Neb. Guard air show wins international award - KGWN | (AP) - An air show hosted by the Nebraska Air National Guard has won an international award. The International Council of Air Shows awarded the 155th Air Refueling Wing with the Dick Schram Memorial Community Relations Award....
Blue Angels to return to Bethpage Air Show - Newsday | The Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds had alternated appearances at the annual Memorial Day weekend show since it started in 2004, but last year neither of the headliners could make it because of scheduling conflicts. The Bethpage Air Show will be held 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 26, and Sunday, May 27....
Bethpage FCU, NY Officials Announce Air Show - Credit Union Times | John Klatt – National Guard Reserve, world renowned sports aviators Mike Goulian, Matt Chapman, David Windmiller and Ed Hamill, who will fly the Bethpage Bi-Plane. “We are pleased that the United States Navy Blue Angels have committed to perform again ...
Bournemouth children to design Jon Egging memorial - BBC News | Every school in Bournemouth is invited to submit their ideas for a memorial to a Red Arrows pilot who died after an airshow display. Flt Lt Jon Egging, 33, from Rutland, was killed when his aircraft crashed into a field at the village of Throop, ...
2nd Annual AirPigz/Air Force Museum Meetup: January 27-29, 2012 - AirPigz | 2nd annual
AirPigz meetup at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio will take place January 27-29, 2012 (Fri, Sat, Sun - come 1, 2 or all 3 days) | Come-if-you-can to this casual gathering of avgeeks to again experience the amazing collection of aircraft at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. Nine people made the trip in 2011, including two that flew via the airlines to join in. Museum admission is free and of course the meetup is too. This is a great winter getaway and a fantastic aviation history experience. | Friday (January 27, 2012) will include the behind-the-scenes restoration shop tour. You must register in advance with the museum for the restoration ...Feats of flight: High-flying hybrids - AOPA Pilot | That brings renowned aircraft designer Burt Rutan into the conversation, and before you rush to add the prefix “retired” to his name, the story of the BiPod hybrid must be told, which AOPA Pilot Editor at Large Thomas A. Horne did in this AOPA Online...
Modification XXX - by Gaëtan Marie | In the lighter moments of World War II, the Spitfire was used in an unorthodox role: bringing beer kegs to the men in Normandy. During the war, the Heneger
and Constable brewery donated free beer to the troops. After D-Day, supplying the invasion troops in Normandy with vital supplies was already a challenge. Obviously, there was no room in the logistics chain for such luxuries as beer or other types of refreshments. Some men, often called “sourcers”, were able to get wine or other niceties “from the land” or rather from the locals. RAF Spitfire pilots came up with an even better idea....Marines in Afghanistan Execute the World's First Cargo Resupply with an Unmanned Helicopter - PopSci | In Afghanistan, supply convoys have been a favorite target of insurgent fighters, not only because they make warfighting possible for troops at forward operating bases but also because they are so very vulnerable to ambushes and IEDs. But on Saturday, NATO logisticians hit a major milestone in Afghanistan, reaching out and touching one of the holy grails of robotic warfare when an unmanned K-MAX helicopter successfully delivered a sling-load of beans, bullets, and band-aids to an unspecified base for the first time....
Meet the pilots who fly America's drones - TucsonSentinel.com | Almost everyone involved with unmanned aerial systems winces when they hear their vehicles called “drones.” It's a misrepresentation, they say, to conflate their highly-sensitive aircraft — navigated by a team that includes a certified pilot — with ...
Sporty's Pilot Shop Offers Fast Track to First Solo Flight from PR Newswire: Airlines/Aviation | No matter your ultimate goal, if you want to learn to fly, you have to solo. Talk to any pilot and a major milestone in their flying is the first time they flew an airplane alone. For most pilots, soloing an airplane is even more...
Video: SpaceX's Future Rocket System Will Guide Itself Home, Land Gently on the Launchpad - PopSci | Commercial spaceflight venture SpaceX has been talking for a while now about reusing
every part of its space launch system, from the optionally manned Dragon capsule (which is already reusable) to the rocket stages that it discards on its way to orbit. Via a new animation, the private space enterprise is showing exactly how this would happen, not via splashdown and recovery at sea like you might be thinking, but by vertically landing back at the launch site under their own power....Vega To Fly ESA Experimental Reentry Vehicle - Aero-News Network | Launch Of IXV Planned In 2014 From French Guiana | The launch of ESA's IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle on Europe's new Vega rocket is now in detailed planning, a major step towards the craft's flight in 2014. After launch into a suborbital trajectory from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, IXV will return to Earth as if from a low-orbit mission, to test and qualify new critical technologies for future reentry vehicles....
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