A sky-high tour of Hub - Attleboro Sun Chronicle | John Klatt and pilot Bill Kerns, back plane, fly over downtown Boston Tuesday with Jessica Kosowski, The Sun Chronicle's assistant managing editor for news for a preview of this weekend's Rhode Island Air Show presented by the Air National Guard. ...
Armed Forces Week: Red Arrows to fly over Edinburgh skyline for first time in ... - stv.tv | The Red Arrows will perform above the Edinburgh skyline for the first time in 23 years. The display on Friday evening is part of a weekend of celebrations to mark Armed Forces Week that will see Prince Charles ...
First air show in a decade deemed success - Stoney Creek News | The crowd was particularly impressed with the heavy bombers including the Avro Lancaster, B-25 and two B- 17s along with the rare spectacle of eight Harvards flying together and the aerobatics of Bill Carter in his Pitts Special. ...
First air show in a decade deemed success - Stoney Creek News | The crowd was particularly impressed with the heavy bombers including the Avro Lancaster, B-25 and two B- 17s along with the rare spectacle of eight Harvards flying together and the aerobatics of Bill Carter in his Pitts Special. ...
Plymouth Hoe Air Show grounded after funfair refused - Plymouth Herald | THIS year's Plymouth Air Show has been called off after the city council refused permission for a funfair, which provides vital finance for the event, to take place on the Hoe. The council said it had a duty to ensure the health and safety of events ...
Who Cares About the Paris Air Show? from AirSpace by The Cranky Flier | When you think of air shows, you probably think of a warm summer day, some cool flying demonstrations to show off military might, and a few static displays of airplanes to walk through. That’s the core of any air show, but for the premier airshows...
Air Race Classic Delayed by The Racing Aces | Pilots, Dianna Stanger of Port Lavaca, Texas and Victoria Holt of Belton Texas, The Racing Aces, were due to begin their journey in the 2011 Air Race Classic on Tuesday, June 21st. The 4-day air race began in 1929 with the First Women’s Air Derby, the oldest women’s race in the country. However due to forecast weather the race was delayed until Wednesday, June 22. The start of the race has also been moved to the Alliance Municipal Airport (KAIA) in Alliance, Nebraska. Teams may depart at 12:00 pm from KAIA…
Rawlins marks fourth stop in women's air race - Casper Star-Tribune Online | RAWLINS — Continuing the history of a 34-year-old, all-women's airplane race, the Rawlins Municipal Airport has been selected as a timing point for the 2011 Air Race Classic, which is being held this week. "The important thing is that it's for women," ...
One Last Dance - an Anniversary Story > Vintage Wings of Canada from http://www.vintagewings.ca/ Fifty-one years ago, I was standing on the tarmac outside the hangar at RCAF Station Centralia, Ontario where I was completing my initial pilot training on the de Havilland Chipmunk. Suddenly a huge, noisy, smelly, bright yellow, flame belching aeroplane…
Tornado derails train with Boeing 737 fuselages | Boeing and ... from Boeing - Google Blog Search by Aubrey Cohen | The incident, near Hamilton, Neb., damaged at least one of the fuselages, according to the report. Spirit AeroSystems assembles the fuselages in Wichita and sends them by train to Renton, where Boeing assembles 737s. ...
Voodoo Voodoo — an F-101 2-fer in Florida from Travel for Aircraft | I recall vividly from my youth when I first learned about McDonnell’s F-101 Voodoo. I was reading about reconnaissance aircraft, the ones that purposefully fly over their targets at very low altitudes and very fast, and it was a story of an RF-101 mission that quickly caught my eye…
Burt Rutan on SS1 flight anniversary from RLV and Space Transport News | Alan Boyle talks with Burt Rutan on the seventh anniversary of the first SpaceShipOne flight to space: Private-sector space age turns 7 - Cosmic Log.
George and Archie: Two Misty Names in Making Everything Into Nothing. Hiroshima, 1945. from Ptak Science Books by John F. Ptak | The names of Col. Paul Tibbets and the Enola Gay are instantly recognizable, instantly placeable in the history of the twentieth century. Fact is though that Tibbets didn't pilot his (well, Capt. Robert A. Lewis')1 B-29 all the way to Hiroshima and back, and wasn't at the controls when the bomb was released. Tibbets (also known as "Old Bull") shared some of the tactically flawless mission with his co-pilot Capt. Lewis, and also with George. Well, its actually "George", the personified names for the autopilot of the aircraft, and I guess on the long road to splitting the atom it doesn't matter much who did what at the final moments, especially if you were on the ground in Hiroshima…
English Electric Canberra – decals and warning placards as art! from Shortfinals's Blog | In the immediate post-WW2 era, the United Kingdom was in a terrible situation. Severe damage to various cities, no foreign currency reserves, a worn-out infrastructure, and initially, food rationing more strict even than that imposed during the war (even bread was rationed, for a while) . It would seem that Britain had helped to win the war, but had lost the peace. Hundreds of thousands of service personnel were ‘de-mobbed’ (left the Service), and the Royal Air Force bomber fleet was reduced by 1950 to only five, long-range, heavy bomber squadrons of Avro Lincolns (a development of the famous Lancaster)…
The height of economy - the DH Fox Moth by shortfinals | Sometimes you see an aircraft and do a double-take. Visually the machine is so unusual that you figuratively scratch your head. The first sight of a De Havilland DH83 Fox Moth will do that to you! This aircraft is an absolute wonder of economy and efficiency; it is true to say that if not for the Second World War, many more would have been built. In March 1932, the prototype DH 83 Fox Moth, designed by A. E. Hagg, took to the air…
Statue of Gen. Chennault has new home in Monroe - Monroe News Star | Chennault is revered for leading the Flying Tigers in China during World War II. He received at least 17 medals during the war. Chennault called Monroe home after World War II and even bought burial plots for his family at a Monroe cemetery, ...
Europeans Plan to Launch Prototype Wingless, Reusable Spaceship By 2013 - Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle The IXV will return to Earth as if from a low-orbit mission, to test and qualify new reentry technologies such as advanced ceramic and ablative thermal protection. It will be controlled by thrusters and aerodynamic flaps before descending by parachute and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. ESA The European Space Agency announced plans today to launch a privately built snub-nosed space bullet, which sort of resembles a wingless, truncated space shuttle, within the next two years. Thales Alenia Space, builder of several International Space Station components and many European satellites, is manufacturing the spacecraft…
Episode 152 – Become a Pilot from Airplane Geeks Podcast by thegeeks@airplanegeeks.com (Airplane Geeks) We join Milford and Charlie from FlightTime Radio for a live broadcast from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center for the seventh annual Become a Pilot Family Day and Fly-In.
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