Airshow honors heroes – KXRM | The first day of the "In their Honor" airshow is in the books. More than 15-thousand people flooded the Colorado Springs airport to see the best planes and ...
Air show bridges gap between vintage, modern planes - Colorado Springs Gazette | Other children watched stuntmen Greg Poe, Tim Weber and Bob Carlton fly nauseating routines above the crowd, leaving some kids unsure about ever donning a ...
California International Airshow Salinas offers speeds, skills and style - Monterey County Herald | Jim Ercek, of Pleasant Hill, and his son, Peter, 1, check out the Super Snooper scout plane at the air show on Saturday. ...
Sights and sounds at the Miramar Air Show - San Diego Union Tribune | MIRAMAR — It was hot and loud at the Miramar Air Show on Saturday, but that didn't dampen the excitement of seeing jets like the AV-8B Harrier ...
Hose falls from Marine plane onto SD County house - The Associated Press | SAN DIEGO — A 75-foot refueling hose fell from a large cargo plane that was part of an air show Saturday and landed on a house in a San Diego County ...
Part of An Airshow Plane Lands On Carmel Mountain Ranch House - San Diego 6 | UPDATE - A part from an airshow plane falls off scaring a Carmel Mountain Ranch neighborhood. A C-130 cargo plane performing in the Miramar Air Show sent a ...
Miramar air show - East County Magazine ... is handling it," San Diego Police officer Frank Cali confirmed. The spilled fuel is believed to be from the air show at Miramar Marine Corps Air Base…
Rain, five Clubbies, and an Air Show by Iain Hall - Its Sunday so I'll give you a totally non political piece. As I mentioned yesterday I was invited to go on a drive out to an air show near Kilcoy and to be frank the weather was not that grand , in fact it was awful but none the less my daughter and I went to meet my mates at the mountain road. they were clearly running late and I thought that they had wimped out because of a bit of rain…
Search Continues For Gordon Bennett 2010 U.S. Balloonist Team from AvStop » Number One Online Resource For General Aviation News | The Italian Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) with support from other civil and military assets, including US and Croatian Military continues to search for the American balloonists, Richard Abruzzo and Carol Rymer-Davis, designated USA2, registration N801NM. On Wednesday at about 05.58Z the Gordon Bennett…
"Live Chat" with Me! – Mike Goulian by Karin | Save the date! This is my chance to have a live chat, on-line, with you! Tune in to Alliance Air Show's Facebook page to post your questions for me and I will answer them in real-time! Ask me anything about aerobatics, air shows, aviation, and how it feels to do what I love best – fly! Date: Monday, October 11th - Time: 6pm EST (5pm CT) (for 30 minutes) Log In to: www.Facebook.com/AllianceAirShow - I hope to see you at the Alliance Airshow in Ft. Worth, TX on Oct 30 – 31
Jacksonville Air Show 2010 from http://www.airshow.jacksonville.com/ October 23 – 24 - A great family event featuring top military and civilian performers, including the US Navy Blue Angels! - Gates open at 9 a.m. - Show begins at 10 a.m. - FREE parking, admission and Kid's Zone! - Open to the public! - Witness thrills like never before from a variety of military and civilian aerobatic demonstrations. The world famous Super Shockwave Jet Truck will be racing down the runway at speeds more than 300 mph. The grand finale will be the Navy's flight demonstration team: The Blue Angels.
Video: Kent Pietsch 'Deadstick' Routine At 2010 Reno Air Races by Martt | This is a nicely shot video by youtuber wunkus shows Kent Pietsch doing his 'deadstick' routine from 6,500' in his Interstate Cadet recently at the Reno Air Races. The airplane and tip smoke really look great against the beautiful Reno sky, and placing the prop spinner in the hand of the announcer at the end is a pretty sweet way to end an akro routine with no engine power!
"Ice Pilots" prepare for take-off while former Snowbird signs books - iNews880.com | Meanwhile Dan Dempsey, a former Edmontonian and Snowbird lead pilot, will be back signing his book "Tradition of Excellence." "It chronicles this wonderful ...
Sully Lands Movie Deal from AVwebFlash Current Issue - The Hero of the Hudson has landed a Hollywood deal. Varietyis reporting that heavyweight film development firms Flashlight Films and Kennedy/Marshall Co. have reached a deal with former U.S. Airways Capt. Chesley Sullenberger for the rights to the film about his involvement in the successful ditching of an A320 in the Hudson River in January of 2009.
Air Race Raises Money For Those Who Need to Be Flown to Hospitals – KTEN | Grace Flight of America and the North Texas Regional Airport hosted an air race Saturday. Formerly known as Angel Flight, the benefit has been held for more ...
