PAPER TRAILS: North Little Rock aviation group rebuilding World War II-era aircraft

PAPER TRAILS: North Little Rock aviation group rebuilding World War II-era aircraft

On Oct. 12, 1942, as World War II raged on, student pilots began training at the Walnut Ridge Army Flying School. More than 5,300 aspiring airmen learned how to fly above the farmlands of northeast Arkansas in the BT-13 Valiant, a basic training plane built by Vultee Aircraft.

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    NASA SETS BRIEFING TO PREVIEW SPACE STATION SPACEWALK

    July 28, 2010
    MEDIA ADVISORY:

    HOUSTON — NASA managers will discuss an upcoming spacewalk at the
    International Space Station during a news briefing at 1 p.m. CDT on
    Tuesday, Aug. 3.

    Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson
    are scheduled to perform a 6.5-hour spacewalk on Aug. 5. The two NASA
    astronauts will outfit the Russian Zarya module for future robotics
    work and prepare the station for the installation of a new U.S.
    permanent multipurpose module.

    The news briefing on the spacewalk will take place at NASA’s Johnson
    Space Center in Houston. It will air live on NASA Television and the
    agency’s website. Journalists may ask questions from participating
    NASA locations.

    The briefers are:
    – Dan Hartman, Integration and Mission Operations manager,
    International Space Station Program
    – Courtenay McMillan, Expedition 24 spacewalk flight director

    NASA TV coverage of the spacewalk will begin at 5 a.m. on Aug. 5.
    Wheelock and Caldwell Dyson are expected to begin the spacewalk from
    the Quest airlock at 5:55 a.m. It will be Wheelock’s fourth spacewalk
    and Caldwell Dyson’s first.

    For NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information,
    visit:

    http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

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