5th Annual Indianapolis Air Show Offers High Flying Fun - FunCityFinder | Raise your eyes to the sky for some high flying excitement at the 15th Annual Indianapolis Air Show May 13 to 15, 2011. The Blue Angels, one of the most sought after performance teams in the United States, headline this Indianapolis event. Plus, Friday May 13 is Monte Carlo Night at the Indianapolis Air Show, offering charity gambling, a silent auction, live music and good times all for a good cause...
Amherst woman to fly with Blue Angels - New Era Progress | A science teacher and researcher from Amherst County is thrilled that she has been chosen to fly with the Navy’s Blue Angels when the team arrives in Lynchburg this month...
Tricolour Arrows Venegono Here's how to enjoy the show - La Provincia | The event, lasting about half an hour from 10.45 to 12.30, will be held at the airport are Inferiore, will take part in the Tricolour Arrows aerobatic aircraft and aircraft of the Finmeccanica Group...
Meet the Snowbirds next week - Northumberland | COBOURG -- How does a chance to meet with Canada's aeronautical aces on May 18 sound? Harry Knapper of the Air Force Association of Canada 401 (R. L. Edwards) Wing says they are sponsoring a visit with several members of the world-famous Snowbirds group in order that local fans can enjoy a free meet-and- greet...
VIDEO: GRAND CANYON FLIGHT - Short Final | Jetman, Yves Rossy, flew across the Grand Canyon over the weekend amidst turbulence from it's sharp corners and steep walls. This was his first flight in the US and once the FAA approved his flight he set off in the helicopter to achieve his goal. Enjoy!
Journey's end - Journal Press | The horse-drawn caisson bearing Staff Sgt. Rip Winkler’s casket enters Arlington National Cemetery the morning of May 5, 2011, after a 9 a.m. service at Old Post Chapel at Fort Myer, Arlington. Winkler’s B-25 crashed in the jungles of the Phillipines in April 1945, and his sister, Mickey Beard, spent decades searching for her brother’s remains. More than 60 years after his death Rip Winkler was laid to rest with a full honors military funeral...
Veterans to be looked after in style at Shoreham airshow - Shoreham Herald UK | MEN and women who risked their lives fighting for their country have been invited to apply for a place in this year’s Shoreham Airshow Veterans Area. Every year, organisers have a special marquee where veterans can watch the show in comfort...
VIDEO: EA-6B Prowler - You like airplanes, too? | 9 minutes of awesome low-level flying from the cockpit of one of my favorite airplanes of all time: the Grumman EA-6B Prowler. Great video.
School Daze - Airline Pilot Forum | I didn't take these, they were scanned from 8x10 color glossies the Navy gave me for some long forgotten reason. 1979-80 as a student in lovely Kingsville, Texas, recently rediscovered in the archives while looking for something else in the stately bullet riddled jungle manor doublewide...VIDEO: Video: Alaska Taildraggin' At The 2011 Valdez Fly-In - Martt | Ok, it's true that you'll see a few trikes in this video, but c'mon, the sweetest STOL performers drag their tails! This past weekend was the Valdez (Alaska) May Day Fly-In & Air Show and once again they had a pretty exciting short takeoff and landing competition. It's the good ole pioneering spirit of America mixed in with pure avgeek fun!...
PODCAST: WIX Warbird Weekly LIVE! – Wednesday – 8pm (EASTERN) - Warbird Radio | Join the guys this week for an all new episode of WIX Warbird Weekly LIVE. Ryan and Zane will be broadcasting LIVE tonight at 8pm (EASTERN) right here on Warbird Radio.com. For more information on WIX (The Warbird Information Exchange) just click on the QUICK LINK posted below this story. Thanks for listening!
Skagit Aero's Blog: Upcoming Fly-Ins - Antique Airfield | With summer around the corner, we are busily preparing for fly-in season here in Concrete. In addition to the five fly-ins that will be happening here, we are also making plans to fly some of our airplanes to some of the other great fly-ins around the pacific northwest (and beyond)...Firebird: Proof that MALE sizes matter? - The DEW Line | The appearance of the Northrop Grumman Firebird, which was spotted on The DEW Line last Tuesday and identified as Firebird by Aviation Week on Thursday, raises many thoughts...
Indianapolis Flight Training in Redbird Full Motion Simulator at Indianapolis Executive Airport - Montgomery Aviation | Eagle Flyers at Indianapolis Executive Airport installed it's Redbird Full Motion Simulator (FMS) yesterday...
Why I want to Fly: Lydia Westi - Flight To Success | Lydia was one of our finalists in the Why I Want to Fly essay contest, and is a very special young lady living in Ghana. If her story and essay doesn't pull your heart string, I'm not sure what will. Compassion, motivation and the love of flight... Lydia has it all, including the smile...
Virgin Galactic ramps up SpaceShipTwo testing - NewSpace Journal | For some time, a long pause in glide tests of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo raised questions about the progress the company was making, in partnership with Scaled Composites, on development of suborbital spacecraft. After a January 13th glide test, the fourth overall for the vehicle, more than three months elapsed without another...Sled Ride - Surrounded By Air | It's happened to every glider pilot: the day looks promising, but the tow is eerily smooth, and you can't find any lift even after trying every house thermal and other trick you know. You enter the pattern and land. "I got shot down," you say, or "I needed a relight."...
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