Saturday, December 5, 2009

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Blue Angels Eye Cobb For 2010 Show - WSBtv.com
The air show is scheduled for Oct. 16-17, 2010 and is scheduled to include the Blue Angels, the Canadian Snowbirds and civilian aerobatic acts. ...

OPINION: Keep teaching Pearl Harbor's lessons - Newsday
Andrew Parton is executive director of the Cradle of Aviation Museum in East Garden City. Nearly 70 years later, the lessons of Pearl Harbor are left to ...

Dual Spitfire appearance at airshow in doubt after crash - Otago Daily Times
Mr Brooker's crash landing has wrecked plans for an appearance by New Zealand's two Spitfires at the Warbirds Over Wairarapa airshow in January. ...


Air show by Sarang/ Indian Air Force at Marine Drive, Ernakulam - CS
Today there was a beautiful Air Show by Sarang, IAF for the public at Marine Drive, Ernakulam.
The first public display of the Sarang Team was during the Asian Aerospace at Singapore in 2004.
History
In 1972, IAF, the fourth largest Air Force the world over, laid down the requirement for design and development of a new helicopter as a part of its modernisation drive. The responsibility of the project was given to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. The first prototype helicopter flew in 1992, and was named the Advanced Light Helicopter ALH. The Sarang Helicopter Display Team has its genesis ...

Dawlish Carnival Airshow returns for 2010 by Flightline UK
Further good news – the Dawlish Carnival Airshow will return in 2010 on Thursday 19th August. The show provides some spectacular views of the displays from the beach and the surrounding cliffs. It's shares it's date with the first day of the Bournemouth Air Festival which will no doubt help in attracting some good participation.

Patricia flies a MiG fighter jet - Malaysia Star
She is Mejar Patricia Yapp of the "Taufan-Ganas" aerobatic team from the Kuantan-based 17th RMAF squadron that is taking part in aerial stunts during the ...

No bloomers, but historic flight did end in the drink from www.smh.com.au
ON THE dunes of Narrabeen beach 100 years ago today, a 30-year-old architect made aviation history by becoming the first Australian woman to fly.
But Florence Taylor faced one problem no previous aviator had encountered. ...

Roadrunner Sammy Gamble remembered - Roadrunner News by TD Barnes
Roadrunners Internationale mourns the sudden death of one of the first members of the Oxcart team, Sammy Gamble of Las Vegas, NV. Sammy was a member of the EG&G Special Projects team who, starting in 1959, worked with Lockheed and the CIA to prepare the Groom Lake facility for the arrival of the A-12 planes for testing. Sammy participated in the RCS phase of Project Oxcart, working with Roadrunner President T.D. Barnes and members Davey and Denise Haen, Debbie Dye, and Jim Freedman on Project Oxcart, the MiG Exploitation programs Have Doughnut, Have Drill, Have Ferry, the Have Blue stealth, and other projects that remain classified today. Remembrance of Sammy's life will commence at 10:00 a.m. with flag services at 11:30 at the Davis Funeral Home on Charleston in Las Vegas on Saturday, December 12. We extend our condolences to the Gamble family.

Stanley A. Stachnik -- Rochester - Post-Bulletin
... as a navigational and flight instructor in the United States Army Air Corps, and flew 29 combat missions over northern Europe as a navigator on a B-17. ...

Finding a Rightful Owner - WSAZ-TV
Meek discovered Barkalow was a B-17 bomber pilot in World War II. She found his obituary and learned he was shot down in Germany, killed in action at 30 ...

CAF Minnesota Wing Updates by Commemorative Air Force, MN Wing
Bird-Size Plane Wins *Air Race* at 140 M.P.H.! - From a 1929 headline
Bird-Size Plane Wins Air Race at 140 M.P.H.! STREAKING low above the ground, a tiny silver plane whines toward the pylon at the National Air Races held at Los Angeles. With speed which seems more comparable to that of a projectile than ...

Museum docent flew Marine One - The Desert Sun
On just about any given day, World War II veterans can be found at the Palm Springs Air Museum, working as docents, educating the public about that fateful ...

