Blue Angels Return Monday - KXO Radio
The United States Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron , The Blue Angels , will arrive at Naval Air Facility El Centro on Monday , January 3, 2011. ...
Honor Flight organizers make thanking WWII vets their mission - Wausau Daily Herald
Two men who worked tirelessly to honor central Wisconsin's World War II veterans with fully funded trips to view a national memorial have been named the Wausau Daily Herald's 2010 Persons of the Year.
The newspaper's Editorial Board chose Jim Campbell and Mike Thompson for the annual recognition from among dozens of nominees and 10 finalists. ...
Flood sank Lunken plans - Our History from cincinnati.com
The aviation craze that swept the nation after World War I had a big impact on a large, flat field in eastern Cincinnati that had been part of the city’s first settlement, Columbia.
Barnstorming pilots – many of them former World War I fighter pilots – began landing and taking off from the field near Beechmont and Wilmer avenues in an area known as Turkey Bottoms, named for the wild turkeys that roamed through the cornfields. ...
Memorial Mass Celebrated Today for Rainey Bell, Belleville, IL Area Resident and Aviation Icon from The Aero Experience
Rainey A. Bell, 88, of Belleville, Ill., born Feb. 19, 1922, in O'Fallon, Ill., passed away Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010, at home with wife, Carol and faithful companion Buddy at his side.
Mr. Bell retired from Army Aviation Systems Command as weapons systems manager and served in the Illinois Air National Guard. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church. He received the Wright Brothers Master Pilot and Charles Taylor Master Mechanic Awards, and a War Department Commendation for exceptional civilian service. He was a member of ...
Up, Up, and Away: 10 Out of This World Hot Air Balloons from ASB.tv
The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology yet it remains one of the most majestic modes of contemporary flight. It can be a leisurely float at dawn or sunset when the air is calm and the winds gentle when only the blast of the burner breaks the stillness. In recent times, it has also become a fierce competitive sport where precision flying and computers combine with age-old balloon basics to ...
Skydiving jumps to memorialize Alex Gilmer, pilot who died over Boulder - Daily Camera
If you see a four-story illuminated American flag fluttering 10,000 feet above Boulder just after midnight New Year's Eve, it's not necessarily a sign that you've had too much to drink.
The 38-foot by 70-foot flag, which will be attached to a skydiver and lit up by two other jumpers as part of a dramatic descent through the night sky Friday, will serve as a memorial to a pilot who perished over the city in a mid-air plane collision nearly a year ago. ...
Gulfstream G200 sets records from Aviation Blogs
A Gulfstream G200 business jet recently set two city-pair speed records, connecting Savannah, Ga., to Keflavik, Iceland, and Keflavik to Vnukovo, Russia.
The large-cabin, mid-range G200 took off ...
Alfred Kahn, Godfather of Deregulation Dies - AVIATION WEEK
Alfred Kahn, the former head of the Civil Aeronautics Board and widely acknowledged godfather of U.S. airline deregulation, died Dec. 27 at his home in Ithaca, N.Y., at age 93.
A renowned economist, Kahn was a vocal opponent to government control of industry, and in 1971, while a professor at Cornell University, published “The Economics of Regulation,” a two-volume work that included a call to deregulate U.S. aviation. ...
Alfred Kahn from Airport Check-In
VIDEO: Lufthansa features Runway Girl in Cloudstream from Runway Girl
Always on the cutting edge of technology and social media Lufthansa has launched an innovative new service called CloudStream, which allows travelers to create a digital carry-on of web content in advance of their trip (or during their trip if in-flight Wi-Fi is available).
Check out the video below, and then ...
Alan Shepard to be honored on US stamp from Spaceports
Alan Shepard will be depicted on a 2011 U.S. postage stamp wearing the silver spacesuit in which he made history as the first American astronaut to fly into space and the fifth human to walk on the surface of the moon.
While honoring Shepard as the “First American in Space” — as the stamp’s inscription describes — the design, unfortunately, omits reference to Shepard also having been the fifth out of only 12 men to the walk on the moon. ...
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