Blue Angels with the moon in the background - Flightglobal | This week's Image of the Week (featured on page 3 of Flight International), is taken by AirSpace user Vintage Racer. His photo depicts the Blue Angels performing a flyby at February's Centennial of Naval Aviation kickoff at NAS North Island in San Diego.
Behind the scenes story on naming the Dreamliner - Randy's Journal | A lot of you remember the contest Boeing held back in 2003 to name what was then dubbed the 7E7 airplane. Of course, the name “Dreamliner” came out on top and will forever be attached to what is now the 787. What you may not know is just how close the Dreamliner came to being called the Global Cruiser...
New German aerobat gets EASA certification - AOPA #SNF11 | New German aircraft manufacturer XtremeAir GmbH announced that the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued a type certificate March 21 for its two-place Sbach 342 aerobatic aircraft. With EASA type certification in hand, the company will seek FAA certification of the all-carbon-fiber airplane, said Philipp Steinbach, XtremeAir’s designer and test pilot...Video: Movie Monday - March 28 - The Birth of the Whittle Engine - Flightblogger | Later this week I'll be heading south to Florida to visit with Pratt & Whitney and see the PW1524G, the first geared turbofan model intended for the Bombardier CS100 now on the test stand in West Palm Beach. As I did last year leading up to the annual Engines 101 and media brief, I devoted Movie Monday to jet engines. Last year it was Engine Failures 101, this year it's Wonder Jet a 1950 British dramatization of the birth of Frank Whittle's jet engine design...
Video: St. Louis-Based Wings of Hope Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize - The Aero Experience | Wings of Hope, a St. Louis-based humanitarian organization, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace prize. This video, provided by Boeing, celebrates the organization. Visit www.wings-of-hope.org for more information...
Selfridge Military Air Museum gets new displays - Chicago Tribune | HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich.— The Selfridge Military Air Museum is getting new interactive displays as part of an expansion that's scheduled to be dedicated this weekend...
Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum Expanding, Updating Floor Plan - The Aero Experience | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum at St. Louis Downtown Airport is expanding and updating the displays in its 1930 historic Curtiss-Wright hangar. The museum gallery is undergoing a floor plan update designed to accommodate the increase in historic items received over the last several years, and additional hangar space will be acquired to house current and future aircraft on display...
Goodbye Flight Simulator, Hello Microsoft Flight - Flight school List | If you own a copy of Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X, you might want to grab a pen, scratch the name Microsoft off the box and write Lockheed Martin instead...
Airship Ventures and Farmers Insurance Announce the Farmers Airship’s First-Ever National Tour - Sun Herald | MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Airship Ventures and Farmers® Insurance today announced that in April the Farmers Airship will embark on a six-month journey, “Covering Communities,” which will take the world’s largest airship across the United States and back. The journey will mark the first time a Zeppelin airship has ever barnstormed across the nation...
Possible spy plane getting new role with Kentucky students - Courier-Journal | The small plane's logbook lists dozens of flights from Lahore, Pakistan, to Karachi, Delhi and Calcutta, India, in the 1950s, and its current owner, a La Grange businessman, believes it was a spy plane...
Ladies and Gentlemen, This is Your Captain Speaking. - Baristanet | Attention young Mavericks! This Saturday, at the Aviation Hall of Fame & Museum of NJ, kids (and grown-ups) can enjoy Open Cockpit day, where they can sit in airliners and helicopters:
How I Am Becoming An Astronaut - Damaris Sarria | I'm excited for an upcoming talk I have at Lowell High School!!! On April 5, 2011 I will be talking to Lowell High School students on my engineering career and the cool stuff I do as an engineer...
Lockheed "Spy" Plane visits Christchurch - 1994 - MRC Aviation | Thinking back over my years of interest in aviation and that of overseas visitors, I would have to say one of the more exotic aircraft to grace our skies would be the Skunk Works designed Lockheed U2 spy plane of which one spent time...
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