Joint base Charleston Air Expo 2011 - Live 5 News | There will also be a B-25 on display and an appearance by America's own Thunderbirds. "We are just excited to be here in the Lowcountry Charleston Air force base. We are really looking forward to a great weekend and we hope that folks come out and see ...
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Blue Angels Pilot Interview - YouTube (MzeroA) | Here's my exclusive Blue Angels Pilot Interview with Captain Ben. Pilot of Fat Albert the Blue Angels C-130
Podcast: A Sun 'n Fun to Be Remembered from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast
If you were there, you'll never forget it and if you weren't, you certainly heard about it. AVweb's Russ Niles spoke with SNF CEO John Burton to recap a show that offered more than its share of challenges and could ultimately be called a success.
Team RV rebounds after severe storm - AOPA Pilot | Team RV, a formation and aerobatic display team, is back at full strength after two of its airplanes were destroyed and others damaged by the March 31 tornado that struck during the Sun 'n Fun Fly-In. The event was to have been the ...
VIDEO: Russian Knights celebrate 20 years on Moscow from CavokBlog | On the last day on April 5, the legendary squadron of Air Force aerial demonstration of Russia, the Russian Knights (Russkie Vítiazi) completed 20 years of existence . To celebrate the milestone, the Russians conducted a demonstration riders in the sky of Moscow. The team flies four aircraft Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker, two versions of single-seat Su-27 and Su-27UB two seater, painted in the colors blue, red, white and yellow. Three aircraft remain in the squad, but did not present themselves more with the group. ...
Australian pilots recreate aviation history - ABC Online | MARK COLVIN: Two Australian pilots are attempting to recreate aviation history by flying around the world in the path of Charles Kingsford Smith and Amelia Earhart. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic but her attempt to ...
Mutley's Hangar Announces the Great UK Air Race from Flight Simulator News | Joe Lawford the owner of Mutley's Hangar has announced the launch of the Great UK Air Race! Also known as MEBAR - Mutleys' Easter Bunny Air Rally 2011. This event forms part of the wider Global event initiated by Bluegrass Airlines who have already completed the first in the series The Great Australian Air Rally (GAAR). This event is based around the south coast of England, briefly venturing into the Channel Islands, Isles of Scilly, Wales then back to the home of Mutley's Hangar, ...
TV presenter Bleakley wingwalks for Rio from Flight International | Daybreak presenter Christine Bleakley recently took up wingwalking to promote the release of the 3D animated film Rio. She described the experience as 'completely insane and exhilarating' adding it was like being in a Duran Duran music video. The film Rio follows a young bird called Blu who isn't capable of flying. Christine after wingwalking thousands of feet above the ground sympathised with Blu and said: "No wonder Blu doesn't want to fly." ...
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B-17 Gets New Tail! - Planes of Fame | Piccadilly Lilly finally has her vertical stabilizer and rudder back. Now she is one step closer to flight thanks to all your generous donations! Find out how you can help us with this historic restoration. Please visit the B-17 Piccadilly Lilly "Restoration Project" page to learn more.
Warbird hopes high for Skyhawk - Otago Daily Times | It is not yet known whether the new Warbirds Over Wanaka visitor attraction will get one of nine mothballed Skyhawk jet fighters from the Government. Four of the nine were allocated to museums by Defence Minister Wayne Mapp and the fate of the ...
Missionary Pilots Share Stories, Backcountry Flying Tips from Aviation Blogs | Something didn’t seem right. Glen Ferguson had just departed a Brazilian airstrip to fly to a remote village and pick up a young missionary family. The aircraft performed normally. The engine instruments checked out. The only thing slightly amiss was a periodic fluctuation in EGTs. Still, Ferguson couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wrong with the aircraft. He leveled off in cruise and checked the magnetos. Left mag: normal. Right mag: silence. Ferguson immediately turned the mags back to both and returned to his departure airport less than 15 minutes away. ...
The RAAF's Balloons from Vintage Aeroplane Writer | ... Certainly the RAAF never operated airships or balloons for warlike purposes back in the inter-war period, but while at the Antiquers airshow and fly in at Echuca last weekend, I bumped into a current RAAF balloon airman - who is one of the crew operating the RAAF's balloons. Details of the balloons, and their (recent) history is here. Serendipity! ...
Super Chipmunk R90S - ModelFlying | I immediately found lots of references to aerobatic championships from the late '60s and '70s. Indeed Art Scholl, the owner of this particular variant (N1114V) was one of the best aerobatic pilots of his era, and this was his chosen weapon. ...
Cassie Mathews from Flight To Success | Friday Fabulous Flyer! - Cassie Mathews: A few weeks ago I was at Renton Airport cleaning airport seats and I got to watch Cassie Mathews take her solo flight. I was upset because I'd deleted her pictures from my computer. But when Cassie heard what I'd done, she sent me some that her instructor had taken. And since then I've had the chance to learn a little more about this female aviator soaring into the sky and kissing the runway at Renton Airport. ...
VIDEO: Yes, the F-35 ejection seat works from The DEW Line | There is no truth to the rumor that the video clip below depicts the moments immediately after former F-35 program director Brig Gen David Heinz's final meeting with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
Fly From San Francisco to Paris in Two Minutes from Telstar Logistics | YouTube user nbolt produced a sweet little time-lapse video that compresses an Air France flight from SFO to CDG into just two minutes -- including a special cameo appearance by an aurora borealis. ...
ESA Euronews: First Man in Space from Spaceports | 50 years ago, for the first time in history, a human travelled into space. Who was Yuri Gagarin ? How did this flight change his life and the future of humankind?
ESA Notes 50 Years of Humans in Space from Spaceports | ESA pays tribute to five decades of human spaceflight with a video from the European Astronaut Centre remembering the historic flight of 12 April 1961. Yuri Gagarin was the first to see Earth from space and his legacy has motivated many young people to follow careers in science and engineering - and to become astronauts and cosmonauts.
Public has opportunity to watch shuttle announcement at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force will host an opportunity for the public to watch a live broadcast of NASA's commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch beginning at 1 p.m. on April 12. During that time, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is scheduled to announce the locations selected to receive the space shuttle orbiters when they are retired. ...
Space Shuttle's Maiden Launch and Landing from SPACE.com | The STS-1 mission launched NASA astronauts John W. Young and Robert Crippen into space for a 54.4 hour, 36 orbit test flight of Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981. ...
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