Johnson took his design to the Central Intelligence Agency, and there his U-2 found a home. It fell to James Baker to design the camera that would be the airplane's reason for being. The combination of airframe and imaging system would go on to make history. All rights reserved. Flying at the edge of aeronautic respectability.
Ultralight aircraft have a distinctive appeal among pilots.
Because the government imposes fewer regulations on ultralights and their operators, this particular aviation subculture has a looser, more spontaneous feel to it, and the pilots are a bit more exuberant. All rights reserved. To Ernest Allison, the Chinese were neither Communists nor Nationalists. They were potential passengers, and he wanted to give them an airline. When Mao proclaimed the birth of the People's Republic of China in 1949, China National Aviation Corporation, the country's largest airline, was owned jointly by Pan American Airways and Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government.