A performance by the aerial precision team the Blue Angels over the waters of Charleston Harbor highlights Navy Week 2010 that starts today with selected ...
The air show may be canceled, but Navy Week to bring Blue Angels flights ... - TheDigitel
Times have been announced for the Charleston Harbor airshow featuring the Blue Angels on April 17th and 18th. The shows will both begin at 2 pm and last ...
Times have been announced for the Charleston Harbor airshow featuring the Blue Angels on April 17th and 18th. The shows will both begin at 2 pm and last ...
Air Force fighter jets to thunder into Sun 'n Fun - News Chief
Among the more than 40000 air movements forecast during the week will be the Tuesday arrival of the US Air Force Thunderbirds. ...
Countdown to Sun 'n Fun 2010: T-minus 30 hours from Aviation Social Media
It's Sunday night. Eh, check that: it's a little after 1am on Monday morning. Frankly, I'm tired.
One of my friends Tweeted me today. She said, "I'll bet you are living on 6 hours of sleep and loving it." She couldn't be more correct. Last year at Sun 'n Fun I learned early on that I sleep like a baby at night after a long day here. I suspect that I'll be fast asleep before this laptop shuts itself off after I post this entry. ...
Hawker Beechcraft To Attend Sun 'n Fun Fly-In - AvStop Aviation News
It's Sunday night. Eh, check that: it's a little after 1am on Monday morning. Frankly, I'm tired.
One of my friends Tweeted me today. She said, "I'll bet you are living on 6 hours of sleep and loving it." She couldn't be more correct. Last year at Sun 'n Fun I learned early on that I sleep like a baby at night after a long day here. I suspect that I'll be fast asleep before this laptop shuts itself off after I post this entry. ...
Hawker Beechcraft To Attend Sun 'n Fun Fly-In - AvStop Aviation News
Warbirds overWanaka 2010 .., - Sky-Lens Aviation
Having flown no less than 25 hours from London to Christchurch with Air New Zealand airline, then came the moment to drive the six hour long road across picturesque South Island : direction Lake Wanaka. Every two years on Easter weekend, Wanaka airport is home of largest vintage airplanes and warbirds airshow in Southern Hemisphere. It was my task to report on with my battery of Nikons and sharp lenses for three days, on April 2nd to 4th.
While driving from Christchurch to Wanaka, I crossed the astonishing landscapes of New Zealand Alps, with glaciers such as Mount Cook, deep blue lakes, and huge quantities of different types of green and yellow colours all mixed together colouring curved mountains. I already could clearly understand why Wanaka airport should be a fest for my lenses due to alpin landscapes. As a photographer, I expected to witness the different patterns of sunlight and shadows that are typical to alpin environments, sunbeams broken by mountain producing all sorts of colours.
For those of us who fly, it is awesome to see huge airfields such as Twizel, used by a few helicopters only for Glaciers flying or to group cattles. ...
Dutch F-16 display team from key.Aero
Hot on the heels of the Belgian F-16 display jet presentation, the Royal Netherlands Air Force also presented its 2010 team.
Iranian Fighter-Bombers to Stage Air Show in Days - Fars News Agency
Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Force Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan made the remarks in a press conference held on the occasion of 'the Army ...
Local pilot killed in March crash remembered - Bakersfield Now
For the past 29 years, Goss competed in the Reno Air Races and he brought home the gold in 2004. Goss' family said they hold no anger that Goss died flying. ...
Some heartfelt, personal accounts of the event on this forum at AAFO
Matt Hall To Give It A Go During Australia Red Bull Air Race - AvStop Aviation News
Australia 's Matt Hall has been itching to fly in a Red Bull Air Race in front of enthusiastic fans in his home country ...
SGT Taylor Wheeler and Team Leader SFC Will Fleming chat with Irwin Middle School Principal Mr. Timothy Howle just before boarding the aircraft at Pope Air Force Base earlier today.
The demonstrators teamed up with two members of Tandem Team to put on a very special show for the students at Irwin. As part of the demonstration jump, the Tandem Team took the principal on a tandem jump and landed right in front of his 675 students...which sounded like a crowd of more like 6000 the way they cheered as SFC Mike Elliott brought Principal Howle in for a signature Golden Knight tiptoe landing.
Meanwhile, Black Team did what they do best and wowed the kids ...
Warbird recovered - Stuff.co.nz
"The Nanchang is quite a heavy aeroplane and comes down quite quickly compared to other aeroplanes because it is a big machine. ...
Aviation pioneer inducted into Hall of Famous Missourians - KWMU
(St. Louis Public Radio) - An pioneer in the aviation business is the latest person to be inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians. ...
1st Lt. Aleda E. Lutz, Army flight nurse from You Fly, Girl
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—On Saturday, April 17, five former military members with Michigan connections will be enshrined into the Air Zoo's Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame. The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and author Andrew Layton will also be honored during the ceremony.
The 2010 Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame enshrinees include:
Aleda E. Lutz to be enshrined in Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame
Lutz was born in Freeland. While enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps, she participated in six separate battle campaigns over a 20-month period, flew combat missions, and conducted all-weather medical evacuations in ...
The oldest flying Boeing in the world - restored Boeing 40 from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
... After 8 years of repair and rebuilding, and 8,000 hours of toil, the Boeing 40C rolled out last winter as a finished airplane, but it took a few weeks for the snow to melt before it was taken out of the hangar. Project personnel received the Standard Airworthiness Certificate from the FAA and completed the engine pre-oil and fuel flow tests for the first of the taxi tests. ...
Help museum spread wings - Flying Tiger News
Money donated to the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum is timely.
