Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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Army, Air Force combine for air show success - Sumter Item | SHAW AIR FORCE BASE - As the propellers roared and the jets screamed over the Shaw Air Force Base airfield May 5-6, thousands of spectators walked through the gates at the 2012 Shaw Air Expo. With all the fun, excitement and enthusiasm that took flight ...

PERFECTION: Clear skies greet air show's return - Cherry Hill Courier Post | JB MDL hosts air show: Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst hosted an open house and air show, the first since 2008. Burlington County, NJ - The United States Air Force Thunderbirds perform. The 2012 Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Open House and Air Show ...

Text to win airshow tickets - Sidmouth Herald | ... ground for all the family including side shows, funfair, vintage, classic and military vehicles, service demonstrations, interactive displays, picnic areas, helicopter pleasure flights, simulator rides, trade stands and much more. Yeovilton airshow.

EAA Airventure 2012 promo - YouTube

First Look: The Bob Hoover Project – Poster Sneak Peek! | Sneak peek of the poster for the upcoming feature documentary film in production on the life of flying legend R.A. "Bob" Hoover... 

Diamond Jubilee: Fighter jets' Anglesey rehearsal fly-past - BBC News | Fighter jets have rehearsed a fly-past over Anglesey for the Diamond Jubilee, in preparation for the actual event over Windsor Castle. Fighter jets have rehearsed a fly-past over Anglesey for the Diamond Jubilee, although the actual event will be over ...

Special Ceremony Honors WWII Pilot's Courage, Service - Patch.com | On February 14, 1945, Elmer piloted a B-17 Flying Fortress, which suffered heavy flak damage under enemy fire and lost three of its four engines. Maneuvering through heavy artillery, Elmer put the lives of his ten crew members before his own – ordering ...

Chet Peek's Jenny from Ely Air Lines | On February 17, 2009 we brought you the story of a JN4-D "Jenny" at Kickapoo Downtown Airport in Wichita Falls, and the only two people permitted to fly it for its new owners, the City of Wichita Falls, David Martin and Tom Danaher. At a recent gathering of antique airplanes in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma we discovered another piece of this fascinating historical puzzle, a man named Chester Peek....

Crash landed WW2 fighter jet winging its way from Sahara to Hendon - Times Series | A Second World War fighter jet that crash landed in the vast abyss of the Sahara desert almost 70 years ago could be winging its way to a Hendon museum after it was miraculously discovered largely intact. The stray Kittyhawk P-40 (similar to the one ...

RAF Mildenhall hosts European Tanker Symposium from Air Force Link Top Stories | The 100th Air Refueling Wing hosted the European Tanker Symposium here May 9-11. Attendees included the Royal Air Force 101 Squadron, French air force Bretagne Sqadron, Italian air force 14 Wing, Belgium air component, and the U.S. Air Force 603rd Air and Space Operations Center from Ramstein Air Base, Germany...

Another foam party! This time at Charleston AFB. Maybe USAF should check its fire suppression systems from David Cenciotti's weblog | When I published the picture about the F-15, F-16 and A-10 submerged by foam at Eglin AFB, Florida, I thought that this kind of incident was quite rare. I was wrong....

May 15, 1930 – The first ever stewardess flies on the Oakland-Chicago run from Roger-Wilco by steve | Ellen Church was a registered nurse from Iowa and a girl in love with aviation. She even got his pilot's license and tried to get a job with one of the airlines but in the 1930s this was a mission impossible for a woman. However she did not give up and when the folks at Boeing Air Transport (BAT, the forerunner of United Airlines) refused to give her a pilot job, she put forward another idea. BAT should employ nurses on board by way of alleviating the fear of flying that had been a very real problem for the airlines and their passengers back then...

History of aviation - Epworth Bells | The project links up with the already successful heritage trails running further south in Lincolnshire with Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire (AHL). For more information about the Northern Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Project please call the number ...

Not your grandfather's B-52 from DoD Buzz by Philip Ewing | Global Strike Command's boss says upgrades will mean the B-52 continues its key role in US planning.

"GTFO" UCAP #285 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Guest: "Chris" the retired B-52 pilot.

China May Launch Shenzhou 9 in Mid-June with First Female Taikonaut to Tiangong 1 from Spaceports | Three Chinese taikonauts are expected to rocket to orbit aboard the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft by as early as mid-June 2012 on the nation's forth human spaceflight. The spaceflight includes the possibility of the first Chinese female among the three-member crew.  Nonetheless, the flight could be launched as late as August; no firm date has been announced in the Chinese media but preparations for the launch campaign are well underway...

Red Bull Stratos: Breaking the Barrier of Sound from Aerial Sports Feed | Is it really possible for a human being to break the speed of sound in freefall? Here's what...

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