Tuesday, February 23, 2010

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When Aviation Meets the Winter Olympics from Av8rdan's World of Flying by Dan Pimentel | The last few nights, I have been thankful I operate my world from a Macbook Pro laptop so I can plant myself on the couch, watch NBC's coverage of the Winte r Games, and still do a little swing shift work.

Former Red Arrow pilots take on Red Baron - Lincolnshire Echo | Two former Red Arrows pilots from Lincolnshire have recreated some of the most famous aerial battles ever fought as part of a new television documentary. ...

William M. Bennett, former JFK campaign chief and state political heavyweight ... - Marin Independent-Journal | Mr. Bennett, who had flown 35 missions as a B-17 pilot during World War II, took exception to that comment. Mr. Bennett died Feb. 9 at age 91. ...

AirPigz - blog - It's been quite a while since we've done a caption contest of an airplane with people all over it… and this one takes the cake for the mega-mostest...

Student filmmakers head to war in WW2 epic 'Correspondence' (+VIEW THE TRAILER) - MyWestTexas.com | The group filmed at the George W. Bush Childhood Home, Brown Dorsey Medallion Home and Commemorative Air Force locally, plus Austin and Cloudcroft, ...

Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | Last month I had posted about Steel Eagle, a modern-day counterpart to the Igloo White acoustic/seismic sensors dropped on the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the Vietnam War. The use of such remote-sensing pods that embedded themselves in the ground after being dropped by an aircraft weren't just limited to tactical use- a similar program was under taken in the 1960s called Tabasco (the unclassfied project name was Purple Flash) to drop sensor pods from Lockheed U-2 spyplanes flying some of the longest range flights in the aircraft's history over the Chinese nuclear tests sites at Lop Nor, deep in the desert basins of northwest China…

On This Day in Aviation History: February 23rd by Phil Derner Jr. | The most expensive crash in history takes place when a B-2 bomber crashes in Guam, thankfully with no fatalities. A fire occurs aboard the Mir space station in 1997, with no injuries or serious damage, the first experimental coast-to-coast airmail flight in 1921 and more.

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