aviation is a very popular meme on Facebook, and that’s because it has been for a very long time. There are many reasons aviation has been so popular, but the most obvious one is the “why we fly” question. It is interesting to note that the initial aviation meme was created in 1921 by the aviation pioneer Wilbur Wrights and is still used today. The original aviation meme is usually attributed to the U.S.
The real aviation meme was created by a British writer named James Hervey in a much more recent time frame. It was a well-known topic on the British airfields when Hervey was a teenager, and Hervey was so intrigued by the idea that he decided to put it on the front page of his school newspaper. After he was done writing, he decided to put it on the front page as well.
The real aviation meme is a bit different but still pretty similar to the other meme. It’s a bit more interesting to look at than other meme because it’s not meant to be taken seriously, but I think it’s more like a bit of a joke than actually doing any actual aviation or aviation meme.
The aviation meme is a short film that’s been running for nearly two decades and is a parody of the “videotape” hoax. It’s a film where a group of people pretend to be pilots, pilots who are actually pilots, and they pretend to be flying a plane that doesn’t actually exist.
The aviation meme is an especially funny one because most of the people involved are from small, unimpressive airlines or small, under-performing airlines. Not that small it isn’t, but I think they’re the most obvious example of the absurdity of the aviation meme. Its very common for these people to look like they are in their twenties, with a haircut and a full beard. Their faces are often made up, with fake eyelashes or fake beards, or both.
The aviation meme is a reference to that famous scene from the movie Titanic where all the passengers are wearing these ridiculous airline uniforms: the blue shirts with pants, the black pants with white shirts, the red pants with white shirts, and the black shirts with blue jeans. It takes a great amount of imagination to see this uniform as anything other than a parody of a real airline.
The aviation meme is an example of a meme that originated in the early 2000s. It’s a reference to the movie Titanic, which was released in 1998. All the various subgenres of the aviation meme started with that movie, and then developed into other subgenres. Some are like the aviation meme, others are like the aviation meme, and so on.
The aviation meme is basically a phrase that is used to describe a person who is not a pilot. In the case of a person who is a pilot, they may not actually be a pilot, but they may still be an airline pilot, or they may be a pilot that is not a pilot. The aviation meme is an example of a meme that originated in the early 2000s. Its a reference to the movie Titanic, which was released in 1998.
The aviation meme is a very old form of the meme. The movie was created by John Waters as a joke, but the real joke was getting blown up by the movie, or the movie’s film was actually a joke, because the joke’s really about a pilot who is supposed to fly, but is actually a passenger flying. Now that’s an example of something old, funny, and old-fashioned.
The aviation meme was born in a movie called Titanic. In the movie, every character is a passenger and the only characters who are passengers are the main character, Jack, and the four characters who are supposed to be passengers. The actual meme was created during a party about a movie about a movie, where a bunch of people were discussing the movie. A lot of people were talking about the idea that the movie, Titanic, was a joke.


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Flight and democracy are two of humanity’s greatest achievements. Recently, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas visited UMKC’s flight simulator to try his hand at getting out the vote. Earlier two pilots, Mujahid Abdulrahim and Travis Fields, flew a course over Kansas City that spelled out “vote.” Mayor Lucas attempted to recreate it – and had some fun in the process. “Although the mayor’s flight pattern fell short of the professionals’, they said it did accomplish its goal of raising awareness about the upcoming election.”
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The final frontier keeps getting delayed
11 February 2018
It’s been over 50 years since President Kennedy delivered one of his most famous speeches. Like ‘I have a dream’ or ‘We shall fight on the beaches,’ its title is derived from its most defining line—‘We choose to go to the moon.’
In 18 minutes and roughly 2000 words, Kennedy dispelled the pessimism that came with exploration and space travel. He framed the endeavour not as a race to beat the Soviets, but as the ‘greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.’ To those who disagreed and saw no value in a moon landing, Kennedy asked, ‘why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic?’
That generation’s optimism never left us. Their enthusiasm for space still exists in the United States and nations all around the globe. 58% of Americans believe that it is essential for their country to be a world leader in space exploration; 63% expect a Mars landing in the next 30 years, and 74% see space exploration as having done more good than harm. Kennedy said, ‘we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.’
67% of Americans would be reluctant to pay for more space exploration. 4 in 10 believe the United States spends just the right amount, and 3 in 10 think it spends too much.
The hard things need to be done.
If there’s anything President Trump deserves respect for, it’s his decision to reignite America’s efforts on the moon. However, it comes at a time when the landscape of space exploration is more different than ever, as private companies have stepped in to fill the void left by previous governments.
The enthusiasm for space exploration never dwindled, but NASA’s budget certainly did. SpaceX alone has revolutionised spaceflight technology, capturing public attention in a way that NASA has been unable to do for years. Companies like Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic are also a part of this new wave.
While mining and settlement may be years away, tourism is still a possible and lucrative source of income for those who are able to set up the infrastructure. These companies are building the future. Right now, SpaceX cooperates with NASA for the contracts it offers, but that doesn’t mean future competition is impossible.
Despite all the new players in this industry, however, I still believe that space exploration should be an endeavour spearheaded by governments rather than companies. The people fighting hardest for our future should be the ones we elect. The backbone of exploration and discovery has always been government-funded, from Spain’s funding of Columbus to England’s funding of Cook. Monuments are in the interest of nations, and a spacefaring civilisation would be the biggest monument to mankind ever.
I’m sure we would all much rather see an American flag on Mars rather than a corporate logo.
As dimly hypothesised in Fight Club, ‘when deep space exploitation ramps up, it will probably be the megatonic corporations that discover all the new planets and map them. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Phillip Morris Galaxy. Planet Denny’s.’
When it comes to private companies in space, we also can’t count on them to share our interests and goals, especially in regards to things like the Outer Space Treaty.
The one thing keeping them afloat could also be what renders them useless—money. Despite how generous and altruistic Elon Musk may seem, at the end of the day, he’s a businessman. He has a fiduciary responsibility to his investors.
If we put all our expectations into these companies, and suddenly they started haemorrhaging money, our dreams of space would remain unrealised. I couldn’t see the same happening for an organisation like NASA, though. The agency has survived budget cuts, recessions, and a financial crisis without being shut down.
The biggest obstacle facing NASA and governmental space agencies is apathy, apathy from the people who are elected and ignorance from those who elect them. Americans are optimistic about our future outside of earth, yet they and many others are reluctant to pay more in taxes.
You can’t blame them, but perhaps the answer lies with more education. To start, a 2007 survey found that Americans believed NASA’s budget to be a quarter—2.7 trillion dollars—of the 2006 federal budget when in reality, it was more like 0.58% of the budget. The survey isn’t definitive, but if its results are true, then I’m sure not much has changed since.
Space exploration is under threat not from technological limitations, but the statement of, ‘we should solve our problems on earth first.’ Such ideas are shortsighted and self-centred.
Or as famed astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, put it, ‘The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and literally revolves around us.’
Why build a better life for yourself if others are living poorly?
Why do anything if there are other problems to solve first?
There will always be human suffering. There will always be problems to solve on earth. The goal of mankind is not to merely be subsistent but to thrive. I don’t think there will ever be a ‘mass exodus’ from earth; we won’t be abandoning what we have here.
There is also merit in the technological inventions and scientific discoveries that come through the process of space exploration. I can’t begin to mention all the technology given to the world just through NASA’s research, from camera phones to water purification. In all these instances, scientists weren’t trying to create a life-changing new product. They were simply trying to solve a specific problem with an invention that would turn out to have numerous applications.
Success in space often translates to success on earth, and in the end, this is all for the benefit of humanity. Some may see it as a way to leave our home, but I see it as a way to improve it.
This is an endeavour that requires both private companies and government agencies to see it to its full potential. We are just people living on masses of land, surrounded by an ocean, on a planet, within a solar system, among billions of other stars, in a galaxy, within a universe. It’s about time we settled Mars, explored deep space, and did ‘the other things.’


