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Air show lands key acts - St. Thomas Times-Journal | Hugh Shields, executive director of the Great Lakes International Air Show, confirmed Sunday the CF-18 Hornets demonstration team is to be at the show June 24-26 at the St. Thomas Municipal Airport. The team is one of the main attractions for the show. ...
Australian Air Force Celebrates 90 Years of Service with 90th Birthday ... - News 4 Us | Air Force will display a range of aircraft, including showpieces from the RAAF Museum to showcase some of Air Force's heritage, including a Mirage aircraft and warbirds; AF/A-18 Hornet tail has been painted with Air Force's 90 th Birthday logo; ...
Temora warbirds to feature at Avalon - Australian Aviation | Temora's (RAAF owned) CAC Sabre plus its Lockheed Hudson, Gloster Meteor and Spitfire Mk V III will be among the warbirds on display at Avalon. Temora Aviation Museum chief executive Kenny Love said that his team was “excited to be participating at the ...
Air show rich with market-moving news – AviationWeek.com Military Technologies | Aviation Week's exclusive reports from Aero India, the country's 8th international exhibition on aerospace, defense and civil aviation, are available on its Aero India and India web channels, including a report that India is dedicated to making ...
Gold Team Trains At Sun Life Stadium from US Army Golden Knights | Gold Demonstration Team conducted a training jump today into the Miami Dolphin’s Sun Life Stadium. The Team began the training for this jump yesterday while conducting a site survey from the ground. Although the stadium appeared large from inside on the field, it would soon become a heart pounding experience for many of the new [...]
Amelia Earhart: The Turbulent Life of an American Icon from Cockpit Conversation | When a publisher's representative asked me if I was interested in reviewing a new biography of Amelia Earhart I rolled my eyes and gritted my teeth a little. She gets so much press, and I'm constantly expected to revere her as a role model, despite the fact that her self-aggrandizing, poorly planned stunt flying eventually got her killed. My own mother refuses to understand that do not find it endearing when she calls me "Amelia." I look a little warily even at the record setting flights by Louis Bleriot and Charles Lindbergh but forgive them as necessary proof-of-concept achievements in the evolution of aviation. I grant no such dispensation to Ms. Earhart. There were a few words in the publisher's blurb, words like "reckless" and "lacked basic navigation skills" that told me this wasn't going to be an "Our Hero, Amelia" book so I asked to take a look. The biography is Amelia Earhart: The Turbulent Life of an American Icon by Kathleen C. Winters and is ...
Sponsoring Girls With Wings by Jasmine Gordon | The Racing Aces are proudly racing the 2011 Air Race Classic for the nonprofit Girls With Wings, Inc [A 501(c)(3) public charity]. As female pilots, we are well aware of the obstacles that each of us has had to overcome and we are all working to encourage more girls with what has come to be a passion of ours: aviation! ... Girls With Wings founder, Lynda Meeks is in urgent need of funding to make dreams take flight and we could not be more proud to help. Single handedly, Lynda has been staying “in the air” with speaking engagements, community outreach and making her message that “Girls need Flight Plans, not Fairy Tales!”™ available to any young girl with an eye on the sky. Along with the volunteer female pilots she has ...
Video: Jonna Doolittle Hoppes "Jimmy Doolittle Raid" presentation at Historic Flight Foundation from Theo Spark
103-year-old Ex-Eglin chief: 'Old age is not for sissies' - Destin Log | After 36 years in the military, he retired after serving as a B-17 pilot from World War II to Vietnam. Through it all, Stanley said he has learned how to get through life peacefully and happily. “I always throw a smile in whenever I can,” he said. ...
Jacuzzi - from aircraft to aerated water jets! from Bayou Renaissance Man | I didn't know that the Jacuzzi water-jet bath (known variously as a 'hot tub' or a 'whirlpool tub') had its roots in aviation. While Wiki-wandering this morning, I came across an article on the company which told me: ...
American War Machine explores 'deep history' - The Bloomington Alternative | He coordinated the purchase of General Claire Chennault's Civil Air Transport (CAT), an offshoot of the wartime “Flying Tigers” that later was modified for transport of drugs through Taiwan. CAT is the predecessor of Air America, the air corps that the ...
Aviation museum completes program with flying colours - Narromine News | Narromine Aerodrome was also the location of the first military landing in Australia in 1919, part of a surveillance mission to plan the route of the great air race from England to Australia. The race was won by Keith and Ross Smith in a Vickers Vimy ...
Fire fighting with the Fire Boss by David Cenciotti | Take a ride on board an Air Tractor AT-802F Fire Boss as it flies as number 2 of a flight of 3 AT-802Fs involved in a fire fighting operation in the mountains near Caserta, in Central Italy. 10 Fire Boss (piloted by 9 pilots from the Italian Air Force and 1 from the Italian Navy with the “water bomber” qualification) are being ...
Classes for seniors keep teacher, students young - Ventura County Star | "This is the future," she said recently as she waited for retired Ventura College Vice President John Woolly, 73, to speak to the group about the Commemorative Air Force Southern California Wing and its World War II planes, which are kept at the ...
New X-47B UCAS video released from Ares | Northrop Grumman has released a sharp new video of the first flight of the X-47B UCAS demonstrator at Edwards AFB, California on Feb 4. The video includes interesting ‘pilot’s eye’ views from the control room, as well as extended air-to-air shots of the vehicle banking and using its spoilers/flight control surfaces. ...
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