Quad Cities selected for 2011 Navy Week celebration - Quad-Cities Online
America's Navy will "come home" to the Quad Cities in conjunction with the Quad Cities Air Show, June 16-22. Quad Cities Navy Week celebration 2011 gives ...
mikegoulian: Check out our latest images from the Alliance/Ft.Worth airshow. Just awesome! http://mikegoulian.com/photos-new
Thunderbirds In Formation - Michael Tuuk Photography
I recently spent a day with friends and family at AirFest 2010 at Lackland AFB in San Antonio. It was my kind of air show — lots of high-performance jets. There were F-15s, F-16s, an F-18, and an F-22. In addition, the Thunderbirds gave ...
America?s Ambassadors in Blue continue Far East Tour in Malaysia ... by Qadeer Ahmad
When the Thunderbirds arrived at Subang Air Base on Sept. 30 for the third stop on their Far East tour, royalty, foreign diplomats, senior military members and civilians alike welcomed the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron with ...
Aviation China to showcase world's aircraft - China.org.cn
... at the 60th National Day Parade to the show, including the August 1st Aerobatic Team newly equipped with J10 Fighters, and the Parachute Jumping Team. ...
China to host global aircraft expo Nov 16 - Sify
Some 600 exhibitors are to take part in the event, organizer Zhuhai Airshow Co. Ltd. said in a press conference in Hong Kong. The show, with a floorspace of ...
The belle of the military visits St. Simons Island - Florida Times-Union
Liberty Belle, the most recently restored World War II B-17 Flying Fortress, is on display through Friday at McKinnon-St. Simons Island Airport courtesy of ...
Tickets available Nov. 15 for Holiday Concerts at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories
The U.S. Air Force Band of Flight will present two Holiday Concerts at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 9 and Thursday, Dec. 10 at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
Due to the popularity of these free concerts, tickets are required and will be available for public distribution beginning at 9 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 15. Requests made before this time will not be accepted.
Tickets may be obtained one of three ways. ...
World War II vets receive free trip to see memorial - NRToday.com
To Markham, who flew a B-17 Flying Fortress on 25 bombing missions into Germany and other Axis-held territories during World War II, the memorial is a ...
By salvaging the plane for display at the National Navy Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla., Greenhill said “people can show their kids and grandkids what ...
Recovered Spitfire wreckage reveals fate of RAAF's Henry Lacy Smith from The Kathryn Report | For 66 years, the brave young Spitfire pilot's final resting place had been a mystery. ACE FIND: A salvage worker looks at the cockpit of a Spitfire that crashed on 11th June 1944 in an estuary in Sallenelles near Caen, North West France. Source: AdelaideNow A crane lifts the upside down wreckage of a Spitfire that crashed on 11th June 1944 in an estuary in Sallenelles near Caen, North West ...
Charles Lindbergh's flight from Pilots of America Message Board
Win Perkins, a real estate appraiser who specializes in airport properties, has posted on his Web site a video he created of Charles Lindbergh's famous and risky takeoff in the Spirit of St. Louis .
According to Perkins, this is unlike any other presentation of the takeoff footage. Perkins said he "painstakingly assembled news footage from five cameras that filmed Lindbergh's takeoff from Roosevelt ...
Teddy Roosevelt Flying - Kinloch Field, St Louis (1910) - airboyd.tv
(no audio) Courtesy: Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Colonel Roosevelt is invited to fly in Arch Hoxsey's plane at St. Louis, Mo., 1910 While participating in the Missouri State Republican Party's campaign on ...
It Was Easy Enough by Joe Clark
Eugene Ely was a pioneer aviator in the very early days of aviation. Ely was born in Williamsburg, IA on October 21, 1879 and was only 31 years old when he became the first pilot to take off from the deck of a United States Naval vessel. ...
Parachute marks its birthday anniversary - The Voice of Russia
In the autumn of 1910, an air show was held on the suburbs of St. Petersburg where Russian pilots competed for the first time. Thousands of people gathered ...
