The Grahame-White Factory at Hendon is a virtual shrine to early aviation. Even setting aside the prominent rôle its founder, Claude Grahame-White, had in the establishment of aviation in the U.K., and the significance of the early factory buildings themselves (Grade II* Listed), the Royal Air Force Museum, London, has chosen to display some superb early aircraft (plus some replicas) in this wonderful setting.
Fly To Learn and Build A Plane have joined forces to use STEM education
software to build virtual airplanes. The program will culminate in an Aviation
Challenge where students compete using their digital planes against one another
in regional and national competitions.
AOPA unveiled another step in its
Flight Training Student Retention
Initiative
, designed to stem the drop-out rate among student pilots and to
expand the general aviation pilot population.
As a result, researchers have been focused on assessing the impact of aviation
emissions on climate, and in a recent
Yale University
study, they found that removing sulfur from jet fuel cools the atmosphere.
Sartoons saved for six decades --- the "Hall of Fame of the Air" (HFA). Every Sunday in the late 1930's, newspapers ran this cartoon feature, depicting the feats of legendary aces and early aviators. Next to each pilot, an airplane associated with him was shown."