Mojave Fly-in & Open House Tomorrow! from Mojave Skies by Alan Radecki
Short notice, I know, but the Mojave Transportation Museum Foundation has announced that they will begin hosting monthly fly-in and open house on the third Saturday of each month, starting tomorrow. Each event will feature a different Mojave-based aircraft, and tomorrow's plane will be Cory Bird's unique Symmetry (left). Aircraft will be on display at the admin building (under the old tower, just outside the Voyager Restaurant) from 10am to 2pm, open to the public, and admission is free!
US Navy Leap Frogs 2009 Schedule from Milcom Monitoring Post by Larry
Mark Wills: "I Went Skydiving?" - Great American Country, TN
Mark took his 19-year-old nephew, Branden Mangus, to Fort Bragg to jump out of an airplane with the Army’s Golden Knights Parachute Team. ...
Tuskegee Airmen excited about Obama's inauguration from Stars and Stripes
WASP served for love of flight from Air Force Link Top Stories
When Betty Jo Reed was introduced to flying, it was love at first sight.
She was 6 years old and her father paid $1 for her to take a ride in a Ford tri-motor airplane at a local fair in 1929. Once airborne, Ms. Reed was hooked.
"I remember feeling free and happy, and loving the whole experience," she said. "From that point on, I knew that I wanted to fly."
It was a good time to be infatuated with flying. Flight was still new and romantic. Airplanes were starting to roll off production floors at a steady rate and pilots were stretching the limits of flight and teasing the imaginations of children and adults on a regular basis.
Al Khor Airshow 24th January 2009 from Technorati
Al Khor Airshow 24th January 2009 By graeme on Thu, 15/01/2009 - 9:06pm There is an Airshow being held at Al Khor Airfield on Saturday 24th january 2009. Members of the general public are invited (Free entry). Show commences at 9AM and concludes at 3PM. There will be a static display of privately owned aircraft, parachute displays, model aircraft flying, paragliding,ultralight and general aviation flight displays
Lowestoft airshow pledge - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, UK
The boss of the Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival has guaranteed the 2009 show will go ahead, despite the credit crunch and the current lack of a major ...
Search is on for air show sponsors - The Lowestoft Journal
This summer's show will be the 13th annual extravaganza. It is now recognised as one of the top air festivals in the UK and Europe, having last year broken all previous records, with an estimated attendance of 440000 people over two days.
Historic Flight Grounded in Manitoba from Aviation.ca News
The Historic flight from Winnipeg to Edmonton re-creating the first mail delivery 80 years ago, has been grounded once again. The pilots and ground crew left Edmonton yesterday hoping to be in the air this morning....
Insert Tab A Into Slot B from Ares by Graham Warwick
One of the aspects of aerospace I have enjoyed covering in my 30-plus years as an engineer-cum-journalist has been the advances in manufacturing technology. I've been doing this so long I remember when aeroplanes were made only from aluminium. I've seen structures transformed from hundreds of bits of bent metal assembled by hand to a single unit high-speed machined from a slab of alloy. I've seen composites progress from hand-glued sheets of fabric to whole fuselages wound automatically on massive fiber-placement machines.
Far from home. from PPRuNe Forums by QuePee
I have been here in the US for about 4 years now and I have come across the odd bit of British aviation history outside of museums that I have photographed. I thought I would share some of these with the forum in case your interested
Virtual Tour of Air Force One from A Welsh View by Robert Gale
Take a look inside Air Force One with this virtual tour from the National Geographic.
(title unknown) from Technorati
Tomorrow, I’m excited to be going to the Wings Over Wairarapa Airshow. There was even going to be a Spitfire flying, but unfortunately it had a wee hiccup on the landing gear front and crash landed. Anyway, I’m still really looking forward to it. I figured why not get a little local publicity for my game and made a Leaflet for my two awesome kids to proudly hand out at the event. The more observant of you might notice it says “Coming soon” despite the fact “Air Legends” is actually
56th Inauguration Features NASA Astronauts, Lunar Rover, Panoramic Photos And Live Twitter from NASA Breaking News
NASA astronauts who recently returned from a trip to the International Space Station will join representatives from across the country and the nation's armed forces in the 56th Inaugural Parade.
Moon Buggy!!! from How I Am Becoming An Astronaut by Damaris B. Sarria
Before it gets to space, a moon buggy will make history by being the first to boogie along an inaugural parade. NASA will participate in President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural parade with the crew of the latest shuttle mission and a small pressurized rover that is the current design for a mission to the moon in about 12 years. It will be driven by astronaut Michael Gernhardt. NASA hasn't chosen a final rover design yet, but the one in the parade is the leading prototype at the moment, succeeding wildly on a three-day desert trek in Arizona in October. It is different from the Apollo era open top rovers. It is sealed like a car, allowing two astronauts to sit in it without wearing bulky spacesuits.
Photo of the day from Technorati
Last man to walk on moon donates papers to Purdue from IndyStar.com News Headlines
West » Lafayette Former astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, a 1956 Purdue University graduate and the most recent person to walk on the moon, is donating his personal papers to the school's flight archives.
Drawn to history - from www.indystar.com
Faye McDaniel was the first black nursing supervisor at Methodist Hospital. Her late husband, Lt. Col. Armour G. McDaniel, was one of the first black fighter pilots in World War II -- one of the original Tuskegee Airmen.
"The Indy Transponder" has their own time slot, top of every hour except during the Warbird Beer Show from transponder - Summize by Flightlineradio (Flight Line Radio)
Balloon races, fewer practice days at IMS - Indianapolis Star
They will be known as the Founders Race and the 100-Years Race. John Berry and Paul McCullough of St. Louis won the Speedway’s inaugural balloon race, drifting to a location just south of Payne, Ala. The Speedway will celebrate the Centennial Era for ...
Capt. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger: the hero of US Air Flight 1549
from David Cenciotti's weblog - the most visited Italian Aviation Blog by David Cenciotti
Until yesterday, if I was asked who was my favorite superhero, I would have answered without any doubt Spider Man. However, the images of an Airbus 320 floating in the Hudson River with the last passengers escaping from the hatches while the majority of them were waiting for rescues on the wings, made me think that, from Jan 15 2009, there’s another superhero “operating” in New York City. As Spider Man has done hundreds times on the Marvel strips, the new hero has saved many people when everything seemed to lead to a catastrophic event: this superhero was piloting an Airbus 320 with a Load Factor next to 100%, full of fuel, at low altitude during the most critical part of the flight when he experienced something that is at least rare in Aviation: a dual engine flame out after multiple birdstrikes ...
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