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- The unexpected
- Regardless of airframe, when students are in training, the potential exists for the unexpected to happen. In these situations, the Air Force places faith in its instructors to use their foresight to prevent, or expertise to resolve, potential disasters. To use the cliche, instructors should expect the unexpected ... at...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- Base jumper survives 260m fall in Australia
- SYDNEY AFP — A base jumper survived a 260-metre fall from the top of an Australian waterfall Sunday after his parachute failed to open properly, an official said. The man suffered a suspected broken leg and pelvis and internal injuries after his parachute only partially opened before he hit...
- Research articles 2008-06-15
- Swiss jumps using Leonardo da Vinci-designed parachute
- PAYERNE, Switzerland AFP — A 36-year-old Swiss amateur parachutist made a successful 650-metre (2,130-foot) drop Saturday using a replica of a parachute designed more than 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. "I came down... smack in the middle of the tarmac at Payerne military airport," said Olivier Vietti-Teppa....
- Research articles 2008-04-26
- Parachute not D.B. Cooper's, FBI says
- SEATTLE -- A parachute found buried in southwestern Washington was not used by plane hijacker D.B. Cooper when he bailed out over the Pacific Northwest in 1971, the FBI said Tuesday. The agency came to its conclusion after speaking with parachute experts and digging where children found...
- Research articles 2008-04-02
- Recently found chute wasn't D.B. Cooper's
- SEATTLE AP -- A parachute found buried in southwestern Washington was not used by plane hijacker D.B. Cooper when he bailed out over the Pacific Northwest in 1971, the FBI said Tuesday. The agency came to its conclusion after speaking with parachute experts and digging where children found...
- Research articles 2008-04-02
- Schanze fined in ship 'buzzing'
- Dell "Superdell" Schanze, formerly of Totally Awesome Computer fame and current Libertarian gubernatorial candidate, has taken his show to the sky once again and earned the ire of the Federal Aviation Administration in the process. Schanze was issued a $700 civil penalty for an incident last September involving...
- Research articles 2008-03-21
- Mounted vertical maneuver—today; when we need it: use existing U.S. Army M113 Gavin light tanks
- Mike Sparks, Air-Mech-Strike Study Group--In reading BG Retired Robin P. Swan and LTC Retired Scott R. McMichael's pro article, "Mounted Vertical Maneuver: A Giant Leap Forward in Maneuver and Sustainment," and LTC Retired John Gordon IV and COL Retired David E. Johnson's anti-article, "Air Mechanization: An Expensive and Fragile Concept"...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Golden Parachutes Galore for Departing UC Prez
- One thing departing University of California President Robert Dynes won't have to worry about is money. It turns out that Dynes - who was nudged out as UC's top dog after a string of embarrassing stories about the university's liberal pay and perk packages for top managers - is in...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Airborne Systems Showcases New Parachute Technologies to Global Military Audience.
- ELOY, Arizona, February 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Airborne Systems Group, which has combined the world's leading parachute brands specializing in aerial delivery, rescue and survival equipment, and engineering services, held a two day event allowing allied militaries from around the world to participate in a...
- Research articles 2007-02-13
- 'Smart' airdrops may save lives of U.S. troops
- FORT DIX, N.J. -- The Air Force and Army have begun to use technology that guides so-called smart bombs to target parachute-dropped cargo to resupply troops in remote, hazardous locations. The smart chutes, still in the development stage, have been rushed into use in Afghanistan, where fighting between U.S. and...
- Research articles 2007-01-08
- Air Force Pilot Missing in Action from Vietnam War is Identified.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-10 November 2006-US DOD: Air Force Pilot Missing in Action from Vietnam War is IdentifiedC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09112006 The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office DPMO announced today that the remains of a U.S. Air Force officer missing in ...
- Research articles 2006-11-10
- Ballistic Recovery Systems on MN1.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-29 August 2006-MN1.com: Ballistic Recovery Systems on MN1C1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:29082006 ST. PAUL, Minn. - Larry Williams, CEO of Ballistic Recovery Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: BRSI), will be featured live on Market News First (www.mn1.com) for an exclusive interview with...
- Research articles 2006-08-29
- REMINDER: Ballistic Recovery Systems on MN1.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-29 August 2006-MN1.com: REMINDER: Ballistic Recovery Systems on MN1C1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:29082006 ST. PAUL, Minn. - Larry Williams, CEO of Ballistic Recovery Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: BRSI), will be featured live on Market News First (www.mn1.com) for an exclusive interview...
- Research articles 2006-08-29
- Editorial | The Lightning Round
- Square deal It's finally the week to make a historic play date at Philadelphia's Franklin Square. How's that? Take the kids to play among the homeless? No, that's old-school Franklin Square. From the carousel to the Philly-themed mini-golf course to the playgrounds and fountain, the square has been...
- Research articles 2006-08-01
- Belgian parachutes from Eiffel Tower
- PARIS AFP — A 34 year-old Belgian jumped with a parachute from near the top of the Eiffel Tower at dawn and was whisked off by friends in a car after landing unharmed at the base. Johan Vervoort, an experienced "base-jumper", was filmed by the private Belgian television channel...
- Research articles 2006-05-17
- Banks: Clawing Back CEO Compensation
- Banks: Clawing Back CEO CompensationSo very wrong...Completely disagree. Those parachutes were negotiated before these guys got on the plane. If you want to take the cash from someone, take it from the lackwits who signed off on the parachutes in the first place. Honestly, there may be...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- Jan. 15 re-entry of Stardust probe to light up sky over Wendover
- Several Utahns are planning to trek to Wendover, Nev., in the middle of the night of Jan. 14-15, not to try their chances at the gambling tables, but to watch for the dramatic re-entry of a spacecraft. NASA's Stardust probe is on its last leg of a seven-year,...
- Research articles 2005-12-23
- Entry-Level Aviation
- A new type of ultralight airplane has been floating over farm fields inrecent years. Powered parachutes use a parachute rather than a solid wing to provide lift. The result is a safe, slow-moving aircraft perfect for scouting farm fields--and relaxing on a summer evening. "It's a tool for...
- Research articles 2005-11-30
- Transformational Space Corporation Tests Next-Generation Space Vehicle in Pacific Ocean Drop
- CRESCENT CITY, Calif. -- A new space vehicle to carry crews to the International Space Station moved closer to realization yesterday when Transformational Space Corporation LLC tested its parachute landing system by dropping a replica into the Pacific Ocean. NASA chose Transformational Space Corp. ("t/Space") in September 2004, along...
- Research articles 2005-08-04
- Mars Polar Lander: lost but now found?
- Minutes before the Mars Polar Lander was expected to touch down on the Red Planet on Dee. 3, 1999, NASA lost contact with the spacecraft (SN: 3/4/00, p. 159). Now, researchers think that they have located the remains of the craft and its parachute, Michael Malin of Space Science...
- Research articles 2005-06-04
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