New look night show set for Avalon - Australian Aviation | A new look night show spectacular featuring a high energy laser show and flare drop is set dazzle audiences ahead of Avalon's 2011 Australian International Airshow. Popularly known as 'Friday Night Alight', the airshow's signature event will also ...
Australia Post celebrates RAAF's 90th Birthday - Australian Aviation | The stamp issue will also be available at the International Air Show in Avalon from March 1 to 6. The recent stamp release also marks the retirement of the F-111 after 37 years' service, farewelled at RAAF Base Amberley in early December 2010. ...
Hornets put on show for city - Quest News | SUPER Hornets are expected to complete final preparations above the skies of Ipswich tomorrow for an upcoming air show. The RAAF Base Amberley jets will help mark the 90th anniversary of the air force with displays at the biennial Avalon International ...
RAAF celebrated at Point Cook - Wyndham Weekly | THE story of the Royal Australian Air Force, which began as a fledgling runway in Point Cook 90 years ago, will be celebrated next week with its milestone to be a key theme of this year's Avalon International Air Show. ...
Real Top Guns F-111 Belly Landing - YouTube | RAAF Crew looses a wheel, so they bring it home the hard way.
Vance commander speaks about being part of Thunderbirds - Enid News & Eagle | The Thunderbirds, the US Air Force's elite aerial demonstration team, are a close-knit unit that spends some 200 days each year performing at air shows throughout the country. Col. ...
Dreamlifter making short AirVenture visit - polypoke | The modern day guppy is making a short visit to EAA AirVenture this year! The heavily modified Boeing 747-400 known as the DreamLifter will arrive late Monday July 28th and then depart on Tuesday July 29th. ...
Council Approves Airshow and Hearing on Utility Rate - WSET | Council also approved the city taking out a permit for the Lynchburg Regional Airshow -- hopefully featuring the Blue Angels. The airport is in Campbell County, but it is owned by the city of Lynchburg, so City Council had to approve that permit. ...
Inspiring Other Women from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | Linda Wieland, ERAU: As a Professor and Director at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Kaneohe, Hawaii, I am passionate about education and aviation. I believe my passion inspires women to continue life-long learning in the aviation field. Prospective students from the age of 19 to 49 walk through my office door inquiring about college education. For the majority of the students I speak ...
Fly It Forward Challenge from FreeFlight Aviation | ... Women, have you always had an interest in flying? Do you dream of taking to the skies and heading to destinations unknown? Well, it’s now time. Freeflight Aviation will answer the call Saturday March 12 and Sunday March 13 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 to take non-pilot girls and women for flights. If you are interested in taking a flight with us, please visit our RSVP link on the Women of Aviation Site. ...
Founding Member Of Twirly Birds To Attend Annual Meeting - Aero-News | ... Graham is credited with countless aviation firsts, awards, designations, and multiple helicopter records during the early years of helicopter evolution. He is also largely responsible for helping develop the helicopter into the true multi-mission aircraft that it is today. The 24 year U.S. Coast Guard career of Commander Graham began in 1937 as a surfman, later earning his wings on 5 SEP 1941 as a naval aviation pilot (airplane). ...
Personal perspective provided by Tuskegee Airmen - Explore Baltimore County | This year, the school's Aviation Club, Black Student Union and History Club teamed up to bring members of the airmen to campus. "We thought we could ramp it up this year by having some of the guys talk about their experience," said Stephanie Molholt, ...
Scientists Try to Solve Amelia Earhart Mystery Through Her Saliva - TIME | Scientists are attempting to create a genetic profile for Amelia Earhart through her saliva -- taken from letter seals -- to determine if a bone fragment found in 2009 does belong to the missing aviator. In July 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, ...
Ben Epps Statue to Grace City Hall Block - Flagpole Magazine | Their first assignment could be picking a spot for a new statue of pioneer aviator Ben Epps, an Athens electrician and auto mechanic who at age 19 built and flew Georgia's first airplane from a field that is now Athens-Ben Epps Airport. ...
P-38 Lightning Newsletter from p38assn.org | Hello, P‑38 Fans: Well, it's time for another somewhat delayed P‑38 Newsletter! Relocating and a new computer have kept me wrapped up, but I'm back now and plan to get these newsletters out for you every 4‑6 weeks from here on out. As always, if there is a larger size of the photos available, just select the photo with your mouse and the larger size will show. Then just click the "back" button on your browser to return here. So, let's press on...
Development History Of The Curtiss P-40 Used By The Original AVG Flying Tigers from Flying Tigers News | Curtiss knew that their radial engined P-36 couldn’t be developed any more, so to increase its life they decided in July 1937 to install an Allison V-1710 inline engine with integral supercharging. Curtiss gave it the designation of Model 75P and the USAAC gave it the designation of XP-40. ...
Borden honors Norman Coats, author who wrote of life in his hometown - Louisville Courier-Journal | As a young man flying bombing missions over Nazi Germany in a B-17 bomber, Norman Coats occupied his mind with thoughts of his childhood. He fantasized about one day writing a book about the people and places in his hometown of Daisy Hill in Borden, ...
Herbert Walker Leaverton - LubbockOnline.com | He proudly served in World War II in the Army Air Force as part of the "Bloody 100th" B-17 Bomb Squadron, Thorpe Abbotts Airbase in England. In addition, he created and ran a number of businesses over his lifetime and was always the perfect provider. ...
Mustang Aces of the 357th Fighter Group from Let Let Let - Warplanes | “On 1 December1942, nearly a year after the United States entered World War 2, the US Army Air Forces ordered the 357th Fighter group into existence at Hamilton Field, California. No one could know at the time that this order had created the Eighth Air Force’s greatest ace-making unit. In just over a year of combat in ...
New pictures of the Libyan Mirages in Malta by David Cenciotti
Today in Aviation History – February 23 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club | In 1909… John A. McCurdy flies the Aerial Experimental Association’s Silver Dart biplane 40 feet over the frozen Bras d’Or lake at Baddeck Bay – the first flight of a heavier-than-air machine in Canada. ...
B-3 bomber shoots lasers - bust bunkers - mothership for a swarm of drones? from Black Horizon | Wired: The Air Force’s new stealth bomber might do more than just drop bombs, top generals said in recent days. The so-called “Long-Range Strike” plane — likely to be designated B-3 — could also carry bunker-busting, rocket-boosted munitions, high-powered lasers for self-defense and datalinks, and consoles for controlling radar-evading drones. ...
Aeromodelers air show this weekend - Yuma Sun | Yuma will have a flock of new visitors flying in from the north this weekend as the Yuma Aeromodelers plan for their annual R/C Air Show and Fun Fly 2011. The Yuma Aeromodelers is a group of 150 radio control ...
Warbird Central’s Paul Krumrie – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Wednesday from WarbirdRadio.com | WEDNESDAY – Paul Krumrei from Warbird-Central.com joins Matt Jolley on Warbird Radio LIVE! Let’s say you’d like to find a photograph of your grandfathers P-51…Paul is the guy to ask. Warbird Central is a great resource for any warbird historian and Paul is the guy who started it all. Tune in tomorrow and find out [...]
Episode 136 – Spotting with Jason from Airplane Geeks Podcast | Our guest this episode is Jason Bong, one of the writers and photographers at PHXspotters, a great site for plane spotters and aviation enthusiasts. Jason attended the annual Red Flag event and captured some amazing photographs of military aircraft. See his post, Rookie at Red Flag. ...
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