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California State University, Long Beach. Occupation (s) Pilot, author, and artist. Michael J. Machat is an American artist, author, and pilot. [1] He specializes in aviation art and was a frequent collaborator of R.E.G. Davies on the book series An Airline and its Aircraft. Several aviation museums have permanent collections of Machat's art.
The Living Legends of Aviation is an organization of remarkable people of extraordinary accomplishment in aviation and aerospace including: entrepreneurs, innovators, industry leaders, engineers, astronauts, record breakers, pilots who have become celebrities and celebrities who have become pilots. The Living Legends meet yearly in North ...
Fokker F27 Friendship. The Fokker F27 Friendship is a turboprop airliner developed and manufactured by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker. It is the most numerous post-war aircraft manufactured in the Netherlands; the F27 was also one of the most successful European airliners of its era. The F27 was developed during the early 1950s with the ...
Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing tips started dragging along the ground as it taxied down the runway. Nine days and three minutes later ...
Retired. 1944. Primary user. Aeroflot. Number built. 1. The Martin 156, referred to in the press variously as the "Russian Clipper", "Moscow Clipper", or "Soviet Clipper" was a very large flying boat aircraft intended for trans-Pacific service. The single example of the M-156 was designed and built in response to a request from Pan American ...
"Aviation safety is paramount, and now is not the time to take a shortcut." The U.S. House in July voted 351-69 on an aviation reform measure that would hike the mandatory retirement age to 67.
The National Aviation Day (August 19) is a United States national observation that celebrates the development of aviation.. The holiday was established in 1939 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who issued a presidential proclamation which designated the anniversary of Orville Wright's birthday to be National Aviation Day (Mr. Wright, born in 1871, was still alive when the proclamation was first ...
The UN's International Civil Aviation Organization wants the overall SAF pool to increase from today's levels of less than 1% to 5% by 2030. "We think that's very achievable,” Gavin Towler ...