Golden Knights 8-Way Wins The World Cup! from US Army Golden Knights by Laura Dickmeyer | If you have been following the GK-8 over the past week, you know they have been competing against the top 8-Way Formation Skydiving teams from around the world. Yesterday, that exciting competition ended with the GK-8 taking home Gold at the 2011 Parachuting World Cup, Saarlouis, Germany. Weather prevented the completion of the tenth round [...]Camarillo air show to be held Aug. 20-21 - Ventura County Star | P-38s will rumble over the city again as Wings Over Camarillo, a new nonprofit organization at the airport, hosts an air show Aug. 20-21. "The P-38 organization will hold a reunion at the air show this year," said Pat Brown, public information officer ...
Storms Prompt Changes At Air & Water Show - WISN Milwaukee | "We do (aviation and weather) briefings each day of the air show with the performers," Rogers said. With the Thunderbirds the main attraction, organizers said they were ready to move the schedule around to make sure the crowd would leave happy. ...
Storms Prompt Changes At Air & Water Show - WISN Milwaukee | "We do (aviation and weather) briefings each day of the air show with the performers," Rogers said. With the Thunderbirds the main attraction, organizers said they were ready to move the schedule around to make sure the crowd would leave happy. ...
Summer events: Fargo hosts Navy, AirSho - In-Forum | “We booked some of the best acts in the air show industry,” he said. “We actually have people calling us to be in our air show.” Just a few of the acts that will be at the two-day family event include the US Navy Blue Angels, historic warbird ...
Whoosh! Blue Angels buzz Mercer Island - KING5.com | by jeanneem68094170 The picture doesn't do justice to the awe and majesty of these birds. And the car alarms went wild ... To add a comment, please register or login. We welcome your comments on this story's topic. Off-topic comments, personal attacks, ...
'We do it for the Veterans' – StarPhoenix | The Cameco Canada Remembers air show didn't happen last year, but it came back in a scaled-down form at the Auto Clearing Motor Speedway, which hosted the event on Saturday and Sunday. The event honours Canadian veterans of war. ...
Aviation Enthusiasts Flock to Annual Palmer Air Fair - KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska | It's been a deadly year for Alaska pilots, but Saturday they kicked off the third annual Palmer Air Fair with just one thing in mind: safety. "We started with an idea three years ago that with all the fatalities and the near misses and ...
Ride The Farmers Airship (Zeppelin NT) In Indy - August 12-14 by Martt | I got these pictures of the Farmers Airship at Oshkosh just over a week ago. Not only did this thoroughly modern Zeppelin NT airship look great in the skies over world's greatest aviation event, but they were selling rides in it too! It was part of the Farmers Airship Covering Communities Tour - a six-month journey taking the world’s largest airship across the United States and back. And the next stop? Indianapolis, Indiana for rides on August 12-14 at Indianapolis Regional Airport (KMQJ) - formerly Mount Comfort Airport…
Spitfire treasure retrieved from Donegal bog from History News Network by pbutehorn | The tail wheel of a WWII Spitfire has finally made it home to the runway it took off from 70 years ago. In 1941 an American RAF pilot was returning to base after an afternoon sortie when he had to jettison from his Spitfire as its engines failed. The pilot landed safely, just 13 miles from his intended destination - RAF Eglinton, now City of Derry airport. His spitfire crashed into the peat bog of the Inishowen peninsula, County Donegal, and remained there until earlier this summer....
RNZAF Squadron Leader Leonard H. Trent and his Victoria Cross Mission from Tails Through Time by JP Santiago | With the drums of war building in Europe in 1939, the Royal Air Force asked Lockheed for a twin-engine bomber to be used for anti-submarine and coastal patrols. Based on the RAF's own experience with the Hudson which was based on the Lockheed 14 Electra airliner, Lockheed offered a bomber version of the Model 18 Lodestar transport as the Ventura…
Rattlesnake Bomber museum slithers up the road - Odessa American | The rest areas, which will be located along the east and westbound lanes of the interstate, will be designed to look like the Rattlesnake Bomber Base, which was used for training flights for B-17 and B-29 bombers in World War II. ...
Wright Flyer Sculpture by Larry Godwin, Wright-Patterson AFB from Travel for Aircraft | We are fortunate to have artists. They make thought or emotion provoking images or sculptures as well as creating moments that were not — or could not — be captured by camera. One of these moments has been preserved in sculpture by Larry Godwin of Brundidge AL, where he has a large shop. Mr. Godwin’s web site unfortunately does not have information on his past works or even his bio although, and fortunately, that material is found on the The Brown House Living web site. Mr Godwin’s sculpture of the Wright Brothers and their 1905 Flyer, sometimes called the Wright Flyer III or Flyer B or C…
Tightrope walker fails to set record between two hot air balloons from PhotoBlog by Katie Cannon | Saimaiti Aishan, a 27-year-old Uighur tightrope-walking acrobat, hangs onto a 15-meter-long tightrope connected between two hot air balloons as he fails in an attempt for setting a 100-meter height record in Langshan, Hunan province Aug. 6. Aishan, the nephew of Adili Wuxor, who is known as "Prince of the Tightrope", is the first person to perform tightrope walking between two hot air balloons. He set a national tightrope walking record at 30 meters high on Saturday, but failed in his attempt of 100 meters, local media reported. Picture received Aug. 7…
Today in Aviation History – August 8 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal
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