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Accidents happen, but accidents happen to some institutes more than others. Russian rockets blew up more than American ones; Indonesian airliners crash more than Chinese ones. It took NASA 26 years of space flight to have a lethal in-flight accident like Virgin Galactic just had. To my knowledge, they’ve also never had a rocket explode during testing that killed three employees. This entire sector began with the request that NASA and the FAA not look over the shoulders of the private sector; that Richard Branson be allowed to be the ultimate arbiter of whether or not his toy was safe enough for passengers.
As was witnessed in Virginia the day before the tragedy over the Mohave, this isn’t just about Virgin Galactic. This about privatizing something that had been exclusively government-run for a long time. This is about ideology that assumes market forces will make everything right, ‘self-correct’, because it would be unprofitable to build dangerous spaceships and rockets. This is about a mode of transportation that’s so inherently dangerous that it maybe should only be left to a maddeningly slow and inefficient bureaucracy that cares more about moving through checklists than cool new designs.
We’re in charter school territory now. In so much as manned space flight is important, it’s been given up as a public sector service and we’ve handed the keys to untested companies that are growing a bad track record. The costs of this mistake will be externalized in one of three ways: (a) the sector is sustained through corporate welfare, with a mix of regulations and subsidies to offset compliance, (b) the sector collapses when investors realize how bad their bets are and we need to rebuild a now badly broken NASA, or (c) we simply accept more explosions and death, likely at a higher price, than before as the new reality of space travel.
If it’s anything like education, we’ll charge deeper in this direction for a decade not just in spite of the early warning signs, but because of them. Because Soyuz is still flying and NASA still launches their own rockets, the sector isn’t private and lucrative enough. The only way to ‘prove’ or let privatization of space flight work (or health care, fire departments, schools, garbage collection) is to completely break its public competitors.
Which is where we are with education: a public sector being picked apart by vultures, a private sector breathed into life with suspended regulation and subsidies yet unable to meet its original quality or cost goals, and people paying more for worse service than they had before. The spiral grows larger because neither politicians nor the public can admit the original sexy model just doesn’t work like it was supposed to.


On a visit to São José dos Campos, on May 19th, Beatriz Gutierrez, from Connecticut Department of Economic Development, visited companies and talked to entrepreneurs in the aerospace and defense industry.
At Cecompi, the Center for Competitiveness and Innovation of Cone Leste Paulista, Beatriz Gutierrez presented the incentives and benefits available to and high-tech innovative companies interested in investing in the United States. In addition to customized guidance, the Brazilian companies that decide to invest there also have access to initiatives such as the Connecticut Innovations, an organization that offers flexible financing and strategic guidance to startups.
During the visit, Beatriz Gutierrez spoke with Carlos Fernando Rondina Matthew, the Brazilian Aerospace Cluster coordinator, an organization that brings together companies in the aerospace supply chain and supports the inclusion of companies in the global market. With a potential cooperation agenda, the representative of Connecticut and the cluster coordinator will meet again at the Paris Air Show, the main industry event that takes place in June in France.
The aerospace segment is strategic for Connecticut. For this reason, the State Governor and the Secretary of Economic Development of Connecticut will be participating in the Paris Air Show. The US delegation already confimed an agenda with Embraer and Cecompi during the event.
Beatriz Gutierrez visited Brazil in order to attract Brazilian companies of four main segments: aerospace & defense, medical equipment, information technology and biotechnology. Brazil is one of the four strategic countries for the government of Connecticut, together with Germany, China and Israel.
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Today we went into the Star Lab with Room 9. What an amazing experience this was. We not only learnt about the stars in our night sky but also interesting facts about the planets, meteorites and comets. We had a burning question!!! Is Pluto a planet? Has it been reclassified again? No! It's not a planet. It is not the 9th planet in our solar system. Pluto is part of an asteroid belt and is a dwarf planet, a little bit bigger than the Earths moon.


A National Transportation Safety Board investigation into a small plane that crashed on the Ole Miss Golf Course began this week. The pilot of the single-engine plane died from injuries after the plane crashed Saturday, authorities said.
Lake Little, a student pilot and the only person on board, was practicing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings when the plane crashed Saturday around 3:15 p.m. No one on the ground was reported hurt.
Little, an 18-year-old from Starkville, was airlifted to a trauma center in Memphis, where she died Saturday night.
Ed Malinowski, the investigator for the NTSB, said at a press conference on Monday that he was working with the plane’s manufacturers and the Federal Aviation Administration to examine the wreckage for details about the crash. He also said he would take radar records and witness accounts of the crash for his report, though black boxes are not required on small planes like the one that Little was flying.
University spokesperson Rod Guajardo told media outlets that the plane affiliated with the Civil Air Patrol was a Cessna 172 and went down near the 17th tee of The Ole Miss Golf Course. The Civil Air Patrol is an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force in which citizen pilots carry out emergency service missions when needed.
Little’s brother tweeted that she had enlisted in the National Guard a few weeks ago.
Bystander Brian Scott Rippee told The Oxford Eagle that he was near the ninth hole of the course when he saw the plane encounter trouble.
“It looked like it was landing and then aborted the landing and we saw it struggle to come back up,” Rippee said. “Then, when we were walking off the green it just fell straight down into the trees.”
News photographs showed firefighters beside the apparently charred fuselage of a red, white and blue plane, downed near some trees with its wings and tail visible. Another photo showed a medical helicopter hovering near the crash site.
Reports say a fire truck drove onto the course in response to the crash and that Oxford and university police also responded along with sheriff’s deputies.
“Such sad news about Lake Little,” Gov. Phil Bryant said on Twitter. “A beautiful light has passed from this world far too soon. Deborah and I pray the dear Lord would assuage the pain and grief of her parents and family.”
Malinowski said that a preliminary report would be online in a week and a final report would be out in six months to a year.


