Thursday, May 24, 2012

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SPOTTED: The Blue Angels Doing What They Do Best - Business Insider | As a precursor to the upcoming festivities throughout New York, our friend Ari Solow was at Andrews Air Force Base's open house where the Blue Angels came out to put on a show. Seeing precision flying like this in person has to be incredible.

Hundreds of thousands expected to attend air show - ABC 4 | LAYTON (ABC 4 News) - The "Warriors over the Wasatch" air show returns to Hill Air Force Base this weekend and they're gearing up for a big crowd. That's because the last time this event was held in 2009, about 400000 people showed up.

Memorial Day parades and ceremonies in Belleville and metro-east - Belleville News Democrat |An air show will feature historic aircraft, including a B-25 J Mitchell Bomber. There will also be a military medal and helmet display and a display of military vehicles. Complimentary shuttle service will be provided by Monroe-Randolph Transit from...

Vintage Aircraft Tell Tales of Past and Present - Patch.com | Geico Skytypers make special appearance in advance of weekend's big air show at Jones Beach. By Joe Dowd Marguerite Peugeot of Oceanside gets a front-row seat in the cockpit of a vintage WWII T-6 Texan, now a high-tech member of the Geico Skytypers...

Shell Knob Fly-In is Saturday - Cassville Democrat | Turkey Mountain Airport in Shell Knob will be hosting the first fly-in of the season on Saturday, May 26. In addition to area pilots and planes arriving at the gathering, a Super Cub group from Gaston's Resort will be using Turkey Mountain Airport as a...

All set for air tattoo - This Is Wiltshire | THE dramatic flypast of RAF Hawks that flew over Windsor Castle at the weekend as part of the Armed Forces' tribute to the Queen will provide the centrepiece of the Royal International Air Tattoo's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

May 24, 1930: Crowd wowed by stunt flying as Red Deer airport officially opens - Edmonton Journal | Thousands turned out to watch an air circus hosted by the Red Deer Aero Club at the official opening of the Red Deer airport. Addressing the crowd, Mayor Harold J. Snell pointed out the historic location of the field, 5.5 km south of town on the main...

A day out for Dallas aviation enthusiasts - