Like a ghost from the past, a B-25 Mitchell bomber will be among the score of historic aircraft that will gather for the Memorial Day weekend celebration at Sikorsky Memorial Airport called "Corsairs Over Connecticut."
The stars of the show will be five of the approximately 25, F4U Corsairs still in flying condition. But if aircraft had emotions, these blue bent-wing fighter-bombers will no doubt feel a kinship with the B-25, which also figured prominently in World War II's Pacific Theater.
The five Corsairs and the B-25 will join other historic fly-in aircraft at the event, including a C-54 used in the Berlin Airlift, a Vietnam-era Bell UH-1D "Huey," a T-28 radial-engine "Trojan" trainer, a DeHavilland Beaver floatplane and a Boeing CH-47 Chinook tandem-rotor helicopter, also from the Vietnam War era. ...
Nominate a Hometown Hero to Fly with the Thunderbirds - MyStateline.com
"This is a chance for RFD through the Thunderbirds to bring to light some of the great people that we have in our community" said Geoff Oman, AirFest ...
Olympian Lamoureux to fly with Thunderbirds - AirForceTimes.com
AP GRAND FORKS, ND — Olympic silver medalist Monique Lamoureux is getting a chance to fly with the Air Force Thunderbirds. The Air Force's premier aerial ...
Sporty's Fly-In attracts record crowds from General Aviation News
Saturday, May 15, was a fun day at Sporty's and one of the busiest ever for Clermont County Airport. Sunny skies prevailed, bringing more than 400 aircraft to Sporty's sixth annual Fly-In and Open House. Thousands of customers enjoyed a perfect flying day while exploring Sporty's headquarters, visiting with exhibitors and attending seminars. There was also a static display featuring the full line of new Cessna aircraft, including the Corvalis, Caravan and Mustang. ...
Virtual DC-3 reunion goes live from General Aviation News
The Last Time has launched a search engine for those who have shared in 75 years of Douglas DC-3 history. The Virtual Reunion Board is a web-based tool on the organization's website that allows anyone with an interest in the DC-3 to share their connection with the airplane. The tool is designed to serve as a way for people to find each other and plan to join the DC-3's 75th anniversary events this summer at Whiteside County Airport, in Rock Falls, Illinois, on July 24-26, and at EAA AirVenture 2010 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on July 27-Aug. 1. ...
Sunderland International Airshow 2010 - AboutMyArea
... which attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators to Sunderland's stunning coastline at Roker and Seaburn, is now the biggest free airshow in Europe. ...
WWII B-17 bomber Liberty Belle coming to Wichita - The Wichita Eagle
A restored World War II Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, called the Liberty Belle, will be at Jabara Airport at 3512 N. Webb Road on May 29 and 30. ...
B-17 visits Seattle's Museum of Flight from General Aviation News
The Seattle-born Boeing B-17 bomber, which played an important role in World War II and aviation history, is celebrating its 75th anniversary of its first flight this year. "Aluminum Overcast," the Experimental Aircraft Association's restored B-17G Flying Fortress, returns to the Seattle skies and The Museum of Flight for rides and ground tours from Wednesday, May 26, through Monday, May 31. The museum is hosting this historic aircraft during its Seattle stop along a national "Salute to the Veterans" tour. ...
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Flying Across America is on aviationweek.com from Flying Across America
How cool is that? Our little project got coverage on one of the blogs of aviationweek.com!
This shows how such actions can have impact on wider audience and help promote General Aviation. If you're a ...
Smallest Wingwalker - world record set by Kiran Shah - World Records Academy
LONDON, UK -- ACTOR and stuntman Kiran Shah, 53, (4ft 1in) has appeared in Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Indiana Jones completed a ten-minute wing-walk ...
Love for vintage warplanes grows into annual event - The Virginian-Pilot
"The Japanese would call this plane whistling death," Yagen said last week, as a pilot flying his Cor--sair zoomed past the museum. Back in the air that ...
Military Channel Honors America's Heroes With Its First-Ever Live Broadcast of the National Memorial Day Parade from the Nation's Capital on Monday, May 31 from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense
SILVER SPRING, Md., May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Each year, hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic Americans flock to Washington, D.C., home to the largest Memorial Day parade in the country, to honor all of those who have served in uniform from the American Revolution to Operation Iraqi Freedom. This year ...
Thanks to the International Biplane Association for being the first paid sponsor of the 2010 Wood, Fabric, and Tailwheels Fly-In to be held September 25, 2010 at Lee Bottom Flying Field . . ..
P-40 WARHAWKS AND CLAIRE CHENNAULT'S FLYING TIGERS - Flying Tigers News
"In preparation for the P-40E's arrival, this blog gives some background on the Flying Tigers and our new aircraft in particular. At the end of this blog, there are some larger-size pictures of P-40s, the Flying Tigers, ..."
National Hall of Fame presenters unveiled from General Aviation News
Presenters for the National Aviation Hall of Fame's 2010 Enshrinement ceremony include two men who have flown to the moon; a legendary air show performer, and one of Ohio's political native sons. On July 17, 2010, the National Aviation Hall of Fame will induct its Class of 2010 in black-tie ceremonies at the Dayton Convention Center.
