It took me 35 flying hours to get from Wichita, KS to Anchorage, Alaska in Chipper. That included detours for weather, and prevailing headwinds along most of the flight. I still did the whole thing over a period of six days, and unless I had a really fast plane, nothing much would ha...
I have to give kudos to Airbus for having the guts to do this using five test A350-900 XWB airplanes, its newest wide-body airliner. I know the stunt was well calculated and the pilots—all of them ex-military aviators—knew exactly what they were doing,
History records that Lindbergh found a quiet sand dune near Cape Canaveral, Florida, from which to privately watch Apollo 8 launch for the moon. Four decades from now, there will still be that kid in the school yard who stops in their tracks to watch an airplane fly overhead. Q&A: Captai...
Balsa woodwas a special thing to me as a kid. To me, it represented the essence of model airplanes and model rockets. At the time - the 1960s and 70s - plastic and foam as model components were considered a sign of cheapness, low quality, amateurishness. It was like having "Made ...
【6】A.close B.far C.next D.near 【7】A.on fire B.in fire C.at fire D.out fire 免费查看参考答案及解析 题目: [阅读理解] Often people use laptops(手提电脑) on trains and airplanes, in airports and hotels.These laptops connect people to their workplace.In the United States today, ...
Back in the day, Navy aviators in their green flightsuits would drive over from Point Mugu Naval Air Station, eight miles away, to chow down at the Waypoint, elbow-to-elbow with Los Angeles law enforcement helicopter crews. They’re all still there, as are civilian birdmen like me who ...
We were taught early in school that the lift generated in the airplanes' wings is due to Bernoulli's Principle. Last week as I was contemplating sustained inverted flight of jet fighters it occurs to me that this should not be possible according to Bernoulli's lift as the lift ...
There is a difference between premeditated distribution and publication of unpatched technical software vulnerabilities to organised criminals and me pointing out Boeing have an inflight diagnostic suite to send data to engineering teams on the ground. ...
As an aside, neither of us has the faintest idea why the Vietnamese prefer to eat hot noodle soup for breakfast in a climate where the mercury can hit 100F before noon (not to mention the near-constant 100% humidity).  Admittedly, it is incredibly delicious and quite filling...
Construction began near the Baker's Farm area of Genesee Valley Park, where the maiden flight was to eventually take place. Cooley hustled financing from wealthy local businessmen; however, during final construction, he left town to seek additional support and never returned. His creation was im...