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Electric Flight Symposium at EAA is Great Success

Kelley Welf — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:03:19 +0100

Temperatures over 100 degrees did not dissuade the crowd which gathered in Innovations Hangar North for the two-day Electric Flight Symposium at AirVenture. The Lindbergh Foundation’s Aviation Green Alliance partnered with AeroInnovate to host the Symposium and the adjacent Innovation Hangar South which housed displays of the latest technological breakthroughs in aviation. EAA graciously provided the meeting facilities and logistics. For four hours each day, over 175 S...

Scientific American Reports on Electric Flight with Two Articles

Kelley Welf — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:43:07 +0100

Blade Runner: 18-Rotor "Volocopter" Moving from Concept to Prototype

The Lindbergh Foundation's Wulff says the organization's judges felt e-volo had "a greater than 50 percent chance of succeeding, or they wouldn't have given them the innovation award." Asked if she would line up to fly one someday, she says, "I sure would. It looks very compelling to me."

Read the full article

Can Electric Aircraft Take to the Skies?

Electric aircraft are breaking re...

Remembering Sally Ride

Kelley Welf — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:41:44 +0100

The Lindbergh Foundation is deeply saddened by the passing of Astronaut Sally Ride on July 23, 2012. In 1983, Sally Ride established her place in history by becoming the first American woman to blast off our planet and into space. Having done that, she became a role model for many aspiring young people, particularly young women. Her enduring legacy on the planet has been set, however, by her work, leadership and inspiration as one of the s...

LGRs Fernandez-Juracic & Blackwell Research Highlighted in AvWeb

Kelley Welf — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:28:37 +0100

In 2011, the Lindbergh Foundation provided grant funding for the continuation of research that Esteban Fernandez-Juricic, Ph.D. and Bradley F. Blackwell, Ph.D., conducted to discern the effects of the approach of objects and lighting treatment on bird behavior.

Their Lindbergh Grant was entitled, “Developing an Alternative Lighting System to Minimize Bird Collisions with Aircraft.”

Results from their earlier work was highlighted in an article that appeared in AvWeb ...

AirVenture 2012 Electric Flight Symposium

Kelley Welf — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:26:03 +0100

AIRVENTURE 2012

ELECTRIC AVIATION EVENTS

The Lindbergh Foundation, through its Aviation Green Alliance and the Electric Aircraft Development Alliance, is pleased to announce the following electric aviation events at AirVenture 2012

Electric Flight Symposium in partnership with AeroInnovate and E...

Hero Worship - By Thomas B. Haines

Kelley Welf — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:30:02 +0100

AOPA Pilot Magazine

July 2012 Volume 55 / Number 7

Waypoints
Hero worship

By Thomas B. Haines

We swapped Bonanza-owner stories in the back seat of the Lincoln Town Car, just as any two pilots might when they meet on a ramp somewhere. But I was pinching myself as Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong descri...

Speaking of Heroes

Kelley Welf — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 01:08:45 +0100

By Mitch Jackson, Staff Vice President, FedEx Corp. | 6/21/12

"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul… we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream." Neil Armstrong

"There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes thin...

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh RSS Feed AeroInnovate, Lindbergh Foundation to Showcase Innovation

Kelley Welf — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 01:02:26 +0100

From EAA e-Hotline | 6/22/12:

For the fourth consecutive year at AirVenture, the UW-Oshkosh Business Success Center is organizing AeroInnovate, which highlights new technologies, entrepreneurs, emerging companies, and investment trends.

And this year it has partnered up with the Lindbergh Foundation's Aviation Green Alliance to host a variety of forums and exhibits as part of the two expanded Innovation Hangars - Alpha and Bravo (formerly the Children's Activity Hangar) loc...

e-volo wins Lindbergh Innovation Award

Kelley Welf — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:06:33 +0100

e-volo, the company that crafted the VC-1 16-blade ultralight helicopter last year, won the Lindbergh Prize for that accomplishment and for its ongoing development of the multi-rotor platform, with single, two-seat, and unmanned aerial vehicles in conceptual versions.

Read the full CAFE Foundation article here.

North Haven to China - Lindberghs Captivate the World in 1931

Kelley Welf — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:11:19 +0100

Special thanks to Kate Hotchkiss Taylor for contacting us and sharing the link to her article about the Lindberghs in North Haven as they prepared for their historic trip.

