The use of biofuels in aviation is just beginning, and it has a long way to go to cut even the current levels of pollution, let alone that from projected rises in air travel. But it’s a start. Couple it with sensible replacements for short haul flights, and it may be worthwhile.
A quick guide to why, ten years on, the missing airliner still hasn’t been found.
A date for the diary. It’s going to be at Barton Aerodrome (or City Airport, as it likes to be known), which is only a few miles down the road from me.
At least, that’s what it looks like from the front. From behind, it looks like a hotdog in a bun.
The first Mongrels story- GOD Hunt- started with a wingsuit dive from a blimp. As written, it was a vertical airship, which is an interesting variation on the traditional airship design. An Airlander inspired wing would have been even better.
When an early British sea plane, the S.80, made a three-month expedition south down the Nile in 1914, the mechanic was unnamed in the newspaper reports. But the adventure’s success depended on his expertise.
A bunch of remote controlled plane enthusiasts calling themselves Team Black Sheep shot some great aerial footage of New York. These are the sorts of views we mere mortals would have to steal a helicopter in GTA IV
Can I have one of these to fly around the Lakes when I’m at home some time? Wasdale comes to mind first, but there are a load of other neat valleys I could take it through.
via Jalopnik and Brooklyn Heights Blog
Interested in more than just who starred in which film? Want to know what they were driving as well? imcdb.org could be just what you’re looking for.
There’s also the Internet Movie Planes Database and the Internet Games Car Database.
[Fiona Banner], known for her huge text descriptions of war films, has made what appears to be traditional kit models of all the world’s 122 fighter planes, after a considerable amount of research to discover exactly which planes are in service, not something many countries like to boast about.
Some models are commercially available, others do not exist in kit form, so she had to create them from scratch, and as the more anoraky small visitors will undoubtedly clock immediately, she has chosen not to give any of them insignia or any markings of nationality.
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Heritage Aviation models has a picture story of one customer’s build of a 1:24th scale Mosquito.
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After a 14 year campaign and rebuild, there is once again a flying Vulcan bomber.
There are more pictures on this forum thread.
via Alan Bell
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The Saunders Roe SR-A1 jet flying boat. One of the ideas floated in the Second World War to provide air support for the Allies in the Pacific.
Dedicated to all things Spitfire. Complete with modelling section.
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