My flight with the Blue Angels - 13WHAM-TV
With the announcement that the Blue Angels will becoming to the ESL Airshow July 16 and 17, 2011 I am remembering my flight with them on a F-18 in 2004. ...
Keep it shiny from AF.mil Photos
Staff Sgt. Sang Lee wipes down a display helmet in the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron 'Thunderbirds' flight equipment room at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Dec. 17, 2010. Sergeant Lee is an aircrew flight equipment specialist with the Thunderbirds. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Larry E. Reid Jr.)
Aero-TV: Honoring Pioneers: International Women’s Air & Space Musuem from Aero-News Network
Museum President Details Exhibits Featuring Women's Aviation Accomplishments On November 2nd, 1929, 117 American female pilots gathered at Curtiss Field in Valley Stream, Long Island, New York; their goal was simple: to create an organization dedicated to the advancement of aviation. Three years later, Amelia Earhart became the first president of the "Ninety-Nines, Inc.," named for the 99 charter members of the first organization composed entirely of licensed female pilots. Today, the Ninety-Nines has over 5,500 members throughout the world. ...
Temporary Closure of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum - Aviation.ca
Ottawa — The Canada Aviation and Space Museum will be temporarily closed to the general public from January 4 to February 4, 2011. ...
New wing to help museum take flight - Ottawa Citizen
'What we want is to become a hub for aviation in Canada,' says Canada Aviation and Space Museum director ...
Flying Wild Alaska Discovery Channel premiere - Flying Wild Alaska TV show premiere - Flying Wild Al - Source: www.poptower.com
Premiering Wednesday, January 5, the new reality docu-series follows a family-run airline in one of the most remote and extreme regions of America. ...
Video: Pitts S-1T pilot view GREAT VIDEO from TAKEOFF TUBE
Wing-walking, modern times from AF.mil Photos
Tech. Sgt. Shawn Merchant, a crew chief with the 4th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, removes foreign object inspection mats from an F-15E Strike Eagle Dec. 15, 2010, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. The aircraft is assigned to the 4th Fighter Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Tony R. Tolley)
Amanda Sargent from Flight To Success
Fabulous she is... she's funny and brilliant too! She sent me her bio last night at 10 p.m. while I was busy being a sleep camel--- storing up on my sleep for the next round of exhaustion, and she made this easy.
"I was born in Bolivar, Missouri at a very young age... the youngest and cutest of three, and the only girl. I'm sure my mom was ecstatic to put girly things on me but that was very short lived. When I was about two years old, my dad bought a Piper Tri-Pacer and I was strapped (willingly) into it. There are no pictures, and I have no way to prove (or disprove), but rumor has it that I was perched high on my booster seat holding onto my dolly as my dad did whooptie-dos and barrel rolls. I had a smile on my face the entire time! It was probably in those first flights which defined what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. ...
Polikarpov I-16 from You Fly, Girl January 3 in my Golden Age of Flight Desk Calendar, by Walter J. Boyne. (Probably still available at your local Barnes & Noble or calendar store for half price)
Designed by Nikolai Polikarpov in 1932, the I-16 "Ishak" (or "Rata" as it was known in Spain) made its first flight in December 1933. It was the first cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear to reach squadron service. "Despite its tricky handling, it did well against the Japanese in Manchuria." ...
Who Invented Walking? The Indoor Air Show, Empire Air Day, 1938 from Ptak Science Books
... This thought comes to mind looking at this great photo of the Empire Air Day, being celebrated in England in May 1938. All of these folks walking around this enormous dirigible hangar (a form of flight that had left the RAF field of interest just a few years before, mostly forever) looking at the best of what was in the air. The ...
By the Dawn's Early Light from Pete Wenman Aviation Art
... Three Phantom F-4B’s from VF-151 on an early morning mission over North Vietnam. NF 213 is piloted by John Chesire, with RIO George Healey in the rear.
NF 210 has Ted Triebel in the front seat and Dave Everett in the rear. Dave and Ted were shot down on August 27, 1972, on a photo escort mission over North Vietnam while flying 210, and spent the rest of the war as POW’s in the infamous Hanoi Hilton. ...
December 31 from Cut and Paste Aviation
Today In Aviation History – December 31
from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club
In 1908… Wilbur Wright at Auvours, France, makes the first flight over 2 hours. He flies for 2 hours and 20 minutes, covers 77 miles, and wins the Michelin Cup for 1908. ...
Lockheed Sneaks Another F-35 Under the Wire from Ares
On the eve of the New Year, Lockheed Martin got another F-35 test aircraft flying, with AF-4 - a CTOL F-35A - making the program's 410th and last flight on 2010 on Dec. 30. That means nine development-test aircraft are flying, but leaves three still to get airborne. ...
"What would Elon do?" Fix and fly of course from Spaceports
Kennedy Space Center technicians have uncovered even more cracks on Discovery's external tank, NASA disclosed earlier today. The cracks leave the planned Thursday, February 3, 2011 lift-off date uncertain.
Discovery, on the STS-133 mission, first went to the launch pad in early November when leaks and weather pushed the launch date into December and again to February 2011. The ongoing cracks found in the ...
Episode 50: Farewell 2010 from Plane Crazy Down Under
As the final hours of 2010 pass by and the year draws to a close, we release our 50th episode with a mix of annual review, Christmas greetings and a new experiment. In conjunction with a live video stream of the proceedings, we gathered Steve, Grant, Anthony and Ben in the recording studio to attempt the unthinkable: capturing a whole show in a single take. ...
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