First Flight

Five time-tested tuning tips.(CENTERSHOTS)
Petersen's Bowhunting; 1/1/2010; 1517 words; ...curled worse than a mallard's tail. First, you should use only an offset orientation...fletching works best to stabilize arrow flight quickly, and it also holds up much better...your arrows still need some guidance at first to smooth out small hiccups in the way...

New airlift from Canada.(GRENADA)
Caribbean Update; 1/1/2010; 286 words; ...Inc. and Sunwing Airline made their first flight from Toronto into Grenada, reports...90 passengers were on the inaugural flight. The Sunrise-Sunwing partnership...maintain year-round, weekly, direct flights out of Toronto.

All about Amelia.(LETTER FROM AVIATION HISTORY)(Amelia Earhart)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 934 words; ...re-creating her round-the-world flight. (Grace McGuire hopes to do it in a...she wore during her solo transatlantic flight that recently sold at auction (see photo...woman gracing this issue's cover (our first ever to feature a pilot instead of an...

World's First Ace: Adolphe Pegoud enjoyed international fame even before World War I.(AVIATORS)(Brief biography)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 1087 words; ...of experiments that included the first parachute jump from a plane in France, on August 19, and the first inverted flight on September 1. On September 21...He was initially hailed as the first to perform that maneuver until word...

The 'old bus' endures: Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith's famous Fokker Southern Cross has pride of place in Brisbane.(RESTORED)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 2055 words; ...down after their transpacific flights, the Fokker F.VIIb/3m...embarked on a series of proving flights. Kingsford-Smith himself...set out on their transpacific flight. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The first leg of Southern Cross' Pacific...Kingsford-Smith and Ulm made the first nonstop ...