From Kate Russell’s weekly review of websites and apps.
World of Warplanes is a free-to-play dogfighting simulation that delivers adrenaline-pumping massively multiplayer team action in an authentic line up of over 100 different aircraft from the golden era of military aviation.
The cameras in modern smartphones are now such good quality they can realistically replace expensive digital cameras, but if you want all the specialist shooting styles and features you are going to need a folder full of apps as well. The app, A Better Camera for Android, solves this problem and gives you all the multi-functions of a high end camera through one central dashboard.
Snapchat proved the appeal of the “here one second, gone the next” culture – and if you take that idea and apply it to the social chat functions of Twitter you would come up with Kwikdesk. This anonymous social platform is a way of sending messages up to 300 characters in length out into the great unwashed internet.
The United States is building up its military operations in the Horn of Africa to combat Islamist groups in the region.
Frank Gardner visited the base in Djibouti from where the Americans mount covert missions into Somalia and Yemen.
He looked at a key tool in the armoury of the United States Marine Corps – the MV-22 Osprey – a tilt-rotor aircraft which flies like a plane but can land and take off like a helicopter.
Dateline: January 29, 2014 – – – From FASF Trustee Cathy Myers
Emergency Procedures Clinic will be held at Cochise College Airport
Google Satellite Photo of College Airport (P03) is at the left. Field elevation is 4,124′ and runway is 5303′. It’s 7 nm West of Douglas, AZ.
The New Mexico Pilots Association is offering pilots an opportunity to participate in an Emergency Procedures Safety Clinic in Douglas, Arizona on February 28, March 1 and March 2 using the Cochise College Airport (P03) as the base airport. The clinic location will provide pilots varied topography, airspace and airports to review Emergency Procedures while flying with a CFI. The clinic is Wings Approved and will provide simulated emergency scenarios for both high and low altitude events. Registration includes flight time with CFI, transportation, meals and ground school. Registration is open and limited.
Click on “Registration” below for more details.Info: Cathy Myers 575-694-2136 Registration:Click right here for direct link to the “Registration” website More on the College Airport – Aerial view of Airport Campus is below . . . entrance below is off of highway 80. The large aircraft parking ramp can be seen to the upper left (North) of view.
Cochise College Aviation Training
Founded: 1968; FAA Licenses and Ratings Offered: All pilot ratings from Private Pilot through ATP (Part 141 and 61), Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic (Part 147), training for FCC certification in Avionics; Number of Training Airplanes and Types: 14 aircraft in flight training fleet, including Piper Warrior, Cessna 182RG, Cessna 170B and Beechcraft Baron; Degree Offered: Associate of Professional Flight Technology, Associate of Aviation Maintenance Technology, Associate of Avionics Technology, certificate programs also offered.
Remarks: Cochise College is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and the Arizona State Board of Directors of Community Colleges. The Aviation Department holds certificates from the FAA for 14 CFR Part-141 Approved Pilot School, 14 CFR Part-147 Approved Aviation Maintenance Technician School. Flight degree program is 2 years, AMT technical training only is 15 months for complete A&P, Avionics technical training for FCC levels 1, 3 and 8 certification is only 12 months. Our campus offers housing and food service and our airport is on campus in non-restricted airspace, plus great Arizona flying weather. Financial aid and various scholarships and work-study are available. There is significant UAV activity in the area, offering internship and work opportunities to AMT and AVT students. Other internships are available.
Contact: Belinda Burnett, Cochise College, Aviation Department, 4190 W. Hwy. 80, Douglas, AZ 85607-6190, (520) 417-4092 or (800) 966-7943, extension 4029, www.cochise.edu/aviation,
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The UK’s last intact World War I airfield is to be completely restored, thanks to a campaign by a group of volunteers.
During the war, Stow Maries was a base for the fledgling Royal Flying Corps, flying their early biplanes against German Zeppelins which were on bombing missions over London.
Stow Maries closed in 1919 and remained hidden, forgotten and overgrown until 2008, when a group of enthusiasts rediscovered the airfield, and began a campaign to save it.
The plan is to restore many of the buildings to their wartime condition, and to open a museum commemorating the men who flew here.
It will also host workshops, teaching the old skills of aircraft construction.
Russell Savory from the Stow Maries Trust showed Robert Hall around the site.
