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Air Show NAS Jax Weekend 2011 | SLIDESHOW - First Coast News

Blue Angels in HD - This is one of the the best Blue Angel videos you'll see!!  Great perspective with much of it filmed from the cockpit. You see the formation then see it from the pilot or camera view. It is in HD; This was recorded in Pensacola FL. And El Centro , CA

MacDill Airfest wows spectators - TBO.com | MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE -- Cole and Blake Rodgers climbed down off the V-22 Osprey tilt-wing aircraft with big smiles on their faces.  "This is really cool," said Cole, 11. "I really like seeing all the gadgets and electrical wires."  "I liked being in the cockpit," said Blake, 12.  The Osprey was the first aircraft the Tampa brothers wanted to see at AirFest 2011, said their mother, Cheryl Rodgers....

Eyes on the sky for finale of Cocoa Beach Air Show - Florida Today | COCOA BEACH — Emerging from the pounding waves in a black combat wetsuit, Tech. Sgt. Wes Hufnagel started shaking spectators’ hands and posing for photos on the beach alongside three fellow 920th Rescue Wing airmen.  The quartet had just jumped into the surf from a hovering HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter during a demonstration at the Cocoa Beach Air Show. One airman tried to climb a rope ladder back into the aircraft — but he was battered and knocked about by large waves...

Aircraft Spruce 2011 Tennessee Valley Air Race Results - Alabama Aviator | Weather lifts and the race is completed. Complete story.

Chitty to 'fly' at air show By Nathan Crombi | Children can take a flight of imagination in Sir Peter Jackson's million-dollar Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flying car on Saturday.  The movie maker this year bought the classic vehicle - made famous in the 1968 movie of the same name - and has lent it for use in a charity drive at the Remembrance Day World War I airshow this weekend....

Steadfast’s World Speed Record | PFLUGERVILLE, TX – NOVEMBER 4, 2011 - LiveAirShowTV has posted the story of Will Whiteside’s world speed record in his YAK3U Steadfast.  In an interview with Mark Allen, via Skype, Will talks about how the record attempt came about, and what they did to make it happen following the events at Reno.  The location was certainly appropriate, just a few miles west of the Bonneville Salt Flats Speedway where so many land speed records have been set....

The Other B-29 Missions - Air & Space Magazine | Guy Longshore of LaGrange, Georgia, was a B-29 Command Gunner with the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War 2, and was stationed in the Pacific at the end of the war. On the night of August 6, 1945, unable to sleep, he walked to the edge of the island of Saipan and watched a B-29 bomber take off from the neighboring island of Tinian; later he learned that the bomber was the Enola Gay, headed toward Hiroshima. After Japan’s September 2, 1945 surrender, Longshore was detailed to fly on B-29 missions over Japan, dropping supplies to Allied troops and American P.O.W.s who were still there. He brought along a $12 camera with which he documented the country’s state.  The following is excerpted from his unpublished memoir, “World War II: The Good and the Bad.”...

Angels' Share from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave | By Roger Kent This is a story of whiskey and remembrance. Scotch, especially the single malts of Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Ardbeg, Bruichladdich and Bowmore, drew me to Islay, the most southerly of the islands of the Hebrides. With eight active distilleries, Islay is home to some of the best single malt Scotch on the planet. My eleven year-old son Alexander and I toured five distilleries, learned about the burning of peat, which gently heats the barley that was germinated in peaty water.  When combined by a master distiller, this distillate makes one of the best value-add products imaginable, especially given what they have to start with; pure Scots genius. We...

Memorial honors female pilot - You Fly Girl | This bronze sculpture of Doris Tracy is one of two in a memorial for the WASP that will be unveiled Nov. 11 in LaVeta....

Formation flight Sunday. Caption: The five types of aircraft flown by North Central... - Planeshots

Frontiers of Flight Museum appoints new president - General Aviation News | The Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas has a new president and CEO, Cheryl Sutterfield-Jones.  Sutterfield-Jones, a longtime leader in the north Texas non-profit community, was formerly CEO and president of the north Texas chapter of the American Red Cross.  Sutterfield-Jones, who took the reins on Nov. 1, is a recognized leader and consultant in human services and non-profit management. Prior to joining the Red Cross she served as CEO of the...

Sightings: VFC-12 F/A-18C Hornet Makes Stopover at TAC Air St. Louis - The Aero Experience | An F/A-18C Hornet from VFC-12 (Fighter Squadron Composite 12), The Fighting Omars, based at NAS Oceana, Virginia made a stop at TAC Air St. Louis.  The unit is one of two providing adversary training for Navy and Marine units.  This legacy Hornet was marked as the CAG bird, and decked out in two-tone blue and gray camouflage similar to that found on MiG-29s.  Here are a few shots from the ramp...

Blog Watch:  Amelia Earhart - training for a round the world flight in the Cirrus SR-22T | Amelia Rose Earhart is a namesake and distant relative of the original Amelia Earhart....Amelia’s life long goal is to retrace and complete Amelia Earhart’s 1937 round the world flight. She is currently working on her instrument rating at KAPA. She plans on embarking on her trip by the year 2016.

The View from Space from Vintage Aeroplane Writer | I found this article, discussing 'How the Airplane got its Shape', interesting by virtue of the fact that it comes at the topic from an unusual angle - the view of a space historian; and that it touches on some of the less acknowledged drives of this arena of design....

Pilots: Cameron King - AOPA Pilot | ...Less than 72 hours after the earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010, Cameron King was unloading a Piper Aztec on the ramp at the airport in Port-au-Prince. In the near chaos of the first days, only a few people took notice of King, who looks more like a teenager than a young woman of 23 years. But, as she flew more and more missions, people began to wonder, “Who is this kid and what’s she doing flying here?” So, while on an overnight in Nassau, and in her typical can-do fashion, she commandeered a camera, computer, and printer and fashioned a very official-looking “Humanitarian Pilot” credential badge....

B-1B Lancer Engines - I Love Planes | I liked how gritty these B-1B engines looked. They looked all steam punk or something like that, in any case, I thought they looked like artwork....

General Aviation – When Did it Start? - Flight Monkeys | You could make a case that general aviation was born on the beaches of North Carolina in December 1903. It would be a stretch, but you could certainly argue the point. Or it might have come somewhat later when Glenn Curtiss began testing airplanes. He was issued U. S. Pilot License Number 1 after all.  Then again, you could put the origin...

“q” — a sculpture by Christopher Still from Travel for Aircraft | “q” is defined as the sum of aerodynamic pressure. Artist Christopher Still, using wood and aluminum created this piece out of a dozen 4′ x 8′ (1.2m x 2.4m) panels against a frame of wood in the shape of an airfoil. Together they make for an impressive 90′ (27.3m) expanse. Like many art pieces it pays to sit and look at it for a bit. Soon you will see passengers dressed in the different eras of airline flight, as well as scenes air travelers are accustomed to experiencing....

Today in Aviation History – November 7 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal