Casting of the Marine Aviation Centennial Bell in commemoration of 100 years ... - Cincinnati.com | The MCAA McCutcheon Squadron is erecting a memorial bell tower on the 100th anniversary of the first flight of the first Marine Aviator. The bell for the tower will be cast in Cincinnati at the Bell Event Centre (444 Reading Road) on April 26, ...
Ebace 2012 Preview: Manufacturers Gather for Europe’s Must-attend Event from www.ainonline.com : Latest News by Charles Alcock | The 62 aircraft on static display at last year’s Ebace contrasted starkly with the economic gloom, and organizers expect this year’s show to have a similar turnout. While Europe’s economies continue to struggle, and in some cases flirt with disaster, there might be a case for playing down expectations over prospects for the annual European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (Ebace). But the highly successful show has defied general economic pessimism in the years since the financial crisis took hold in the Old World in 2008, and the 2012 event (May 14 to 16) looks as if it could be no exception when it opens again in Geneva, one of Europe’s most prosperous cities....
See spectacular Sun `n Fun photos - AOPA Blogs by Al Marsh | March 30, 2012 by Alton K. Marsh, Senior Editor, AOPA Pilot. Scott Kelby, president of an association devoted to improving everyone's photos, visited Sun `n Fun in Lakeland, Fla., Thursday and got some amazing shots. See them here (and...
Red Arrows back flying again with Sunderland in their sights - The Northern Echo | THE world acclaimed aerobatics team, the Red Arrows, are to return to the Sunderland International Airshow later this year. Despite two fatalities involving Red Arrows pilots last year, the RAF's premier display team is back flying again and will be at ...
The Tricolour Arrows expected to Albenga Sunday, September 16: the logistics base ... - Your
Newspaper (translated) | It 'already countdown to the eagerly awaited show of the Tricolour Arrows returning in Liguria on 15 and 16 September. After the stage of Imperia on Saturday with a performance at the rally of Vintage Sails to be held in Porto Maurizio in Imperia,...This week's Flight International: F-22 flying into the sunset - Flightglobal | It has been dubbed the world's best air dominance fighter, but when the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor finally entered flight testing in the late 1990s the world had already moved on from the Cold War and the USA was preparing for different kinds of ...
Airshow victim of its own success - Wanganui Chronicle | The fallout has already begun over the traffic chaos from the Royal New Zealand Airforce 75th Anniversary Airshow held at Ohakea over the weekend - but it would be a shame if these concerns overshadowed what was clearly an enormously successful event...
Women in Aviation 2012 Conference Report from www.ainonline.com : Latest News by Amy Laboda | Recovering jobs market boosts attendance at networking event | This year aviation companies, even airlines, are resuming hiring, and that alone may explain the new attendance record set by the annual Women in Aviation International Conference, held in Dallas from March 8 to 10. It might be difficult to believe that in 2012 women still need to band together to help each other find jobs in the aviation and aerospace industries. After all...
Spitfires return to Biggin Hill in heritage hangar - This is Local London | Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar spokesman Robin Brooks said: "Interest is very much on the agenda and with the sad demise of the annual Air Fair, the establishment of the heritage hangar will certainly put Biggin Hill back where it belongs on the vintage ...
Hometown Heroes: Pancho Barnes and Donald Douglas Sr. - Santa Monica Mirror | Pancho Barnes (1901-1975) joined 19 other women pilots, including the most famous woman aviator of the time, Amelia Earhart, as they took off from Santa Monica Airport. The women were flying in the first Women's Air Derby. It was 1929, a time when only ...
Former Record Holder Unable To Get A Pilot Certificate Renewal from Aero-News Network | Rachel Carter Had Double Heart Valve Replacement At 19 Years Old The young girl who at one time was the youngest to fly across the country on her own ... with her father in the right seat ... has been
denied the renewal of her pilot certificate due to a double heart valve replacement eight years ago. FARs do not allow persons who have had such surgery to hold pilot certificates....Big way, Florida state record. Picture by Willy Boeykens from Bonjour BlueSky
Lockheed Reached a New Milestone with F-16 from Warplanes Online Community | Lockheed Martin celebrates the delivery of the 4500th unit of the F-16 jet model. It is such a huge milestone for Lockheed Martin and Fort Worth, where the jet planes are made. The F-16 is considered the best combat airplane of the jet age. It is the foremost warplane of the United States Air Force and 25 other nations. The 4500th plane is bound for Morocco. Almost half of all the F-16 that was built was ordered by foreign nations....
