Saturday airshow in Millville draws hundreds - NJ.com
This 17th annual event “wasn't an airshow” according to museum executive director Lisa Jester. That title is being saved for next year when the Blue Angels ...
Static air show benefits a local child - Villager
From 9 am to 5 pm, individuals be free to enjoy a static air show, face painting and other child-friendly activities. A variety of airliners will be ...
If you go to the McConnell open house and air show - Kansas.com
Free shuttles will be available from all parking lots to the air show and back. Visitors with special needs may park at a designated lot on the west side of ...
Speed: 500 MPH. Altitude: 50 Feet. Feeling: Amazing - Wired Magazine
For pilots seeking a speed fix, this weekend’s Reno Air Races is the place to be. From the tiny Formula 1 class racers that lap the short course at more than 250 mph to the anything-goes unlimited class where pilots go more than 500 mph just 50 feet off the ground, going fast is the only goal.
The 47th annual National Championship Air Races kick into high gear this weekend at Stead Field outside Reno, Nevada. The event started in 1964 when World War II pilot Bill Stead organized a race in the high desert of Nevada, resurrecting a sport that had largely gone missing since the last of the great Cleveland air races in 1949. ...
Blue Skies & Big Birds by mollyheart
Video: F-22 Raptor California Capital Airshow 2010 from Keith Breazeal Video Productions
F-22 Raptor demo from directly under the flight path. Video was shot from the "Photo Pit" on the opposite side of the runway from the crowd line- a new media feature offered by the airshow. Nothing like aerobatic planes and jets buzzing the photographers!
The Snowbird Human-Powered Ornithopter from Aviation Blogs
Todd Reichert, a PhD student at the University of Toronto, announced Wednesday that he had completed the first continuous flight of a human-powered ornithopter, the mythical aircraft with birdlike flapping wings first envisioned by Leonardo da Vinci in 1485, The Toronto Star reported. Reichert said his flight, launched by a towline attached to an automobile, sustaining both altitude and airspeed for 19.3 seconds over 145 meters (475 feet) at a top speed of 25 kph (approximately 16 mph). ...
Spitfire memorial competition: the six shortlisted designs - Telegraph
Striking sculptures of a Spitfire performing a victory roll are among the six shortlisted entries in a competition to design a national memorial to the wartime aircraft.
RFC Prizes from Military Photos
Some shots of captured German Aircraft,hope you enjoy them.
Coming in 2011: New Book about the 95th Bomb Group from Remembering World War Two Airmen
The new 95th Bomb Group history 'Into the Wild Blue Yonder and Beyond' is in its final publication stages with Potomac Books and will be released in 2011. The book tells the story ...
95th Bomb Group (H) Reunion in Washington DC: Photos Batch One
from Remembering World War Two Airmen
Another wonderful reunion filled with stories, friendship, and history. ...
1939 Focke-Wulf FW 190 Prototype: Crazy Big Spinner! by AirPigz
As I mentioned in the FW 190 CoolPix post the other day, I've been a fan of the this airplane since I was a kid, but that doesn't mean there isn't a boatload of stuff for me to to still learn about it. Like; I didn't know the prototype aircraft had that huge spinner the diameter of the fuselage! I had no idea that this was the original concept Kurt Tank had for the airplane. I found out about the prototype FW 190 in a book my dad had that I ...
Picture: C-130 milestones - Key Aero
September 25: Lockheed Martin employees at the company’s Marietta plant in Georgia, USA celebrated the delivery of the 200th C-130J Super Hercules on September 23. The HC-130J, the first for the US Air Force’s Air Combat Command, is also the 1,500th C-130 delivered to the US Government.
Solar Impulse – Swiss Pride from CAFE Foundation Blog
Andre’ Borschberg, CEO of the Solar Impulse project, has been flying over many scenic and civic sites in Switzerland, crossing from its home field at Payerne to Geneva International Airport on September 21, and then returning the same day to Payerne. The next day, Borschberg cruised to Zurich International Airport and returned to the plane’s home base. ...
Balloon enthusiasts prepare for world's oldest race - Video BBC News
Balloon enthusiasts from eleven countries have gathered in Bristol for the world's oldest air race.
The Gordon Bennett cup is an endurance race for gas balloons, and it's the first time it has set off from Britain. Nick Higham reports.
September 25 from Cut and Paste Aviation
Open House - September 30th - from Gainesville Composite Squadron
Are you between the ages of 12 and 18? Do you want to fly? Do you like competition? Do you want to become a leader in your community? Do you want to learn more about military life? Do you want to travel the world and make lifelong friends?
Join us on September 30th, 2010, for our Open House Informational Night ...
Space Station Crew Returns Home from Space Tweep Society Blog
Two Russians and one American returned back to earth this morning after spending 177 days in earth orbit, living and working aboard the International Space Station.
Soyuz TMA18 spacecraft commander and outgoing leader of the Expedition 24 crew, Alexander Skvortsov and flight engineers Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mikhail Kornienko touched down upon the desert of Kazakhstan, near the town of Arkalyk on September 25 at 1:23 am EDT (0523 GMT).
In space, the orbital outpost flew high off the coast of Japan and over the western Pacific Ocean as the parachutes of the Soyuz lowered the craft to the desert floor. ...
NASA Space Shuttle Re-Entry Video From Inside Of Cockpit by Av8tor
NASA: Inside internal cockpit view of the Space Shuttle during re-entry to Earth’s orbit. Amazing Video!
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