Many thanks to Brett Holman at Airminded who recently (and unknowingly) alerted me to LibraryThing, an on-line service that makes cataloging one’s book collection a very simple and painless process.
Just set up a free account, start inputting authors or titles, and you’re on your way. The site draws upon the Library of Congress collection, […]

Over in the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at my alma mater, the University of Kansas, faculty and students are hard at work on an interesting project: the construction of the Meridian, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that will use ground-penetrating radar waves to measure the thickness and conditions of Antarctica’s ice sheets.
Given the harsh climate […]

In a recent entry cross-posted at HNN’s Revise and Dissent and his own blog Airminded, Brett Holman ruminates on the apparent differences that existed in the manner in which American and British audiences responded to the advent of the airplane age. Inspired by his reading of Joseph Corn’s The Winged Gospel, which noted that American […]

Last week the “Interstate Aviation Committee” (IAC) released its final report on the 3 July incident in Irkutsk in which an Airbus A310 operated by S7 (formerly, Siberian Airlines) slid off a wet runway while landing, clipped several building, and burst into flames, killing more than 120 people.
According to the IAC the crash of […]