Bahrain International Airshow set to take off in style - AME Info
The debut Bahrain International Airshow takes place in January 2010 organised by Farnborough International. Phil Blizzard talks to Amanda Stainer, ...
Air show in Tiruchi next month - Hindu
TIRUCHI: Suryakiran, the aerobatic team of the Indian Air Force, will stage an air show at the Tiruchi airport on January 21. The team, based at Bidar in ...
Easter trading rules to remain - Otago Daily Times
The next biennial Wanaka Over Warbirds airshow, which brings tens of thousands of visitors to the area, will be held at Easter next year.
Air show scheduled
Eglin officials confirmed today that the base will host an air show in 2010. "75 Years of Eglin Pride" is the theme for the air show, scheduled for April 10-11. A wide variety of aerial performers, including the US Air Force ...
2010 Prairie Air Show will feature 'dogfights' - Peoria Journal Star
Prairie Air Show organizer Brett Krause summed up the aviation extravaganza lined up for next summer with three words: aerobatics, ...
Students work with Red Arrows squad - This is Scunthorpe
THE Red Arrows have left engineering students from North Lindsey College flying high after a unique work experience placement. Four lucky students bagged ...
Tickets to 'Living Legends' awards available - General Aviation News
The seventh Annual "Living Legends of Aviation" Awards tickets are now available. Presented by Learjet, the awards dinner is often referred to as the "Academy Awards of Aviation. With last year's advance reservations and event sponsor tickets assigned, there are less than 200 tickets available, organizers note.... read the rest of Tickets to 'Living Legends' awards available (344 words)
Female aviators to receive career recognition - Dayton Daily News
WEST ALEXANDRIA — Retired military pilots, a onetime instructor for America's World War II aviators and a chief training pilot for the Boeing Co. are among ... They will be honored during Women in Aviation's annual conference in Orlando, Fla., at the concluding banquet Feb. 27. The organization is based at ...
December 15 Wichita Aero Club 'On-Air' Summit Will Be Simulcast on the Internet - AMTOnline.com
The final monthly luncheon of the Wichita Aero Club on December 15 featuring the senior executives of Wichita's airframe ...
Music and Aviation by Steve Tupper
My piece of Let's Go Flying is about exploring the envelope of aviation. And this is a little reminder that that envelope isn't strictly limited to stall speeds and G tolerance. Sometimes it's about demonstrating that other instrument rating.
And, by instrument, I mean musical instrument.
I just returned from the convention of the International Council of Air Shows (ICAS) in las Vegas. Hundreds of men and women who spend the summer flying upside down for the crowds gather in December each year to talk about safety, marketing, organization, and where they'll fly next summer.
One of the highlights of the ICAS convention this year was the Greg Poe –sponsored Monday night appearance by country music giant Aaron Tippin. Aaron, in addition to having made hits and ....
Wasabi interview on Airsports.tv - Wasabi Air Racing
Thank you Nigel Boettiger and Jeff Zaltman!
Renowned Civil Air Patrol subchaser dies - General Aviation News
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, seated left, presents the first two Air Medals ever awarded by the U.S. to CAP subchasers Maj. Hugh Sharp Jr., center, and 1st Lt. Eddie Edwards, second from right, for the rescue of 1st Lt. Henry Cross. Looking on is James Landis, wartime chief of the Office of Civilian Defense.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, seated left, presents the first two Air Medals ever awarded by the U.S. to CAP subchasers Maj. Hugh Sharp Jr., center, and 1st Lt. Eddie Edwards, second from right, for the rescue of 1st Lt. Henry Cross. Looking on is James Landis, wartime chief of the Office of Civilian Defense.
One of Civil Air Patrol's most famous World War II "subchasers," honored for heroism by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died Dec. 5 after a long illness. He was 96.
Col. Edmond I. "Eddie" Edwards was widely known as the first Coastal Patrol (later Civil Air Patrol) pilot to spot a Nazi U-boat and radio its position to U.S. naval forces. The vessel crash-dived and headed farther out to sea, where it was less of a menace to U.S. shipping. This occurred March 10, 1942, near the start of the war.
Gone West: Air Medal Of Honor Winner Eddie Edwards - Aero-News Network
Famed WWII CAP Pilot Involved In Dramatic Rescue At Sea 96-year-old Eddie Edwards, a famed WWII Civil Air Patrol pilot and a winner of the first Air Medal of WWII to be presented personally by the President of the United States to any U.S. airman, has passed away. Edwards accepted his Air Medal from Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House Oval Office in 1942.
Luther Smith, member of famed Tuskeegee Airmen, dies at 89 - Delaware County Daily TimesFamed WWII CAP Pilot Involved In Dramatic Rescue At Sea 96-year-old Eddie Edwards, a famed WWII Civil Air Patrol pilot and a winner of the first Air Medal of WWII to be presented personally by the President of the United States to any U.S. airman, has passed away. Edwards accepted his Air Medal from Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House Oval Office in 1942.
During the war, he escorted B-24 Liberators and B-17 Flying Fortresses over Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and southwest Germany. ...