The minor Asian weight reflects above all the marginal role played by China in this sector. Until recently, the domestic low-altitude airspace was almost entirely under the Chinese Air Force control (even owning a plane was illegal until 2003). The first reforms of the low-altitude airspace management system were accomplished only by the end of 2010, poretending a broader opening up for civilians. For instance, the fleet of Chinese business jets amounts to just of few hundreds planes whereas the American fleet stands at roughly 10,000 jets. This difference reveals the significant potential of the Chinese market, the 2nd economy in the world.
In the wake of this foreseeable expansion, Honeywell predicted in 2011 a business jet markets reaching $230bn over the next decade.
The current situation of the general aviation seems to be a rare relic of a past world. In other words, without a buoyant growth driver - the Chinese economy- and thus in sharp contrast with commercial aviation.
According to GAMA, last year, general aviation deliveries went down by -3,5% vs 2010. A comparison with the recent prosperous years outlines the magnitude of the crises’ impact on this industry: in 2011, 860 piston-engine planes deliveries (around -65% / 2006, last peak), 324 business turboprops (-60% / 2008) and 681 business jets (-48% / 2008).
The noticeable resilience of the top-of-the range aircraft in the business jet segment (12 to 18 seats and mainly costing at least $30M) could explain the smoother downward trend of the sector revenue: stable over 2010-2011 (+0,4% to $19bn) but a relative 20% drop between 2011 and 2008.
The difference between the range of planes has also been felt in the annual order trends and thus in the orders books: stability and even strengthening of the order books in 2011 for the top-of-the range and stability in the best scenario and more surely deterioration for the other players.
The gradual stabilisation of the second-hand general aviation airplane market (still above the historical average) and a momentum, generated particularly by the emerging markets, could turn 2012/2013 into the starting point for a robust recovery in general aviation airplane manufacturing, mainly located in the Western (production: 73% in US and 20% in Europe), but nothing is certain.
Unsurprisingly, so far, a “China-free” world has been a world plagued by the American/European doldrums, without signs of recovery since the 2007-08 crisis and whose more favorable prospects will only become reality at mid-term, thanks to…China.
* piston-engine airplanes, turboprops and business jets ( aircraft with less than 18 seats)
** aircraft with more than 110 seats


(Credit: Daniel Sherrouse)Add Daniel Sherrouse to the short list for geeky father of the year.
While most dads would probably be happy to help their kids build a spaceship out of a cardboard box and some aluminum foil, he took things a bit further, building a much, MUCH more detailed simulator.
How detailed? Imagined a 5x8 trailer filled with dashboards, controls, and other equipment. And to top it all off, the simulator lets anyone sitting in the captain's seat play the huge, open-ended Pioneer Space Simulator game.Read More »from Awesome dad builds an intricate spaceship simulator for his son


“The Vulcan is being parked up for good and I was asked to do a programme about the plane, its history and the final flight. The Vulcan first flew in 1952 and it’ll never fly again. The reason is, it needs a load of people from BAE systems, Marhsall Aerospace and Rolls-Royce to sign off the plane to be safe to fly, and all the folk with the right sort of 1950s skills to do that are either retiring or dying off.
“It would be so difficult to do again because the Vulcan is classified as a complex aircraft by the CAA – the Civil Aviation Authority. Spitfires and Lancasters and all that are classed as simple aircraft.
“Before the one the programme concentrates on was made air-worthy again, the CAA said that plane will never fly again, we don’t even have a category for it, but Dr Robert Pleming, the main man behind getting it back in the air, said ‘Well, what if I do this?’ And the authority said, ‘Well yes.’ And he did that for every problem. It cost £7 million, raised through the charity, Vulcan To The Sky Trust, to get the Vulcan back in the air and it’ll never fly again.
“It has 14 miles of wiring and 100,000 components. There are no mechanical links to anything. With a Lancaster or a Spitfire you can see that bit moves that bit, but the Vulcan is all run by mechanical computers: gears and cogs that flick this relay that energises that relay. It is massively complex.
“I was having a craic with the pilots, but as soon as it came to the pre-flight checks they turned into robots. They aren’t nervous going up in it because they spend an hour doing pre-flight checks, every button is checked.
“The majority of Vulcans were based in Coningsby, Scampton and Waddington, all Lincolnshire air bases, but that link to Lincolnshire doesn’t make me like it more, even though this county is the centre of the universe. It just made sense to base bombers here because of it’s strategic location during World War II and the Cold War. The attraction is just that the Vulcan is a fascinating plane with a lot of history.
“There was a week of celebration of the plane, just before it was parked up for good and during that week I went up in The Blades’ stunt plane and flew so close to the Vulcan that I felt I could have reached out and touched its wing. It was another money couldn’t buy it experience that i’ve had through the TV job.
“You can watch the programme on Channel 4 on Sunday 29th November at 19.30 hours.”


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International Workshop Looks Into Thunderstorms and Lightning Discharges
Dr. Tai-Yin Huang, Assistant Professor of Physics at Penn State Lehigh Valley, is co-coordinator with Dr. Norma Crosby from the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, of an international workshop entitled, "Workshop on Coupling of Thunderstorms and Lightning Discharges to Near-Earth Space," to be held from June 23-27, 2008, at the University of Corsica, Corte, France.
The workshop goals are twofold: 1) to better understand and identify the effects of thunderstorm processes on the atmospheric composition and dynamics; and 2) to investigate the effects of the various physical processes that couple thunderstorms to the Earth’s upper atmosphere and ionosphere. The workshop will consist of invited tutorials, contributed talks, and an interactive poster session.
The workshop is partly sponsored by Penn State Lehigh Valley, the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, the University of Corsica, the National Science Foundation, the European Space Agency, the Human Spaceflight and Exploration Directorate, the Topical Team on the Atmosphere-Space Interaction Monitor (ASIM) and the French National Space Agency (CNES) in the context of the TARANIS (Tool for the Analysis of RAdiations from lightNIngs and Sprites) mission. For more information about the workshop, visit http://www.oma.be/TLE2008Workshop/ or contact Dr. Tai-Yin Huang at firstname.lastname@example.org or call 610-285-5100.


Product details: 18” x 24” posters, 4/0 color on glossy stock
This project called for the creation of two posters to promote the mission of NASA to an audience of teens and tweens. One poster was to capture the audience’s attention and convey a positive editorial slant while preparing the viewer for the more information-heavy second poster. Specifics as to what to feature on either poster were left to the designer.
To solve the problem I first conducted extensive research into NASA’s current plans for space exploration. After considering the motivations of my audience I chose to highlight NASA’s efforts to land people on Mars, and specifically, the autonomous, automobile-like robots that are being sent to gather data before such an ambitious endeavor. These robots, or rovers as they’re known, parallel the curiosity and independence valued by the teens and tweens comprising my target audience.
My design successfully associates themes concerning my audience while using imagery attractive to both genders. The tag line of the editorial poster (“Curiosity drives us forward”) alludes to both the themes of the work as well as the featured subject—Curiosity is the name of the most advanced rover, currently working on Mars to collect data. The headline of the informational poster again reinforces themes of independence and forward-thinking while suggesting positive contributions to society. The infographic succeeds in leaving a place for the audience to participate by incorporating a timeline that includes future space exploration events.
Typography and visual elements were arranged at angles to further support the idea of “moving forward”, and imagery and color was chosen to appeal to both boys and girls in the target audience. Additionally, the posters engage the interest of current advocates of NASA’s mission—professionals working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics industries—by incorporating high-resolution photos of robots and deep space.


#ShowInTheSky. "G.V. Bibescu" Aeroclub Craiova, air show 90 years after its establishment
"He who believes in flight is master of the horizon", said the great author Lucian Blaga. We believe that seeing the world from the sky is one of the most uplifting experiences one can have, and so we suggest you try to see at least some parts of this world this coming Saturday.
The reason is simple: the Territorial Aeroclub "G.V. Bibescu" from Craiova marks 90 years since it was founded and will celebrate this with a special air show. Thus, on August 12, those interested will be able to see in action the members of the Hawks of Romania, White Wings and Blue Wings, teams specialized in flying, with impressive experience in the field. Everything will take place at the airport headquarters, on Calafatului street, kilometer 4.5, starting at 10:00.
At the same time, recreational flights with the aircrafts of the aeroclub will be organized for the public.
The 90-year history of the Aeroclub in Craiova began to be written in the fall of 1933, when the statute and establishment of an association for aeronautical propaganda, tourism and air defence, with the name "Oltenia Aeroclub ", were voted. In time, the activity of the aeroclub became very popular among people, who began to be more and more attracted to flying.
The name of the Craiova aeroclub is a tribute to the flying man George-Valentin Bibescu, one of the best Romanian pilots, a pioneer of both aviation and motoring, as he was the one who founded the Romanian Automobile Club (1904), The Romanian Aviation Club (1909), but also the National Air League (1912).
Currently, the "G.V. Bibescu" Aeroclub offers flight school services for motorized ultralight aircraft, for gliding, for obtaining a skydiving license, as well as recreational flights or tandem parachute jumps. You can find out more about the courses held at the institution by accessing the link below.
So don't miss this opportunity to see and experience something spectacular. No matter how old you are, we're sure you'll find the world of flight fascinating, and here's an opportunity to get to know it up close, right here at home!


