Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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Governor's Banquet raised $28,000 for air races, IHOP victims - RGJ | The inaugural Nevada Day Governor’s Banquet raised $28,000 for victims of the crash at the National Championship Air Races and the Carson City IHOP shooting....

Dubai Int'l Airshow opens with aerobatic performances - People's Daily Online | The aerobatic team of the Air Force of United Arab Emirates performs during the first day of the Dubai International Airshow in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 13, 2011. As the leading aviation event in the Middle East, the biannual Dubai airshow ...

F 16 Royal Netherlands Air Force / Speed and Rythm!!!!!! [Full HD] by RAFALETIGRE1

Patrouille de France Photos - Ares | Here's a collection of photos of Patrouille de France performing at the 2011 Dubai Air Show.

The Patrouille de France will return next summer - Perros-Guirec - Translated | The 2012 calendar of events, including the Patrol and regattas Ploumanac'h, is consistent with patterns perrosiennes always with a strong involvement of volunteers.  Two major events were not on the calendar as the date is not fixed yet. The Patrouille de France will return to the show this summer over Trestraou, a show which never tires. Another point to refine the regatta Ploumanac'h, the Ar gentiles celebrating its...

Quzhou delegation encourages more exchanges - Republican Eagle | ...They celebrated a relationship that began in 1992 when local artist Bryan Moon brought some elderly Chinese farmers to Red Wing to reunite them with U.S. airmen whose lives they had saved during World War II. The Doolittle Raiders airmen had crash-landed in Zhejiang Province after bombing Tokyo....

CAP To Honor Two World War II Members On Day Of 70th Anniversary from Aero-News Network | Ceremony To Be Held December 1st At Maxwell AFB In Alabama When Civil Air Patrol marks its 70th anniversary with a ceremony at 1100 CST December 1 at its National Headquarters building at Maxwell Air Force Base, AL, the organization will also be honoring two of its World War II members now in the Alabama Wing, Lt. Cols. Wendall Haas of Birmingham and Otha Vaughan of Huntsville, with the Exceptional Service Award....

The Air Force and airport - San Mateo Daily Journal | In 1937, the Air Corps, a new impressive bomber became the mainstay of the service — the B-17 Flying Fortress. Although the United States entered World War I almost at the end of armed conflict, the Army now knew that the future of defending the...

VIDEOS: World War II veteran has a final war story he wants to tell - The Patriot Ledger | He was sitting bolt straight, wearing his Army uniform, decorated with a medical service corps insignia, unit citation for exemplary service, Flying Tigers insignia, three overseas service stripes and lieutenant colonel oak leaves. ...

Warhawk Air Museum honors vets with special breakfast - KTVB | NAMPA -- Veterans Day celebrations continued through the weekend. Sunday, the Warhawk Air Museum offered up a hot breakfast for military members and their families....

New Smyrna Beach man earns top FAA honor - The Daytona Beach News Journal | NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- George Baker's love affair with military aircraft began as a teenager in New Jersey.  "It was 1946 and B-25 (bombers) would fly over my school," Baker recalled while sitting in his home office in his hangar at the New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport. "I would jump up from my seat and run to the windows. The teacher would ask, what was I doing and I would say, sharpening my pencil."  For the past 64 years, Baker, 81, has flown, worked on, or restored...

Skyhawk arrives - in bits and pieces - Otago Daily Times | Two trucks were used to transport the aircraft, in three pieces, from Blenheim to Wanaka where it will be a centrepiece on static display in the new Warbirds and Wheels visitor attraction at Wanaka Airport. The mothballed plane was one of 14 New ...

Those Magnificent Women in Their Flying Machines from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | Charming? Fetching? Adorable? Don’t believe your eyes.  As Elsie Mackay qualified near London for her pilot’s license in 1920, The Times’s caption of this picture made it sound as if aviation was just another caper in the breathless life of the naughty daughter of Lord Inchcape. Over her father’s objections, Mackay had married an actor and performed on the silent screen as Poppy Wyndham. Now, here she was, flirting with airplanes — almost literally....

Veteran of 2 wars honored as hero - Buffalo News | “You have to understand that most of the young men that I knew wanted desperately to serve,” Kennedy said of his ardent desire to defend the United States in the Second World War. a mechanic for the B-17 Bomber, aka the Flying Fortress, ...

A very low pass indeed! - Bayou Renaissance Man | A few months ago I published an article about 'The T-6 Texan in South African service'. This world-famous training aircraft served with the South African Air Force (SAAF) from 1940 until 1995 (where it was known as the Harvard, rather than the Texan, following Royal Air Force nomenclature). Several examples are still flying with the SAAF Museum in that country.  A reader in South Africa, Hannes S., came across that article, and sent me the two photographs below. He describes them as follows (I've translated his Afrikaans e-mail into English):  The first picture shows a very low pass by a single Harvard over a group of Army candidate officers on the...

“Barnstormer” by Harrison Covington — a sculpture by travelforaircraft | Where would aviation's lore be without the barnstormers? After WW I there was a surplus of aircraft, notably Curtiss Jenny's, as well as pilots. Quite a few of these daring pilots bought a Jenny and proceeded to tour the country, flying into small and large communities alike to perform aerobatics and offer rides for entertainment. Perhaps this did more to infuse aviation into the fabric of the United States than anything else. The precursor to the airshow — the barnstormer — brought aviation to the regular person in this country. Clerks, daughters, sons, farmers and workers — saw for themselves the freedom of flight....

What a scene! You certainly don’t see this very often. A... from You like airplanes, too? by marvinsmith | What a scene! You certainly don’t see this very often.  A formation of C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft fly together as they are flown back to Yokota Air Base, Japan, from...

Actor John Travolta has signed up to promote Bombardier's Learjet, Challenger and Global business jets as a "brand ambassador." - Wright Squawks | The world's largest business aircraft manufacturer says the actor and producer recently added a pre-owned Challenger 601 aircraft to the 11 different jets he's qualified to fly.  The Oscar-nominated actor also owns a Learjet 24 and previously owned a small Canadair De Havilland plane....

Small, Cute, and European from Flight Monkeys by Chief Monkey | With the Fiat 500 making waves on the streets of America’s cities, and the Smart car showing up tucked into tiny little parking spaces, it seems that diminutive European motor vehicles are all the rage these days. Can the Cri Cri be far behind, we wonder? It’s tiny, capable, and turns heads everywhere it goes....

New Unmanned Drone Fits In The Palm Of A Hand - Fast Company | One of the smallest unmanned drones in the world has the diameter of a Frisbee, fits in the palm of a hand, and looks like a miniature Star Wars X-wing. The SQ-4 UAV isn't just a tiny surveillance vehicle; it's also on the cutting edge of the new wave of nanodrones....
   
Remembering Amelia: Harris-Para and Malan Present Program on Aviatrix - Southern Pines Pilot | Harris-Para also volunteers locally in the Young Eagles program, which was launched in 1992 by the Experimental Aircraft Association in order to give young people the opportunity to go flying in a general aviation airplane. “By getting the kids into ...

An Insider’s View to “Out of This World” - Indianapolis Museum of Art | ...Space Suits:  I had every intention of making these suits myself, but the scope of the exhibition quickly made me realize that in order to complete the work on time, I needed more help. Kyle Perry and Adam Buente of PROJECTiONE offered to help make a model of the space helmet. They found a 3D model of the space suit on the NASA website and were able to use that file to CNC cut the foam model, making my helmets very accurate reproductions of the original. Once I had the model, I made the mold and cast the...

Expedition 29 Preflight in a snowstorm from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick

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