Now THIS is a cross country from Life on the Road as a Pilot | http://twitter.com/theracingaces | On Sunday I left for my major trip to promote Girls With Wings in conjunction with the Racing Aces and 
the Air Race Classic. We had originally planned to leave Monday, but a little heads up from the other racers that the weather was going go downhill rapidly this week caused us to depart a day early. I had been ...
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Racing Aces flying high again: Belton woman part of 2011 Air Race Classic team - Temple Daily Telegram | On Tuesday, 50 teams of women with their heads in the clouds and their hearts in the cockpit will take off on a cross country air race. Victoria Holt, who accounts for half of the Racing Aces team, is from Belton. The 2011 Air Race Classic "covers about 2,400 nautical miles. It starts from Iowa City and goes northwest to the Dakotas and Wyoming and then ...
Mobile pilots take part in 35th Air Race Classic - al.com | The 35th annual air race for women pilots begins June 21 in Iowa City, Iowa, and Amelia “Mimi” Reiheld and Linda Keller will make up Team Number 6, the “Azalea City Avgals.” ...
Girls from Boys & Girls Clubs of South Alabama partner with Air Race Classic ... - Press-Register - al.com | In a culminating event, an educational youth activity will be held at the USS Alabama Battleship and Air Museum on June 25. The 55 girls who took part in the program will receive a “goodie bag” with aviation information and other items to commemorate ...
Paris Panorama: U.S. Military Aircraft Corral from Defense Tech | Check out this panorama I made of the U.S. military aircraft on display at this year’s Paris Air Show. From right to left you’ll clearly see a C-130J Super Hercules, an F-16C out of Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany, an F-15E Strike Eagle, a new Marine Corps UH-1Y Venom and a C-5 Galaxy. And no, it’s not a U.S. bird but I had to capture Airbus’ A400M Grizzly airlfter (with the A380 behind it). ...
Paris 2011: USAF Extends Life of Lockheed Martin U-2 as Northop Grumman Defends Global Hawk’s Failed Evaluation by Chris Pocock | The U.S. Air Force is adding new sensors to the Lockheed Martin U-2 Dragon Lady and postponing retirement of the veteran spyplane, after the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk UAV failed an operational test and evaluation (OT&E). Meanwhile, Northrop Grumman has mounted a stout defense of ...
Plane crash dampens air show excitement - ABC Online | A plane crash at the Barraba Air Show yesterday has put the pilot in hospital. Just after mid-day the Bi-plane impacted the ground heavily upon landing, causing it to nose dive and run off the run way. The male pilot was retrieved and treated by ...
Looking Good in Luzon! by The GYROX Team | Preparations for the resumption of the circumnavigation attempt continue apace in the Philippines and we can now give you an update on Norman’s activities over the last couple of weeks. ...
Greater Kansas City Vintage Fly-in - GardnerEDGE | The Greater Kansas City Vintage Fly-in will be held Friday - Saturday, Jun 24-25, 2011 at the Gardner Municipal Airport. Old fashioned Vintage Aircraft Fly-in. Camping allowed on the field, cookout Friday night for early arrivals, Breakfast and lunch ...
Sequim man to ride in B-17 — same plane his father died in during WWII - Peninsula Daily | David Upham of Sequim will be given the opportunity to ride in a B-17 bomber aircraft when it arrives in Port Angeles today for the Wings of Freedom tour. -- Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News THE WINGS OF Freedom tour brings three restored ...
Appeal to honour woman aviator - Kent Online | He said; “Everyone knows the names of English aviator Amy Johnson and American Amelia Earhart, yet very few have heard of Harriet Quimby's pioneering achievement, we want to put that right. “I have already spoken to sculptor Martin Jennings, ...
China’s Museum Honoring the Flying Tigers and other Aviators of Sino-Japanese Conflict in the 1940s - samandimp | The Chinese press does not always highlight the contribution of US aviators and aircraft to their success against the Japanese during the early 1940s. An example is an article that describes the two year old Aviation Martyr Memorial Museum in Nanjing. But it is a start. The undeniable fact is that the Flying Tigers were American Pilots; their planes were made in the US and that money aside, there was interest in helping the Chinese. ...
The Last of the Few — book review - Travel for Aircraft | I enjoyed and learned from the newest book by oral historian Max Arthur regarding the fighter pilots who were in the Royal Air Force (RAF) fighting what came to be known as the Battle of Britain. This is the battle, won by Britain and lost by Germany, was fought from July through October in 1940. ...
A high-flying father-and-son act - TheNewsTribune.com | Aviator Bud Granley, left, talks things over with his son Ross during their aerobatic performance Sunday at the Olympic Air Show in Tumwater. Bud, 74, and Ross, 47 are both retired Canadian military pilots who now live in the United States. ...
'Barefoot Bandit' Pleads Guilty, Movie Expected from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Colton Harris-Moore, age 20, pleaded guilty last week to federal charges related to his two-year crime spree, during which he stole four airplanes and a boat, and now a movie about his exploits is in the works -- with profits to go to his victims. Harris-Moore, known as the "Barefoot Bandit," was arrested in the ...
F-35: Stealth Fighter Jet of Discerning Hipsters from Danger Room | ... Lockheed Martin wants to remind you. Just in time for the Paris Air Show, it rolled out a new website for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter family of jets on Monday. The first thing that bombards you when you load it: ...
Take to the Sky with Breitling Reno Air Races for iOS - IGN | San Francisco, USA & Paris, France - Breitling, one of the major sponsors of National Championship Air Races in Reno and a manufacturer of several high-tech watches, has announced the availability of a FREE flight-oriented game for iPad and iPhone devices called Breitling Reno Air Races. Based on a real life racing event that is set to take place from September 14-18 in Reno, Nevada this year, Breitling Reno Air Races puts players right into the thick of the action. ...
Space center hosting summer camps - The Downey Patriot | Campers will explore the space sciences of robotics, aerodynamics, rocketry and careers in space. At the end of each camp, kids will fly a simulated mission to the moon in the Challenger Learning Center. ...
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