Female aviators defy reported odds - Clarkville Online | Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan - When Chief Warrant Officer 4 Trudy Truax arrived at her first unit as an OH-58A pilot in 1996, her commander refused her orders. “I’ve had my own battalion commanders not speak to me,” Truax said. Truax was one of the first females to join the community of Cobra, Apache and Kiowa pilots after then-President Bill Clinton lifted the restrictions that kept women from flying the traditionally combat-focused rotary-wing birds...
Lovers of planes, cars savor inaugural fly-in - Gainesville | Standing at about 4 feet tall, 9-year-old Anthony Bishop-Gylys hopped aboard a Blackhawk helicopter Saturday morning. "Planes are really cool, especially the pilot's seat," said Gylys, playing with the dials on the control panel...
Annual Corsicana Airsho - Corsicana, TX - Fun Places To Fly | (Saturday, May 14, 2011) Waivered air show. B-17 Texas Raiders B-25 Devil Dog P-51 Mustang Tora! group O-2 2 aerobatic acts Blue Skies Parachute Team 2 formation-flying clubs 2 RC aircraft clubs. 9:30 AM - 4 PM. 5/person or 10/carload veterans, AD military personnel and their families admitted free. Bring lawn chairs and cameras!
Cannes Airshow Catches The 162 Skycatcher - Aero-News.net | Demonstration Flights Will Be Available - Cessna's LSA will be on display at the Cannes AirShow this summer. Authorized Cessna sales rep Aeromecanic has just announced a European exclusive, with the first C162 Skycatcher presented at its display, along with a C182, a C172 and a Corvalis TT...
Dream Cruise, Air Show to be linked - Daily Tribune | Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel and Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson hope to jointly promote this year’s Selfridge Air Show and Woodward Dream Cruise as the “Wings and Wheels Weekend,” making it one of the most heavily attended combined entertainment events in Michigan history...
VIDEO: Texas Flying Legends Museum - Saint Barths Airshow 2011 - Cockpit Cameras - YouTube | Come fly with the Texas Flying Legends Museum as they do low passes over the St Barths airport and SY Marie at the 2011 St Barths Bucket Regetta. Pilots are: Warren Pietsch - P-40K, Robert Odegaard - FG-1D and Casey Odegaard - P-51D.
VIDEO: Flying the U-2 - Pilots Of America | Some of this I knew but the video is great. This video is truly amazing. Make sure you view it full screen...
SPACEX AIMS TO PUT MAN ON MARS IN 10-20 YEARS - Discovery News | Private US company SpaceX hopes to put an astronaut on Mars within 10 to 20 years, the head of the firm said. "We'll probably put a first man in space in about three years," Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal Saturday. "We're going all the way to Mars, I think... best case 10 years, worst case 15 to 20 years."...
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