Battle Tightens At The Top As Red Bull Air Race Heads To Windsor Ontario from AvStop » Number One Online Resource For General Aviation News | As the Red Bull Air Race World Championship prepares to land in the Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario on June 5 and 6th for the fourth round of 2010 season, all eyes are on the widening field of title contenders. In the most closely fought battle in the sport's history, at least five teams are in the running, including local hero Pete McLeod, the youngest pilot in the championship…
Red Bull Air Race takes on Times Square ahead of next Month's Race from Kirby Chambliss » Feed by JocelynTC4 | NEW YORK – MAY 25, 2010 – Today Times Square visitors got a first-look at the Red Bull Air Race World Championship coming to Liberty State Park in Jersey City next month. It's been a hundred years since the first aviation exhibit happened in Los Angeles and Belmont Park, New York in 1910 and onlookers had the chance to experience an interactive "channel through time" exhibit, meet the real heroes – the Red Bull Air Race Pilots – and hear the excitement from the people who brought the race to their cities…
Pocomoke resident flies in Blue Angels jet - Delmarva Daily Times | The Blue Angels' purpose for this program is "to maximize the Blue Angels' impact on recruiting by flying the right people who will share their experience ...
The Blue Angels take flight at Jones Beach – Newsday | This year's show features the popular US Navy Blue Angels, the Red Bull Air Force sky divers and retired Northwest Airlines captain Julie Clark. ...
Jones Beach air show stunt pilot gives us a sneak peek - Newsday | THERE was barely a hint of queasiness while soaring, rolling, looping, climbing and diving a mile or two off Robert Moses State Park with stunt pilot Sean ...
Air show attendance beats average - ENC Today | CHERRY POINT AIR STATION — Despite warnings of storms, more than 156000 people visited the 2010 Cherry Point Air Show during its three-day run last weekend ...
The Wright brothers in DC: A Capitol idea from General Aviation News by Janice Wood - Orville and Wilbur Wright may soon be memorialized in the U.S. Capitol building. In 2006, the Ohio legislature decided to replace one of the state's two allotted statutes in the Capitol building's National Statuary Hall. A committee of state lawmakers is spearheading the process for selecting the replacement statue, and among the options under consideration is a statue of Orville and Wilbur Wright. The selection committee has posted a list of the final options online, and is providing a means to cast a ballot for Ohio's next representative in Statuary Hall…
Colorado Springs Woman Shares Fond Memories of Thunderbirds Visit from http://www.kktv.com/ Thompson has never seen the Thunderbirds fly in person. She runs a daycare at her house and says she doesn't have time to attend Air Force graduation. But, she plans to try and catch a glimpse of them in her backyard on Wednesday. The Thunderbirds are scheduled to fly over Falcon Stadium on Wednesday…
Keeping the memories of WWII vets alive - 7Online.com | FARMINGDALE (WABC) -- All eyes will be in the sky for the annual Jones Beach Air Show this weekend. History will be on display with vintage World War II ...
WW II POW to speak at Holmes Historical Society - Holmes County Times Advertiser | He was a pilot of a B17 Flying Fortress mission with the 384 th Bomb Group, based at Grafton-Underwood, England. He was rescued by a German Luftwaffe Air ...
'Wings & Wheels' landing at Sikorsky Airport in Stratford (Connecticut) To Japanese ground troops, it was known as "whistling death." Such was the fear inspired by the F4U Corsair, the Stratford-built American fighter jet, as it swooped in to bomb and strafe Japanese military positions during World War II. For American forces, however, the Corsair inspired hope -- it attacked with striking precision, providing relief to thousands of Infantry soldiers locked in combat with the Japanese…
Black Team Drops in to Say Hello at the Pentagon from armygoldenknights's | The #Golden Knights had a very special opportunity last weekend to take a special tour of the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Thanks to a friend of the team, Chief Master Sergeant Stephen Haggett (the Pentagon First Sergeant), the team got a one-of-a-kind personally guided tour of the building, complete with visits to the Sergeant Major of the Army, the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Secretary of the Army, and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force…
Kadın pilot uçağın üzerinde yürüyecek - Haber Türk | Berlin Airshow'un gediklisi olan ve her yıl katılan Avusturyalı kadın pilot Peggy Krainz'in, fuarın en çok ilgi çeken gösterisine imza atması bekleniyor. ...
Air museum to host book launch - Brandon Sun | Brandon's Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum will host the launch of "The Parry Sound Woodcutter's War", a book written by Donald Macfie of Dunchurch, ...
Native woman recognized as a pioneer in the aviation field - Indian Country Today | They traveled from as far as Colorado and California to attend the two-day Gyrocopter "Fly-in" event. In attendance was a woman known as the "Gyrocopter ...
Atlantis to Land on Earth, Permanently. from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) Salute to Atlantis! The first landing opportunity for Atlantis' planned final mission is Wednesday at 8:48 a.m. EDT at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., [NASA LIVE Webcast]. If Atlantis is unable to land Wednesday, additional opportunities are available at Kennedy on Thursday at 9:13 a.m. and 10:48 a.m. There are opportunities Friday at Kennedy and backup landing site Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. For recorded updates about landing, call 321-867-2525. On the landing of Atlantis, the United States is down to only two human space launches ending the space shuttle era in November 2010.
X-37B Space Plane from Pilots of America Message Board by TangoWhiskey | Some amateur sky-watchers spotted it in orbit. Video: http://www.space.com/common/media/vi...=SP_100522_X37 | http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/201...plane-in-orbit
CoolPix - Modern Military: Getting To Know The GAU-8 (The A-10 Nose Cannon)
by Martt | To understand the history of the Farchild-Republic A-10's design, you really need to start with General Electric GAU-8 Avenger gatling-gun weapon, as the airplane was really designed and built around this huge 30mm cannon. Interestingly, the GAU-8 wasn't completed and operational when both the prototype YA-10A and the Northrop YA-9A first flew in 1972. The gun was being developed in parallel to these two contenders for the 'Attack Experimental' competition being held by the Air Force in the late 60's and early 70's. Both prototype aircraft flew originally with the GE M61 Vulcan gun, a 20mm cannon similar to the upcoming GAU-8 but nowhere near as powerful…
Episode 98 – George Hamlin from Airplane Geeks Podcast by thegeeks@airplanegeeks.com (Airplane Geeks) Our guest this episode is George Hamlin, President of Hamlin Transportation Consulting. He's been in the commercial aviation and aerospace industry for almost 40 years, specializing in things like transport economics, marketing and strategic planning, aircraft requirements/fleet planning, economic analysis and forecasting for both passenger and cargo operations. George has worked at Airbus, Lockheed, TWA, and a number of other companies and brings a wealth of experience to the conversation…
From a bird's view - Wilkes Barre Times-Leader | The Young Eagles Program was flying high at Seamans Airport in Factoryville Saturday, May 21. The nonprofit organization's purpose is to introduce children ...
Young Eagles Pilot Reaches 500 At Bainbridge - BainbridgeGa.com | Operating from the Bainbridge Airport Terminal or Fixe Base Operation (FBO), Pilot Scott Sutor flew his 486th through 500th Young Eagles students thus ...
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