US Thunderbirds Make an Air Show in Graf Ignatievo - Standart News | The squadron performs aerobatic formation and solo flying in specially-marked USAF jet aircraft. The name is taken from the legendary creature that appears in the mythology of several indigenous North American cultures. The air show is dedicated to the ...
Elk Grove woman takes to the skies for three-day air race - Sacramento Bee | Elk Grove's Kristine Anthony and about 80 other women pilots landed in Mobile, Ala., Friday, completing a three-day air race across the Midwestern states. Female pilots are uncommon, so the annual Air Race Classic is a heady ...Cross Country Part II from Life on the Road as a Pilot by admin@girlswithwings.com (Lynda) In my last blog entry I talked about the cross country flying that I'm doing in conjunction with the Air Race Classic thanks to The Racing Aces, who have recently announced they have raised over $14,000 for Girls With Wings. Yeah, that's right. I cannot thank The Racing Aces - Dianna Stanger and Victoria Holt, for their amazing generosity, as well as…
US High School team wins Paris rocket contest - USA Today | USA, USA, USA.. well, folks are unlikely to start chanting in the streets over the news, but a US high school team took top honors Friday in a rocket contest at the Paris Air Show. The Rockwall-Heath High School from Heath, ...
Blue Angels pilot takes reporter on wild ride - Turn to 10.com | NBC 10's Parker Gavigan has the experience of a lifetime in an F-18 with a Blue Angels pilot. (more) By Parker Gavigan So here we are Wednesday on the tarmac at Quonset. I'm suited up and ready to get into an F-18 with a Blue Angels pilot. ...
Aces of the air - Edmonton Journal | Vintage Wings is a non-profit organization based in Gatineau, Que., dedicated to commemorating and revitalizing Canadian aviation history. In 2009, Vintage Wings had the Sabre repainted in Golden Hawks colours and sent it coast-to-coast to commemorate ...High-flying shows - Victoria Times Colonist | And each spring, summer and fall, you can catch a glimpse, take a whiff and hear a radial engine in full song during one of the extraordinary fly days held by the Heritage Flight Museum in Bellingham and the Flying Heritage Collection, a little further ...
Living the dream - Edmonton Journal | Its goal is to reacquaint Canadians with their aviation history. At each stop, spectators will gather and one of Hawk One's volunteer pilots, Dan Dempsey, Rob Mitchell or astronaut Chris Hadfield, will hoist kids into the cockpit. ...
World War II Bomber to Stay Put for an Extra Week – KVEW | Published Friday, June 24th, 2011 The B-25 Bomber that has called Walla Walla Airport home for the last week will stick around until June 30th. The historic World War II plane is part of a nationwide tour that has dropped down into Walla Walla. ...Wings of Freedom Tour brings vintage aircraft to Pasco - TheNewsTribune.com | Two of the aircraft are bombers, a B-17 Flying Fortress called "Nine O Nine" and a B-24 Liberator called "Witchcraft." The third is a fighter, a P-51 Mustang. The P-51 Mustang is one of the rare two-seaters, which will allow the pilot to fly a ...
Absent plane doesn't dampen spirit of annual air show - The Olympian | Last weekend's Olympic Air Show at Olympia Regional Airport in Tumwater got off to a rough start when the Sentimental Journey, a B-17, was grounded for a maintenance evaluation and couldn't make the show. The grounding was ordered in the wake of the ...
The Cold War heated up, 63 years ago today from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | On June 24th, 1948, Soviet occupying forces in Germany closed all land access routes to the Western sectors of Berlin, which was surrounded by the Soviet zone of occupation after World War II. The Berlin Blockade had begun. Within days, the Western Allies would begin an airlift to bring in the supplies the city needed. It would continue for an unprecedented fifteen months…AOPA head to speak at Aero Club - Bizjournals.com | Craig Fuller, president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, will be the speaker at the Wichita Aero Club's July luncheon. The event will be held July 12 at the Wichita Airport Hilton. Tickets for the luncheon cost $30 for Aero Club members ...
Wirraways from Vintage Aeroplane Writer by Vintage Aero Writer | Apart from the bone-domes and colour film it could be W.W.II. | Queensland and NSW based CAC Wirraways at Tocumwal, on the RAAF Pilgrimage this year.
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