Monday, May 21, 2012

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Paine Field Aviation Day from Aviation News - Airplane-Pictures.net | Held on the 19th of May this Aviation Day brought together the old and the new. This is run by the airport, and by the Washington Pilots Association – Paine Field... 

Great air show, pity about the traffic - inmycommunity | By Caroline Frank, Advocate MORE than 50000 people were treated to dazzling displays at the two-day Defence Air Show at RAAF Base Pearce in Bullsbrook at the weekend. Veteran aircraft watchers described the event as "the equal of anything in the world... 

Girls' Day on the Flightline @ Andrews from Toriaflies ...Bob was out of town so it was time for a long overdue girls' weekend! After a nice little party Saturday it was decided that we would all head over to Andrews Air Force Base for the joint service open house on Sunday.  My friends Meagan, Andrea, Carlotta and I were treated to jaw dropping performances by Sean Tucker, Michael Goulian, the Geico Skytypers, the...

FA-22 Raptor To Fly In Fleet Week Air Show from Aero-News Network | First Time For The Air Force Plane In The San Francisco Exhibition For the first time in the history of Fleet Week, the Air Force F-22 Raptor will be blazing through the skies of San Francisco during the 31st annual Fleet Week celebration October 4-7, 2012. The FA-22 is one of the fastest jets to ever fly during Fleet Week with top speeds of Mach 1.8 or just over 1,300 mph... 

Crowd gather for Red Arrows return to Bournemouth - Bournemouth Echo | Flt Lt Egging's plane crashed into a field near Throop after a display at last year's Bournemouth Air Festival. It is the first time the team have been back to Bournemouth since they left the airport a week after his death in August last year...

AIR SHOWS: Season of flight is under way - North County Times | Palm Springs Air Museum: While this vintage airplane museum doesn't have an annual air show, it presents monthly lectures, flyovers and fly-ins. Coming up May 28 is the annual Memorial Day Flower Drop, where a B-25 Mitchell will fly over the runway and... 

Bring a chair to Memorial Day event - StandardNet | The program, titled "Honoring Veterans," will feature keynote speaker E. Lamar Buckner, a World War II B-17 pilot, as well as the American Legion Farmington Post 27 Honor Guard and Davis High School Drum Line. Guests are encouraged to bring their own ... 

Vulcan flypast at Falklands' memorial in the Arboretum at Staffordshire - MercoPress | A Chinook helicopter also took part in the flypast. The memorial is located within the British National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, along with 200 memorials to those who served or died for their country all over the world not just in major...

Fly-past by aircraft - Epworth Bells | One of the highlights of the weekend is a fly-past by the Royal Air Force over the area to the South of St Nicholas Church during the afternoon of Saturday June 2 when the Church will be the focus of activities including displays, competitions,... 

Pilots from Benson lead royal flypast - The Oxford Times | HELICOPTER pilots from RAF Benson led a flypast over Windsor for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebration. About 2500 troops from the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force – including some from Benson – paraded through the Quadrangle of Windsor... 

May 21, 1927 | Charles Lindbergh Flies Solo Across the Atlantic - New York Times | On May 21, 1927, aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Lindbergh was just 25 years old when he completed the trip. He learned to fly while serving in ... 

Screening of Amelia Earhart's flying visit - Belfast Telegraph | By Donna Deeney The 80th anniversary of Amelia Earhart's transatlantic flight is being marked with the debut screening of newly-discovered film footage of the pioneering aviator. For the first time ever, enthusiasts are being given the chance to view... 

Flying Boxcar Walkaround — Fairchild C-119 in North Carolina from Travel for Aircraft | This Flying Boxcar sits in the air park of the 82nd Airborne Division and War Memorial Museum near Fayetteville NC.... 

William Hague's 83-year-old father performs wing-walk stunt - Telegraph.co.uk | The 83-year-old daredevil dad of Foreign Secretary William Hague has performed a breath-taking wing-walk to raise the profile of the NSPCC. The pensioner is plannning more fundraising but has yet to decide on his next challenge...

Part blimp, part kite: Military testing Helikite for use over Afghan skies from Stars and Stripes | The U.S. military is testing high-tech "battle kites" as a method of lifting communications and surveillance equipment above isolated bases in Afghanistan. 

Strange object nearly triggers mid-air collision - KPLC-TV | Radio transmissions from LiveATC.net confirm a nervous-sounding pilot reported a strange object at 5:17 pm on Monday. The pilot is heard telling air traffic control: "A remote controlled aircraft, or what? Something just went by the other way... 

Heathrow Terminal 2's New Sculpture from Things with Wings by Rupa Haria | The centrepiece of Heathrow's new Terminal 2, the future home of Star Alliance, was revealed today. Named 'Slipstream,' the giant sculpture, estimated to be the size of an Airbus A380 and weighing...

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