Tulsa Air and Space Museum Director Takes Oath for Naval Reserves - News On 6
Bridenstine will be flying an E2C plane out of New Orleans for the Naval Reserves. He flew both E2's and F-18's in Afghanistan and Iraq. ...

MPs envision Science and Technology Museum beside aviation museum, NRC - Ottawa Citizen
Both Royal Galipeau and Mauril BĂ©langer want it next to the Canada Aviation Museum and National Research Council, making a science and technology "campus. ...

Aviation Museum 'dead' - mdjonline
Having run out of funding, the Aviation Museum and Discovery Center has ceased operations, terminating its three employees and closing its Roswell Street office, museum board members said Thursday.
"We are shut down as of now," AMDC Vice Chairman Micky Blackwell said. "We're dead."
Meantime, a vote by the Marietta Museum of History's board to obtain the aviation museum's assets could come as early as Tuesday. That's when the history museum board will conduct a special-called meeting on the issue, Brent Brown, chairman of the history board, said. ...

Blue-sky thinking - Financial Times
Supermarine Spitfires command the highest prices among warbirds, not just because of their distinctive, graceful shape, but also because of their vital role ...

On This Day in Aviation History: December 4th from NYCAviation.com

Looking Back - Oroville Veterans Memorial Park
Stu Shaner's newspaper articles containing historical news clippings and comments about Oroville's veterans.

Aviation History X – Treasure Trove @ FlightGlobal by Gad
I recently stumbled upon a very exciting resource for aviation history geeks like myself. Flight Global has an archive of aviation news, pictures, cutaways, etc. from 1909 to 2005. It is an amazing resource. ...

My Wingwalker - Air & Space Magazine
If you think it's nerve-wracking on the wing, try being the one in the cockpit.

Iconic aircraft hangar for sale: "It was the Heathrow for airships in its day" by Diamond Pilots
Iconic aircraft hangar up for sale in Cardington - includes 179 acres of surrounding land and a century of aeronautical history.
Cardington's iconic airship hangar and the surrounding land has been put up for sale.
Shed Number One, the older of the two hangars, as well as 179 acres of surrounding land, was advertised on property website rightmove.co.uk this week.
Milton Keynes-based agents Knight Frank have not revealed how much the airship hangar's owners, Frontier Estates, is asking for the Grade II listed structure, which is being offered on a freehold basis.
But when the neighbouring Shed Number Two was put up for sale, without any surrounding land in 2006, the asking price was in the region of ...

A 90 Year Old High Flyer from All Things Aviation by JetAviator7
When I was instructing I recall that a lot of students assigned to me were older, and I guess the reason they were assigned to learn from me was my patience. I really enjoyed working with these budding pilots, or pilots working on additional ratings, and it taught me a lot about the elderly. In an [...]

Harrison Ford Warms Up His Engine by Geo
He is heavily involved in the "Young Eagles" program which educates and encourages young people to consider becoming pilots. … All my grandchildren have ridden in (and sometimes actually flown) Young Eagles light planes. ...

Space quest - Odessa American
The Commemorative Air Force Airpower Museum is giving visitors a chance to meet an astronaut. The 2009 "Above and Beyond" series has scheduled veteran ...

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo ready for unveil - msnbc.com
Virgin chief Richard Branson hired Rutan upon the successful conclusion of the Ansari X Prize competition to build a fleet of spaceships to take paying ...

Autaugaville plane show - WSFA
Autaugaville, AL (WSFA) - Mini-bombers and fighter planes will be in the sky for Autaugaville's air show happening today and tomorrow at Club's Landing ...

Fiction Friday: Part 2 of Chapter 1 of The Girl Aviators andthe Phantom Airship! from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
Review: No Limits: A woman pilot's search for the real Amelia Earhart from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale

Images of the Week: Northwest Douglas DC-3 from Delta Air Lines Blog
P-38 Prop Maintenance from Warbirds Online
A New Wasabi Racer Design Study? from Wasabi Air Racing

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Northrop F-15A Reporter, aka RF-61C
Northrop P-61E, a proposed escort fighter that evolved into the...
Craig Hosking of Los Angles CA. Craig developed an act...

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