A WW2 pilot takes one last ride on the last B-29 bomber still flying. – WFAA | Please take a moment to review the available e-mail newsletters has to offer. Place a checkbox next to the newsletters you wish to subscribe to. Thank you for becoming a member of wfaa.com. You now have full access to the best local coverage and late ...
Making Good on a Deal - On Sunday, I went to the Battle Creek Field of Flight Airshow and Balloon Festival 
in the more traditional sense. I spent Friday and Saturday at Hangar 1 on the field, embedded with The Hoppers, a civilian L-39 jet team, setting up cameras, offloading video, and riding on a couple of hops in the back seat. Sunday was about hanging out with the crowd and touching base with that element of the airshow experience…Pictures From The 2011 New York City Blimp Race - For the first time in 25 years, a fleet of blimps darted across the Manhattan skyline in the Great Blimp Race of 2011. Perhaps darted is too strong – maybe ...
A 98000-pound challenge planned at Pease - Seacoastonline.com | Proceeds from the plane pull will benefit the Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire and its work with US military members who are now living with traumatic brain injuries. According to Ron Snow, director of marketing and development at the Brain ...
Motat's aviation display hall has more action on the 'wings' – Voxy | New Zealand's largest clear span wooden structure is steadily taking form at MOTAT, with the new $15 million Aviation Display Hall set for completion in time for the anticipated influx of domestic and international visitors in September. ...
Taking flight in Estherville - Estherville Daily News | Jones said he was looking for a T-6 or a Stearman (an open biplane) when he discovered his T-6 in a museum in Galveston, Texas. "It was just sitting in the corner for sale," he said. The interior of the plane wasn't as nice as the museum wanted to ...
Terrafugia Transition aircraft gets DOT roadworthiness sign-off, can now drive you to the airport from Engadget by Zach Honig | For most experimental aircraft, earning an airworthiness certificate is enough of a challenge. But the Terrafugia Transition is a unique type of flying machine, requiring approval not only from the FAA, but also from the USDOT's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), since this air / land hybrid is likely to spend just as much time cruising down the highway as it will flying 5,000 feet above…Airshow pilot Seamus McCaughley and passenger killed in Santa Paula, California plane crash. from Velozia Air by Fernando Montalvo | A small, single-engine plane crashed soon after takeoff from Santa Paula Airport (SZP) in Santa Paula, California yesterday (July 3rd) at approximately 8:25 PM PDT. Well-known pilot Seamus “James” McCaughley and passenger Kristin Keppel were both killed when the Cessna 180 Skywagon they were flying in went down. Santa Paula is northwest of Los Angeles…
Final Flight of Robert H. Widmer from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Final Flight of Robert H. Widmer Many thanks to the New York Times newspaper which published this obituary notice of Richard H. Widmer, a man who was one of the most significant persons in this country’s (the USA’s) aviation history. Mr. Widmer worked originally for Consolidated and stayed with them through the acquisition of that [...]
30 years of Space Shuttle missions from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick
NASA's space shuttle leaves wildly diverse legacy - The Tennessean | That suggests that the 30 years of reusable shuttles was a diversion from the natural evolution of rocketry, said Howard McCurdy, author of several books on NASA. It may be an anomaly, but astronauts call it an engineering marvel in versatility and ...
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