Tuesday, April 21, 2009

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Lakeland air show starts Tuesday - Tampa Tribune, FL
By TED JACKOVICS | The Tampa Tribune The 35th Annual Sun 'n Fun Fly-In will run Tuesday through Sunday at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport with aerial performances and exhibits of aircraft and aviation equipment. The US Army Golden Knights parachuting ...
All This Week, AVweb Brings You The Sun 'n Fun Experience - AVweb, CT
A line-up of the world's best airshow performers, including Patty Wagstaff, Sean D. Tucker, Mike Goulian, Bill Stein, and more, will fly every afternoon. We'll also visit Thursday's Splash-In event at Fantasy of Flight, for a look at the world of ...

Air Force Week commences at Hampton Roads - Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, AL
Moments into the ceremony, a fly-over from a B-25 Mitchell, the aircraft involved in the World War II raid over Japan, brought applause from the audience as well as the official party, congressional leadership and Hampton Road's mayor in attendance. ...

I Love an Air Show by tcpatton
Saturday, we went to the Cecil Field Air Show … my first since the 2007 Sea and Sky Spectacular at the beach. While the beach air show is a lot of fun, the flying is at the beach, and you miss out on a lot of the airshow ambiance unless you go look at the static displays at Mayport. At Cecil, you get the entire air show experience all in one spot … and it was worth the trip.
This year's show was part MS fundraiser, and part tribute to Alan Henly, the former lead pilot for the Aeroshell Acrobatic team (right). Henly was playing with his kids in his back yard when a chin-up bar gave way, and he severely injured his neck, paralyzing him from the chest down. 35 acrobatic acts donated their time for the airshow this year to help raise money for Henly's recovery, and the flying was spectacular. ...

Jets roar, spirits soar during Beale AFB open house - Sacramento Bee, USA
By Niesha Lofing Conversations were carried out quite unconventionally Sunday at the Beale Air Force Base open house and air show. Some attendees chatted in the warm spring air, faces turned toward the sky, while others sat and talked under the wings ...

Thunder Over Louisville Not Record Crowd - WTVQ, KY
City officials say more than 700000 came out for Thunder Over Louisville, but the record still stands at 800000 back in 1997. Warm temperatures and clear skies kept the celebration on schedule. Fans started turning out in the afternoon for the air ...

Red Bull Air Race: Dream debut for Abu Dhabi - GulfNews, United Arab Emirates
By M. Satya Narayan, Senior Reporter Abu Dhabi: Team Abu Dhabi made a dream debut when their Austrian pilot and defending Red Bull Air Race World Champion Hannes Arch won this year's opening round here on Friday. The Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority-backed ...

Thrilling race goes to the wire - The National, United Arab Emirates
For the crowds who thronged the Corniche in Abu Dhabi yesterday on the first weekend of this season's Red Bull Air Race championship, the excitement did not let up until the very last seconds of the final. About 65000 were there to watch the qualifying ...

Hannes Arch wins Red Bull air race in Abu Dhabi - UAE Daily News, Canada
Abu Dhabi -- Home favourite and defending world champion Hannes Arch got his title defence off to a stunning start by claiming first blood in the opening round of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Abu Dhabi today. The Austrian, racing under ...

Red Lake pilot talks team strategy going into rookie season on Red ... - Lake of the Woods Enterprise, Canada
Today, at age 24, he is the youngest pilot and the first Canadian to qualify for the Red Bull Air Race World Championships. The Red Bull Air Race series is a contest of speed, skill and timing as pilots weave their high performance aircraft at speeds ...

Balance Of Risk In Air Race World Champs - Sky News
The new Air Race season has just kicked off in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Fifteen world class pilots have qualified to compete in the 2009 Championship.

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Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame inducts four new members at ... - Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com, MI
by Gazette Staff Reports KALAMAZOO -- A Kalamazoo man who participated in D-Day was among four people inducted into the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame during ceremonies Saturday evening at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. Walter B. Forbes, of Kalamazoo, ...

Elite, aging fighter pilots remembered - Canada.com, Canada
The men are some of the finest fighter pilots ever produced by Canada, an aging band of top guns who thrilled air show crowds while flying for the Golden Hawks -- the country's first, jet-powered aerobatics team, the forerunner to the Snowbirds -- from ...

