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July 15, 2006

Aero-News Proudly Introduces Our AirVenture 2006 Staff

Say Hello To Scott Wagner And Toni Wolfe!

With the final days before the official start to EAA AirVenture 2006 counting down all too rapidly... and, not quickly enough... ANN's senior staff is all-too-aware of the Herculean task ahead of us in reporting EVERYTHING that's news at The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration. Fortunately, this year we'll have some help.

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Attention Nature Lovers: The Port-O-Johns Have Bloomed At OSH

... And THAT Means An Airshow Is Close Behind!

Just as the swallows return every year to Capistrano, the Port-o-Johns have blossomed at Oshkosh!

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ANN's Daily Aero-Tips (07.15.06): Cell Phones OFF

Aero-Tips!

"Don't use cell phones in flight." I know you've heard it before.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (07.15.06)

Aero-Linx!

Like your aircraft smaller, as in model size? You can, put them together and paint them yourself or if you're the impatient type buy the die cast models and place them right on your shelf.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (07.15.06): JATO

Aero-Terms!

Jet Assisted Take-Off rockets came in many types and were used to shorten the takeoff of aircraft in short field or overload conditions.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (07.15.06)

"The important thing to remember is that the aircraft needed jet power to stay aloft. It wasn't a pure flapping-wing flight ... Of course, in all fairness I should say that the jet alone could not have even come close to sustaining the aircraft; the flapping still did most of the work. So, we can say it was a jet-assisted ornithopter that sustained level flight."

Source: Dr. James DeLaurier, on the successful, sustained flight of his manned ornithopter on July 8.

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