Big Reno Air Races Announcement Scheduled- My News 4 | 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. The press conference will be hosted by the President and CEO of RARA, Mike Houghton....
Aerobatics to entertain crowds as part of Abu Dhabi stopover - Gulf News | ...Flying with seven black and gold Aeromacchi aircraft, representing the desert's golden sands and the black oil that lies beneath it, Al Fursan will take to the skies at 4pm today and tomorrow....
1-1-2012 NVAHOF NEWS & SEASON GREETINGS - Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame | In behalf
of the officers, staff, and board of directors of the Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame, I wish our members and friends a Happy and prosperous New Year. The year 2011 proved to be a great year for NVAHOF and we expect 2012 to be even better. The staff of NVAHOF is pleased to announce that BGen Pete Winters, USAF (ret) has joined the NVAHOF Board of Directors effective November 2011. Following the October hall of fame induction dinner and ceremony, NVAHOF commenced its membership drive and reports an excellent response from throughout the United States, Canada, and England by aviation and aerospace supporters desiring to hold membership in NVAHOF. The high interest in NVAHOF...Happy New Year - Evan | I just want to wish all my aviation friends a very Happy New Year. I don't have any new interviews or articles. School is taking up a lot more of my time and the last one I did was with Steve Hinton. My dad has some videos he's done since I last wrote so check them out. These are the latest ones: http://vimeo.com/34358220, http://vimeo.com/34131353
Also, he just finished reading the book Double Eagles by my friend Bill Getz and he really loved the book a lot. By the way, here's my interview with Bill. So anyways, Happy New Year all my aviation friends. Evan
WASP sites on the web - You Fly Girl | There are a few websites about the WASP....Breakaway: the History of Women in Aviation December 2011 - You Fly Girl | The December 2011 issue of Breakaway: History of Women in Aviation is now available for the Kindle *and* the Nook....
Skagit Aero's Blog: Museum’s Newest Acquisition Monocoupe 90AW145 - Antique Airfield | The museum has recently acquired Fred Ludtke’s 1940 Monocoupe 90AW145. The well knownFred Ludtke from the Pacific Northwest flew this Monocoupe in over 200 airshows up and down the west coast. The Monocoupe was discovered in CA by Eric Minnis of Burlington, NC. The Monocoupe was retrieved to Burlington,NC with hopes of Eric restoring the Monocoupe for a customer. Skagit Aero’s Jim Jenkins saw the airplane...
Canadian Bush Flying: Early Challenges from AirSpace | Early Communication | Before the development of modern communication devices, H-boats often relied on carrier pigeons to reach their home base during emergency situations. An amusing story about two pigeons in particular was rumoured among many bush pilots. It has been said that Roy Maxwell*, the director of the Ontario Provincial Air Service (O.P.A.S.) from 1924 to 1934, sent all the way to Holland to order two supposedly fine message-carrying strain of pigeons at a cost of $125 per bird. This was in an effort to improve the blood line of the pigeons that his pilots relied on to relay information should they be forced down by engine trouble....
The Mighty Curtiss Robin – Maybe the Coolest Airplane of All Time from Flight Monkeys | You might think it’s a stretch to make such an audacious claim, but it’s entirely possible that the
Curtiss Robin is the coolest airplane ever built.That’s a subjective determination, surely. But consider these facts before passing judgement. The Curtiss Robin was manufactured during the late 1920s and early 1930s – in the heart of the Great Depression. It wasn’t fast, and certainly wasn’t sleek or sexy. It was solid, dependable, and much loved though. And in the days of flagpole sitters, flappers, and speakeasy’s the Robin and her pilots did things that nobody ever dreamed possible with an airplane....
Tony’s monuments and the world’s first scheduled airline by airplane - Travel For Aircraft | Tony Jannus was one of the early and brave aviators, in fact he piloted the aircraft for the first airplane based airline (airships had beaten the aircraft for the title of first airline). Although airships were the first airline we all now know that aircraft were to be the future of air travel. The aircraft he flew was then called an “air boat” and is what we now call a flying boat. It was a Benoist design, the Benoist
XIV — a flat hull biplane with a single pusher propeller driven by a Roberts in-line six cylinder engine....Rockwell B-1A Lancer roll out - Planeshots
Today in Aviation History - CRUFC
Dreamliner Downunder - Pacific Wings Magazine | Just over a month and a half after the first production Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” was delivered to the aircraft’s launch customer—Japan’s ANA—Boeing, in association with Air New Zealand, brought one of its Dreamliner test aircraft to New Zealand as part of a brief tour that also included Australia. The visiting aircraft, ZA001 (N787BA), has flown the highest number of
hours of any of Boeing’s 787 test fleet; in just over 500 flights, it has amassed around 1,300 hours of the fleet’s total of just over 5,400 hours....Learning to fly with helium balloons - High Power Rocketry
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