Worlds largest aerial banner from The Unwanted Blog | Seems a dubious use of the available technology. http://jalopnik.com/5653873/chrysler-drops-worlds-largest-aerial-banner-spooks-faa?skyline=true&s=i
Dayton Museum Holds Special Ribbon Cutting - WHIO Dayton | The newly completed Aviation Trail Dave Gold Parachute Museum had been a work in progress for 15 years. On Saturday, Gold was on hand for the special ribbon ...
B-17 Flying Fortress visits Tulsa - Examiner.com | This may be a bit of a stretch for 'alternative transportation' since the B-17 was never designed to carry passengers. Strictly speaking, it was more like a ...
Fantasy of Flight kicks off October with spooky events - News Chief | While vintage planes like the B-17 and Grumman Duck typically take center stage at Fantasy of Flight, it's the long-lost pilots whose spirits soared while ...
Polish archaeologists to dig at plane crash site in western Russia - RIA Novosti | Polish experts probing the plane crash said in late September they were "dissatisfied" with the documents supplied by Russia. ...
WACO Classic Aircraft Donates Aircraft In Support Of AOPA Foundation from AvStop » Number One Online Resource For General Aviation News | WACO Classic Aircraft has announced that, in support of AOPA Foundation and its key initiatives, they are donating a brand new made-to-order WACO YMF-5 D-Model to the AOPA Foundation Auction. The bidding began Thursday and will end November 13th with proceeds going to AOPA Foundation. "Every item up for bid10,000 flight hours with Czech Gripen from Defence Aviation by SAAB Group | During the NATO Days 2010, the Czech Air force celebrated 10,000 flight hours with their fleet of 14 Gripen aircraft. That means an average of more than 140 hours per aircraft and year. "In May, we successfully reached half of the lease contract for the Gripen aircraft, and we are very proud that we already have flown 10,000 flight hours on these fighters. It is easy just to say it, but it really means a lot of work, technical skills and capabilities of pilots, as well as of ground crew," says Verner…
Discovery on launch pad for final mission from Flight Image of the Day by Will Horton | Space Shuttle Discovery has safely reached the launch pad at Cape Canaveral in anticipation of its final launch before retirement. A Terminal Countdown Demonstration dress rehearsal is scheduled for 12-15 October, before mission STS-133 lifts off on 1 November. Continue reading...
World Space Week 2010 from tomorrow - Brahmand Defence and Aerospace News | The week-long carnival includes activities like comet making, hydro-rocketry workshops, astronomy webcasts, a night sky observing trip and face painting for ...
This week in space history: Ley an early champion of moon flight - Alamogordo Daily News | He "would go on to become a public spokesman for rocketry and space travel over the next half century," Ted Spitzmiller wrote in "Astronautics: Book 1 Dawn ...
14th annual Plane Pull helps youth programs get airborne - DeSoto Appeal | More than 20 organizations participated in the plane pull, the largest turnout in the event's 14-year history. Networking among repeat participants has ...
Taking Flight at Jefferson City Airport - KOMU-TV | The Young Eagles and their parents watched planes and a helicopter take off and land. Everyone had a chance to talk to the pilots, ask questions, ...
Youth Aviation Adventure helps kids realize dreams of flight - WEAU-TV 13 | As these boy scouts play with paper airplanes, they say they've learned so much at the Youth Aviation Adventure about the real deal. ...
AN-225 in Charlotte - what a Monster! from Pilots of America Message Board by N5571Q - I drove to KCLT today to mail something and saw this beast on the ramp. Hope I can watch it take off.
Republic TFX and D-24 designs from The Unwanted Blog - In the early 1960's, Republic Aviation came up with a general configuration for a high speed aircraft… pointy-nosed fuselage, highly swept delta wings and small variable geometry wings for low speed. Republic applied this concept to at least four aircraft designs… the relatively small D-24 "Alliance" (with Fokker), several designs for the TFX program (eventually the F-111), a Mach 3 supersonic passenger transport, and a supersonic strategic bomber…
The Lockheed R6V Constitution from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | Before the start of the Second World War, Pan American Airways was the world's biggest operator of large ocean-going flying boats with the Boeing 314, Martin M-130 and Sikorsky S-42 in the fleet that spanned Pan American's worldwide network. However, the airline recognized that the pace of development in aviation technology meant that landplanes would be the dominant airline aircraft of the future. Pan Am worked with Boeing to bring the Boeing 307 Stratoliner to fruition (the world's first pressurized airliner)…
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