Michael Combs and the Flight for the Human Spirit reached two major milestones last week–flying 20,000 nautical miles and crossing the border into Canada.
Combs took on a new crewmember to enable him to continue the trip into Canadian airspace. Bob Warner joined the flight to act as pilot in command of the Remos GX. Warner holds private and commercial certificates and is familiar with Canadian airspace. Combs would have needed a medical certificate to act as PIC in Canada, he said. On the advice of local pilots ...
FRECCE TRICOLORI 2010 50° Anniversario Trailer Aeronautica Militare - 50th Anniversary Trailer
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Experimental Aircraft Fly-In Sept. 25 At Mariposa Airport ... by PlanePilot1
The EAA chapter will be registering Young Eagles for familiarization flights. The program is designed to expose young people between the ages of 8 and 18 to aviation and aviation careers. With parents' permission, a local EAA member ...
Blue Angels F/A-18B Hornet Arrives at St. Louis Science Center for Display
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Air Zoo gets new piece of aviation history - WWMT | A new piece of aviation history will soon be on display at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. On Wednesday morning 90-year-old pilot Norbert McLuckie from Coal City, Illinois delivered his 1938 Fairchild to the Air Zoo. ...
Biggin Hill International Air Fair - 26-27/06/2010 from FenceCheck Forums
RAF Waddington International Air Show 2010 - Waddington - 07/03/10 from FenceCheck Forums
Tri-Motors! from FenceCheck Forums
BREITLING watches, timekeeper of the Reno Air Race - YouTube
Breitling is the official timekeeper of the Reno Air Race. Also known as the National Championship Air Races, they take place each September at the Reno Stead Airport a few miles north of Reno,
Tsunami Air Racing -- Rebuilding A Legacy - Aero-TV: Aero-News [video]
It was one of the most aggressive efforts to energize American air racing... an one of its greatest tragedies... Tsunami, the first original homebuilt unlimited racer built since 1939, was designed for speed record attempts and air . ...
Norman Becomes a TV Star from Autogyro circumnavigation of the globe by The GYROX Team
There has been a massive show of support for Norman’s decision to put the circumnavigation on hold until the weather breaks in the spring of next year. Most people realizing how hard a decision this was for Norman and how amazing has been the journey so far.
Over the last few days the media has taken Norman and his quest to their hearts and non more so than GMA 7, the Philippine Television station that run a very good video on their news show on Wednesday night, 8th September. ...
Appeal for Battle of Britain museum to honour 'The Few' at Bentley Priory HQ - Telegraph.co.uk | This will include a re-enactment of the operation room in its heyday and a fly-past by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight based at RAF Coningsby in ...
Battle of Britain Air Show Duxford – Photos by the Vintage Image
Geoffrey Wellum: The terrible beauty of flying a Spitfire at the age of 18 - Telegraph
Even now, 70 years after the Battle of Britain, people still queue round the corner to meet Geoffrey Wellum. “I do a lot of book signings,” says the 89-year-old former Spitfire pilot. “And people come, with their children, at eight o’clock in the morning when the doors only open at 10 and ask me to sign their books and pictures. It’s extraordinary.”
This is a typical piece of modesty. Even by the standards of the Second World War, Wellum’s story is astonishing. He joined the RAF in ...
B-17, B-29 to move out of Boeing's Plant 2 one last time - Seattle PI
Boeing's Plant 2 churned out 6,981 B-17 Flying Fortresses during World War II. The legendary bomber will pass out of the doomed plant one last time on Sept. 18.
At around 3 a.m., workers will move the Seattle Museum of Flight's B-17, B-29 Superfortress and Lockheed Super Constellation across East Marginal Way South to Boeing Field and then ...
Amelia Earhart: Friday’s Fabulous Flyer from Flight To Success
Amelia’s adventurous spirit took her to the sky, to where no woman, and in some cases no man, had flown. Her list of firsts is noted in history, but her disappearance may still be a mystery… or is it?
Mistresses with wings - The Register-Mail
... Paykert has owned his Stearman for 11 years. He stumbled across the plane while working for Air Classics Museum at Aurora Airport.
“I was rehabbing some of the old planes and this Stearman was one of them,” the 61-year-old said. “I started tinkering with flying and by the time the museum got ready to sell the Stearman, I was ready to buy it.”
The classic plane’s design attracted Paykert. ...
The Boeing Archives PART 1: Touring the Archives from Airline Reporter
Boeing is one huge company. Currently, they have about 160,000 employees that do things from building planes to cleaning windows. The Boeing Company was first established in 1916 and has such an amazingly interesting history. What does a company like Boeing do to keep their history intact and make sure great ideas don’t fall between the cracks? I didn’t know, but I wanted to find out.
Recently I was fortunate enough to be invited to take a tour of the Boeing Archive and sit down with ...
Young Eagles take flight - Superior Telegram
If you look to the sky Saturday, you may see Young Eagles taking flight. These are not the feathered variety, rather, they are children with a penchant for ...
The Transition Flying Car Push Back Delivery and Up Price from Aviation Blogs
Terrafugia has just announced that they will be pushing back delivery dates for The Transition Flying car and they suggested that the flying car may wind up costing substantially more that they had planned. The original price of the Transition flying car was around $148,000. The company now says the transition will go for around $200,000 to $250,000. ...
New Tests Pending For X-48 Flying Wing - Aviation Week
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center expects to enter a second phase of flight tests of Boeing’s tailless flying-wing X-48B as early as next week.
Those tests are a prelude to introduction of a revised version of the hybrid-wing aircraft in about a year that will be more fuel efficient, have lower emissions, and more closely resemble NASA’s ideal for hybrid wing-body aircraft. ...
Rare Shuttle Rollover Photo Op Evokes Sadness, Pride from SPACE.com
NASA parked Space Shuttle Discovery outside its hangar for several hours to allow employees to take pictures.
Photo: Balloon race balloons land in northwest Reno this morning - RGJ.com
Some balloons from the Great Reno Balloon Race ended up in the northwest Reno area this morning around Avenida De Landa. Here is the ...
100 years ago, the New York Times predicted cars would be abolished today [Retro Futurism] from Gizmodo | Back in 1909, a fanciful New York Times journalist decided to spice things up by pretending to describe a futuristic 2009 "centennial celebration." His portrait of future NYC is surprisingly ...
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