Six racing jets grounded at National Championship Air Races - RGJ | Six racing jets won’t be flying in the National Championship Air Races this week but some of the pilots involved will be flying substitute aircraft. Phil Fogg Sr., a pilot with the races, said safety concerns have grounded five L-29 racing jets and one L-39 jet. The concerns ...
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Air Races 2011 – Day 1 from aroundthepattern.com | Monday unlimited qualification results The first few days of the races are qualification days. The various classes of racers are given course time. If 
the race team thinks they are ready the pilot signals to the timer that they want to begin a qualification run. Three laps are timed and the results recorded. The qualification times determine whether the plane ...
The Photo that Started It - Moose Peterson's Website | June 2009 was an exciting month for me. I was at my first Pylon Race Seminar shooting one of the most exciting subjects to rip through my viewfinder. The D3 was pretty new then, I was the only one shooting with it at the time. Panning is something that I’ve been doing for a long time. All of this in combination with the ...
Murray High graduate realizes Blue Angels dream - Salt Lake Tribune | Since he joined the Navy, Benjamin Hernandez had entertained the idea of being part of the Blue Angels, the Navy's elite flying team. Next month, he'll get that chance, after the Murray native was chosen as a medical specialist, ...
Videos: Performances Wow at California Capital Airshow - Patch.com | The California Capital Airshow showcased a wide range of aircraft, from historic warbirds to modern-day fighter jets and stunt planes. Watch the above videos to get a taste of what attendees experienced. Interested in a follow-up to ...
Skip Stewart's ribbon-cut at the Kirksville Airshow - Moving Target Photography
Fly-In And Car Show Is Sunday At Simsbury Airport - Hartford Courant | The 26 t h annual Simsbury Fly-in and Car Show will be held Sunday, Sept. 18, from 8 am to 3 pm at Simsbury Airport, 94 Wolcott Road. The event will feature displays of more than 600 airplanes and cars, a flyover by an Air Force C-5 cargo jet, ...
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Portage's Air Zoo to unveil big expansion in October - Detroit Free Press | It will also expand areas devoted to women in aviation, space artifacts, and World War II aircraft. Air Zoo is a popular family destination just east of Kalamazoo. It features rides, amazing flight simulators and some of the best old aircraft in the ...
Aviators Lost: Brown, Skelton, Robertson from AVweb Top News | The aviation community recently lost three accomplished pilots -- an actor, an aerobatics competitor, and a test pilot. Cliff Robertson, best known for his film career, died on September 10 at age 88. He started flying at age 14 and owned several airplanes. He served as the first chairman of the EAA Young Eagles program when it launched in 1992. He also funded a program that offered summer internships to youth at the EAA
Aviation Center. Betty Skelton, who won the international women's aerobatic championship three times, died on August 31 at age 85. And Mort Brown, who logged over 14,000 first flights as head of flight testing at Cessna, died on September 10 at age 103. US Navy wants to replace F-35s from Military Photos | Six months after the U.S. Navy’s first full size combat UAV made its first flight, the U.S. Navy leadership has ordered naval aviation leaders to examine the possibility of reducing orders for the new F-35B and F-35C, and use that money to buy the new X-47B, and similar robotic combat aircraft. That move was probably ...
A picture perfect "thank you" by Randy Tinseth | The certification of the 787 and the 747-8
Freighter involved the hard work of thousands of Boeing employees. But two of those employees know better than anyone how those airplanes handle in the sky. It’s not often that you see 787 Chief Pilot Mike Carriker and 747 Chief Pilot Mark Feuerstein together. That’s ...Young Eagles Flight Rally scheduled for Sept. 17 - Cresco Times Plain Dealer | Area youth, ages 8-17, will have a chance to take to the skies that day, as Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 33 hosts a Young Eagles Flight Rally at Ellen Church Field in Cresco. The rally is part of the EAA Young Eagles Program, ...
Video: Apollo 12: Proof that lightning really does strike twice from The Original Rocket Dungeon | In the latest issue of Apogee's Peak of Flight Newletter, Issue # 295, author Bart Henin describes how two ...
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