Category Archives: AVIATOR
Stall at the Approach Bottom . . .
By Richard N. Aarons Source: Business & Commercial Aviation May 01 , 2012 Over the years we’ve seen a relatively large number of approach accidents involving aerodynamic stalls during the last moments of instrument approaches. The airplanes involved — often turboprops — are typically flown by experienced, professionally qualified pilots who somehow get behind the situation [...]
Charles Lindbergh Won the Prize, but Did His Rival Get There First?
A Countryman Tries to Unravel the Unsolved Mystery of Charles Nungesser’s Last Flight By SEBASTIAN MOFFETT PARIS—Right after his historic, 33-hour trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris in 1927, Charles Lindbergh asked whether there was news of French aviator Charles Nungesser. Searching for the White Bird French aviator Charles Nungesser was Charles Lindbergh’s great rival [...]
Cessna Honors 100th Anniversary of Clyde V. Cessna’s Pursuit of Flight
WICHITA, Kan., June 2, 2011 — Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, is commemorating the 100th anniversary of its company founder learning to fly and building his first airplane. “It’s a source of pride for all Cessnans to know we are carrying the torch for a company started by a man with [...]
Gladys Bramhall Wilner, Pioneering aviatrix, pilot, a nurse, a parachute jumper and an archaeologist
After the record run across the Pacific in 1931, the Bellanca J-300 also known as “Miss Veedol” was sold to a group of backers including one Dr. Leon Pisculli, who recruited pilot William Ulbrich and copilot Gladys Bramhall Wilner for a record New York to Rome flight. Plans for the flight included a flyover of Florence, [...]
GIUSEPPE MARIO “GM” BELLANCA 1886 – 1960
THE AVIATION GENIUS THE DU PONT FAMILY ENTICED TO DELAWARE MADE 3,000 AIRPLANES – AND AVIATION HISTORY! List of Bellanca Achievements Bellanca Airplanes Giuseppe Mario Bellanca was born in 1886 in Sciacca, Sicily. As a young man, he attended the Technical Institute in Milan, graduating with a teaching degree in mathematics in 1908. During his [...]
Eduardho Rusjan, January 9th 1911 marks the 100th Anniversary of the crash in Begradre, Serbia and the death of the first Balkan flight pioneer and airplane constructor.
Eduardo RUSJAN is born the July 6th of 1886 in Trieste where his father established few years before. Both Eduardo Rusjan parents were Austrian citizen but of Slovenian ethnic, the father, and Italian ethnic, the mother. In those years, Slovenia didn’t exist yet. This region was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The mother of [...]
