Saluting his iconic aerobatic career along with heroic service in World War II, EAA AirVenture 2011 will honor Robert A. “Bob” Hoover with a special day of recognition on July 26, part of the 59th annual edition of “The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration” on July 25-31 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh. ...
British Airshows 2010 On Demand from PlanesTV
Highlights of more than 20 events are included and where we have recorded an aircraft several times we have chosen the very best action; the Lancaster at Dawlish looking down on it from our clif ...
Wittmund: home of the last GAF Phantoms by David Cenciotti
Located in the northern part of Germany, Wittmundhafen (or Wittmund) is the homebase of the Jagdgeschwader 71 (JG71) equipped with the McDonnell Douglas F-4F Phantom. The unit, that made its last detachment in Decimomannu last Sept. (read: Ciao German Phantoms!) and is named “Richthofen” after the WWI German ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the “Red Baron”, is the last German wing equipped with the F-4s, since the Luftwaffe is in the process of replace the “Rhinos” with the Eurofighter Typhoon. Being scheduled for ...
A Concorde Family Reunion [Imagecache] from Gizmodo While it was an abject financial, engineering, and public relations nightmare, the Concorde was certainly a beautiful, beautiful machine. And up until the 1988 gathering at Heathrow Airport, pictured here, they had never been photographed together in such great numbers ...
New Year's Reading, 1916 Style from PPRuNe Forums
Here's a little gem for all you aviation history buffs, Claude Graham-White's 1916
Learning to Fly
A Practical Manual for Beginners
Learning to Fly by Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper - Project Gutenberg
It's free and downloadable with diagrams and pics.
The Gutenberg project has come up trumps with this one, and if you enter TL into the LoCC line in its search function you'll come up with a few more fascinating early aviation books too.
Lockheed P-38 Lightning / Sagar Pathak
from Pixdaus: Popular Today Pics
Two flying veterans together again from Aviation Blogs
They served together during the Vietnam War, scouting the skies for Russian invaders and chasing them out of American airspace. U.S. Air Force Capt. Howard Stroupe III gave up his status as a fighter pilot in 1978, settling into a long career as an airline pilot with a penchant for collecting. Space memorabilia, movie posters, [...]
Peter John Peck Jr., 85 - Austin Herald
During his 25th mission over Germany on March 2, 1945, their B-17 plane was shot down and Peter was taken as a prisoner of war until his release on April 29 ...
Bill Massey and three friends save aviators' lives in Rehoboth Beach in 1942 - Cape Gazette
...“We were having a slight nor’easter. We heard this airplane flying close down toward the ocean. Out of curiosity we walked down to the Boardwalk at the foot of Rehoboth Avenue.
“We were standing there watching this airplane doing circles. They were dropping flares and coming back over the flares to check them out to see if they were activated,” said Massey, now 85. ...
Trial Run: The World's First Aircraft Carrier In Action [Airplanes] from Gizmodo
In three months between 1910 and 1911, the plane you see here became the first ever to take off from and land on runways aboard the USS Birmingham and USS Pennsylvania carriers, respectively. Recently, photos from both experiments were uncovered. ...
Wichita Aero Club reveals 2011 speakers from General Aviation News
The Wichita Aero Club has unveiled its slate of speakers for the coming year, which includes John and Martha King, Clay Lacy, and Kansas’ newest senator.
December 28 from Cut and Paste Aviation
Young Eagles rally kicks off new year from General Aviation News
Orlando Gateway Sport Pilot Flight Training Center at Kissimmee Gateway Airport (ISM) in Florida will host an Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Young Eagles Flight Rally Jan. 8. ...
Solar Powered Drone from Neptunus Lex
The Brits have broken a UAV endurance record for unmanned flight: ...
December 28, 2010 NASA Altitude Chamber from Ely Air Lines
... Experience is the best teacher and NASA’s altitude chamber exercise gives the pilot a thorough understanding of the effects of altitude on the body, and to be able to recognize one’s own reaction and symptoms of hypoxia by experiencing hypoxia in a controlled environment. ...
From Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club
"The Widdle of Minter" UCAP #218 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
Amy Laboda joins us in the hangar. We critique a list of the best GA planes of all time... Amy tells us about GA in China... and we register our vote for one of this summer's AirVenture movies. All this and more on Uncontrolled Airspace #218 "The Widdle of Minter"
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