Thursday, March 24, 2011

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Barreling Over The Beaches In A Stunt Plane - WMBB-TV | Pilots and planes are soaring into Bay County from all over the country for this weekend's Gulf Coast Salute Air Show. It's being held out at Tyndall Air Force Base starting Saturday. Greg Poe is an aerobatic pilot, he'll be debuting a new plane. ...

Coastal Air Show coming to ILM April 16-17 - WWAY NewsChannel 3 | Air shows deliver a multi-faceted experience that touch all of the senses – military jets traveling at near-supersonic speed and aerobatic performances that defy gravity and challenge the imagination; a collection of modern and vintage aircraft for ...

Air Show Celebrates Two Important Developments - WTOK | The Golden Wings Over Meridian Air Show will mark two special occasions, for the Navy and for NAS Meridian.

Event Runs Aug. 6-7 On Lakefront - WISN Milwaukee | Other performers include the US Army Special Operations Command Parachute Team, Air Force A-10 Warthog Demo Team, Air Force Viper East F-16 Demo Team, Air Force C-17 Demo Team, US Coast Guard SAR Demo, Lima Lima Aerobatic Team, Lucas Oil Aerobatics ...

Insurance deal helps air show take to sky with vintage war bird collection - Stoney Creek News | ... “It’s a very good deal,” said Rohrer, who noted rising insurance costs were one of the reasons the previous air show was grounded.  Rohrer said Canadian Warplane Heritage officials decided in December to bring back the air show this year as a trial run for a bigger air show next year to mark the museum’s 40th anniversary. ...

Luke Days air show official: Glendale event went smoothly - Arizona Republic | More than 200000 people watched jets and stunt planes streak across the sky at the biennial Luke Air Force Base air show, which organizers said went off without a hitch. That's not to say there weren't some waits to get through the ...

Thunder Funder campaign under way to help air, fireworks show - Louisville Courier-Journal | The hangar will be open to the public from 5 pm to 9 pm and the preview will feature displays of several planes that will be in the air show, a children's interactive area, helicopter rides and a display of the large American flag that will be ...

Entertainment announced for annual Courtland Airshow - The Decatur Daily | COURTLAND - Organizers of the annual Courtland Air Show and Music festival have announced the music lineup for the event. The air show is Sept. 23-24 at the Courtland airbase. Travis Womack will perform the night of Sept. 23, followed the an all-day ...

U.S. navy could sail in for 2012 air show - Windsor Star | Organizers of the Windsor International Air Show and a representative of the US Navy will be at city council next Monday to present an idea of bringing naval vessels to the show's 2012 edition. ...

Air Show May Fly Into Miami Beach - NBC Miami | NBC Miami has learned that Miami Beach is in talks with air show producers to bring a show similar to the one held in Ft. Lauderdale in the past to South Beach. "It's amazing, those planes, you think they are going to fall and they turn around and it's ...

Annapolitans Upset Over Being Left in Blue Angels Tailwinds - Patch.com | The Blue Angels flight demonstrations over Annapolis became what many thought were an intrinsic element of our city's identity – like Mardi Gras in New Orleans or New Year's Eve in Times Square. Blue Angels put blame on the US Naval Academy. ...

Greg Koontz Receives 2011 CFI of the Year Award from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | BIRMINGHAM AL- During an AOPA Safety Seminar last night, Greg Koontz received official recognition of his achieving the Flight Instructor of the Year for Alabama and NW Florida Flight Standards in the 2011 General Aviation Award Program.  An annual awards program, the General Aviation Awards Program is a cooperative effort between the FAA and aviation industry sponsors to recognize annually outstanding individuals in ...

Today's PIX!! Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 from Military Photos | CORONADO, Calif. (March 16, 2011) Members of the U.S. Navy parachute demonstration team, the Leap Frogs, perform a T-formation during a training jump above Naval Amphibious Base Coronado. The team is stationed in Coronado and performs demonstrations across the country in support of Naval Special Warfare and Navy recruiting. (U.S. Navy photo by James Woods/Released)

Jets in fly-past tribute to veteran of bombing raids - This is Nottingham | AN RAF sergeant who lived in Nottingham all his life had a fitting send-off when two RAF jets flew over his funeral. They had been diverted from RAF Cranwell to mark the death of Arthur Browett, who served on bomber planes during World War Two. ...

de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou. from Planeshots

Tiger Moth joy flights - chocks for starting? from PPRuNe Forums | The latest issue of the Melbourne based magazine "Pacific Flyer" has an article by well known aviation author Macarthur Job. It is called "Whirling Scimitars -and Just as Deadly" It is about the dangers posed by propellers.  Some years ago, a newly graduated grade 3 instructor at a well known aero club at Moorabbin was tasked to ...

CAF Airpower Museum presents helicopter seminar - Odessa American | MIDLAND Visit the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Airpower Museum Main Hangar at 2 pm on Saturday, March 26 for a special “Remembrance of War” seminar featuring Helicopters at War. The UH-1 Huey and AH-1 Cobra will serve as the backdrop as two ...

Aviation museum recognized for historical contributions  - Shore News Today | Naval Air Station Wildwood (NASW) Aviation Museum was recently recognized for the museum’s significant contributions to New Jersey history. NASW Chairman, Joseph E. Salvatore, MD, attended the awards ceremony in Trenton on March 9. The ceremony was held in honor of  ...

Spotted For Sale: 1947 Round Engine Fieseler Storch Project! from AirPigz | I saw Kermit Weeks fly the Fieseler Storch at the Fantasy of Flight Museum last year during Sun-n-Fun and was really impressed by how it looked like a lot of fun to fly. It's big, weird, kinda ugly, and a taildragger... 

Pilot to leave Air Force after 'Top Gun' flyover before Iowa game - USA Today | In the movie Top Gun, Tom Cruise played naval aviator Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, who was notorious for his flaunting of military rules while flying his F-14. Turns out the Air Force doesn't look too kindly on that type of ...

Another Jet Wing Project Underway from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association
Yves Rossy may soon have a wingman in his jet wing exploits. Troy Hartman, EAA 732927, has been developing a similar aircraft since 2008 and will be ready to begin flight testing this fall.

Video: Another Chance for Commercial Airships? from Things with Wings | Lockheed Martin's famed Skunk Works has signed a contract with a private Canadian comonay to develop, certify and produce a family of commercial cargo airships derived from its P-791 hybrid aircraft demonstrator, which flew back in 2006. ...

Dream-come-true for 12-year-old thalassaemia girl - Gulf Times | And on Wednesday she was inducted as a pilot in 9-squad on the first female flyer in army aviation's history. “1 will live for my country, and will die for it,” she declared on the occasion. “In whatever capacity my beloved country needs my services, ...

While many students just want lunch, these crave launch - Florida Times Union | Middle-schoolers are part of a rigorous rocket contest with 600 teams.  To nine eighth-graders from Kirby-Smith Middle School Challenger Learning Center, it is rocket science.  Since November, the team of students from the science, technology and math magnet school has been on a mission to build a rocket that ...

NASA’s 100-Year Starship Project Sets Sights on Interstellar Travel. from Planenews Aviation News | Shooting for the stars will first require a lot of down-to-Earth elbow grease, as NASA's new 100-Year Starship project illustrates. The effort, to journey between stars in the 2100s, began with a workshop and now is in the study phase.

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