Wednesday, June 29, 2011

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Waddington air show set for take-off - Sleaford Today | One of this year's star attractions at Waddington Air Show, the USAF Thunderbirds display team. CELEBRITY maths boffin Carol Vorderman will be one of the star attractions in a new RAF On Air multi-media area at the RAF Waddington Air Show on Sunday. ...
   
RAF Woodvale set for birthday spectacle - Southport Visiter | AEROBATIC displays, fireworks and a Spitfire will entertain crowds when RAF Woodvale opens its doors to the public this Sunday (July 3). Fun, games and lots of planes will be on offer for families to enjoy as the station celebrates its 70th anniversary ...

Vaulting Championship of France 2011 - Aviation Enthusiast | Aerodrome Darois Dijon-France hosts the championship aerobatic  Monday June 27 to Sunday, July 3.  The French Federation of Aerospace , the Aero Club of the Gold Coast in partnership with InnovAero and Dijon Vaulting are the organizers of the Championnat de France aerobatic 2011. It will close Sunday, July 3, 2011 by a large air show for free. ...

Aircraft enthusiasts hope to fly history into the lake area - Lakenewsonline.com | With glory and acclaim surrounding the B-25's success in the Doolittle Raid, thousands of the B-25 bombers went into production filling the skies during World War II. Today, there are fewer than 100 still around, with only 20 operable. ...

Tuskegee Airman: 1944 from Shorpy Historic Photo Archive
   
WWII recruit was gunning for action - ReporterHerald.com | He flew 30 official missions as a waist gunner in a B-17 with the 340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomber Group of the 15th Air Force. Henry, born and raised in Rocky Ford, entered the Army shortly after he graduated from high school. ...

Pasco man plans to fly in B-17 for 1st time since 1944 - Mid Columbia Tri City Herald | Vincent DeLiso, 86, of Pasco recalls with vivid detail his experiences as a tail gunner on a B-17 bomber with the 303rd Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force in England during World War II. DeLiso was at the Tri-Cities ...

Strange world - BBC News | It was the beginning of one of the strangest incidents of WWII. The pilot was 23-year-old Roland "Bud" Wolfe, an RAF officer from 133 "Eagle" Squadron, a unit entirely composed of Americans. Bud himself was from Nebraska, one of a number of Americans ...

Nimrod aircraft in final flight - BBC News | The R1 model, used for reconnaissance and gathering electronic intelligence, made a flypast at RAF Waddington. Chief of the Air Staff Sir Stephen Dalton attended the retirement ceremony and there was also a parade. Three new Rivet-Joint aircraft will ...

The Concorde Of The Future: Paris To Japan In Just 2.5 Hours, Emissions Free - from Aviation Blogs | Biofuel-powered passenger aircraft are becoming more and more common. But what if you mashed that up with a rocket engine? That’s essentially what the Zero Emission Hypersonic Transport (Zehst) project by European defense manufacturer EADS is all about. Zehst could be the rocketplane that flies our kids around the world in the same [...]

Thousands of live WW2 rounds dug up in Donegal after 1941 Spitfire crash - thejournal.ie | THE ARMY BOMB disposal team has made safe six World War II era machine guns dug out of a bog in Co. Donegal. A large quantity of ammunition was also found at the site on the Inisowen Peninsula, the site of the crash of an RAF Spitfire. ...

AOPA president at Wichita Aero Club from General Aviation News | The Wichita Aero Club's July luncheon features Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) President Craig Fuller as the speaker.

“Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft being manufactured,... from x planes | From World War II: The Invasion of Poland and the Winter War, part 2 of a  ...

Astronauts Evacuate to Soyuz Spacecraft as Junk Nearly Hits International Space Station [Space] from Gizmodo | Astronauts on board the International Space Station had to rush into two docked Soyuz spaceships as space debris nearly missed their homebase, passing just 250 meters (820 feet) from it. In space, that's a pretty close call. ...

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