Blue Angels to soar above Lincoln - Omaha World-Herald | LINCOLN — It's been five years since the famed Navy aerobatic team the Blue Angels dazzled tens of thousands of spectators in the skies above the Lincoln Airport. On Sept. 10 and 11, the blue-and-yellow F/A-18 Hornets will return to the capital to ...The sky's the limit at Waukegan Air Show - Lake Forester | Flights of fancy and more will be the order of the day when the Waukegan Air Show returns to Waukegan Regional Airport Saturday. Planes old and new will be in the air and on the ground. ...
Showdown on the Plains to be filled with aerobatics, delectable BBQ - Liberal Southwest Daily Times | Numerous vintage and experimental aircraft will be on display – including rides for purchase in Commemorative Air Force airplanes - as well as various motorcycles and classic cars. A delicious barbeque lunch will be prepared by Fifth Street BBQ ...
"Thunder of Niagara" features strongman – WIVB | NIAGARA FALLS, NY (WIVB) - The "Thunder of Niagara" air show comes to the Falls this weekend. But on Tuesday at the Niagara Falls Airbase, an airplane was propelled by human strength. Mark Krisch of Strongman Entertainment will be one of the performers ...
Sick children get private air show at Hill – StandardNet | The kids, who all have some kind of life-threatening illness, joined 421st Fighter Squadron members for breakfast, received personal flight suits, helmet bags and dog tags, flew in an F-16 flight simulator and attended a private F-16 air show performed ...A Match for Men in the Skies - Wall Street Journal | Patty Wagstaff, a champion US aerobatic flier, said Ms. Skelton was an inspiration to generations of women pilots. "She was really gorgeous and a really attractive 'girly girl,' but could sit down and talk about breaking a land-speed record or flying a ...
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Aviation film producer to receive award for Breaking Through the Clouds from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The National Aviation Hall of Fame will present an award and $20,000 cash prize to filmmaker Heather Taylor, of Columbia, Md., for her documentary about a 1929 race between female pilots flying from Santa Monica, Calif., to Cleveland, Ohio. The aviation hall, based in the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, said Tuesday it will present its Combs Gates Award to Taylor on Oct. 11 at the National Business Aviation Association’s annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nev. The award is given in recognition of aviation history research and preservation efforts…
Episode 163 – Bits and Pieces VII from Airplane Geeks Podcast by thegeeks@airplanegeeks.com (Airplane Geeks) The Geeks take the week off in celebration of the Labor Day holiday, so instead of our normal format, we bring you these segments: Rob Mark speaks with Louis Smith from FltOps.com about the hiring outlook for pilots. Louis was our guest back in Episode 102, Outlook for Professional Pilots. Rob Mark caught up with him at the Regional Airline Pilot Job Fair in Chicago. David Vanderhoof provided some interviews from AirVenture 2011 at Oshkosh: Jonathan Hartman on the Firefly all-electric technology demonstration helicopter from Sikorsky, Dave Walsh, program Test Director for the Sikorsky X-2 record-breaking helicopter, Kevin Bredenbeck, Chief Pilot and director of flight operations at Sikorsky, and Audrey Schnur from Marketing Communications at GE Aviation (@GEaviation) about GE’s use of social media and their presence at Oshkosh. Also, at the Pax River show, David talked with S-3B Viking pilot Lieutenant John McElroy, who brought in one of three flying…
Boeing 40 and DC-2 Formation at Paine Field from Antique Airfield News …pictures taken by Liz Matzelle at the Historic Flight museum during the wonderful "vintage airplane weekend" hosted by the very kind and generous John Sessions at Paine Field north of Seattle. As you can see I had the good fortune to fly formation with Clay Lacy in his DC-2 with the Boeing 40 which show these to historic aircraft in their true element… 
A historic landing for an old aircraft - The Warner Robins Patriot | The maintenance crew along with the flight crew signed the panel of the aircraft inscribing their names in Aviation history. The plane will eventually be displayed next to the c-141 air lifter at the Museum of Aviation. According to John Jr. its a ...The Search for A-12 Article #125 from Roadrunners of Groom Lake by TD Barnes, President Roadrunners Internationale | A-12 (60-6928 / 125) was lost on 5 January 1967 during a training sortie flown from Groom Lake. Its pilot, Walter L. Ray became the first CIA pilot killed in the line of duty and is so honored in the "Book of Honor", CIA Headquarters in McLean, Va. …
Huey Insertion — full scale diorama from Travel for Aircraft | SSGT Howard C. Breedlove photographed a hilltop insertion of troops on 24 April 1967. These photographs — taken during Operation Oregon and about 3km west of Duc Pho, Vietnam — give us an intimate view during the hilltop landing of one of the squads belonging to Rifle Platoon B, 1st Squadron, 9th Air Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division — and became one iconic images that now symbolize the Vietnam War. Crossed sabers on the Huey’s nose denote the Air Cavalry and this diorama shows what helicopters do best, landing where no one else can quickly go…What’s foxy and French, and a ‘Friend’ of Sally B? The Fennec from Shortfinals's Blog by shortfinals | ‘Sally B and Friends’ at the Imperial War Museum’s Duxford Airfield in Cambridgeshire on July 31st was a thunderous success. There was the thunder of heavy piston engines, with several unique formations flying by (B-17, DC-3, Beech 18, Beech Staggerwing, for example) and thunderous applause from the crowd for everything from the aerobatic displays to the period music. I was delighted to be there, and I can confidently state despite the fact that it was billed as ‘not a flying display’, that I have attended flying displays that had less flying (especially warbirds), and much less in the way of ‘ground entertainment’ including period vehicles, re-enactors in uniform and music of the WW2 era…
PICTURES: Will Concorde come back to life in time for 2012 Olympics from Alltop | A successful attempt to bring a British Airways Concorde "back to life" in time for the London Olympics has been thwarted by health and safety concerns. A group of Concorde enthusiasts - Heritage Concorde - has for several months been carrying out repairs to the cockpit windows and visor of G-BOAC at Manchester Airport's Runway Visitor Park, its home since 2003…
Today in Aviation History – September 7 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal
New Composite Airbus Approaching Final Assembly from Autopia by Jason Paur | Several large composite pieces for the new Airbus passenger jet have been delivered over the past month as the airplane maker prepares for assembly of the first A350XWB. The new airplane is expected to make its first flight some time next year and is a competitor against Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner. Both the A350XWB and 787 feature significant use of composites. But each company chose very different ways to incorporate the materials into the airframe…
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