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Southwest Georgia Regional Airport (ABY) is a non-hub commercial service airport with approximately 30,000 annual operations and 39 based aircraft. The airport hosts one scheduled airline - Delta Connection Carrier ExpressJet. ExpressJet operates three daily flights to Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport with 50-seat regional jets. United Parcel Service (UPS) also has a large presence on the airfield. There is an air cargo sort facility at ABY that services Southwest Georgia, Southeastern Alabama and the Florida panhandle. UPS serves Albany with Airbus A300-600 equipment.
ABY serves a market area that includes the five-county Albany MSA which in 2000's U.S. Census had a population of 157,833. Albany is known as the Quail Hunting Capital of the World, so private jets from all over come to Southwest Georgia from November to February to take in the excellent hunting. That hunting traffic contributes much to the local economy.
The Airport also hosts thousands of military operations from all over the country throughout the year to keep our military pilots in a state of readiness.
Southwest Georgia Regional Airport is owned by the City of Albany. The Albany-Dougherty County Aviation Commission is charged with the day-to-day operations of the Airport through its designee, the Airport Director.


Heritage Woods of Centralia hosted our annual Balloon Lift-Off Event this summer.
This is the 10th year we have hosted the event, and it is one of our most anticipated events of the year.
We invited residents, their families, and even opened the event to the public, so that everyone could come together and enjoy this amazing spectacle.
The event took place behind Heritage Woods where two full-size balloons inflated and took off from the property.
Before the balloons took off, residents were able to get up close to see the baskets of the balloons and even talk to the pilots and the balloon chase crew.
As the two hot air balloons flew into the sky, residents and visitors cheered and waved while wishing the pilots and their passengers a safe flight.
This event was celebrated by the Centralia community because it helped kick off the weekend for the 30th Annual Centralia Balloon Fest that was held that following weekend.


Reading this makes me wonder what would have happened if there hadn’t been enough brains in the cockpit to cope with it all…
“As luck would have it, there were five experienced pilots — including three captains — aboard the plane. The flight’s captain, Richard de Crespigny, was being given his annual check ride — a test of his piloting skills — by another captain. That man was himself being evaluated by a third captain. There were also first and second officers, part of the normal three-pilot team.
One concentrated on flying the plane, while the others dealt with the computer alarms and made announcements to the giant planeload of passengers, some of whom said they were frantically pointing to flames streaming from the engine. Working flat out, it took 50 minutes for the pilots to prioritize and work through each of the messages — necessary steps to determine the status of the plane.”
I wonder if/when they’ll release those tapes – it’d be an intriguing set of comms.


All flights have been suspended in London’s Luton Airport following the breakout of a “significant” fire in the airport’s Terminal 2 parking lot, the airport said in a statement on Wednesday.
The airport said it would be closed until at least 3 p.m. local time, with passengers advised not to travel to the airport.
“Emergency services remain on the scene following last night’s fire in Terminal Car Park 2,” it said on X/Twitter. The airport said earlier the fire had resulted in “partial structural collapse.”
The airport stressed that its “priority remains supporting the emergency services and the safety of our passengers and staff.”
It advised passengers to contact their airlines for more information about the status of their flights. It said that airport “access remains strictly limited.”
Luton Airport is located in Bedfordshire, about 55 kilometers (34 miles) northwest of London. It is a hub for several low-cost airlines, including easyJet, Wizz Air and Ryanair.
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Matthew McConaughey is front and center in a new poster for Christopher Nolan’s space saga INTERSTELLAR.
Not a whole lot about the film is known, but from what can be surmised from the trailer, it seems that the story will revolve around a group of astronauts dispatched into space to try and solve the problem of a slowly deteriorating Earth, whose increasingly meager resources make finding another habitable planet for humanity an urgent matter. No pressure, right? The newly released poster certainly communicates that bleak atmosphere.
The official plot synopsis from Paramount reads as follows:
A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
INTERSTELLAR also stars Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Jessica Chastain, Wes Bentley, Casey Affleck and David Oyelwo and will take off in theaters on November 7, 2014. You can watch the trailer below.


We partnered with Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry to build an iOS app to promote their Mission to Mars exhibit. Students and their teachers work to replicate the process of launching an actual rover to Mars. They use real science. Real math. And real physics. We did all the UX, Design and Development, but we didn't get to go to Mars. 14Four is for the children!


One of the current sights to open its doorways on the on the waters of Manhattan in New York Metropolis, is an up to date expertise for one of many 20 Concorde jets constructed within the 70s and retired in 2003.
The jet – a report breaking Concorde Alpha Delta G-BOAD – has been (principally) sitting on Pier 86 since 2004, however in December 2019, the museum opened a brand new 20 minute expertise for these eager to stand up shut and private with the enduring plane. And sure, this consists of an opportunity to sit down within the cockpit – one thing few had the chance to do, till now.
And what a cockpit it’s; nothing in need of a time capsule, with Concorde expertise primarily unchanged to the from the time of its first flight (twenty fifth August 1976, for this particular jet – serial no. 100-010 (G-BOAD)), till it was retired (alongside your complete fleet) in 2003.
For these of us who didn’t have baggage of cash in that point – that is doubtless the primary time you’ve ever stepped foot in a single. That was actually the case for yours actually.
Nonetheless to this present day, the companies from Air France and British Airways throughout the Atlantic on 20 Concorde jets, have been the one operational supersonic passenger transport on the earth.
With a crew of 9, this Concorde might fly from New York to London in below 3 hours, hitting supersonic speeds of two,150 kph (1,350 mph) and an altitude of 18,181 m (60,000 ft), which might permit its 100 passengers to see the curvature of the earth. Actually, by hitting these speeds and at that altitude, this actual jet broke the Transatlantic pace report for a Concorde, travelling from New York to London in 2 hours, 52 minutes, and 59 seconds, on February 7, 1996.
Whereas on board, you’ll find out about all this and extra, as you sit the place the 100 passengers sat, and one after the other discover the cockpit of the jet. Not all of the aircraft is accessible, nevertheless, with about half of the passenger space blocked off, to maintain it in pristine situation. And as quick because the aircraft was, you’ll see how small the home windows have been, how restricted the area was and the way tucked in tight these visitors have been.
Evidently, it’s a pity that business Supersonic journey stopped being developed within the 70s, since you’d must think about what the planes would appear like immediately had they continued to develop on the similar charge as common air journey has immediately. I wrote about this a number of years again, asking the query – Did the 747 inadvertently kill the promise of Supersonic Journey?
Tickets for the 20 minute expertise are timed from 11am, working each half-hour, and should be bought separate to museum entry. For normal visitors, this can be a $9 price, and for museum members it’s simply $5.
Normal museum entry to the is feasible as a part of a CityPASS, head HERE for extra particulars. The CityPASS offers you entry to five New York Metropolis locations, saving 44% on admission, and tickets will be time reserved by means of the CityPASS app forward of arrival.
Entry to the Concorde has restricted availability every day, and isn’t included together with your CityPASS entry. Get to the museum early to be sure you don’t miss out on a spot, or prebook earlier than you arrive. Head HERE for extra particulars.
The museum is situated on Pier 86 (forty sixth Avenue and twelfth Avenue), Manhattan. Go to intrepidmuseum.org for extra particulars.
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Katra SMVDU, 13th Oct. 2018. Dr. Ashok K. Sharma, Professor & Head, School of Physics, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University delivered an invited talk at national workshop, titled ‘Imagining the future of the Space Science and its Strategic Importance’ at Central University, Jammu. The objective of the workshop was to create a general awareness in teachers and research scholars in the J&K state about the importance of space sciences. Dr. Sharma motivated the young minds to go for research in space sciences through collaborating with and joining up the ISRO laboratories. The titles of his talks were: Indian navigation satellite system and the role of ionosphere in communication. Also, his mentored MSc students of School of Physics, SMVDU, took part in the poster presentations which were hugely appreciated by the audience during the workshop. Dr. Sanjeev Jain, Vice-Chancellor, congratulated Prof. Ashok K. Sharma, and hoped that the School of Physics, SMVDU would find ways so that it may collaborate with the space science agencies like ISRO in near future.


