Video: Second Spitfire unable to make flypast celebration - Daily Echo | THE second Spitfire due to be at Southampton Airport today has been cancelled due to adverse weather conditions. The aircraft, flown by Peter Teichman and which flew in more than 40 combat missions, was due to touch down today to join in ...
Episode 58: Avalon Quick Cast #5 from Plane Crazy Down Under | It’s day 5 of the Australian International Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Exposition (aka Avalon 2011) and it’s the first whole day open to the general public. The PCDU team have had one of the most amazing days of their lives with time in the venerable B52, ... chat with Squadron Leader Matt Harper ....
Dominican aviation celebrate 100 years with Air Show - Newspaper Firsts | Caribbean Air Show 2011 is endorsed by the International Council of Airshows (ICAS), international non-governmental organization present in 30 countries, which fulfills the mission of advancing knowledge and facilitating collaboration in the sector ...
Lyon County Fly-In scheduled for May 21, 22, 2011 - My Fernley News | Fuel for Young Eagles Pilots – these pilots donate their time and their plane to make this the largest Young Eagles fly-in in the state. Children's Area and Activities – coloring books, Styrofoam planes, face painting, ...
Saskatoon air show revived - Prince Albert Daily Herald | After a year off, plans are in motion to bring back the Cameco Canada Remembers International Air Show. Organizer Brian Swidrovich says the air show is important to the community and to military veterans in particular. This year's event, scheduled for ...
Florida air show guide -- Thunderbirds, Blue Angels and other show schedules - JACOB LANGSTON, ORLANDO SENTINEL | It's a bird! It's a plane! To be precise, it's a lot of planes. Almost any time of year in Florida is prime time for air shows and the two big players in the air show circuit have several Florida stops in 2011. ...
Bessie Coleman trained in Paris to become first female African American pilot from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | Chicago Sun Tims: Bessie Coleman trained in Paris to become first female African American pilot | In 1920, Bessie Coleman (1892-1926) became the first African-American woman to earn a pilot’s license, after traveling to Europe to attend flight school. Born in Atlanta, Texas, Coleman moved to Chicago in 1915, and here she discovered her passion for aviation. However, as a black woman she wasn’t allowed to train as an airplane pilot in the United States. Robert Abbot, publisher for the African-American newspaper the Chicago Defender, urged Coleman to learn French and enroll in France’s Caudron School of Aviation. ...
Pioneer World War II pilot Betty Wood forgotten in Auburn from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | Auburn Journal: Pioneer World War II pilot Betty Wood forgotten in Auburn | (This article from Feb 4) From time to time, this reporter would bump into a sun-splashed photo of Betty Wood and her story – or at least the partial one that was available at the time. It’s in a bound copy of Journals from 1943. The page on which her photo reposes is burnished orange at its edges now. But the story of her death remains compelling. It was published on the front of the Sept. 30, 1943 edition of the Auburn Journal. ...
Monument Profile: American Legion Post 365 in Collinsville, IL from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | American Legion Leighton Evatt Post 365 in Collinsville, IL features memorials to service members, including a Bell AH-1S Cobra and ...
Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum Helps Scouts Earn Aviation Merit Badge from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum helped area Scouts earn their Aviation Merit Badge today. Here are some images from the day's activities: ...
Air Force heroes recognized at Dawn Patrol breakfast in Ottawa from Aviation.ca News | The Air Force Association of Canada hosted its annual Dawn Patrol breakfast in Ottawa last week in memory of the most famous combat mission flown by William Avery “Billy” Bishop, Canada’s most renowned aviator from the First World War –...
Swiss-Nepalese Team Wins Golden Hour Award from www.ainonline.com : Latest News | This year’s Eurocopter Golden Hour Award went to a rescue crew formed by captain Daniel Aufdenblatten and rescue specialist Richard Lehner of Air Zermatt, Switzerland, and captain Sabin Basnyat, chief pilot of Fishtail Air, Nepal. On April 29, 2010, the team successfully rescued a party of three Spanish mountain climbers stuck aton a steep slope of Mount Annapurna, the world’s second highest mountain, at an altitude of 22,800 ft. ...
March 5 from Cut and Paste Aviation | ... 1913 -- Army Field Order No. 1 officially organized Headquarters 1st Aero Squadron (Provisional) in a field near Texas City, Texas. The unit was the first created to conduct aircraft operations. 1912 -- Bob Fowler flies from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, Florida. The west to east coast-to-coast journey has taken four months to complete. ...
Dream of Flight Within Reach for Scholarship Winner from WAI Connect Blog | The roar of jet engines filled the Grand Theater at Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nev., Feb. 24. As the curtain rose, the blinding lights of a two-thirds scale airliner illuminated the crowd. Women in Aviation International President Peggy Chabrian and AOPA President Craig Fuller waved from the cockpit of the giant replica and climbed down the stairs to welcome attendees at the opening ...
FAA, EAA Data Shows Success For Young Eagles - Aero-News Network | New data compiled by the FAA and EAA shows that the EAA Young Eagles program is making a significant impact in creating aviators. The results emerged from a joint EAA/FAA project that matched the names of Young Eagles, now ages 15-34, ...
Coming in 2013 from the makers of CARS: PLANES - DVDTOWN.com | "Planes" features an international cast of the fastest air racers around in a comedy that stars Dusty, a small-town dreamer who longs to enter the most epic around-the-world air race . . . despite his fear of heights. With the help and support of a ...
Spaceplane OVT-2 Now in Low Earth Orbit from Spaceports | The Orbital Test Vehicle 2 (X-37B OTV-2), an American unmanned robotic vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) spaceplane launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 5:46 PM EST to low Earth orbit. It is the second operational test of the USAF military spaceplane. ...
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