City may host first air race championship - Hindustan Times | The city may have missed the bus for building the Formula One track in the city, but it may get a chance to witness an ‘air race’. Tourism minister Chhagan Bhujbal, who had expressed disappointment at the city and the state missing out on hosting a prestigious event like F-1, on Tuesday met up with a joint delegation from the Austrian Trade Commission and Red Bull Air Race company that wants to hold the Air Race World Championship in Mumbai in 2013. The Red Bull Air Race World Championship will see 12 super pilots compete with 12 others in the race...
Air Show comes to Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport (KTRM), Palm Springs, California from The Kathryn Report | The 8th annual Jacqueline Cochran Air Show is coming to Thermal on Saturday. The show, put on by Riverside County Economic Development Agency and the Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport Authority from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., will feature performances by the U.S. Air Force and a host of aerial acts. It is free. Aerial maneuvers will be performed in the F-16 Viper by the West Coast Demo Team. Other...
Father of the Cherokee from General Aviation News by Meg Godlewski | The year was 1961. John F. Kennedy succeeded Dwight Eisenhower as the 35th President of the United States of America. Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3 and Piper Aircraft Co. introduced the world to its first low-wing single-engine airplane, the Piper Cherokee. Karl Bergey, who led the Cherokee design team at Piper, was the special guest of the West Coast Cherokee Fly-In, which coincided with this summer's Arlington Fly-In, held at Arlington Municipal Airport (AWO) in Washington State...
Salute to veterans to be held in Teterboro. Aviation Hall of Fame & Museum of New Jersey. Teterboro Airport (KTEB) from The Kathryn Report | In recognition of Veterans Day, the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum in Teterboro will conduct a brief ceremony honoring all Veterans and those on active duty. The event will be held Sunday, November 6, 2011, from 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. This program will recognize and thank all Veterans, past and present for their service and dedication to our country, both past and present. The...
Remembering Betty Skelton (1926 - 2011) from Featured by Webmaster | (National Aviation Hall of Fame)Betty Skelton Frankman passed away on August 31, 2011, at age 85. Betty will forever be known as “The First Lady of Firsts,” having set 17 aviation and motorsports records amongst her many pioneering accomplishments. She still holds more combined aircraft and automotive records than anyone in history, and was instrumental in paving the way for women to enjoy equal opportunities in aviation, sports and business...
Living in the shadow of the bomb: a century of aerial warfare - ABC Online | It was November 1, 1911 when Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti became the first man to eject bombs from an aeroplane, in a mission against forces of the Ottoman Empire stationed in Libya. We've lived every day since under the threat of the bomb....
FlightTime Radio Show 197 from The FlightTime Radio Show | Milford flew his Cherokee up to Kennesaw, Ga. (KRYY), home of the Hansen Air Group! While he was there, he managed to take a flight in their Fk12 Comet Light Sport Bi-Plane! We even have video of Milford committing aviation over the Northwest Georgia Countryside in the sporty machine. Check it out and watch for the video real soon!
CyberPatriot Competition from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -CLANTON AL- Three Civil Air Patrol cadets from Chilton County Composite Squadron, C/CMSgt Andrew McGowin, C/2dLt Jessica Ernest & C/2dLt Jacob McGowin, participated in the 4th National CyberPatriot competition Saturday morning, October 29th 2011. Their performance was exceptional; they were able to perform the required tasks to obtain an outstanding score of 100%! The first time this team has completed all tasks required well under the time limit....
First-ever manned flight of an electric multicopter takes place in Germany - Gizmag | By now, most readers are probably pretty familiar with quadracopters - small hovering unmanned electric aircraft, which get their lift from a set of four propellers. Well, make the whole thing larger, boost the number of propellers (and...
Competition selects the first commercial pilot astronaut with Virgin Galactic from CavokBlog | On the last day on October 27, after an intense selection process with more than 500 candidates, including some of the best riders in the world, Virgin Galactic chose a former USAF test pilot Keith Colmer as the first astronaut pilot will be join the team in the company's first commercial space flight. Colmer will join the chief pilot David Mackay to begin flight training and testing, leading to operational missions into space with Virgin Galactic's revolutionary vehicle, the WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo. Additional selections will be made as the company approaches business operations....
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