P-40C Takes to the Air! - Another Time | News is circulating that another P-40C has flown! Special thanks go out to Colin Hunter for allowing me to post a picture of Rod Lewis's P-40C that is fresh from restoration at Avspecs Limited in New Zealand...
Fundraiser set for injured stunt flyers - Neosho Daily News | Neosho, Mo. — A fundraiser for a local couple seriously injured during an aerobatic routine at a Texas airshow last month has been set for May. The Neosho Franklin Fundraiser, a benefit for Kyle and Amanda Franklin, Neosho, is set for May 14 at the Neosho Hugh Robinson Airport. The event will include plane rides, a static display, a remote controlled plane display, children’s activities, live entertainment, food vendors and more...
Lindbergh Prize Goes To Pipistrel - AVweb | Pipistrel's Taurus Electro won the 2011 Lindbergh Electric Aircraft Prize for "best electric aircraft" at the Aero Friedrichshafen trade show last week in Germany. The prize, awarded by Erik Lindbergh's nonprofit group, recognized the Electro's "plug and play" electric power system, enhanced by solar panels on the...
1942: Cape airman among first to bomb Japan in WWII; 2007: Bee colonies collapse on Cape - Cape Cod Today | On this day in 1942, a Cape Codder was among 80 airmen to bomb Japan in the Doolittle Raid, the first US air attack on Japan in World War II. Coming less than five months after the devastating Japanese assault on the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Doolittle Raid, named for its commanding officer, James "Jimmy" Doolittle, caused little damage in Japan...
VIDEOS: World War II Plane Visiting Hillsboro - KXL | The B-17 Bomber, Liberty Belle, is offering flights out of Hillsboro Airport this weekend. The Flying Fortress costs $4,500 per hour to operate and would be scraped if people didn't take rides on her. You can schedule a flight this Saturday or Sunday at www.Libertyfoundation.org KXL's Mike Turner went up in the plane and shot this video...
VIDEO: Now this is flying…Texas Flying Legend’s Style! - Warbird Radio | Our friends at the Texas Flying Legends Museum certainly know how to put on a show… Take a look at this video from their recent airshow in St. Barths. Enjoy the video!
Female pilot marks Spitfire’s 75th anniversary - You Fly Girl | This news is from March 5, 2011. BBC: Female pilot marks Spitfire’s 75th anniversary
Carolyn Grace, 58, thought to be the world's only female Spitfire pilot, gave the public a view of her plane over Southampton Water earlier...
High flying pilot keeps her feet on the ground - You Fly Girl | Perhaps you’ve seen Doris Lockness driving her 1999 S-type Jaguar to the grocery store or maybe you’ve met her at the Senior Citizen Center in El Dorado Hills. If you’re an aviation enthusiast, you may know that Doris used to be a WASP (Women Air Force Service Pilots) in WWII delivering military aircraft from the factories to military bases nationwide, and a flight instructor...
Blog Archive » Kim Ewing (Georgia) - Ladies Love Taildraggers | I began flying in 2006, right after I graduated from high school. My aunt and uncle own and operate Bermuda High Soaring School in Lancaster, South Carolina and I learned how to fly in gliders with my uncle as my CFIG. After that, I was definitely “bitten by the bug”...
NASA Awards $269-Million in CCDev2: New US Capability to Fly Astronauts Developing - Spaceports | Boeing Co. garnered the largest of four NASA Space Act Agreement awards designed to nurture the development of commercially operated astronaut transport systems, landing a deal worth $92.3 million to refine the design of its CST-100 crew capsule, the U.S. space agency announced Monday, April 18, 2011...
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