Friday, July 8, 2011

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Pilot could ditch Fat Albert flight for son's birth - Pensacola News Journal | He has been with the Blue Angels since 2008 and flies Fat Albert, the team's C-130 Hercules support aircraft. » Flight hours: Jorge has flown more than 300 combat hours and 2800 flight hours. No, that wasn't a scheduled intermission during the Blue ...

Garfield County Air Show Preview - KJCT8.com | In fact, Tippin is a professional pilot and will be flying a Commemorative Air Force B-25 Medium Bomber in the show. Tippin says he enjoys mixing up country music and vintage aircraft. "So I'm getting the opportunity to do some shows out here and ...

   
To Air is human - Glenwood Springs Post Independent | No, it's the Rifle Airport 2011 Air Show! For the first time in two years, the air show at the Garfield County Regional Airport in Rifle is back and bigger then ever. It's also the first year the show will include music as well as air-related ...

Air show plans ready for flight - StarPhoenix | The air show will be held for the first time at the Saskatoon Auto Clearing Motor Speedway on Aug. 6 and 7 and will be renamed the Cameco Canada Remembers International Festival for Heroes. ...

Smoke Squadron starts project to celebrate 60 years of existence from CavokBlog | GUARDIAN ANGEL IN APPLYING ADHESIVE COMMEMORATIVE T-27 The Smoke Squadron began in June, the project commemorating 60 years of its creation, to be celebrated on May 14, 2012. To mark this important date, many attractions are planned for the realization of a great party aircraft.
The main aerial demonstration squadron will be officially invited the world and contact with Halcones (Acrobatics Chilean High Squadron) is well advanced. The team studies the Smoke break a new record for ...

Go Fly America returns from General Aviation News | The "Great American Fly In" or "Go Fly America Challenge" has returned. The concept is simple: ...

The Big Sky Air Race - Helena Independent Record | The Big Sky Air Race, a sanctioned event by Sport Air Racing League, will be held today and Saturday. The open course starts and ends at Three Forks. The event includes a fly-in, with food, music and lots of events for everyone to enjoy. ...

Luck Be a Lady, Part I By Jasmine Gordon | ... Our team, the Racing Aces, Dianna Stanger and Victoria Holt, had arrived a couple of days in advance in preparation for the 2011 Air Race Classic! Upon arrival their plane was inspected; they performed their handicap flight and the plane was quarantined. They were not allowed to even touch the plane until the start of the race which would not be for four more days! ...

GA pilot to make historic flight through China from General Aviation News | Despite mother nature, mechanical difficulties and the constant pressure of flying into unknown skies, a man is about to make history as the first Chinese citizen to fly around the world in a single-engine plane. Wei Chen, founder and owner of Sunshine Enterprises, a company with offices in China and Memphis, is flying his TBM 700 around the world, including his landmark flight across China. ...

Preserving the Miami Valley’s rich aviation past at the WACO Museum in Troy - Dayton City Newspaper | Longtime Dayton residents, along with any individual who’s ever visited this area, can vouch for the Miami Valley’s much-deserved longtime love affair with its historic aviation ...
   
WARBIRDS: de Havilland DH112 Venom FB 4 born again - Australian Flying | Trevor Bland, New Zealand Warbirds Association founding president and patron, flew Venoms in Singapore with 14 Squadron and remembers it as a “potent warplane due to its capacity to carry a couple of thousand-pound bombs, rockets and cannon”. ...

Electric Aircraft Outbreak, Speed Or Distance from AVweb Top News | The past few weeks have seen two high marks set for electric flight -- one in distance and one in speed -- but not at the same time. The eGenius is a two-seat motor glider with a wingspan greater just over 55-feet adapted for electric flight bya team from the University of Stuttgart. It was modified with a 

Westbound I-10 Blue from Travel for Aircraft | ... The Skyhawk was a remarkable and compact aircraft — one of the few, if not only, USN carrier aircraft which did not have folding surfaces for storage on the hangar deck. It was a nimble one as well. The Blue Angels flew the F-4 Phantom II prior to the A-4 and they were fast movers but the Skyhawk was more of a ...

Uhlig column: WWII glider restoration project will end with dedication ceremony - Wausau Daily Herald | Between 2005 and 2009, Cohen and other aviation buffs from the area helped restore a real Waco glider. / Keith Uhlig/Wausau Daily Herald The mostly restored fuselage of the Waco CG-4A was loaded on a flatbed trailer in November 2009 for transport to ...

Spitfire and high fliers - Sheffield Telegraph | FROM the Spitfire flypast on opening night through to the flag-waving Last Night at the Proms finale, Sheffield's Music in the Gardens struck all the right notes for the thousands who flocked to the Botanical Gardens on four successive evenings last ...

Kidding around - MiamiHerald.com | HistoryMiami and Wings Over Miami Air Museum host a day of exploring a new exhibit, 'Aviation in Miami: The First 100 Years,' from noon-5 pm Saturday. Enjoy a family fun day and learn how the aviation industry has influenced Miami and continues to be a ...

July 8 – This Day In Aviation History from Aviation Earth | In 1838… Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin is born in Baden, Germany. The first large-scale builder and pioneer of rigid dirigible balloons, Zeppelin made his first balloon ascent while serving as a volunteer and observer for the Union Army in America’s Civil War. (OTM) In 1908… Thérése Peltier becomes the first woman to ascend in an [...]

FilmOn.com Launches Space Program with NASA HD from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | LOS ANGELES, July 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- FilmOn.com Inc., (http://www.FilmOn.com/), the first and largest internet-based high-definition television service, announced today that the much publicized final Space Shuttle Launch will be carried on its Web and Mobile Based IPTV platform for free on the ...


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