Airportfest Arriving in Long Beach With Aviation Past, Future - Long Beach Press-Telegram | LONG BEACH -- Flying enthusiasts and pilots from across the world are descending into Long Beach this week for one of the nation's largest annual aviation ...
Long way to Long Beach from Topicfire Aviation News | The first time I ever saw a Waco Classic biplane, the mere sight of round-engine aircraft conjured up a recurring fantasy involving summertime cross-country flights and sleeping under the wings at night. The recently concluded "Long Way to Long Beach" trip in a Waco YMF-5D far surpassed anything my limited...
McDonnell Douglas C-9B Skytrain II. "San Diego, Calif.... from Planeshots:
U.S. Sport Aviation Expo On Track To Equal Past Performance from Aero-News Network | Exhibitors On A Waiting List For Inside Spaces The Chairman of the US Sport Aviation Expo, which is set for January 20-23 at Sebring Regional Airport in central Florida, said Monday that exhibitor response seems as good as or better than in years past…
Clifton Chronicles: Blue Angels Airshow by The Clifton Family | We saw the most amazing airshow at NAS Jax in Fla. The Blue Angels preformed and it was utterly amazing! I don't know how those pilots do all that they do without wetting themselves, vomiting, or having a heart attack. ...
Tiger Moths fly in - Forbes Advocate | Forbes Airport played host to a different kind of aeroplane on Friday morning, welcoming three 1940 model Tiger Moths and a Brumby. ...
Fantasy of Flight's Fourth Annual Roar n' Soar "Festival of Speed" Returns ... - Motorcyclist Magazine | Roar n' Soar, Fantasy of Flight's signature two-day extravaganza of the world's finest classic land, sea and air racing machines ever built, ...
WW II Fighter Raised From Lake Michigan - WKRG-TV by CBS News/WKRG Staff The F4U-1 Corsair is on it's way to the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola to be restored, put on display. ...
Raised F4U-1 Corsair Bound for National Museum of Naval Aviation from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Chicago IL - A World War II, F4U-l Corsair fighter plane was raised from Lake Michigan today (11/8) at the Larsen Marine at Waukegan Harbor in Waukegan, Illinois. Salvage crews working for the United States Navy helped to bring a very rare early model of the Corsair commonly called the "Birdcage Corsair," from the lake…
Friends Of The Museum Archive Film Evening Wednesday 10th November from RAF Museum London News | On Wednesday 10th November the Museum's Society of Friends will be showing a programme of rare archive footage, newsreels and RAF training films from 7pm onwards in our Close Brothers Military Lecture Theatre. Admission is free and members of the public are very welcome to attend. A must for any aviation buff or lover of vintage filmography these events are usually very popular…
NIGHTWAY 2010 from AirSpace by Grimmi | Yes - each year in November we loose a good part of our Hornets ... they where in Norway for the training of Nightflights ! They will come back again on 3rd of Dezember, but until then there is not much activity to expect of the rest of our Hornet-fleet - with ten of them in Oerland…
B-17 Flying Fortress on display in Jackson - WLBT-TV | The B-17 was used primarily in the European Theatre, bombing Germany from bases in England and Italy. There were more than 12000 B-17's made, and now there ...
1949 Road trip L.A. to Cleveland - Aviation Airshow Air Race Photography Discussion
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Unleashed 2010 Video Yearbook has been released! - Aviation Airshow Air Race Photography Discussion from http://www.aafo.com/ Unleashed 2010 Video Yearbook has been released! After the official premiere last night with my sponsors from ALLeRC.com and PlaneDomain.net, along with Jason Schillereff and my beautiful girlfriend, Lisa, I've uploaded the four videos to YouTube today. We're happy to provide fans with our 2010 video yearbook! Links are below for parts 1 - 4; be sure to watch in HD settings!
Yves Rossy's jetpack loops a hot air balloon, looks great doing it (video) from Engadget by Joseph L. Flatley | Looks like Swiss daredevil Yves Rossy is back to the, well, daredeviltry. On November 5, 2010, the self-described Jetman lept off a platform attached to the side of the Esprit Breitling Orbiter hot air balloon and, after reaching an altitude of 2,400 meters (7,874 feet), came back to loop around the thing twice. He was aided in his endeavor by a new, smaller wing (two meters across) with four jets, and executed the maneuvers using only his body movements to steer…
Aero-TV: All Shapes And Sizes -- The Many 'Faces' of the ABQ Balloon Fiesta from Aero-News Network | Balloons Are Crafted Using ALL Kinds Of Images Now... and Here's How They Do It! The sight of a stereotypical balloon is immediately recognizable... and somewhat iconic... but what's happened to this sport over the last few decades would have shocked the folks who pioneered this industry... with balloons now crafted to take on all manner of topics, figures, faces and images…
When life gives you lemons . . . make lemonade! from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | I was amazed to read about the courage and tenacity of 27-year-old Jessica Cox in an Alaskan newspaper report the other day. Intrigued, I looked up more about her online, and found this CNN profile. Even though she was born without arms, Jessica Cox never says "can't". She was determined to become a pilot, and she did.
Pilot without arms to visit villages struggling with suicide - Seward Phoenix Log | Jessica Cox chose to visit Hooper Bay, Chevak and Scammon Bay in part because the Southwest Alaska villages have struggled with suicides this summer. ...
Groundbreaking for Spaceship Factory from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) A production facility that would build the world's first fleet of commercial spaceships is set to begin construction Tuesday at the Mojave Air and Space Port. The 68,000-square-foot facility, one of the first aircraft assembly plants to be built in the region in decades, will be home to the Spaceship Co., or TSC -- a joint venture owned by Mojave-based Scaled Composites and British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, a space tourism company, reports W.J. Hennigan at The Los Angeles Times.
Martin, the Titan I, and the Titan II Ballistic Missiles from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | When George M. Bunker took over the reins of Martin Aircraft from Glenn Martin in 1952, Bunker wanted to diversify Martin which up to that point had produced only aircraft. With an able group of lead engineers that Glenn Martin had literally hand picked in the years prior to his retirement from his company, Bunker moved some of Martin's engineering and research efforts into the rocket and missile arena that bore first fruit with the Viking research rocket and the Vanguard light satellite launcher built for the Navy…
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
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