ANN Daily Touch-And-Go: 05.29.09 (ANN's
Short-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 05.29.09 (ANN's Long-Form
Daily News Program)
ANN Special Feature: SAFE Chairman Doug Stewart -
05.29.09 (ANN Special Report, with Doug Stewart,
recently-elected chairman of the Society of Aviation and Flight
Educators)
Touch And Go
A landing practice wherein an aircraft does not make a full stop
after a landing, but proceeds immediately to another take-off. This
is a frequent practice when learning takeoffs and landings,
provided the runway length is long enough to do so safely.
Aero-Linx: NCAR Research
Applications Laboratory
As the principal laboratory responsible for aviation weather
projects for the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR),
The Research Applications Laboratory (RAL), composed of the former
Research Applications Program and the Developmental TestBed Center,
has been the recognized leader in aviation weather research and
technology since 1980.
“As Virgin Galactic gets ever closer to the start
of commercial operations, we are reaching and passing many
important and historic milestones. The Virgin MotherShip (VMS) Eve,
the first of our amazing, all carbon composite, high altitude
WhiteKnightTwo launch vehicles, is flying superbly. SpaceShipTwo,
which will air launch from Eve, is largely constructed and awaiting
the start of its own test flight program later this
year.”
Source: Sir Richard Branson, following the
successful rocket engine firings for the propulsion system for
SpaceShipTwo.
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