Nice sleigh, Santa! from AF.mil PhotosSanta Claus, also known as Col. Edsel Frye, delivers gifts from his KC-135 Stratotanker to children from the Sedgewick County Big Brothers Big Sisters at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., Dec. 22, 2010. Colonel Frye is the commander of the 931st Air Refueling Group. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Andrea Salazar)
Santa Claus to fly into Princeton Airport Christmas Eve - Mercer Space
By Site Contributor Thirty-five years ago someone suggested that Santa fly in to the airport for the area children to watch. Over this period of time, ...
XMAS CARD from Crosswind Images
Airmen ready to track Santa from AF.mil Photos
Members of the 601st Air and Space Operations Center at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., will once again track Santa Claus on part of his journey around the world this Christmas Eve. (U.S. Air Force graphic)
Dayton Air Show 2011 - Dayton Air Show
Carol Pilon teams up with Melissa Pemberton to create the only all-women wingwalking act in the world. You’ll be amazed as Carol hops out of her seat and scrambles onto the aircraft’s wing as Melissa performs an aerobatic routine. Their performance is themed around a motley crew of Wild ...
Air show heading back to Smyrna - The Daily News Journal
The 2011 show will feature many other aerobatic acts including Mike Wiskus, Gene Soucy, Mike Goulian plus many more to come. There will also be many ground ...
Air Racer John Livingston’s Waco Restored to Its 1928 Livery from Planenews Aviation News
EAA volunteers and staff have finished painting air racing Legend John Livingston’s original custom-built 1928 Waco CTO Taperwing. The new look sports the livery of the Mid-West Airways Corporation, a short-lived airline based in Waterloo, Iowa, that was operated by Livingston in the early 1930s. Between 1928 and 1933 Livingston participated in 139 air races, both pylon and cross-country, placing in the top three in all except two. Considered one of the top pilots of the era, he won 79 of those races and collected $53,000 in winnings over that span.
Read Airplanes 12/2010 online! by David Cenciotti
If you click on the image below, you will be able to read the entire 12/2010 issue of Airplanes with articles dealing with the Frecce Tricolori’s 50th Anniversary airshow in Rivolto, the Ex. Vega 2010 in Decimomannu and much more! The magazine is in Italian language only, but foreign visitors can enjoy the pictures. ...
A last look at the Harriers in action - Rutland Times
The first four aircraft back perform a flypast. Picture: Alan Storer/Peterborough ET RUTLAND'S long association with the Harrier ended on Wednesday last ...
Curtiss-Wright SB2C Helldiver with wings folded from Planeshots
Australian-Based Supermarine Aircraft Will Establish a Facility at Cisco Municipal Airport in Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX from The Aero Experience
Brisbane, Australia-based Supermarine Aircraft will establish a facility at Cisco Municipal Airport to market their 80-90% Spitfire replica aircraft kits. Supermarine has been producing these aircraft for about 16 years, and the company reports that the difference in size and complexity compared to the 100% aircraft reaps substantial savings to owners in operating costs and increased safety. To learn more about Supermarine ...
Secrets of Hitler's aircraft factory (second part) - Fox2
Messerschmitt Me 262 - The first operational jet aircraft produced during World War II as a fighter and fighter - bomber.
Photos: 2010 review - East Valley Tribune
Sentimental Journey, a B-17G WWII bomber owned by the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force will be on display at the Chandler Airport this weekend ...
WWII pilot turned philanthropist dead at 94 by The Associated Press
LINCOLN, Nebraska — Fred Hargesheimer, a World War II Army pilot whose rescue by Pacific islanders led to a life of giving back as a builder of schools and teacher of children, died Thursday morning. He was 94.
December 23 from Cut and Paste Aviation
Then and Now: From Airships to Waterslides - Air and Space
The world's largest free-standing building gets a second lease on life.
German Entrepreneur Carl von Gablenz had an unusual vision: a fleet of giant helium airships that would haul outsize industrial loads, such as oil rigs or wind turbine blades, to remote areas of the globe. Ten years ago, his plan seemed to be progressing; at an abandoned Soviet military airfield 40 miles south of Berlin, his investor-backed company, CargoLifter AG, erected a $110 million airship hangar measuring 1,181 feet long by 688 feet wide by 351 feet high. CargoLifter used it to ...
"Systemology" UCAP #217 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
Part of Jeb's airplane is turning Chinese... Has aviation progress slowed to a crawl?... and a listener shares a cautionary tale. All this and more on Uncontrolled Airspace #217 "Systemology"
Dick Rutan, Jeana Yeager, and the Flight of the Voyager - Centennial of flight
Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager embody the very spirit and character of the word "pioneers." In December 1986, they became the first people to circumnavigate the world, nonstop, without refueling their plane, the Voyager. They also set world flight records in the ...
Buzz Aldrin Supports Virgin Galactic’s Plans from Planenews Aviation News
Buzz Aldrin, former Apollo Astronaut and the second human being to set foot on the moon has issued the following statement in response to Virgin Galactic’s announcement concerning its support of NASA submissions for orbital spacecraft development. ...
Virgin’s Will Whitehorn to retire from Personal Spaceflight
Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn will retire from the company next month and be replaced by current CEO George Whitesides, the company announced Thursday. Whitehorn, who has been working for the Virgin Group in various capacities since 1987, has been president of Virgin Galactic since 2004, when the company announced plans to license the SpaceShipOne technology and work with its developer, Scaled Composites, to build SpaceShipTwo. The release notes (although it was not widely reported at the time) that Whitehorn went into a part-time role in 2007 “to pursue other business interests”; he remained as president, though, even when George Whitesides, a former Virgin Galactic advisor who went on to serve as chief of ...
SpaceShipTwo Tests Exceeding Expectations from Spaceports
Scaled Composites hopes to achieve one additional glide test of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2) "Enterprise" by year-end and says that even if bad weather prevents the attempt, the program is already ahead of schedule following a trouble-free initial unpowered flight on Oct. 10.
“Testing has been going quite a bit better than we’d originally hoped, and we’ve been able to make glide ...
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