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i once saw a viking departure many years back when the F-4 was still fling here in san antonio,texas it was cool does

anyone know where to see a VIKING DEPARTURE on the net

By Damien Lasou, Accenture

As this year’s Paris Air Show comes into view, it’s become clear that fundamental change is in the air in aerospace and defense. The industry is shrinking on many different levels. On the decline industry-wide during the past year are a vast number of metrics including the number of airplanes manu­factured, revenues and overall market size. The root cause, of course, is the extraordinarily challenging global economy.

Something sounded familiar to me when I read the news of the horrific crash last night in Buffalo, when Continental Connection Flight 3407 crashed about five minutes before it was due to land.

The plane was a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400, the same plane model that was grounded by SAS a year and a half ago after huge problems with the landing gear.

Here's an except from a Forbes article from October 27, 2007:

Yves Rossy, a.k.a. "Jet Man", yesterday completed a flight as historic as it appears kooky, crossing the English Channel from Calais, France, to Dover, England wearing, basically, a large wing on his back with four small jet engines attached and a helmet.

It's one of those things I would love to try "in principle".

Here's the video:

NASA video of the launch of the OSTM/Jason-2 mission, surveying ocean depths from space:

This is undoubtedly the best in-flight safety video I've ever encountered, used on Richard Branson's new Virgin America flights.

Enjoy!

The airport at St. Barth's is famous for its short landing strip hemmed in at one end by mountains, at the other by a strip of beach. Landing there in one of the puddle-jumpers that shuttle to and fro from St. Martin and other nearby islands is, to say the least, a hair-raising experience.