Tuesday, April 12, 2011

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Coastal Carolina Air Show is set to include world's only P-51 Mustang Formation Aerobatic Team - WECT | WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) — This year’s Coastal Carolina Air Show will include the world’s only P-51 Mustang Formation Aerobatic Team, a Heritage Flight and a B-25 Bomber. Gates for the show at the Wilmington International Airport will open daily at 8 a.m. on April 16-17. Flights will begin at 11 a.m. and are expected to continue until 5 p.m...

Air show will fly into Wilmington on Saturday - Star News Online | 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...

Pilots perform during Air Expo in Charleston - The Sun news | CHARLESTON -- The 2011 Air Expo at Charleston Air Force Base proved the adage there will always be a need for speed. America's aviation arsenal was on display under glaringly sunny skies Saturday in a celebration of the best in flight, featuring planes more than 60 years old up to the most modern in the U.S. command...

Anniversaries: 50 years of human spaceflight – 30 years for Shuttle - NASA Space flight | April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin launches into orbit aboard Vostok 1 to become the first human being to travel into space. April 12, 1981: Space Shuttle Columbia proudly soars into the early-morning sky over Central Florida to a) become the first-ever reusable spacecraft, b) the first spacecraft to launch like a rocket and return like a plane, and c) inaugurate the Space Shuttle Program – a program that has served manned space exploration for 60 percent of these past 50 years and has been responsible for launching more humans into space than any other vehicle...

Golden Knights Jump - Violet "Vi" Cowden - pixiemonroecasting | Violet's second jump with the golden knights to make her the oldest person to jump with the golden knights.

Lodi World War II veteran takes another flight in B-17 - Lodi News | The last time Chuck Casella was inside a B-17, he was firing .50-caliber bullets from the rear of the plane during World War II...

World War II B-17 Bomber Visits San Diego (With Video) - 10 News | EL CAJON, Calif. -- A piece of World War II history has flown into Gillespie Field in El Cajon for a two-day public tour. The B-17 bomber that flew into San Diego this week is one of 12 bombers still flying in the United States...

U.S. Navy Leap Frogs Drop in on San Diego - NAVY.mil | SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- More than 33,000 San Diego Padres baseball fans watched eight members of the U.S. Navy parachute demonstration team, the Leap Frogs, parachute into Petco Park in San Diego during the opening ceremony of the Padres' 2011 Military Opening Day, April 10...

Youth Aviation Day - Sky Surfing | A fundamental tenant of the Experimental Aircraft Association is education. The word is interpreted to mean both for the aviator and to enlighten others about aviation. EAA chapter 88 of Wichita, Kansas held its second annual Mueller Elementary Aviation Day at Jabara Airport (AAO) April 9, 2011...

VIDEO thrill: Boeing’s 748F flies zero G - Crikey | The freeze frames don’t do this credit, but Boeing test pilots and engineers spent hours recently flying the 747-8 freighter prototype on a high altitude roller coaster ride that produced everything from zero-G weightlessness to 2.5 G loads close to the structural limit of the design...

A Look at the First Boeing 747-400s to be Scrapped - Airline Reporter | The Boeing 747 starts her next chapter with the first flight of the 747-8 Intercontinental. As we look to the future of the jumbo jet, we also have started the begining of the end for the Boeing 747-400. In July 2010, the first three 747-400s were taken to Air Salvage International, located in Hampshire, UK and destroyed for salvage...

Lamborghinis versus planes in the Saudi desert - Jalopnik | Lamborghini's latest exotics borrow heavily from the aerodynamic designs of modern aviation. Makes sense for a group of enthusiasts in a rainbow of Lamborghinis to meet up with a team of pilots for the ultimate desert dogfight...

Which Museums Will House Retired Space Shuttles? - Fox News | NASA is expected to announce the final resting places of the agency's space shuttles Tuesday, on the 30th anniversary of the first-ever shuttle mission...

Astronauts4Hire Completes First Orbit - Astronauts4Hire | Today is April 12, otherwise known as the Cosmonautics Day, Yuri’s Night, and the International Day of Human Space Flight. 50 years ago on this date, man first ventured into space and ushered in the era of human spaceflight. It was only fitting that the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle occurred on this date 30 years ago...

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