Aerial Acrobatic Career in the Navy Blue Angels - USMilitary.com
This is true for those elite pilots which are chosen to be members of the exclusive squad of pilots called the Blue Angels. This group of pilots fly all over the world so that they can show off everything that the United States Navy has ...
VIDEO: A flight aboard the C-130 Fat Albert Blue Angels from CavokBlog / Translated
Track a video from inside the cockpit of the aircraft C-130 "Fat Albert", the Air Demonstration Squadron, U.S. Navy, the Blue Angels during an air show held in Bossier City, Louisiana. The Lockheed C-130T Hercules nicknamed "Fat Albert, is operated by three officers and five members of the U.S. Marine Corps, and was introduced to the Blue Angels squadron in 1970, flew about 140,000 miles per season. In addition to conducting demonstrations, the squadron also serves as support aircraft in the ...
Snowbirds to fly at June air show - St. Thomas Times-Journal
By TIMES-JOURNAL The famed Canadian Forces aerobatic team has confirmed it will appear at the Great Lakes International Air Show June 25 and 26, ...
Rendez-vous en 2011 ! from Apache Roll, le blog de la patrouille Breitling
Flying Tigers of WWII - Flying Tigers News
This day in history – the first battle of the WWII “Flying Tigers” on 20 December 2010
The Flying Tigers were officially called the American Volunteer Group, and were known for their planes with iconic shark faces on them. They were equipped and recruited in the spring and summer of 1941, with the express purposed of aiding the Chinese in theater against the ...
Glenn Curtiss Museum announces 2011 events - Hornell Evening Tribune
This exhibit will feature realistic figures of Glenn Curtiss and Lt. Theodore Ellyson, who was US Naval Aviator #1 and Glenn's student. ...
I Want to Be a Pilot! from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt
31 years ago I stood in front of my high school counselor's office, waiting patiently to discuss my future. When she finally had time for me, I excitedly said, "I want to be a pilot! What do I need to do?"
Moments of "the stare" and she said, "Women can't fly in the military, so I'm not sure what to tell you." And off I went. Lost. Unsure. Flying without a flight plan.
Today I had the incredible opportunity to meet with two young ladies who ...
262 girls, women fly at Oshawa airport in 2010 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club
118 girls and women were introduced to flying on Dec. 18.As a Dec. 31 deadline approached for an airport to earn recognition from the Centennial of Women Pilots as the Most Female-Pilot-Friendly Airport in the World, Oshawa, Ontario, reclaimed top honors from Renton, Wash., by giving 262 introductory flights so far this year. Renton pilots have given 184 flights. Kpong Field in Ghana has given 97 flights.
Oshawa accomplished its top-flight performance by introducing 118 girls and women to flying on Dec. 18. ...
Santa's Ilyushin from Ares
Germany is a country which knows how to celebrate Christmas and its soldiers in Afghanistan are no exception. An Azerbaijani Ilyushin Il-76 was chartered to deliver 156 Christmas trees from Trollenhagen air base in eastern Germany to Afghanistan to decorate German camps in Mazar-e-Sharif, Kunduz and Faizabad. The transport is also carrying supplies and mail for soldiers, including Christmas presents from their loved ones in Germany. ...
FAA certifies Santa’s NextGen-equipped sleigh from General Aviation News
WASHINGTON, D.C – FAA safety inspectors at the North Pole have certified Santa One, the reindeer-powered sleigh piloted by Santa Claus, for its Christmas Eve round-the-world delivery mission.
FAA officials report that Santa One, led by Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, is outfitted with new satellite-based NextGen technology, which will allow Santa to deliver more toys to more children with improved safety and efficiency. ...
Who's rappelling from a Black Hawk? Must be Santa from The DEW Line
Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan -- where your blogger concluded an academically dubious high
school career -- posted a great video today. I remember Kadena as a challenging yuletide location. I found it difficult to embrace the Christmas spirit wearing shorts and flip-flops while lying on a sub-tropical beach. Kadena's current occupants seem to have found the answer, with an HH-60 Pave Hawk standing in for Santa's sleigh and a fast-rope substituting for a non-existent Okinawan chimney. Well done, Kadena. (No word yet on whether the HH-60 crew asked Santa for a non-protestable acquisition process next year for a direly-needed search and rescue fleet replacement.)
