Blue Angels overcome plane trouble in city - Sea Coast Online | ...The pair of pilots arrived at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease on Monday night, hours later than anticipated. The delay was due to a mechanical issue with their aircraft. The F/A-18 Hornet was once again delayed on Tuesday, after both Tedrow and Royles encountered a similar mechanical issue while taxiing on the runway....
Air show to return in 2012 with Blue Angels this time - The Journal Pioneer | SUMMERSIDE - After a successful 2011 show, the Atlantic Canada International Air Show is returning to the Summerside airport next August. The Air Show has been held in four different locations since 2003 but will be back in Summerside in 2012, said Colin Stephenson, executive director of the Air Show....
Blue Angels announce next trip to New England - WCSH6 | PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire (NEWS CENTER) - The Blue Angels came to Portsmouth Tuesday to announce their Summertime plans. Members of the Blue Angels spoke at the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease to detail the 2012 "Service Credit Union Boston-Portsmouth Air Show". That takes place in June and July....
Avro Canada CF-100 Mk 3 Canuck - Planeshots | Avro Canada CF-100 Mk 3 Canucks stand ready to protect North America from the “Red Menace”
Extraordinary slice of history comes to Shreveport - Shreveport Times | Shreveport-area locals have one final day to tour and even fly in a historic, restored B-17 World War II-era bomber. The Experimental Aircraft Association brought the B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" to the Shreveport Downtown Airport as part of the bomber's national tour. A handful of enthusiasts took the opportunity to participate in a "mission flight" in the craft Tuesday morning to experience the piece of history as only the airmen of the 1940s could....
CAP looks to honor World War II’s ‘unsung heroes’ - General Aviation | On Dec. 1, Civil Air Patrol, the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, observes 70 years of service. But the celebration won’t be complete until CAP’s earliest members – now in their 80s and 90s – are “rightly honored” with the Congressional Gold Medal....
Gutless was the Cutlass — or was Vought’s F7U something better? - Travel for Aircraft | I vividly
recall, as a boy, when I saw the Vought F7U Cutlass model kit. The fighter looked futuristic, slick and the pilot sat high with a commanding view all around. I was too young to realize the troubled history of the aircraft. The Cutlass was an evolutionary transition from straight wing jets to swept wing jets as turbojets were now the future, instead of piston engines, for high performance combat aircraft. The U.S. Navy needed a high performance fighter quickly and Vought designed the F7U. Though turbojets would be the future they were unreliable and the Cutlass was underpowered though it had a pair of Westinghouse turbojet engines. The original engines did not come to be so lesser performing....Swept-Wing P-47 - The Unwanted Blog | The Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory reported in April 1947 on spin tunnel testing on a swept wing model of a P-47. The modifications were made to an existing Langley spin tunnel model, and it appears that the design was a NACA-Langley design rather than a Republic Aircraft design. By 1947, a swept wing piston...
Prepping for the 2012 ARC - The Racing Aces
An uncensored goodbye... - Runway Girl | Flightglobal's journalists and staffers are renowned in the aerospace industry for being among the hardest working, most dedicated and congenial group of people one could ever hope to meet. I'm not exaggerating when I say that some of the most thrilling moments of my life - and some of the most uproariously funny moments - happened during the near 12 years I have worked at this....
Airplane Geeks - Episode 175 - Bits and Pieces VIII - Airplane Geeks Podcast | This is another Bits and Pieces episode. Occasionally, we take holiday weekends off and instead of recording a new episode together, we each...
Here's My Version of Airplane Heaven...What's Yours? - AIRPLANISTA | ...So what does this movie have to do with airplanes? Great question…read on....
Today in Aviation History – November 30 - CRUFC
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