2 teams sign on for Cocoa Beach Air Show - Florida Today | Rob Varley, executive director of the Space Coast Office of Tourism, said the air show has grown each year and become an "economic boon" for the community. Last year, it drew an estimated 160000 people. "The air show has taken a slow weekend and turned ...
WoO champ Jason Meyers Takes Flight With The U.S. Navy Blue Angels - Onedirt.com from http://www.onedirt.com/ Meyers had this to say about his experience, “I knew coming into it would be a chance of a lifetime, but I didn’t really know what to expect. The opportunity to not only get to fly with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels but to have our team involved with it and have all our sponsors come out and do something like this is really neat. I’ve never had…Billings to mark Women of Aviation Week with special flight - Billings Gazette | To celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, the Billings community will celebrate the women of aviation. This week, March 7-13, is devoted to Women of Aviation Worldwide Week, which celebrates women of aviation and reaches out to ...
Sergei Sikorsky honored by helicopter industry from Sky Talk by Star-Telegram | Several years ago at a Heli-Expo trade show in Orlando, this reporter enjoyed a memorable long dinner with Sergei Sikorsky, the almost legendary son of helicopter pioneer and Sikorsky Aircraft founder Igor Sikorsky. It was an evening filled with tales, some perhaps true, told by Sikorsky and one of his longtime friends…How the Helicopter Changed Modern Warfare - Latest Aviation History Book by Walter Boyne from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | "Walter Boyne has made what could be a prosaic subject read like one of his thrillers. It never slows and is packed with an immense amount of information and sometimes alarming, but illuminating, insights…
Profile 46 - "Satan's Chillen" from WWII & Korean Conflict Airplane Profiles by JSM | The sketch above is of a B-17G that flew with the 401st Bomb Group based at Deenethorpe, Northhamptonshire, England. Specifically, the bomber belonged to the 613th Squadron. But, if you're really, really into the details, her serial number was 43-37706 and was accepted into the U.S. Army Air Force inventory on May 13, 1944…Foundation lands World War II bomber, fighter planes in Huntsville for rides ... - al.com | "This is some very rewarding flying," said John Hess, another airline pilot who spends his off hours behind the controls of the B-17 and other old warbirds. "Hopefully we'll have some veterans come out and tell their stories." Families often visit or ...
Liberty Belle B-17 takes a flight - al.com | Description: A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress named the Liberty Belle arrived at Madison County Executive Airport Monday, March 17, 2011. It will be available for rides to the public along with a rare Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. Flights are available on ...Vintage World War II warbirds set local visit - Shreveport Times | $425 per person for 30 minutes in the B-17 or B-24, and $2200 for 30 minutes/$3200 an hour in the P-51. First-come-first-flown reservations are required, call toll-free (800) 568-8924. Rare flying warbirds from World War II will pay a visit to ...
Virgin Galactic inks deal to send scientists into space - ArabianBusiness.com | Built by famed aerospace designer Burt Rutan, SpaceShipTwo is based on a prototype that won a $10m Ansari X prize in 2004 for being the first manned private rocket to reach space. Abu Dhabi state-backed investment firm Aabar Investments took a 32 ...
Virgin Galactic inks deal to send scientists into space - ArabianBusiness.com | Built by famed aerospace designer Burt Rutan, SpaceShipTwo is based on a prototype that won a $10m Ansari X prize in 2004 for being the first manned private rocket to reach space. Abu Dhabi state-backed investment firm Aabar Investments took a 32 ...
Japan to Fly its Own Stealth Fighter Prototype By 2014 from Defense Tech by John | Well, the stealth races are now well underway, with China, Russia (partnering with India) and now Japan moving to field stealth fighters this decade. Fed up with the U.S. refusal to share the F-22... Read more at http://defensetech.org
Future Aviators in Australia Appreciate F-16 - Department of Defense | GEELONG, Australia, March 8, 2011 – More than 30 future aviators gathered around an F-16 fighter jet based at Misawa Air Base, Japan, during the 2011 Australia International Air Show here March 5. ...
Teen pilot too young to drive, but old enough to fly from Aviation eBrief | Thanks to the Civil Air Patrol and the EAA Young Eagles, 15-year-old Nathan Legaspi is flying high as a pilot-in-training eve -More-
Teen pilot too young to drive, but old enough to fly from Aviation eBrief | Thanks to the Civil Air Patrol and the EAA Young Eagles, 15-year-old Nathan Legaspi is flying high as a pilot-in-training eve -More-
March 8 from Cut and Paste Aviation by KenInfinite
Well here’s a sweet heritage flight! Couple of Yaks and a... from You like airplanes, too? Well here’s a sweet heritage flight! Couple of Yaks and a Supermarine Seafire. Photo by Simon Gratien. Full version here.
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