Tuskegee Airman dies at 89 - Air Force Times
RADNOR, Pa. — Luther H. Smith, a Tuskegee Airman who later worked as an aerospace engineer, has died in suburban Philadelphia. He was 89.Smith's family says he died Wednesday at Bryn Mawr Hospital. He had been hospitalized frequently over the last two years but attended the inauguration of President Barack Obama in January.Smith flew 133 combat missions with the Alabama-based 332nd Fighter Group of the Army Air Corps. On his last mission he parachuted from his burning plane and was captured by German soldiers in 1944.Smith retired in 1947 and earned his engineering degree in his home state of Iowa. He was an engineer for 37 years at General Electric.Smith was one of about 300 original Tuskegee Airmen awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2007.
RADNOR, Pa. — Luther H. Smith, a Tuskegee Airman who later worked as an aerospace engineer, has died in suburban Philadelphia. He was 89.Smith's family says he died Wednesday at Bryn Mawr Hospital. He had been hospitalized frequently over the last two years but attended the inauguration of President Barack Obama in January.Smith flew 133 combat missions with the Alabama-based 332nd Fighter Group of the Army Air Corps. On his last mission he parachuted from his burning plane and was captured by German soldiers in 1944.Smith retired in 1947 and earned his engineering degree in his home state of Iowa. He was an engineer for 37 years at General Electric.Smith was one of about 300 original Tuskegee Airmen awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2007.
Edmund Ladendorff Jr., 84 - NorthJersey.com
He was a lieutenant who navigated a B-17 Flying Fortress in World War II, and his crew was credited with dropping the final bombs on enemy territory to end ...
Mary Margaret Cummings - Newzjunky.com
Mr. Coughlin, a crew member of a B-17 bomber, failed to return from a bombing mission in the Munich-Augsburg area of Germany on Apr. 24, 1944. On Jan. ...
A Day in Hell - Black and White
Probably are friendly," tail gunner Robert Donahue reported to pilot Bill Tune from his rear perch on a B-17 bomber dubbed Tail End Charlie. ...
Index for Powder Puff Derby of 1929, by Gene Nora Jessen - You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
The Powder Puff Derby of 1929: The True Story of the First Women's Cross-Country Air Race, by Gene Nora Jessen. Sourcebooks. 2002.
Great British Bombers – from the specialists at Aeroplane - Aeroplane Monthly News
Great British BombersAn unmissable tribute to the aeroplanes and airmen who took the fight to Britain's enemies from World War One to the Cold War.
Warrior Rises From The Depths - All Things Aviaton
On November 30th, 2009 another World War II warbird emerged from 250 feet of water near Chicago, Il to reach daylight once again after all of these years. An F6F-3, flown by Lieutenant Walter Elcock, has been recovered from the icy grip of Lake Michigan. The recovery effort for this aircraft was funded, in part, by [...]
Entertainment abounds this winter at aviation museum - Gulf Breeze News
From special discounts to big-band entertainment, the National Naval Aviation Museum has plenty to offer visitors this winter. The Museum will hold two free ...
Douglas DC-3 museum opened at Timehri - Stabroek News
... Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn in a drive to preserve Guyana's aviation history, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported. ...
Fly the friendly skies - Thousand Oaks Acorn
The Commemorative Air Force Southern California Wing has a special program to let the public experience flight in an authentic warbird, a North American ...
A damned odd illustration - The Unwanted Blog
This interview with Bill Sweetman on MSNBC about the RQ-170 Sentinel shows a side-view of an odd version of the Horton 229, crediting it to "Liberation.fr." I took a look at the French-language website and found the relevant page HERE. There is it claimed that the Sentinel is based on the Horton design of 1945… a rather lame yet common sort of "the Nazis invented friggen' EVERYTHING" claim. The only thing the RQ-170 and the Ho 229 share is a flying wing configuration, which is basically like saying that the Boeing 787 is a copy of the Messerschmitt 262.
But the really odd thing is the drawing of the Ho 229 that was used. See if'n y'all can find at least one really odd design feature…
On This Day in Aviation History: December 10th from NYCAviation.com .