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We're on the maiden voyage of the first passenger liner to the colonies on Mars. Our hero, a writer, faxes his observations back to earth. He typed them on a manual typewriter.
He takes photos with a colour film, which he brought specially. But he'll have to wait till he gets back to earth to have it developed - they can't do it on Mars.
OK, so it was published in 1951.
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Andreas Lubitz, 28, from the small town of Montabaur in Rhineland-Palatinate, was named during a press conference on Thursday as the co-pilot of Germanwings flight 4U9525, writes Louise Osborne in Berlin.
A first officer, Lubitz had been flying for Germanwings since September 2013 after being trained with the airline’s parent company Lufthansa at its facility in Bremen. He had clocked up a total of 630 hours in the air.
Members of the Luftsportclub Westerwald, a flying club, of which Lubitz had been a member since he was a teenager in Montabaur, said it had been his dream to fly.
“Andreas became a member of the association and wanted his dream of flying to be realised. He began in the gliding school and made it to become a pilot,” read a statement on the club’s website.
Meanwhile, Lubitz was also described by neighbours as being friendly and pursuing his dreams “with vigour”. One told the local newspaper, the Rhein Zeitung that he had kept fit through running, “How often we saw him jogging past our house.”
Kim Willsher, in Paris for the Guardian, has filed a first news reporton the dramatic Marseilles press conference. Here are the opening few paragraphs.
The co-pilot of the Airbus A320 that crashed on Tuesday, killing 150 people, appears to have deliberately flown the plane into a mountain after locking the flight commander out of the cockpit.
During the last eight minutes of the flight, the co-pilot “voluntarily” carried out actions that led to the destruction of the aircraft, Brice Robin, a French public prosecutor, said at a press conference in Marseille.
Robin said the co-pilot could be heard breathing right up until the point of impact, suggesting he had not lost consciousness. However, he failed to respond to increasingly desperate calls from the commander trying to break down the cockpit door, or to air traffic controllers.
The Marseille public prosecutor is giving a press conference on the latest developments in the investigation into Tuesday’s plane crash.
Robin named the co-pilot as 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz and outlined the last moments of the doomed plane in a chilling account of his actions.
“For the first 20 minutes of the flight, the pilots spoke in a normal way, you could say cheerful and courteous,” Robin said. “We heard the flight commander prepare the briefing for landing at Düsseldorf and the response of the co-pilot seemed laconic. Then we heard the commander ask the co-pilot to take the controls.
“We heard at the same time the sound of a seat being pushed back and the sound of a door closing.”
Robin said it was assumed that the flight commander needed to go to “satisfy natural needs” – in other words, use the toilet.


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Conclusion The events of September 11 have had some of their worst economic effects on the airline industry, leading to a dramatic fall-off in passenger demand and substantially higher costs. But even before that day, the industry was facing bad times, with few airlines anticipating profitable performances in This Economic Letter analyzes this issue by summarizing the history of airline deregulation, by illustrating how it has affected the nature of competition in the industry, and by discussing how potential policy changes could affect competition in the future.
To me they are all just marginal costs with wings.
In a hub-and-spoke airline system, most flights connect through a few hub airports. How might a backup at one hub affect travelers all over the country?
A Watershed Event InCongress passed a law allowing airlines to set their own fares and routes, an event that transformed the industry and the passenger experience. Regulation by the federal government had enabled airlines to prosper, but it also kept fares high and prevented airlines from operating as efficiently as possible.
Many thought the Civil Aeronautics Board, which regulated aviation, had outlived its usefulness. Congressional investigators compared fares of regulated airlines flying between states with fares of unregulated airlines flying within states. They found that unregulated airlines charged far lower fares.
Sweeping change was needed, and Congress took action. Cornell University economist Alfred E. Kahn was among the first to view the airline industry strictly as a business.
He believed that breaking up the industry structure would create new airlines, increase competition, and lower fares. President Carter appointed him chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board to lead the nation into airline deregulation. The Airline Deregulation Act of Passed with bipartisan support, the Airline Deregulation Act phased out the Civil Aeronautics Board and immediately lifted restrictions on fares and access to routes.
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The Accident Investigation Bureau has commenced investigation into the cause of the helicopter crash that killed three persons in the Opebi area of Lagos.
The agency’s spokesman, Tunji Oketunbi said the body is soliciting assistance from the public in form of video clips, relevant evidence, or information that can assist with determining the cause of the crash.
The copter, operated by Quorum Aviation from Port Harcourt, crashed about midday. All three occupants died.


