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2012 Planes of Fame Airshow Preview with Photos - Todd Allen Escondido Military Aviation Examiner | The Planes of Fame airshow in Chino, California is a must see for any war bird enthusiast. Planes of fame Air Museum is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Its mission is to preserve aviation history. They do one step better than that. They fly their airplanes! Not just once a year but all year round, all over the United States. This is a very costly venture. It is through donors and volunteers that keep the aircraft flying and in as good as shape as they are. It is apparent that each individual who works for Planes of Fame is filled with pride, dedication, passion and each are filled with a deep love and respect for vintage aircraft....

Joint Base gearing up for free air show next month featuring Air Force ... - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com | By The Star-Ledger Continuous News Desk EPA/ROBERT GHEMENT The Air Force Thunderbirds are scheduled to fly during next month's free show and open house. McGUIRE AIR FORCE BASE — Officials are ramping up security efforts in advance of the 2012 Open ...

Military base taking extra security measures for air show - phillyBurbs.com | JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST — Base officials are taking extra steps to make sure security runs smoothly when the installation opens its gates to the public for the 2012 Open House and Air Show next month. Hundreds of security forces personnel and ...

Center Fly-In & Air Show - Longview News-Journal | The Young Eagles flights for kids ages 8 to17 years from 10:00 am to 12 noon. You may pre-register at the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce or at the airport between 9:00 am to 10:00 am on Saturday, May 5. All registrations must have parent or guardian ...

Skip Stewart Aerobatic flight through the hangars from TAKEOFF TUBE

Flying high after news of jet fighter's air show visit - Portsmouth News | By Chris Owen News that a de Havilland Sea Vixen of the Fleet Air Arm is set to appear at the first Portsmouth Air Show on August 18 made Graham Hill dig out these old photos. His grandfather, Wally Hill, worked at the de Havilland factory in Airport ...

Preparations under way for Seething Charity Air Day - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press | Mr Smith said: “To have a Spitfire at any airshow is really exciting, and this is a fantastic example, so we are really proud to have that.” The event, which is organised by Seething Flying Club and supported by the EDP, will also welcome a Great War ...

The Spitfire and Mustang which will be on show at Old Buckenham Airshow on June 24 - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press | By dominic bareham Two of the world's most iconic fighters will be gracing the skies over a Norfolk village on June 24 when an airshow returns after a year off. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address below...

L.A. Firefighters Give WW II Vet Vintage Plane Ride - Firehouse.com | The ride in the plane -- a working B-17 bomber from the WWII era -- was a trip back to the glory days for Howenstein, a decorated Army infantryman who fought in the Normandy Invasion and the Battle of the Bulge. The Northridge resident's ride in the ...

70th anniversary of Doolittle raid on Tokyo to be commemorated - Sacramento Bee | Three members of "Doolittle's Raiders" will share their memories of the April 18, 1942, mission, which was the first US attack on the Japanese mainland during the war. Doolittle's son, John P. Doolittle, a retired Air Force colonel; and granddaughter, ...

Ferocious Frankie Comes To Towcester Racing Or Not - AboutMyArea | A flying display at 12.15pm today (Monday 30th April) was to preceed a full day's racing, but a waterlogged track put paid to the racing, however Ferocious Frankie, an immaculate 1944 Mustang, and an aerobatic display team make an appearance and ...

Air Museum to host pancake feed and car show - Sioux City Journal | SIOUX CITY -- The MidAmerica Museum of Aviation and Transportation will host its spring Fly-In and Drive-In Pancake Breakfast Sunday in Sioux City. The breakfast will be held 8 am to noon at 2600 Expedition Court. There is free admission to the museum ...

Groundswell of opposition halts bid to ground warbirds - AOPA Pilot | By Jim Moore The Commemorative Air Force put its B-29 Superfortress Fifi (seen here at Sun 'n Fun) front and center in its battle cry against a legislative push to ground warbirds. The nation's airworthy warbirds have survived, for now, another attempt ...

