Space Shuttle Launch Called 'Most Beautiful' Ever - AOL News | You wait until you see the exit coming around, factor in the time it'll take you to coil up and launch yourself," Air & Space Magazine writes. ...
Eglin's Air Show this weekend by Lois Walsh | The US Air Force Thunderbirds will headline the 75th Anniversary Eglin Air Force Base Air Show this weekend, Apr. 10-11. Gates open at 9 am to the general public and it's free for anyone attending this event. The gates will close to the ...
Eglin's own comes home for air show - Major David Lemery is in his second season with the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, The Thunderbirds, as #11, the team's Maintenance...
PLANES OF FAME ANNOUNCES LINE UP – ASB.tv | Planes of Fame Museum and Air Show officially announced its 2010 line up, which includes The Horsemen, Strega, and other warbird flights you can't see anywhere else…
Warbirds over Wanaka 2010 - Stuff.co.nz | A North American Harvard in action in a mock battle at the Warbirds over Wanaka International Airshow. Tana Hansen (6) at the controls of the American C-130 ...
Flying Fortress: Restored B-17 Liberty Belle pays tribute to WWII aviation from Diamond Pilots by Kathryn | One of the left engines starts first, giving off a puff of smoke as the propeller comes to life. The second left engine starts next, and then the two engines on the right side, one at a time, creating an ever-increasing roar as the plane powers up. For those sitting in the cockpit, it creates a feeling like no other. "It rumbles, it moves, it shakes. It has a personality," says pilot Chris Tuckfield of the B-17 Liberty Belle. "And what's really neat is you feel a connection with the past. It brings to mind what those people went through." That's what the Liberty Belle is all about. This fully restored Flying Fortress travels around the country, offering rides to the public (for a price). A stop was made in Salt Lake City last weekend. "This is a flying piece of history," says Sean O'Brien, a volunteer with the Liberty Foundation, which sponsors the Liberty Belle. "It's also a flying tribute to all those who made such sacrifices for the freedoms we have." Read More and Photos: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700022226/Flying-Fortress-Restored-B-17-Liberty-Belle-pays-tribute-to-WWII-aviation.html
Tougher Texan from Ares by Guy Norris | Hawker Beechcraft has flown the first AT-6 Texan II production representative test vehicle (PRTV) powered by the 1,600 shp Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68D engine – packing 500 shp more than the standard engine. The structurally beefed-up variant of the T-6A/B trainer is aimed at the USAF's Light Attack and Armed Reconnaissance (LAAR) role, the acquisition phase for which is expected to be launched this year…
Air museum to hold VE Day presentation - The Desert Sun | The Palm Springs Air Museum is set to present the first program in a yearlong commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II. ...
Pasadena female WWII pilots honored for wartime service - Pasadena Star-News ... medal as a keepsake, while the original medal will be donated for display at the Smithsonian Institution's "Women in Aviation" display in Chantilly, Va. ...
WASP's at Oshkosh from Aerographs Blog by John Slemp | Last summer at Oshkosh, during the event known as "Airventure", I was having a very casual conversation with Debby Rihn-Harvey, while making a few portraits of her for the Women in Aviation International organization. We were away from the main hubbub that is Oshkosh, in the Weeks Hangar. It is where all the aerobatic pilots keep their aircraft during the week of the show. It is large, secure, and close enough to maintenance help, should it be necessary. We were shooting in an area off the main floor, where we had set up an impromptu studio…Why Hiroshima Was Destroyed The Detailed History Of An Infamous ... A PILOT'S STORY. Corroboration of these statements is found in the remarkable record of Ellsworth Torrey Carrington, "Reflections of a Hiroshima Pilot", (p.9) "As part of the Hiroshima atomic battle plan my B-29 (named Jabbitt III, ...
Public invited to fly WW2 era bomber in Temecula - 89.3 KPCC | It'll cost $399 a ticket to head into the wild blue yonder for half an hour aboard the retired B-17 "Flying Fortress". But it'll set you back just $5 to ...
Veteran aviator flies again on 66-year-old warplane – WFAA | "That was my old position; it made me homesick." The crew took the veteran aviator on a half-hour flight around Arlington. It cost his family more than $500…
Movie Monday - April 5 - XB-70 Valkyrie from Flightblogger by Jon Ostrower | Alternating civil and military topics for Movie Monday seems to be working nicely, so I'll let that trend continue this week with a look at the XB-70 Valkyrie. This 5-part 45 minute look at the supersonic bomber takes you through the early development of the aircraft through to its 1966 mid-air collision with an F-104 Starfighter and eventual cancellation. Parts two through five are available after the jump, and yes, this is the second XB-70 documentary for Movie Monday, as the first set was removed. Disregard the obviously incorrect identification of the first supersonic flight, which was October 14, 1947 not December 9, 1946. My apologies for the delay in getting this up, been chasing a bunch of different items today…
Pan Am moon flight reservation card from The Unwanted Blog | Courtesy blog reader Michael Holt, the front and back of a moon flight reservation card from Pan Am. The back shows the "Orion III" spaceplane from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey."… I've never seen this sort of thing before. Sad to see that there was once such enthusiasm fr spaceflight, but no longer…
Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | Some planes are like the Rodney Dangerfields of aviation- they just don't get any respect. If there's one plane that I think of in that regard, it has to be the Grumman E-2 Hawkeye. Development began on the Hawkeye in 1956 as a replacement of the Grumman WF/E-1 Tracer as the "eyes" of the carrier battle group. The first E-2A Hawkeyes entered fleet service in 1964 and were a quantum leap over the early E-1 Tracer. Since then, Grumman (and now Northrop Grumman) have made continual refinements to the E-2 Hawkeye's systems that while the external appearance of the aircraft hasn't changed significantly, the radar systems are far more advanced than what went to sea in 1964…
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