60th Anniversary of T-28 to be Celebrated at AirVenture from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association
EAA and the Warbirds of America will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the North American T-28 Trojan at AirVenture Oshkosh 2009.
Airshow could bring new life to Winnersh - Wokingham Times, UK
Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lancaster bombers could soon be seen in the skies over Winnersh under ambitious community plans. ...
AERO GP Air Race Goes LIVE Online with Airsports.tv - MarketWatch (press release)
Pylon Air Race - Five aircraft racing simultaneously around a tight circuit, 20 feet off the ground at at speeds of up to 500kph. 2. ...
Air station event to be held May 15-17 - Havelock News, NC
The team is similar to the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds, but instead of six planes, the Snowbirds use nine. According to Bob Kenward, marketing director ...
Sporty's Fly-In and Sweepstakes Day Set for Saturday, May 16 - AMTOnline.com, MD
Sporty's Sweepstakes airplane winner will be selected on Saturday, May 16, during Sporty's Annual Fly-In. The prize plane is a Sporty's brand-new Cessna ...
Aero-TV: ICAS Conversations (Part Two) -- The Culture of 'Safety ... - Aero-News Network, FL
The Second in a Three Part 'ICAS Conversation' for 2009, starts off a series of interwoven interviews in which we asked about a dozen airshow professionals ...
Air Show Goodness in The Cheddarsphere from Technorati
Yeah, it's 30,000,000 below or whatever the hell it is so it's time to warm up a little. Here's some great news:In a fairly rare thing, both The Blue Angels AND The Thunderbirds will be in our area this summer.On May 30th and May 31st, The Blue Angels will be in Janesville. If you've never seen an airport show of the Blue Angels you should go. Even if you have, go see them again. The precision take-offs and landings are something we don't see when they come to the lakefront for shows. Plus, ...
It's thunder, F-16 thunder - Helena Independent Record, MT
The Thunderbird crew members were here to survey the lay of the land near the airport in preparation for the Gateway to Freedom Air Show June 27-28. ...
New superintendent named for Aviation Heritage park - Dayton Daily News, OH
The Dayton Aviation Heritage park is also included on that list. "I am excited to be given this opportunity to work with the Dayton community and the park ...
Air show tries to hold line on prices - Dayton Daily News, OH
By John Nolan DAYTON — The Vectren Dayton Air Show's board is taking a chance during an economic downturn by cutting some ticket prices, and holding the ...
Proposed air show in Fort Lauderdale can't use old Air & Sea Show name - Sun-Sentinel.com
By BRITTANY WALLMAN | Forum Publishing Group If an air show is in Fort Lauderdale's future, whatever you do, don't call it the Air and Sea Show. Former Air and Sea Show organizer Mickey Markoff and his MDM Group Inc., who put on the iconic display of ...
Frecce Tricolori da vicino negli scatti di Luca Rocca. Guarda la ... - Giornale di Brescia, Italy
[Rough translation via: Babelfish.yahoo.com]
A show of the Tricolour Arrows does not demand comments. But they can instead serve of the photographies in order to tell besides those extraordinary aerobatic maneuvers all which come before and after the flight. The magic dell' air, in fact, is fruit of understanding between pilots, of technical ability, professionalism and abnegation, humility and training serratissimo, of thousand little ones great moments of daily life of the formidable pilots of the Pan.
AIRFORCE PUTS ON GOOD DISPLAY AT WINGS OVER WAIRARAPA from Technorati
And some more from the Airshow - great display from the Airforce - but shit its a worry when all the airforce has is vintage planes :-(
RNZAF Air Show Fly in Whenuapai from AeroHub by admin
On 21 March 2009, the Royal New Zealand Air Force will be presenting its annual Air Show to the public. The RNZAF invites GA aircraft from around New Zealand to fly in to Whenuapai and attend the air show. ...
Bring Back the Brute from www.airspacemag.com
ON A SPRING DAY IN 2001, I met several other volunteers in the basement of the San Diego Air & Space Museum, surrounded by a stack of construction drawings. Bob Greenaway, a retired Navy machinist mate, was spearheading the museum's building of a Gee Bee R-1, using original plans from the New England Air Museum in Connecticut, which had built its own reproduction in 1990 with help from Pete Miller, the airplane's co-designer. ...
Fond goodbyes to queen of Aussie skies - The Australian, Australia
NANCY-BIRD Walton's state funeral began with spontaneous applause as mourners looked skywards to behold the Qantas A380 bearing the pioneering aviatrix's ...
