The SCRATCH project is a continuation of the SPECTRA project, which focused on welding thermoplastic composites for aeronautics. The objective is twofold: to increase production rates while reducing ...

Cheers turned to tears when Brazil’s Alberto Santos-Dumont debarked at Rio de Janeiro last week. All good Brazilians believe that he invented the airplane before the Wrights. And, because the U. S.

Rio de Janeiro workmen last week were hanging bunting and raising flags; an official reception committee was hiring bands, inviting speakers, preparing lands; the three aviation companies of the city ...

McDONALD — Patricia “Patsy” Ann Tadla Moewe, 77, passed away Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, at St. Elizabeth Hospital, after a short illness. Patsy was born Feb. 13, 1947, in Youngstown, a daughter to the ...

Billionaire-pilot Jared Isaacman, who headed a team of independent astronauts that just touched down from an incredible Earth-orbiting demo flight, says he aims to help safeguard human civilization by ...

Ever heard of Ireland's first aeronaut? France saw the first manned hot air balloon flight in the world in 1783 but did you know less than two years later it was Ireland's turn to make history?

The B-1B bombers’ relocation to Grand Forks AFB for ten months would allow Ellsworth AFB to renovate its runway as works continue in preparation for the B-21’s arrival. Grand Forks Air Force Base, ...

On Aug. 6, 1859, 20-year-old John A. Light stood before a crowd of excited onlookers in Hagerstown’s Public Square. Several thousand people filled Washington and Potomac Streets, leaning from the ...

Nellie Thurston, shown in this archived newspaper clipping from the Lansingburgh Historical Society, was only 19 years old when she became the first U.S. woman to fly solo in a balloon in 1871. The ...

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