100 years of aviation - New Straits Times | For the first time, more than 50 new generation aircraft will be lined up on the Subang Skypark tarmac, where visitors can see them from up close. Visitors 
can also experience flying in one of the monoplanes or helicopters for a fee In the terminal, the New Straits Times Press (NSTP) is holding a mini expo called "100 Years of Aviation Pictorial Journey" where....
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Yves Rossy Meets TED (Video) - AVweb | In June of 2011, TED, a nonprofit "devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading" interviewed Yves Rossy, popularly known as JetMan, and detailed how Rossy flies the two-meter rigid wing he straps to his back -- they've now released video. Rossy explains that the most recent incarnation of his wing is powered by four microturbines that together generate roughly 200 pounds of thrust and...
Britain's first seaplane to fly again as enthusiasts make replica of Manchester-built Waterbird - Manchester Evening News | Enthusiasts are to relive one of the landmark moments in aviation history 
by building – and flying – a replica of the Manchester aircraft that became Britain's first seaplane. The Waterbird, which was designed and built at the AV Roe factories in Ancoats, completed its successful maiden flight 100 years ago today from the waters of Windermere....
WWII pilot joins in 70th anniversary of Columbia Army Air Base - Columbia Star | Alvin Strasburger read about the upcoming 70th anniversary commemorating the opening of the Columbia Army Air Base (CAAB) in The Columbia Star and immediately called the office of host organization, South Carolina Historic Aviation Foundation www.schistoricaviation.org for details. Strasburger did the last leg of his WWII aeronautics training at...
Honor Flight Fort Worth takes WWII vets to D.C. memorial - Star_Telegram | Former Army cook J.J. Davidson had never walked around the 7 acres of the World War II Memorial or seen the massive pillars and reflecting pool that honor the millions who won that war. Neither had Orpha Mae Blood, an Army nurse who tended to badly wounded men as they returned home from fighting in Italy and France. Certainly neither had received a....
God's strong, eternal love is able to overcome fears - Detroit News | ...The memorial was dedicated in 1943 to the name and heroics of a B-17 pilot whose plane was shot down just days after Pearl Harbor. Few people know the statue's namesake, however. It is better known as the "Four Freedoms Monument."...
Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando – ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius’ - Shortfinals's Blog | It might seem odd to quote the words of Baron Pierre de Coubertin on the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894 - ’Citius, Altius, Fortius’- (Faster, Higher, Stronger), but that’s exactly what the Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando was, when compared to its main competitor, the C-47 Skytrain. The....
Memories of the cold war from Barrow to the Arctic Ocean ice islands - The Arctic Sounder | "Those are the Russians," a local person told me. "They fly over just to test our defenses. Later you'll likely see U.S. jets from the Alaska bases responding." Sure enough — the U.S. fighters did come by. Both sides just testing each other. But it took much longer to hear about a secret mission (Project Coldfeet) to a hastily abandoned deteriorating Soviet ice station (or drift station) in the Arctic Ocean back in 1962. It involved two U.S. intelligence officers parachuting into the station because the airstrip had broken up. Their job was to collect data on the Soviet facility, equipment and technology. They were flown out to the drift station in a B-17.....
Aviation history in Cumbria celebrated with monuments - BBC | Six former airfields in Cumbria are to be commemorated with granite memorials. The Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust (ABCT) said the monuments would acknowledge the locations as heritage sites and highlight their contribution....
Today in Aviation History – November 26 - CRUFC
Happy Thanksgiving from Ghana - Flight to Success | "Thank you all for your giving happily to MoM all year, may your Thanksgiving day be a wonderful one.... we give thanks for you all being our friends, supporters and encourager's from the USA - you and your families!....
‘Friends’ aim to protect facility, educate public - Santa Maria Times | Lifelong passions for flying and a love of general aviation airports spurred two local pilots — Jolie Lucas and Mitch Latting — to start an all-volunteer organization to save the Oceano Airport. Lucas and Latting, who were married in 2005 and hosted their wedding reception at the beachside airport, co-founded Friends of Oceano Airport in...
Aviation school investing €500,000 in new hangar and aircraft - The Malta Independent Online | Malta Wings and its sister company and Malta’s largest flying school, the Malta School of Flying, said they will be investing €500,000 on a new hangar and aircraft. The school intends to upgrade its fleet with the new twin-engined P2006T....
Girl Who Named NASA's Mars Rover Excited to Watch It Blast Off - Space.com | When NASA's next Mars rover launches toward the Red Planet tomorrow (Nov. 26), the girl who gave the huge robot a name will be there to see it off....
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