Monday, January 9, 2012

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Air Show Stars Coming to Tuscaloosa Regional Airshow 2012 from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Tuscaloosa's third airshow is shaping up to be another great Alabama aviation entertainment event. Headlining the 2012 Tuscaloosa Airshow so far will be the USN Blue Angels with Fat Albert, the US Army Golden Knights with star performers including:...

Thunderbird #5 - You Like Airplanes Too? | Thunderbird #5 of the USAF’s prestigious display team performs a flyby after a graduation ceremony at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo....
   
Think Kindness fund raises money for Air Race victims, donations still needed - KRNV My News 4 | Additionally, the “Kindness Crew” has helped to coordinate two major fundraising events including the Nevada Day Governor's Banquet which raised funds for the victims of the IHOP and National Championship Air Race tragedies. More projects are in the...

WWI fighter helps Kingston Aviation Festival take off - Kingston Guardian | A fighter plane that helped turn the tide for Britain in the First World War will be the star turn at an aviation festival.  WWI fighter the Sopwith Camel biplane, appearing in the borough for the first time since 1918, will be among the famous fighter planes featured at The Kingston Aviation Festival in June....

Slovenian adventurer Matevz Lenarcic embarks on 62,000 mile eco-friendly world trip in an ultra-light from Pilot News Magazine | Slovenian adventurer Matevz Lenarcic flew out of the capital Ljubljana on Sunday at the start of an eco-friendly trip around the world in an ultra-light plane boasting super-low fuel mileage. “I want to make people understand that this world is the only one we’ve been given and if we destroy it, we and our descendants [...]

Tandem Team in San Antonio - US Army Golden Knights | We were in San Antonio last week conducting tandems in connection with the Army’s All-American Bowl. While we enjoyed mild days with blue skies, a huge cold front swept through our home base of NC taking temps down into the teens...

Great (running) Bristol Hercules video - AAFO | What power these things have.  I feel a little funny sometimes watching these ... like dozens of valve-train gears up front spinning quickly like a Rolex watch running on Nitro, making all the bits mentioned above go 'round in perfect sync....

SoCal Aviation History Detailed In "Soaring Skyward" - Gazette Newspapers | Focusing on stories about aviation - from early years to now - in Southern California and Long Beach, Burnett's latest book published by AuthorHouse is written based on years of research done by Burnett, who discovered much of the information while she ...

'Red Tails' Opens January 20 - Aero-News Network | With so many Hollywood films looking like formulaic excuses for big paychecks, it's refreshing to hear the celebrities involved in the forthcoming Red Tails talk about their passion in making the tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen. George Lucas, who invested $58 million of his own money to make the movie, says a half-dozen studio heads turned down his offer to partner on the film....

Rosies reminisce - Ahwatukee Foothills News | 7 when a B-17 bomber flew over the area. “She looked over at me and she said, 'Some day I'm going to fly in one of those,'” Cooley said. “That's where the idea came from.” Rees and her twin sister, Amelia Kizer, served as 'Rosie the Riveters' during...

Fated to fly: Yorktown native earned his Wings - Star Press | ...Sixty-six years ago, though, he was at the controls of the P-47 Thunderbolt that was shooting up those Germans, the damage documented by gun cameras that recorded footage whenever he fired his fighter plane's eight machine guns....

Florida man finds WWII plane crash site - KSDK | Bob Willett found the plane, which crashed during World War II in China. The plane went down in western China in 1942 with Willett's cousin, Jimmy Browne, on board as the co-pilot. The C-47 cargo ship was tracked down by Willett and another man from ...

Marvellous MiG-21UMD captured in Croatia - Flightglobal - Flight's Image of the Day | From Flightglobal Airspace comes this picture of a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21UMD. To quote the photographer...

From Antique Airfield:
The Great Debate: boy v. girl pilots - Air Facts | There is no question who is winning.  Male pilots outnumber females by a commanding 94 to six margin, plus or minus a little. This is true of pilots in general as well as airline pilots.  When my friend Bonnie Tiburzi became the first female to be hired by a major U. S. airline (American) I thought maybe that would mark the beginning of a big change. It was a start but females only got up to that six percent of the total in airline flying....

Enormous Balloon Now Flying Near Orlando - Aero-News Network | If you've ever vacationed in central Florida, you know it's a land of superlatives where hundreds of attractions try to out-do each other, and at least half of them are called "something world." Now, the largest hot air balloon in the US has taken its place among the hype, and it will be hard to miss if it passes by....


Fifty-Seven Student Rocket Teams to Take NASA Launch Challenge from NASA Breaking News | More than 500 students from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities in 29 states will show their rocketeering prowess in the 2011-12 NASA Student Launch Projects flight challenge. The teams will build and test large-scale rockets of their own design in April 2012.

NASA Administrator Meets With Apollo Astronauts - PR Newswire | The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden regarding the ownership of early space exploration mementos and artifacts: "Earlier today, I had a good meeting with former Apollo astronauts Jim Lovell, Gene Cernan, Charlie Duke, Rusty Schweickart and other representatives of former astronauts and agency personnel, where we discussed how to resolve the misunderstandings and ownership questions regarding flight mementos and other artifacts. These are American heroes, fellow astronauts, and personal friends who have...

Photos of Note: The past and present of Russian aerospace - Flightglobal | Last week brought an odd re-occurring pattern of sorts: Different people, from very different places pointed me toward two different photographers who both captured the past and present of Russian aerospace in a series of extraordinarily detailed and artistically poignant photo essays. This page in the past has explored the immediate post-Soviet era in commercial air transport,...

Florida Space Day 2012 from RLV and Space Transport News | ...Representatives from Florida’s aerospace industry will visit Tallahassee on January 11, 2012, to participate in Florida Space Day and share with legislators the challenges facing this important business sector as the nation’s space program evolves.  “With the third largest space industry in the nation, Florida has a lot at stake in the decisions being made both in Tallahassee and in Washington D.C. regarding support for the space program,” said Jim McCarthy, chairman of Florida Space Day 2012....

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