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"The United States Navy airships U.S.S. Akron (ZRS-4) and U.S.S. Macon (ZRS-5) were designed for long-range scouting in support of fleet operations. Often referred to as flying aircraft carriers, each ship carried F9C-2 Curtiss Sparrowhawk biplanes which could be launched and recovered in flight, greatly extending the range over which the Akron and Macon could scout the open ocean for enemy vessels."

"The F-4 Phantom II was an awesome jet for its time, and still impresses 50 years after its introduction! Hard to imagine, but the jet first entered service in 1960 with the U.S. Navy. Its claim to fame include being used by both the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds as their demonstration aircraft (albeit for just a few years due to the high costs associated with running it), and the top dog fighter-bomber in the Vietnam war. "

many examples of professional pilots landing big aircraft in strong crosswinds

"One of the many ways to get yourself into the sky is to build your own aircraft. This might sounds insane at first: when someone says "I'm going to build my own airplane," it might sound a lot like saying "I'm going to build my own nuclear submarine." But the truth is, homebuilts can be as simple or as complicated as the builder wants, and people of all different backgrounds have built their own airplanes."

"The Lockheed R6V Constitution was a large, propeller-driven, double-decker transport aircraft developed in the 1940s by Lockheed as a long-range, high capacity transport and airliner for the U.S. Navy and Pan American Airways. "

extensive list of links to vendors and builders for Homebuilt and Experimental Aircraft - lists sites, kits, engines, and more

links to RV builder's personal websites, builder's groups, and OEM companies supplying Van's Aircraft.

The PD-1 is designed to perform as an aircraft first and a vehicle second. By incorporating a movable and auxiliary drive pod, the plane maintains its original center of gravity. During the transition, the wings rotate back along the side of the fuselage, the tail hinges and vehicle controls are quickly snapped into place.

The suborbital commercial tourist spaceship VSS (Virgin Spaceship) Enterprise-also known as SpaceShipTwo-owned by Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company completed its first unpowered glide test Oct. 10. A video of the flight is on Virgin Galactic's website. Space tourism pioneers to speak at Summit The spacecraft was released from its launch aircraft, WhiteKnightTwo also known as Eve, at 45,000 feet and spent 11 minutes testing systems (including the release mechanism), making a practice approach at a high altitude, and landing at Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

Piper built almost 20,000 Cubs between 1938 and 1947. The Cub turned out to be the perfect training aircraft.  The airplane was economical to operate, easy to fly, and easy to maintain.  Spare parts were plentiful and the A-65 engine was the most common light airplane engine of the era.

Curtiss JN-4D "Jenny."  went into production in 1915.  It became the most important Army training aircraft of World War I.  More importantly, the Jenny was the airplane that gave aviation a beginning in America.

The technique is called high dynamic range and involves blending up to nine different exposures of the subject. This wide range of exposures allows the final image to come closer to the extreme range between light and dark that the human eye can see.

Hugues Duval in a Cri Cri aircraft powered by two 35 hp Electravia electric motors - Aerospace giant EADS building the little 4-motor electric Cri Cri and then right on their heels was this one pictured here that uses two 35 hp electric motors from Electravia. Both actually had their first flights back in September.

On December 23, 1986, "Voyager" completed the first nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world. A unique aircraft constructed almost entirely of lightweight graphite-honeycomb composite materials and laden with fuel, "Voyager" lifted off from Edwards Air Force Base, California, at 8:01 a.m. on December 14, 1986. It returned nine days later at 8:05 a.m.

Paperplane Flying Circus Grade Level: 4 - 6 Objective: To investigate the streamlined shape of aircraft.

the Navy successfully got an F/A-18E Super Hornet airborne using its new-model catapult, the Electromagnetic Aviation Launch System, or EMALS. not only is the new launch system supposed to be more efficient than steam, it's better capable to launch small drones as well as big planes, giving aircraft carriers a broader range of options.

Featured in the James Bond flick "Octopussy", the Bede BD-5 is the world's smallest jet aircraft.

FAA's Aircraft Maintenance Human Factors Web Portal offers document access and services, including most of the documents dating back to the 1988 start of FAA's maintenance human factors R&D program. New documents include videos, PowerPoint presentations, and other media.

Classic Grumman movie about carrier-based aircraft