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Al Ain air show postponed again because of bad weather - The National | AL AIN // The Al Ain Air Show has been postponed yet again because of adverse weather conditions that continue to affect the UAE. ...

The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet Takes to the Air Again from Aviation Trivia of the Day | Towards the end of the Second World War, Luftwaffe pilot Jozef Kurz went through pilot training for the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet rocket interceptor but the war ended before he was able to make a powered flight in the aircraft. Years after the end of  ...

Oakland Aviation Museum — the civilian aircraft from Travel for Aircraft | ... The Solent is the centerpiece of the Oakland Aviation Museum, and was used in the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, for me but there is also so much more here with a variety of aircraft and exhibits on display (some creatively and some not) for all the ages. There is a long hangar used ...

English Electric Lightning F.2A from Planeshots

Yorkshire Air Museum flying high after tourism accolade - The Press, York
Air museum flying high after tourism accolade THE Yorkshire Air Museum and Allied Air Forces Memorial, in Elvington, has won a national tourism award voted ...

Vintage Wings.ca MkII - Vintage Wings of Canada | When the Supermarine Spitfire Mk I was first introduced into service in the summer of 1938, pilots were delighted with its performance, looks and firepower. It was the best of the best and R.J. Mitchell's beauty gave England and the RAF the perfect weapon at the very time they needed it most.  But then came the ...

George Palmer Putnam Award nominee remains grounded in aviation promotion - Frederick News Post | Norman gets a lot of credit for the success of the 2010 Air Race Classic Terminus at Frederick, for which she volunteered. Frederick Mayor Randy McClement ...

Aviation Pioneer Founder Of Kaman Aircraft Passed Away At 91 from avstop.com
Charles Huron Kaman, founder of Kaman Aircraft, was one of the leading aviation pioneers of the 20th century died on Tuesday, Bloomfield, CT. He was 91. Mr. Kaman was a 26-year-old engineer in 1945 when he founded Kaman Aircraft Company in the garage of his mother’s West Hartford, Connecticut home with $2,000 invested by two friends.  | He started the company to demonstrate a new rotor concept he devised to make helicopters more stable and easier to fly. Over the next half-century, Mr. Kaman built the company into a worldwide leader in the aviation industry. Kaman Aircraft, now Kaman Corporation, has become a billion-dollar company.  A pioneer in rotary-winged flight and ...

Harold R. Nelson - Sioux City Journal | ... Harold enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in April 1943, participating in 35 bombardment missions over occupied Europe as a belly-gunner in a B-17 Flying Fortress. He received the Air Medal with a Silver Oak Leaf Cluster along with three Bronze Campaign Ribbons before receiving his honorable discharge in October 1945. ...

Civilian forces quick decision from gunner - The Desert Sun | Dan Fanelli, a radioman-gunner, flew 43 combat missions over Japan and China as a member of a B-25 bomber crew. Stationed on Okinawa, the 41st Bomb Group ...

The Groundhog and the Nurse from AirSpace by Allan Janus | I have a hunch that there aren’t a lot of aerospace museums that could come up with an appropriate image for Groundhog Day, but it’s at moments like this that the National Air and Space Museum’s Archives Division really shows the range and depth of its holdings. The photograph shown above – the only aviation/groundhog picture that I’m aware of – shows Edna Newcomer and her groundhog Tailwind waving from the cockpit of the Bellanca Skyrocket The American Nurse, at  ...

Week on the Web from Flightglobal by Barbara Cockburn | ... a "sombre reminder of the incredible risk astronauts have taken to participate in the manned exploration of space and their sacrifice in the line of duty to America's space program", the Junker JU-52 flying in South African skies, and more

Vintage Japanese Aircraft - X planes

First Non-Stop Transatlantic Helicopter Flight (1967) Video from AIRBOYD.TV

Today in Aviation History – February 2 - from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club
... In 1974… The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.

Barnstorming Review from Life on the Road as a Pilot | ... Barnstorming was a popular form of entertainment in the 1920s in which stunt pilots would perform tricks with airplanes, either individually or in groups called a flying circus.The term barnstormer was also applied to pilots who flew throughout the country selling airplane rides, usually operating from a farmer's field for a day or two before moving on. "Barnstorming season" ran from early spring until after the harvest and county fairs in the fall. ...

Famed Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Visits San Diego - KGTV San Diego | SAN DIEGO -- Hundreds of people gathered outside the San Diego Air & Space Museum Tuesday for a chance to meet the second human to set foot on the moon. ...

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