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The uniqueness of aviation accidents coupled with the large numbers of deaths associated with a single aircraft loss spotlight these events with a high level of public awareness -- even though quite infrequent, they gather tremendous attention as events leading up to the catastrophic loss of life are recounted by the media.
The common belief among aviation safety experts is there will not be a significant reduction in the actual accident rate until front-line operators (managers, supervisors and employees) are in the mindset to provide experts the precursor information they need to prevent the next accident.
The National Civil Aviation Safety Review Commission stated that “whenever possible, FOQA should become part of safety risk management programs.” Their recommendations went on to state that FOQA systems have the potential to become the basis for aviation safety decisions at three levels: the company, the aircrew and the air transportation system as a whole.
www.okstate.edu /ceat/msetm/courses/etm5471/DataDrivenSafety.doc   (3615 words)

  
 Jake Swirbul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Leon A. "Jake" "The Bullfrog" Swirbul (March 18, 1898- June 28 1960), aviation pioneer and co-founder of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, was born in the Yorkville section of Manhattan.
When peace broke out, Swirbul effectively scaled down Grumman's operations so quickly that the company was the only American aviation company to post a profit in 1946.
Jake Swirbul died of pneumonia while ill with colon cancer on June 28, 1960 shortly after Grumman began work on the Gemini program and one month after the rollout ceremony for the A-6 Intruder.
www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Jake_Swirbul   (444 words)

  
 General Dynamics F-111 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In June 1960 the USAF issued a specification for a long-range interdiction/strike aircraft able to penetrate Soviet air defenses at very low altitudes and very high speeds to deliver tactical nuclear weapons against crucial Soviet targets like airfields and supply depots.
Since the cancellation of the F6D Missileer in December 1960 the Navy had been reconsidering variable geometry for the FAD requirement.
In Australian military and aviation circles, the F-111 Aardvark is affectionately known as the 'Pig,' because of its ability to hunt amongst the weeds like its namesake, referring to the F-111's unique Terrain Following ability.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/F-111   (5201 words)

  
 Ruth Rowland Nichols (1901-1960), Pioneer Aviatrix
Ruth Nichols died in 1960 at the age of 59.
Continuing to lecture and to raise funds, as well as to fly as often as possible, in 1935 she was badly injured in a flaming crash during an emergency landing of a transport plane in Troy, New York.
In 1960, she was found in her New York apartment, apparently a suicide.
www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/nichols.html   (1003 words)

  
 Beecraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Bee Aviation Associates, Inc. (Beecraft) built three prototype aircraft, designed by, at Montgomery Field in San Diego, California.
The first aircraft built was the in 1948.
It was completed in 1960 and seated four.
www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Beecraft   (258 words)

  
 1960   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
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November 8 - U.S. presidential election, 1960: In a close race, John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard M. Nixon, becoming the youngest man elected to that office.
December 5 - Pierre Lagaillarde, who led 1958 and 1960 insurrections in Algeria, failed to appear in a Paris court.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/1/19/1960.html   (2090 words)

  
 Aviation Technology 50th Anniversary Celebration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Aviation technician training was transferred to the University Extension Service.
Extensive improvements were made to the airport, PAC was relieved of the responsibility of running the airport and the airport was made a department of the University physical facilities.
The General Aviation Flight Technology program was created, using the aircraft previously used in the ROTC program.
www.tech.purdue.edu /at/Avtech50/history.htm   (714 words)

  
 NH Aviation History
The Aviation Association of NH is founded in Concord.
Feb 21, 1959 three physicians are killed in a crash at Berlin on their way to visit a patient.
19, 1960 Doc Martin dies in a crash on Mr.
www.nhahs.org /nh_av_hist.htm   (1602 words)

  
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September 14, 1981 is an important milestone in the annals of business aviation, marking the founding date of the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC), which on its 20th anniversary occupies a unique place of prominence on the world aviation stage.
Toward the end of the decade agreement was reached in principle to create a new voluntary federation of independent organizations and within a year IBAC was born.
The International Business Aviation Association (IBAA-E) was thus born, adding its name to the roster of those founded in the 1940's and 1960's: National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA), Canadian Business Aircraft Association (CBAA) and Business Aircraft Users Association (BAUA-United Kingdom).
www.ibac.org /HomeNews/News_Item_4.htm   (615 words)

  
 ESA - Teachers - A history of aviation 
Military aviation encompasses all forms of the military use of flying bodies, while passenger aviation is limited to airline and charter.
Most aviators of the time were simple tinkerers, amateur businessmen who were attracted by the fame, the thrill or fast money.
Civil aviation research will be devoted in the future to the development of large capacity aeroplanes and environment protecting innovations.
www.esa.int /export/esaMI/Teachers/ESA3XIS162D_0.html   (2602 words)

