Fargo AirSho gets ready for 'big year' - In-Forum
We're kind of one of their primary sites,” Walstad said during a news conference Thursday at the Fargo Air Museum. The Blue Angels' primary function is as a ...
Blue Angel #7 and Blue Angel #8 at Portland Jetport for the Pre-Season Visit - photo by T.K. Dudley by Great State of Maine Air Show
Portsmouth will host Thunderbirds in 2011, Blue Angels in 2012 - Seacoastonline.com
Organizers of the Boston-Portsmouth Air Show announced it will feature the US Air Force Thunderbirds in 2011 and the US Navy Blue Angels in 2012. ...
Thunderbirds' air show coming to Waterloo - Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
WATERLOO, Iowa --- The Waterloo Regional Airport has landed the US Air Force's Thunderbirds for an air show next year. The Thunderbirds, a flight ...
New air show rules: More drinking water, traffic improvements - Seacoast Online
PORTSMOUTH — Pease officials on Thursday approved a slate of guidelines they hope will improve conditions at the Boston-Portsmouth Air Show when it comes back to the city in the summers of 2011 and 2012.
The Pease Development of Authority's board of directors approved the guidelines they say will help alleviate complaints prompted from the 2010 air show. ...
Moose Jaw Flying Club founder named to Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame - Moose Jaw Times-Herald
McIntyre said the hall aims to increase the public's understanding and interest in aviation history by making its displays, archives, records and artifacts ...
Smoke Squadron performs changeover control - Cavok/Translated
The Air Demonstration Squadron (ADS) held this Friday (17/12), the Air Force Academy (AFA), the military ceremony Passage of Command. In a ceremony presided by the Head of the Office of Air Force Commander, Brigadier-Major of the Air-Franciscangelis Antonio Neto, Lieutenant Colonel Airman Aguinaldo José de Moura passed over, he held since December 19, 2008, to Lieutenant-Colonel Airman Wagner Esteves de Almeida. ...
Happy 107th Birthday human flight! Now let's put it all in context from Flightblogger w/Video
Today is December 17, 2010, 107 years after Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first flight at the beaches of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Needless to say, a lot has happened since then. Just 65 years after that first flight, which saw Orville at the controls of the 1903 Wright Flyer, the maiden sortie could have been accomplished in the span of the wings of the Boeing 747-100. ...
On a historic day in aviation, let's take off with some musical flights - MinnPost.com
At any rate, today marks a special day in aviation history — the 107th anniversary of the brothers' first successful powered airplane flight. On Dec. ...
Happy Birthday, Aviation And the DC-3 from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast
Most of us can remember clearly what happened to us 32 years ago, and we've seen a lot in that time, there's no doubt. Consider that it was 32 years to the day between the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk and the first flight of the DC-3 in Santa Monica. Both occured on December 17, and DC-3 owner Dan Gryder spoke with AVweb's Russ Niles about the impact of arguably the most important airplane in history on its 75th birthday.
A 75th Anniversary Appreciation of the Timeless DC-3 by Telstar Logistics
A classic design icon and one of the most important aircraft ever built, the Douglas DC-3 today celebrates the 75th anniversary of the plane's maiden flight. To mark the occasion, ...
Air museum to honor historic plane - Newsday
The 75th anniversary of the DC-3, the plane that launched a revolution in air travel, was to be celebrated Friday at ...
U.K. Harrier's Farewell from Ares
Apologies to our Ares readers for not getting these to you earlier, but I didn't want the week to pass without sharing these spectacular photos from the farewell ceremony the U.K. held this week for its Harrier fleet. ...
ICAS Has Talent: Will Allen is Just a Gigolo with Sarah Palin.wmv - YouTube
Will Allen, "The Flying Tenor" performing live at the ICAS Has Talent show during the airshow convention in Las Vegas and workin' it for Sarah Palin ;-)
ICAS has Talent! What a Great time we Had
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Bones May Show Amelia Earhart Lived as a Castaway - AOL News
... step closer to finally being solved: A group dedicated to discovering the aviator's fate says it has found three bone fragments that may belong to her. ...
Yahoo News: Lab scans bones that may belong to Amelia Earhart from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
Lab scans bones that may belong to Amelia Earhart
NORMAN, Okla. – Three bone fragments found on a deserted South Pacific island are being analyzed to determine if they belong to Amelia Earhart — tests that could finally prove she died as a castaway after failing in her 1937 quest to become the first woman to fly around the world.
Scientists at the University of Oklahoma hope to extract DNA from the bones, which were found earlier this year by a Delaware group dedicated to the recovery of historic aircraft. ...
Success from Letters of Note
On this day in 1903, following an unsuccessful attempt three days previous, the Wright brothers once again took their newly-built Wright Flyer to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and proceeded to make history by claiming "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight". In fact, they made four short flights that day - two apiece - with the last managing to stay in the air for 59 seconds and cover a distance of 852 feet. Wishing to ...
Brodie Landing Systems — no need for an airstrip from Travel for Aircraft
Aircraft are wonderful machines that are good for many uses, one of which is to get into remote regions for scouting or exploration missions. Aircraft types that are best for these purposes are often small and not in need for much in the way of an airstrip. During WW II, in the Pacific and Burma Theaters of Operation, the ...
Doug DeVries from Flight To Success
Friday's Fabulous Flyer! Fabulous doesn't come close to describing this aviator, adventurer, inventor, engineer, and all around great guy.Doug didn't start out with the dream of becoming a pilot. As a matter of fact, in 1980 he'd attended ground school with a friend. Because of limited funds, they had a choice between buying a catamaran or taking flying lessons. They purchased the catamaran. ...
Siai-Marchetti SF-260 from Let Let Let - Warplanes
In 2009, the Siai-Marchetti celebrated her 40th anniversary of use in Belgium. It was the occasion to create a special anniversary delivery on the ST…40, of course! ...
Awesome Aerobatic Air-to-Air Imagery Featured in December's Airplanista Magazine - MMD Newswire
... includes the gorgeous air-to-air photography of Jessica Ambats, showing very dramatic close-up shots of the air show circuit's most notable performers. ...
Formation from Helikopter Hysterie - The Helicopter Blog
I'm not sure if I have ever seen that many helicopters in the air before. The last nine Alouette IIIs and four Super Pumas of the Swiss Air Force were doing this flyby at Axalp 2010 to say farewell. The Alouette with the special blue paint job can be seen right in the centre of the formation.
December 17 from Cut and Paste Aviation
Today In Aviation History – December 17
In 1903… Orville Wright makes the first sustained, controlled, powered flight in the Flyer airplane at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The historic first flight lasts 12 seconds and ...
Virgin Galactic To Join NASA Submissions For Orbital Spaceflights from Aero-News Network
Will Support Sierra Nevada Space Systems, Orbital Sciences In CCDEV2 Virgin Galactic said Thursday that it will be supporting Sierra Nevada Space Systems' (SNC) and Orbital Sciences Corporation's (OSC) work on commercial space vehicles.
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