Solar Impulse Across America 2013

Solar Impulse — a revolutionary innovative project leveraging technological prowess and the spirit of adventure by means of an airplane — has completed the historic cro
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Valentina Grizodubova: The Soviet Amelia Earhart

By Karen Bush Gibson, Gizmodo.com While American women were restricted to administrative flying missions during wartime, more than a thousand Russian women flew combat missions. Va
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The Future Of Flight: A Congestion-Killing Aircraft

By Davin Coburn, Popular Science magazine Meet the 100-passenger plane that’ll keep your flight running on time. Aircraft design is often overlooked in discussions of the FAA
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Solar Impulse takes off on last flight of U.S. journey

By Agence France-Presse The experimental Solar Impulse aircraft departed Washington early Saturday en route to New York on the final leg of its US tour aimed at showcasing the prom
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Save Voodoo 006

The Jet Aircraft Museum is excited to announce that it has been award the opportunity to save, transport and restore a CF-101 Voodoo, one of the Royal Canadian Air Force’s mo
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Dare to Dream: An SR-71 Pilot’s Tale

This story gives a glimpse into the life of former SR-71 pilot and the world speed record holder, Al Joersz. Joersz and Skunk Works® program director Steve Justice reminisce how a
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Save the Willow Run Bomber Plant

Save a Piece of History We have a great opportunity to obtain an exciting new home for the Yankee Air Museum and, at the same time, to preserve a significant portion of the histori
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North American XP-82 Twin Mustang Restoration

Tom Reilly met Walter and Margaret Soplata in the early 90s when they asked him to do some IRS appraisal work for them. He received a wonderful guided tour throughout their whole f
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WWII Dornier Do-17 Bomber raised from the English Channel

By Nick Higham, BBC News A German World War II bomber has been raised from the bottom of the English Channel. The Dornier Do-17 aircraft was shot down off the Kent coast more than
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Unmanned Drone Flies Through Hoops, Steered by Thoughts

It was only a matter of time before it became possible to control a drone with mere thoughts. In a gymnasium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, an AR.Drone quad-rotor helicopter made by Fr
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