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Volunteers Sought For 'Thunder Over Utah' Air Show - KCSG | Organizers of the mid-March air show titled Thunder Over Utah Air Show which will take place at the St. George Municipal airport,
are seeking volunteers to help with the event. Thunder Over Utah's local representative... Leap Frogs Leap into Holiday Bowl - Shadow Spear | The U.S. Navy parachute demonstration team, the Leap Frogs, kicked off the 34th annual Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego Dec. 28. In their last jump of the season, the team performed for approximately 55,000 college-football fans, including more than 100 local Marines who paraded an American flag that spanned the football field....
Reno Air Races Big Announcement Scheduled from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Reno, Nevada - According to KRNV news in Reno, the Reno Air Races Association (RARA) says they will make a major announcement regarding the future of the National Championship Air Races on Wednesday January 4....
Aerobatic TRAINING AND POSTERS PRESENTED 2012 - Translated | Wednesday, December
21 at the historic hangar of the "Tricolour Arrows" of the 2nd Squadron of revolt, there was the traditional pre-Christmas meeting with the presentation of the training and the poster for the year 2012. The event is an event that is characterized by many years of winter activities Aerobatic Training Squadron 313 Air Force, a special opportunity to meet with local authorities, the clubs' Tricolour Arrows ", friends, family and lovers, what year After years of trips follow the "Arrows".... Latest Newsletter - P-38 National Association | The current issue of the "P‑38 Lightning Newsletter" is now available for viewing.
Critical Mass Update - AAFO | Sniperjdp posted this video on youtube on Christmas eve. It shows Critical Mass getting it's new power plant.
The Last 3km Record; Mojave Roots by Elliot Seguin | Full burner at an average speed of 988 mph,
200 feet agl for four passes. A homebuilt aircraft attempting to topple a record set on a military budget. Darryl had built his F-104 out of parts he had found painstakingly searching junk yards across the country; this took him 13 years. All systems unnecessary for the attempt were removed and fuel bags replaced them, giving him 1,050 gallons of Jet A for the attempt (typical standard load is 850 gal). He landed with 50 gallons...100 years ago: Two young men of Lawrence build their own ‘flying machine’ - LJ World | From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 30, 1911: "On December 12 the United States government granted a patent to Paul and Harry Elliott of Lawrence for a propeller that they have invented for the aeroplane they have built. The granting of this patent is an important step in the work that these young men have taken to perfect their flying machine.... The Elliott boys have been at work on their aeroplane for some time and it now looks as if success were theirs....
67 years in waiting - Tampabay.com | For three years, they had served side by side in the Air Corps as members of the 14th Air Force in China, a combat unit known as the Flying Tigers. During those years, Glaser and Watts flew dozens of combat missions. They faced down enemy bullets,...
Navy Lakehurst blimp veterans recall Cold War submarine hunts - Asbury Park Press | ...That Cold War cat-and-mouse game was the last hurrah for the Navy’s lighter-than-air program, which shut down in 1961 — and was revived almost 50 years to the day later in October 2011, with the formal commissioning of the MZ-3A, a 180-foot-long version of a commercial airship design....
Going to Rio — First Aerial Crossing of the South Atlantic - Travel for Aircraft | 1919 saw aircraft first crossing the northern Atlantic Ocean. Although relatively, and unfairly, unknown in the North America Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral were the first to fly across the South Atlantic — and they flew early, in 1922. The pair accomplished their feat with single engine floatplanes — Fairey IIID Mk II models — on a flight of several legs from Lisbon Portugal to Rio de Janeiro Brazil. The flight was also commemorative of Brazil’s centennial. The time in the air was just under 62½ hours but occurred over 79 days, using not one but two replacement aircraft. The total distance covered was 5209 miles (8383km) with the flight beginning on 30 March and concluding on 17 June....
Today in Aviation History – December 30 - CRUFC
EAA Interview with Chicken Wings Comics Co-Creator from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Chicken Wings Comics newsletter reveals that Mike Strasser, co-creator of Chicken Wings bagged an EAA Timeless Voices spot during his first visit to AirVenture last year. If his "real job" permits, a commercial helicopter pilot, he will be back next year!...
New WAI Scholarships - Apply Now from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Despite the deadline to apply for a Women in Aviation International scholarship having come and gone, two new scholarships are now available for 2012. These new scholarships bring the total to 73 individual
scholarships valued at $520,900 to be awarded to WAI members....Photos: Rare Last Look Inside Shuttle Atlantis from SPACE.com | These are some of the last photos of inside Atlantis you'll ever see.
Spaceport America poised for business - Las Cruces Bulletin | The desert between Las Cruces and Truth or Consequences was host to an image in October that was sent worldwide – British billionaire Richard Branson hanging by ropes off the side of a glass-walled balcony for the terminal hangar at Spaceport America. The Oct. 17 event was the ceremonial dedication for the 110,152-square-foot building that will hold Virgin Galactic’s fleet of spaceliners and be where its affluent passengers begin and end their $200,000 rides into space....
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