"This is the Oscar night of aviation," said NAHF Enshrinement Director Ron Kaplan. "Along with the air and space pioneers being enshrined, we have some giants in aviation history lined up to present each honoree." ...
War veterans meet at Cotswold Air Show launch - Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard
Tony Rogers, who joined the RAF after being freed from a Siberian labour camp, was launching this year's Cotswold Air Show when he was given the opportunity ...
May 20 from Cut and Paste Aviation
... 1895 -- Reginald Joseph Mitchell is born.
Mitchell was a British aircraft designer, developer of the eight-gun Spitfire (1936), one of the best-known fighters in WW II. He was an engineer and designer for Supermarine Aviation Works (1916-37), chief engineer (from 1919) and was also known for design of a series of flying boats and high-speed seaplanes. In the years from 1920 to 1936, he designed no less than twenty-four different aircraft. The Spitfire was a derivative of his earlier S.6B seaplane racing aircraft. ...
Hot air balloon race Sat - Northport Gazette
The Tuscaloosa Regional Airport has received plenty of attention in May with the Tuscaloosa Air Show, not to mention the fatal single-engine ...
First Fly In and Young Eagles Event at Eufaula Airport from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
EUFAULA AL- Known as the Bass Capitol of the South, the City of Eufaula (EUF) will hold their first Fly In and Young Eagles event Saturday, May 22 starting at 11:00 CST. The EAA Young Eagles program was launched in 1992 to give interested young people, ages 8 - 17, the opportunity to go flying in a general aviation airplane. These flights are offered free of charge and are made possible through the generosity of EAA member volunteers. EAA member Blake Quinney of Columbus GA is heading the YE program this Saturday. ...
Avi8tors to perform here this summer - Grant Tribune Sentinel
On Sunday, June 27, an open house at the Grant Municipal Airport will feature the Young Eagles in the morning, viewing of a WWII trainer plane, ...
Hanging Out At General Aviation Day in Everett, WA - Airline Reporter (blog)
The Young Eagles allows kids the chance to try out aviation and get the motivated to fly. Two rows of personal planes (ranging from Cessnas to Bonanzas) ...
American Airlines plane moved to aviation school - MiamiHerald.com
An aviation school in Miami has a new $6 million friend: an American Airlines jet donated to the school.
It took about three hours to move the American Airlines' MD-80 early Thursday morning. It's just a couple of miles from Miami International Airport to the George T. Baker Aviation School. ...
Sky's the limit for Rhinelander elementary students - NewsoftheNorth.Net, Inc.
Sixteen elementary age students experienced the thrill of flight and learned about general aviation on Saturday, May 15, 2010, at the Rhinelander Oneida County Airport and Rhinelander Flying Service. ...
Never too late to fly - Chicago Tribune
William Coons of Lombard was inducted into the Illinois Aviation Hall of Fame on Wednesday — a soaring feat for a pilot who started taking flying lessons at age 60.
Coons, 83, became an early expert on flight navigation using the global positioning system. He conducted safety seminars on GPS using a 1946 open-cockpit Ercoupe plane that he owned.
He also volunteered for many years as an aviation safety counselor with the Federal Aviation Administration in the Chicago area. ...
Aviation-inspired musical takes flight from General Aviation News
Take Flight, a new musical with music by Academy Award winner David Shire, lyrics by Tony Award winner Richard Maltby, Jr., and book by Tony Award winner John Weidman, is now playing at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, through June 6.
The show blends fact and fiction to tell the interweaving stories of three pioneers of aeronautics: The Wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. As their dreams become reality, these aviators discover the real costs of their sky-high ambitions. ...
X-51A Waverider from AF News
Weather permitting, Air Force officials said the X-51A Waverider will make its first hypersonic flight test attempt May 25 after it is released from a B-52 Stratofortress off the southern coast of California.
The unmanned X-51A is expected to fly autonomously for five minutes, powered by a supersonic combustion scramjet engine, accelerating to about Mach 6 and transmitting vast amounts of data to ground stations before breaking up after splashing down into the Pacific, as planned. There are no plans to recover the flight test vehicle, one of four built. ...
Go For Launch!
In this unique time-lapse video created from thousands of individual frames, photographers Scott Andrews, Stan Jirman and Philip Scott Andrews condense six weeks of painstaking work into three minutes, 52 seconds (read here how they did it). The action starts in the hangar-like Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where Discovery has been...
OPINION: The death of NASA - U Weekly
The privately-funded $10 million Ansari X Prize was offered to whoever could build a low-cost space ship and fly it out of our atmosphere. ...
Final (?) Atlantis Launch version of 'This Week in Space' from Uplinks by Miles O'Brien
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Planes of Fame Airshow 2010 - Chino - 05/15/10 from FenceCheck Forums
Spitfire - Duxford Spring Air Show 2010 - Flickr
Indianapolis Air Show The Horsemen will be performing at the Indianapolis Air Show this year! Here's a video of The Horsemen P-51 Mustang Aerobatic
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