  
 Naval War College Review: Future Carrier Aviation Options: A British Perspective
One of the key debates that face naval aviation in the twenty-first century relates to its key equipment: the airplane.
It does not claim to be definitive but seeks to inform, highlighting in particular the manner in which the aircraft carrier has returned to the core of British military thinking as Britain adjusts to the conditions likely to pertain in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.
In 1957, a whole swathe of advanced aircraft projects had been canceled on the grounds of cost and a belief that their job would soon be done by missiles.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JIW/is_3_54/ai_80786334   (1446 words)

  
 Harry A. Bruno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Much in the news was the State Dinner by the famed Lotos Club of New York on February 2, 1960 in honor of Harry A. Bruno in celebration of his 50th year in aviation and his ninth term as president of the Lotos Club.
In recognition of his fifty years of achievements in aviation, EB Bruno was presented with the gold Amelia Earhart Medal.
This month the aviation pioneers will hold their once-a-year wingding in Los Angeles, a community embarrassingly barren of early aviation history.
www.earlyaviators.com /ebruno.htm   (1596 words)

  
 Antonov An-24 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Antonov An-24 is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport manufactured in Russia by The Antonov Design Bureau.
First flown in 1960, it has a range of 2,400 km (1,490 miles) and a cruising speed of 450 km/h (280 mph).
Over 1,000 examples were built and about 300 are still in service worldwide, specially in the CIS and Africa.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/An-24   (144 words)

  
 yazdi.org--international aviation and government consulting
Khaleghi Yazdi is one of only three International Aviation experts who continue to accept missions on demanding International Aviation, Humanitarian, and Logistic projects from governments and their contractors.
Yazdi is the founder of World Aviation (1959), and the first European Aviation Institution with a flying school, air taxi, charter service, maintenance, and an aviation shop in 1960.
Using his time and energy to maximum benefit, consciously organizing different parts of the brain to independently and simultaneously execute, under time management and logistic techniques, Dr. Yazdi was able to manage a goal oriented schedule combining business and academic study.
www.yazdi.org /about.htm   (404 words)

  
 Welcome to the Lone Star Flight Museum!
These two schools gave him the background to prepare him to make major contributions in the aviation sector of Flight Test, for which he was awarded the Clifford B. Harmon International Aviation Trophy in 1960, and in Foreign Weapons Evaluation in which he became the first American to fly and evaluate the Mig 21.
In receiving this award Jordan joined an distinguished group of aviators including Charles Lindbergh (1927), James Doolittle (1940), and two other members of the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame: Wiley Post, awarded the Trophy in 1933 and Howard Hughes, awarded the Trophy in 1938.
Jordan was presented the Harmon Trophy on October 3, 1960 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
www.lsfm.org /Bios/joe_jordan.html   (428 words)

  
 Charles F. Willard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Willard stayed involved in aviation until his death in 1977 at age 94.
This was the first commercial aeroplane ever sold and Glenn Curtiss delivered it to the New York Aeronautic Society at their flying field on the old abandoned Morris Park race track in the Bronx, New York City in 1909.
"No aviation meet held in this country and probably none yet held in the world has had such a representative list of aviators as is assured in the Harvard-Boston aero meet, September 3 to September 13, according to the list of entrants to date announced tonight.
www.earlyaviators.com /ewillard.htm   (926 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS Valcour (AVP-55)
In around 1960 Valcour received some conspicuous equipment upgrades, including a tripod mast with a newer air search radar and a tall communications antenna which, with its deckhouse, replaced the quadruple 40mm gun mount on her fantail.
An aviation insignia was added in the mid- or late-1950s adjacent to her hull number.
She lacks the aviation insignia next to the hull number visible in earlier photographs.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-v/avp55.htm   (1186 words)

  
 1960 In Aviation Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
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 Welcome to Summit Aviation Online
Summit Aviation's organization is flexible enough to permit the efficient utilization of all the skills and talents of its specialized employees, yet effectively managed to achieve the most demanding performance and quality goals.
Summit Aviation is confident that it has the capabilities, technical expertise, skills, and resources to satisfy all of the specialized requirements for maintaining, modifying, and upgrading numerous categories of military and general aviation aircraft from small helicopters to transport category aircraft.
Summit Aviation's skilled work force is ready to meet all your inspection, repair, avionics, modification, design and parts requirements.
www.summit-aviation.com   (238 words)

  
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Includes copy of a report from the Department of the Interior to Wayne N. Aspinall; transcript of hearing before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, April 14, 1959; a letter from Richard L. Neuberger; and correspondence with members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.
Correspondence from Ralph J. Rivers concerning his bill (H.R. 8898) which called for approval by Congress of any public land withdrawal or reservation constituting in excess of 5,000 acres for any project or facility of a department or agency of the government.
Includes numerous form letters sent by El Reno members of the International Association of Machinists, all calling for support of H.R. 9742, which was to strengthen and improve the national transportation system.
www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/archives/MorrisInventory/tobyleg22.htm   (2022 words)

