Patriots Jet Team Expanding to Six Jets for 2011 - San Francisco Chronicle | The group was founded in 2002 with a mission to entertain air show and special events audiences, while encouraging the nation's youth towards careers in the ...
Alaska military base says F-22 fighter overdue - Washington Post | AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A spokeswoman for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson says an F-22 fighter jet based at the military facility near Anchorage is overdue. ...
USAF F-22A Raptor - Nellis AFB 2010 by Britt Dietz www.warbird-photos.com | Probably my favorite shot of the 2010 Nellis AFB Airshow, and one of my favorite F-22A Raptor shots of all time... and it was all by accident! I'll have a blog post talking about how I got this shot during sunset this week! www.warbird-photos.com/airshows/2010-NellisAFB-2/Nellis10D2_F-22A_Raptor_5297.jpg
75th Anniversary Celebrations Mark China Clipper's First Flight - Business Wire | Ongoing exhibits are open to the general public at the Oakland airport, at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos and at the Alameda Naval Air Museum, ...
J-10 Fighter - Airshow China 2010 from Military Photos by DefenceTalk.com by The Watcher:
Mason Co. native inducted into aviation hall of fame - Lexington Herald Leader | James Graybill, a pilot who has logged more than 33000 flying hours in his career, was inducted into the Kentucky Aviation Hall of Fame on Nov. ...
Picture(s) A Day – Aviation Nation 2010 – Sunday At Nellis AFB from Parrothead Jeff | Sorry for the delay everyone, but I was just flat worn out Sunday night and yesterday wasn't the greatest day, either. I managed to get the pictures for this post edited and the panoramas stitched together, and uploaded, but getting them built into the post and captioned took a bit too much time…
World War II veteran paints 'City of Savannah' B-17 nose art - Savannah Morning News … the World War II veteran painted the nose art on the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum's B-17, the "City of Savannah. ...
History Major's Dream Vacation – Udvar Hazy part II - Reaching ... by Redfokker | It does not look like much, but it is another rare piece of aviation history and I was excited to see it. The airplane/spacecraft geek in me got all weepy in viewing some of the most mundane artifacts of the space race of the 1960s. ...
Airplane Geeks - Episode 123 - Listener Mailbag | Airplane Geeks ... by maxflight | We also have David's This Week in Aviation history segment, the Australia Desk report by Steve and Grant from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast, and Pieter Johnson's latest Across the Pond segment. Mentions: The World Airport Data App ...Greatest Generation: James Mulder - WSAV-TV | On October 6th on a bomb run to take out a ball bearing factory in Berlin Mulder's B-17 was shot down. "The two guys in the waist got killed and the guy in ...
Seahawk helicopter retires to Pacific Aviation Museum - Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Its last mission was a short jaunt — from the Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay to the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor this morning. ...
Liberator — Consolidated B-24M walkaround from Travel for Aircraft | The Liberator was a contemporary of Boeing's B-17 Flying Fortress in the European Theater and the unchallenged heavy bomber for the U.S. Army Air Force in the Pacific Theater until the advent of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The B-24 is one of the most produced airplanes in history, partly because its design better envisioned mass production methods of the day. It was also known to be heavy on the controls and Liberator pilots famously had well developed muscles in their left arms to demonstrate that characteristic…The Lockheed L-1011 Flies Into It's 40th Year from Flying With Fish | The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar took to the skies for the first time forty years ago today, November 16th 1970. To me is the L-1011 is the airplane that started my love of airplanes, airlines, travel and the smell of jet fuel. The L-1011 was not only an airplane that flew over my house day and night growing up next New York's JFK Airport, it was also the plane that flew me to Grandma (usually Delta and sometimes Eastern). On the windowsill next to my bed I had a collection of little white plastic Delta Air Lines L-1011s collected from every flight…
The Anatomy of the Airbus A380 QF32 near disaster from Plane Talking by Ben Sandilands | The Airbus presentation to accident investigators of the damage done to QF32 on November 4 gives new technical insights into this near disaster involving a Qantas A380 with 466 persons on board. The examination of the damage is far from complete, as the presentation makes clear. It doesn't deal with the other dimensions of this serious incident, which are the loss or impairment of various systems on the giant airliner, and the emerging difficulties the crew faced from fuel load imbalance caused by some of those failures…'GatwickSpotting' Airliner Videos Are Awesome! by Martt | Jordi Blumberg is GatwickSpotting on youtube, and wow, these are some really awesome videos of airliners at Gatwick Airport, London's second airport. You might have already seen the fabulous slow motion 747 video I posted a while back, and now, I highly suggest you experience these two videos.
Airship Bullet™ Class 580 Successfully Completes 2nd Inflation Test for Pre-Flight Demonstration at NASA Ames Research, Moffett Field from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -MONTGOMERY AL- E Green Technologies, Inc. / 21st Century Airships today announced that it has successfully completed the 2nd Inflation Test of its Airship, the BulletTM Class 580 at the Montgomery, Alabama Garrett Coliseum. The 1-hour Airship inflation took place inside the Garrett Coliseum, one of the few facilities large enough to host the operation. With the inflation, the mission is to complete pre-flight engineering fit checks for attachments in preparation for the Company's near term maiden flight of the BulletTM Class 580 at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California…
World War II Japanese Balloon Bombs from Air Force Link Top Stories by afnews@dma.mil | On Nov. 3, 1944, the Japanese started launching balloons with bombs attached, hoping the jet stream would carry them eastward across the Pacific to the United States. More than 9,000 of them were released during the war, with approximately 1,000 reaching the destination. The bombs were meant to start forest fires, produce chaos and divert manpower from the war effort in the U.S. They were a reprisal for the Doolittle raid on Tokyo…
Aero-TV: The Voice Of Fiesta -- Glen Moyer's Love Of Ballooning from Aero-News Network | Long-Time Enthusiast Has Become One Of The Voices Of An Amazing Aerial Pursuit The ANN crew has known Glen Moyer for a long time... enjoying his emails and calls with news of the ballooning world, as well as an accompanying passion for all things flight. So... it was no surprise that when we showed up, in force, to cover the extraordinary sights and sounds of the 2010 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, that Glen Moyer was the principal voice for this lofty gathering.
The Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | The first production group of Lockheed C-5 Galaxy transports, designated the C-5A, were built in the 1970s and even then, there were issues with the jet's reliability. When the production line was reopened during the Reagan-era defense buildup in the 1980s, the C-5B was produced to introduce a variety of systems improvements aimed at boosting the jet's reliability…
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