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An aviation checklist,

Let's take a snapshot at aviation.

The aviation expert analyzed the statistics in detail.

Civil aviation is something that we know very well.

The world's aviation industry is growing increasingly worried about crashes.

Why, in aviation, are there life vests instead of parachutes?

And that was fantastic for the future of commercial aviation.

Aviation Week asked me to make a list of who I thought were the movers and shakers of the first 100 years of aviation.

I think it's going to be a fusion of the enthusiasts and private industry.

So makers are enthusiasts they're amateurs they're people who love doing what they do.

Compared to fifty years ago, today's aviation technology has made great progress.

Col. Tigh, how much aviation fuel has been expended in this operation?

A group of V enthusiasts have banded together to raise funds to purchase an abandoned church.

Then of course, at the dawn of aviation, all of the great inventors of the time

We leverage a lot of technology from the state of the art in general aviation and from automotive racing.

Just as today, the enthusiasts of unrestrained capitalism say it's rooted in human nature, only now it's individualism, inquisitiveness, and so on.

I'm working in a team with Airbus, and we have created our vision about a more sustainable future of aviation.

There was no aviation at the time and I wanted to learn something useful that would help me repair planes.

And that project continued, did succeed, and we then got into other projects in aviation and mechanical things and ground devices.

In aviation, we would never let people fly on airplanes if for every nine planes that took off one would crash.

Van Gogh's nightscape dates from 1889 when astronomy is attracting amateur enthusiasts, inspired by a string of popular handbooks, containing the first ever photographs of the night sky.

Van Gogh's nightscape dates from 1889 when astronomy is attracting amateur enthusiasts, inspired by a string of popular handbooks, containing the first ever photographs of the night sky.

And I wrote them down and I found out later that every one of them was a little kid in that wonderful renaissance of aviation.

like Hargreaves, like Langley, even Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, who was flying this kite were doing so in the pursuit of aviation.

Human powered airplane Gossamer Condor sort of started me in this direction in 1976 and 77, winning the Kremer prize in aviation history, followed by the Albatross.

We looked at skyscraper construction, we looked at the aviation world, and we found that they have technology, they have training, and then they have one other thing

The modern system of agriculture is heavily dependent on fossil fuels, as are hospitals, aviation, water distribution systems, and the U.S. military, which alone uses about 140 million barrels of oil a year.

Right now, you have a few enthusiasts talking about it, some in a positive side, some in a negative side but that's a dangerous state to be in because there's very little depth of knowledge on this topic.

Now, the Space Lab story began about a year ago and armed with only a whiteboard, a camera, and a selection of colored markers, thousands of young science enthusiasts set out to create experiments fit for NASA'S finest.

This actually wasn't so great for the development of the aviation industry, and this was at a time that in particular the U.S. government was interested in ramping up the production of military airplanes.

Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation, but otherwise nothing will come of it.

The flight testing that followed that was as basic and low risk as we could make it, but it still accomplished what we needed to to take the program to the next step and to gain the credibility that we needed within our eventual market, the general aviation community, and with the regulators that govern the use of design of aircraft, particularly in the States.