Friday, April 15, 2011

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Blue Angels flights trickier than combat, member says - Fort Worth Star Telegram | Brent Stevens, the business of actual flight -- what he calls "stick and rudder skills" -- is considerably tougher as a member of the Navy Blue Angels flight team, entertaining thousands of people in air shows like the one this weekend at Naval Air ...

Blue Angels Arrive in Fort Worth - Fort Worth Star Telegram | The US Navy Blue Angels precision flight team arrives at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base. F/A-18 Hornets of the US Navy Blue Angels precision flight team taxi in from the runway. A crew member indicates to the pilot how much farther to ...

USN Blue Angels 2011 Schedule

Aerobatic flier will perform feats at weekend's Wings Over Wayne - Goldsboro News Argus | Rob Holland, aerobatic flier, runs through tricks including loops, rolls and hammerheads. Holland will perform at Wings Over Wayne 2011. Reporter Gary Popp, left, takes a test flight with aerobatic flying instructor Rob Holland. ...

RAF top guns heading to Lowestoft - Norwich Evening News | The world famous Red Arrows will be flying over Lowestoft this summer, it has been confirmed. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address below. The message will include the name and email address you gave us when you ...

80 years with the Patrouille d'Etampes from Passion pour l'aviation | The airfield Essonne Etampes-Mondesir, "first military aerodrome in history" will host next Saturday, May 14 an aviation event in order to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the creation of the Etampes Patrol ... first aerobatic team to have been founded in 1931 and in 1953 will take the name of the Patrouille de France. ...

Crowd figures up for Avalon 2011 - Australian Aviation | The Australian International Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Exposition has reported on a successful 2011 event, with airshow CEO Ian Honnery citing significant increases in crowd figures and aircraft participants. “Total attendances across the full ...

Flight Feast at Friedrichshafen! from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | The Aero Friedrichshafen Global Show for General Aviation, Europe's largest GA trade show, once more surprised and delighted attendees with new planes, innovative designs, and a lot of just plain cool stuff!

Collier-Award Winning X2 Technology™ Demonstrator to be on Display at AAAA Annual Forum and Expo from AVIATION-NEWS | The award-winning X2 Technology™ demonstrator will be on static display at the Army Aviation Association of America (AAAA) Annual Professional Forum and Exposition April 18-20 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel & Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn. It is the first time Sikorsky Aircraft is showing the aircraft at the military trade show. Sikorsky is a [...] Related posts:Technology demonstrator at international Aero-Expo in Friedrichshafen, Germany Sikorsky X2 Technology™ Demonstrator Wins Prestigious Robert J. Collier Trophy Boeing to Develop, Fly ‘Phantom Ray’ Technology Demonstrator ...

Sneak Preview: EAA Warbirds in Review 2011 from www.airventure.org | It's been a decade since Warbirds in Review presentations first appeared at AirVenture Oshkosh and each year since the featured aircraft and pilots have grown stronger. WIR Chairperson Connie Bowlin provided a quick preview this week of what we can expect to see this summer. ...

Alameda and the Doolittle Raid - Alameda Sun | The Naval Air Station had completed its role in this incredible mission and the aviation heritage of Alameda was soon to be enshrined forever in American lore. This Saturday, April 16, the USS Hornet Museum will commemorate the 69th anniversary of this ...
   
Surviving raiders pay respects to fallen Lincoln comrades - Lincoln Journal Star | The five remaining members of the Doolittle Raiders smile at a comment by one of the Joyce brothers regarding past reunions they attended with their father, Lt. Richard Joyce, who was one of the 16 pilots of the B-25 bombers who attacked targets in ...

Heroic B-17 Flight by Pacific Aviation Museum  | A mid-air collision on February 1, 1943 between a B-17 and a German fighter over the Tunis dock area became the subject of one of the most famous photographs of World War II.  An enemy fighter attacking a 97th Bomb Group formation went out of control, probably with a wounded pilot then continued its crashing descent into the rear of the fuselage of a Fortress named All American, piloted by Lt. Kendrick R. Bragg, of the 414th Bomb Squadron.  When it struck, the fighter broke apart, but left some pieces in the B-17.  The left horizontal stabilizer of the Fortress and left elevator were completely torn away. ...

Aviation Heritage speaker series continues - Santa Rosa Press Democrat | The Cloverdale Historical Society's “America's Aviation Heritage” Speaker Series continues Tuesday evening at the Cloverdale History Center, 215 N. Cloverdale Blvd. Special guest Daniel L. Bunting, who worked with his father, a US Army Colonel, ...

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