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Top of the Earth - Dick Rutan - 0 views

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    by Dick Rutan - "Hey Dick - how would you like to go to the North Pole?" Wow. What a welcome invitation! One place I had never been was the top of the world.
Lyn Freeman

Air Traffic Control & Math - 0 views

One really amazing project that uses air traffic control challenges to teach math (on the fly, so to speak) is called Smart Skies, developed by NASA. It's a great program and available at no charg...

ATC math NASA

started by Lyn Freeman on 29 Nov 10 no follow-up yet
valerie taylor

'Flight of Passage': Dos and don'ts - 0 views

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    Rinker Buck's Flight of Passage. It's an engrossing story of two brothers who flew a refurbished Piper Cub from New Jersey to California in the summer of 1964.
valerie taylor

Aircraft Engine Failure IMC - 0 views

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    NVAA - Engine failure experience in IMC. This is the communications recording between the pilot of a Lancair Legacy N913MP and a Seattle Center controller. The Lancair experienced engine failure while on a flight from Redmond, OR to Boise, ID. Icing, engine failure complicates things. This is how it should be done! Two people VERY composed during the whole emergency. Enjoy the excitement!
valerie taylor

Franklin Airshow Video 2010 - 0 views

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    Franklin Airshow Video 2010 Kyle Franklin, and his wife Amanda, performing at airshows across the country. "Pirated Skies" Wingwalking, Comedy, and more. Check out more information at www.franklinairshow.com
valerie taylor

Picture of the Week: AVweb's Flying Photography Showcase - 0 views

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    Each week, we go through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of reader-submitted photos and pick the very best to share with you on Thursday mornings.
valerie taylor

Space Shuttle: A Remarkable Flying Machine (1981) - 0 views

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    This film documents the first historic flight of a space shuttle, the U.S. spacecraft Columbia, which launched on April 12, 1981. The footage highlights liftoff, the onboard activities of astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, as well as the landing in Rogers Dry Lake bed in California. -
valerie taylor

Smithsonian Education - How Things Fly - 0 views

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    These lessons are adapted from Smithsonian in Your Classroom.
valerie taylor

Team America Rocketry Challenge: Northside College Prep School Rocket Team « ... - 0 views

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    Northside College Prep High School of Chicago, IL, competed in the 2010 Team America Rocketry Challenge and plainly had a ball.
valerie taylor

The Besler's steam airplanes in 1933 « Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Fl... - 0 views

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    Steam aircraft are aircraft that are propelled by steam engines. They were unusual devices because of the difficulty in producing a powerplant with a high enough power to weight ratio to be practical.
valerie taylor

Bioastronautics Research « Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club - 0 views

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    scenes of F-104 seat ejection; drop tests from C-130 and ejection from F-106; effects of weightlessness on cats and pigeons in a C-131; test subjects in water tank, on centrifuge, in heat chamber and on complex coordinator. Also shows scenes of vertical deceleration tower, incline impact test facility, vertical accelerator, equilibrium chair and vibration platform.
valerie taylor

Today In Aviation History - December 27 « Calgary Recreational and Ultralight... - 0 views

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    Today In Aviation History - December 27 In 1773… George Cayley is born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. Pioneer of early aviation regarded by many as the father of flight. His glider takes his coachman on the first manned flight in 1853."
valerie taylor

Be a Sport Pilot | Learn To Fly Light Sport Aircraft LSA | Sport Plane | Trikes Weight-... - 0 views

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    Paul Hamilton's interesting and informative site on Sport Pilot, Powered Parachute Pilot and Trike Pilot, as well as the blog "Ask the Expert."
valerie taylor

To celebrate, pilots introduced 1,647 girls & women to flying in 29 countries/4 contine... - 0 views

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    Official website of the Centennial of Licensed Women Pilots. Great international network to share your enthusiasm and outreach efforts to promote more women in aviation. Interesting history of women in aviation. 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the first American female licensed pilot, Harriet Quimby, on August 1, 1911.
valerie taylor

Fly Girls of WWII - 0 views

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    Special links and information that honor the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII.
valerie taylor

Girls Can Fly - 0 views

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    Partnership of Phoenix Ninety-Nines, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and Arizona Cactus Pine Girl Scout Council to create Aviation Discovery Camp. A good example of collaborative efforts to encourage and mentor young girls in aviation.
valerie taylor

Smithsonian Education - How Things Fly - 0 views

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    "In this lesson, your students will observe photographs of selected twentieth-century aircraft at the National Air and Space Museum and note differences in the design of aircraft wings, fuselages, and engines."
valerie taylor

Flyvie | Flyvie Lite Recorder - 1 views

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    "Flyvie, manufacturer of flight recorders and debriefing systems, has the developed an iPhone app that records your flight, including video, audio, GPS, compass and accelerometer. Download flights into our Flyvie Lite Viewer and play back the flight recording over a Google Earth background. Use it for your flight training, flight refreshers, solo flights or for sharing your cross country experiences."
valerie taylor

iPad Apps | MyGoFlight - 0 views

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    Pilots find that the iPad is a great tool for aviation - light weight, easy to use, easy to bring computing device. apps into categories - pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight. Within each category, we defined the capabilities that an app in that category might have.
valerie taylor

Aviation HS to Break Ground on New Campus at Museum of Flight; Student Alumni to Fly In... - 0 views

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    "Aviation High School, part of Highline Public Schools but open to students across the region, has been in temporary locations since it opened in 2004. The new facility is being built in collaboration with The Museum of Flight. In addition, Aviation High School was the first college preparatory aviation-themed high school in the nation and is dedicated to becoming the premier school of choice for science, technology, engineering and math learning in the region."
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