ICAS Convention - Day 1 from Airspeed by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper)
I’m in Las Vegas covering the annual meeting of the International Council of Airshows and its 2009 annual convention.
ICAS’s own description says it best.
“ICAS is a not-for-profit trade association composed of professionals working in the air show community. Approximately 40 percent of the organization’s members are air show event organizers from the United States, Canada and the rest of the world. Another 40 percent of the organization’s members are individuals or organizations that perform at air shows. And the remaining 20 percent are support service providers who offer ancillary services (concessions, insurance, photography, etc.) to the air show community. ...
Airspeed Releases White Paper at ICAS - Flying New Media and Social Media Riders
from Airspeed by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper)
In connection with my appearance on the new-media panel at the ICAS convention, I launched a white paper.
As you know, I’m all about new-media types getting media ride seats at airshows and otherwise. If you’re an Airspeed listener/viewer, you know what new media and social media can do with audio, video, and other content generated from these rides. You know how this medium can go places and achieve depth of storytelling that traditional media hasn’t even heard of. For you and me, it’s a no-brainer to put a new-media rider up in the aircraft. But it doesn’t help to preach to the choir.
There are airshow performers, organizers, and sponsors who need good info about what new media and social media are in the first place. And then they need a concise statement of the benefit of flying new-media personalities. What it can and can’t do. And how to vet a potential new-media rider.
So I wrote up this little white paper. I brought 35 copies of the white paper to the presentation (all I could put together in the time I had) and they went like hotcakes. ...
Looks like a dangerous job to me . . . from FlightAware > Discussions
...and then there is Paul Steiner, Red Bull performer from Austria . . .At nearly 6,000 feet Steiner exits the cockpit of his Red Bull sailplane then proceeds to climb onto the wing as the aircraft begins a roll over. As it continues over, Steiner keeps moving until he is mounted on the underside of the fuselage while the aircraft is upside down. All this before jumping off the plane and sky diving down to the ground. ...
Aviation marks centenary since first manned flight - The Age
AUSTRALIAN aviation turned 100 at the weekend, marking a century since the country's first manned flight in a heavier-than-air aircraft. ...
Gunner's B-29 flew 30 missions over Japan - Jackson Sun
Those statistics dwarfed its predecessor, the popular B-17 Flying Fortress. Plus, it had a pressurized cabin and remote-controlled machine-gun turrets. ...
Extraordinary Christmas Gifts:How About a Flight in a WW II Bomber or a Hot ... - MichiganPR.net
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World's 10 Fastest Aircrafts - Sky's No Limit For Them - NitroBahn
They are the emperors of the sky – watching over us with some of the deadliest arsenal tucked right under their bellies. Their awesome power never fails to make us wonder if they weren’t unreal. They can soar up there much faster than the roars of their engines. They are some of the ultimate man-made machines, and heck, they sure can fly !!!
Lets have a look at some of mankind’s most incredible innovations – The 10 fastest aircrafts that grace the sky!! ...
Young Eagles will take off from Butters Field - The Item
BISHOPVILLE – Expect to see airplanes flying around town on Saturday as the Young Eagles hit the skies once again. The Lee County Airport Commission will host Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps students from Lee Central ...
Cadets reach for the skies - Bendigo Advertiser
... of Australian Air Force cadets took part in adventure flights at the weekend, giving them the experience of flying in a military aerobatic plane. ...
Scouts fly for their badges - Florida Today
At the end of Saturday's event at the Emil Buehler Center for Aviation Training and Research at the Melbourne International Airport, Dave and about 120 of ...
Virgin Galactic unveiled - BigPond News
British billionaire Sir Richard Branson will unveil a craft today that could soon carry tourists on an out-of-this-world trip into space for a mere $215 000.
The Mojave desert, between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, will stage the roll-out of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo the brainchild of aerospace engineer BURT RUTAN.
SS2 can carry six passengers and two pilots with plans to begin test flights next year and commercial flights between 2011 and 2012.
Virgin Galactic says about 300 adventurers from around the world have paid a total of 43 million dollars in deposits to guarantee spots on the carbon composite wonder machine.
Morgan Freeman buys plane as pre-Christmas gift! from Diamond Pilots
Oscar-award winning actor Morgan Freeman has treated himself to an early Christmas present with a private plane.
The actor, who endured a stint in the US Air Force in his younger days, began learning to fly in 2002 before earning his pilot's licence and he has now bought his first jet for a journey around the world, reports buzzhollywood.com.
"I'm flying from here (US) to South Africa. Then, since we've got some business down there, we're going to Botswana... then we're going to go to Kenya, northern Kenya, because we've been invited to visit a local tribe. The reason we're doing all this is because I've got my own plane. Brand new. Me and my co-pilot (will be flying it)," he said.
Freeman also brags about his plane. ...
Formation Flight Sunday - Planeshots
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