Base getting ready for air show crowds - Hilton Head Island Packet | Though the number of visitors through the gates of Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort may spike dramatically during this week's air show, the plan for protecting the base and its multi-million dollar fighter jets will remain basically ...
Reviving a Ghost from Florida's Premier Airpark - Leeward Air Ranch | A Sport Aviation Community in Ocala, Florida - Magazine Article "I'll give Tiger Destefani $10,000 cash if he'll climb back into Strega and let me race him in The Galloping Ghost”…
Aerobatics pilots to fight it out above Duxford - Cambridge First | Pilots will be fighting it out in the skies above Duxford to win the inaugural Queen's Air Race Challenge Cup. 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 ...80 Ill. WWII veterans to lift off on Honor Flight - Bloomington Pantagraph | Thorp was a B-17 Flying Fortress co-pilot. On his 18th mission over Germany in August 1944, the plane was shot down. “We were trying to get back on two engines,” he said. Thorp was grabbed out of the North Sea by German fishermen and sent to the Stalag ...
The Wedell Story – From Barnstorming to Setting Records from All Things Aviation by JetAviator7 | Born in the year 1900, three years before the Wright brothers had launched the Wright Flyer; James Robert Wedell was to grow into a worthy contemporary. Starting with resources that can only be called below zero or negative, this man one day owned the largest number of individual flying records and was a partner in [...] Enda gets a birthday fly-past as nation honours lofty ideals - Irish Independent | Our Taoiseach got the GPO, the President, a parade of Army, Navy and Air Corps personnel, and even a fly-past of his very own by a quartet of jets. For as serendipity would have it, the annual 1916 Easter Rising Commemoration ceremony fell on Enda's ...
Pioneer Flight Muesum Air Fair May 7th - LotusTalk - The Lotus ... by fastfred | Greetings Lotus Lovers and Petrol Heads, Pioneer Flight Museum is having their annual Air Fair on Saturday, May 7th. This is a WW1 museum that...
Miles M38 Messenger from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | Having nothing much to do today, I was out at the club helping with a bit of painting... just before we finished, a Miles Messenger pulled up which was being parked up for the evening. Unfortunately with weather issues, this is the closest I came to the Classic Fighters 2011 airshow...!
History of Aircraft Markings from Warbird Central - WWII Historical Aircraft Information Website | U.S. Naval Aircraft Marking Aircraft of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps have carried distinguishing markings almost from...Young Eagle flights last week from Pilots of America Message Board by Diana | We had the privilege of taking over 30 eager, enthusiastic kids for airplane rides last week. These kids completed reading all 20 books in this year's Mark Twain Reading Program, and an airplane ride is part of their reward for reading all the books and making book reports. We combine this with the Young Eagles Program and it works out really well. These are 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. This is a project that is near and dear to my heart, and taking these kids (they are really GOOD kids) is a joy and a delight. :)
Monday Motivation: Dream from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you... the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." Harriet Tubman - Enjoy the Journey! ~ Karlene
Today in Aviation History – April 25 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal
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