Brothers in arms to be honored for their service - Gadsden Times, AL
Airman Joe Copeland, a B-17 bomber pilot, another of the veterans selected for this trip, said, "I feel much honored. I can't think of anything any nicer. You know, there is a lot of camaraderie among veterans of all branches of service. ...

Katie soars into record books - MyTown Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Miss Hamilton is also a member of the Association of Women in Aviation (AWA). "We encourage all our women pilots to become members and to take part in the annual rally," Mr Barnett said. Bay Flight has about 60 students at various levels of flight ...

'Raider' Takes to the Sky Once More - Military.com
said Paul Nuwer, who along with owner Larry Kelley usually pilots the Delaware-based Mitchell, called Panchito. The view was quite different 67 years ago, when Cole was Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot on the famous Tokyo Raid. Thursday's flight, sponsored ...

Museum pays tribute to "warbirds' - The Mountain Press, TN
By ELLEN BROWN The Tennessee Museum of Aviation's Warbird Tribute, held Saturday at the museum, featured two Republic P-47 Thunderbolts and World War II veterans who had operated them. "There were more P-47 Thunderbolts built during World War II than ...

Bomber replica to take to Anzac skies - Wairarapa Times Age, New Zealand
By Jamie Morton A World War 1 winged wonder that's taken the aviation world's breath away is set to climb to Wairarapa skies on Anzac Day. The world's only FE.2b bomber, secretly built from scratch over three years at The Vintage Aviator in Wellington, ...

Scrapyard Spitfire fetches £1.7m - BBC News, UK
A World War II Spitfire aeroplane found in a scrapyard has been bought at auction by a British adventurer for more than £1.7m. The two-seater Vickers Supermarine Spitfire was sold at the RAF museum in Hendon, north London, after a five-year restoration ...

Air museum in Tillamook blimp hanger - Examiner.com
The Tillamook Air Museum is housed in one of few remaining World War II wooden blimp hangars. Each of these enormous buildings cover over 7 acres—sufficient to simultaneously play six football games—and are fifteen stories high.

Students take to skies with Civil Air Patrol - WPDE, SC
The biggest component to the CAP is its mission to teach students more about aviation and aerospace. In addition to its education outreach, the volunteer organization helps with search and rescue operations after such things as hurricanes. ...

Woodlake pilots' group offers flights for children - Visalia Times-Delta, CA
He said a parent or guardian must be available at the airport to sign a permission form. Reservations are not needed, he said. The parent Experimental Aircraft Association launched what it calls the Young Eagles program in 1992. ...

Harrison Ford Drafted To Aid GA PR Program - Aero-News Network, FL
General aviation is an economic engine that pumps $150 billion into the United States economy each year. In local communities, it brings outside business in, and lets local businesses extend their reach. It provides more than a million jobs nationwide. ...

Flying Car, Flying Motorcycle, or Flying Boat Survey—Which Airplane would you Buy? from Max Trescott on General Aviation
Samson Motorworks SkyBike Last year, my imagination was captured by the ICON A5 trailerable seaplane. Last week I talked with Carl Deitrich and wrote about his Terrafugia Transition roadable airplane (think flying car). Just before I published the article on the Terrafugia, I found in my pile of press releases one from Samson Motorworks with an update on their SkyBike (pictured here), which they've described as a flying motorcycle. So which you would prefer to own? Take this survey now to tell us.
The first two aircraft are...

There are two sides to every story from The PapaGolf Chronicles
This is the story from the other side of the ride that Papa and I took with Lynda from Girls With Wings:
http://thegirlswithwingsblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/now-this-is-flying.html
It's a rare treat for me to see how things looked from the other point-of-view. As they say, a good time was had by all!

VIDEO: YouTube clip purports F-22 shootdown by T-38 from The DEW Line

Today In Military/Aviation History 20 - 26 April from Warbirds Online

Caption Contest #16 from Airpigz Blog

Take time to thank heroes - TheReporter.com, CA
I was in the parking lot of a Vallejo supermarket and noticed an elderly man getting into a car with a bumper sticker that read "USS Indianapolis Survivor." I stopped to thank him for his service, and was awed and greatly honored that he took the time ...

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