A magnificent woman and her flying machines - Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
So it was with rousing words and soaring hearts that Sydney yesterday celebrated the extraordinary life and times of the aviation pioneer Nancy-Bird Walton ...
Tributes for aerobatics ace - The Australian, Australia
THE aerobatic community is mourning the loss of one of the art's finest exponents and "a true gentleman of aviation" after a fiery crash in the NSW Riverina ...
Mary Ernster to Star in Wings: The Musical at Chicago's Apple Tree - Playbill.com, NY
Inspired by the play of the same name, Wings tells the story of Emily Stilson, "an aviatrix and wing walker who in her youth was propelled dizzyingly ...
Historian presents next lecture in WWII series - The Desert Sun
7 at the Palm Springs Air Museum, 745 N. Gene Autry Trail. Gordon will present "From Sicily to Victory," the story of the Italian Peninsular Campaign from the invasion of Sicily to the German surrender in May 1945.
Veteran values lessons of war - Bethany Beach Wave, DE
... the former Lietenant Colonel who served the US Air Force in World War II took to the skies over Europe as the pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress. ...
The women of World War II - Tri County Journal, OH
Jackie Cochran was a famous aviatrix and head of the Women's Air Force Service Pilots - WASPS during the war. Amelia Earhart: Nearly everyone shipped to the ...
Major's medal, artifacts on display at Air Force museum - Arctic Sentry
One of the first Airmen to earn an Air Force Combat Action Medal donated his award, alongside others, to the National Museum of the US Air Force Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
Two Sons and a Twin-Boomed Warbird - Flying Magazine
A lawyer with a penchant for warbirds. We talk some more and Greg agrees to give me a Cook's tour the next day of the warbirds section of AirVenture. ...
Hudson River pilot Does New York plane hero pilot have crash ... - Bild.de, Germany
He is not the only Sullenberger in history to have experienced a plane crash. One of his relatives, Sam Sullenberger, nicknamed the 'flying country doctor', ...
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Pull Your Zoom Bags Back on Jet Jocks! from Defense Tech by lowe
[Ripped from the front page of Military.com]
AF Reaches Out to Flight-rated Officers
Faced with a shortfall of about 1,600 flight-rated officers, the Air Force is reaching out to pilots, air battle managers and navigators who have left active duty, service officials said Wednesday. ...
License to Thrill from www.airspacemag.com
Rick Searfoss, former space shuttle commander, now XCOR's chief test pilot, has helped make the desert town of Mojave the world capital of civilian manned rocket vehicle flight.
Veteran Space Shuttle Astronauts Selected for 2009 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense
Space Shuttle Crew Visits Troops On Overseas Trip from NASA Breaking News
NASA astronauts of the STS-126 space shuttle mission will begin a new journey next week to greet U.S. military personnel serving overseas.
To the Chagrin of Rich Geeks Everywhere, Russians Killing Space Tourism Program [Space Tourism] from Gizmodo by Elaine Chow
Garriot and other well-to-do nerds will no longer be able to play spaceman, now that Russia's canceling its astrotourism program to make way for three real astronauts at the International Space Station.
Russian Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov told reporters that ex-Microsoft man Charles Simonyi will be the last private space passenger. He'll be blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in March. ...
The end of space tourism is near (again) from Personal Spaceflight by Jeff Foust
The commercial space community was atwitter (figuratively and literally) over a Russian news report that Russia planned to end taking space tourists to the ISS after this March's return trip by Charles Simonyi. The implication was that there wouldn't again be any other means of visiting the ISS. ...
Exclusive Video from U.S. Sport Aviation Expo 2009: Chairman Bob Wood on This Year's Expo from AVwebFlash Current Issue
As the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo 2009 gets underway in Sebring, Florida, Chairman Bob Wood talks with Aviation Safety Editor-in-Chief Jeb Burnside. A quick preview of this year's show tells attendees what to expect and what they don't want to miss at the nation's premier sport pilot gathering. (Click through to watch.)
'Flying car' goes to market - MSNBC
In 2004, the Federal Aviation Administration created a new category of aircraft and license for sport aviation, an attempt to re-awaken interest in flying ...
Just posted! Discovery talks to EAA about flying cars/roadable aircraft. by EAAupdate (Dick Knapinski)
From Airspeed by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper)
The Aircraft Boneyard: Where Aeroplanes Go To Die by rlew (Ryan Lewis)
Speed Trap from Ares by Douglas Barrie
Need to Raise 2.6 Million USD ASAP from Defence Talk Forum by Feanor
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