Off-season entertainment - Books on Air Racing from The Pylon Place
During the off-season, when there isn't enough news to keep the fans interested, I say we take a look at our book shelves and see how Air Racing has been covered in Literature, Biographies and Nonfiction.
Did you know there are two novels written about Air Racing? The first was written by ...
Sunday, Apr 4, 2010 - Take-off of The Flight for the Human Spirit, Salina, KS from FunPlacesToFly.com Aviation Events
Come to Salina to witness the take-off of "The Flight for the Human Spirit." The take-off time is scheduled for 8:00 AM, weather permitting. This historic flight will touch down in all fifty states and cover over 19,400 miles! If you can't make it to Salina, check www.FlightHS.com in find out when it will land near you. ...
2 MiG-21s to attend RIAT 2010 - Flight International
A rare Cold War jet fighter will perform its first flying display in the UK for almost a decade when it appears at next summer's Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.
The Romanian Air Force (RoAF) has agreed to send two MiG-21 'Lancers' to the Cotswolds: one for static display and the other to take part in the flying display. It also plans to send its latest support aircraft - the C-27 Spartan - to the airshow on July 17-18.
The 'Lancer' fleet constitutes the backbone of the Romanian Air Force, performing air defence, close air support and training roles. Whilst the aircraft has more recently participated successfully in various NATO exercises, during the Cold War, it was one of the Eastern Bloc fighters feared most by the West. ...
Flying the Vulcan -- Cockpit Layout and Display Routine - Flight Image of the Day
Vulcan test pilot Martin Withers wrote this article about flying the Vulcan.
I have had a super summer in 2009 display-flying the world's only airworthy Avro Vulcan bomber - an aircraft I first got my hands on in 1971 as a co-pilot at RAF Waddington with 44 Sqn. I went on to do a tour as a captain and later had the honour of taking the aircraft into battle during the Falklands War in 1982, on Operation Black Buck.
The hardest feature of displaying the Vulcan is not the flying of it, but keeping yourself correctly positioned. ...
Cold War MiG to visit Gloucestershire airshow - ThisisGloucestershire
Then, Air Tattoo co-founders Tim Prince and Paul Bowen helped the Romanians stage the Romanian International Air Show at Mihail Kogalniceanu Airbase – the first truly international airshow to take place in the country since the 1930s. ...
World Champion Paul Bonhomme With A Season Review - Air Race News Watch
From www.redbullairrace.com:
Paul Bonhomme had ups and downs this year, but overall it was clearly his best season so far, clinching the Red Bull Air Race World Championship title in the very last race in Barcelona. The season could not have been any more spectacular. Now, Paul Bonhomme himself posted a review the year on his website. Here's the first half of the season: ...
World War II bomber brings fliers closer to history - Sun-Sentinel
The bomber is visiting as part of the travelling History Flight, a nonprofit organization dedicated to immersing people in the aviation history of World War ...
Historic Antarctica plane remains 'found' by expedition - BBC News
A team of Australian conservationists say they have found what they believe to be the remains of the first aeroplane ever taken to Antarctica. ...
History channel pursues updated look by TheKathrynReport
History channel President Nancy Dubuc knows what she's up against running a cable television network devoted to events from long ago in an age of real-time tweets and quirky videos that go viral instantaneously. ...
Pima Air Museum Hangar Tucson Arizona panorama in USA - 360 Cities by TheKathrynReport
Pima Air Museum, Hangar- Click Here
(title unknown) - Aviation Trivia of the Day
Jet engine technology in the late 1940s was still immature enough that a jet-engined fighter often still lacked comparable range to a piston-engined fighter. As a result, both the USAF and US Navy saw the turboprop as the potential answer- the USAF hoped a turboprop fighter would offer a longer range and the US Navy was interested in the power of turboprop fighter to make takeoff from a carrier deck possible without a catapult. To evaluate the possibility, both branches agreed to fund an experimental turboprop fighter based on Republic's AP-46 design. The USAF would buy three and the US Navy would acquire a single example. ...
Local Civil Air Patrol cadets train in Hogansville - The Times-Herald
Civil Air Patrol cadets with the Newnan Coweta Cadet Squadron held their Fall 2009 Basic Cadet Training weekend in Hogansville.
The training took place from Nov. 13-15. A BCT is a weekend training exercise designed to teach cadets search and rescue skills and leadership for the future.
The cadets arrived to the Flat Creek Campground outside of Hogansville that Friday. After their gear was inspected by the staff, the cadets set up a camp for what would ...
The Vintage Aircraft Association - Who we are ... how fortunate we are ... and all for so little! by TheKathrynReport
The Vintage Aircraft Association
Hosting the finest restorations of vintage airplanes is an every year occurrence for the VAA. ...
New Year greeted in style... - Kingston Flying Club
The Club has a tradition of despatching as many pilots into the skies over Kingston as possible each New Year's Day. Unfortunately, with ceilings measured in the hundreds rather than thousands of feet today, the flying was a bust. But, that didn't stop the casual lunch get-together from going really well. The lounge was quite crowded, and the dishes provided for the pot luck meal were both delicious and varied. Best sight of the day, the two young men who appeared in junior flying jackets emblazoned with various wings and badges... seriously cute...
Remembering Real Space Travel - Jetwhine
Apollo At a time when most people don't give space travel a second thought, I wanted to share this short clip of the Apollo 11 flight – the first time a human – Neil Armstrong – set foot on the face of the Moon. It took place just over 40 years ago and was a very big deal to those of us back then as thousands of people worked together to make President Kennedy's dream of putting a man on the Moon a reality. Their focus on a commitment, that ability to bring all these people together for a common purpose was something to behold. ...
Researchers find remains of airplane brought to Antarctica in 1912 by explorer Douglas Mawson - Washington Examiner
Remains of the first airplane ever taken to Antarctica, in 1912, have been found by Australian researchers, the team announced Saturday.
The Mawson's Huts Foundation had been searching for the plane for three summers before stumbling upon metal pieces of it on New Year's Day.
"The biggest news of the day is that we've found the air tractor, or at least parts of it!" team member Tony Stewart wrote on the team's blog from Cape Denison in Antarctica's Commonwealth Bay.
Australian polar explorer and geologist Douglas Mawson led two expeditions to Antarctica in the early 1900s, on the first one bringing along a single-propeller Vickers plane. The wings of the plane, built in 1911, had been damaged in a crash before the expedition, but Mawson hoped to use it as a kind of motorized sled.
Stewart said the 1911-14 Australian Antarctic Expedition used the plane ...
NASA Flight Tests Unique Jumbo Jet With Airborne Telescope - Military Photos by Lt-Col A. Tack on 1/2/10
A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations reached a milestone Friday when doors covering the plane's telescope were fully opened in flight.
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a modified 747 jet known as SOFIA, flew for one hour and 19 minutes, which included two minutes with the telescope's doors fully opened.
The goal was to allow engineers to understand how air flows in and around the telescope. It was the first time outside air has interacted with the part of the plane that carries the 98-inch infrared telescope. ...
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