FAA Aviation News
... Fly FPT Virgin umbro Esso ○ THUNDER BALLOONS However , balloon flying was always lim- ited by the periodic need to replace the hot air needed for lift . When the Atlantic Ocean was finally crossed by the Double Eagle II in 1978 , it ...
FAA General Aviation News
... flying was always lim- ited by the periodic need to replace the hot air needed for lift . When the Atlantic Ocean ... Virgin Atlantic Airways became a major sponsor and gave the balloon its name , the Virgin Atlantic Flyer ...
The Innovative Sale
... Virgin Atlantic was originally introduced , the tar- get market largely depended on backpackers - those twenty ... flying empty . ' " And I said , ' They're flying empty ? You mean to say that there's a pilot , a copilot , a ...
Flying
... highest testosterone aircraft the military had , such as the X - 35A Joint ... Virgin Atlantic's new single - engine aircraft , solo around the world without stopping or refueling , which Fossett's copilot ... flying altitude of about ...
Chasing the Wind
... co - pilot are required to fly the Citation X , there had to be provision to get some rest on a two - day flight . We needed ... Virgin Atlantic Airlines , to be the other co - pilot . I had first met Alex ... BIGGER AND BETTER BOAT.
Air Pictorial
Drawing , Mike Badrocke ENEWLIN VIEW Airbus A340-600 600 RANGER FARTHER FASTER HIGHER ... flying in 1935 , Sabiha enrolled in the Turkish Aviation Association and ... Virgin Atlantic being the lead customer . Powerplant : Four 56,000lb thrust ...
Air & Space Smithsonian
... Co - pilot Rod Skaar probably wishes he'd remembered his sunglasses ... flying 12,455 miles without landing . " There's not much point in going more ... Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer beat the company to that record by a couple of ...
The Times Index
Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.
Flight International
... Virgin Atlantic , Alitalia fleet EDITORIAL , ADVERTISING , PRODUCTION ... high- lighted in his letter happens in many airlines , a couple of which I ... co - pilot loses control " . If we would always act con- sciously , that ...
Canadian Periodical Index
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Aerospace Engineering
... high reliability and low wear rate of floating ring seals with the low ... copilot . Smith has worked with Virgin Atlantic and Air 2000 , and the ... flight into terrain ( CFIT ) accidents , in which crews lose situation aware ...
Aircraft & Aerospace
... flight attendants to swap their skirts for trousers . The deal with the ... Virgin Atlantic Airways has produced Britain's first woman captain of a B747 ... co - pilot was forced to fly on to Mogadishu , Somalia , where the ...
The Guinness Book of Records 1989
... FLYING - BOAT Fastest The fastest flying - boat ever built has been the ... Atlantic record is 117 by the German Hindenburg in 1937 . Distance records ... Virgin Atlantic Chal-. lenger. ,. of. 65. 000. m3. 2.3. million. ft3. capacity. was.
USA Today Index
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Aviation Week & Space Technology
... flight - testing of the 811,300 - lb . aircraft , for which certification is expected in May . The A340-600 is powered by four Rolls - Royce Trent 556 turbofan engines . First delivery is planned to Virgin Atlantic Airways this June ...