I gathered these comments from the excellent Slasdot.org forum this
morning, hope they are of interest.What a sad day for aviation.
Regards
Dave L
Their is a good description of what happens during the shuttles landing at:
http://www.x-plane.com/orbiter.html
x-plane is an amazing flight sim
Paying the Price
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first controlled, powered
flight by a human.
Looking back at the history of atmospheric flight, we learnt how to do
it by paying for our knowledge and understanding in human life many,
many times. Despite not
At 10:15 AM 02/02/2003 +1030, Dave wrote:
I gathered these comments from the excellent Slasdot.org forum this
morning, hope they are of interest.What a sad day for aviation.
[snip]
Another dreadful "I know exactly where I was when I heard the news that
..." moment in human history.
It truly
Hi all
I have recently been contacted by the daughter of Ron Waddington, who used
to be a member of Southern Cross Gliding Club in the 1950s.
His grand daughter, who has since become a glider pilot, saw an article in
the Feb 2002 Australian Soaring by Col Vassarotti, that talked about
Southern
