'Extremely rare' planes coming to JWA - OCRegister | Included in the Wings of Freedom Tour, which is appearing at the Lyon Air Museum, is the B-17 "Flying Fortress," one of only 11 such aircraft in flying condition in the United States, according to promoters. The B-17 "Flying Fortress" will be among the ...
World War II Planes and Pilots Share Experiences at Palomar Airport - Patch.com | On display, through were the B-17 and B-24 bombers and a P-51 Mustang fighter. There were no shortage of veterans at Palomar Airport to tell their amazing stories and experiences. Ed Davidson, of La Jolla, recounted his WW II experiences as a pilot of ...
It's not a bird. It's not a plane. It's JetMan in a Grand Canyon flyover! - USA TODAY | If the red rock splendor of the Grand Canyon alone isn't enough to knock your socks off, you might want to high-tail it over there on May 6 when Yves Rossy -- aka JetMan -- straps on a wing powered by four jet engines and jumps out of a helicopter for his own bird's-eye flyover of the rugged chasm. ...
Timeless Voices - Robin "Bob" Webb from eaavideo.org | Bob Webb joined the Royal Air Force in 1943 and spent the next 14 years as an engineer/mechanic. In 1957 he joined the British Overseas Airways Corporation as a flight engineer, finishing the last 8 years of his 26-year career on the Concorde.
He attacked the Yamato, world’s biggest battleship from War Tales | It was Ensign Woody Lindskog’s lucky day. The Navy pilot was plucked from Wasile Bay off Halmahera Island in the South Pacific by an Army Air Corps Catalina flying boat, right under the nose of a Japanese gun emplacement and thousands of enemy troops after his Hellcat fighter was hit by an antiaircraft flak and [...]
Herman 'Rex' Reheis - AugustaGazette.com | He then went through flight training and piloted a B-25 low-level strafer-bomber called “Seabiscuit” during 11 months of campaigns in the South Pacific in the 500th Bomb Squadron, rising to Captain. After the end of World War II, he served in the Air ...
WWII veterans honored with DC trip - Richmond-News | A World War II veteran from New Richmond was honored for his service to the country during a special trip Saturday. A World War II veteran from New Richmond was honored for his service to the country during a special trip Saturday. ...
100-year-old Jacksonville man says do what you love, and adventure will follow - Jacksonville.com | ... In 1927, he was 17, too young for the Army Air Corps. No problem: He lied about his age. He was too skinny, too. So the recruiter gave him 50 cents and told him to buy as many bananas as he could. Brown stuffed the bananas in him, one after the other, then was weighed again. Heavy enough this time. ...
Shirley grandfather aims to break wing walk record - Birmingham Mail | The grandfather from Shirley, who already holds the world record for the oldest person to do the loop-the-loop and the oldest person to wing walk across the English Channel, is about to undertake his greatest adventure yet. Daredevil Tom, who is due to ...
The Boeing Archives PART 3b: Interview With Boeing Historian Michael Lombardi from Airline Reporter | This is the second part to my interview with Boeing Historian Michael Lombardi. Here is the continuation of our exclusive interview: ...
Aviation Museum Faces Another Roadblock in Lease Arrangement - Patch.com | The Horsham Land Reuse Authority hopes to sign the lease at its May 18 meeting; meanwhile residents request that an airport study be undertaken. By Theresa Katalinas | Email the author | 6:00am As the military clears off the 1100-acre base, ...
Poplar Grove air museum gears up for additions - Rockford Register Star | Bob Grist, 77, of Chicago laughs as his friend Bill Gwozdz, 67, of Berwyn toys with his camera during their visit Tuesday, May 3, 2011, to the Vintage Wings & Wheels Museum in Poplar Grove. By Betsy Lopez POPLAR GROVE — The Vintage Wings & Wheels ...
Yorkshire Air Museum to play host to the Battlegroup North and Military Wheels ... - The Press, York | HUNDREDS of historic military vehicles from across Britain will be helping draw the crowds to the Yorkshire Air Museum this weekend. The museum, at Elvington, near York, will play host to the Battlegroup North and Military Wheels And ...
World’s largest (model) airport opens in Hamburg (Daily Mail) from Boeing and Aerospace News | Knuffingen Airport only cost around $5 million and took six years to build and yet is the world’s largest airport. OK, model airport. Knuffingen, based on Hamburg’s airport, just opened to the public at Miniatur Wunderland, in Hamburg. The airport features 40 aircraft that take off, land and taxi, with jetways that pull up to [...]
After 100 years, Goodyear ditches blimps for zeppelins [Planelopnik] from Jalopnik | After building blimps for almost 100 years, Goodyear's teaming up with Ze Germans and canning their three blips for a fleet of Teutonic zeppelins set to go into operation in 2013. The zeppelins will be longer, fly faster, and hold more people. None of which will help make it anything but a more novel way of providing a stadium shot before football and baseball telecasts go to commercial. ...
More than 130 local events now part of EAA’s International Learn to Fly Day - Planenews | EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis.: More than 130 events will help dreams of flight become a reality for tens of thousands of future aviators during the second annual International Learn to Fly Day on Saturday, May 21. International Learn to Fly Day is an aviation community-wide effort helping people of all ages take that first step to ...
Warren girl gets to be Pilot for a Day - Vindy.com | Eleven-year-old Ashley Moorhead offered an apt description after the turbo-prop engines of the huge C-130 Hercules aircraft fired up. “It was real loud. We had to wear earplugs,” said an excited Ashley after being named Pilot for a Day on Wednesday at the 910th Airlift Wing at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station. ...
Air Force: F-22 Raptor pulls out of air show - Shreveport Times | The Air Force's cutting-edge fight aircraft, which was to have been the start of the 2011 Barksdale Air Force base "Defenders of Liberty" air show and open house, will not be able to make it to the show this year, the Air Force said today. ...
BREAKING: USAF orders F-22 fleet stand-down from The DEW Line | Got a tip today that all F-22s have been parked. Air Combat Command confirmed a few minutes ago, and our news article is posted here and is excerpted below. ...
Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Honored at 50th Anniversary Celebration of Freedom 7 Flight from Spaceports | The Golden Anniversary of the flight of the first American in space was commemorated with a special ceremony at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Complex 5/6 blockhouse near NASA's Kennedy Space Center. That's where, on May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., began his historic, 15-minute mission aboard his Freedom 7 capsule. ...
Last combat veteran of WW1, Claude Choules, dies agd 110 from Military Photos | The world's last known combat veteran of World War I, Claude Choules, has died in Australia aged 110. Known to his comrades as Chuckles, British-born Mr Choules joined the Royal Navy at 15 and went on to serve on HMS Revenge. ...
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