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Drink Guinness, Win a Space Flight.
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:04:17 -0400
Belly up to the space bar boys. The dark beer masters are serving up a wild contest that will let two lucky people ride for free aboard the suborbital Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo spacecraft...
World's Only Flying Pitcairn PA-18 Arrives in Oshkosh.
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:11:55 -0400
Around this time last year, Jack and Kate Tiffany, of Spring Hill, Ohio, Jim Hammond, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, and the crew of Leading Edge Restorations were anticipating the flight of the recently restored Pitcairn PA-18 Autogiro to Oshkosh for AirVenture 2008. However, the rotor blades were significantly damaged during testing about a week prior to Oshkosh and the flight had to be called off...
Marines Fly First MV-22 Osprey MEDEVAC.
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:11:28 -0400
The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit made history June 25 when it used two MV-22B Ospreys assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 (Reinforced) to conduct a ship-to-shore emergency medical evacuation of a Sailor from the USS Bataan...
Assembling of First JF-17 Fighter Aircraft Begins.
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:11:14 -0400
KAMRA: The final assembling of Pakistan's first JF-17 Thunder multi-role fighter aircraft began on Tuesday. The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, inaugurated the work at the Aircraft Manufacturing Factory (AMF) of the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex...
Solar-Powered Airplane Rolls Out.
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:10:49 -0400
A follow on to the Solar Impulse electric airplane that rolled out in Switzerland in June may circle the world in 2012. The development model, unveiled by Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, will fly at the end of 2009 and gather data for the final model. It can fly both night and day using batteries and solar power...
NASA Moon Shot Gets Rocket Blast, More Money.
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:21:09 -0400
NASA continued to develop its future moon landing program this week by getting a positive test on the rocket it might use to land humans on the moon and increasing the budget for the spacecraft it will use to get them there...

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