Photo: Tornado night take off with full afterburner from David Cenciotti | Here’s what a flight of Italian Tornados taking off from Decimomannu airbase for a night mission looks like...
New Aircraft Introduced At P-8A Roll-Out Ceremony from Milcom Monitoring Post by Larry | More than 1,200 distinguished visitors filled the Patrol Squadron 30 hangar at Naval Air Station Jacksonville March 28 to celebrate the first fleet delivery of the P-8A Poseidon multi-mission aircraft. "In the same year that our maritime patrol and reconnaissance force (MPRF) is celebrating 50 years of service for the P-3 Orion, we're also celebrating the fleet introduction of P-8 Poseidon," said Capt. Mark Stevens, VP-30 commanding officer and master of ceremonies....
Aero Club makes pitch for survival - Dayton Daily News | WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Members of the Wright-Patterson Aero Club, battling the base's proposal to shut down the flying group, made a pitch to base officials Monday in an effort to ...
Video: PAL-V Flying Car Kinda Motorcycle Gyrocopter Thingy Flies! from AirPigz by Martt | ...
But there remains a significant desire among many to see the car and the airplane produce some sort of hybrid offspring. The PAL-V flying car project designed and...Movie Tuesday - April 3 - The Birth of Concorde from FlightBlogger - Aviation News, Commentary and Analysis by Jon Ostrower | This week's Movie Monday takes a deep look at the birth of the first commercially operational supersonic airliner, Aerospatiale/BAe Concorde. The development of the Mach 2.4 aircraft goes back through the technical origins that served as the basis for the drooping nose, delta wing design of jet. The hour-long documentary examines the material and aerodynamic properties and the challenges to sustain both low and high-speed stability, as well as the trans-atlantic political dynamics of the supersonic aircraft fielded by Tupolev and Boeing....
Photos: BA's Olympic Dove Livery from Things with Wings by Rupa Haria | British Airways has
painted nine Airbus A319s in the new Olympic inspired 'Dove' livery. The livery was designed by British designer Pascal Anson with mentoring from artist Tracy Emin. It "transforms the aircraft into the bird of peace," according to British Airways....The Rest of the Rocket Scientists - airspacemag.com | Some went west. This is the story of the ones who went east. | IN THE CLOSING WEEKS OF WORLD WAR II, AS ALLIED TROOPS RUMBLED INTO GERMAN TOWNS and the victors jockeyed to divide the spoils, one prize stood out: the people and machinery that had produced the V-2 rocket, one of the war’s most exotic weapons. To the delight of U.S. intelligence, Wernher von Braun and most of his top associates on the V-2 development team chose to surrender to the Americans, shrewdly calculating where they might be allowed to continue their pioneering research after the war....
Virgin Galactic 500th Ticket Bought by Ashton Kutcher for $200000 - Z6Mag | The Virgin Galactic is a six-passenger, two-pilot spaceship built and tested by Scaled Composites, an aerospace company founded by aircraft designer Burt Rutan and now owned by Northrop Grumman. Right now the Virgin Galactic is in the final stages of ...
NASA v. NASM: Different approaches to mating (and demating) from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick |
Flickr user james_gordon_los_angeles (click image to see his photo stream) recently posted the following photo of the Shuttle Mate-Demate Device (MDD) at the Shuttle Landing Facility, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. NASA has (had?) three of them, all with different designs. James has more into attached to his photo....Press Release: "Astronauts for Hire" Book Available Now from Astronauts for Hire by Astronauts4Hire | Tampa, Florida – Human spaceflight is no longer the sole preserve of professional astronauts working on government-funded space programs. As private companies build and operate launch new vehicles, a new breed of astronaut is coming into being – the commercial astronaut. Astronauts4Hire (A4H) Training Officer Dr. Erik Seedhouse’s ninth book titled Astronauts for Hire: The Emergence of the Commercial Astronaut Corps (ISBN 978-1-4614-0519-1) explores how this new breed of astronaut will be selected and trained, providing a unique insight into the kinds of missions and tasks that commercial astronauts will perform....
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