Saturday, April 9, 2011

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Blue Angels Pilot Visits Ray High School - KIII TV3 | CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) - Did you know, there has never been a female blue angels pilot? But now a student from Ray is claiming that job as hers. Today, a handful of Ray High School juniors, some of them ROTC students, got a rare glimpse of what its ...

3 News Rides Shotgun with the Blue Angels - KIII TV3 | The Blue Angels are the star attraction, but there is another aircraft that is pretty impressive in its own way. Our Bill Churchwell was invited to take a ride in the plane they call "Fat Albert". You must be logged in to rate this story. ...

Aircraft show will light up the bayfront - Corpus Christi Caller Times | The show will begin about 8 pm and last about 5 minutes said Bob Torres, Naval Air Station Corpus Christi spokesman. The aircraft is part of the Corpus Christi Air Show this weekend celebrating 100 years of aviation.
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TAKING FLIGHT: What you need to know about Air Expo 2011 - Charleston Post Courier | The finale will be an hourlong show by the Air Force's elite Thunderbirds performance squadron. The six-plane unit will scream across the sky as low as 200 feet off the ground and as high as 15000 feet above the base. A handicap parking area is ...

VIDEO: Flying with Tora! Tora! Tora! at the Charleston Air Show - Charleston City Paper | Largely made up of volunteers from the Commemorative Air Force, the group will be re-creating the attack on Pearl Harbor, Doolittle's Raid, and the Battle of Midway during the Charleston Air Show. Cypress Lowcountry Grille It was the best of times and ...

Flyover to honor pilot killed in Flagler air show - Daytona Beach News-Journal | Warbirds do a flyover in missing-man formation at the Wings Over Flagler Airshow last month.(NJ File I Sean McNeil) A pilot killed during an air show last month at the Flagler County Airport died of injuries he suffered ...

CF-18 team readies for start of air show season - Canada.com | The CF-18 National Demonstration Team will start preparations for the 2011 air show season when it arrives in Comox on Sunday to begin its annual training. The Team will stay in Comox for one week. The Demo Hornet, which features brilliant tail art to ...

U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion Makes Stop in St. Louis Area in Preparation for Marine Week Festivities from The Aero Experience

Air show again very successful - Yuma Sun | As a proud Yuma resident, I want to praise our community for another successful MCAS Yuma Air Show. There is simply nothing like it here. Civilians will never see replications of actual missions anywhere else. Thousands of people get an up-close look ...

63 Utahns honored during former POW Recognition Day luncheon - Deseret News | World War II B-17 pilot and former POW Stanley G. Smith honors the American flag during pledge of allegiance during a Former POW Recognition Day luncheon in Salt Lake City Friday, April 8, 2011. Former POW Recognition Day is held each year on April 9, ...

More than 60 years after building B-17 aircrafts during WWII, Ariz. woman gets ... - The Republic | More than 60 years after building her last Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Billie Piercy got her first chance to fly in one on March 31 when one of a handful of B-17s in the world that has been restored to flying condition visited the Deer Valley Airport ...
   
Smith: High regard for the B-17 - Online Athens | PEACHTREE DEKALB AIRPORT - It was a cool, windy Sunday morning recently when I walked out on the tarmac and visually perused the Liberty Belle, a restored B-17 bomber that saw action in World War II. I stood in reverence, appreciating from extensive ...

Ep.3 Royal Aero Club of WA presents the Tiger Moth! - ZoomTV | The Royal Aero Club of Western Australia (RACWA) run flights on the Tiger Moth out of Jandakot airport and you can choose between 30, 45 or 60 minute flights that take you sightseeing all over Perth. The 1940′s de Havilland Tiger Moth ...

P-51 Mustang stops in Spencer - Spencer Daily Reporter | A 1944 P-51 Mustang, part of the Commemorative Air Force fleet, sits in the Spencer Avionics hangar Friday afternoon. The crew at Spencer Avionics installed a new GPS unit into the plane that is used to educate the ...

A dream for many GA pilots: flying an L-39 by Steve | Todd over at My Flight Blog recently had an incredible opportunity. He was able to go flying with Gauntlet Warbirds in an Aero L-39 Albatros, the Czech trainer that has become somewhat of a regular on the airshow circuit. In his 45 minutes in the air, they burned over 100 gallons of Jet A and I don't think I need to even say that it was worth every penny.

Today in Aviation History – April 9 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club

VIDEOS AND PICTURES: Airbus A320 Virgin America flies in formation with WhiteKnight Two of San Francisco from CavokBlog | Even by the standards of the Virgin, the ceremony of inauguration of the new Terminal 2 at San Francisco was an extremely important moment of marketing. To celebrate the reopening, a new A320 aircraft flew Virgin America on Thursday on San Francisco side by side with the WhiteKnightTwo, the aircraft's spatial SpaceShipTwo, which will be the first spacecraft to carry civilian passengers on commercial flights into space . Then, new images and videos of flying over the coast of San Francisco.

Teams pull planes to save lives - KUAM.com | by Mindy Aguon Guam - 41 teams competed in the annual Plane Pull at the Continental Hangar today. The theme this year was "Towing the Line to Save Lives". The annual event raises money for the American Cancer Society, with proceeds coming entry fees ...

Meet the Women at NASA - NASA | Ladies that will inspire all of us to reach for the stars!

Purdue Receives Funding For Astronaut Collections from Headlines - Inside INdiana Business | The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation is awarding Purdue Libraries a $2 million grant to endow an archivist for the Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan archives and special collections. Conrad Hilton's son, Barron Hilton, is an avid pilot and longtime supporter of aviation. The university's libraries' division of Archives and Special Collections is home to the papers and artifacts of some of the most recognizable names in U.S. flight history.

The San Diego Air & Space Museum Celebrates 50 Years of Spaceflight by Revealing Unique and Rare Footage of 1st Person in Space from AMTOnline.com: Top News
The 16mm film footage shows Yuri Gagarin arriving at Ringway Airport (now Manchester Airport) in Manchester, England on 12th July, 1961.

An Evening with John Glenn - Bay Net | Winners in the St. Mary's County Science Fair will be honored by Former Astronaut and US Senator John Glenn on Wednesday, April 13 at the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum. Following that ceremony, Sen. Glenn will headline the Patuxent River Naval Air ...

Vote Now! Iconic Photos - 50 Years of Human Spaceflight from SPACE.com | Case your vote for the most memorable photo of the human spaceflight era.

Historian predicts Endeavour will be oribter to retire at KSC - Florida Today | Those include: the Air Force museum near Dayton; the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City; Johnson Space Center in Houston; and The Museum of Flight in Seattle. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex officials say they will be happy to craft ...

Meet the man behind Chris Brown’s P-51 Lamborghini - Jalopnik | Justin Hyde — Meet the man behind Chris Brown's P-51 LamborghiniAfter stumbling across Chris Brown's Lamborghini Gallardo up done in a World War II fighter plane theme, a tipster pointed us to the man who came up with the idea and pulled off the detailed airbrush painting.

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