Fans Get Ready To Enjoy 2008 Culdrose Air Day
The Culdrose Royal Naval Air Station will be hosting its annual Culdrose Air Day on July 30 later year. The 2008 line-up for the show promises to be most entertaining with more than 80 individual aircraft having already confirmed their participation in the event.
Aircraft Carbon Emissions Cut With Paint
A lot of time and energy has been spent trying to find ways to reduce the carbon emissions of aircraft in recent times. New ways of powering aircraft or reducing drag have been intensively studied while a lot of energy has been put into creating lighter aircraft materials. However, it seems that Scottish inventors have now found a solution in the most unlikely place – paint!
The History of Parachutes
Something that is now standard on most aircraft was once just a mere figment of the imagination. Parachutes have been around in one form or another for about 1000 years already, with the first nation known to use something remotely similar to them being the Chinese.
AirVenture 2008 Casts Spotlight on Homebuilt Aircraft
Every year the Experimental Aircraft Association holds its AirVenture celebration, but lately fans have been worried that that the event is slipping further and further away from its homebuilt roots. Indeed, it has been giving more and more floor space to plane manufacturers like Cessna and Cirrus over the years, but this year the EAA is attempting to ensure that homebuilt aircraft gets the spotlight.
Grumman’s Refueling System Nearly Finished Test Flight Schedule
Northrop Grumman recently recapped the company’s development schedule with regards to the development of the KC-45A that it has been developing for the US Air Force. The company has been hard at work testing the advanced fly-by-wire aerial refueling boom that is to be used in the aircraft and this aspect of the new KC-45A completed its 100th test flight last month.
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