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Oldest Known Flying Car Up For Auction.
It doesn’t look like a car, and it doesn’t look like it would fly, but what is believed to be the world’s oldest “roadable aircraft” is for sale. The antique was built in 1934 by Frank Skroback and at the very minimum provides proof that people have long dreamed of cars that can be flown like airplanes.
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Digging Deeper on Homebuilt Safety.
Extracting accurate statistics for amateur-built accidents can be an exhausting exercise in numbers, especially since the FAA and NTSB often use different statistics to report the homebuilt aircraft fleet size and the accidents that occur each year.
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Boeing 787 Begins First Flight-Test Operations Outside of Washington.
VICTORVILLE, Calif. (PRNewswire-FirstCall) The second Boeing (NYSE: (BA)) 787 Dreamliner, ZA002, landed at 10:53 a.m. local time today in Victorville, Calif. This marks the beginning of the first flight-test operations outside of Washington state for the program.
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Boeing Receives Phase 1 of Contract for US Air Force QF-16 Drone.
ST. LOUIS: Boeing [NYSE: (BA)] has been awarded a U.S. Air Force contract worth approximately $69.7 million for the initial engineering, manufacturing and development of QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Targets to replace the QF-4 fleet. Under the terms of the remainder of the contract, expected to be awarded in coming years, up to 126 QF-16 drones will deliver beginning in 2014.
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NASA space shuttle gearing up for big phase out
While politicians banter about NASA’s budget and the future of manned space flight, the space agency is prepping the critical technology its remaining four space shuttle missions will deliver to complete the International Space Station. www.networkworld.com/news/2010/030910-layer8-nasa-space-shuttle-retirement.html?hpg1=bn [...]
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Obama to Nominate Retired Army General to Head TSA.
The White House will nominate Robert A. Harding, a retired major general with 33 years of Army experience, as head of the Transportation Security Administration, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced March 8.
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Flying a B–24.
In 1957 Lloyd Nolen, a former World War II Army Air Corps flight instructor, and four friends purchased a war-surplus P–51 Mustang, Red Nose. They paid $1,500, which included whatever fuel was in the tanks. A few years later the group decided to obtain other World War II aircraft but was dismayed to learn that although America had produced almost 300,000 airplanes for the war effort, most were gone—stripped of armament and instruments, and then either abandoned or demolished. Only a few remained airworthy. What started as a hobby evolved into an urgent mission to preserve history.
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Air Force Medics Deploy to Support Chilean Medical Efforts.
LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS): An Air Force Expeditionary Medical Support team composed of more than 80 Airmen deployed to Chile March 8 from here to aid local medics in their response to victims of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake Feb. 27 in Chile.
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Northrop Grumman Expands Composites Manufacturing Training for Major Turkish F-35 Supplier.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.: Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) is adding momentum to Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc.'s (TAI) readiness to build complete center fuselages for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft by teaching its engineers how to build the complex composite structures used in the jet.
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Skydiver Survives Plummeting 3,000 Feet.
A skydiver miraculously survived after plummeting 3,000 feet to the ground when her parachute became tangled, The Sun reported Tuesday. Lareece Butler escaped with bruises, a broken leg and concussion after slamming into the ground in South Africa. The mum-of-one leaped from a plane with a parachute which opened automatically but suffered problems within seconds of exiting the aircraft.
