Solo Flight

Type: Product

Name: Solo Flight

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

2,060 Minutes: Gordo Cooper and the Last American Solo Flight in Space

Imagine being alone in space ... and almost not making it back.MorePre-Hadfieldian! A picture captured by Gordo Cooper aboard Faith 7 (NASA)Imagine being alone, in space. Just you and your shiny spacesuit and your tiny metal capsule, the world splayed ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - May 17 2013]

Entities: Gordon Cooper, Solo Flight, Gordo (United States), NASA

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Solo Flight: Preparing our Sailboat for Hurricane Sandy

The night before Sandy hit, I stood on Osprey’s deck looking up at the nearly full moon. Its pallid light leaked into the sky as if it were being strained through cheesecloth. Scudding clouds—outliers of the coming storm—now and then threw the deck into ... [Published Cruising World Magazine - May 16 2013]

Entities: Solo Flight, Osprey, Hurricane Sandy

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Royal Malaysian Air Force

Pilot Reveals Scariest Part Of Around-the-world Solo Flight

SUBANG, May 14 (Bernama) -- The first Malaysian to fly solo around the world, Captain James Anthony Tan, has admitted flying with frozen fuel into fearsome thunderstorms as the scariest experience he encountered during his 48-day flight.The 21-year-old ... [Published Bernama - May 14 2013]

Entities: Solo Flight, Royal Malaysian Air Force, Malaysia

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

Beechcraft

Seventeen-Year-Old Cormac Siegfried Executes First Powered Solo Flight in Historic World War II Trainer

Seventeen-year-old completes solo flight of grandfather's historic WWII Fighter. Cormac Siegfried, 17, of Palo Alto, CA, made his first solo flight in a powered aircraft on Sunday, May 5, at Clow Airport in Bolingbrook, IL, in a Boeing Stearman PT 17 ... [Published PRWeb - May 12 2013]

Entities: Solo Flight, World War II, Flight Instructor, Beechcraft

Quotes

"From Juno (USA) to Vancouver (Canada), I had my number one fuel pump fail, my hydraulic line leaking and my entire dashboard vibrating violently...I had no idea what was happening" he told media members after his aircraft landed on Malaysian soil at 4.30pm Tuesday

Pilot Reveals Scariest Part Of Around-the-world Solo Flight [Published Bernama - May 14 2013]