shuttle astronauts...
Missouri family's song likely to be wake-up music for Endeavour astronauts - STL Today | The Plunkett family of Halfway, Mo., had mixed feelings about today's decision to scratch the shuttle Endeavour launch. They were half glad the launch was scrapped because it meant more time to rack up votes for their song, "Dreams You Give," to be chosen as a winner of the NASA Space Rock Contest...
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