World War I Dawn Patrol Rendezvous offers free educational activities for visitors of all ages from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories
Learn about the primary causes of WWI, fly a plane in a flight simulator or experience the rotational force known as torque, during the 2009 WWI Dawn Patrol Rendezvous at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
On Friday, Sept. 25, the museum's education division will present ...
Aerial Aerobatics - OregonLive.com
The Thunderbirds didn't disappoint with their streaking precision formations. Heads were on swivels to try to pick out each of the dots on the horizon, ...
B-2 Bomber heading to Kirksville - Kirksville Daily Express and Daily News
A very, very large addition has been made to the 2009 Depot Inn & Suites Kirksville Regional Air Festival. According to a press release, ...
Nova Scotia International Air Show Ready to Roar from Aviation.ca News
Nova Scotia is ready to celebrate Canada's Centennial of Flight on September 12 and 13 at Yarmouth Airport. Aerial performances and ground displays will be represented by aircraft from 12 Wing Shearwater, 14 Wing Greenwood, 3 Wing Bagotville and...
The Red Arrows: aerial acrobats - Telegraph.co.uk
Wing Commander Jas Hawker is the man who choreographs the world-famous Red Arrows, the aerial display team who travel the globe performing breath-taking ...
Red Arrows entertain record-breaking crowd at Hoylake Lifeboat Day - Wirral Globe
A BREATHTAKING new display from the Red Arrows brought this year's Hoylake Lifeboat Day to a close. A record-breaking crowd of more than ...
Air show dazzles flight buffs; Crowd awed by precision manoeuvres by marylee
By Don Lajoie, 31 August 2009 Reprinted from the Windsor Star There was thunder and lightning in the skies over Windsor on the weekend but it had nothing to do with the weather. The thunder came from the jet engines of some of the most awe-inspiring military aircraft in the Canadian and U.S. arsenals and the lightning was [...]
Not only green, arrows are tricolor - Corriere della Sera
Arrows Tricolori their performances regularly take place in Tripoli. But despite repeated requests by the Libyan authorities, the performance is ...
3000 feet up! Evanston Airport delivers on awe-inspiring air show ... - Uinta County Herald
The Pitts Special, designed in 1944, was the top stunt plane until the rise of the aerobatic monoplane in the 1980s, and it's still a potent aerobatic ...
B-25D 'Grumpy' retraces WWII flight path from AOPA News
The route across Canada and the North Atlantic that World War II ferry pilots used to supply the Allies with aircraft and supplies is active once again: A restored B-25D Mitchell is retracing the route.
Connie restoration proceeding by Curt Epstein
The Lockheed L-1649A Starliner was the queen of the skies in the late 1950s and it might again become a familiar sight aloft, according to officials at Lufthansa Technik. In cooperation with the company’s Tulsa, Okla. subsidiary, BizJet, restoration on one of the 50-year-old propliners is under way at a specially built hangar at Auburn-Lewiston Airport in Maine.
The Starliner, the final iteration of Lockheed...
Tuskogee Airman, lawyer dies at 88 from Air Force Times - News
BILOXI, Miss. — Former Tuskegee Airman Robert Decatur, who became a judge and civil rights lawyer, will be buried in Biloxi this week.Decatur died Aug. 19 at his home in Titusville, Fla., at age 88. Burial is at Biloxi National Cemetery with full military honors at 11 a.m. Thursday.He graduated from St. Leo High School in Chicago and received his pilot's license from the University of Akron. He earned a law degree from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.Decatur was selected for the Tuskegee Airmen Experiment during...
Chris Magee-Marine Ace, Israeli fighter pilot, bank robber from Military Photos by KB
...In early September, he joined the newly-reorganized VMF-214, soon to be dubbed The Black Sheep, commanded by the legendary Greg Boyington. Chris missed out on their first combat mission, but two days later, on Sept. 16, he found all the aerial fighting he could have wished for. In the melee, the Black Sheep tallied eleven confirmed kills; Chris got a probable. On the 17th, they moved up to that most disagreeable of bases, Munda ...
EAA AirVenture 2009 by Matt Thurber
That the annual EAA AirVenture show offers a mouth-watering and impossible-to-swallow cornucopia of everything aviation was never more evident than at this year’s event, where a colossal Airbus A380 shared the ramp at AeroShell Square with Burt Rutan’s most outlandish creation yet, the spaceship-launching Virgin Galactic WhiteKnightTwo built by the talented crew at Scaled Composites. The two giants were joined by all the usual visitors and some other new arrivals, including the first-ever remotely flown UAV to land at Oshkosh, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Predator B, whose operator flew in air-conditioned comfort in a trailer on the flight line while piloting the UAV to Wittman Regional Airport on July 14. ...
70 Years Ago Today from About.com Military History
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II. The largest conflict in history, World War II consumed the globe between 1939 and 1945. On September 1, 1939, the war began when German forces crossed the border into Poland. Commemorative events began in Poland today with the first taking place at Gdansk near where the opening shots were fired.