Italian fishermen net historic 'Jug' at sea - AF.mil Photos
Wreckage believed to be that of a P-47 Thunderbolt was recovered from the bottom of the Adriatic Sea May 12, 2009, by an Italian fishing boat crew. An Italian aero club signed for the wreckage during a Nov. 14, 2009, ceremony in Chioggia, Italy, and hope to recover a serial number from the landging gear during their restoration project expected to take two years. The serial number is a key to Air Force historians so they can trace the aircraft to a specific unit and in identifying who was piloting the aircraft the day it crashed. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Michael O'Connor)
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WWWII Army Air Force fighter - AF.mil Photos
Maj. Shawna Kimbrell and 1st Lt. Justin Cleveland talk with Italian aviation enthusiast Sergio Maron about the World War II Army Air Force fighter wreckage found in the Adriatic Sea during a ceremony Nov. 14, 2009, at the Chioggia Lagoon in Italy. The wreckage, believed to be a P-47 Thunderbolt that crashed into the Adriatic in the mid-1940s, was recovered during a fishing expedition in May 2009. Major Kimbrell and Lieutenant Cleveland are F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots from Aviano Air Base, Italy. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman LaVel D. Sterling)
Maj. Shawna Kimbrell and 1st Lt. Justin Cleveland talk with Italian aviation enthusiast Sergio Maron about the World War II Army Air Force fighter wreckage found in the Adriatic Sea during a ceremony Nov. 14, 2009, at the Chioggia Lagoon in Italy. The wreckage, believed to be a P-47 Thunderbolt that crashed into the Adriatic in the mid-1940s, was recovered during a fishing expedition in May 2009. Major Kimbrell and Lieutenant Cleveland are F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots from Aviano Air Base, Italy. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman LaVel D. Sterling)
Old Spruce Goose hangar is for sale - Los Angeles Times
Aviator Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose hangar and a large chunk of land approved for office and retail development in Playa Vista are now for sale through a ...
New film shows Detroit's contributions to war effort - Detroit Free Press
"My own father, who served as a bombardier in a B-17, died about seven years ago. I wish I had put a camera on him." Famie, who lives in Novi, ...
Spitfix! Guinness World Record attempt ar RAF Museum Hendon, London Saturday December 19 - Aeroplane Monthly News
Spitfix! Guinness World Record attempt ar RAF Museum, London Sat 19 Dec 2009To celebrate the launch of Arthur Ward's The Boy's Book of Airfix Ebury Press is staging an attempt to create a Guinness World Record for the largest number of model Spitfires made in a day, in conjunction with Airfix and the RAF Museum.
Perfect Gift for Aviation Enthusiasts - Flightstory.net
You're looking for something to surprise a fellow aviation enthusiast or maybe even for yourself? Well, I've found the perfect gift!
Aviation humor and cartoon books from aviation-humor.com!
Aviation Humor Books
Each book contains brilliant cartoons, stories and anecdotes from the fantastic world of aviation. Some of the stories may have really happened, some just picture funny situations that, in some way, you may encounter everyday in aviation industry. ...
Extraordinary Christmas Gifts: How About a Flight in a WW II Bomber or a Hot ... - NewsReleaseWire.com
"The B-17 Yankee Lady and the B-25 Yankee Warrior are both fully restored aircraft. Passengers become part of the air crew and can view each crew position ...
Get Credit for Young Eagles Flights in 2009 - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association
As 2009 winds down, this is a good time to make sure all of your Young Eagle registration forms have been returned to EAA headquarters. Check your flight bag, desk, or airplane seatback for any wayward forms and return them as soon as possible.
Santa flies in Sunday - Orangeburg Times Democrat
The local Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 1367 in Orangeburg will sponsor its third annual "Santa Fly-In" at 2 pm Sunday, Dec. ...
NORAD Officials Ready to Track Santa's Flight - AVIATION-NEWS
North American Aerospace Defense Command officials are getting ready to track Santa Claus. The "NORAD Tracks Santa" Web site, http://www.noradsanta.org, features holiday games and activities that change daily. The site is available in seven languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese. On Dec. 24, the Web site will stream videos, captured by NORAD "Santa Cams," [...]
The Virgin party's aftermath - NewSpace Journal
At about 7:45 pm Monday night, with the Virgin Galactic post-rollout party in full swing in Mojave, the person who had been announcing routine bus departures to various hotels made a more urgent announcement: everyone was asked to "evacuate" the tents where the event took place because of a high wind warning, and to instead board the waiting buses to leave. The video below shows what happened to those tents after hurricane-force wind gusts ripped through them. Fortunately, that destruction took place after we left.
SS2 rolled in with the wind - RLV and Space Transport News
The SpaceShipTwo rollout will be remembered for several reasons:
Misc. SS2 related items:
/-- Grounding innovation? - Jeff Scialabba/Ayn Rand Center
/-- Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo - Entrepreneur.com
/-- SpaceShipTwo Readied For Testing - Aviation Week
Picture of the Week: AVweb's Flying Photography Showcase - AVwebFlash
If you're tempted to describe this photo from Jeff Randall of Abilene, Texas in sentimental terms, there's a good reason. According to his comments, Jeff some real quality time with the setting sun and this Cessna 150, shooting from all different angles and with different exposures until he managed to get just the right photo. It paid off, with one or two of Jeff's photos giving us that warm, fuzzy feeling that normally only comes from a lazy afternoon chat with a cherished old friend.Paris Air Show, 1959 - Warbirds Online by Scott
Newsreel footage of the 1959 Paris Air Show.
Republic P-43 Lancer - Planeshots on 12/10/09
B-24H flying high - Warbirds Online
Bleriot……….Photo by Tom Ba. This replica (?)... - Planeshots on 12/9/09
Aviation Nation 2009 - Nellis AFB, North Las Vegas - Fence Check Forums
Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet, paint scheme celebrating one million flight hours in the French Air Force, 2008 - xplanes
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