From Air Show Buzz: Congratulations to Mike Goulian, who was awarded ICAS' highest honor, the Sword of Excellence. Dan Buchanan was recognized with the Art Scholl Award and the Lincoln Nebraska ANG won the Dick Schram award. Congratulations to all!!
Thunderbirds will roll into Scott Air Force Base - News-Democrat | The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds have added the Scott Air Force Base air show to its 2012 show schedule. The Thunderbirds, the Air Force's premier jet demonstration team, recently announced its 2012 show schedule at the annual International Council of Air Shows Convention and has the Sept. 15-16 Scott Air Force Base air show on its schedule....
Team Schedules Posted:
- USN BLUE ANGELS 2012/2013 SCHEDULE
- 2012 USAF THUNDERBIRDS SCHEDULE
- Canadian Snowbirds 2012/2013 Schedule
Female test pilot recalls service during WWII - Air Force Times | CONROE, Texas — When Mary Helen Foster arrived in the Malden Army Airfield in Missouri in 1944, excited at getting to serve and sure they would be happy to have her, her commanding officer took one look at her and said, “I didn’t ask for a woman pilot.” “I did not ask to come to Missouri, sir,” Foster had said. Foster, 90, was one of more than 1,700 women chosen for the...
World War II aviator and nurse Dorothy Ebersbach gives CWRU $2 million for flight nurse program - The Plain Dealer | An aviator who served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, then spent her career as a nurse, has donated $2 million to a Case Western Reserve University program that encompasses both of her passions -- flight nursing. The Dorothy Ebersbach Academic Center for Flight Nursing will be established at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, where Ebersbach earned a nursing degree in 1954. She died last month at 96....
Santa to help celebrate first flight - General Aviation News | On Dec. 17, the 108th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ famous first flight, Santa and Mrs. Claus will arrive in an airplane to kick-off the Museum of Flight’s annual Wright Spirit Holiday event in Seattle. The pair will fly-in via a classic de Havilland Beaver floatplane at 10 a.m.After greeting well-wishers outside, the couple will hear childrens’ holiday wishes inside of the museum until 2 p.m. Wright Spirit Holiday offers family activities, music and theater until 3 p.m. Indoor events are free with admission to the museum....
Aviation In Mostly Black And White - Cross Wind Images
The Vin Fiz Crosses America - AirSpaceMag.com | Scenes from Cal Rodgers’ first transcontinental flight in 1911.
CAP partners with FAA for safety training - General Aviation News | The Civil Air Patrol has established a safety education partnership with the FAA that will provide CAP members with automatic education credits for completing safety education within the FAA’s WINGS Pilot Proficiency Program....
Remembrance: M. Gene Dow - General Aviation News | M. Gene Dow, former editor and publisher of General Aviation News, “The Green Sheet,” died Nov. 27, at age 82. He was editor of GAN in Snyder, Texas, from 1972 through 1977, then GAN publisher from 1977 through 1983....
Air Force pararescue exercise receives national accreditation - 355th Fighter Wing Public Affairs | The Angel Thunder exercise received Joint National Training Capability accreditation and certifications Nov. 30. Angel Thunder is an Air Combat Command-sponsored personnel recovery exercise held annually at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. Rescue units from all over the world send pararescueman and equipment to participate in the training....
Iran releases video of RQ-170 drone - Black Horizon | Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian TV aired images Thursday of what it says is a U.S. stealth drone that went down in Iran last week, an apparently intact RQ-170 drone propped on a pedestal and triumphantly displayed. "Military experts are well aware how precious the technological information of this drone is," said Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Forces, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency....
Flight school offers helicopter training to Kan. university students - Smart Brief | Arizona-based Universal Helicopters will team up with with Kansas State University-Salina to offer a full-time helicopter program to students. "They've been working with other universities and they're used to
doing this," said Kurt Barnhart, head of the school's aviation department. The program will allow students to earn their helicopter certifications and ratings....Lander go boom - The Original Rocket Dungeon | This day in 1968, LLTV 1 (Lunar Lander Training Vehicle #1) crashed at Ellington Field....
First Russian woman cosmonaut to ISS in 2013 - AviationNews.EU | Russia has sent three women cosmonauts into space, but not one to the ISS. Serova, mother of a nine-year-old girl, said she has always dreamed of making a space flight and her husband, who is also a cosmonaut, supports her decision....
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