Before we could attempt our high altitude hot air balloon flight Lev David and I had to visit some grown ups that would frighten us…. Well me certainly. I was very pleased that, the Levster had managed to blag business class seats on BA/Commair and sitting at 31,000’ on the way up eating breakfast it [...]

Relief is in sight for harried travelers who hate the hassles of commercial airline flights. Several companies are gearing up to provide inexpensive personal jet flights, or “air taxi” services. The arrival of “very light jets,” or “mircrojets,” is expected to revolutionize the aviation industry by making air charter affordable for the average business or [...]

Some new materials, types of plastics seem to be stronger than steel by quite a bit. Since they are made of polymer plastic blends it will be possible to add in some material memory manufacturing in the process. This would allow the rotor blades made out of this new plastic material to change shape. These [...]

Everyone has heard the story of the boy who cried wolf. In Search and Rescue, we have a very similar situation involving ELTs (Emergency Locator Transmitters). The ELT is a wonderful device designed to provide a timely response to a critical, potentially life-threatening, situation. However, most ELT activations are false alarms, whereas most actual emergencies [...]

The secret to combating jet lag, and arriving at your destination with little or no jet lag, lies in sound preparation well in advance of your date of travel. This, however, is only the foundation of your “anti jet lag” plan and all of your sound preparatory work will be wasted if you don’t also [...]

Almost 60 years ago, the sound barrier was thought impossible to pass. Yet soon after the X-1’s success, programs were already in the works to take us beyond Mach 1 and into supersonic flight (Mach 1- Mach 5). However, to cross the next barrier of hypersonic flight (any speed greater than Mach 5), drastic problems [...]

November 28 – Depart 6:00 am (Oakland) America West Airlines Arrive 8:55 am (Phoenix) Depart 10:02 am MST Northwest Airlines #264 Arrive 3:47 pm EST (Detroit) Depart 5:15 pm EST Northwest Airlines #3058 Arrive 6:05pm (Toledo) I have broken some personal records this week, in travel distance, time and patience.At the behest of my life [...]

Airbus is trying to design an aircraft to compete with Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner. The Boeing Company’s 787 Dreamliners is a bleeding edge bird born of pure-efficiency; made and constructed in lightweight, high-tech composite materials. The Airbus’s version, a copycat plane only has wings of composite. Meaning it will weigh more and be less able [...]

We have all heard about aircraft spinning out of control and Hollywood sure likes to ham it up, especially in dogfight scenes in close air-to-air combat. Now a days in the modern net-centric battlespace with long-range air-to-air missiles generally the aircraft, which sees the other aircraft first and if could be hundreds of miles away [...]

How to reserve discount Flight Tickets Online Why would one travel? For travelers all across the world, this question will have numerous answers. A person would like to travel because he needs some time off from his confusion to-do list and is likely to go on a vacation. Otherwise another person would travel because his [...]