Rare WWI and WWII memorabilia up for auction from The Kathryn Report
A rare American flying jacket, a Third Reich enamel street sign and an SS officer's dress-sword are among historical items being auctioned in Gloucestershire this week. The objects will go under the hammer at Dominic Winter auction house as part of a sale of military, aviation and motoring memorabilia. The leather flying jacket was owned by one of the notorious 'Flying Tigers', made up of United ...
Eric, Gone West by Joe Clark
... The Royal Air Force lacked planes and pilots; she was also losing more young men and aircraft each day to the Luftwaffe. England needed more pilots and faced a terrible logistical and training problem.
Training pilots in England was impossible. There were not enough training aircraft or flight instructors available to do the job.
The alternative? ...
Museum of Flight names new president from General Aviation News
The Museum of Flight in Seattle has named Douglas King as president and chief executive officer ...
the Voisin “Icare” aero-yacht, circa 1912 from x planes
Yves Rossy has figured out that many of us are suckers for a story about people trying to fly like the birds. Granted there aren’t many birds with four jet engines strapped to their wings, but what we lack in wings and the right muscles, we make up for with the brains to build a carbon-fiber wing with miniature jet engines. ...
November 9 from Cut and Paste Aviation
Lockheed Martin released this photo and a video Tuesday of the first F-35C Lightning II carrier variant, the U.S. Navy’s first stealth fighter, as it arrived at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. on Saturday to begin ...
The November edition of the Heartland Warrior is now available. The official E-Paper of the 434th Air Refueling Wing includes six pages of stories, photos and features pertaining to Grissom ARB and the U.S. Air Force. Top stories include:
--Grissom personnel teach local students about the dangers of drugs
--Scouts offer realistic training to medics
--Civil engineers get hands-on training
--Recent promotions
--Security forces training
3 World War II bombs found at Warsaw airport from The Kathryn Report
A World War II-era bomb was found Tuesday on the grounds of the airport in the Polish capital Warsaw, some 500 metres from a terminal, local media reported. The unexploded bomb was found at a construction site at Warsaw Chopin Airport. WARSAW, Poland—Three unexploded bombs dating back to World War II were discovered at Warsaw's international airport during construction work Tuesday, prompting ...
Ryanair crew get their kit off...again from Things with Wings
Ryanair today launched its annual charity calendar featuring raunchy image of cabin crew. The latest edition was shot in Fuerteventura and Ryanair hopes to raise up to €100,000 for German charity Tafel through the sale of 10,000 calendars onboard Ryanair flights. ...
L.A.’s Mystery ‘Missile’ Is Probably a Jet from Danger Room
That mystery “missile” launched last night off of the coast of Los Angeles? It probably wasn’t a missile at all, several leading defense analysts say. ...
Night Launch By Ed Darack airspacemag.com
Adventures of a first-time shuttle photographer.
Time was running out. With the space shuttle program ending, veteran writer and photographer Ed Darack knew he’d have to hurry if he wanted to shoot a shuttle launch—especially a nighttime launch.
from Boing Boing | The Los Angeles Times today reports that The Spaceship Company, or TSC—the joint venture owned by Burt Rutan's Mojave-based Scaled Composites and Richard Branson's space tourism company Virgin Galactic—are building a production facility at the Mojave Air and Space Port where the world's first fleet of commercial spaceships will be built. ...
Flybys: commercial space conference, TSC factory groundbreaking, SpaceX rescheduling
from Personal Spaceflight | Special Aerospace Services, a Colorado aerospace company, announced Monday they would host the first Commercial Human Spaceflight Technical Forum in Boulder this coming January. The one-and-a-half-day conference is designed to give attendees “insight to techniques that will be required to successfully achieve NASA human rating certification and FAA commercial spaceflight licensing”, according to the conference web site. Featured speakers include former shuttle program manager Wayne Hale and former astronaut Jeffrey Ashby. ...
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