3/19-20: Luke Air Force Base celebrates 70 years - Arizona Republic | Other highlights include the Army's Golden Knights, an acrobatic parachute team, and the F-22 Raptor Aerial Demonstration Team, which will show the precise maneuvering and acrobatic capabilities of the advanced stealth warplanes.
Blue Angels will not perform air show in Annapolis in 2012 - ABC2 News | There was an opportunity to have the flight demonstration team to fly over the holiday weekend but officials say altering traffic during the heavily traveled weekend would not work out. Residents and business owners we spoke with say commission week ...
Sinful Sundays - Lee Bottom Airport - Hanover, IN
by Tom Busselberg HILL AFB — With purse-strings tight all over, this year, it's looking like the planned September Hill AFB Air Show won't be held. The Top of Utah Military Affairs Committee, which was spearheading this year's effort, ...
From Women of Aviation
Frederick Airport, MD, sets a new “one day, one location” aviation record
They came to fly and discovered that aviation is fun no matter what
Girls Inc. of NYC, Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum Present "Power of One ...
Online PR News | New York, NY (March 14, 2011) - Girls Inc. of New York City will celebrate Women's History Month by inspiring a group of New York City's young women through The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum's Power of One series. ...
Famous Aircraft
- Famous Aircraft – Part 3: Supermarine Spitfire
- Famous Aircraft: Part 2: Messerschmitt 109 (ME-109)
- Famous Aircraft: Part 1 – The Wright Flyer
happy 10th anniversary College Park Aviation Museum! - the affiliate | Congratulations to the College Park Aviation Museum on their 10th anniversary as a Smithsonian Affiliate! Since their joining the Affiliations Program in March 2001, the Museum has been active in bringing important artifacts, speakers, and exhibitions from the National Museum of Air and Space to College Park, Maryland. The Museum sits on the grounds of the world’s oldest continuously operating ...
USN F-14 shoots down USAF RF-4C from Jetcareers | Source: On an early fall afternoon in September, 1987, Vodka 51, an RF-4C, departed Aviano Air Base in Italy bound, for the Mediterranean. Their job that day was to find the US aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. Of course, part of Exercise Display Determination, a joint USAF, USN and NATO exercise, taking place in the Med, was for Navy assets to defend the carrier and stop detection of its location. The search for the carrier and the defense of it, as always, were to occur within the exercise ROE. ...
Northrop F-20A Tigershark 150th Fighter Wing New Mexico ANG from Uploads from The Chicken Works | One of my favorite jet fighters is the Northrop F-20 Tigershark. Originally conceived as the ultimate development of the F-5 (which started in the late 1950s as the F-5A Freedom Fighter, transformed in the early 1970s into the improved F-5E Tiger II and also shares a lineage with the first supersonic trainer in the world, the T-38 Talon), it was small, light, but powerful with a GE F404 engine replacing the two small J85s on previous marks. It was like the high performance roadster of fighter jets and to me always cool thanks to its rakish looks and cool name "Tigershark". ...
See also: Northrop F-20A Tigershark 188th Fighter Wing Arkansas ANG
Royal Air Force Tornados at Red Flag 11-03 from Randy Rothhaar Photography | Still editing Red Flag 11-03 images while starting work on 2011 NAF El Centro Airshow shots...here are some Royal Air Force Tornado GR4s that participated in the exercise. ...
Navy, Marines Commit to STOVL JSF - DoD Buzz | One day before the House Armed Services Committee holds a major hearing on the F-35 program, the Navy and Marines unveiled a memo committing them to buying both the carrier and STOVL versions of the Joint Strike Fighter. ...
Seven F-35 test planes cleared to fly again from Sky Talk | The Pentagon has lifted flight suspensions on seven of the 10 test aircraft in the F-35 program, a military spokesman said Monday, according to Bloomberg News. The jets were grounded after one of the test aircraft suffered a dual electrical generator failure and oil leak during a test flight on Wednesday. ...
A Sailplane Lets You Live in the Sky in Silent Grace from InFlightUSA by Alan Smith | Les Schweizer and his Schweizer 1-26 sailplane. (1-26 Association Photo)Believe it or not, the history of the glider is older than that of the airplane. The glider is how man started his voyages through the atmosphere more than 100 years ago. While the glider did lead to the powered airplane, it has stayed with us over the years to become a highly refined sports aircraft that provides thrilling and challenging flight to pilots around the world. ...
Video: International Learn to Fly Day, 2011 by eaavideo.org | Share the Spirit…take someone flying on International Learn to Fly Day, May 21st 2011. For more information, go to www.LearnToFly.org.
Sport Rocketry, March/April 2011 from The Original Rocket Dungeon | This issue really makes up for the last one (which I thought was the least interesting issue since I re-joined the NAR). Here's a cover-to cover walk through:
NASA to Fly Astronauts on Russian Spaceships at Nearly $63 Million per Seat from SPACE.com | NASA's new $753 million deal with Russia pays for 12 roundtrip Soyuz taxi flights to the International Space Station.
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