Friday, April 16, 2010

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Watching the Blue Angels perform from the water - Live 5 News Headlines
On Saturday and Sunday, the Blue Angels will perform in Charleston Harbor, and plenty of people will be watching on boats.
"The noise is great. It's a great sensation and you feel like a kid again every time you see them perform," said Bob Neal. So Neal made sure they docked their boat right in Charleston Harbor. ...

Blue Angels practice flights - Charleston Post Courier
The Blue Angels began their practice flights Thursday over Charleston. They perform Saturday and Sunday. A Navy Blue Angel flies over the US Post Office on ...

Coast Guard Preps the Waterways for Blue Angels - ABC News 4
Charleston, SC - All eyes to the sky as the Blue Angels soar overhead Thursday. Six F-18's touched down this morning at the Charleston's Air Force base gearing up for this weekend's air show.
The aeronautic acrobatics will be held over Charleston's harbor and Coast Guard officials are closing off part of that area to boaters during the shows.  ...

Blue Angels – RAW COCKPIT FOOTAGE
   
Thunder Over Louisville traffic plan - WDRB
Hundreds of thousands of people will be heading to Louisville's waterfront this weekend for Thunder Over Louisville, ...


US Bank to sponsor Milwaukee Air & Water Show - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Organizers said in addition to the headliner US Navy Blue Angels, the US Air Force F-22 Raptor Aerial Demonstration Team will perform at the show, ...

Aerobatic display team withdraws from Island shows - isleofman.com
The aerobatic team is having to train a new member in order to maintain its nine jet formation and has withdrawn from several shows, including displays over ...

Crash Alphajet near Orange: The driver remains hospitalized - Provence
Captain Sylvain Courtot second solo of the Patrouille de France, aged 37, whose Alphajets crashed Tuesday morning during a training flight ...

Doolittle Tokyo Raiders reunion events to take place as scheduled from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories
The American public will have the opportunity to meet World War II heroes during the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders 68th reunion at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, April 16-18. Armed now with the promise of a good weather forecast, the event will include one of the largest gatherings of B-25s since World War II, with 17 scheduled to participate in a static display on the runway behind the museum on April 17 and a fly-over before the Raiders' memorial service in the museum's Memorial Park on April 18.

First B-25 pilot into Grimes anxious to meet 'Doolittle Raiders' - Urbana Daily Citizen
Pilot Scott Perdue (ret. Air Force) loved planes as a boy and cherished a first-edition copy of "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" he received as a gift. ...

WORLD RECORD SET: Altus AFB aircrew figures confirm world record for parachutist by Paula Peterson, Altus Times
Staff Sergeant Ben Borger, of the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team is shown being interviewed yesterday after he broke the world's record for distance flown in a wing suit. Altus Times photo by Paula Peterson
Staff Sergeant Ben Borger, of the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team, broke the world's record Wednesday, April 14, for distance flown in a wing suit. Borger was dropped from a C-17 aircraft at an altitude of 32,000 feet. According to the aircrew calculations from the exact coordinates where he jumped out of the aircraft, to those where Borger touched down in Dustin Spradlin's field, off Highway 62, the distance flown was 11.5 miles.
Borger's ground team lost sight of him as he tried to avoid a cloud bank that rolled in shortly after he exited the aircraft. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations prohibit parachutists from entering clouds ...

The Latest from EAA Airventure

Air Race to go ahead as planned - ABC Online
The City of South Perth is confident this weekend's air race will be safe, despite an incident at training yesterday in which a pilot crashed into the Swan ...
Race Pilot Injured in Watery Crash - Citrus Daily
On board cameras recorded the dramatic moment when an air race pilot crashed his plane into a river in Perth, Australia, on Thursday. ...

Pilots reassured by speedy recovery after Kindlemann crash in Perth RedBull air race training from AVIATION-NEWS
After what has been a dramatic day in the history of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship, several of the pilots expressed relief for the safe rescue of Brazilian rookie Adilson Kindlemann but also admitted it was reassuring to see the rescue teams working so quickly to retrieve the pilot and plane. An official statement [...]

CANADIAN PILOT PETE McLEOD IS READY TO ELECTRIFY THE AUSSIE CROWD - Aviation.ca (press release)
Defending champion Paul Bonhomme secured the first trophy of the 2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship with his hard-earned victory in difficult weather ...
Red Bull Air Race Perth 2010 from Kirby Chambliss


T-6 Texan - El periodico de Don Bucho
Subsequently the NA-121 design with a completely clear rearmost section on the canopy, gave rise to 25 AT-6F Texans for the USAAF and 931, as the SNJ-6 for the US Navy. The ultimate version, the Harvard 4, was produced by Canada Car and Foundry during the 1950s, ... The New Zealand Warbirds "Roaring 40s" aerobatic team use ex-Royal New Zealand Air Force Harvards. The Reno National Air Races also has a class specifically for the T-6 during the National Air Races each year. ...

South Coast takes possession of Southern Cross plane - Illawara Mercury
A complete flying replica of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's famous Southern Cross aeroplane will soon call the Illawarra home. ...

Retired Air Force One plane will be on display in Houma - Houma Courier
Richard Ball, owner of Loan Star Retrieval, motions to the crane operator telling him where to move the retired Air Force One while placing it behind the ...

