AT-6 Texan shines at vintage air show - Austin News | SAN DIEGO (KXAN) - “War Dog,” an AT-6 Texan, single engine training aircraft, led the retro-pack at this year's MCAS Miramar Air Show in San Diego. The pristine plane piloted by John Collver was built in 1944 by North American Aviation. ...
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B-17 Still Has Wings (VIDEO) - Huffington Post | Recently, the B-17 Flying Fortress "Liberty Belle" crashed and burned this summer when the right inboard power plant caught fire and burned away the right horizontal stabilizer and elevator. In the tradition of steely nerved B-17 pilots, ...
Ohio Air News #169 - Charles Johnson | IAC Fall Frolic, Project 683 completed
Flotilla of smoke does stunt show in Santa Maria (RS) - Translated | The skies of Santa Maria (RS) were scrawled smoke on Sunday, after the show aerobatic aircraft of the Air Force of the city. The presentation is part of the exhibition schedule Aeronautics (Expoaer), held at the air base in the Rio Grande do Sul municipality in the district Camobi. The event is always held annually in October, the month in which, on the 20th, we celebrate the Day of the Aviator. ...
Backing grows for transfer of major airshow to Lossiemouth - STV Local | Backing for plans to move a major Scottish airshow to Moray has increased this week. An exclusive report by STV Moray in July revealed that the majority of air enthusiasts who regularly attended the annual ...
Virtual flight simulator stuns air show visitors - Malta Independent Online | Every year The Malta International Air Show draws thousands of visitors to watch the breathtaking aerial displays and get the chance to see up close these magnificent airplanes. This year an added attraction drew the attention of hundreds of visitors: ...
Flying Tigers honored by Rotary - Dunwoody Crier | The five surviving Flying Tigers, heroes of WWII, were guests of the Rotary Club of Dunwoody last week. Still with the best air force fighting records of the war, this group of Flying Tigers was the 529th squadron in the 14th Army Air Force. ...
World War II veteran travels on Honor Flight to Washington, D.C. - CambridgeChronicle.com | Johnson flew on a B-17 in World War II with the Army Air Corps and later was a pilot during the Korean War. He served 32 years between active duty and the reserves. “I even flew over Cambridge when I was in the Peoria Air National Guard,” Johnson said. ...
October 11, 2011 In the Pitts part 2 by Linda Street-Ely | Linda: Last week I started to tell about my recent encounter with making a Pitts S2B biplane dance through the air. Being my first time in this airplane I had to learn how the plane handled and the only way to do so was by wringing it out under the tutelage of my instructor, world record holder Bruce Bohannon. To perform...
AVweb Readers Weigh In on Electric Aircraft, Green Flight Challenge from CAFE Foundation Blog by Dean Sigler | Mary Grady of AVweb started an expanding dialogue with her recent opinion piece on NASA and the CAFE Foundation’s Green Flight Challenge sponsored by Google. The stimulating and varied points of view reflect what is probably floating around in the...
Students build planes for competition - Translated | About 180 college students in Greater Sao Paulo, who dream of joining the aviation industry, are counting down to compete in the 13th SAE BRAZIL AeroDesign scheduled for 20-23 October at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DCTA) in San Jose dos Campos, SP. To participate in the competition, the future engineers finalize the construction of 12 radio control aircraft, designed in eight educational institutions. In all, the competition will bring together 97 teams, coming from 67 engineering schools in Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico, totaling 1,400 participants....
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