Blue Angels to perform at Va. Beach oceanfront - WSET | VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - The Navy's Blue Angels will perform an air show at the Virginia Beach oceanfront as the Navy celebrates the bicentennial of the War of 1812. The elite flight demonstration team will perform on June 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Navy officials said it has been several decades since the Blue Angels performed an air show along the resort area....
Airshow announces additional directors - The Californian | The California International Airshow has announced the addition of three new members to its board of directors....
News: 10 questions with country music star Aaron Tippin - DVIDS | After his performance at Forward Operating Base Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, country music star Aaron Tippin performs push-ups as members of the 2nd Squadron, 38th Cavalry Regiment, apply the honorary spurs to his boots. A traditional within the Army Cavalry, spurs are given to soldiers within the unit who have been to combat. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Corey Sparks.)Welcome New Team Member: Chris Porter - Goulian Aerosports | Mike Goulian Aerosports (MGAS) is pleased to welcome Chris Porter to the organization as its Media and Sponsor Relations Coordinator. Mike Goulian has spent 20 years performing for air show audiences around the globe. His list of achievements include winning the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Championship, competing in the popular Red Bull Air Race, and receiving both the prestigious Art Scholl Award for Showmanship in 2006, and Bill Barber Award for Showmanship in 2009....
MCAS Miramar Air Show 2011 - Mack Photography
Fifty years of Tricolour Arrows on display at Montecitorio - Translated | The Chamber of Deputies
is hosting the exhibition "50 years of Tricolour Arrows in the 150 th anniversary of the Unification of Italy", held in the Sala della Lupa. "The patrol - said Gianfranco Fini, speaker of the House, inaugurating the exhibition - is a legitimate source of pride in the world. There is no place where it is not known its excellence and dedication. The envy of every other country there ... especially the French cousins. " Founded in 1961, the Arrows are a patrol of ten aircraft, including one solo. The exhibition will be open to the public until December 4, with time to browse the site www.camera.it.Former prisoner of war receives Purple Heart - Air Force Public Affairs Agency | Almost 67 years after being shot down during a bombing raid during World War II, former 1st Lt. Edward J. Moppert Jr. received his Purple Heart medal Nov. 26 at the World War II Memorial here....
SAN MARCOS: Former WWII POW Harold Stock dies at 89 - North County Times | Harold Stock, a San Marcos resident who was a prisoner of war during World War II, died Nov. 18. He was 89. The North County Times profiled Stock in a May 2010 story that recalled his ordeal as an Army airman whose B-17 Flying Fortress crashed during a bombing run on a German oil refinery. Author Boguslaw Zieba also recounted the story in "Blechhammer," a historical book about the mission. Stock, the 22-year-old co-pilot of the plane, was...
Electric Amphibious Lazair - Wasabi Air Racing | We had an amazing opportunity recently to fly arguably the most operational electric airplane out there. Dale Kramer is a master builder of all kinds of interesting projects. His shop was extensive and impressive. He designed the Lazair in the 70’s during the boom in the...Murky waters slow efforts to salvage Italian plane wreckage - Gulf News | ...The prototype aircraft crashed off Deira Palm Island on November 18 while on its way back to Italy after participating at the Dubai Air Show. The two crew members managed to eject safely from the aircraft prior to the crash....
APM American Eaglet to be Restored by EAA Chapter 211 - Antique Aircraft | EAA Chapter 211, in Michigan, is taking on the restoration of the APM's American Eaglet. The APM board is very enthusiastic about this restoration, which will be to flying condition.... Other Posts: APM Restoration Center Concrete Slab Poured, Florida Cub Flyers and FABA November 2011 Newsletters
Wings Across the Continent - Hiller Aviation Museum | ...Aviation long held the promise of bringing east and west together. In 1910, William Randolph Hearst offered a prize of $50,000 for the first pilot to fly across the United States in 30 days or less. The Hearst Transcontinental Prize was one of many prizes offered by newspapers and other supporters of aviation achievement in the early days of flight. Louis Bleriot crossed the English Channel in 1909 to win a prize offered by London’s Daily Mail, and in later years the Orteig Prize inspired Charles Lindbergh to cross the Atlantic Ocean....
Royal Belgian military museum - Military Photos | Some pics I took some time ago, have been
going there for years, But in the past there were always a lot of signs forbidding taking pics, but last time I was there everybody was taking them, so ran back to the car to get the little digicam...EAA president to speak at Sebring LSA Expo - General Aviation News | Rod Hightower, president of the Experimental Aircraft Association, will be the keynote speaker at the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association (LAMA) dinner during the 8th Annual U.S. Sport Aviation Expo Jan. 19, 2012....
Barry Schiff joins Wolf Aviation Fund - General Aviation News | Captain Barry Schiff is now serving as honorary spokesperson for the Wolf Aviation Fund, which provides grants to people doing great work in general aviation....
Hawk's Eye View - Ares | Training and simulation advances have been revolutionary since the U.S. Air Force bought its T-38s starting in the 1960s. With an average age of 43.5 years, service officials are looking to begin a replacement program as soon as possible. How soon depends on debt reduction efforts in Washington, whether the Air Force has the money to start a new program and how high a
priority the service will put on that effort. With major...Northrop begins flying second X47-B drone - Sign On San Diego | Northrop Grumman has expanded its effort to create powerful drones for the Navy, adding a second X-47B unmanned aerial vehicle to the flight testing schedule at Edwards Air Force Base. The tailless drone, which was largely designed in Rancho Bernardo, first flew on Nov. 22....
Aviators tell Scouts: Reach for the sky - South Coast Today | NEW BEDFORD — Members of Girl
Scout Junior Troop 65323 and Brownie Troop 80011 spent a recent Saturday morning at the New Bedford Municipal Airport with members of Atlantic Aviators, the Southeastern Massachusetts chapter of Women in Aviation. Led by chapter President Tammie Irwin, the girls toured the hangar at Colonial Air, sat in several different types of airplanes, and....Photos: Watching the Mars Rover Curiosity Blast Off - Space.com | NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and its Atlas 5 rocket roll out from Launch Complex 41's Vertical Integration Facility at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on the morning of Nov. 25, 2011. The rover launched on Nov. 26.
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