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In 1994, a russian airplane crashed into a remote hillside, killing 63 passengers and 12 crew members in it. Investigations revealed they all would have gotten through the harrowing accident if the pilots were familiar enough with a foreign-made plane. And if the co-pilot didn’t let his kids sit at the controls in the first place.
Aeroflot Flight 593 was en route from Moscow to Hong Kong. On board were mostly businessmen from Taiwan and Hong Kong who were traveling back to their country after looking for economic opportunities in Russia.
Also on board were three pilots, Yaroslav Kudrinsky, Igor Piskaryov, and Vladimir Makarov. Kudrinsky is the captain on that plane while Piskaryov was the assigned co-pilot. Makarov, on the other hand, was just traveling with them as a passenger. With three pilots in the cockpit, who would have though a tragic mishandling of the controls may occur?
Accidents can happen any moment even during the most impossible times we can think of. And in this distressing plane incident, the captain didn’t realize that his simple fatherly gesture would cause the lives of the 75 occupants on board.
Reports confirmed that Kudrinsky traveled with his two children, Yana and Eldar. Because it was their first time to fly internationally, daddy allowed them to enter the flight deck, which was of course against the regulations.
But it appears the captain was confident in letting kids touch the controls. The ailerons were on auto-pilot so what could go wrong?
Kudrinsky asked Yana, 16, to take the left front seat and turn the plane. Though it was really the autopilot that’s controlling the aircraft, the girl had an impression of how it feels to maneuver the huge flying vehicle.
Then it was Eldar’s turn. The 12-year-old boy took the pilot’s seat and apparently, he applied much pressure when he turned the wheel. And at that point, the series of unfortunate events happened in the cockpit, which led to their demise
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The Federal Aviation Administration has delayed its plans to cut staff funding for air traffic controllers in the wake of Federal spending cuts known collectively as a "sequester." The staff cuts, now delayed at least until mid-June, would have effectively shuttered control towers at 149 small and regional airports beginning this Sunday.
Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport. 14850 Photo.Officials at Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport, which was on the list of airports due to lose funding, had stressed that the airport was not going to close and that operations would not be impacted significantly. "There are over 5,000 airports in the United States and only 450 have control towers, proposed to be reduced by 149 due to sequestration," airport officials said last month.
Early-morning and late-evening flights into and out of Ithaca were already handled without a staffed control tower. "Without a tower staff, arriving and departing planes have to self-queue." When Ithaca's control tower is closed, area traffic is already handled by staff at the Elmira Corning Regional Airport control tower. "We have years of experience with this system and can say, unequivocally, that safety will not be an issue," said airport manager Robert Nicholas.
"Non-tower operations are pretty easy as long as there isn't much traffic," says David Kornreich, a part-time flight instructor at East Hill Flying Club and a physics professor at Ithaca College. "It's the difference between a stop sign and a stop light, pretty much." Kornreich says flight training will face a bigger impact than commercial flights. "The students will have less experience talking to Air Traffic Control."
"This has been a complex process and we need to get this right," U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said today as the FAA announced it was delaying the cuts. "We will use this additional time to make sure communities and pilots understand the changes at their local airports." The FAA is being forced to cut its budget by 637 million dollars.
Travelers have also been concerned that Federal spending cuts could result in delays in the airport terminal, as well, as fewer TSA screeners at security checkpoints could mean longer lines.


The incident happened near Beinn Lora, close to the village of Benderloch, north of Oban, just after 11:00.
The crash scene was located after UK Coastguard helicopters were scrambled from bases in Prestwick and Inverness.
Both injured people were then airlifted to hospital – one to the Royal Alexandra in Paisley and the other to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said the UK Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre (ARCC) received a call at 11:07, with reports of a light aircraft crash near Ben More, Scotland.
This report was followed by a report from Rescue Co-ordination Centre (RCC) Germany of an aircraft Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) activated at Beinn Lora, Scotland, about 35 miles to the west of the initial report.
Two UK Coastguard helicopters were immediately scrambled by the ARCC and sent to the two locations.
A helicopter based at Inverness was sent to Ben More and one based at Prestwick went to Beinn Lora, where it located the crashed aircraft on a mountain.
The Inverness helicopter arrived on scene 15 minutes later.
Original Source – BBC News.


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It's easy to write this crew off as a ambitious dreamers that will never get off the ground, but they have the expertise and experience to make their manned spaceflight mission a complete success. Within the past few years they created an 4-8 person functional submarine, the UC3Nautilus, which is capable of diving to 500 meters (about half the depth of the Danish military submarines). The real kicker is that it was created on a razor thin budget of approximately $200,000 USD. In line with the explorer/hobbyist agenda, the UC3 has no torpedo tubes. In their place are small observation windows. The construction group isn't all business and no fun either, the UC3 serves as a primary attraction to the Illutron Collaborative Interactive Art Studio. A snapshot of the team's impressive qualifications as engineers, scientists, designers, and artists can be found here.
So does Copenhagen Suborbitals have what it takes to send a man to space? Well they are way past the paper planning stage. In February 2010 they successfully demonstrated a full-size solid fuel rocket called the HEAT 1X, generating 210,000 horsepower.
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The Different Kinds of Airplanes You Need to Know
In case you have been into an airplane, you could be asking yourself if all airplanes look like the one you were using. It is important to learn that there are many different aircrafts hence it’s good to know the one you would love to use. Here is the lead to the different kinds of aircrafts. Getting this information is important because it will be easy for you to make a choice of the aircraft you want and you can also give someone reliable information. To know much about these aircrafts, ensure you continue reading.
There is a single-engine piston airplane. These are the most common types of aircraft found in the aviation industry. They are most loved since they are cheap and easy to operate. people can use single-engine airplanes for their own use or for training purposes. The aircrafts have a capacity for 2-6 people. If you want to use this airplane, you need to use it for shorter distances. You will find only one piston in these airplanes.
About twin-engine piston aircrafts. With these aircrafts, they have two pistons. This explains the reason they can be used for longer distances than the single-engine piston aircrafts. These airplanes also fly at a higher speed than the single-engine piston aircrafts. There is this company that is most loved by the users of this category of aircrafts which is Beechcraft and piper Seneca. The maximum capacity for this airplane is 10 people.
Turboprop aircraft is another type of aircraft. These are both piston-powered and jet powered. They are more loved since they have a good speed and don’t consume a lot of fuel. other than flying individuals to their destinations, the turboprop are also used for good transportation. They have a bigger capacity of up to 50 people.
Another class of airplanes is the regional jets. These airplanes are for linking people from smaller towns to bigger ones. They are cheaper and are a good transportation method for those who want to be linked to major destinations. The occupancy capacity for these airplanes is 50-100 people.
The commercial jetliners. Click here to see how commercial jetliners look like. You can use these airplanes if you are traveling for a longer distance. With these airplanes, you will find narrow-bodied and wide- bodied airplanes. Narrow-body aircrafts are the Boeing 737 and A320 and these ones are used for short or medium distances and can carry 100-240 people. Wide-body jets are like Boeing 777 and airbus A380. These are the kinds of aircrafts you can use for international travels. Other aircrafts you need to know are the business aircrafts, military aircrafts.


Branson and Bezos – Inspirational or Egotistical?
Like many people, human beings in Space fascinates and excites me.
I’ve paid close attention in recent years as SpaceX works on colonising Mars. Yes, we’ve got plenty of big problems to solve here on Earth, but I also think it’s important that we Sapiens set ourselves enormous, inspirational goals.
But something about the recent ‘billionaire space race’ between Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos makes me uncomfortable. Particularly when Bezos said on his return “I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, because you paid for all of this.” No worries, Jeff – you’re welcome.
There might be good news, however … astronauts often report feeling the ‘Overview Effect‘ when they return to Earth. Seeing the reality of our tiny home planet simply hanging in the endless void of space often results in a fundamental shift of awareness. As Dutch astronaut Wubbo Ockels put it: “In space you see you have the only one. The only planet. You have no spare.”
With a bit of luck, both Branson and Bezos might experience something similar, and begin thinking differently about how to spend the rest of their billions …