Double amputee flies from Wright Squawks by Roger Chua
Video and abridged text from Chicago Tribune
Tammy Duckworth, the former Black Hawk helicopter pilot who lost both her legs to a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq, hoists herself into a single-engine Piper Cherokee.
Now it's blue skies for Duckworth, who's flying again.
For the 41-year-old assistant U.S. veterans affairs secretary, flying equals freedom, even if it's not adrenaline-drenched combat duty but sailing over exurban Virginia's forests and farms. ...
Brazier tries his hand at flying - Politics.co.uk
Julian Brazier spent a day at the Northamptonshire track and was treated to an aerobatic plane ride courtesy of renowned American pilot, Richard "Smokey" ...
From USAFE Live: USAFE Commander visits NASCAR from U.S. Air Force Live
... As I stood beside Reed Sorenson's mother, a four-ship of A-10s from the Michigan ANG passed overhead and she said, "seeing your airplanes overhead always takes my breath away." Me too. ...
Evergreen Aviation's 747 "supertanker" makes retardant air drops ... - OregonLive.com
Mike mcmillan/Alaska Division of forestryevergreen Aviation's 747 "supertanker" makes a retardant drop last month on the ...
EAA Helps Kids Take Flight - WHIZ
The Experimental Aircraft Association will be taking kids age eight through 18 on a free flight as part of their Young Eagles program. ...
XCOR milestone from RLV and Space Transport News
Happy Birthday to XCOR. The company is 10 years old today. Time flies and I expect the Lynx will as well within another birthday or two.
Skydiver Films 10,000 Foot Freefall into Steel Shed [Luckiest Guy Ever] from Gizmodo by Rosa Golijan
Somehow the thrill of skydiving is lost after you've jumped out of a plane, had both parachutes fail, passed out before hitting the roof of a steel shed, and walked away. With video of the fall. [YouTube]
Shortest and longest scheduled commercial flight from Wright Squawks by Roger Chua
Seaplanes Anyone? from Views From The Left Seat
The Heartland Warrior
The September edition of the Heartland Warrior is now available. The official E-Paper of the 434th Air Refueling Wing includes eight pages of stories, photos and features on the units, people and organizations of Grissom ARB. Top stories include: Grissom medics train at Mountain Home, new licenses required for GOV operation, changes to AF fitness test and DoD and VA work to create electronic records. To read this issue of the Heartland Warrior, click here.
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Learn about the primary causes of WWI, fly a plane in a flight simulator or experience the rotational force known as torque, during the 2009 WWI Dawn Patrol Rendezvous at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
On Friday, Sept. 25, the museum's education division will present ...
Aerial Aerobatics - OregonLive.com
The Thunderbirds didn't disappoint with their streaking precision formations. Heads were on swivels to try to pick out each of the dots on the horizon, ...
B-2 Bomber heading to Kirksville - Kirksville Daily Express and Daily News
A very, very large addition has been made to the 2009 Depot Inn & Suites Kirksville Regional Air Festival. According to a press release, ...
Nova Scotia International Air Show Ready to Roar from Aviation.ca News
Nova Scotia is ready to celebrate Canada's Centennial of Flight on September 12 and 13 at Yarmouth Airport. Aerial performances and ground displays will be represented by aircraft from 12 Wing Shearwater, 14 Wing Greenwood, 3 Wing Bagotville and...
The Red Arrows: aerial acrobats - Telegraph.co.uk
Wing Commander Jas Hawker is the man who choreographs the world-famous Red Arrows, the aerial display team who travel the globe performing breath-taking ...
Red Arrows entertain record-breaking crowd at Hoylake Lifeboat Day - Wirral Globe
A BREATHTAKING new display from the Red Arrows brought this year's Hoylake Lifeboat Day to a close. A record-breaking crowd of more than ...
Air show dazzles flight buffs; Crowd awed by precision manoeuvres by marylee
By Don Lajoie, 31 August 2009 Reprinted from the Windsor Star There was thunder and lightning in the skies over Windsor on the weekend but it had nothing to do with the weather. The thunder came from the jet engines of some of the most awe-inspiring military aircraft in the Canadian and U.S. arsenals and the lightning was [...]
Not only green, arrows are tricolor - Corriere della Sera
Arrows Tricolori their performances regularly take place in Tripoli. But despite repeated requests by the Libyan authorities, the performance is ...
LYBIA:TRICOLOUR WAKE CLOSES FLIGTH DEMONSTRATION CONTROVERSY - ANSAmed
(ansamed) - ROME - A flyover of Tripoli by the flight demonstration squadron of the Italian Air Force marked with a long white, red, and green wake, ...
(ansamed) - ROME - A flyover of Tripoli by the flight demonstration squadron of the Italian Air Force marked with a long white, red, and green wake, ...
3000 feet up! Evanston Airport delivers on awe-inspiring air show ... - Uinta County Herald
The Pitts Special, designed in 1944, was the top stunt plane until the rise of the aerobatic monoplane in the 1980s, and it's still a potent aerobatic ...