Below is an excerpt from her article:

"An hour and a half before they took off, you could have walked across the Thoroughfare on the rowboats," wrote Ellen Pratt (1906 - 2000) of the day Anne Morrow and Charles Augustus Lindbergh left North Haven on what became the Gre...

LGR Jason Edens Featured in Midwest Energy News

Kelley Welf — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:01:50 +0100

Jason Edens received a Lindbergh Grant in 2007 to determine whether it would be economically possible to use solar heat as a long-term solution for public energy assistance in the Midwest. The short answer is, "Yes!"

Five years since he received our grant, Jason's work is continuing and expanding. His solar energy panels have helped hundreds of families. He hopes to eventually bring the technology to such far-away places as Tajikistan, Mongolia and rural Russia.

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Kings to Present Lindbergh Award to Dr. Forrest Bird

Kelley Welf — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:22:54 +0100

Below is an excerpt from a blog post by John and Martha King.

Forrest Bird is an avid pilot. He soloed at 14. He ferried aircraft across the North Atlantic during WWII. He flew his own Howard Ventura regularly back and forth to Europe. And when the Learjet became available, flew his own Lear to Europe regularly. Today he has...

Lindbergh's First Flight in the Spirit

Kelley Welf — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:39:15 +0100

It was 84 years ago today, that Charles Lindbergh took his first flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. "This morning I'm going to test the Spirit of St. Louis," Lindbergh wrote in his book The Spirit of St. Louis. "It's the 28th day of April ... What a beautiful machine it is, resting there on the field in front of the hangar, trim and slender, glea...

Did Lindbergh Really Put Cotton in His Ears During the NYP Flight?

Kelley Welf — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:00:49 +0100

This was a question on the minds of Mrs. Stamper’s 8th grade class from Hanover, Mass. The class had read a non-fiction excerpt called "Flying" by Reeve Lindbergh. As a follow-up, Mrs. Stamper showed the film "Spirit of St. Louis" with Jimmy Stewart. The students wanted to know:

Charles Lindbergh in Helmet Over the course of two months, Lindbergh obtained about 8 hours of flying instruction in the "Tourabout" with I.O. Biffle (Biff) who was his only instructor. There was no ground school connected to the flying course he obtained at Nebraska Aircraft Corporation. Instead, he worked around the factory to learn the ins and outs of airplanes.

Most of Lindbergh’s in...

In What Plane Did Lindbergh Learn to Fly?

Kelley Welf — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:34:35 +0100

Thanks to those of you who ventured a guess in last week’s trivia question, “Does anyone know what plane Lindbergh learned to fly on?”

The answer is: the Lincoln Standard “Tourabout.”

Many of you answered the “Curtiss Jenny.” This was the first airplane Lindbergh owned, and he made his first solo flight in this plane, but he did not learn to fly in this aircraft.

Kelley Welf — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:26:18 +0100

Attention Pilots!

The Lindbergh Foundation is sponsoring a special event during the AOPA Summit 2010 in Long Beach, Calif., at the Hyatt Regency, adjacent to the convention center, in the Regency Ballroom, Salon B at 10 a.m. on Nov. 12.

The forum, dubbed, &l...

This Week's Trivia Answer

Kelley Welf — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:03:36 +0100

The answer to yesterday’s Trivia Question is: Whales.

In 1964, Charles Lindbergh first learned that the great blue whales and great finbacks were endangered. He sprung into action and got the editors of Reader’s Digest to become interested in this subject. He attended meetings of the International Whaling Commission, and wrote letters to the Prime Minister of Japan and the President of Peru, to warn them th...

Pilots, Please Help Us Win $10,000

Kelley Welf — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:24:56 +0100

We all know the mid-term elections are just around the corner, but the Lindbergh Foundation needs your vote today.

The Lindbergh Foundation is competing against 19 other organizations for one of 5 gifts of $10,000 to be given by Lightspeed Aviation Foundation this fall. The newly created Lightspeed Aviation Foundation actively supports avi...

Mixson Research Project Could Lead to New Source of Biofuel -- Even for Jets!

Kelley Welf — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:45:53 +0100

The Lindbergh Foundation is very excited to be funding Stephanie Mixson's research into "Conserving Energy and Freshwater by Harnessing Saltwater Algae as a Biofuel Source." Her project is unique from other work being done to create biofuels from algae because she is focusing on saltwate...