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Flying, flight, and aviation have long captivated people’s imaginations, inspiring countless books about the wonders of the skies. From memoirs and biographies to novels and historical accounts, there are many books about flying that are worth exploring. Here are 15 of the best books about flying, flight, and aviation.
- The Wright Brothers
- Fate Is the Hunter
- Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
- Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying
- The Aviator’s Wife
- A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
- Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
- Flight: A Novel
- The Spirit of St. Louis
- West with the Night
- The Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon
- The Little Prince
- Wind, Sand and Stars
- The Right Stuff
- The Bishop’s Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright
1. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
This Pulitzer Prize-winning biography chronicles the lives of Orville and Wilbur Wright, the brothers who built and flew the world’s first successful airplane. McCullough’s book provides a detailed look at the Wrights’ lives and the challenges they faced as they worked to achieve their historic achievement.
2. Fate Is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann
Ernest K. Gann was a commercial airline pilot before becoming a writer, and this memoir recounts his experiences flying in the early days of commercial aviation. Gann shares his thoughts on flying, the people he met along the way, and the many dangers he faced while piloting planes.
3. Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker
Mark Vanhoenacker is a British Airways pilot, and his book is a fascinating exploration of the experience of flying. Vanhoenacker takes readers through the various stages of a flight, offering insights into the technological and emotional aspects of piloting an aircraft.
4. Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying by Wolfgang Langewiesche
Wolfgang Langewiesche was a pilot and flight instructor who wrote this classic book about the art of flying. Langewiesche’s book provides a detailed explanation of the principles of flight, and it’s still considered one of the best books for pilots to read today.
5. The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin
This historical fiction novel is based on the life of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the wife of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh. The book explores Anne’s life and her experiences as the wife of one of the most famous pilots in history.
6. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II by Adam Makos
This nonfiction book tells the story of a remarkable encounter between a German fighter pilot and an American bomber crew during World War II. The two sides engaged in a midair battle, but the German pilot ultimately chose not to shoot down the Americans, instead escorting them to safety.
7. Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O’Brien
This nonfiction book tells the story of five women who broke barriers in aviation in the early 20th century. The book explores the challenges these women faced and the impact they had on the aviation industry.
8. Flight: A Novel by Sherman Alexie
This novel tells the story of a Native American pilot who struggles with addiction and trauma. The book explores themes of identity, family, and the power of forgiveness.
9. The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh
This memoir recounts the experiences of Charles Lindbergh during his famous transatlantic flight in 1927. Lindbergh’s book offers a firsthand account of one of the most important moments in aviation history.
10. West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Beryl Markham was a pioneering aviator who became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. Her memoir recounts her experiences flying in Africa and her many adventures as a pilot.
11. The Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon by Victoria Vantoch
This non fiction book explores the history of airline stewardesses and the role they played in shaping the image of the airline industry in the mid-20th century.
12. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
This beloved children’s book tells the story of a pilot who encounters a young prince from another planet. The book is a whimsical and thought-provoking exploration of love, friendship, and the meaning of life.
13. Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
This memoir by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry recounts his experiences as a pilot flying mail planes across the Sahara and the Andes. The book is a lyrical exploration of the wonders of flight and the beauty of the natural world.
14. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
This nonfiction book tells the story of the test pilots who became the first astronauts in the early days of the U.S. space program. Wolfe’s book is a thrilling and insightful exploration of the men who risked their lives to push the boundaries of human exploration.
15. The Bishop’s Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Tom D. Crouch
This biography of the Wright brothers is a detailed exploration of their lives and the work they did to invent the airplane. Crouch provides a comprehensive look at the brothers’ experiences, from their childhood in Ohio to their pioneering flights at Kitty Hawk.
In conclusion, there are many books about flying, flight, and aviation that offer insights into the wonders and challenges of piloting planes. Whether you’re a pilot, a history buff, or just someone who loves a good story, these 15 books are sure to inspire and captivate you. From memoirs and biographies to novels and historical accounts, these books provide a fascinating glimpse into the world of aviation and the people who have shaped it.You may also like:
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In Mary Robinette Kowal's Hugo Award-winning alternate history novel, the first in her Lady Astronaut series, we meet Elma York, a pilot-turned-NASA "computer." After a meteor strike causes worldwide climate change, efforts to colonize the moon and Mars are accelerate. Elma and other highly-qualified women, though, are all but shut out of astronaut training until they make change happen.
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I was keen for the Wales and the Battle of Britain historical exhibition to come to Parliament as I was extremely impressed when I first visited the exhibition in Rhyl Town Hall.
The exhibition was created by the RAF’s Air Historical Branch (Dr Lynsey Shaw), together with Air Commodore Williams, to commemorate Wales’ contribution to victory in the Battle of Britain.
It was originally planned to be launched in 2020 but had to be postponed many times due to the pandemic. The Exhibition was taken on a tour around Wales with the aim to visit all 22 Local Authority Areas and it has been seen by over 15,000 people.
It detailed a previously untold story, highlighting the contribution of RAF Aircrew from Wales, together with the Welsh people and communities, in one of the most important periods of our history.
The exhibition at Parliament was open for two hours and MPs and Lords came to view it during this time, including Baroness Annabel Goldie, Minister of State for Defence; Secretary of State for Wales, David TC Davies; and MPs from across Wales.
At the event I spoke to the Air Commodore about a key former pilot, Harold Bird-Wilson from Prestatyn, who joined the RAF in 1937, fought in the Battle of Britain and went on to give distinguished service during the remainder of the Second World War, being awarded a number of awards for gallantry, including a Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar, together with a Distinguished Service Order.
After the war, he had a long and very successful RAF career, achieving Air Vice-Marshal rank and being awarded the Air Force Cross and Bar and a CBE. He retired from the RAF in 1974 and died in 2000. His medals are on display at the RAF Museum in London.
I am delighted that the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and Harold's contribution from our community to the Royal Air Force has been commemorated in such a significant way.


2016 saw the inaugural Torbay Airshow and it's back as part of this now annual event. The 2016 show was a huge success with over 100,000 people enjoying the free air shows across two days across the Bay and centred at Paignton. The air show was presented with a silver medal in the 2016 English Riviera and South Devon Tourism Awards. The Military RAF aircraft line-up hopefully once again includes the world’s premier Aerobatic Team The Red Arrows, the Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4, King Air B200 and the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight which includes the Hawker Hurricane, Avro Lancaster and a Spitfire. Civilian aircraft to enjoy should include The Blades, Gyro air display (which is bonkers), Strikemaster and even an evening performance by the Twister Aerobatic team with fireworks set off from the air!


Reichsmarschall G ring told Hitler that it would take less than a month for his much-vaunted Luftwaffe to conquer the RAF and pave the way for the German invasion of Great Britain. His prediction was to prove disastrously wrong, but for four long months his pilots and aircrew fought for their lives in the skies above the UK. From their bases in continental Europe, the Luftwaffe s fighter pilots escorted the great bomber fleets that sought to destroy the RAF s airfields and installations, and tackled the Spitfires and Hurricanes deployed to defend Britain s towns and cities. Whilst much has been written on the titanic struggle for supremacy fought throughout the summer of 1940 and of the men and machines of both sides, little attention has been paid to what the pilots wore and carried with them in the air. All the objects that a Luftwaffe fighter pilot was issued with during the Battle of Britain are explored in this book in high-definition colour photographs, showing everything from the differing uniforms, to headgear, personal weapons, gloves, goggles, parachute packs and the essential life jacket. Each item is fully described and its purpose and use explained.
Fly with the Messerschmitt Bf 109s and Bf 110s across the Channel and see what the Luftwaffe aircrew wore as they took on Fighter Command in what was justly called the Battle of Britain.


