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Like most airline passengers, you probably have serious doubts about those pre-flight announcements asking you to turn off your cell phones, blackberries, iPods and anything else electronic.
The announcements are flat-out ignored by many frequent fliers, who are sceptical that so-called "personal electronic devices" pose any safety threat to airplane. Some passengers openly rebel, like New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, who cursed out one flight attendant who demanded he turn off his cell phone.
But a confidential industry study obtained by ABC News indicates there really could be serious safety issues related to cell phones and other PEDs. The report ...
Year 2011, Latvian capital did hold the aerobatic flying competition of the highest level Riga FAI Elite Aerobatic Formula.
Nine pilots, who represent the world aerobatic flying elite, were invited to participate in the competition. The competition approved by The World Air Sports Federation (FAI) is patronized by the Riga City Council and organized by Jurgis Kairys (www.aerobaticformula.com).
“Only the pilots, who were seasoned in aerobatics battles, can participate in the competition of such high level. We invite professionals, who managed to take the highest places in world and national championships, who have the highest ranking, and who ...
The association, which announced an initial membership of 82, aims to be the focal point for developing and encouraging safe practices as well as promoting the industry to those involved in staging airshows, including display pilots, organisers, and authorities such as the Civil Aviation Authority and the Military Aviation Authority.
The British Air Display Association was formed in April 2011 following a number of successful informal meetings by organisers, pilots and others associated with air displays.
Held at the headquarters of the Royal International Air Tattoo in Fairford, the inaugural meeting saw the election of a committee to run the ...
Canadian private pilot Mike Biden has published a book of photographs taken from the air. "I decided to do this because I can't describe in words to people what I've seen, and I feel it's so selfish flying around and burning up gas and seeing this beautiful terrain of ours,” said Biden. "North Okanagan Above" features 80 pages of dramatic aerial photographs.
Self-taught, Biden developed a passion for photography many years ago and his film and digital images have graced the pages of major publications including Canadian Geographic.
However, taking pictures from the cockpit of the single-engine ...
The Kansas Aviation Museum is working on the final stages of an exhibit focusing on the Cessna Aircraft Co. and its long history in Wichita. The exhibit is a way to preserve and present information on founder Clyde Cessna and the company bearing his name, museum officials said. “Our mission is to portray and present Kansas aviation history, and Wichita is a huge part of that,” said Lon Smith, Kansas Aviation Museum director.
Over time, it plans to focus on each of the major manufacturers that emerged in Wichita after the collapse of the stock market in 1929, Smith said ...
After launching the possibility to book flights on Facebooks a few months ago, Delta Airlines has now enhanced their Facebook application. In parallel Malaysian Airlines became the second airline offering the possibility to book flights by using Facebook. The Malaysian Airlines debut makes even more use of the features of social networking.
The big question at the moment is of course what are the other global players going to do? Will they follow or wait and see what happens? “I think they are bold steps in the right direction,” says Shashank Nigam, CEO of Singapore-based Simplifying but “most airlines are ...
Anyone can request a display by the Red Arrows. The Team does not choose where and when they are to display themselves. Display allocation is controlled by the Royal Air Force Events Team. That is written at Royal Air Force web page www.raf.mod.uk.
The Royal Air Force Events Team receive more than 300 requests for displays by the Red Arrows each year, but only about 80 can be fitted into the team's summer programme.
The Team complete many flypasts each summer as they transit from display to display. The Red Arrows’ display season generally begins in ...
How would you like to "hang ten" half a mile above the ground? A few glider pilots have figured out a way to ride on the clouds moving over the Australian countryside, going 35 miles per hour withno power whatsoever.
These clouds are 600 miles wide, and a glider can surf them just like a wave on the ocean. Here's how to go surfing, halfa mile above the ground.
"Morning Glories" are clouds that appear in September and October. They only manifest on a peninsula that starts at a good, thick 350 miles wide and is whittled down to ...
The first major U.S. airshow took place at Dominguez Field, just south of Los Angeles, from January 10-20, 1910. The key participants included Glenn Curtiss (the American hero who had won the prestigious Gordon Bennett Cup race at Reims), Charles Hamilton (a future American daredevil aviator), Lincoln Beachey (who was still flying dirigibles at that time, but who would become America's greatest early exhibition pilot), and Louis Paulhan (a Frenchman who had started working in a military balloon factory and eventually taught himself to fly).
Paulhan dominated the Dominguez meet. First, he set a new flight endurance record ...
For the first time in over twenty years, an entirely new Russian fighter aircraft did take to the skies in front of the public at the MAKS-2011 air show, where the Sukhoi T-50 prototype combat aircraft is shown.
The fact that Russia did showcase its fifth-generation fighter for the first time is a testament to the survival of a meaningful military aerospace industry, after two decades of huge spending cuts. Russian aerospace has had to survive on what it could earn overseas, primarily in the burgeoning Asian market, particularly China and India.
Russia sold over 450 Su-27/30 and up ...
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