The FINA-CAF AIRSHO 2008, billed as the "Best Warbird Show in
America," will be held Friday, September 19th through Sunday the
21st, in celebration of American military aviation. The show will
include the Commemorative Air Force's extensive collection of
flying Warbirds, modern military and daring aerobatic flights.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded a $437 million
contract Tuesday to Raytheon, to support the agency in training air
traffic controllers.
This site proves that there is someone out there collecting just
about anything. 2213 safety cards from 660 airlines, so if you ever
find yourself on a Harlequin Air DC-10 and need an extra safety
card, you'll know where to look.
A single triangular-shaped panel in the canopy of a parachute.
The canopy is made by sewing the gores together to form a circular
canopy. Shroud lines are sewed along the seams that join the
gores.
"Hubble is where it is... We've got to go where the
work is."
Source: Captain Scott Altman, commander of the
upcoming STS-125 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
Astronauts preparing for the upcoming mission to Hubble -- the last
such flight ever to the orbital observatory -- have a daunting
tasks ahead of them. Not only will they be performing some of the
most complex tasks ever in the history of the shuttle program...
but they'll be doing so in a decidedly unwelcoming
neighborhood.
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