Air Canada is the flag carrier and largest airline of Canada. The airline, founded in 1936, provides scheduled and charter air transport for passengers and cargo to 178 destinations worldwide.
Air Canada is Canada's largest full-service airline and the largest provider of scheduled passenger services in the Canadian market, the Canada-U.S. transborder market and in the international market to and from Canada. Together with its Air Canada Express regional partners, Air Canada serves close to 35 million passengers annually and provides direct passenger service to more than 175 destinations on five continents. Air Canada is a founding member of Star Alliance, the world's most comprehensive air transportation network.
Air India is the flag carrier airline of India owned by Air India Limited (AIL), a Government of India enterprise. It is the third largest airline in India (after IndiGo and Jet Airways) in domestic market share, and operates a fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft serving various domestic and international airports. It is head-quartered at the Indian Airlines House in New Delhi.
Air India has two major domestic hubs at Indira Gandhi International Airport and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, and secondary hubs at Chennai International Airport and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata. The airline formerly operated a hub at Frankfurt Airport which was terminated on account of high costs. However, another international hub is being planned at the Dubai International Airport.
British Airways is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom and is the largest airline based on fleet size, international flights and international destinations. When measured by passengers carried it is second-largest, behind easyJet.
A British Airways Board was established by the United Kingdom government in 1972 to manage the two nationalised airline corporations, British Overseas Airways Corporation and British European Airways, and two smaller, regional airlines, Cambrian Airways, from Cardiff, and Northeast Airlines, from Newcastle upon Tyne. On 31 March 1974, all four companies were merged to form British Airways. After almost 13 years as a state company, British Airways was privatised in February 1987 as part of a wider privatisation plan by the Conservative government. The carrier soon expanded with the acquisition of British Caledonian in 1987, followed by Dan-Air in 1992 and British Midland International in 2012.
Emirates is an airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The airline is a subsidiary of The Emirates Group, which is wholly owned by the government of Dubai's Investment Corporation of Dubai.
The airline ranks among the top ten carriers worldwide in terms of passenger kilometres, and has become the largest airline in the Middle East in terms of revenue, fleet size, and passengers carried as of 2007. In 2012 the airline was the fourth-largest airline in the world in terms of international passengers carried and scheduled passenger-kilometres flown. The airline was the third-largest in terms of scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown. The company also operates four of the world's longest non-stop commercial flights from Dubai to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Houston.
Etihad Airways is the flag carrier airline of the United Arab Emirates. Established by royal decree in July 2003 and based in Abu Dhabi, Etihad commenced operations in November 2003. The name derives from the Arabic word for "union".
The airline operates more than 1,000 flights per week to 96 passenger and cargo destinations in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas, with a fleet of 101 Airbus and Boeing aircraft. In 2012, Etihad carried 10.3 million passengers, a 23% increase from the previous year, delivering revenues of US$ 4.8 billion and net profits of US$ 42 million. Etihad Airways is the fourth largest airline in the Middle East and it is the second largest airline in the United Arab Emirates, after the Dubai-based airline Emirates.
Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V., best known by its initials KLM, is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands. KLM's headquarters is in Amstelveen near its hub at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
The merger of KLM with Air France in May 2004 formed the Air France-KLM Group, which is incorporated under French law with headquarters at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport. Both Air France and KLM continue to fly under their distinct brand names as subsidiaries of the group. Air France and KLM are part of the SkyTeam alliance, the second largest in the world behind only the Star Alliance.
Deutsche Lufthansa AG, commonly known as Lufthansa, is the flag carrier of Germany and also the largest airline in Europe, both in terms of overall passengers carried and fleet size when combined with its subsidiaries.
Besides the actual airline named Lufthansa, Deutsche Lufthansa AG is also the parent company for several other airlines and further aviation-related branches, among the most well-known are Swiss International Air Lines and Lufthansa Technik. With over 620 aircraft, it has one of the largest passenger airline fleets in the world when combined with its subsidiaries. In 2012, the entire Lufthansa Group carried over 103 million passengers.
Pakistan International Airlines formally known as PIA or Pakistan International, is the national flag carrier and a state-owned enterprise of the Government of Pakistan.
PIA has had a long history of milestones in aviation, such as being the first Asian airline to operate a jet aircraft and Boeing 737 aircraft. It today remains by far Pakistan's largest airline with a fleet of 26 airplanes and at least 9 more on order. PIA was also the first airline to operate the 777-200LR model. PIA is currently going through a procedure of privatisation to shift management from government to private sector. It employed nearly 19,000 people as of July 2014
Qatar Airways Company Q.C.S.C., operating as Qatar Airways, is the state-owned flag carrier of Qatar.
network, linking over 125 international destinations across Africa, Central Asia, Europe, Far East, South Asia, Middle East, North America, South America and Oceania from its base in Doha, using a fleet of more than 100 aircraft.
Swiss International Air Lines AG is the flag carrier airline of Switzerland operating scheduled services in Europe and to North America, South America, Africa and Asia. Its main hub is Zurich Airport.
It was formed from a merger between Balair and Ad Astra Aero (To the Stars), in 1931. For most of its 71 years, Swissair was one of the major international airlines and known as the "Flying Bank" due to the financial stability of the airline, causing it to be regarded as a Swiss national symbol and icon. The airline thrived into the 1980s, when it was one of the "big five" Western European airlines. It was headquartered at Zurich Airport and in Kloten.
United Airlines, Inc. is an American major airline headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. United is a wholly owned subsidiary of United Continental Holdings following a $3 billion merger in 2010.
United operates out of nine airline hubs in the continental United States, Guam, and Japan. George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston is United's largest passenger carrying hub handling 16.6 million passengers annually with an average of 45,413 passengers daily, while Chicago-O'Hare is its largest hub in terms of daily departures. The company employs over 88,500 people while maintaining its headquarters in Chicago's Willis Tower (formerly known as Sears Tower). Through the airline's parent company, United Continental Holdings, it is publicly traded under NYSE: UAL with a market capitalization of over $10.5 billion as of October, 2013


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THE DAYTON AIR SHOW: A Photographic Celebration
Photographs by: Ty Greenlees
Text by: Timothy R. Gaffney
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The Dayton Air Show isn't simply entertainment. It's a celebration of the region's aviation heritage and the aerospace work that goes on today.
This new keepsake edition book will enable fans to revisit more than 20 years of Ohio's biggest annual aviation event.
A full-color collection of more than 200 photographs, The Dayton Air Show: A Photographic Celebration gives an eagle-eye look at the men and women who have made aviation what it is today.
Photographer Ty Greenlees' stunning photos capture all the up-close action — including air show superstars like aerobatic pilot Sean D. Tucker in his famous Oracle Challenger II biplane.
Along with great pictures, aviation journalist Tim Gaffney gives you the behind-the-scenes scoop as he traces Dayton air show heritage from modern times to the past.
Take off with the magic of America's greatest air show in this one-of-a-kind book. You won't believe your eyes.
•All-but-forgotten National Aircraft Shows of the 1950s
•Military festivals predating WWII
•The Wright Company's exhibition team in 1910
•U.S. Navy Blue Angels
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Wow! Ash Class had a great time on Space Day. The children went inside a mobile planetarium and saw stars and planets. We investigated a rocket crash landing and found lots of evidence to make us think it belonged to aliens! We also experimented to make our own rockets blast off! See below for photos...


A quick thought: If Malaysia flight #370 did not crash, but was intentionally overtaken – with or without the pilots\’ involvement (with evidence strongly suggesting – but not conclusive – that they were),
and the intent is to use that plane for an attack of some kind,
and the pilots, being knowledgeable about these things, realize that the world will be looking for the plane,
and every day the area to look will narrow, thus making it more likely it will be found…
…then they know the plane has to be used for that purpose very quickly – probably within the next week or two.
Again, if the plane crashed this is all academic.
But if it did not, please join me in rooting for my being wrong about this.


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