Monday, April 11, 2011

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2011 Charleston Air Expo - ABC NEWS 4 | The elite Thunderbirds, a six-plane unit of the United States Air Force, were a special feature. Other performances included the Black Daggers, the Army's special operations command parachute demo team. "The thrill of jumping out of a plane is second ...

Blue Angels Take To Skies After Saturday's Postponement - KZTV Action 10 News | CORPUS CHRISTI - After weather grounded the famous navy pilots, Saturday, folks got to enjoy the Blue Angels Sunday at this year's air show. Crowds cheered as the pilots took to the skies. Yesterday, their daring stunts were postponed because thick ...

Where Blue Angels get their wings - North County Times | ... But each winter for the past 44 years, the Blue Angels have retreated to El Centro and the training ground where new team members integrate with second-year veterans to perfect their performance. For 10 weeks, they put on show after show over the Imperial Valley. ...

Air show will fly into Wilmington on Saturday - Star News Online | What does an Air Force pilot do in retirement? Fly. And if you have five colleagues willing to do it as well, you've got quite a show – one you can see this coming weekend.  Heavy Metal, a one-year-old team of airmen led by Lt. Col. Jerry “Jive” Kerby USAF (ret.), headlines the Coastal Carolina Air Show Saturday and Sunday at Wilmington International Airport. ...

916th airman chosen to jump with Golden Knights at air show - Goldsboro News Argus | 916th Security Forces Senior Airman AnneTaylor Hand is looking forward to her upcoming jump with the storied Golden Knights -- and the looming stint in Afghanistan that contributed to her being chosen to represent the wing. ...

Last flying Vulcan takes off from Wiltshire for final time - Wiltshire Gazette and Herald | The Vulcan thrilled almost two million people last year when it featured at several high-profile air shows including the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford and at Kemble Air Day. It was originally built in 1960, was restored between 2005 ...

Formation flight Sunday from Planeshots - more

Crash was a blow to Air Fiesta, but the show will go on - The Monitor | ... “I think everybody who was at the show felt a connection with the Franklins,” Hughston said. “I was real proud of our crowd for that. It was a classy thing.”  A fundraiser to help defray the cost of the Missouri-based couple’s medical bills is being planned for June 4 at CAF RGV Wing headquarters at the Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport. ...

Vintage airplanes recall glory days of Hamilton Field - Marin Independent-Journal | "The B-17 (bomber) was quite a bit different. Flying it was like driving a truck after driving a racing car." between 1935 and 1945. Only 12 are still capable of flight. One, the "Liberty Belle," made stops at the Hayward Executive Airport this past ...

Fundraiser will help Air Race Classic team - The Saluki Times | Competing in a classic -- Melanie Murdock, left, and Erin Jackson, will represent Southern Illinois University Carbondale's Aviation Management and Flight program this summer in the 2011 Air Race Classic. Murdock is a senior in aviation ...

Nazi plane survives 70 years underwater - Boise State University The Arbiter Online | Ian Thirsk of the RAF museum said, “This aircraft is a unique aeroplane and it's linked to an iconic event in British history, so its importance cannot be over-emphasized, nationally and internationally.” The Port of London Authority used high tech ...

P-47D – ‘Victory Through Air Power’ - Shortfinals | The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was one of the heaviest single-seat fighters of World War Two; indeed, a fully-laden 'Thud' could weigh up to 17,500 lbs at take-off. To give you something to compare this to, this is 3,000lbs MORE than a fully-laden Bristol Blenheim IV, a British twin-engined bomber, with a crew of three! Alexander Nikolaievich Prokofiev de Seversky was a Russian emigre of noble birth who had been an ace with the Russian Imperial Ai …

Naima’s dream takes to the skies from You Fly, Girl | GulfNews.com, World/Pakistan: Naima’s dream takes to the skies:  Dubai: It was a dream comes true for the 12-year-old thalassaemia patient, Naima Gul, resident of Mingora, Swat when she became the first female pilot and flew a Lama chopper.  Naima, a grade-4 student, was inducted in the Pakistan Army Aviation Academy after she wrote a letter to Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani, Chief of the Army Staff of Pakistan, who promptly responded and gave approval to grant her wish taking her as a first aviation lady pilot (honorary) of 9 squadron in Pakistan's Army history.

Today in Aviation History – April 11 - CRUFC | Today in Aviation History – April 11. 1952 – The Piasecki H/CH-21 Shawnee tandem-rotor helicopter makes its first flight. 1934 – Comdr. Renato Donati of the Italian Regia Aeronautica sets a new world altitude record by flying a much ...

Mystery Vortex Generators Identified - It's A T-45 Goshawk from AirPigz |  Here's the uncropped pic of the T-45 Goshawk wing from yesterday's Name The Plane game. ...

Video: Martin Jetpack Latest Tests from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Development of the Martin Jetpack is continuing in New Zealand, and the latest publicly released video shows it reaching new heights. However, that's a mannequin onboard and not a human pilot.

$2M grant to help preserve astronauts' archives - WTHR | AP National/International News Entertainment News from AP West Lafayette, Ind. - Purdue Libraries will use a $2 million grant to help preserve the papers and archives of astronauts who graduated from the university, including Neil Armstrong. ...

NASA Updates OV-103/Discovery End State Requirements from NASASpaceFlight.com | One month after the completion of her STS-133 mission, Discovery is nearing completion of Down Mission Processing (DMP) activities inside OPF-2 at the Kennedy Space Center. With DMP nearly complete, technicians will soon begin the initial stages of Transition & Retirement processing on the Shuttle Program’s fleet leader. With this step, technicians will follow a revised/updated Delta End State Flow Review for Discovery, as approved by the Program Requirements Control Board. ...

50 years ago the first cosmonaut shouted “Off we go” and manned space flight began from Plane Talking | A NASA archive of a newspaper front page given over to Gagarin:  Fifty  years ago tomorrow afternoon Australian time Yuri Gagarin was blasted into a single orbit flight around the earth, becoming the first human to fly beyond  the aerodynamic limits of the atmosphere and enter space,  experiencing prolonged weightlessness in the confines of his Vostok 1 capsule.

Pratt & Whitney J58 (A-12 and SR-71) with a tiger tail from High Power Rocketry

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