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Uncontrolled Airspace #179E "Under the Thunderbirds"

UCAP Daily! Jeb returns, the boys start this daily just as the Thunderbirds launch for their show. Report from the LSA Mall... Dave's Husky... and finally an eyewitness report about the Lucky Stars ultralight. All this and more on Uncontrolled Airspace #179E "Under the Thunderbirds"

Warbirds at Sun N Fun by rescuemonkey
Sun N Fun is a spring break event for pilots and aviation enthusiasts. The event is held every year in Lakeland, Florida at the Lakeland Airport. The fly-in event begins on Tuesday and they have an air show on Saturday. Many different planes are available for viewing including historic aircraft, warbirds, military planes, experimental planes, sea planes (they even had a splash-in event for the sea planes on Friday). The Sun N Fun event marks the begining of the spring & summer air show season and fly-in events like Oshkosh. ...

Sun n Fun Official Website

Plane leaving Sun'N'Fun makes emergency landing - ABC Action News
A pilot leaving the Sun'N'Fun Fly-In in Lakeland was forced to make an emergency landing Hardee County Sunday morning. According to Randy Dey of the Hardee ...

Virginia Dentist Flies Hot Air Balloon by the Seat of his Pants - The Ledger
Unlike 32 others who soared in hot air balloons Saturday morning at the Sun 'n Fun Fly-In, Detrich flew strapped to a seat - not in the standard basket. ...

Video - Derby: Thunder Air Show - Courier-Journal

Blue Streak - Charleston Post Courier
Part of the beauty of this weekend's air show is that it's free entertainment guaranteed to lift spirits of a community that, like the rest of the nation, ...

Thunder Over Louisville 2010 Airshow - Daily World Buzz
Thunder Over Louisville is an annual fireworks and airshow event. It is dubbed as the largest annual fireworks display in United States. ...

Thunder Over Louisville 2010 Full Details Reviews And See Some Interesting ... - Styleblips
Thunder Over Louisville, the annual kickoff event of the Kentucky Derby Festival, is an airshow and fireworks display held in late April in Louisville, ...

Norfolk air show set to return - Norwich Evening News
Crowds will also be entertained by modern aerobatic displays, as well as ground attractions such as classic military vehicle collections and trade stands. ...

2010 Military Performer Schedules from FenceCheck Forums
CF-18 Demo Team - 2010 Schedule:

Aviation history continues to soar - St. Joseph News-Press
The Franklin Flying Circus will include a wing walker and stunt pilot; Greg Poe Air Shows will perform twisting and turning acrobatics in a bi-plane powered ...

B-17 "Liberty Belle" Aircraft Rides and Tours - KING5.com
Liberty Belle, a restored World War II B-17 bomber, is making a visit to Seattle and The Museum of Flight. The Flying Fortress will arrive Monday, ...

Aussie Hall beaten in Red Bull Air Race - Sydney Morning Herald
Austrian pilot Hannes Arch has won the 2010 Red Bull Air Race in Perth, narrowly defeating Australian and former RAAF pilot Matt Hall. ...

Race Day, Perth Highlights From www.redbullairrace.com
PERTH - Hannes Arch of Austria won the Red Bull Air Race on Sunday with Matt Hall of Australia getting a career-best second place in front of an enormous crowd of 140,000 watching from the banks of...

SO CLOSE YET SO FAR from Mike Goulian Airshows
Things were going quite as planned today in the Top 12 round in Perth until I clipped a gate with the last 3 inches of my right wingtip. It's a pretty hard pill to swallow as my time would have put me comfortably in the Super 8 round. ...

Pilot who spent 4 decades in the air is inducted into Michigan Aviation Hall ... - Detroit Free Press
Richard Bodycombe of Ann Arbor sits in the cockpit of the Yankee Lady, a restored B17 bomber built in 1945, in April 1995. Bodycombe, who was a World War II ...

Spirited New York in World War II - Philadelphia Inquirer
... the unintentional shelling of Wall Street in the same year; and the crash of a B-25 bomber into the Empire State Building on the foggy morning of July ...

Gebhart: Actors played interesting roles in WWII - Delaware County Daily Times
... Charlton Heston enlisted in 1942 and became a radio operator on B-25 bombers in the Aleutians; Victor Mature served 14 months on a Coast Guard cutter in ...