CoolPix - Modern Military: North American F-107 'Man Eater' from blog by Martt
If you asked me about the F-107 before yesterday, all I'd really been able to tell you is that it's the one with the air intake oddly positioned right above and behind the cockpit. I've known of the existence of this airplane since I was a kid in the 70's, but I'd never paid any real attention to it. Well, I'm paying attention now, and wow, it was a pretty fascinating piece of work as a tactical fighter-bomber concept. As a quick side note, the ...
Services Planned for MIA Pilot from www.military.com
FARGO, N.D. -- A Vietnam War pilot who has been missing in action for more than four decades will be coming home to Fargo this week. The remains of U.S. Air Force Maj. Thomas Beyer will arrive Wednesday evening, and his funeral will take place Saturday afternoon.
Beyer served with the 20th Tactical Air Support Squadron at Chu Lai Air Base in South Vietnam. From there, he flew the O-2A Skymaster, a military version of the Cessna 337, as a spotter plane. He went missing while on mission #5096, a visual reconnaissance and forward air control assignment, the afternoon of July 30, 1968. He was later declared dead on May 2, 1978, and his remains were identified Nov. 19 of this year. ...
World War II veteran shares Christmas memory from 1944 - Gadsden Times
Wagnon was a 21-year-old B-25 Bomber pilot stationed on Corsica, an island in the Mediterranean Sea southeast of France and west of Italy. ...
Profile 44 - Another update to Thune's Hellcat from WWII & Korean Conflict Airplane Profiles
Another update! Perhaps this will hold some interest while waiting for help with the markings from the USS Intrepid Air, Sea and Space Museum. Once I get those, there's probably another 2, 3 hours before it's finished and I can send it off to the printer. Can you tell the difference between this one and the one in the prior post?
However, this Hellcat promises to be one of my best yet. And still, time will reveal that ...
VC-25 Air Force One from Aviation Blogs
Mission | The mission of the VC-25 aircraft — Air Force One — is to provide air transport for the president of the United States.
Features | The presidential air transport fleet consists of two specially configured Boeing 747-200B’s — tail numbers 28000 and 29000 — with the Air Force designation VC-25. When the president is aboard either aircraft, or any Air Force aircraft, the radio call sign is “Air Force One.” ...
Navy Crews Face Discipline For Lake Tahoe Heli-Dunking from AVweb Top News
The crews of two Navy helicopters that suffered $500,000 in damage and became Youtube sensations when they were accidentally dunked in Lake Tahoe in September, are facing consequences, the Navy said, Wednesday. The two MH-60R "Romeo" Helicopters from the Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 41 based at NAS North Island, San Diego, were returning from an air show at Mather Air Force Base near Sacremento when they flew over the lake, which is not a normal Naval training area. According to early reports the Navy's ...
Hero balloon pilot talks about mid-air collision - ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
In October, Wadleigh was flying a balloon with two passengers for an air show when a powered-paraglider collided with his balloon. ...
December 22 from Cut and Paste Aviation
On This Day in Aviation History: December 22nd - NYCAviation
2001 – American Airlines Flight 63, flying from Paris to Miami, is the target of a failed bomb plot when a passenger, an Islamic fundamentalist named ...
Wichita Aero Club Reaches Two-Year Milestone; Announces 2011 Speakers - AMTOnline.com
John P. Johnson, the President of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University is slated for August and Peggy Chabrian, the President of Women in Aviation has ...
Up for a Spin in the Sim from From the Flight Deck
Well after seeing my son and my visiting nephew glued to an X-box and the computer during the Christmas holidays, I figured it was time to take them to the "sim" for a real video game. Policy has changed requiring lots of paperwork, but we still have opportunity to take the "sim for a spin." ...
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