From Off the Ground to Out of this World: The Beginnings of NASA

Long before Neil Armstrong made one giant leap for mankind (or, you know, didn’t, if that’s your belief), NASA’s work was a lot closer to home. In fact, it had nothing to do with aerospace at all. At least, not technically. The NASA we know and love today grew out of a federal agency founded [...]

By |July 17th, 2017|General Aviation|Comments Off on From Off the Ground to Out of this World: The Beginnings of NASA

Smoky the War Dog–Hero of the Air Force and National Sensation

Smoky: the Little Dog that Could Wynne and Smoky (William A. Wynne via National Geographic) Corporal Bill Wynne first met Smoky in the beginning of 1944 when he was stationed with the U.S. Army Air Corps in Nadzab, New Guinea. She was a small thing—a little Yorkshire Terrier weighing only 4 pounds and standing [...]

By |October 10th, 2016|Aviation History, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Smoky the War Dog–Hero of the Air Force and National Sensation

The Air Force Wants Aircraft With Lasers

A Sophisticated Heat Beam While the notion of lasers and particle beam weapons would have once been limited to the realms of science fiction, the truth is that ever since the laser was invented in 1960, it’s been leaching out of the Star Trek universe into our very real, very tangible world (and no, it’s [...]

By |May 9th, 2016|Aviation News, Uncategorized|Comments Off on The Air Force Wants Aircraft With Lasers

How to Become a Professional Pilot

You might have heard that there’s a professional pilot shortage in the aviation industry. You also might have heard there is no shortage. Huh? There’s a bit of ambiguity on the subject, and even the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) confesses that there is “mixed evidence regarding the extent of a shortage of airline pilots,” [...]

By |April 20th, 2016|General Aviation|Comments Off on How to Become a Professional Pilot