CAF Member & L-19 Pilot Kim Pardon - Warbird Radio LIVE! - 10am (EASTERN) | MONDAY – Matt Jolley is joined by L-19 Pilot and Commemorative Air Force General Staff member Kim Pardon on Warbird Radio LIVE! Tune in and find out what it takes to fly the “Bird Dog” and hear the latest news from Kim’s local wing of the CAF…The Heart of America Wing in Kansas City....
Puppy named in memory of Red Arrows pilot Jon Egging - Daily Echo | MEET Red Four – a
hound named after a hero, who will be helping heroes. Red Four is one of six pedigree puppies recruited for charity Hounds for Heroes and has been named after Flt Lt Jon Egging, who was killed when his Red Arrow Hawk jet crashed near Bournemouth Airport shortly after a display at August’s Air Festival.... Army Parachute Team to Join Magic Valley Air Show - Times News Magic Valley | TWIN FALLS • The U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team will join the Navy Blue Angels among the performers at the Air Magic Valley Air Show, held July 28-29 in Twin Falls. The team's appearance will be its first at the show held at Joslin Field, Magic Valley Regional Airport. Team member Sgt. Paul Sachs was with the team that performed in Twin Falls while the Olympic Torch passed through to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....
An outstanding flight display - Bayou Renaissance Man | ...I posted a video clip of one such display, involving a World War II-vintage South African Air Force C-54 Skymaster, a few months ago. Here's another, from this year's Paris Air Show, given by a C-130J Super Hercules tactical transport. This is
the latest version of a venerable aircraft that's been in production...JAMES HORNER'S HORSEMEN MUSIC NOW ON ITUNES - airshowbuzz | Now you can download the 12-minute Horsemen performance music, as well as a special piece Horner wrote to capture his love of flying.
Hot-air balloon fans try to restart Ohio balloon festival - Smart Brief | Hot-air balloon enthusiasts are attempting to revive the Hot Air Affair in Van Wert, Ohio. "I've heard for years people say that they sure wished the Hot Air Affair would come back. A lot of people," said former balloon pilot Frank Conn....
Those Intrepid Women AirForce Service Pilots (WASP) - The Moderate voice | On the eve of this most recent Veterans Day, I had the privilege of accompanying World War II veteran John Tschirhart to a reception hosted by the Texas Veterans Land Board at the Capitol Visitors Center, in Austin,
Texas. Tschirhart, a B-17 bombardier with 35 bombing missions over Nazi occupied Europe under his belt, is...Superfortress low pass - Planeshots
Cold War U-2 pilot to be awarded Silver Star - Air Force Times | WASHINGTON — The Air Force will award a Silver Star posthumously to Francis Gary Powers, the pilot whose spy plane was shot down in 1960 over the Soviet Union in a defining moment of the Cold War. The Air Force determined that the U-2 pilot showed “steadfast loyalty” while under harsh interrogation in Soviet prisons. In a report obtained by...
Life after death: 45 tumors didn't slow this airman down - DVIDS | JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. -- For Master Sgt. Scott Kapanke, 437th Maintenance Squadron flight chief at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., cancer wasn't a death sentence, no matter how unfavorable his odds were. To him, it was just another challenge to face. In 1995, Kapanke was a 23-year-old, C-130 maintenance student at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., when doctors' detected he had testicular cancer and it had spread throughout his body....
Amy's Message to GWW - Girls with Wings | My name is Amy Blechman and I am the 2008 Scholarship recipient. Winning the Girls with Wings scholarship meant the world to me because it allowed me to further my training and I was able to afford my first solo flight! That was the best experience of my...
Amelia Earhart Update on Oakland to Miami flight - YouTube
First "real" intervention of the Caiman Marine - Military Photos | A NH90 'Caiman marine' helicopter flies over TK Bremen cargo ship which ran aground, spilling oil off the coast of France's
northwestern region of Brittany and lies stranded on Kerminihy beach in Erdeven on December 16, 2011. An oil slick was reported to be floating toward the...Students practise the trades - NNSL | ...There were some differences between the day for the girls and the day for the boys, said Fullerton. For example, the Women in Aviation activity hosted by Arctic Sunwest Charters on Dec. 6 featured a female pilot, and the program on Dec. 7 was hosted by a male pilot and dubbed Men in Aviation for the boys....
Refueling interest in space - Heraldnet | Boldly going where no billionaire has gone before, Paul Allen has launched a futuristic business venture that within a decade could put private enterprise in the pilot's seat of manned space flight. The Microsoft co-founder joined famed aeronautical pioneer Burt Rutan at a press conference in Seattle on Tuesday to announce their innovative plan for commercial space travel. The idea is to...
NASA Shuts Doors, Pulls Plug on Shuttle Discovery - Space.com | NASA powered down the space shuttle Discovery for a final time Friday (Dec. 16), more than 28 years after the agency's retired fleet leader first came alive. The vehicle was "unplugged" inside Orbiter Processing Facility-1 (OPF-1) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The electrical shutdown, which...
2011 - Spaceflight's Monumental Moments - space.com video | End of a Shuttle era, on-orbit & launch failures, space station completion, and private space growth highlight an exciting year in spaceflight.
Rutan And Allen To Build World’s Largest Plane - Pacific Flyer | It wasn't enough that they won the Ansari X prize, or that they going to start hauling rich folks to the edge of space, now Paul Allen and Burt Rutan have formed a new venture to carry cargo and people into orbit. To do it, Allen and Rutan have announced they're building a gigantic new plane and forming a new...
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