Island Air

Sunken Catalina found.(BRIEFING)(amphibious aircraft)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 807 words; ...it was a little-known Army Air Forces Consolidated OA-10A...operated by the U.S. Army Air Forces, and later in Korea by the U.S. Air Force, as air-sea rescue ships...open sea, north of Anacostia Island in the Jacques Cartier Straits...

Duel in the rising sun: a young aviation machinist's mate and a veteran Japanese Zero pilot squared off at Pearl Harbor. Only one would survive.(Essay)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 2666 words; ...had been home, the Hawaiian Islands merely pictures in a National...Patrol Squadron 12 at the naval air station. By November 26, the...unsuspecting. In the naval air station barracks at Kaneohe Bay...Japanese planes hurried down at the air station, a murderous swarm of...

The adventure of flying Fitz: the celebrated copilot of the first airplane to cross the Atlantic from east to west, James Fitzmaurice ended up a forgotten hero caught between two worlds.(Biography)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 4054 words; ...keeper on ice-covered Greenly Island, Antoine had been at the kitchen...before circling low over the island. After releasing a smoke canister...point landing on what from the air had seemed like a solid surface...hours and 30 minutes in the air, having flown 3,288 miles...

Scenic landscapes.(British Heritage's 10 Greatest Visits: The amazing variety of ways Britain defines "picturesque")
British Heritage; 1/1/2010; 880 words; ...Scenic landscapes abound in variety and intensity across our island. Here are our admittedly subjective favorites. 1 THE WEST...groves, wellingtonias and rhododendron reaching 40 feet in the air. Perhaps most impressive in the late spring, but unforgettable...

Move Towards Major Milestone for America's First Offshore Wind Farm Lauded by Clean Power Now and Civil Society Institute.
Energy Weekly News; 12/18/2009; 501 words; ...to ensure that the consumers throughout the Commonwealth, including the Cape and islands, will have the opportunity to not only realize the benefits of cleaner air, jobs and energy independence from the Cape Wind project, but also by locking...