B-17 Flying Fortress to make local visit - El Dorado News-Times
The El Dorado Airport Commission and the South Arkansas Regional Airport at Goodwin Field are gearing up for the second visit of the B-17 Flying Fortress ...
photo via EAA
Aluminum Overcast Tour Schedule - EAA
Cocoa Beach Air Show: Pictorial Review Part 2 - Jason Rhian
While yesterday’s segment was filled with images of parachutes and sky-divers – today is all about the jets. Lots of them. While there was a couple flyovers by a C-17 Globemaster – the real stars of the show were the fighters. ...
Veteran test pilot to make special appearance at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories
Rocketplane Global Vice President and Chief Test Pilot Paul Metz will present "From Weasels to Raptors: A Test Pilot's Story" on Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
Metz, who has spent more than 37 years and 7,000 flying hours in over 70 different types of aircraft, will discuss how combat was fought in the F-105G "Wild Weasel" during the Vietnam War, with many personal photos and stories never published or provided to the public before. He will also speak about the many test airplanes he has flown, ranging from a Russian biplane to the newest fighters in the U.S. inventory. ...
WW2 - The Second World War: RAF Bomber Command Stations of WW2 by ritsonvaljos
Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, RAF East Kirkby (Used with permission) The above map (printed on a tea towel) shows the RAF Bomber Command Stations of the Second World War. The 93 Stations, mostly in East or South East England ...
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Military Aircraft at Fort Smith Regional Airport
Military Aircraft at Williams-Gateway Airport
Abby hoping for Royal treatment - Abbotsford Times
The relationship between the Abbotsford Airshow Society and the Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce has been ...
B-2 Spirit Video Gallery from MILAVIA Updates
Added video gallery for the Northrop-Grumman B-2A Spirit stealth bomber.
Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster (1945) by airboyd
The Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster was an experimental bomber aircraft, designed for a high top speed. The unconventional approach was to mount the two engines within the fuselage driving a pair of contra-rotating propellers mounted at the tail, leaving the wing and fuselage clean and free of drag-inducing protrusions. Two prototype ...
On this day in 1947, a prototype heavy transport aircraft called the Hughes H-1 Hercules made its one and only flight over the waters of Long Beach, California.
Five years earlier the world was at war and famed industrialist and builder of "Liberty" ships Henry Kaiser saw a need for a fleet of giant flying transports that the U.S. could use to safely move troops and materials across the Atlantic. Kaiser approached one of the wealthiest men in the world, Howard Hughes, with his idea. Together they formed the ...
Alaska Town Rolls Out Remarkable Support for New Build A Plane Project from Aviation Blogs
Talkeetna, Alaska, sits at the front door of Denali National Park and has a legendary history of aviation. When residents learned of a proposed new Build A Plane program where local high school students combine classroom learning with hands-on efforts to build a real airplane, word spread
through the town immediately.“Once we announced we were going to start a Build A Plane project, we began getting an amazing number of offers from lots and lots of people who wanted to help or contribute in some way,” says ...
“How an airport helped save a town,” Greg’s December Flying Carpet column & photos
from Greg Brown's Flying Carpet Blog
“What’s that smoke?” I wondered, startled, as I strode to meet friends at a downtown Flagstaff music festival. At first no one else seemed to notice the plume billowing overhead — I guess it’s a pilot’s nature to peer continually upward — but sidewalk crowds soon began gathering to snap cell-phone photos.
There was a perverse beauty to this gargantuan column of soot piercing a cobalt sky, and I found myself craving my own camera to photograph orange-and-white air tankers and helicopters swarming to attack under a vivid midday moon. ...
Flyabout, One Movie, Two Perspectives from Jetwhine
Editor Notes: Being based in the Midwest, Chicago in particular, makes the name Siskel and Ebert and the Movies legendary when it comes to chatter about film. While neither Scott nor I are will even attempt to compare ourselves to that dynamic celluloid duo, we still need a little fun now and again with the movies we do watch.We are both still attempting to figure out which of us is the Siskel and which the Ebert of this team. ...
WorldFlight: driving virtual airspace to the max from Roger-Wilco
On a sunny, crisp Sunday morning in Melbourne, Australia in the late 1990s, Matt Sheil raised the gear of his light twin and called Departure. With little traffic, he received clearance direct Sydney, his home town. Matt pointed the nose to the North-East, engaged the autopilot, and looked where he had put his newspaper. ...
Exclusive: Space Shuttle Discovery, Seen From Air Force Thunderbirds Jet - ABC News
To mark the occasion, the US Air Force Thunderbirds team is here to salute it, and take part in an air show over nearby Cocoa Beach. But before all that, ...
Voting From Space: American Astronauts Cast Ballots In Orbit - Space.com
The first American to vote from space was astronaut David Wolf, who was living on Russia's Mir Space Station at election time in 1997. ...
International Space Station marks ten years of continuous habitation from Engadget
It's not often we get to mark a ten year anniversary... in space, but that's just what the International Space Station is now celebrating. It was ten years ago today that the first crew arrived for a stay on the space station (which itself had been in orbit for two years prior), and it has been continuously occupied by humans ever ...
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