100, 75, 50 Years Ago - International Herald Tribune
The Farman sheds and aeroplane works suffered the most. The sheds were completely destroyed and five new aeroplanes stored there were reduced to matchwood. ...

Sporty's Next Step program motivates 2500 potential pilots - AOPA Pilot
Some 2500 Young Eagles have taken the second step in becoming a pilot—they have started participating in Sporty's Pilot Shop's Next Step ...

AirPigz-mobile Headed For Sun n' Fun! by Martt
It's true my little HHR Panel doesn't fly, but if you keep it pointed south long enuf, you'll wind up at Sun n' Fun!  ...

Arrowhead film festival boasts two Hudsons - InlandSoCal.com
... starring veteran actor Martin Landau; and "Pearl," the story of Chickasaw aviatrix Pearl Carter Scott, which was produced by the Chickasaw Nation. ...

Yuma Avenger selected for test pilot training - Desert Warrior
"It's my honor to have this opportunity to learn and grow as an aviator." The yearlong school tests pilots on their handling of multiple aircraft and ...

EAA and National Flight Academy Pledge Support to Youth Aviation Learning Experiences from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News

EAA today signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Flight Academy of Pensacola, Fla., establishing a relationship to support aviation education programs that engage and motivate young people.
The agreement, signed at the annual Sun 'n Fun Fly-In at Lakeland, Fla., will allow EAA and the National Flight Academy to explore all opportunities to integrate and jointly promote their programs that bring the world of flight to a new generation.  ...

Lots Of Kids' Activities On School Vacation Week - Hartford Courant
The New England Air Museum, 36 Perimeter Road, Windsor Locks, continues its April vacation activities Tuesday with the 40th-anniversary celebration of the ...

Help inspire future pilots on May 15 - AOPA Online
Last year at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, EAA President Tom Poberezny took the stage and named May 15 EAA's "International Learn to Fly Day." AOPA President and CEO Craig Fuller later spoke at the same event about how AOPA's membership, both domestic and abroad, would help in making this event successful.
International Learn to Fly Day is aimed at growing the pilot population by doing two things: tearing down the perceived walls at airports, and getting future pilots up in the sky for their first flight. ...

Groundbreaking For New Aviation High School from AVweb Top News
Officials from Sun 'n Fun and the Polk County (Fla.) School Board broke ground Thursday for a $7.5 million facility that will provide a new home for the Central Florida Aerospace Academy, an aviation-oriented high school/career academy already located on the Sun 'n Fun campus. The 58,000-square-foot facility will house up to 500 high school students. Current facilities for the school have a maximum capacity of 175. "Sun 'n Fun is ecstatic to have such significant and inspirational support for an educational facility of this magnitude that underscores our organization's core values and is in lock step with our educational focus and mission," said Sun 'n Fun Board Chairman Bill Eickhoff.The project is funded by a grant from the Aviation Education Foundation, a Naples-based not-for-profit organization founded by James C. Ray. ...


Child becomes pilot for a day from Air Force Link Top Stories
With his dad squarely in his sights, a 9-year-old boy pulls the trigger in the cockpit of an F-15 Eagle simulator.
"Don't worry dad, I'm just going to do a practice landing," Isaac Ezell said jokingly as he searched the simulated sky for his father's jet.
Isaac participated in the Tyndall Air Force Base Pilot for a Day program April 8 with the 95th Fighter Squadron staff here.
Isaac suffers from Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism. People with Asperger's demonstrate significant difficulties with social interaction and tend to show repetitive patterns of behavior. ...

Armstrong, Cernan and Lovell Blast Cancellation of Constellation Program from The Aero Experience
Three legendary astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan and James Lovell, wrote an open letter to the president this week to express their regrets about the apparent aimlessness of the U.S. space program. Even though there is funding for long-range research projects, there remains an undefined interim period wherein the U.S. has no manned space vehicles and none in development. This situation affects not only the ability to work  ...

Obama Sets Goals for Space Program - New York Times
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — President Obama on Thursday forcefully countered criticisms that he was trying to end the nation's human spaceflight program, telling about 200 attendees of a White House-sponsored space conference here of ...
   
Ethanol Rocket Racers Take to the Skies - Domestic Fuel
The Rocket Racing League is taking back the skies. The five-year old league which has launched a campaign to become "NASCAR with rockets" is planning the ...

VIDEO: Army aviation gets mostly unmanned by 2035 from The DEW Line

North American AT-6 Eichhorn, Kestenholz 2009 on Vimeo
A beautiful display with two AT-6 in patrol during the Kestenholz airshow, Switzerland 2009.
The North American Aviation T-6 Texan was a single-engine advanced trainer aircraft used to train pilots of the United States Army Air Forces, United States Navy, Royal Air Force and other air forces of the British Commonwealth during World War II and into the 1950s. Designed by North American Aviation, The T-6 is known by a variety of designations depending on the model and operating air force.

The Convair XFY-1 Pogo from x planes
Oscar Meyer Boeing LCF from I Love Planes
Private Scottish Aviation Bulldog 100 - by Jack Harrington
ANIMATION: Volcano ash empties UK airspace from Flight International
Catapult shots from Planeshots | F-14, Phantom II, "Shooter", F6F, Dassault Super Etendard, Curtiss SC-1, Blackburn Buccaneer
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