Friday, December 18, 2009

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Smyrna airport director: No air show in 2010 - The Tennessean
The Blue Angels last performed in 2008 and a crowd in excess of 40000 attended that year. The Thunderbirds were the attraction in 2005 and had a slightly ...

Heart of Scotland Airshow 2010 by Flightline UK
The Heart of Scotland Airshow 2010 will be staged over 2 days (5th and 6th June, 2010) at Perth Airport. The aim of this event is to Celebrate some of the many aviation anniversaries happening in 2010.
1. The 100th Anniversary of the FIRST Scottish International Flight Meeting
staged at Lanark in 1910!
2. The 800th Anniversary of the Royal Burgh of Perth!
3. 70th Anniversary of The Battle of Britain!
4. 75th Anniversary of AST Aviation Training!
5. 50 years of AST Operations at Perth Airport!
The event also aims to raise money for some worthy local and National charities
and have a GREAT weekend of aviation from the past, the present and hopefully International too!
More details and updates to the website will be from early January 2010 – http//:www.perthairshow.co.uk

Gary Ward - 2010 Civilian Airshow Schedules from FenceCheck Forums
Gary Ward- http://www.garywardaerobatics.com/

Lisbon, Portugal signs contract to host Red Bull Air Race for 2010 from AVIATION-NEWS
The city of Lisbon will make its debut on the Red Bull Air Race calendar in 2010 when the World Championship makes a highly anticipated return to Portugal. "We were keen to keep Portugal on the calendar and Lisbon was able to fulfil all the requirements needed to host a race and take the Red Bull [...]

Video: An Evening With First Woman Thunderbird Pilot Maj. Nicole Malachowski from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
Here's the text from the video shared at YouTube, by Smithsonian Videos:
An Evening with America's First Female Thunderbird Pilot
Maj. Nicole Malachowski

December 2009 Roadrunner News
Webmaster For those who have wondered what our quarters looked like at Groom Lake in the 1960s, wonder no more. In August 1961 the essential facilities at Area 51 were completed. Three surplus U.S. Navy hangars from the Hawthorne, Nevada Naval Base were obtained, dismantled, and erected on the north side of the base, ...

FALSE EMERGENCY LANDINGS AT GROOM LAKE - Roadrunner News
In July 1957 a civilian pilot was detained when he made an emergency landing at the Watertown airstrip. Edward K. Current Jr., a Douglas Aircraft Company employee, had been on a cross country training flight when he became lost, ran low on fuel, and decided to land at Groom Lake. He was held overnight and questioned. Nevada Test Organization (NTO) security officials reported the incident to the Civil Aeronautics Administration ...

Berlin Airlift exhibit to reside at Travis Air Museum from Air Force Link Top Stories
Retired Col. Gail Halvorsen, the man known fondly as the "Candy Bomber" for his role in the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49, cut the ribbon on the Berlin Airlift Exhibit Dec. 10 at the Travis Air Museum here.
After traveling to 29 different cities, the exhibit now has a permanent home at the museum. ...

Ohio Historical Society ships two antique planes to Troy - Columbus Dispatch
... planes used for air acrobatics and racing. The WACO Air Museum & Aviation Learning Center is moving to a new location and will reopen in the spring of 2010. ...

Alberta Aviation Museum Celebrates the70th Anniversary of the British ... - Aviation.ca
Professor Rod Macleod, President of the Edmonton Aviation Heritage Society will be present to say a few words about the BCATP and the exhibit. ...

City Of Greenfield Hopes To Land Air Museum - KSBW
City planners said the Yanks Air Museum could break ground as early as next spring if it passes a permitting process. "We are gradually making progress and ...

Libraries get an early gift for Christmas to mark the centennial of flight ... - Aviation.ca
The book was written not only to celebrate Canada's centennial of flight, but also as a way to teach children about Canada's aviation history. ...

Download the 2010 calendar (both Italian and English version)! by David Cenciotti
The weblog's 2010 calendar is available for download (and print up to A3 size). Two versions available: one for Italian readers (with Italian festivities) the other one for foreign readers.

Air Force to unveil 3-D commercial from Air Force Times - News
The Air Force is going 3-D.On Friday, the service will unveil its first 3-D commercial during a special screening of "Avatar," the 3-D science-fiction film by director James Cameron opening nationwide the same day.The commercial, the first 3-D spot to be run by a military service, will premiere before a 9 a.m. showing of "Avatar" in San Antonio, according to the Air Force Recruiting Service at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.Air Force recruiting officials and advertising agency GSD&M Idea City of Austin, Texas, partnered with Screenvision to ...

XCOR wins a major customer from Personal Spaceflight
XCOR Aerospace announced this afternoon a major business development for the suborbital vehicle developer: a contract to provide suborbital space launch services for a South Korean organization. XOCR will provide and operate a Lynx Mark 2 vehicle to the Yecheon Astro Space Center under a "wet lease" model, pending export control approvals. The center will use the Lynx for "space tourism, educational, scientific and environmental monitoring missions", according to the announcement.
The center, formerly known as the Yecheon Astronomy Foundation, is not well-known, at least outside of Korea ...


New Mexico Looks at Spaceflight Liability & Immunity Legislation Again in 2010 from Spaceports
The state of New Mexico, home of Spaceport America and the launch site for commercial paying space tourists aboard the first Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo flights, is again considering spaceflight liability and immunity legislation similar to the measure killed last year by the state's legislature, reports The Las Cruces-Sun. The measure is designed to reduce insurance costs for spaceflight companies. ...

787 Coverage
Journey by Randy Tinseth
787 First Flight Video From Boeing from Things with Wings

Folland Midge, 1954 from x planes
Video: Misty Blues All Women's Skydiving Team from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale

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