Wednesday, October 12, 2011

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Reno Racer Beats Hughes Speed Record from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Flying at 407 mph, Will Whiteside on Monday shattered a three-kilometer speed record that had previously been set by Howard Hughes in 1935 in his H1 racer, and which had since been broken only by the H1 racer replica, in 2002. Whiteside's Yak model 3U, which has been continuously refined over the last six years, beat the H1 replica's speed by 102 mph. The flight for the record speed over a three-kilometer...

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Shuttle Endeavour Will be Driven Through LA Streets to its New Abode - International Business Times | Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum: Enterprise, the first orbiter built, will move from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. According to the museum, ...

Valley High School Principal Soars with the Blue Angels - KMPH Fox 26 | The US Navy's Blue Angels aerobatics team will show their stuff at an air show this weekend at Naval Air Station Lemoore, but Tuesday, a Valley high school principal got a preview and an experience he says he will never forget -- the ...

Hildebrand starts high at Vegas with the Air Force Thunderbirds - Racer | National Guard Panther Racing driver JR Hildebrand took time out from his preparations for this weekend's IZOD IndyCar Series finale with a visit to Nellis Air Force Base outside Las Vegas, where the United States Air Force Thunderbirds gave the ...
   
Wings and Wheels adds air show on Saturday - Stafford County Sun | STAFFORD — The seventh annual Wings and Wheels festival will add an air show this Saturday. The Flying Circus from Bealton will provide the air show. Planned acts include a parachute jumper, a wing walker and vintage aircraft doing acrobatic maneuvers ...

Boshears Skyfest has new things in store - The Augusta Chronicle | Tony Kazian takes a stroll on the wing of pilot Dave Dacy's biplane during the 2006 Boshears SkyFest. Air shows, a parachute team, a strongman competition, vintage Navy planes and an antique car show will be a few of the ...

Welcome to the Boshears Memorial Airshow Home Page! from www.boshears.com | 19th Annual Boshears Skyfest at Daniel Field | Located at the intersection of Highland Avenue and Wrightsboro Road | Gates open: 9:00 AM | Opening Ceremonies: 1:00 PM

‘Sentimental Journey’ to offer rides at Copperstate from General Aviation News | The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Arizona Wing Aviation Museum will be offering rides in “Sentimental Journey,” a restored B-17G Flying Fortress, at the 39th annual Copperstate Fly-In & Aviation Expo at the Casa Grande Municipal Airport, Oct. 20-22.

WW II Bombers To Be On Display At Easterwood Wednesday And Thursday - KBTX | COLLEGE STATION Oct. 7, 2011 - The Commemorative Air Force B 29/B-24 Squadron will fly into Easterwood Airport Wednesday (Oct. 12) for a two-day exhibit of the world's only flyable Boeing B-29 Superfortress “FIFI,” and one of only two flying B-24...

Red Arrows' low-level fly-past - Worcester News | THE Red Arrows will be in Worcester today – albeit on much slower transport than you might expect. A group of the famous pilots as well as members of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and Fly2Help will be on bicycles as they cycle from west to east...

Air show emergency drill - Florida Times-Union | “Everybody enjoys an exciting air show that's safe and successful,” said NAS Jax Commanding Officer Capt. Jeffrey Maclay. “That's why we're conducting this drill in preparation for the 2011 NAS Jax 'Centennial of Naval Aviation' Air ...

Help Honor Triple Ace C.E. "Bud" Anderson from Max Trescott on General Aviation by Max Trescott | Old CrowWould you like to help honor a WWII Triple Ace? Then sign up to attend the Aero Club of Northern California's Crystal Eagle Award dinner on October 22 at the Hiller Museum at San Carlos Airport. You'll find full details at http://www.aeroclubnorcal.org/CrystalEagle_Next.html At the dinner, you can also bid on many cool aviation items in the silent auction, that raises money for aviation scholarships.  C. E. “Bud” Anderson, a triple ace who scored 16.25 aerial...

National Aviation Hall of Fame Presents Combs Gates Award to Documentary Filmmaker at NBAA Convention from AMTOnline.com: | Heather Taylor received the $20,000 cash award for directing and producing Breaking Through The Clouds: The First Women's National Air Derby.

Video: Sweet Sonex Shows Off Fab Smoke System - Smoke On! from AirPigz | This recently uploaded video from youtuber tomhuebbe is cool on many levels... beautiful aircraft, excellent video with great editing, and a really sweet smoke system on that tri-gear Sonex! The only way it could've...

Effort to save terminal barely off ground - Winnipeg Free Press | We are planning a wonderful new destination facility that will preserve and tell the story of our aviation history." Render said the museum has to move from its present facility because its lease is up in 2017. "We find it is appropriate for us to be ...

First family of aviation: A love of flying is handed down through generations - Muskegon Chronicle | Vince Dostert caught the aviation bug early in life.  Some might even argue that flying is a genetic predisposition in the Dostert family, one the 87-year-old Muskegon aviator has successfully passed on to the next three generations.  “I don’t know of anyone else who has this kind of legacy,” says Rex Vanderlinde, president of Executive Air Transport Inc. in Muskegon — a business Dostert founded in 1959 and sold in 1971...

POF P-51 in Breitling Commercial from Planes Of Fame News | Planes of Fame's P-51 named Spam Can has an extensive makeover and was featured in this Breitling commercial.

Two-bladed propeller to identify Levasseur (bis) from Passion pour l'aviation by Xavier
Switzerland has a reader offered this two-bladed propeller on the anniversary of her husband aviation enthusiast wanted to know more about its origin. Using Google as a search engine, she came to my blog where I had previously written two articles on the propellers Levasseur, a four-bladed and bladed black .  Some pictures of signs engraved on the propeller hub accompanying message could help my research. Again I thought the forum AĆ©rostories technique to convey the question to experts in aviation history....

Tyndall Air Force Base gets T-38 Talon jets as practice foes for F-22 pilots - Pensacola News Journal | Tyndall Air Force Base received two T-38 Talon jets last week that will serve as simulated enemy aircraft for F-22 Raptor pilots. Tyndall, east of Panama City, is home of the 325th Fighter Wing which provides training for pilots of the F-22 Raptor, ...

Karina Hollekim | 'The pain became a positive' from Aerial Sports Feed | On August 20, 2006, Karina Hollekim had a skydiving accident that nearly took her life. She visited the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival last weekend to give a lecture on her five-year battle to return to a normal life...

Aviation photographer Leighton Matthews by Airplanista Magazine Aviation photographer Leighton Matthews has a dramatic photo spread shot in CANADA that features a look at airliners in the current October issue of Airplanista Magazine.

Graf Zeppelin vs Goodyear Blimp (via) from x planes

NBAA Encourages Careers in Business Aviation With Student Scholarships - AMTOnline.com | Las Vegas, NV, October 11, 2011 – The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) offers a wide range of scholarships that encourage young people to seek careers in business aviation. This afternoon at the NBAA 64th Annual Meeting & Convention ...

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