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Engineered Sports - TryEngineering - Lesson focuses on how the principles of aerospace engineering have impacted golf ball design, along with equipment used in other sports. Students analyze the use of dimples on golf balls, and work as a team of engineers to determine whether adding dimples to airplanes would increase fuel efficiency for the airline industry.

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.

Challenge Air builds self-esteem and confidence of children and youth with specials needs, through the experience of flight. Since 1993, Challenge Air has enriched the lives of children and youth with special needs through its unique aviation programs. Challenge Air's mission reflects the life-changing impact the flight experience has on children, families, donors, sponsors and communities as a whole."

Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann is chief pilot, director of Boeing Flight Training, and responsible for the company's operation in 20 campuses globally. She was Boeing's first female test pilot, the first woman to captain a Boeing 747-400, and the first woman to captain a Boeing 777.

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The FAA Academy provides technical and managerial training and development for our workforce and the aviation community. Since courses have different admissions criteria, prospective participants are admitted on a course-by-course basis. Certain courses may not be open to the general public, but many courses are available to other government agencies, industry, and international civil aviation authorities.

College Credit for FAA Academy, CMEL, and Security & Hazmat Training Courses - evaluated and recommended college credit for over 500 FAA courses.

NASA and Univision Communications Inc. have launched an on-air and online initiative to help engage Hispanic students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, education. View Spanish-language educational video segments featuring Hispanic employees from NASA and check out the online resources for educators. The website also includes information on educational opportunities for students.

Shuttle Tile: Space Shuttle thermal protective tiles are being offered only to eligible schools, universities, and colleges on a first-come, first-serve, one per institution, basis while the supply lasts. NASA is looking for ways to preserve this great history and inspire the next generation of space explorers, scientists and engineers. On Dec. 1, 2010, your school or university can sign up and request a space shuttle thermal protective tile. Remember, the tiles are available on a first-come, first-served, one-per-institution basis. Educators have an opportunity to share some technology and a piece of history with their students.

Live Webcast: Saturn Question and Answer Session With Students Cassini scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California will answer questions about Saturn from students who entered the Cassini Scientist for a Day essay contest. This live event will air on the "NASAJPL" channel on Ustream ( http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2) on Dec. 7, 2010, at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST). This one-hour program will be archived for later viewing.

Free Webcast -- The Air We Breathe The Aerospace Education Services Project, or AESP, is presenting a free webcast on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010, at 10 a.m. EST. Join Aerospace Education Specialist Lester Morales during this hour-long webcast as he features NASA's education resource book "The Air We Breathe." This book is designed to help students enrich their science vocabulary, better understand Earth's atmosphere and practice the scientific process. The book is a great vocabulary builder for English language learners.

2011 NASA Academy The NASA Academies offer a ten-week summer experience for college students with emphasis on immersive and integrated multi-disciplinary exposure and training. Activities include laboratory research, a group project, lectures, meetings with experts and administrators, visits to NASA centers and space-related industries, and technical presentations. Students learn how NASA and its centers operate, gain experience in world-class laboratories, and participate in leadership development and team-building activities.

PC Pilot - The Complete Guide to Computer Aviation by Steve Smith - RESOURCES Where to Find It"

Lyn Freeman talks about the history of Build A Plane

Build A Plane's Sportsman is flying high. Lyn Freeman, president of Build A Plane, discusses the Sportsman built by high school students in Glasair's Two Weeks to Taxi program.

The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the world's air sports federation, was founded in 1905.It is a non-governmental and non-profit making international organisation with the basic aim of furthering aeronautical and astronautical activities worldwide. Ever growing, FAI is now an organisation of some 100 member countries.

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.

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.

An Obsession With Nav Data - How Capt. Jepp Transformed the Airways Elrey Borge Jeppesen, aka Capt. Jepp, the father of air navigation. Jeppesen - as in Jepp chart and Jepp plate - was the first to develop en route aviation navigation charts and approach and departure procedures, and he developed much of the basic symbology found in aviation charts around the world today.