FINAL ISSUE
This is the final issue of the Updates. They have been
published since July 2005.
You may access all of the past issues by clicking on: http://www.sunlakesaeroclub.org/Updates_Web.htm
THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE (Tom Malthaner)
Details
on the refurbishing of Hubble
Spectacular
photos by Hubble (PP slides
3.2 mb)(Clif Rosch and
Richard Peak)
SUN LAKES AERO CLUB Update
SLAC Website
May 31, 2009
MAY ALL YOUR FLIGHTS BE SAFE WITH FAIR SKYS, SMOOTH AIR AND A TAIL WIND
Pick and
Choose the articles which may be of interest to you
All of the included links were accessible at the time
of this publication
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Members and friends
who have contributed articles to this issue are noted in (green parentheses)
News
of Interest to Members and Pilots
·
Newsletter for
SLAC Members (25 kb)
·
Of Interest to
Pilots (47 kb)–
Articles of particular interest to pilots
·
Minutes of the
Chandler Airport Commission meeting March 11, 2009 (pdf file
639 kb)–
(Nanette Kahl)
AIR AND SPACE
1. Flying Wing (Link video) (Clif Rosch)
Restored Vintage Northrop N9MB Flying
Wing---Rare Sight ! I (Clif Rosch) remember
watching this little flying wing buzz around Hawthorne airport when I was in high
school in 1945. It brings back old memories. We used to call it the flying bat.
2. Aircraft
Carrier USS J.F.K. (360 kb) (Clif Rosch and Earl Cuyler)’
Have you ever wondered just how big a US Aircraft
Carrier really is? This is a photo of
the carrier docking in Malta
3. Hang Gliding and Paragliding
(Link video) (Marc Chirico)
Bloopers in the good old days. Enlarge to full screen
4. The Cumulus Cloud Applet (Link) (Marc Chirico)
Move the cursor to show the
altitude of the cloud bases. Read the
exact temperatures and dew points.
5. 2008
Nellis Air Show (PP slides 4.3
mb) (Dan Bott)
6. E2D
Advanced Hawkeye (15 kb) (Bruno Uptagraftt)
7. Plane
crash off beach (Video 2.4 mb) (Bob Earl)
8. Shooting
star (Link video 1.9 mb) (Bruno Uptagraftt)
After watching this video, you
may want to re-think wishing upon a shooting star
9. F35
Helmet (13 kb) (Tom Malthaner) Star wars
10. F35
Flip (Link video) (Bruno Uptagraftt)
11. Vintage
Aircraft (26 kb) (Ben Thompson) Remarkable old planes
12. Over
Africa GA helps stop poachers in Africa
13. Hall-of-famer
soars to U.S. record Tom Knauff, a member of the Soaring Hall of Fame, set a U.S. multiplace motorglider
record for out-and-return speed over a goal-and-return course of more than 500
km on May 10th
14. General
Aviation Really Cares Wounded Iraq War Vets Ride For Free To
Wounded Warrior Event
15. New
Branson Airport The Branson West Municipal Airport is just about 20 miles
from Branson, Mo., and will feature a 5,000-foot airstrip, a taxiway, a
terminal building, fuel, and about 30 hangars. The airfield is now under
construction, after years of planning, and is expected to be up and running by
this December
16. Bird
Radar The FAA has been experimenting with ways to detect bird movements
with radar for quite a while, but since an airliner had to ditch in New York in
January after its engines ingested birds, interest in the systems has
intensified.
17. Survival
(45 kb) (Bob Earl) The story
of Cliff Judkin who survived of a re-fueling accident at sea at 15,000 feet
18. Radio
Controlled Model (Video 5.0 mb) (Bob Earl) Extraordinary control
19. Light
Sport Aircraft (12 kb) Will attempt to
set a record in June of a flight from Jacksonville, FL to San Diego, CA in 17 daylight hours
20. Scottsdale
Airport (128 kb) When the
city of Scottsdale purchased the former Thunderbird II Airfield from the
Arizona Conference of Seventh Day Adventists in 1966, the area, in general, was
considered on the outskirts of the Phoenix metro area. A little more than 40
years later, however, Scottsdale Airport thrives and is planning its next step:
Future sustainability.
21. NASA,
Russia extend Space Contract (9 kb) NASA has signed a $306 million modification to the current International
Space Station contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency for crew
transportation and related services in 2012 and 2013.
22. Virgin
Galactic Tests SpaceShipTwo Engine (12 kb) The hybrid Nitrous Oxide system being used is the largest of its kind in
the world and it will send Virgin’s customers up into sub-orbital space at
speeds over 2500 mph.
23. Zeppelin
“Eureka” (12 kb) Returns from Los Angeles to San Francisco after successful trip.
OTHER STUFF
24. Old Geezers
Rock (link) (Bruno Uptagraftt)
A very interesting dance routine
25. 2009
Contractor Award (PP slides 268
kb) (Ken Moeller)
26. Sahara
Dunes (PP slides 4.8 mb) (Bruno Uptagraftt)
27. Dropped something
valuable down the drain? (Link) (Clif Rosch)
Here is an easy way to recover it
without tearing the sink apart or calling a plumber
28. The
latest technology (PP slides 3.7
mb) (Bruno Uptagraftt)
29. Maintenance of high voltage
power lines by helicopter (Link video) (Gary Farrell)
30. Tunnel Harry (Link) (Bob Earl),The 300-foot
tunnel at Stalag Luft III that 76 men
snuck through during their infamous getaway on the nights of March 24-25, 1944
31. Lots of old automobiles (Link) (Bruno Uptagraftt) Cars of
yore
32. Bach
– An organ duo (Link video 3.7 mb) (Ken Moeller)
This must have taken a great deal
of foot-work practice
33.
Orcas whales attacking a lone
seal (Link video) (Richard Peak)
Group effort successful in getting a lone seal off
of an ice flow
34.
Table top
computer (Link video) (Richard Peak)
Its difficult to believe how rapidly computers are
developing.
35.
Global
Positioning System The Global Positioning
System is a constellation of orbiting satellites that provides navigation data
to military and civilian users all over the world. The system is operated and
controlled by the 50th Space Wing, located at Schriever Air Force Base, Colo.
36.
Auto
Makers should reinvent themselves (44 kb) In order to survive, they should become more like Personal Computer
makers did 20 years ago.
37.
Inspired Bicyles (Link video) (Bruno Uptagraftt) Bicycling as you have never seen before
“We
must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each
moment of life is a miracle and mystery."
H.G. Wells, English author
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