Post by Major Destruction on Feb 24, 2006 8:55:22 GMT -5
COMMANDER PREMIER AIRCRAFT OPENS IN MISSOURI
Officials of Commander Premier Aircraft have opened their factory and have begun to make repairs to existing Commanders while awaiting FAA approval that will allow the production of parts and new aircraft. The factory is located at Missouri's Cape Girardeau Regional Airport.
FAMILY VOWS TO MAKE B-17 FLY
A Boeing B-17 bomber restoration project will be continued by family members of an Ohio man who died in an airplane crash last November. The Urbana Daily Citizen in Urbana, Ohio, reports that the sons of Jerry Shiffer, a 68-year-old Urbana-area businessman killed in a Montana crash, will finish the project. Both are pilots and plan to get checked out in the bomber. The restoration is directed by Tom Reilly and is aided by volunteers from Cleveland, Chicago, and areas of Florida. To learn more about the project, visit the Web site
COMPETITION DEVELOPS OVER SPACE TOURISM
Worried that one company will hold a monopoly on suborbital space rides? In a few years, you'll have a choice. While Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson races ahead with plans for selling tickets for suborbital tourist rides, The New York Times reports three telecommunications entrepreneurs from Texas have joined with Space Adventures to develop passenger spacecraft. When the first Russian-designed spacecraft are ready as soon as 2008, or later, you'll be able to blast into a suborbital flight from the United Arab Emirates. Space Adventures has a track record: It arranged for the first paying passengers to travel to the International Space Station. The company is also developing a spaceport with astronaut (that would be you) training facilities in Singapore.
Officials of Commander Premier Aircraft have opened their factory and have begun to make repairs to existing Commanders while awaiting FAA approval that will allow the production of parts and new aircraft. The factory is located at Missouri's Cape Girardeau Regional Airport.
FAMILY VOWS TO MAKE B-17 FLY
A Boeing B-17 bomber restoration project will be continued by family members of an Ohio man who died in an airplane crash last November. The Urbana Daily Citizen in Urbana, Ohio, reports that the sons of Jerry Shiffer, a 68-year-old Urbana-area businessman killed in a Montana crash, will finish the project. Both are pilots and plan to get checked out in the bomber. The restoration is directed by Tom Reilly and is aided by volunteers from Cleveland, Chicago, and areas of Florida. To learn more about the project, visit the Web site
COMPETITION DEVELOPS OVER SPACE TOURISM
Worried that one company will hold a monopoly on suborbital space rides? In a few years, you'll have a choice. While Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson races ahead with plans for selling tickets for suborbital tourist rides, The New York Times reports three telecommunications entrepreneurs from Texas have joined with Space Adventures to develop passenger spacecraft. When the first Russian-designed spacecraft are ready as soon as 2008, or later, you'll be able to blast into a suborbital flight from the United Arab Emirates. Space Adventures has a track record: It arranged for the first paying passengers to travel to the International Space Station. The company is also developing a spaceport with astronaut (that would be you) training facilities in Singapore.