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Aero-TV at SnF22: Curtiss SB2C Helldiver—A Noble Turkey Among Warbirds

Cry Homely, and Loose the Dogs of War!

War is the crucible in which a nation’s will and its resources are amalgamated by the heat of its fury. Nothing motivates a people to innovation and advancement more so than war, and World War II motivated American ingenuity and industry like no conflict before or since. The Second World War was entered into with canvas biplanes and bolt-action rifles, and exited with jets and nuclear bombs. The race for newer and better weapons saw belligerents on both sides of the ideological divide develop and field machines that even now—eighty-years on—remain enshrined in memory, i

Airborne 07.05.22: Elektra Trainer, Top Gun $1B, AEA Pilot's Guide

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Elektra Solar has successfully test-flown the Elektra Trainer, the company’s two-seat, electric, ultralight aircraft. With test-pilot Uwe Nortmann at the controls, the Elektra Trainer prototype departed Memmingen International Airport in southern Germany on 29 June. The aircraft rose, silently and sans-emissions, after an impressively brief, one-hundred-meter takeoff roll, and climbed at a brisk, eight-meters per second and remained aloft for twenty minutes. At altitude, the Elektra Trainer operated in a low-cruise mode that drew only about ten-kilowatts of

Airborne 07.05.22: Elektra Trainer, Top Gun $1B, AEA Pilot's Guide

Also: Virgin Orbit Scores, B-29 Doc Adds Milwaukee, Mackay Trophy, Special Mission Longitude

Elektra Solar has successfully test-flown the Elektra Trainer, the company’s two-seat, electric, ultralight aircraft. With test-pilot Uwe Nortmann at the controls, the Elektra Trainer prototype departed Memmingen International Airport in southern Germany on 29 June. The aircraft rose, silently and sans-emissions, after an impressively brief, one-hundred-meter takeoff roll, and climbed at a brisk, eight-meters per second and remained aloft for twenty minutes. At altitude, the Elektra Trainer operated in a low-cruise mode that drew only about ten-kilowatts of powe

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (07.13.22)

Aero Linx: The International Association of Professional Gyroplane Training We are an Association of people who fly, build or regulate Gyroplanes, who have a dream of a single Gyroplane pilot licence accepted in every country around the world, and a community of Gyroplane Pilots who are free from accidents.

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (07.13.22)

“Absolutely thrilling! The equipment is working perfectly, and nature is full of surprising beauty. Congratulations and thanks to our worldwide teams that made it possible.” Source: John Mather, Webb senior project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, reacting to the first images received from the new NASA Webb space telescope.