PE Air Show best in SA - Weekend Post
THE Port Elizabeth Air Show, which took place last weekend at the city's airport, has been voted the best air show in the country – for the second time. ...
Aviation Summit will land in Long Beach this week - Long Beach Press-Telegram
As at the 2009 Summit and Air Show in Tampa, Fla., diverse types of aircraft will be on view at Long Beach's Airportfest ...
Heavy Metal Jet Team - Press Release
Here are some of my shots of Snort flying the Heavy Metal Jet Team T-33 over Cocoa Beach last Monday - Fence Check2010 Wings Over Houston Air Show Recap
LiveAirShowTV has posted its recap of the 2010 Wings Over Houston air show at Ellington Field. It was a busy weekend of flying that included Debby Rihn-Harvey, John Klatt, Julie Clark, ...
Yves Rossy is a 51 year-old Swiss pilot who has developed a technology that allows him to strap a pair of carbon-fiber wings on his back and fly through the air powered by four small jet engines. Cleverly, he has branded himself "Jetman." Quite possibly, he is completely insane.
Fortunately, he's also technically adept and more than a little lucky. Rossy has been flying successfully with his strap-on wings since 2006, completing such feats as crossing the English Channel and flying in formation with conventional prop-driven aircraft: ...
Veterans Day Celebrations Across Alabama -Video from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
Since 1947 National Veterans Day in Birmingham has held many annual events every November 11th, including a major parade, and an awards dinner honoring deserving veterans, and is recognized as the nations oldest and largest Veterans Day observance. Each year, National Veterans Day in Birmingham salutes those men and women who have served their country as members of the armed services and those today who proudly wear the uniform of the active, reserve, and National Guard forces. ...
Harriers Coming to ERAU, Nov 11th! by Aviation News
On May 24, 2010 I had the unique one time and one time only opportunity for a non United Aeronautical Corporation (UAC) employee to get inside its Grumman Tracker Storage Yard next to Davis-Monthan AFB and AMARC in Tucson, AZ and photograph all of the airframes located there. United Aeronautical Corp. is the Northrop-Grumman licensee on all of the models and variations of the S2, C-1 an E-1B Aircraft. Not only do they provide certified spares from their aircraft, as an ISO and FAA certified facility, they also produce all of the spares for these aircrafts. They have Northrop-Grumman's complete data packages, and they even manufacture and supply the landing gear systems. ...
B-17 bomber salutes veterans, gives lessons - Laurel Leader Call
Even now, decades later, the 89-year-old Mississippi native gets emotional talking about bombing missions as a pilot in a B-17 Flying Fortress. ...
John Watson: The WASP have landed in Sweetwater - Cleburne Times-Review
Under her leadership, the WASP forever changed the role of women in aviation. With the war in Europe “winding down” and the civilian male pilots lobbying ...
Veteran aviator continues to spread his wings - Inside Nova
...“My most memorable missions in Vietnam centered around breaking the North Vietnamese siege of An Loc, a provincial capital just 55 miles north of Saigon,” he said.
Carey flew 240 combat missions, and for his heroic efforts was presented Vietnamese Crosses of Gallantry with Silver Star and Bronze Star by Vietnamese General Officers; two U.S. Distinguished Flying Crosses, and 15 Air Medals. ...
VIDEO: Tucano aircraft hit the Smoke Squadron vulture during a presentation in Limerick - Cavok | A plane of the T-27 Tucano fleet of smoke that was an air show in Limeira, 151 km from Sao Paulo, had to make an emergency landing after hitting a vulture on Sunday (7). ...
Aero-TV: Pat Harwell -- Balloon Pilot Extraordinaire from Aero-News Network
As Amazing As The ABQ Balloon Fiesta Is... The Pilots Are Even More So! In a few recent Aero-TV programs, we've had the great good fortune to relate some of the amazing sights, sounds and sensations we encountered at the 2010 ABQ Balloon Fiesta... and the word 'amazing' barely does this event justice. Really... it's THAT great an event.
1st Flight of the Shoestring from www.aafo.com
Caribou aircraft were withdrawn from operation of the RAAF are placed for sale - Cavok
The Minister of Defence Material from Australia, Jason Clare, said that the DHC-4 Caribou aircraft were withdrawn from operation of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF - Royal Australian Air Force) will be placed on sale.
Two aircraft were donated to the RAAF Museum at Point Cook and the Australian War Memorial, and two others will be reserved for sale to Australian museums. ...
Vintage Aircraft Tool Cataloging, Re-housing and Preservation Project from AirSpace by The National Air and Space Museum
In the years following WWII the United States and her Allies conducted engineering and flight tests of many different types of captured or surrendered Axis aircraft, primarily from Germany and Japan. Many of these aircraft were acquired by Allied and US technical intelligence collection teams. It was ordered that at least one of each type of enemy aircraft be captured and evaluated by these teams, and that each aircraft type be maintained in flyable condition for a minimum of one year. To make this possible all technical data and ...
Gladys Ingle of the 13 BLACK CATS changes planes in mid-air - YouTube
Gladys Ingle of the 13 BLACK CATS changes planes in mid-air ro replace a lost wheel
November 8 from Cut and Paste Aviation
Superjumbos are in the news recently after a Qantas Airbus A380 blew an engine and had to make an emergency landing in Singapore. These double-decker, 525-passenger crafts have been in the air since October 2007, and this marks the most serious midair incident during that time. ...
The Dogs of War Go Airborne in Afghanistan from Danger Room | Dogs have been involved in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts since the start; pooches are NATO’s best bomb detectors, for instance. But the canines are taking on new wartimes roles – as paratroopers in Afghanistan and as improvised explosive devices in Iraq. ...
You're probably familiar with supersonic planes like the SR-71 Blackbird pictured above, which managed to fly at over three times the speed of sound, but imagine this: NASA set aside $15 million to develop a hypersonic plane that could exit our atmosphere at speeds between Mach 5 and Mach 20. The US space agency's not expecting to build it quite that cheaply, of course, and it's not holding out hope for a contractor to ...
After a week of rest, the Caption Contest is back and ready to challenge your sense of avgeek wit. I could be wrong (familiar territory for me), but this pic should stir up all kinds of fun. So c'mon, ...
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