A New Cool Blue Angel Website is Now Online from Milcom Monitoring Post | The Navy Blue Angel website has undergone an overhaul and the new version is simply awesome. The new website has a really incredible feature called Inside the Demo. The site has all the maneuvers that the team makes during an airshow, including the C-130 performance. ...
Photos - 2011 Blue Angels Team
Sights, sounds of an F-16 - Record-Searchlight | Kristin Hubbard of the Thunderbirds prepares to head back to Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas after a meeting with Redding Air Show officials. The team of six F-16s will headline the show Sept. ...
Homestead air show wins $7.5 million from Miami-Dade, hopes for federal aid too - MiamiHerald.com | Miami-Dade commissioners Tuesday approved spending $7.5 million to bring a commercial air show to the Homestead air base, but the hunt for public dollars continues. A delegation from Miami-Dade plans to lobby Washington lawmakers and ...
Tricolour Arrows, no restrictions on airspace - Turin News Today | Turin - To mark the presence in Turin of the Tricolour Arrows for the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, Thursday, May 5 from 13 to 14, will be put in place constraints on an airspace over the city to allow a test of .. .
Belgian Air Force returning to Royal International Tattoo | A dramatic tiger-painted aircraft from the Belgian Air Force will be among a number of striking aircraft heading for this summer’s Royal International Air Tattoo.
GUEST COLUMN: Connecting some historical dots - PNW Local News | The Liberty Foundation's 2011 Salute to Veterans tour will feature the Boeing B-17 “Liberty Belle” and the rare Curtiss P-40E “Warhawk” fighter aircraft. The B-17 flying fortress is particularly fascinating for a couple of reasons. ...
Wings of Freedom Tour at Ramona Airport - Ramona Journal | May 4 to 6, a display of the World War II vintage Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Nine O Nine,” Consolidated B-24 Liberator “Witchcraft” and a North American P-51 Mustang will be held at the Main Ramp of the airport, 2926 Montecito Road. The B-17 and B-24 ...
In pictures - BBC News | Imperial War Museum (IWM) Duxford celebrates the role of women in aviation at its spring air show on 22 May. Above, a WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) Intelligence officer works with colleagues at RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire, in 1940. ...
Edmonton aviation hero takes last high flight - iNews880.com | Cedric Mah will be remembered as an original member of the "Flying Tigers," a war hero, a northern bush pilot, and more recently, a dedicated supporter of Edmonton's Aviation Museum. He was 88. During WWII, Mah and his brother Albert broke the record ...
Battle of Britain is focus of presentation at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | Author and aviation artist Paul Jacobs will present "The Battle of Britain: Three Perspectives" at 7:30 p.m. on May 17 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. This presentation is based on research conducted to support Jacobs' book on the Battle of Britain, which took place during the summer of 1940 when the German Luftwaffe attempted to gain air superiority over the RAF as a prelude to Hitler's planned invasion of England. ...
Spitfire Prom relaunch set for firework finale - Sleaford Today | The World War two aircraft from the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will provide an aerobatic display over National Trust owned Belton House on Saturday, June 4. As the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra performs its opening overtures, ...
Hurricane-hunting turboprop touches down for tours on Cape - CapeCodOnline.com | If the Eastern Seaboard has a guardian angel, it might well be the aircraft with a 100-foot wingspan and Doppler radar tail parked on the tarmac at Air Station Cape Cod on Monday. The turboprop Lockheed Orion is one of three hurricane hunters operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and it touched down on Cape Cod as part of a NOAA hurricane awareness tour. ...
The Flying Heritage Collection from Airplanes Channel: | Located in a 51,000 square foot hangar at the southeast corner of Paine Field in Everett, Washington State, the Flying Heritage Collection offers visitors the opportunity to view an extraordinary collection of historic aircraft. Privately owned by American billionaire and philanthropist, Paul Gardner Allen, the collection highlights an era of great advances in aviation during the 1930s and 1940s and includes combat aircraft from World War II – a time when the boundaries of technology were pushed with a sense of urgency in a battle for dominance of the skies. ...
Learn about helicopters during Family Day at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | Learn and experience the wonders of the incredible and complex flying machine known as the helicopter during Family Day from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on May 21 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. ...
Goodyear and Zeppelin: Together Again, 70 Years Later from Airships: A Hindenburg and Zeppelin History Site | More than 70 years after the dissolution of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation the two companies are working together again. Beginning in January, 2014, the famous “Goodyear Blimp” won’t be a blimp at all, but a Zeppelin NT. ...
Unmanned Phantom Ray makes first flight - CNET | Boeing said today that its Phantom Ray unmanned aircraft has flown on its own for the first time. The prototype unmanned airborne system, which sports a striking flying-wing design, flew for 17 minutes on April 27, reaching a speed of 178 knots and an ...
Mystery Chopper? from The Unwanted Blog | An American helicopter crashed during the takedown of Osama bin Laden. The helicopter was then burned to prevent classified data from falling into enemy hands. Which seemed to me a little odd… what secret info would be on a helicopter during a mission like this? A few photos have been released showing parts of the wreckage… and I can’t identify the helicopter type. Seems that the helicopter was destroyed because it’s either an all new type, or an existing type, heavily modified. ...
VIDEO & PHOTO: F-22, F-35 in loose formation from The DEW Line | I could be wrong (and you'll no doubt feel free to correct me!), but I believe this is the first time that both stealth fighters have been photographed and filmed in formation. ...
Brooke Regier from Flight To Success | Brooke, an Aviation High School student, was tasked with writing an essay to help bring the Space Shuttle to The Seattle's Museum of Flight. Brooke's essay is one of many that received an award at the Seattle Chapter 99 meeting. While we all know that The Museum of Flight did not get the shuttle, we also know we got something much better: The simulator! ...
May 3, 2011 Lauren Jones, Aviatrix part 4 by Linda Street-Ely
ISDB students enjoy flights above Magic Valley - Twin Falls Times-News | After a few cancellations because of bad weather, 65 students from the Gooding school were finally able to buckle in and fly with volunteer pilots from Nampa, Idaho Falls and Pocatello as a part of the Experimental Aircraft Association's Young Eagles ...
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