Boeing 40C
The Boeing 40C was the first commercial airliner in the United States, and was a combination mail carrier and passenger plane.
Pemberton, who runs Pemberton and Sons, an aircraft restoration business based at Felts Field (SFF) in Spokane, says that 18,000 hours went into the restoration of this aircraft.
This particular Boeing 40C is the only one still flying out of the 81 that were built. Pemberton brought it back to life eighty years after it crashed into a mountain near Canyonville, Oregon, just five weeks after it rolled out of the factory.
Joe Kittinger
It was the “highest step in the world”. Joe Kittinger made history as he ascended to 102,800 feet in a high-altitude balloon and jumped to Earth, setting four world records.
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Felix Baumgartner Jumps From 96,640 Feet
Freefall @ 536 mph (862 kph). So picture yourself flying the same speed as a 737 jet, only without the aircraft body. Click here for the full story.
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Air Force C-17 Lands At Wrong Airport
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Dutch Company To Put Four People on Mars by April 2023
An independent space launch company aims to put four people on Mars by April 2023 – and the team will not be coming back.
Mars One claims that a new crew of four will join every two years as the explorers build their settlement, and that by 2033 there will be 20 people living on Mars.
Frank Schmidt Dies in Airplane Crash
Schmidt was an expert instructor with over forty years experience and over 18,000 flight hours.
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Volvo with 3 Million Miles
It just keeps going, and going, and going. No, it’s not a battery. It’s Irvin Gordon’s 1966 Volvo P1800S.
Gordon’s small, red two-door has well more than 2 million miles on the odometer, the equivalent of nearly 1,176 times across the globe.
The retired schoolteacher from Long Island hopes to reach the 3 million mile mark by next year. He only has 34,000 miles to go.
July 2012 U.S. Airways Plane Sinks into Asphalt
It was so hot in DC on July 8 2012 that a U.S. Airways plane sinks into the asphalt at DCA.
Austrian Gyrocopter Makes First Flight
Trixy Zero, a motorcycle-style gyrocopter, made its first flight at the airfield of Sachsen-Anhalt’s provincial capital Magdeburg, Germany, on June 30, piloted by Trixy Aviation CEO and engineer Rainer Farrag.