Stalls, Spins, and Misunderstandings from Let's Go Flying by Steve Tupper | The general public understands that, when a car’s engine stops running in an unplanned sort of way, that engine has “stalled.” But “stall” means something completely different in the context of aviation.  A stall in an airplane usually has nothing to do with the engine. Sure, an airplane’s engine can stall, but aviators usually use some other word, such as “quit” or “stop.”...

James A Read from Test & Research Pilots, Flight Test Engineers | Photos

‘Suddenly, I saw the Zero coming toward me’ – Sgt. Mel Clark rode shotgun in dive bomber during WWII from War Tales by Don Moore | “We were flying over Rabul at 15,000 feet and went into a dive in our (Douglas Dauntles) SBD dive bombers. Suddenly, I saw this Japanese Zero coming toward me. The pilot looked right at me as I started firing,” former Sgt. Mel Clark recalled six decades later. “I had my canopy open. The slipstream caught [...]

Nigeria: Air Force decorates first female pilot from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | From Business Day: Air Force decorates first female pilot | The Nigerian Air Force on Friday in Abuja decorated its first female pilot, Flying Officer Blessing Liman, along with 29 other male pilots. Decorating the officers in Abuja...

1st female to fly globe solo to get statue in Ohio from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | From LancasterEagleGazette: 1st female to fly globe solo to get statue in Ohio | COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTW) — Admirers of the first woman to fly solo around the world are raising money to install a bronze, life-sized statue of her in her central Ohio hometown. Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock's historic flight ended in Columbus 48 years ago, and supporters plan to honor her with the statue at a history center in Newark....

Playground fighter jet now in Pacific Air Museum - San Francisco Chronicle | The Pacific Coast Air Museum had just two aircraft on display when the Navy called in early 1993. An old war plane needed to be moved, and the military wanted the fledgling Santa Rosa museum to pick it up. "I remember saying to somebody, ...

FlightTime Radio Show 223 from The FlightTime Radio Show | From the studio in Jacksonville, Charlie and Milford talked about the fun of flying with Glenn who had joined in via the phone. Glenn had to rub it in that even though we have a Grand View over the city from our Key Auto Studio, He was sitting back in his la-Z-Boy recliner enjoying the view he has out his front window of the air operations there at Cecil Field on Jacksonville’s Westside…

Navy F-35C Formation Flight CoolPix Triple Play (Plus Video) from AirPigz by Martt | The first formation flying done by two of the Navy versions of the the Lightning II (F-35C) was completed recently as these sweet hi-res pix show. Plus, don't miss the video at the bottom of the post for the official Lockheed Martin footage of the event. I don't know about you, but I think those lightning bolts on the fins is one of the coolest graphic treatments on a fighter in a long time... it just looks hot!...

F-35C Flight in Formation from TAKEOFF TUBE

Boeing Celebrates 50 Years in Alabama from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | HUNTSVILLE AL- The Boeing Company today celebrates 50 years in Alabama, where employees play a vital role in building and sustaining the United States' space and defense programs. The largest aerospace company in the state of Alabama, Boeing maintains its Strategic Missile & Defense Systems headquarters in Huntsville, as well as its largest program, Ground-based Midcourse Defense. Huntsville also hosts Boeing Exploration Launch Systems, which oversees the Space Launch System - NASA's new heavy-lift launch vehicle - and support to the International Space Station....

F-23A diagram from The Unwanted Blog | This was Northrops plan for an operational follow-on to the YF-23, with some notable geometry changes....

Wide-bottomed Apollo from The Unwanted Blog | A 1962 study by North American Aviation produced designs for the Apollo Service Module designed to mate directly to the 260-inch-diameter Saturn S-IVb and other stages. At the request of the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (later known as the Johnson Space Center), NAA studied whether it would be advantageous to increase the 154-inch base diameter of the Service Module....