Blue Angels To Fly In Centennial Celebration - KXO Radio | The US Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron , The Blue Angels , will open the aerial Parade of Flight celebrating the Centennial of Naval Aviation on Saturday ...
'Warhawks' Join Naval Aviation Centennial Celebration - Navy.mil | The "Warhawks" of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 10 will be participating in a parade of flight along with other aircraft to honor the Centennial of Naval Aviation at Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island in San Diego, Feb. 12. HS-10 has a tradition rich in naval aviation history and will launch the Sikorsky SH-60F and SH-60H Sea Hawk helicopters for spectators during the celebration. Additionally, the squadron's hangar bay will be open to the public, so visitors can view the squadron aircraft up close. ...
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Takes On Thunderbirds Colors - Popular Science | While its Thunderbirds debut is a few years off, these images of the F-35 Lightning II in Thunderbirds dress were released by Lockheed Martin's multimedia team to promote the jet. Still in development, the plane is designed as a multi-purpose replacement for several Cold War-era fighter models, incl ...
Largest Asian air show to begin today - Daily News & Analysis | The largest air show in Asia, held in Yelahanka, Bangalore biennially, is all set with its eighth edition, ...
Aero India 2011: Visual treat in store - MSN India | India's air show in Bangalore will be the largest ever with 29 countries bringing their aerospace products, including fighter jets and transport aircraft, ...
Flying Bulls to perform exciting aerobatic stunts at Aero India 2011- MyBangalore | The Czech Flying Bulls Aerobatics Team, which will perform at the Aero India 2011 with their fleet of four ...
Thunder Power is theme for 2011 fireworks, air show - Louisville Courier-Journal | Kentucky Derby Festival Inc. officials announced at a news conference Tuesday that the theme of this year's fireworks and air show will be “Thunder Power,” ...
Coastal Carolina Air Show from Airplanes Channel | Visitors attending the Coastal Carolina Air Show have a full line-up to look forward to. Performers will include the Heavy Metal Jet Team, Viper East Team of Shaw Air Force Base, Aeroshell Acrobatic Team, Greg Poe, Michael Wiskus, Franklin’s Flying Circus & Airshow and the Black Daggers. A variety of aircraft will be featured in [...]
Chennault hopes to bring air show back - WXVT | Executive director Randy Robb says officials at Chennault International Airport hope to bring an air show back to Lake Charles by 2013. ...
Canadian Aviation Expo 2011 from Airplanes Channel | The 19th annual Canadian Aviation Expo will feature more than 100 000 square feet of indoor exhibits. A wide variety of aircraft and related services are represented at the event, including parasails, ultra-lights, kit planes, flight schools, flying clubs, warbids, maintenance shops and government agencies. Not only is this ...
The New Guys meet the American Public from US Army Golden Knights by Richard Sloan | SGT Tom Pryjda, a new teammate on the Gold Demonstration Team, interacts with students from the Coral Springs Christian Academy. Connecting America’s Army with the American public is the number one mission of the demonstration teams. The newest team members have daily opportunities to interface with public onlookers. In this photo, SGT Tom Pryjda spent time between training jumps [...]
Historic planes to swoop in to airport - Daily Commercial
... of Freedom Tour by the Collings Foundation, which will showcase a TP-51C Mustang fighter, a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, and a B-24 Liberator bomber. ...
Lituanica's Last Flight? from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | The small aircraft drones over the vast darkness below. It's shortly after midnight, somewhere over eastern Germany. Two sets of eyes, exhausted from 37 hours of flying, peer into the night. Flying in and out of rain clouds, lightening flashes. For a brief moment they see towers of billowing clouds. Then darkness closes in once again. Inside Lituanica's tiny cabin Darius and Girenas, cold and fatigued, huddle contemplating their situation. ...
French Merlin-Hawks in Colour from Vintage Aeroplane Writer by Vintage Aero Writer | I hadn't realised the French Armée de l'Air had operated the Merlin-powered Curtiss P-40F until I came across these great colour shots of the handover of several examples by US pilots to the newly re-constituted French Air Force. I found them on this blog, and went and did a bit more digging afterwards. ...
S-60 Prototype SkyCrane - Connecticut Air And Space Center | In 1958 Sikorsky began design work on the Model S-60 twin-engined heavy-lift helicopter, a machine that incorporated the pod-mounted piston engines and dynamic components of the earlier Model S-56/CH-37. The S-60′s fuselage was extremely simple, consisting of a central ‘backbone’ which supported the ...
Spotted For Sale: Jump On This! A Real Sea Harrier Jump Jet from AirPigz | So they say that a lot of P-51's were sold as surplus after WWII for around $5,000, and when you adjust that number for inflation etc, you wind up with somewhere around $100,000 in 2011 bucks. It's pretty easy to see that some folks snagged a pretty amazing deal back in the good ole days! This Sea Harrier that was recently listed at barnstormers.com probably has a hundred grand wrapped up in gear legs and tires, but not surprising, the actual asking price for the whole airworthy airplane isn't posted. You know, if you have to ask...
France unveils world's first electric aerobatic plane - The Voice of Russia | France's Aero Composite Saintonge has unveiled the world's first four-engine all-electric aerobatic plane. The company used high technologies to adapt the ...
Inside Look How the Museum of Flight Restores Their Aircraft - Reuters | From old war birds, to military jets, to the front end of a Comet 4C sticking inside the hangar — I knew this was going to be a great visit. ...
from Royal Air Force Museum | ... My work is mainly on the Handley Page Hampden-P1344 which I have been working on since I first started here at the museum, carrying out skin insert repairs, frame repairs, major structural frame repairs and component manufacture etc. All of these repairs are carried out using exactly the same tools, materials and techniques that would have been used during wartime. ...
Air Show and Aviation Photography Tips and Tricks, Part II from Tyson V. Rininger's Blog | If you’ve already checked my first tutorial on tips and tricks of photographing an air show, this section will introduce you to the aspects often overlooked. To most, an air show is an event that takes place in front of a crowd, but if you look carefully you’ll find that an air show, or any event for that matter, provides photographic opportunities all around. ...
Old cockpits in 360° panorama from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
The 360 Cities project has gathered up high-rez panoramae of 14 old airplane cockpits that fire the imagination and bring detail to your secret pilot fantasies.
AviaFilms from Winging It | AviaFilms Production is an aviation cockpit video making company that goes beyond the standard cockpit video. Would you like to see what a 737 captain sees during takeoff or get the view from an L-39 Albatross flying low over the Colorado river? This is the site to visit. These are some truly spectacular videos from single engine GA aircraft to the A380. ...
Glide for a Pose from Yanko Design by Radhika Seth | The aerial camera is not a new concept to us. The trend started with the Flying Stick and moved on with a Balloon to the Boomerang! This time around we have the camera disguised as a Glider. It takes videos and stills but to take flight, you slingshot it into the air. At its peak, the glider’s folded wings bounce back into shape and aid in its casual glide.
Scrapped NASA Rocket May be Resurrected for Commercial Launches from SPACE.com | A new commercial rocket plan would revive part of NASA's scrapped Ares I rocket for private launches.
Proposed Private Space Plane Gets Fiery Name: Prometheus from SPACE.com | A proposed private spaceship designed to carry astronauts by the commercial space firm in Virginia has a new name steeped in mythology: Prometheus. The company Orbital Sciences unveiled the Prometheus space plane name Feb. 1.
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