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107 Years by Joe Clark | A century plus seven years. It is almost too much to comprehend, especially when you give some thought to the amazing accomplishments which have taken place since then. It was 107 years ago today the Wright Brothers officially "cracked the code" on getting heavier than air devices into the sky. Many today pay little heed to the significance of the event; for them, the convenience of crossing the nation or an ocean in a few hours time is the most important aspect of the event…

The First Flight Society - Celebrate the Wright Brothers First Flight - firstflight.org | We invite you to become a part of aviation's past, present and future by joining the Society. Your membership will help us accomplish our goals of memorializing the accomplishments of Wilbur and Orville Wright and promoting aviation in all its forms. Happy First Flight Day....107th anniversary! http://firstflight.org/

National Aviation Hall of Fame announces 2011 honorees - Dayton Daily News | DAYTON — Three former US Air Force officers and an aviation safety pioneer are to be enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2011, ...

Rockford AirFest 2011 Tickets On Sale – WIFR | ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Tickets went on sale today for Rockford AirFest 2011, which will be headlined by the US Navy Blue Angels and is expected to draw more ...

Plane madness of jet sledgers | The Sun |News -  www.thesun.co.uk | THREE formation sledgers have planely taken the activity too far after hooking themselves up to the back of a FAST JET. A video clip of the stunt appeared on YouTube this week claiming to show Swedish Air Force crew racing around a snow hit air force base being towed by a fighter plane…

75th Anniversary of the Plane That Changed Everything from Autopia by Jason Paur | The aviation era started 107 years ago when the Wright brothers first took flight. But the era of the airlines for the flying public didn't really take off until 1935 when the venerable Douglas DC-3 first took to the skies. Seventy-five years ago the DC-3 ushered in the era of utility flight, one that continues to this day. Oh sure, the DC-3 may not top a lot of people's list of their favorite planes. It's not sleek. It's not sexy. And it's not fast. But despite a production run of just 11 years, the DC-3 remains one of the most important airplanes in the history of aviation…

Dayton honors Wrights, Holbrooke from AviationDayton by editor@aviationdayton.com | WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Base officials, civic leaders and aviation heritage enthusiasts celebrated the 107th anniversary of powered flight at the Wright Memorial near Dayton this morning. Later, local leaders remembered the late Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke, chief U.S. negotiator in the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords…

After 13 Years, the Largest Aviation Museum in the Bay Area Thrives – Patch | After 13 years, the Hiller Aviation Museum still thrives, despite a recession, plenty of competition, ...

Farmingdale air museum honors historic plane – Newsday | Photo credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa | 88-year-old WWII Veteran Robert Reynolds takes a trip down memory lane as ...

Oakland Aviation Museum — the military aircraft 2 of 2 from Travel for Aircraft | This is a continuation of the previous post to show the balance of the military aircraft in the outside exhibit area of the Oakland Aviation Museum…

Avro Lancaster, Lincoln and York in post-war RAF service 1945-1950 from Let Let Let - Warplanes by Darko | During the World War II RAF Bomber command had played a very significant role, but that role continued even after Victory over Europe day arrived. A new era in world aviation arrived, a jet age, and although RAF had in its service jet planes, years to come truly still belonged to the piston engine aircrafts. When the war ended RAF was downsizing its army to the peace-time level, so there were a lot of planes that needed to re-service, bombers were modified to transporters, transporters to civil airliners etc…

Profile 44 - UPDATED! F6F-5 Hellcat as flown by Harold Thune from WWII & Korean Conflict Airplane Profiles by JSM | Wow!  From pencil studies to nearly finished in five days - that's a record for me. This 'Cat is going back into the hanger until I get info on markings - hopefully in the next week or so.  Then, I'll put them in, quite like the real process when a factory-fresh Hellcat obtained her squadron marks…

Soviet Wild Weasels: Part Two (Aircraft) from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | Last night we took a look at the nuts and bolts of Soviet suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) doctrine and tactics. Tonight we'll continue along that them with a look at the aircraft that filled the role of  "Wild Weasels" in the Soviet air forces. Like the United States, the Russians had put into service several specialized aircraft that were used to knock out and/or jam enemy radars and surface-to-air missile sites…

A Successful Show from Autogyro circumnavigation of the globe by The GYROX Team | Yesterday (16th December), Norman appeared live on the 'Drivetime' radio show broadcast by Chaine FM around the world via the internet. Friends and fans were asked to send in questions and what was expected to be an hour long broadcast stretched in the end to nearly two hours. The DJ, Gary Andrews, talked with Norman about his reasons for taking up Autogyro flying and how this became a flight around the world…

Virgin Galactic is heading into orbit  from Plane Talking by Ben Sandilands | A Virgin Galactic brochure image of Spaceport America in full swing - Richard Branson's space ambitions have come into sharper focus after he revealed his rocket ride venture, Virgin Galactic, is joining two other highly credentialed US organisations in submissions to NASA on private sector participation in orbital spaceflights…

NASA Engineers Propose Combining a Rail Gun and a Scramjet to Fire Spacecraft ... - Popular Science
Graham Murdoch In April, President Obama urged NASA to come up with, among other things, a less expensive method than conventional rocketry for launching ...