Wednesday, May 11, 2011

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Disabled American Veterans Brings Message to AirPower Over Hampton Roads by DAV Flight Team | Langley AFB, VA – Disabled American Veterans (DAV) brings its message of service and volunteerism in support of our nation’s combat-wounded men and women to the AirPower Over Hampton Roads at Langley Air Force Base on May 13-15.  More than sixty-five years ago, sixteen B-25 Mitchell bombers launched off an aircraft carrier to conduct the famed Doolittle Raid over Japan. The mission proved to be one of the most ...

B-25s of the MTO's 12th, 310th, 319th, 321st, 340th Bomb Groups, European-African-Middle Eastern (EAME) Campaign from 57thbombwing.com | Welcome to the 57th Bomb Wing Website!  | Started in 2005, some 60 years after the end of WWII, this web site is designed to understand and research those of us who were involved in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations: 1942-1945. Click on the patches to the left for details on the 12th, 310th, 319th, 321st and 340th 12th Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell Bombardment Groups.

Tuskegee Airmen set tone for movie from General Aviation News | A movie, “Rise Above,” in now being filmed in Cleveland, Ohio, by Hemlock Films for use in a mobile theater that will tour the country 42 weeks a year, using the story of the Tuskegee Airmen to inspire today’s youth, according to a blog at Cleveland.com. The movie features Col.…

P-38 Newsletter - P-38assn | Hi all, Just a quick note to thank everyone who has been sending in those nice emails about our "P‑38 Newsletter." It takes a lot of teamwork to pull it together, and we are most appreciative of all your positive feedback.  Now...on with this edition!
the Ryan FR-1 Fireball, circa 1945 (via the San Diego Air &... from x planes

Aviation buffs to learn about WWII aircraft dismantling - The Republic | NASHVILLE, Ind. — Aviator and historian Robert Kelly's presentation on the US military's destroying thousands of its perfectly good warplanes at the close of WWII is the focus of the Bald Eagles upcoming ...

Aviation museum hosts dedication - Kansas.com | The Kansas Aviation Museum will hold an open house and dedication of its new Aircraft Restoration Center on Thursday. The facility was made possible by Spirit AeroSystems' donation of 15 acres of land to the museum in February, ...

Video: Bush Pilot Competition – How Slow Can You Go? from Autopia | The crowd at the Valdez Fly-In begins to rumble as pilot Josh Pepperd approaches a set of cones and a white line on the pavement in front of them. Flying slower and slower, the nose on his highly modified blue and silver Piper rises higher and higher. With a final few bursts of power, the crowd is cheering louder until Pepperd crosses the white line, pulls back his throttle and drops the final few feet to the pavement. ...

Valdez Fly-in competition results - Alaska Dispatch | The 2011 Valdez May Day Fly-In “Short Field Take Off and Landing” (STOL) competition was all pilot proficiency and slow-flying techniques. As for the dominating aircraft, the Piper Super Cubs participating in the May 7 STOL events were all about flying ...

From AIRBOYD.TV
Sikorsky VS300A Helicopter – Henry Ford Museum (1943)
Low Altitude Bombing Run – Operation Oyster (1942)

You’ve probably seen that ONE video of the S-3 Viking... from You like airplanes, too? | You’ve probably seen that ONE video of the S-3 Viking doing a day trap— here’s one you probably haven’t seen!

Credible Sport from The Unwanted Blog | Located on the grounds of the Museum of Aviation near Robins Air Force Base in Georgia is one of the YMC-130H Credible Sport testbeds. Credible Sport was, to put it mildly, one of the sportier variants of the C-130. Intended specifically for a rescue mission of the American hostages held by the Iranians, Credible Sport was designed for near VTOL operations, to land and take off within the confines of a soccer stadium. In order to do this, the aircraft was ...

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