Video: Blue Angels: It's a great day for an air show - PNJ | Folks jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. Explosions that rattle the ground. Strange flying crafts from eras long ago. There is more to the Blue Angels' Homecoming Air Show than the Blues themselves even though those F/A-18 Hornets are the stars of the performances today and Saturday at Pensacola Naval Air Station....
Fat Albert flies high - Navarre Press | The Blue Angels C-130 Hercules known as Fat Albert flew a very special visitor on Nov. 11. Navarre Press writer Joanna Hammond escorted Stanely on the flight where they both experienced zero gravity and more than 2 Gs of force....
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2011 Stuart Air Show - WPTV | The gates opened Friday afternoon for this year's Stuart Air Show. Tens of thousands are expected to attend the event. “We are the Black Diamond Jet Team, and we invite you to come join us at the Stuart Air Show to see America's newest jet ...
Tragic Red Arrows pilot was former member of Lossie squadron - STV | Former 617 Squadron pilot Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham died in the incident on the runway at RAF Scampton on Tuesday. The 35-year-old had served in Iraq with Lossiemouth’s 617 (Dambusters) Squadron. He is the second Red Arrows pilot to lose his life, Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging, 33, having died in a crash in Dorset in August....
Boy's Own adventures nearly killed Lyndon Johnson - The Australian | ...Even within Australia, few people know the story of how a frightened future president considered parachuting from a B-17 bomber over central Queensland as it circled the desert aimlessly, lost and low on fuel with dusk fast approaching....
Renowned RCAF pilot who penned famous poem to receive tribute By Randy Boswell, Postmedia News | John Gillespie Magee, the ill-fated RCAF pilot-poet who composed the famous Second World War ode to aviation titled High Flight, is to be the focus of a special commemoration in Britain next month on the 70th anniversary of his tragic death in a mid-air collision in December 1941....
Veteran remembers WWII - The Spectrum | CEDAR CITY - World War II veteran and Cedar City resident Mel Aldrich may be 84 years old, but he has the energy of a 20-year-old and a deep love for aviation. That love has been poured into a model of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft he built more than 20 years ago. He said his B-17 is a model of the plane he flew during weather reconnaissance missions while serving in the Army Air Corps....
Ask a Veteran - Air & Space | These Museum staffers and volunteers once served their country. Now they serve in a different way.
Veterans' Day 2011: Passing It On - Airspeed | A number of new/social media personalities are celebrating Veterans' Day by wearing our WindTees shirts featuring the aircraft and twitter handle of Daren Sorenson, a USAF Lt Col, F-15E Strike Eagle pilot, and Deputy Operations Group Commander at Nellis AFB. Lt Col Sorenson recently received news that he will be awarded (at least his second) Distinguished Flying Cross for actions during his most ...recent deployment to Afghanistan. I'm fortunate to know Lt Col Sorenson and his brother, Mark Sorenson, a talented airline and airshow pilot. I'm also fortunate to be...
Video: Veterans take flight in WWII's 'Flying Fortress' - YNN, Your News Now | As part of the Salute to Veterans Tour, a B-17 Aluminum Overcast made a special appearance in Georgetown. The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was a World War II bomber used primarily in Europe. “It's a beautiful airplane. It took me there and back again 50 ...
Podcast for Veterans Day: Airman Jack Bennett of Madison bails out, lands in ... - Morristown Green | During World War II he survived two crash-landings in shot-up B-17 bombers. But on his 23rd mission over Nazi Germany, a shell smashed into his plane and the aircraft plunged into a death spiral. Jack's situation, recounted in this November 2010 audio ...
B-17 Display Reunites World War II Buddies - MyFox Houston | The men were shot down together in 1943 over Nance, France and lived to tell about it, saying their Boeing B-17 heavy bomber aircraft — described as a "Flying Fortress" — lives up to its name. Both say the aircraft, noted for its grit and fortitude, ...
Canadian Air & Space Museum Thanking a Generation of Military Personnel - Ottawa Citizen | Today is a day of deep reflection. “Let us Never Forget” must never become a hollow cliché. “Let us Never Forget” means more today than it ever has for the Canadian Air & Space Museum here in Downsview Park. “Let Us Never Forget” is our mission statement. “Let Us Never Forget” is a Nation’s sacred promise that goes beyond a...
Fagen World War II Museum to be world class - Granite Falls News | ...Since May of this year crews have been working on the 80 by 150 foot hangar that will serve to accommodate the museum. Designed to replicate fighter and bomber hangars of the WWII era, it has yet to be given a name. Comprised of steel and concrete, it is an immensely stout, tornado resistant structure that would boast tornado proof classification if not for a single large window at the hangar’s rear where brawn makes a compromise in the interest of natural light....
Kentucky Aviation Museum is almost ready for its grand reopening - Lexington Herald Leader | The museum's biggest treasures are probably items in an exhibit dedicated to Matthew Sellers, who built and flew the first plane in Kentucky, and memorabilia on display pertaining to the Doolittle Raiders, who participated in the first US air raid to ...
Book sheds light on stealth helicopters used in bin Laden raid - Black Horizon | WIRED DANGER ROOM: There are lots of surprising claims in Chuck Pfarrer’s new book, SEAL Target Geronimo, a supposedly inside account of the May 2 raid that killed Osama bin Laden in his Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound — and none more surprising than this. The former commando-turned-author Pfarrer insists the Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment possesses not one, but two stealth transport helicopter designs. The stealthier of the two was held back from the mission for fear of one crashing and giving up its secrets, Pfarrer claims....
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