Throwback Thursday: Lindbergh's visit in 1927
A cartoon beneath the headline showed a flag atop the City Hall clock tower downtown with "Louisville" scratched out and "Lindbergh" replacing it. A box outlined the "Lindy Parade Route," going from the Gen. Castleman statue in the Lindbergh ...
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January 28, 2015
Could a solar plane's journey make clean energy "sexy"? Solar Impulse Flight Path
"If you look the aviation dimension, we are between the Wright brothers and Charles Lindbergh, the time of pioneers," said Borschberg, who is piloting the plane with Piccard. "It will take another 25, They allow the plane to fly around the clock ...
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March 24, 2015
Disney Enters the River Cruise Business
The Mobile Charger and Accessory Valet has two USB ports for charging devices and also works as an alarm clock that will hopefully be as easy to set as it is to disable. The “MCAV,” as the Surf Air, the private aviation company, will add service ...
www.cntraveler.com
April 14, 2015
AF top leaders hold event for Sexual Assault Awareness, Prevention Month
Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James reads messages created by Air Staff members who lined the Arnold Corridor in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention, in the Pentagon, April 20, 2015. The Air Force's senior leaders hosted the ...
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April 22, 2015
#ThrowbackThursday: This week in history
1932 – The body of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh's baby is found, more than two months after he was kidnapped from his family's Hopewell, New Jersey, mansion. 1963 – Bob Dylan walks out on The Ed Sullivan Show. This is generally regarded as he ...
First flight of the final year: Smokejumpers' last DC-3 gets ready to work
Douglas Aircraft Co. started building the tail-dragging DC-3s in 1935. TWA director Charles Lindbergh reportedly made the requirement that it should always be able to fly with just one of its two engines. That's a feature smokejumpers loved too. The DC ...
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February 23, 2015
Do This: Long Island Events April 9 - 15
Cradle of Aviation Museum, Charles Lindbergh Blvd., Garden City. cradleofaviation.org $49 online, $59 at door. Seeing Rael perform live is like turning the clock back to a time when the early stirrings of music genius were first making themselves ...
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April 9, 2015
Story Highlights The "Lindy Parade Route" ran from the Cherokee Triangle to downtown for a banquet at the Brown Hotel Lindbergh thanked A. H. Bowman, "father of aviation in Louisville," for helping obtain an airport. After Lindbergh's 22-hour visit, thousands said goodbye as he departed Bowman Field for Indianapolis Within three months after Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight in history May 21, 1927, the aviator landed at... "Entire City Ready to Hail Lindbergh," read the front page headline in The Louisville Times August 8, 1927, the day Lindbergh arrived. A cartoon beneath the headline showed a flag atop the City Hall clock tower downtown with "Louisville" scratched out and "Lindbergh" replacing it. A box outlined the "Lindy Parade Route," going from the Gen. Courier-Journal photos by Charles Betz show Lindbergh peering out the cockpit window at Bowman Field and posing with Mayor Joseph T. O'Neal and other state and local officials, while on a tour of American cities sponsored by the Guggenheim... 9 read: "Lindbergh Greeted by 100,000 Here," calling him a "hero.
Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard aren't looking to revolutionize aviation with their solar-powered aircraft. Rather, the Swiss duo told CBS News Tuesday they want to raise the profile of a suite of technologies on their Solar Impulse 2 aircraft - many commercially available today - that are critical to helping them attempt a historic, around-the-world... "I want to change the perception that people have about clean technologies," he said. "We want to show people that we can achieve the impossible with clean technology and with renewable energy, make it sexy, make it fashionable, make people enthusiastic about it. ". Borschberg was less dismissive of the aviation industry. "If you look the aviation dimension, we are between the Wright brothers and Charles Lindbergh, the time of pioneers," said Borschberg, who is piloting the plane with Piccard. Still, Borschberg was hopeful their success could motivate the industry to overhaul the technology of airplanes, which has changed little since the 1950s. "If you look at the 777, it's a bit more silent and uses less fuel. Solar Impulse Flight Path by Solar Impulse on.
PHOTO DETAILS . Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James reads messages created by Air Staff members who lined the Arnold Corridor in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention, in the Pentagon, April 20, 2015. The Air Force's... Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James talks to members of the Air Staff who lined the Arnold Corridor in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention, in the Pentagon, April 20, 2015. The Air Force's senior leaders hosted the... Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash). Air Force senior leadership locks arms with members of the Air Staff who lined the Arnold Corridor in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention, in the Pentagon, April 20, 2015. The senior leaders hosted the short hallway event to... Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash). Gina Grosso, the director of the Air Force Sexual Assault and Response, and read messages created by Air Staff members who lined the Arnold Corridor in recognition of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, in the Pentagon, April 20, 2015. The Air... Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash). Air Force senior leadership locks arms together with members of the Air Staff who lined the Arnold Corridor in recognition of Sexual Assault.
How pilots suffer to get in the history books
You have to work in it around the clock ... Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927, had to do so in a plane without forward-facing windows. To see ahead, he either had to use a periscope or turn the aircraft slightly ...
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June 29, 2015
SpaceX rocket destroyed on way to space station, cargo lost
The private company is in charge of the accident investigation, with oversight from the Federal Aviation Administration ... feel the heat on their faces back in October, student Rachel Lindbergh said. This time, they were in Florida.
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June 28, 2015
Could a solar plane's journey make clean energy "sexy"?
Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard aren't looking to revolutionize aviation with ... by 17,248 ultra efficient solar cells built into the wings, fuselage and horizontal tailplane. They allow the plane to fly around the clock. As a result, the team ...
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March 24, 2015
Pilot and engineer Charles Lindbergh is born, February 4, 1902
Before his historic flight, Charles Lindbergh ... with plans on studying mechanical engineering. However, Lindbergh dropped out in the middle of his sophomore year to pursue a new interest, aviation. He then headed to Lincoln, Nebraska in March 1922 ...
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February 4, 2015
Throwback Thursday: Lindbergh's visit in 1927
Throwback Thursday: Lindbergh's visit in 1927 Throwback Thursday photos show Charles Lindbergh at Bowman Field, during a visit to Louisville in August 1927 following his historic trans-Atlantic flight in May of that year. Check out this story on courier ...
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January 28, 2015
Andrilenas: Taken by aviation
My husband and I moved to Norwood ... series “Aviation century” that includes information on significant individuals in aviation and aircraft, as well as aviation history. Page 2 of 2 - There are also plenty of books about Charles Lindbergh, Amelia ...
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January 17, 2015
Smithsonian offers close look at Spirit of St. Louis plane
WASHINGTON (AP) — Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, one of the most treasured aircraft at the National Air and Space Museum, has been lowered to the floor for its first conservation treatment in 22 years. For decades, the single-engine aircraft ...
www.denverpost.com
January 15, 2015
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