Cirrus Acquired By Chinese Company from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Cirrus Industries Inc., parent company of Cirrus Aircraft, has been sold to China Aviation Industry General Aircraft Co. (CAIGA) of Zhuhai, China, but it appears the company will continue to build parts in Grand Forks, N.D., and assemble airplanes in Duluth, Minn. It has long been rumored that a Chinese company would acquire Cirrus and the final announcement was made Monday morning. CAIGA is a subsidiary of Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC), the state-owned aviation company of China that makes everything from military jets to airliners…
Plane wreck believed to be Earhart - THE discovery of an aircraft wreck at the depth of 70 metres north-west of Buka in Bougainville may hold some answers to the 74-year mystery of the disappearance of world-famous aviatrix – Amelia Earhart. There are strong indications that the aircraft is a Lockheed Model 10 Electra which took off from Lae on July 2nd 1937 destined for Howland Island. The crash site is in direct alignment with Earhart’s flight path out of Lae, past north of Buka Island in a straight northeast direction to Howland. Information emerging from Buka say that certain interested parties were in the process of engaging the services of a professional diver with appropriate diving gear from overseas to help in the recovery process...
Thunderbirds fly the Blue Angels « Recollection Of Memorabilia by modelworks | The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds hosted three members of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels team at the Thunderbird Hangar at Nellis Air Force Base, Feb 23 as part of the two demonstration units' traditional exchange program. Blue Angel No. ...
Hudson River crash: Pilot was scheduled to fly plane to Florida air show - Poughkeepsie Journal | KINGSTON — The 38-year-old Rhinebeck Podiatrist who died Saturday after the vintage British military jet he was piloting crashed in the icy Hudson River was scheduled to fly the plane to an air show in Florida. Michael Faraldi of Germantown had taken ...
Libya requests its Mirage F1s back from Warplanes Online Community by Jobelle | Libya has formally approached Malta to return two Mirage F1 fighters that defected there recently. The Libyan government has formally requested the return of two Mirage F1 fighter jets flown to Malta by defecting pilots on Monday. The aircraft are under armed guard at the airport. The pilots have requested political asylum and their case is being considered. The pilots claimed they flew to Malta after being ordered to bomb fellow Libyans in Benghazi…
Aviation past and future on show at Avalon – Ninemsn | Fighter jets - including the F22 Raptor (pic) will feature at the Avalon Airshow in Victoria. The centenary of Australia's first passenger flight and the 90th anniversary of the RAAF are combining with the future of aviation at this week's Avalon ...
Change in Leadership for Wide Bay Australia International Airshow Board - Wide Bay Australia Air Show | At the Wide Bay Australia International Airshow meeting on Friday the Board was informed that Mr Peter Tuffield had tendered his resignation as Chairman and Director due to serious illness. Peter, who recently retired from the National Australia bank, where he was Regional Business Banking Manager, has been Chairman of the Airshow for the past six years and has been instrumental in making the Airshow into a professionally run organisation that contributes substantially to the region’s economy every two years. Since he took over leadership in 2005, he has been the face of the Airshow and has worked tirelessly to build this event to the International standard that it is today. Peter has also been actively involved in the community and is recognised for giving freely of his time to assist the Airshow and many other community-based initiatives. ...
Look Ma! No Propellers! by Joe Clark | F-84 Thunderjet - Today, the jet age truly turns 65 years old. It was born when the prototype XP-84 Thunderjet flew for the first time at Muroc Army Airfield on this day in 1946. Current jets are far more powerful than the first jet, they fly faster, farther, and higher; and Muroc is no longer under control of the Army, it is now Edwards Air Force Base…
Museum of Aviation focused on long-term goals, short-term improvements - Macon Telegraph | But there is one aircraft not currently at the museum that he would love to lay his hands on: a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. That's not just the wish of one man longing for a B-17 bomber to put in the backyard. A dream for the museum since it opened in ...
Aloft on a streetcar named courage - Buffalo News | His B-17,with a nine-member crew, was 26000 feet above Cologne, Germany, and had just dropped bombs on a sprawling railroad yard. “We got hit with a lot of flak. We lost one of the engines, and its propeller was windmilling,” Kane recalled. ...
World War II, from the ground up - Daily Commercial | The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24J Liberator and North American TP-51C Mustang have drawn more than 1000 visitors at Leesburg International Airport since Friday. Today is the last day to see the planes, from 9 am to noon. ...
World War II, from the ground up - Daily Commercial | The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24J Liberator and North American TP-51C Mustang have drawn more than 1000 visitors at Leesburg International Airport since Friday. Today is the last day to see the planes, from 9 am to noon. ...
Tour of Duty: Eskildsen, Chodacki saw World War II from B-29 Superfortress - Baxter Bulletin | The B-29 bomber that Eskildsen and Chodacki flew during World War II was recreated and is in the New England Air Museum. / Bulletin Photo by Kevin Pieper Niel Eskildsen, 86, (left) and Henry Chodacki, 91, met during World War II while serving ...WWII vet shares bomber stories | INFORUM | Fargo, ND - www.inforum.com | Air museum lecture series takes flight Bazil “Bud” Murray’s experience aboard bomber aircraft in World War II got off to a bumpy start…
Auckland/ Ardmore visit - Post 1: X-Flight and the Warbirds Dakota from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | After a bit of an absence, I made another visit to Auckland last weekend. This was an opportunity to catch up with some people I hadn't seen for a while [more details on my other blog, Rodney's WTAOG Stuff - Andrew, Anita and Tahi will be making an appearance shortly :-)]. My first visit was to see Rob and Helena at Rob's Patisserie in the suburb of Ponsonby. Well worth a visit if you're looking for a bite to eat, or a fancy cake for a special occasion!...It's About The Tailwind! from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Robbi and Doug DeVries invited my husband and myself to the first release part of Robbi's wine---Tailwind Cellars, and Doug's Grumman Goose project. What a night it was. I happened to be in Reno at the Women in Aviation conference and flew home a day early for the party of the year. I lured my friend Kathy McCullough to join us with promise of music by Billy Joel. Yes, she shopped, changed her airline ticket, skipped town a day early, and flew to Seattle with me. So what's in a "L" anyway? ;)…
Re-igniting the Spark of Flight, by Christian Lienemann from Aviation News by christian lienemann | The General Aviation community consists of individuals from all walks of life who all share the dream of flying. The article below was written by an Auto Repair shop owner in Metraire, Lousiana, Christian Lienemann, who finally made his lifelong dream of wanting to become a pilot a reality. It was a life changing event for him and he now owns his own airplane and enjoys sharing his passion for aviation with customers and other people he meet. Thank you Christian for sharing this experience with all of us!...
The history of aviation and the impossible from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | In a blog post at The Atlantic, Alan Klapmeier, co-founder of Cirrus Aircraft and now the force behind the new Kestrel Aircraft Co., talks about a recent visit he made to the National Air and Space Museum. And while Klapmeier says that anyone who loves aviation would thoroughly enjoy the museum, both on the Mall and the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport, he adds that “everyone needs to see this place. Why? Because the history of aviation is linked to the development of our society. Behind the airplanes, spacecraft and associated artifacts is the story of people striving to do the impossible.” Read the full post here.
Gorgeous photo of this shiny Airbus A330 making some weather... from You like airplanes, too? 
