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Glider hits fence
Wellington :: New Zealand | 2 days ago
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A glider pilot is believed dead after he crashed into an electric fence at Kerepehi on the Hauraki Plains. The police say the accident at 4pm was caused when the glider crashed into an electric fence on a paddock in Kaikahu Rd. The pilot is trapped in...
Tags: electric fence, glider pilot, New Zealand, Wellington, Waikato Region, Paeroa, Waikato Hospital, Disaster Accident, Aircraft, Glider aircraft, Glider, Aeronautics, Gliding, Air sports
Tucson club lets pilots soar in glider planes
Tucson :: AZ :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Ariz. (AP) — Guests can delight in silent flights over Ironwood Forest National Monument this weekend as the Tucson Soaring Club hosts its first open house. Members of the Tucson Soaring Club — based at the El Tiro Gliderport in Marana — will take people...
Tags: Sheena Stogsdill, Tucson Soaring Club, Tony Smolder, glider pilot, glider planes, Pete Stogsdill, glider license, towed planes, Tucson, Hang gliding, Glider aircraft, Glider, Lift, Bromont Airport, Gliding, Aeronautics, Air sports
Vermont hang glider dies in Florida accident
Davenport :: IA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility An autopsy has been scheduled for a 59-year-old Vermont man who died after a hang-gliding crash in central Florida. According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, Anthony Ameo, of Sheffield, Vt., was pronounced dead at a hospital Sunday. Ameo was airlifted...
Tags: Florida, Davenport, Adventure travel, Glider aircraft, Hang gliding, Aeronautics, Air sports, Disaster Accident, Law Crime
Robot Birds in our Future?
Robotic birds... sounds like something out of a futuristic paranoid conspiracy flick, but it could be a reality in the near future. Ty Hedrick, an animal aerodynamics expert at the University of North Carolina and a team of biologists have developed...
Tags: robots, birds, insects, aeronautics
Obama Picks Former Astronaut to Lead NASA
LOS ANGELES Former fighter pilot, and Marine Corps major general, Charles F. Bolden, ascended into space 19 years ago as part of the Space Shuttle Discovery team that launched the Hubble Space Telescope. Bolden is still...
Tags: Astronaut, space, Space Shuttle, commander, NASA, allnews, aeronautics, exploration, spacewalk, rocket scientist
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