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Sub-Topics Aviation Safety Also Try Airlines Lesson Plans Lessons Related to Aviation and Flight (PlaneMath.com) Provides lessons. 2-06 PowerPoint Presentations and Lessons on Flight (Pete's PowerPoint Station) Provides lessons by topic area. 1-07 Lists Types of Airplanes (About.com - Bowles) Provides information by type of plane. 3-01 Types of Jet Engines (U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission) Describes the turbofan, turboprop, ramjet, and turbojet engines. 7-05 News -02-08-06 Fossett Bids for World's Long Distance Flight Record (ABC News) "Millionaire U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett took off in an experimental plane on Wednesday on an 80-hour flight that he hopes will set a nonstop distance record." 02-06 -02-11-06 Record: Longest Non-Stop Flight in History (BBC News) "Adventurer Steve Fossett has broken the record for the longest non-stop flight in aviation history." 2-06 07-01-04 Spaceship One - First Private Suborbital Flight (CNN News) "The man who became the first person to pilot a privately built craft into space called his flight 'almost a religious experience' after his safe landing Monday morning." 7-04 09-29-04 Spaceship One - First Private Flight into Space (CBS News) "The first private manned rocket to reach space soared toward the edge of the atmosphere again in an unexpectedly bumpy ride Wednesday in the first half of a bid to earn a $10 million prize." 7-04 10-04-04 Spaceship One Sets Altitude Record (CNN News) "SpaceShipOne achieved its most spectacular flight yet, climbing to an altitude of 364,000 feet (70 miles), eight miles beyond what was needed to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize." "X Prize officials said it set an altitude record exceeding the military X-15's top altitude of 354,200 feet (67 miles) set on August 22, 1963." 10-04 11-15-04 New Aircraft Goes Mach 7 (NASA News) "NASA's second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft flew successfully March 27, 2004, the first time an airbreathing scramjet powered aircraft has flown freely." "The unpiloted vehicle's supersonic combustion ramjet, or scramjet, ignited as planned and operated for the duration of its hydrogen fuel supply, which lasted about 10 seconds. The X-43A reached its test speed of Mach 7." 11-04 Fossett, Steve - Profile (CNN News) Provides news stories about Steve Fossett. 09-07 Papers -Articles by Category (Wikipedia.org) Provides 40 subcategories of articles. 1-07 Air Force Unveils the Raptor (ABC News) "The Air Force contends the F-22A Raptor will ensure America's air dominance for years to come." "According to the Air Force, the F-22A Raptor cost more than $40 billion to develop, produce and test. Each plane costs more than $130 million." 12-05 Aviation - Wilbur and Orville Wright's Plane Development (PBS.org) "How is it that two bicycle-shop owners from Dayton, Ohio, managed to do what many others before them had tried but failed to do -- invent the airplane?" 11-03 Aviation - Wright, Wilbur and Orville (Bradshaw) "During the years 1900, 1901, 1902, and 1903, the two brothers developed the first effective airplane." 11-03 Cochran, Jackie (WomeninAviation.com) Provides short profile of the first woman to travel faster than the speed of sound. 'At the time of her death on August 9, 1980, Jacqueline Cochran held more speed, altitude, and distance records than any other pilot, male or female, in aviation history.' 12-01 First Solo Non-Refueling Trip Around the World (USA Today) "First by balloon, now by plane, Steve Fossett is once again an around-the-world record holder. The millionaire adventurer on Thursday became the first person to fly around the world alone without stopping or refueling, touching down in Salina after a 67-hour, 2-minute, 38-second 23,000-mile journey that appeared endangered at times by a troubled fuel system." "Fossett's GlobalFlyer, designed by the same engineer who came up with the Voyager airsraft that first completed the trip in 1986 with two pilots aboard, touched down on the center line at the Salina airport at 1:48 p.m. Thursday." 3-05 Flying Cars Almost Ready (CBS News) "The folks at NASA have built something called 'The Highway in the Sky.' It's a computer system designed to let millions of people fly whenever they please, and take off and land from wherever they please, in their very own vehicles." "And here’s the good news -- a lot of people are building machines you’ll be able to buy." 4-05 G.E. Tests "Green" Jet Engines (Ecomagination.com) "http://ge.ecomagination.com/site/index.html#genx/details" 05-07 Skycars (MSNBC News) Describes the current development of cars that can be driven in the air as an alternative form of transportation. 5-03 Space Tourism (CBS News) "If floating weightless and peering down on a shimmering-blue Earth sounds appealing, you might consider being a space tourist." 03-06 Yeager, Chuck (Achievement.org) "Chuck Yeager is unquestionably the most famous test pilot of all time. He won a permanent place in the history of aviation as the first pilot ever to fly faster than the speed of sound, but that is only one of the remarkable feats this pilot performed in service to his country." 02-06

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