An Interesting Story for Aircraft Buffs from LiveATC Discussion Forums - Listener Forum | Very interesting story, but it's not the only 747 that did not went to the scrapyard....
Sunday fantasy #277: Manolo Chrétien (spotted via... from x planes:
Monday, December 27, 2010
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Retired Fat Albert ,from the Blue Angels - FlightSource - Aviation ... by example@example.com (Flyvertosset) Description: Retired Fat Albert ,from the Blue Angels, Hercules C-130 with JATO bottles at rear (Jet Assisted Take Off), seen here at Pensacola FL. Word has it that the current Fat Albert will stop using the JATO from the end of the ...
A lifelong passion for winged machines - Israel 21C | A gallery of civilian aircraft and flight artifacts from as far back as the Golden Age of aviation joins the rich variety of ...
Aviation Hall of Famer Comes Home for Christmas - WSAZ-TV | He is the youngest army aviator in history to be inducted into the Combat Airman Hall of Fame in Midland, Texas. It was an award that Fox accepted humbly. ...
It's Not Earhart, It's Haizlip! from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | You've just got to laugh at the Reno ... something (The website says RGJ...but doesn't explain what it is. THe name of some newspaper, no dout.) Reno Man Has Rare Footage of 1933 film that may show Earhart In any event, on the front page of the site is a headline saying "1933 film may show Amelia Earhart" accompanied by a photo, which I reproduce, of a woman who is clearly not Earhart. Since when did Earheart every wear plus fours, or a skirt, or whatever this woman is wearing, let alone look so bulky…
Aviation Count-Down! from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Fly It Forward Event continues...
High school students in aviation class – KRQE | Denman is one of about 80 students in Southwest Learning Centers' aviation program, which allows students to gain flight experience and eventually become ...
Is This China's First Stealth Fighter? from Wired: Danger Room by David Axe | They could be the products of a Chinese government misinformation campaign. They could be clever Photoshop jobs by Chinese aviation fanboys. Or they could be the real thing: the first hard evidence of the long-rumored Chengdu J-20, China's first stealth-fighter prototype…
Fantasy Of Flight Expands WWII Series from news | LL | http://www.theledger.com | Fantasy of Flight will continue to wing its way into the past with an expanded series of events focused on World War II beginning in February…
History of Cathedral of the Pines - New Hampshire Magazine | His B-17 bomber Peg O' My Heart was shot down over Koblenz, Germany on February 22, 1944. Following the official notice of Sandy's death, ...
Carl Schultz- first VP of EAA from VAF Forums by sprucemoose | I just received some sad news- Carl Schultz past away last night, Dec. 25, 2010. He has not been in the best of health for the last couple of years, and was on the far side of 90, so this is not entirely unexpected, but still sad news…
Road trip! from Travel for Aircraft | Next month I'll be on a road trip for week with plans to travel through Florida's panhandle. I'll see museums I have not been to for nearly a decade and this time I will be taking a good camera, as opposed to what I was shooting with back in the day…
An Interesting Story for Aircraft Buffs from LiveATC Discussion Forums - Listener Forum | Very interesting story, but it's not the only 747 that did not went to the scrapyard....Classic Aero-TV: Coming Home To Roost -- The 'Last Time' For The DC-3 Community from Aero-News Network | An Extraordinary Gathering That May Truly Be The Last Of Its Kind What a concept... An historic event, billed as "The Last Time", was organized to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the DC-3 type aircraft. Designed as an airliner in 1935, the DC-3 was pressed into military service in WWII as the C-47 and served in every theater of the war…
Prop Tested For F-82 Restorations from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The ambitious restoration to flight status of two F-82 Twin Mustangs is getting closer to reality with the recent announcement that German propeller manufacturer MT has successfully flight-tested scratch-built replacement props for the extraordinarily rare warbirds. What's more, the props are made from composites and, based on the tests done on a P-51, should give the already-peppy Twin Mustang even better climb and cruise performance…
High Altitude Thrills - Bangkok Post | You've been surfing, wakeboarding, kitesurfing, ziplining, but have you launched yourself out of a perfectly sound aeroplane lately? ...
1943 Film Teaches You How to Fly a P-47 Thunderbolt from Telstar Logistics | Courtesy of PublicResource.org comes this fascinating 1943 US War Department training film which teaches basic ground, take-off, and landing techniques for pilots learning to fly the P-47 Thunderbolt...
Scaled down, but still full of fun - the Isaacs Fury by shortfinals | John Owens Isaacs was an aeronautical engineer with Supermarine Aviation. After obtaining his private pilot's licence, he was contracted by the Hampshire Aero Club to build a Currie Wot biplane. The success of this project inspired Isaacs to design and build a 7/10th scale replica of that classic fighter biplane of the 1930s, the Hawker Fury…
Today In Aviation History – December 27 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal
The Real HondaJet (N420HJ) Makes First Flight by Martt | The first HondaJet that conforms to the design that will move ahead into certfication made its initial flight last Monday, December 20, 2010. It was very successful and puts the project on pace to make first deliveries of the 7 seater with a 420 knot max cruise speed in the third quarter of 2012…
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