  
 Naval Aviation history and the Fleet Air Arm
The history of naval aviation and for the air forces for each Commonwealth country also includes a wealth of history and heritage information common to the Briritsh heritage of naval aviation and are well worth reviewing.
Sadly, Aviation Branch of the RCN was no match for the Hellyer's grandplan for "unifying" the Army, Navy and Air Force in 1968.
Although military aviation was still in its infancy at the time that the Union Defence Force (UDF) was formed, the South African Defence Act (1912) made provision for the establishment of the South African Aviation Corps (SAAC) as part of the Active Citizen Force (ACF).
www.fleetairarmarchive.net /History   (3657 words)

  
 AirNav: Dutchess County Aviation at Dutchess County Airport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
The only way to get into the gate to Dutchess County Aviation is to call the line office on your cell phone; or beg a call from someone parked in the observation area adjacent to the gate.
I don't know if Dutchess County Aviation is a County or private facility, but it's like landing at a small airport in the 1960's.
Dutchess Aviation fuel delivery is also terrific -- incredibly prompt service -- whether you pull up to the pumps, or call from Juliet Hangar across the field.
www.airnav.com /airport/KPOU/A2   (755 words)

  
 Naval Aviation 1960-69
This marked the beginning of a reorganization of antisubmarine aviation which called for the formation of nine CVSGs and for the assignment of an additional replacement CVSG and a Patrol Squadron in each Fleet to perform functions paralleling those being carried out by the previously established replacement carrier air groups.
It was the beginning of a 4-day test to determine the ability of humans to adapt to a new form of rotation such as may be used in space stations to produce artificial gravity.
Headed by Admiral James S. Russell, USN (Ret.), the panel was appointed to examine actual and potential sources of fire and explosions in aircraft carriers with the object of minimizing their occurrence and damage and to propose further improvement in the equipment and techniques used to fight fires and control damage by explosion.
history.navy.mil /branches/avchr9.htm   (14163 words)

  
 Royal Thai Air Force
The present-day LPLAAF is decended from the Aviation Laotienne, which was established by the French and later became the Royal Lao Air Force.
Pathet Lao guerrilla forces began to operate a few aircraft from 1960, as did another rebel group led by Kong Le.
The state airline, Lao Aviation, also operates as a transport arm of the air force.
www.aeroflight.co.uk /waf/aa-eastasia/thailand/thai-af-home.htm   (380 words)

  
 COAST GUARD AVIATION BIBLIOGRAPHY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Hollemon, K.C. "The Aviator's Aviator May Soon Be a Dodo." The Bulletin (Nov-Dec 1981), pp.
Krietemeyer, George E. "Coast Guard Aviation Exhibit in the Museum of Naval Aviation." The Bulletin (Feb-Mar 1990), pp.
"The Marriage of Fixed-Wing Aviation and the Cutter." Naval Aviation News (May-June 1983), pp.
www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/AVIATIONBIB.html   (8725 words)

  
 LIST OF YEARS IN AVIATION
1910 in aviation: Frederick Baldwin and J.A.D. McCurdy, using a Curtiss byplane, are the first pilots to send radio messages to the ground.
1999 in aviation: Fear of the Y2K computer virus and possible in-flight consequences for those planes flying during the night of December 31, 1999 and the early morning of January 1, 2000, spreads around the airline industry.
2001 in aviation: 4 jet-liners, 2 each of American Airlines and United Airlines, are hijacked and crashed in the September 11 terrorist attacks, killing more than 3,000 people.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/LIST+OF+YEARS+IN+AVIATION   (929 words)

  
 Leggat Aviation History Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Leggat Aviation was started by Jim Leggat in 1945 at Barker Airfield (a small airport then located at Dufferin and Lawrence Avenue in Toronto).
In 1953, Leggat Aviation moved it's operation to a small grass strip on the northern outskirts of Toronto at Buttonville.
Throughout the years, Buttonville Airport has grown from a small grass strip with a flight school to the third busiest airport in Canada.
www.leggataviation.com /history.html   (329 words)

  
 PRIOR Aviation: About Us
Prior Aviation Service established the first State and Federal approved flight school in the northeast United States that offered their students both fixed-wing and helicopter (rotary-wing) flight training.
In 1970, Prior Aviation Service moved from the south side of the airport to the new general aviation area established by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) on the north side of the Greater Buffalo International Airport.
Prior Aviation Service provides services including fueling and ground handling to many of the scheduled airlines that operate from the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport.
www.prioraviation.com /aboutus.html   (403 words)

  
 Making Air Travel Safer - Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site
During the first and second world wars, schools using rudimentary flight simulators were set up to help with the increased demand for qualified pilots.
During the late 1960's, aviation simulation took a great leap forward, as simulators became very realistic.
In the United States, the simulators themselves are carefully checked and certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), test pilots, and technicians.
www.watchtower.org /library/g/2000/9/22a/article_01.htm   (1441 words)

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