Stapleford, Day 4, in which there is bad news for the laptop. And also, airplanes.

... show over a field in Duffield, Derbyshire, for the amusement and delight of some Air India people being entertained there. Brian, being an aircraft engine guy, heard about it, and Carol, John, and Kathleen, being aviation geeks in general, decided we had to go see it. So Carol, Kathryn, John, Kathleen, and I packed a picnic dinner and went to see the Spitfire. It was actually very cool. We were ...

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Кгхм

Bloomberg Top -- Rebecca Shaw, 24, copilot of the Pinnacle Airlines Corp. Colgan plane that crashed, earned $23,900 a year, the carrier has said. Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt questioned June 15 whether such pay attracts “the best and the brightest.”

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the one airplane thing I've mastered

...'s time for an entry about flying. For those who are new here, 1-2 times a week I post an entry about my experiences as the worst student pilot ever, so other students, pilots, flight instructors, aviation professionals and by now probably FAA officials can shake their heads in amazement at how crazy I can make this. I'm currently at about 11 hours, with no chance of ever soloing. If you read my ...

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A-330-203 (F-GZCP) Air France AF447 lost over Atlantic

Flight AF 447 left Rio at 1900 local time (2200 GMT) on Sunday Airbus A330-200 carrying 216 passengers and at least 12 crew Contact lost at 0600 GMT Missed scheduled landing at 1110 local time (0910 GMT) in Paris

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When Our Allies Were Our Enemies

This was shot at the start of the 1973 Day of Atonement War; the MiGs were being launched against the Israeli forces that were occupying the Sinai side of the Suez Canal. One of those MiGs is now in the collection of the National Museum of the Air Force in Dayton OH. It was presented to the USAF in the Eighties as a symbol of the new friendship and cooperation between Egypt and the United ...

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zanzibar islands

Zanzibar is an archipelago made up of Zanzibar Islands , and several islets. It is located in the Indian Ocean , about 25 miles from the Tanzanian coast, and 6° south of the equator. Zanzibar Island (locally knownas Unguja) is 60 miles long and 20 miles wide, occupying a total area of approximately 650 square miles. It is characterised by beautiful sandy beaches ...

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Today's enlightening thought...

From the US Federal Aviation Administration: "Surveys consistently show that more than 80 percent of pilots rate their skills as above average. The logical conclusion is that ... to be". Where I can stand up and make a claim of ranking with my aviating peers in the General Aviation community, is that I believe that I have an above average attitude towards flying and flying safety in particular. ...

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Armstrong's Code

\ In the early 1990s , a wealthy businesswoman, Judith DePaul , and her company IBP Aerospace negotiated an agreement with Tupolev and NASA, (also Rockwell and later Boeing). They offered a Tu-144 as a testbed for its High Speed Commercial Research program, intended to design a second-generation supersonic jetliner called the High Speed Civil Transport. In 1995, Tu-144D [reg 77114] ...

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Advice For Citizens: Don't Panic!

... me assure you: whilst it is unfortunately true that Mr David Copperfield can render the Statue Of Liberty momentarily invisible to the naked eye, he has received proper warning from the Aviation Authority that these 'disappearances' are not to be allowed to become permanent. Lady Liberty will reappear after a short interval. Should you notice a magician related failure to reflect ambient light, ...

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update

... coming back to me—a story that has been imprinted on my memory for many, many years. It isn't about farming, animals, nuclear engineering, or pigeons. It is as you might have guessed—about aviation. I call it "The Story of the Lightbulb." The Story of the Lightbulb, or Losing Sight of What Matters Most On a dark December night 36 years ago, a Lockheed 1011 jumbo jet crashed into the Florida ...

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