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Restored bomber for airshow - Otago Daily Times | The only remaining airworthy Avro Anson from World War 2 has been confirmed to fly at the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow this Easter. The aircraft were popular coastal reconnaissance bombers that performed anti-submarine and convoy...

Imperial Valley residents glam up, celebrate Navy, air show - Imperial Valley Press | The El Centro Chamber of Commerce held its sixth Air Show Gala on Friday evening, bringing more than 100 people to the local Navy base for a formal black-tie event. To find out more about the event, please read the Imperial Valley Press print edition...

Black WWII pilot shares his legacy - Dothan Eagle | The name alone, Lt. Col. Herbert Eugene Carter, may have meant little to most of those in attendance at a Black History Month kickoff at the installation’s Post Exchange on Friday.  But the enthusiasm of both residents and children at...

Members wanted to reunite to mark 60th year of V-Force - Horncastle Today | Newark Air Museum is organising a reunion to commemorate 60 years since the formation of the V-Force; the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis; and with a special reference back to the 30th Anniversary of the Falklands Campaign....

Charles A. Lindbergh is born in Detroit, MI. In 1927 from National Air and Space Museum | Today in 1902: Charles A. Lindbergh is born in Detroit, MI. In 1927, he made the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris in the Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis" (on display in Washington, DC). After that historic flight, Lindbergh wore this helmet while flying the "Spirit of St. Louis" on a Good Will Tour of South America. This helmet and other personal items carried by Lindbergh on his flights are on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center....

St. Louis Aviation Community Mourns the Passing of Donn Byrnes - The Aero Experience | Donn Byrnes left us to be with the Lord on Monday, January 23, 2012. The eldest son of Gen. Victor Byrnes, M.D. and Ethel Seebach, he embraced early the joy of learning and understanding how things worked. Fascinated with airplanes...

Restored WWII plane takes flight - Tidewater News | Hager was among members of the Commemorative Air Force Old Dominion Squadron at Franklin Municipal Airport who restored the plane. “We were happy,” said Hager, who worked on the plane's wiring and detailing. “We'd been waiting on this for a long time....

WWII Russian plane makes stop at Port - TheNewsTribune.com | The only remaining flying example of the most prolifically produced plane in history, a World War II Russian IL-2 attack plane, arrived this week at the Port of Tacoma on its way to Everett. This Russian IL-2 arrived at the Port of Tacoma this week on...

Willa Brown worked to incorporate Black aviators into military from Air Force Link Top Stories | Inspired by the achievements of Bessie Coleman during the early days of aviation, Willa Brown would go on to have an impact on African-American involvement that would lead to the creation of the famed all-African-American "Tuskegee Airmen" combat flying squadrons during World War II.  As a young high school teacher in Gary, Ind., and later as a social worker in Chicago, Willa Brown felt that her talents were being wasted. She sought greater challenges and adventures in life, especially if they could be found outside the limited career fields normally open to African Americans....

Old Glory Honor Flight will launch special trip to Pearl Harbor - Appleton Post Crescent | Marines stand ready for a wreath laying ceremony at the USS Arizona Memorial, part of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, in December in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Appleton-based Old Glory Honor Flight will fly veterans to Pearl Harbor...

Brig. Gen. Neil Kennedy provided flying gas station in Vietnam and for SAC - War Tales | Capt. Neil Kennedy flew a KC-135 jet tanker in Vietnam War and continued to pilot the same flying gas station for the Strategic Air Command after the Southeast Asian war. He retired in 1991 as a brigadier general after 32 years of service in the U.S. Air Force and the Air Force National Guard and moved to Calusa Lakes subdivision in Nokomis, Fla. “I volunteered for the Vietnam War in 1966 and flew with the 28th Air Refueling Group out of Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. We flew...

Naval aviator Al Boyd flew off USS Ranger (CV-4) before WWII - War Tales | After graduating in 1936 from Naval Aviation in Pensacola as an ensign, Capt. Al Boyd’s first assignment aboard the Battleship Tennessee was as a catapult pilot flying a pontoon spotter plane. Twenty –five years later, as a captain commanding a Navy base out west, he flew an F-4 “Phantom II” jet fighter-bomber faster than Mach-2 –1,700 miles per hour. On Friday the ancient aviator will celebrate another milestone. He will be 100 years old....

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What was Dropped from the Skies First, the Mails or Bombs? from Ptak Science Books | Seeing this splendid image of the 1909 near-future forced a question into mind:  what came first, aerial delivery of mail or aerial delivery of explosives?  I suspected that "mail" would be the correct answer, but didn't know how much deeper that went into the past than the history of aerial bombing....

February 4 – Aviation History - CRUFC

Missouri Aviation Historical Society Meeting Features Members' Experiences in the Civil Air Patrol  - The Aero Experience | The Missouri Aviation Historical Society is a group of folks with a love of aircraft, and we are striving to record and document the rich aviation history that has been a part of the great state of Missouri for the past century. From Benoist to Zenith, the aviation industry in the "Show Me" state has always been at the forefront of technology, and has produced some of the world’s best known aircraft. Famous pilots, from Jimmy Doolittle, to...

Burt Rutan Returns for Another Shot at Space Travel - AIN online | The science-fiction pundits were wrong. The future of space travel doesn’t look like a Buck Rogers-style rocket poised to roar straight up into the twinkling heavens from a tinkerer’s backyard. What space travel will look like, ...

Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Ramping Up Toward Passenger Flights - Space.com | This year is key for Virgin Galactic's bid to become the first commercial spaceliner service, as rocket-powered flights of its SpaceShipTwo are on the books for summer. Meanwhile, assembly of a second vehicle pair...