Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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Blue Angels to perform in Tennessee by Toni | Danny Clisham will serve as Master of Ceremonies, fresh from his recent induction into the Air Show Hall of Fame. In addition to the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, the list of featured aerial and ground performers includes Cheryl Stearns, ...

Brothers to fly in Saturday's Naval Air Facility El Centro Air Show - Imperial Valley Press | Ben remembers seeing the Blue Angels as a child growing up in Reading, Penn., he said. They used to have a show in the town, but there is not one scheduled ...

New Air Show Comes To Hollister - KSBW The Central Coast | Organizers jumped at the chance to hold an air show after the Watsonville Fly-In moved from Memorial Day weekend to the Labor Day weekend. ...

Airshow back on - Coleraine Today | By Staff reporter THE Portrush Airshow will go ahead after all this year after it was saved at the final hour by the local business community. ...

ROB HOLLAND LANDS NEW SPONSOR – ASB.tv | NASHUA, N.H. - Rob Holland Ultimate Airshows announced today a marketing partnership with Window World, the nation's largest replacement window company, for the 2010 airshow season. The partnership represents Window World's first foray into airshow entertainment. Learn more and find out where you can catch Rob

Tim Decker Airshows - Retired Lt. Col. Tim Decker has over 5,000 hours as a US Air Force pilot and now airshow performer. Here's a terrific look at who he is and what he does.For...

Salute to Veterans Air Show Features the Harrier Demo Team! from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | The 2010 Salute to Veterans Air show will be held at Columbia, MO Regional Airport May 29 and 30, 2010.  The Harrier Demo Team from Yuma Arizona will be back after a 12 year absence.  The F/A-18 Super Hornet Demo Team, Aeroshell Team, A-10 West Demo Team, Kevin Eldridge's P-38 "Ruff Stuff" and Clyde Zellers' SNJ-5 Texan will also be on hand to delight the crowd.  Please visit the air show web site http://www.salute.org/index.shtm for more information, and make it a priority to support this privately produced aerial event.

Thunder returns to air show - Santa Maria Times | An F-18 makes a practice run over the Santa Maria Public Airport in a recent Thunder Over the Valley air show. //Bryan Walton/Staff The roar of American air ...

Racing pilot loves extreme norm - London Free Press | The native of Red Lake, Ont., and University of Western Ontario graduate is entering his second year on the Red Bull Air Race World Championship circuit. ...

Flying high on adrenalin - The Australian | The former air-force fighter and part-time aerobatics pilot is embarking on his second year in the Red Bull Air Race, but his first at the controls of his ...

NEW VIDEO: DUXFORD - FLYING LEGENDS – ASB.tv | The newest video in the Horsemen Cometh series finds the team humbled by the honor of flying Mustangs off the historic grassy grounds of Duxford, England during the annual Flying Legends air show. It was a moment where history not only came to life, but quietly became a vivid reminder of the pilots who never returned home. Watch this beautiful video 

Gray Eagles - Mustangs and Legends from PropBlast by mjg\|\Chris Woods, a filmmaker and P-51 Pilot, has put together an amazing short documentary about the venerable P-51 Mustang and the brave young men who flew them into battle win WWII by focusing on the story of his neighbor and WWII Mustang ace Jim Brooks. Woods' project began when he began restoration of a basket-case Mustang and discovered that the plane was named "February" amd was originally flown by his neighbor Brooks. You can watch this amazing HD movie on AirShowBuzz website or viewing the embedded video below. Or better yet, go to Amazon.com or the GrayEagles.org foundation website to order your own copy of the DVD. For every copy purchased, the Foundation will donate another copy to an educational institution so that youngsters can not only learn about these great men and fantastic machines but, perhaps, to help inspire them to great things as well. As Siskel and Ebert would say "Two Thumbs Up!" You've Got to Watch This!

Marlborough - Sydney Morning Herald | The Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre combines the largest private collection of World War I aircraft in the world with the dramatic inspiration of Lord of the ...

Aviation pioneer Hudson dies at 84 KTUU | by Channel 2 News staff Cliff Hudson, the founder of Hudson Air Service, passed away last Friday after a battle with Alzheimer's, said his son, Chuck Hudson ...

Virgin Galactic's Latest - Free Liberal | It seems like only yesterday that Burt Rutan flew SpaceShip One into near-orbit and received the Ansari X-Prize for piloting the first manned ...

Currently at KSC..... from How I Am Becoming An Astronaut by Damaris B. Sarria | Discovery is currently at Launch Pad 39A. Launch of STS-131 is targeted for April 5, 2010 at 6:27 a.m. This past week, the STS-131 astronaut crew went through a mock countdown/dress rehearsal to prepare themselves for their actual launch date operations.

Atlas Air Awarded Boeing Contract to Operate Dreamlifter Fleet from AvStop » Number One Online Resource For General Aviation News | Beginning toward the latter part of 2010, Atlas Air will operate Boeing's Dreamlifter fleet of four 747-400 aircraft that have been modified to transport major assemblies for the 787 Dreamliner from suppliers around the world to Boeing production facilities in the United States. The parties have structured the nine-year agreement in a manner consistent with the outsourcing business model under which Atlas Air typically operates. Under that model, Atlas Air will receive contractually determined revenues for the operation of the Dreamlifter aircraft, with Boeing assuming responsibility for certain direct costs, including fuel. Under the CMI arrangement, Boeing will provide and maintain ownership of the aircraft assets.

Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | The development of the only turboprop fighter to go into production in service was quite checkered, to say the least. The Westland Wyvern underwent three different changes of engine before ending up with the definitive Armstrong-Siddeley 3,667-horsepower Python engine- the first versions used the 24-cylinder Rolls-Royce Eagle engine, then a change to the Rolls-Royce Clyde turboprop before ending up with the Python in the S.4 version of the Wyvern. One of the reasons for the Wyvern's protracted development was that the first prototypes had three new components that test pilots were less than eager to test- a new airframe, a new engine, and a new contra-rotating propeller mechanism…

United States - Arizona - Heritage Flight Conference 2010 - Davis Monthan AFB, Tucson - 03/03/10
from FenceCheck Forums - A few from off base on Friday.

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