On July 15, 1942, a United States Army/Air Force Squadron
departed American soil on Operation Bolero, a World War II aid
mission to support US allies in the war torn European theatre. Due
to insurmountable weather-related problems en route, the entire
squadron of six P-38s and two B-17 bombers was forced to abort its
mission and make an emergency landing on a remote ice cap in
Greenland.
A research group in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
at Stanford University. Research in the ARL focuses on improving
robotic performance through the application of feedback control,
integrated sensing systems, and task-level autonomy.
A communications satellite (sometimes abbreviated to comsat) is
an artificial satellite stationed in space for the purposes of
telecommunications. Modern communications satellites use
geostationary orbits, Molniya orbits or low polar Earth orbits.
Source: The Aircraft Owners and Pilots
Association, in response to the Air Transport Association's
computer-animated television ad -- featuring a fleet of talking
aircraft -- that claims "that hot shot there is clogging up the
skies," as a business jet jumps to the front of the line of
airliners waiting to depart. The Alliance for Aviation Across
America is fighting back with an ad of its own, that soundly
refutes the ATA's "distortions and half-truths."
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