The $25,000 grant delivered by Monroe Mayor Jamie Mayo and the $5,000 from the Monroe-West Monroe Conventions & Visitors Bureau will be combined with the $34,000 from the Friends of the Museum to be used as a match for $200,000 from the state of Louisiana. The goal is to build a 3,000-square-foot building in which military aircraft can be restored.
The project is important to the museum dedicated to northeastern Louisiana's role in aviation and the military.
Drive by the museum now and you can see historic aircraft in varying stages of rusting away. Restoration of these aircraft is essential to the museum's mission. ...
Movie Monday - April 12 - B-29 Superfortress from Flightblogger
This week's Movie Monday takes you inside the development, deployment and evolution of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The film begins with the need for a strategic bomber after the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo and the Renton-based development of the XB-29. The 55-min documentary also takes you inside the production process for this massive bomber. The documentary looks at this at the operational history in World War II, including its role in dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. ...
Fighter Pilot from the Warbird's blog
Here's a fine book about a fine man: Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds. It's a posthumous autobiography, put into shape by his daughter Christina and by Ed Rasimus, who wrote the magnificent Vietnam memoir When Thunder Rolled. (Note that if you buy the two books together at Amazon.com, they total $25.80, which qualifies them for free shipping in the U.S.)
And here's my review of the book in the Wall Street Journal today. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
Gray Eagles - Mustangs and Legends from PropBlast
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!"
High Flight from PropBlast
One can imagine the abandon and joy that 19 year-old Magee must have felt on a high flight to 33,000 feet in a Supermarine Spitfire Mk. I. To fly such a beautiful and deadly aircraft so close to the heavens at such a young age would have encourage anyone to verse
1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Tuesday from WarbirdRadio.com
TUESDAY – Sterling Harris from the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum will fill us in on what's going on with their A-20 restoration and much more. Mr. Harris will also have an update on the museum's annual July airshow. The broadcast begins at 10am (EDT) on Warbird Radio. For more information on the museum a [...]
Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago
If there was any one factor during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 that could have escalated the situation out of the control of President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev, it wasn't the threat of an American invasion of Cuba and believe it or not it wasn't the presence of the SS-4 and SS-4 medium-range ballistic missiles that targeted most of the Continental United States. It was the presence of tactical nuclear weapons not just on Cuba itself (2 kiloton warheads on the battlefield FROG rockets) but the tactical nuclear weapons on the periphery of the crisis that had release authority vested in lower-ranking officers. ...
Hope & Cynicism for EAA's Learn-to-Fly Day from Jetwhine
For more than two decades the GA industry and the companies that make a living from it have launched a handful of programs designed to get people who look up to act on their aviation interests. When Flight Training magazine was launched in 1989, it luckily coincided with June, the inaugural learn-to-fly month. It drew attention to the newborn publication, and there was a bump in students starts, which the magazine tracked monthly. But the results were, like similar programs that came before and after, less than anyone hoped for.
Balloonist in chair goes with the wind - New Observer
SANFORD -- As in a scene out of a movie, local balloon pilot Jonathan Trappe took to the North Carolina skies again Saturday afternoon.
Departing from the Sanford-Lee County airport, Trappe took flight sitting in a chair attached to about 40 big, brightly colored helium balloons.
The flight was part of an event for the airport's Wings of Carolina Flying Club, of which Trappe is a member.
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In 2008, Trappe made one balloon trip that took him almost 50 miles, from Franklin County to an area near Rocky Mount. ...
Rocket Racing League update from RLV and Space Transport News
There is going to be Rocket Racing League teleconference for the press on Tuesday at 1:00pm.
League officials, pilots, team owners and X-Racer vehicle and engine developers will brief reporters on the status of the latest developments in the Rocket Racing League. Specifically discussed will be the new X-Racer vehicles, new high performance rocket engines, pilots, testing and demonstration schedule, and the featured content for the QuikTrip Air & Rocket Racing Show scheduled for April 24, 2010 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ...
Shuttle to fly for another year to May 2011 from Hyperbola
Hyperbola is hearing that astronaut corp rumours are circulating about STS-134, previously the penultimate Space Shuttle fleet flight, saying that it is now to take place in December at the earliest and maybe even January or February 2011
One of the reasons for the delay is the fact that STS-133 will now fly the Permanent Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM), Leonardo, which won't be ready until October - three months after its current official date of September ...
STS-1, April 12, 1981, do you remember where you were? from The Original Rocket Dungeon [video]
29 years, I can hardly believe it. I was in the MCC babysitting some new equipment. Although it was just shadowing the ops systems, we staffed it before, during, and a short time afterward. That was SOP for ops systems and I suppose if it had hiccuped it would have been useful to see how long it took to resolve the issue. It didn't hiccup and afterward the powers-that-be filed through to take a peek for themselves. ...
Empress 400 RetroLiner Details - C'mon, Dream With Me by Martt
Before the poll goes up to vote for the winner in the Retro Airliner Design Contest, I thought I'd share some of the thoughts that led to the Empress 400 looking the way it does.
Since I chose to explore the 3 Lifting Surface Configuration, utilizing a front wing, main wing, and a horizontal tail, the airplane certainly has some of the look of a Piaggio P180 Avanti. However, there are significant differences when you compare them more closely. ...
The Vintage Collection from AeroHub
US Navy Blue Angels Display Team from FenceCheck Forums
Happy Cosmonauts Day 2010 [video] from Spaceports 1975/76 Mojave Gold - Aviation Airshow Air Race Photography Discussion
NAF El Centro Air Show 2010 - NAF El Centro - 03/13/10 from FenceCheck Forums
Sitings: Kelly Adams' Staudacher 300 At Salem, IL Airport 2009 Regionals from The Aero Experience
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