The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The often undignified travels of Chairman Mao Zedong's personal aircraft are to continue after it was put up for sale to make way for more shopping centre parking spaces.
Jeannette's Jottings (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Brooklands in Surrey, much restored, is now the home of a motor and aviation museum which is open to the public. Brooklands is a legendary place in the annuls of motor racing history. It was the very first motor racing circuit built anywhere in the world. It was created by racing enthusiast Hugh Locke King on his own land and its most prominent features were the two sections of banking which were 30...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Sunday September 14 2008We packed up and left Martinrsquos River fairly early on our way to Baddeck on Cape Breton Island. Our first stop was in the Halifax area to see the Northwest Arm of the Halifax harbor. According to legend that is where our great great great great grandfather Heinrich Strum was ice fishing when a blizzard blew in and he froze to death in January of 1783.We made
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
"This airmail anniversary flight of historic biplanes is a compelling display of pilot skills that too often seem forgotten in an era of autopilots, GPS and daily flights high above the weather," said Josh Stoff, curator of the Cradle of Aviation museum, which along with the American Airpower Museum chronicles Long Island's rich aviation history.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Getting a message from New York to San Francisco these days is as easy as a click of a mouse. But nearly a century ago, sending a missive across the country was an ordeal that often placed mail carriers in mortal danger in experimental flying machines.
Wired Science (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Some things need little explanation. Exhibit A: jetpacks. Behold the uniquely human insanity of a man flying with a jet strapped to his back. Voluntarily. In this Wired video, we watch Eric Scott, a jetpack pilot, flying around San Jose,...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
As our rental car needed to be picked up at the airport we decided to tour the the Aviation museum today. It it huge The kids crashed every aircraft imaginable on the flight simulators and we checked out the inside of the international space station as well as replicas of the Wright brother planes. Across the street we got to go onto the concord as well as Airforce 1 from the kennedy era. It was
Tokyo City (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, Fla. - Ed Ellis steps across the National Naval Aviation Museum into the aircraft that was Pacific Fleet commander Adm. Chester ...
CogentPassion by Timmy G (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Greetings from the middle of I-70 in Kansas, approaching Salina, KS. We're about 1,500 miles in, with another 400 miles to go. So far we've managed to: -see 3 baseball games -see 1 fantastic aviation museum -reconnect with 2 old friends and many new ones -hang out with 2 different furry animals -had 2 tremendously good, BBQ meals (at the legendary Arthur Bryant's in Kansas City , and Pappy's, in St....
Tokyo City (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, Fla. (AP) - Ed Ellis steps across the National Naval Aviation Museum into the aircraft that was Pacific Fleet commander Admiral ...
UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Emirates airline will be welcoming more than 25 million visitors to the Heathrow in London with their latest branding effort on an approach roundabout to the airport. The Dubai based international airline of the UAE, has unveiled a new landmark for L
www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhua) — There are more than a dozen museums on science and technology in Beijing, among them are the Chinese Science and Technology Museum, Geological Museum of China, Beijing Museum of Natural History, and China Aviation Museum Source: news.xinhuanet.com S Korea’s first rocket launch might be put off - Xinhua News [...]
www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
ARGONNE , Ill., July 22 /PRNewswire/ — The IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, will soon have the data analytics and Source: news.moneycentral.msn.com Introduction to Beijing’s science-technology museums - Xinhua News AgencyBEIJING, July 22 (Xinhua) — There are [...]
Prophecy Fellowship Forums (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
The Tiger Moth lands at the National Model Aviation Museum in Muncie, Indiana. The Tigermoth aircraft I built and started on it's many year flight has finally made it to the National Model Aviation Museum in Muncie, Indiana at it's final resting place. She only gets handled with white gloves now....
Brier Dudley's blog (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
A fun conversation with Paul Allen last week led to today's Q&A piece, keyed to Friday's opening of his aviation museum in Everett. A tidbit: Q: Are you going to mark Bill's retirement by bringing him here to play with your planes? A: I've talked to him about it. He wants to come up at some point, but he's a very busy man right now.
