Chabrian To Be Honored at Wright Brothers Memorial Gala from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | Dr. Peggy Chabrian, President and founder of Women in Aviation, International, will be presented with the Amelia Earhart Award at the 84th Annual Wright Brothers Memorial Gala and Golf Tournament, which benefits the GMAA-Bachelor Aviation Scholarship Fund, Inc. The award will be given at the Gala, being held at the Doral Golf & Country Club in Miami, Florida, October 22nd.
Video: Re-enactment of first Balloon Fiesta includes original pilots - KOB | A re-enactment of the first Balloon Fiesta back in 1972 made it off the ground Friday morning from Coronado Center, the site of the first fiesta. The re-enactment of the first Balloon Fiesta was a success, even though not all the balloons made it off the ground. The winds delayed the initial 6:45 am lift off, but about an hour later, balloonist Mike Rice was one of several pilots that made it into the air. Rice's balloon is the official Albuquerque International Fiesta Balloon. On Sunday he will take part in a tribute for the fiesta's creator Sid Cutter, who died earlier this year. The Balloon Fiesta board began planning this ...
Podcast: CAF Week Day 1 – CEO Stephan Brown from WarbirdRadio.com by Matt | We’re devoting the entire week of programming to the Commemorative Air Force in honor of AIRSHO 2011. Commemorative Air Force CEO Stephan Brown ...
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Aviation Heritage Center at Sheboygan County airport gets a piece of history - The Sheboygan Press | Crews mount a Lockheed T-33 jet fighter outside the Aviation Heritage Center of Wisconsin at the Sheboygan County Memorial Airport last Saturday. The 1950s-era plane was restored over the last six years and will be formally unveiled Saturday in a ...
Hopewell to construct aviation museum at Twin Pines - NJ.com | Somewhere amid the jumble of junk collecting cobwebs in the ramshackle hangar at the old Twin Pine airfield lie a set of wheels from the personal plane of famed American flyer Charles Lindbergh. At least that’s what Bill Weasner thinks. The 85-year-old former owner of the airport remembers Lucky Lindy as a ...
Howard Hughes Lockheed Jetstar Refreshed at Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum is sprucing up its Lockheed Jetstar once owned by Howard Hughes. Members of EAA 64, who meet at the Museum's Curtiss-Wright Hangar 2 at ...
Jet Age Air Fair Thrilled Huge Connecticut Crowd in 1959 - Patch.com | ... display of the airshow was the precision flying performed by the Thunderbirds, the aerial demonstration team of the United States Air Force. At the time, the Thunderbirds were flying the F-100C Super Sabre. ...
Newark air Museum 2-10-2011 - Stick and Rudder | Shots showing EE Lightning T.5 being worked on. Grey 'primer' coat started and when complete it will back in the 'camo' scheme it was in before the problems with the paint-film. Also Harvard cockpit section restoration in hangar 1. Also GAL Monospar still coming along nice. Also better look at the F4 cockpit section. ...
View Of the Plane Cemetery From Your Apartment from English Russia | Central Aerodrome at Khodynka Field built by N. E. Zhukovsky, was the first aerodrome in Moscow. May 9, 1945, early in the morning, a plane landed there carrying the German Instrument of Surrender. Now, Khodynka Field is a big residential …
Dreamliner on display at Museum of Flight from General Aviation News | Boeing's first 787 Dreamliner will be on public display at Seattle's The Museum of Flight's parking lot Oct. 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
A Helicopter Display Team | Movie Monday from Leaving Terra Firma by Matt Everett | If I had to guess, I’d say a lot of people are familiar with Chuck Aaron and the Red Bull BO-109. His act is spectacular, but what could you do with something smaller and more mundane? I don’t know, something like a Robinson R22? If you’re curious, today’s video will interest you. It features a display team founded by Jim Cheatham, the Showcopters, formerly based out of Salinas, California. I say formerly, because unfortunately, as I found in ...
Bell explores new missions for the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor Canada from CavokBlog | Bell Helicopter is exploring new markets for their missions and Bell-Boeing tiltrotor V-22 Osprey. Recently, the company demonstrated the capabilities of search and rescue (SAR) of the V-22 to the Canadian Forces. The V-22 is ideal for the SAR mission in Canada, a country with vast distances and difficult operating environments, and could do the work of several planes in a typical mission, according to a spokesman for Bell. ...
Pennsylvanian Firm Wins Largest Aviation Prize In History - iWeather Online | Image NASA-Bill Ingalls NASA has awarded the largest prize in aviation history to Pipistrel-USA.com, a company based at State College (Pennsylvania). The CAFE Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google, was created to inspire the development of more ...
NASA Awards Historic Green Aviation Prize from AVIATION-NEWS | NASA has awarded the largest prize in aviation history, created to inspire the development of more fuel-efficient aircraft and spark the start of a new electric airplane industry. The technologies demonstrated by the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google, competitors may end up in general aviation aircraft, spawning new jobs and new industries for [...]
Berlin celebrates largest ever commercial aviation event - Breaking Travel News | A record number of senior industry figures and delegates have arrived in Berlin as the city becomes the centre of the aviation world for three days. The annual World Routes event will be attended by more airlines and airports than any previous event, ...
With New York’s Intrepid Museum Dealing with Issues, Texans Make Another Play for the Space Shuttle from UnBeige | If you thought the battle between museums over space shuttle ownership being over with had long since ended, you are sorely mistaken. Though NASA announced back in the spring which museums would receive the now-decommissioned space craft, and then offered a very thorough report back in August about how it came to pick which lucky museums would get one, late last week the fight revved back up again. The ...
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