Barrington Irving flew around the world in a plane he built himself four years ago, becoming the first black pilot and youngest person to ever make the trip. Now he’s a teacher. As a young man at Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Barrington Irving knew he had potential. He imagined a football scholarship to a [...]
Kissimmee, Florida, April 1, 2012- Stallion 51 Adds L-39 Turbojet to Aircraft Fleet For Unusual Attitude Training (UAT) Stallion 51 has expanded their flight operational syllabus to include an introduction to unusual attitude training utilizing their specialized L-39 Turbojet. It is an educational and exhilarating flying experience at the controls of this dual-cockpit, dual-control jet [...]
WASHINGTON, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – NASA will host a 3-day NASA Social for 25 of its social media followers Aug. 3-5 at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. The NASA Social is scheduled to culminate in the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory’s Curiosity rover at Mars’ Gale crater. The landing is anticipated at approximately 1:31 a.m. EDT Aug. 6. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The [...]
A Swiss pilot flew a solar plane across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain into Moroccan airspace Tuesday on the world’s first intercontinental flight in a plane powered by the sun. Bertrand Piccard, a 54-year-old psychiatrist and balloonist, took off before dawn from Madrid in the Solar Impulse, an aircraft as big as an Airbus [...]
Great visual of the Shuttle Enterprise being transported to the Intrepid Museum on a Barge via Hudson River.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule parachuted to a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean today, ending the first-ever commercial mission to the International Space Station. The 19-foot-long (6-meter-long), gumdrop-shaped Dragon made history last week as the first U.S. craft to reach the orbital station since [...]
A quick “trip report” from the pilot of the 747 that flew the shuttle back to Florida after the Hubble repair flight.A humorous and interesting inside look at what it’s like to fly two aircraft at once . . . Well, it’s been 48 hours since I landed the 747 with the shuttle Atlantis on [...]
GEICO SKYTYPERS POST MESSAGES IN THE SKIES OVER LONG ISLAND Performance team features custom messages, precision flying in World War II-vintage planes Farmingdale, NY (May 22, 2012) The GEICO Skytypers are scheduled to perform Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-27 at the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach in New York. The team is excited to perform this weekend in their hometown. [...]
