USAF Museum Series: Part 12 - A Mile Of Runway | I thought it would be best to separate these photos from the ones I posted the other day. Yes, they're all from the same visit to the Restoration Hangars at the USAF Museum. However, these two aircraft are so special that I believe they deserve their own post. The Swoose is the only B-17D remaining in existence...
Air show boosts local economy - WAVY | HAMPTON, Va. -- For the Lowery family of Maryland, AirPower Over Hampton Roads means more than a quick vacation and amazing acrobatics in the sky. "We came down to the air show at Langley because our daughter flew in on a B-52...
Flooding hits Smyrna, but air show goes on - Murfreesboro Post | While one end of Smyrna Airport was filled last weekend with spectators witnessing the thrills of the state’s largest air show, the other end of the historic former Air Force base was filled with flood waters from the over-flowing Stewart Creek...
Historic aircraft, ‘bomb drop’ to highlight Terre Haute International Airport open house - Tribstar | The ride may be noisy and mildly smelly, and the quarters a bit close, but the thrill of taking a ride in a World War II B-25 bomber will be a highlight of the open house at Terre Haute International Airport on Saturday...
2011 MT Air Show Guide Now Available Online - Milcom | I am pleased to announce the public release of our 12th annual 2011 Monitoring Times Air Show Guide, now available on the Monitoring Times magazine website. You can get your copy by...
All eyes above for superb display - Fraser Coast | Australia -- ALL eyes looked to the skies above Maryborough over the weekend as the Wings, Warbirds and Wheels event flew into town. Organisers said more than 5000 spectators attended and more than 70 pilots brought all manner of aircraft to the Heritage City for the two-day event...
Amelia Earhart's Visit to Grosse Pointe - GrossPointePatch | On July 21st, 1932, Amelia Earhart was invited to christen a new line of automobiles produced by the Hudson Motor Company. Amelia Earhart is the most famous aviatrix since the advent of the airplane...
He flew with Jimmy Stewart in WW II - War Tales | “Jimmy Stewart was just one of the guys after we got to know him,” Jim Myers said. The Englewood, Fla. aviator flew with the movie star in a B-24 Liberator bomber during World War II. “Jimmy became our squadron commander early in the war when we were back in the states, and I became the squadron bombardier,” Myers said. “I flew 13 missions with him.”...Scholarships awarded - GA News | This year as part of the annual “Green Skills for Life” competition, the San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDASM) and Ford Motor Company Fund asked San Diego County students the following question: What is one change or action you think you and others could do in your everyday lives in order to make the world a greener place?...
Human-Powered Helicopter- The Gamera - Web Aviation | A team of 52 graduate students of the University of Maryland has successfully flown their human-powered helicopter called the Gamera this week Thursday. The project was started in a bid to set an aviation 'first', a world record, and to win the $ 250 000 Sikorsky Challenge...
Atomic- , Vacuum- , & Solar-Powered Dirigibles with Built-in Airports--Bits of a Bad Historic Future - Ptak Science | A post ("Nuclear Everything") over at Dark Roasted Blend that featured a magnificent and stodgy atomic-powered zeppelin pushed me into this short visual note on differentially-powered airships, and then in general about airships with airports on them. (There's a whole other category for planes-of-tomorrow that were so enormous that they had landing strips on their wings, but that's another story)...VIDEO: Buzz Aldrin Talks Future Space Goals - Spaceports | Dr. Buzz Aldrin talks of the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's speech to the Congress May 25, 1961 as a political launch pad to advance space politics to lead to a permanent settlement on Mars by 2035...
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