B-25D 'Grumpy' retraces WWII flight path from AOPA News
The route across Canada and the North Atlantic that World War II ferry pilots used to supply the Allies with aircraft and supplies is active once again: A restored B-25D Mitchell is retracing the route.
Connie restoration proceeding by Curt Epstein
The Lockheed L-1649A Starliner was the queen of the skies in the late 1950s and it might again become a familiar sight aloft, according to officials at Lufthansa Technik. In cooperation with the company’s Tulsa, Okla. subsidiary, BizJet, restoration on one of the 50-year-old propliners is under way at a specially built hangar at Auburn-Lewiston Airport in Maine.
The Starliner, the final iteration of Lockheed...
Tuskogee Airman, lawyer dies at 88 from Air Force Times - News
BILOXI, Miss. — Former Tuskegee Airman Robert Decatur, who became a judge and civil rights lawyer, will be buried in Biloxi this week.Decatur died Aug. 19 at his home in Titusville, Fla., at age 88. Burial is at Biloxi National Cemetery with full military honors at 11 a.m. Thursday.He graduated from St. Leo High School in Chicago and received his pilot's license from the University of Akron. He earned a law degree from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.Decatur was selected for the Tuskegee Airmen Experiment during...
Chris Magee-Marine Ace, Israeli fighter pilot, bank robber from Military Photos by KB
...In early September, he joined the newly-reorganized VMF-214, soon to be dubbed The Black Sheep, commanded by the legendary Greg Boyington. Chris missed out on their first combat mission, but two days later, on Sept. 16, he found all the aerial fighting he could have wished for. In the melee, the Black Sheep tallied eleven confirmed kills; Chris got a probable. On the 17th, they moved up to that most disagreeable of bases, Munda ...
EAA AirVenture 2009 by Matt Thurber
That the annual EAA AirVenture show offers a mouth-watering and impossible-to-swallow cornucopia of everything aviation was never more evident than at this year’s event, where a colossal Airbus A380 shared the ramp at AeroShell Square with Burt Rutan’s most outlandish creation yet, the spaceship-launching Virgin Galactic WhiteKnightTwo built by the talented crew at Scaled Composites. The two giants were joined by all the usual visitors and some other new arrivals, including the first-ever remotely flown UAV to land at Oshkosh, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Predator B, whose operator flew in air-conditioned comfort in a trailer on the flight line while piloting the UAV to Wittman Regional Airport on July 14. ...
70 Years Ago Today from About.com Military History
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II. The largest conflict in history, World War II consumed the globe between 1939 and 1945. On September 1, 1939, the war began when German forces crossed the border into Poland. Commemorative events began in Poland today with the first taking place at Gdansk near where the opening shots were fired.
Double amputee flies from Wright Squawks by Roger Chua
Video and abridged text from Chicago Tribune
Tammy Duckworth, the former Black Hawk helicopter pilot who lost both her legs to a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq, hoists herself into a single-engine Piper Cherokee.
Now it's blue skies for Duckworth, who's flying again.
For the 41-year-old assistant U.S. veterans affairs secretary, flying equals freedom, even if it's not adrenaline-drenched combat duty but sailing over exurban Virginia's forests and farms. ...
Brazier tries his hand at flying - Politics.co.uk
Julian Brazier spent a day at the Northamptonshire track and was treated to an aerobatic plane ride courtesy of renowned American pilot, Richard "Smokey" ...
From USAFE Live: USAFE Commander visits NASCAR from U.S. Air Force Live
... As I stood beside Reed Sorenson's mother, a four-ship of A-10s from the Michigan ANG passed overhead and she said, "seeing your airplanes overhead always takes my breath away." Me too. ...
Evergreen Aviation's 747 "supertanker" makes retardant air drops ... - OregonLive.com
Mike mcmillan/Alaska Division of forestryevergreen Aviation's 747 "supertanker" makes a retardant drop last month on the ...
EAA Helps Kids Take Flight - WHIZ
The Experimental Aircraft Association will be taking kids age eight through 18 on a free flight as part of their Young Eagles program. ...
XCOR milestone from RLV and Space Transport News
Happy Birthday to XCOR. The company is 10 years old today. Time flies and I expect the Lynx will as well within another birthday or two.
Skydiver Films 10,000 Foot Freefall into Steel Shed [Luckiest Guy Ever] from Gizmodo by Rosa Golijan
Somehow the thrill of skydiving is lost after you've jumped out of a plane, had both parachutes fail, passed out before hitting the roof of a steel shed, and walked away. With video of the fall. [YouTube]
Shortest and longest scheduled commercial flight from Wright Squawks by Roger Chua
Seaplanes Anyone? from Views From The Left Seat
The Heartland Warrior
The September edition of the Heartland Warrior is now available. The official E-Paper of the 434th Air Refueling Wing includes eight pages of stories, photos and features on the units, people and organizations of Grissom ARB. Top stories include: Grissom medics train at Mountain Home, new licenses required for GOV operation, changes to AF fitness test and DoD and VA work to create electronic records. To read this issue of the Heartland Warrior, click here.
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