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Thunderbirds perform special show for Make-A-Wish guests - Goldsboro News Argus | The idea to invite children associated with Make-A-Wish for a pre-air show thrill came, in part, from a member of the 4th Fighter Wing leadership team who has seen, firsthand, the kind of impact the experience can have -- both on the crowd and those ...

Leap of Faith - Goldsboro News Argus | Golden Knights Jumper Joe Abeln and News-Argus Chief Photographer Michael Betts give a thumbs-up during their tandem sky dive Friday. It was my only response after United States Army Golden Knight Joe Abeln finished his final ...

Fans Flock To Thunder In Spite Of Inclement Weather - WLKY Louisville | Ideal conditions were scarce Saturday, but diehard Thunder Over Louisville fans were not disappointed. Fewer people came out this year, but despite the weather, fans said it was worth the experience. People filled the Great Lawn, bundled under tarps ...

Images: Thunder Over Louisville Air Show - Photos - WLKY Louisville

Violet Cowden dies at 94; civilian WASP aviator during World War II - Los Angeles Times | She flew 19 different types of aircraft, logging enough miles with the Women Airforce Service Pilots to have flown around the world 55 times by her estimate. She was the subject of a documentary film, 'Wings of Silver.' By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles ...

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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.

The 2011 Air Race Classic Gets Ready to Roll from Flight Monkeys | It all started in 1929, when women elbowed their way into the air racing game as participants by introducing the Women’s Air Derby. That proud heritage is still alive today in the form of the Air Race Classic. With ten legs that cover more than two-thousand miles, the ARC begins this June in Iowa City, and runs for four days along a zig-zag route that passes through Brookings, South Dakota, Jamestown, North Dakota, Spearfish, South Dakota, Rawlins, Wyoming, Alliance, Nebraska, Great Bend, Kansas, Borger, Texas, Norman, Oklahoma, and then El Dorado, Arkansas, before wrapping it all up in Mobile, Alabama. ...

Acro Camp Debrief with Don Weaver and Barry Sutton  - Acro Camp | After the props stopped turning for the last flights of Acro Camp, I took Michelle Kole back to Detroit Metro for her flight back to California. While I was gone, DP Will Hawkins sat down instructor pilots Don Weaver and Barry Sutton to debrief after five days and 41 sorties. ...

100 years ago, flight came to the Sydney Airport site from Plane Talking | JJ Hammond flying at Ascot Racecourse in April 1911: Courtesy Mitchell Library NSW  | It was 100 years ago today, on April 18, 1911,  that powered flight came to the site of the future Sydney Airport.  Captain Joseph Joel Hammond, a New Zealander, flew a Bristol box-kite biplane on a flight that lasted less than 10 minutes.  Thousands of paying spectators crowded what was then the Ascot Racecourse to see one man in a flying contraption  fly a course of about 10 kilometres. ...

Reichley: Doolittle's raid a (nearly) forgotten piece of history - Leavenworth Times | “Later in history, on April 18, 1942, the Doolittle Raiders took off from the presidentially named Shangri-La on their historic raid on Tokyo.” The professor smiled and said both were what he was thinking of. Then a young woman, a Leavenworth High ...

Rare Curtiss P-40C Tomahawk first flight! from Aviation News - Airplane-Pictures.net | A very rare Curtiss P-40C Tomahawk took off on its first test flight April 17 test piloted by John Lamont. Further test flying over the next few days before it will...

Jerri Mock Returns Home from J Clark | Today, 47 years ago, Jerri Mock returned from her trip. It was a special trip and she was no passenger. She was the pilot. And the only one onboard her 1953 Cessna 180 she named the “Spirit of Columbus.”
Oh, by the way, what made her trip so special was the fact that it was the first solo circumnavigation of the globe by a woman aviator. ...

1949 Sydney Morning Herald DC3 Newspaper plane from PPRuNe Forums | The Sydney Morning Herald had two Lockheed Hudsons and two DC3 freighters based at Camden, NSW, Australia. They conducted air drops of newspapers at various towns and drop zones. This picture is of the groundstaff and one pilot (4th from the left) Bill Selwyn -former Wellington pilot WW2 -later a Qantas B707 captain.  ...

Hearts of Courage” Survival Of A Plane Crash In The Alaska Wilderness - AvStop Aviation News | “Suddenly, the left engine lost power, sputtered and quit! With the ice and only one engine, we started losing altitude quite fast, 3000 or 4000 feet in just a couple of minutes. The pilot, Harold Gillam, picked up the ...

Long Nose Lincoln comes to strife from PPRuNe Forums | Shortly after touch down at Darwin, the No 1 engine throttle linkage broke and the engine went to full power. The aircraft swung off the runway and the pilot had just got it under control when one wheel hit an unmarked drainage ditch. This was the result. The aircraft was a write-off. Circa 1953.  ...

Today in Aviation History – April 17 from CRUFC

Omro students, principal building airplane - Oshkosh Northwestern | A half dozen students, members of the school's Flying Foxes Aviation Club, along with technical expertise provided by principal Bret Steffen, have started to build a single engine, two seat, open cockpit airplane called a Pober Junior Ace. ...

9-Year-Old Prepares For Solo Balloon Flight - The Ledger | Bobby Bradley is ready. He has been training for about five years and learned from some of the most experienced and decorated pilots in the sport of ballooning.
   
This Week in Space History: Early space pioneer Crossfield busts Mach 2 - Alamogordo Daily News | "This became the model that Burt Rutan would follow when he designed his own space program" and built the SpaceShipOne. Crossfield "flew the X-15 many times to the edge of space," said the Civil Air Patrol webpage capmembers.com. ...