Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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Duluth Airshow Announces Airforce Heritage Flight - Northland's NewsCenter | The Heritage Flight features a state of the art fighter and a vintage fighter flying together. Aircraft in this year's show include an F-16 and P-51 Mustang. Organizers are also hoping to secure an F-4 Phantom for the performance...

Red Eagles coming to Porterville Air Faire - Porterville Recorder | The Red Star Flight Demonstration Team, The Red Eagles, will make their first valley appearance as part of the 2012 Porterville Air Faire on June 9 at Porterville Municipal Airport. The four-man unit flies a Russian built YAK 52s built primarily as...

Esquadrilha da Fumaça - 60 years of flying from Aviation News - Airplane-Pictures.net | Pictures from our Brazillian member, Renato Serra Fonseca of the 60th anniversary celebrations at Campo Fontenelle for the Esquadrilha da Fumaça....

Twister Duo Nightflight from Apron 6 | This photo was taken in almost complete darkness. Most of the light is made by my flash. If you look good you can see the flashreflection in his helmet. This way of photographing was new to me, but by...

Super Hornets pack a sting - airrace.com.au | At this weekend's Defence Force air show at RAAF Pearce, the Super Hornet will be a showstopper with its power and agility. It is a significant enhancement over the classic F/A-18 Hornet, which is the frontline fighter for the...

Wings of Freedom Tour Lands at Santa Barbara Airport - Noozhawk |The national tour features rare bomber and fighter aircraft, including a World War II Vintage Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress,...

2012 Raytheon Award Video- Must see!! - Vimeo (via AAFO)

3 fly into LI Air & Space Hall of Fame - Newsday | They flew into history -- a space station commander, a scientist and a journalist -- and landed Monday at the Long Island Air & Space Hall of Fame. At the Cradle of Aviation Museum, aerospace and education officials toasted...

Corpus Christi pilot, part of WWII bombing group over Japan, dies Sunday at age 93 - Corpus Christi Caller Times | By Steven Alford CORPUS CHRISTI — James Norman Price Jr., a commander in the famed 509th Composite Bomb Group that dropped atomic bombs over Japan during World War II, died Sunday. He was 93. In a 1999 interview, Price recalled being sent to Tinian, ...

Local WWII vets pay visit to DC memorial - The Tennessean | During the war, he shot a machine gun from a B17 plane with the 493 Bomb group of the US Army Air Corp stationed in England from 1944-45. Dodge, who survived 33 missions, had never seen the memorial until last Tuesday. "It was such an honor and so ...

Daredevil Canadian acrobatic pilot becomes member of Jordan's royal family - Winnipeg Free Press | Aerobatic pilot Basmah Hasan became Princess Basmah in January after she wed Prince Hamzah of Jordan's Hashemite royal family. Hamzah is the son of the late King Hussein and his American-born wife, Queen Noor, and a senior officer in Jordan's armed ...

Museum scheme hopes to revive RAF Coltishall - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press | The aviation history of RAF Coltishall could be brought back to life after a company vying to take over the axed base revealed plans to turn it into a heritage centre and museum. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address ...

Remote Area Medical Founder Visits St. Louis Area In Donated Cessna Caravan from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation | A Cessna 208 Caravan from Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps, crewed by founder Mr. Stan Brock and Mr. Wayne Hughes, made a recent stop at TAC Air St. Louis. The Caravan was on its first flight with 20 dental chairs on board from Knoxville TN to Sacramento, CA following its donation to Remote Area Medical (RAM) by FEDEX. The aircraft...

A gift to remember - GAN | Jim Torphy has celebrated quite a few birthdays over the course of his life. At 90 years old, his personal anniversary has become somewhat more impressive though, and so his birthday party last month surpassed what most of us go through each year by quite a bit. Torphy is a pilot. In fact, he's a pilot's pilot. He's an airplane kind of guy, who loves gliders, too. He's flown with wheels on the end of his gear, but is equally comfortable putting a set of floats down on the water. He's the kind of man...

Gladiator Fire – Day 2 from PHXspotters by Felipe Garcia | Yesterday morning the Gladiator Fire was reported near Crown King. What started as a structure fire in private property has extended to over 1300 acres and is threatening the town of Crown King, as well as other historical sites in the area. For those that didn't hear, Crown King was barely saved during the 2008 Lane II Fire. Crown King is currently under a mandatory evacuation. Two airtankers, T-06 and T-07, both P2V Neptunes operated by Neptune Aviation were already  in Prescott and called to action....

Volta Volare' at EAS VI from CAFE Foundation Blog by Dean Sigler | Action at the sixth annual Electric Aircraft Symposium did not stop at the end of each day's presentations, but carried into the evening hours on Friday, April 27.  Three theme dinners allowed additional speakers to present materials on motors, aerodynamics, or energy....

Podcast Episode 18 Goes International (straight from Dubai, UAE) from Flight Monkeys | The wait may have been long, but we'd like to think it was worth it. One of our favorite guests, Baird Campbell, Skyped in from his luxury layover in Dubai, to jabber with Jamie for your education, illumination, and entertainment. It isn't often you get to chat with a commercial pilot in the midst of a twelve day jaunt across the globe. Baird makes it all look easy, but he's happy to share his perspective on what just might be the greatest job in the world. From grabbing naps, to WWII era aircraft recoveries, to photography exhibits, and even the...

Boeing 787 Dreamliner Makes Second Tour Visit to St. Louis from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation | By Mark Nankivil | The Boeing 787 Dreamliner made a second tour visit to St. Louis today, stopping at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport near the headquarters for Boeing's Defense, Space & Security Division.  The Dreamliner is in...

Student Pilots From Around The Country Compete In Salina, KS from Aero-News Network | Over 500 Collegiate Aviators To Participate InSafety And Evaluation Conference Pilots from collegiate aviation programs around the country are testing their skill and competing to be named the National Top Pilot during SAFECON 2012, hosted by Kansas State University Salina and held at Salina Municipal Airport...

Video: Astronauts Suni Williams and Joe Acaba Talk About Riding Soyuz and Baikonur Cosmodrome from Spaceports | NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Joe Acaba talk about what it's like to ride on a Soyuz and how it differs from a space shuttle launch....

New Astronaut Crew Launches Toward Space Station from SPACE.com | The three astronauts are slated to arrive at the orbiting lab early Thursday.

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