ANN Daily Touch-And-Go: 11.04.09 (ANN's
Short-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 11.04.09 (ANN's
Long-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Special Feature: Aerial Photographer James Cavanaugh -
11.04.09 (ANN Special Report, with Photographer
James Cavanaugh)
"We now understand from this flight at least that this
can happen and there ought to be a more clear understanding by
everyone in the cockpit that there is a national standard that
would prohibit this and that they need to take it
seriously." Source: U.S. Senator
Byron Dorgan (D-ND).
Mechanisms intended to add lift during certain portions of
flight. They include common devices such as flaps and slats, as
well as less common devices such as leading edge extensions and
blown flaps. Generally they are divided into two classes, powered
and unpowered.
With the announcement today of the award of the NASA Centennial
Callenge Program prizes this week, there is renewed excitement
about going back to the moon. But people have been designing
vehicles to land on the moon practically since before there were
rockets to get them there.
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