Sunday, September 26, 2010

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Havasu air show takes off - Today's News-Herald | Marine Cpl. Steven Orth landed "his bird" in Lake Havasu City for the Patriot Days' first air show. An Osprey plane sits during the ...

Kaneohe Bay Airshow Brings High Flying Action - KHON2 | Besides stunts, the Kaneohe Bay Airshow had plenty of eye-catching sites. Including the F-22 Raptor's and a wall of fire explosion. As the anticipation grew ... 

Trail blazers - Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Tens of thousands of spectators crowded the flight line at Kaneohe Bay yesterday to catch the Navy's Blue Angels, an Air Force F-22 Raptor ...

Staring at the sky - Times of Malta | Eyes were fixed and camera lenses were trained on the sky as the 18th edition of the Malta International Airshow got underway yesterday…

Blue Thunder: Angels return Friday to Miramar Air Show - North County Times | Other military performers at the show are the US Air Forces' F-22 Raptor and F-16 Fighting Falcon, the Marine Corps' Av-8B Harrier (known for its vertical ...

Planes show off pieces of history at annual Warbirds Over the Rockies air show - Greeley Tribune | Pilots and their spotters watch as World War I-era fighters dot the sky at the Warbirds Over the Rockies remote-controlled air show at Drake ...

Vulcan 'could fly for last time' - BBC News | The last airworthy Cold War Vulcan bomber could fly in public for the last time on Sunday unless its owners can raise £400000 by the end of October. ...

Rain-shortened McConnell air show still a big hit - Kansas.com | The US Air Force Thunderbirds rehearsed their precision aerobatics in F-16 Falcons on Friday to prepare for this weekend's shows at ...

Thunderbirds ready to fly today from Kansas.com: Aviation by MOLLY MCMILLIN | Thunderbirds pilot Capt. Kristin Hubbard hurtled the F-16 Fighting Falcon straight up into the Kansas sky, eased back the speed, then put the plane into a vertical roll, corkscrewing through the air. It's Hubbard's favorite aerobatics maneuver — the only one that made me queasy in the backseat of the compact fighter jet during an hourlong media flight Saturday morning. Hubbard, whose call sign is "Mother," displayed the maneuvers the Thunderbirds military aerial demonstration team will use in its breathtaking performance today — a graceful barrel loop, a cloverleaf and an eight-point roll, a slow roll with eight quick stops. Read more

Cooking On Gas: Daredevils In Balloon Race - Sky News | Daredevil competitors flying gas balloons have been make their way across the UK as they take part in the world's oldest air race. ...

Balloonists wait to take to the air in Gordon Bennett Cup - Telegraph.co.uk ... David Hempleman-Adams, the Ace Adventurer, was setting out to defend his title in the world's oldest, simplest and slowest air race. ...

Fly In offers view of aviation history - Alton Telegraph | Ulery and his family were at St. Louis Regional Airport's 16th annual Fly In Saturday, where a few pilots were offering rides. The blue-and-yellow PT-17 ...

FlyingMachinesTV: This Is How Aviation Video Should Be! by Martt |  I first stumbled upon the video below while doing lots of Focke-Wulf FW 190 research. I was really impressed with the video quality, specifically from a 'smoothness of tracking' and the perspective from where the video was shot that I dug a little deeper. Wow! FlyingMachinesTV.co.uk takes aviation video to the highest level. I must learn to do this! The video above from the recent Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) event on July 17-18, 2010 at Fairford in the UK is absolutely amazing! Tracking flying machines with that much smoothness changes the game…

Duxford Legends 2010 Photo. selection from PPRuNe Forums by Old Photo.Fanatic | A small selection of Photos. from my visit to Duxford Legends 2010. Hope to make any further selections a bit bigger .

Female aviator flew into record books - Press-Enterprise | Cochran remained active in aviation affairs until her death. She retired from the Air Force Reserve in 1970 as colonel. The Coachella Valley honored her by ...

Tough guy rides with the Blue Angels from ExpressJet Forum by heckler | The black-out scenes from clip 2 are great...This guy's facial expressions are priceless. "are you back with me?" http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/swf/bl...blueangels.swf Not that I wouldn't have blacked out but its still great.

Seeking World War II aviators - Sarasota Herald-Tribune ... NJ In 1992, he was part of the expedition that recovered the "Glacier Girl," a P-38 Lightning airplane downed over Greenland in 1942. ...

Older pilots defend right to fly - Daytona Beach News-Journal ... the Experimental Aircraft Association and leader of the Gaggle Flight at Spruce Creek Fly-In. "Some people should probably stop flying when they're 42. ...

Scott Air Force Base Air Show by LS Murphy | On Saturday, September 11th, 2010, Scott Air Force Base in Illinois held it's annual air show…well, it should be called an air SPECTACULAR. The highlight was the Blue Angels. After a A-10 Warthog got a flat on the runway, (can you imagine changing that? Jeez.) the Blue Angels took flight. Here are some videos clips of the air show.

Knight Twister Forum • View topic - Once Around the Patch from knighttwister.com | Don Fairbanks wrote a book several years ago and is a must for any Knight Twister fan. The book not only covers Don's racing history with the "White Knight", but also his entire aviation career. From a tail gunner on B-24's in Europe during World War II to his career as a Air Line pilot, charter pilot, flight instructor and owner/operator of a FAA approved Flight School, Don shares the serious and fun parts of more than a half century of everyday aviation experiences.

Photo Galleries: Duke - News & Observer | The US Army's Golden Knights float into Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, NC before the start of the Duke - Army game on Saturday Sept. 25, 2010. ...

Paragliders at Cooks Terrace from Making Time for Flying by Julien | A few months back I fortuitously discovered the existence of paragliding spots along Sydney's Northern Beaches. Today my wife and I were celebrating the end of winter by spending a Sunday afternoon at Bongin Bongin Bay when suddenly a big rectangular shadow swept across the beach. I looked up and here they were, big colourful paragliders in the Sydney sky!

Replica of Red Baron's plane stops for fuel • Returning from air show to ... - Alva Review-Courier | Holliday flew the plane Saturday at an air show in Bartlesville and was returning it to the Vintage Aero Flying Museum near his present home in Fort Lupton, ...

Russia to Offer Tourist Flights After 2013 from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos plans to send Soyuz spacecraft with two space tourists to the International Space station (ISS) after 2013, the head of Roscosmos' manned flights department, Alexei Krasnov, told RIA Novosti. Virginia-based Space Adventures, Ltd. and the Russian Roscosmos are actively in negotiation to expand the spaceflight participants temporarily suspended due to the added demand for Soyuz seats by the United States and other international space station partners over the next two or three years…

September 26 from Cut and Paste Aviation by KenInfinite

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