Festive holiday atmosphere awaits everyone at EAA's Christmas in the Air - Oshkosh Northwestern
Get into the holiday spirit in an uplifting setting as EAA hosts Christmas in the Air from 2:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, December 7, at the EAA AirVenture Museum in
Oshkosh.
This free community event for all ages will feature a festive holiday atmosphere, complete with holiday performances by local musical, choral, and dance groups plus a special performance by Those Funny Little People, Wally and Victor. Refreshments are also provided along with Just Plane Chocolate Holiday treat sampling that begins at 5 p.m. ...
Five new riders for 2011 season of the Snowbirds from CavokBlog
Five new riders have been announced for the 2011 season of Air Demonstration Squadron, Canadian Forces, the Snowbirds, based at 15 Wing in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. ...
Midland Airsho from CAF Minnesota Wing Blog
Airsho is always a great time! You get a chance to see old friends, meet new ones and see some of the rarest aircraft fly! This year, the B-25, P-51 and Harvard made the trip down. There was a slight feel of political tension, but nothing that overshadowed the excitement of having FIFI fly overhead!
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P-61 Black Widow Update from CAF Minnesota Wing Blog
Earlier in the year I posted a number of pics of the P-61 Black Widow at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. They are restoring it to airworthy condition, and are making some great progress! This series of pictures was found while surfing around Warbirdinformationexchange.com. I can't wait to see this fly! ...
A Ride in the PT-22 from CAF Minnesota Wing Blog
The PT-22 took to the air this year for the first time, and is being touted by the two current pilots as one of the ... Read also:
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VIDEO: New Zealand Company restores Mosquito to fly in 2011 from CavokBlog
Have Drill, Have Doughnut, the MiG Projects of Area 51 and Groom Lake
from area51specialprojects.com
In the late 1960's, the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and a number of U.S. federal agencies undertook a program at Groom Lake to evaluate the MiG-17 to help fight the Vietnam War during a period of anti-Vietnam War protests and the North Vietnamese MiG-17s and MiG-21s having a kill rate against the U.S. air assets was 9:1. These programs were code-named HAVE DRILL and HAVE FERRY under The Defense Intelligence Agency Project "HAVESoviet MiG parked outside its hangar at Groom Lake - 1960 DRILL." At Groom Lake a small, highly specialized group of engineers and technicians had just wrapped up the CIA’s A-12 Oxcart program and continued on for Projects HAVE DRILL and HAVE FERRY involving trials of MiG-17F Frescos over the skies of Area 51 at Groom Lake, and Project DOUGHNUT, an ...
The Origins of Red Flag from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago
I had started this blog out as a way of sharing a lot of the interesting aviation history I come across in the course of my reading. I'm a bit attention-deficit when it comes to reading, I usually jump between numerous books at once as I've really never been able to read one book straight through then start another. The benefit of this little quirk of ...
PICTURES: Australia's F-111 retirement to close chapter of aviation history - Flightglobal
As the last operator of the swing-wing, long-range strike aircraft, the event will close a chapter in aviation history that began with the first flight of ...
Algie Composite Aircraft 'LP1' - 385 MPH At FL290 & 14.5 GPH? from AirPigz
The LP1, or 'Light Pressurized 1', began over 15 years ago in the mind of David Algie. It wasn’t just an idea 15 years ago tho, work actually began on this airplane that far back, and the basic shape has been frozen for quite a long time. The LP1 is a two-place, pressurized, carbon fiber kit aircraft powered by an adapted Chevy Corvette LS engine that is intended to operate at altitudes as high as ...
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The flights of 50 years ago from Plane Talking
... The arrival of the jet age was as much a visible, and insistent signal of change as television and satellites.
The jets were a homework disrupting event. We’d rush outside to watch. Just as the ear splitting noise of a Super Constellation grinding its way into the air was an event that would unpack a practice scrum, or completely silence a classroom. ...
B757 Supertanker ground test from TAKEOFF TUBE
Evergreen Aviation's B747 Supertanker performing a ground test. Watch the plane flex during the blast! That's about 40,000lbs of pressure, and 20,000gallons exiting in about 10 seconds. This platform will be used to fight fires among other things....stand clear and watch out!
Global Hawk prepares for flying mission from AF.mil Photos
An RQ-4 Global Hawk gets all pre-flight checks accomplished from maintenance technicians before a mission while deployed Nov. 23, 2010, at an air base in Southwest Asia. The Airmen and the RQ-4 are assigned to the 380th Expeditionary Operations Group. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Andy M. Kin)
Tree festival soars at air museum - The Columbian | Others came to see the planes and displays at the Pearson Air Museum, which for the first time hosted the Vancouver Rotary Foundation's annual fundraising ...
CBS Sports Reporter Goes Sky High from FishbowlDC
On Sunday when many people were still recovering from Thanksgiving gorging, CBS Sports
Correspondent Kaylee Hartung was preparing to jump out of an airplane.
The jump was an early Christmas present from her younger brother, Tyler, who has done nearly ...
Interesting rocketry photo album from The Original Rocket Dungeon
I just found an interesting Flickr album containing scans of some photos of the Space Services Inc Conestoga I and related facilities. ...
Dragons (on aircraft and in movies) from The Original Rocket Dungeon
Private Rocket Builder to Launch Demo Flights From Florida - Space.com
"While we are preparing for a flight demonstration in Florida, there are enough new space ports around the country that evaluating them will take time. ...