A piece of air history is on display in Rantoul, Ill. - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Dad had no time to react before his young son took off running toward an F-105 Thunderchief, a supersonic bomber nicknamed "Thud" by ...

Warbird Radio Presents – The Guy Gunter Story from WarbirdRadio.com
WARBIRD RADIO PRESENTS – Fly on silent wings with WWII glider pilot Guy Gunter. His story is definitely a "must hear". Find out what it was like flying a glider during the Normandy invasion and much more. For more info on WWII glider missions click on the Quick Link below. Thanks for listening. SHOW DEBUTS MONDAY [...]

The Battle of Britain is being Tweeted in Real Time to Mark Anniversary from Milblogging.com

17 April 2010 - FINAL FLIGHT JAMES W. CALHOUN From Roadrunners Internationale
It is my sad duty to inform the Roadrunners of Groom Lake that James W. Calhoun took his final flight on 16 April 2010. Most of us knew Jim for his time spent at Groom Lake in June 1964 and a couple times in 1966 and 1967. Jim was born in Charlottesville, Virginia on 2 October 1924. He graduated from the University of Virginia in June 1948 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering - Aero Option. From July 1948 through August 1949 he worked for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft during which the very first version of the J-57 engine ran that summer. A redesign of the compressor was underway when he left to assume the position of Instructor UVA Aero courses from September 1949 through June 1950. From late December 1961 through September 1968 Jim worked as P&WA Fuel Controls Engineer and Assistant Project Engineer on the J-58 engine for the CIA's Mach 3 A-12 at Groom Lake during Project Oxcart. He spent three weeks at Groom Lake in June 1964 and a week or so in 1966 or 1967. The last trip was a final installation and flight test of the EGT Trimmer prior to its incorporation into the Bill of Material. Bill Park was the pilot. Early 1968 to Late 1984 he worked on F-100 Controls. Late 1984 through September 1987 he worked with Arnie Gunderson and Lockheed people on Speed Trim Flight Test and program support at Palmdale. Jim retired at end of September 1987. Several of the Roadrunners recall a great 3 days at Burbank during the J-58 reunion in 2004. Photos are posted at this link: http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/pratt_whitney/j58_reunion.html"> Funeral details will be posted as soon as known to us. More about James Calhoun. http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/calhoun.html

April 18 from Cut and Paste Aviation
... 1952 -- The biggest jet airline ever built, the Convair YB-60, makes a successful first flight at Carswell Air Force Base at Fort Worth, Texas. ...

Congressional Gold Medal awarded to Florida female WWII pilot from WASP & WINGS
Virginia Wise will be honored in Washington, D.C. as one of the surviving members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots. Tallahassee, Florida - They had to pay their own way to Texas to take training. They received no military benefits and were trained with secondhand equipment. Thirty-eight of them lost their lives - and their fellow pilots had to take up collections to ship their bodies ...

Grand Junction honored for service as World War II pilot from WASP & WINGS
During World War II, Annabelle Moss was a Women Airforce Service Pilot. She and other WASPs were honored with the Congressional Gold Medal in March. By Melinda Mawdsley Saturday, April 17, 2010 During her lifetime, Annabelle Moss has fulfilled both her biggest dream and experienced her worst nightmare. Not surprisingly, Moss, 88, prefers to talk more about fulfilling her dream of becoming a ...

Ingraham High students set for rocket launch in Alabama - Seattle Times
Ingraham rocketry teacher Peter Schurke, right, and Ingraham junior Nick Westmoreland assemble a rocket. • Ingraham High School students ...

Private Rocket Launch Industry Ready for Liftoff from SPACE.com
Rocket-launch industry executives, engineers and related enthusiasts at the 17th annual meeting of the Space Access Society appear ready to depend on commercial services.

Some Details of Secretive X-37B Space Plane Revealed from SPACE.com
An Atlas booster is projected to launch the reusable X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle from Florida into space on April 20 launch.

Randall Fishman on Electric-Powered Aircraft from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast
Randall Fishman has been flying his Electraflyer-C every day this week at Sun 'n Fun, and on Saturday he sat down with AVweb's Mary Grady to talk about what he's working on now, including a two-seat experimental airplane and a new electric motor.This podcast is brought to you by Lightspeed Aviation and WxWorx XM WX Satellite Weather.

Formation Flight Sunday - Planeshots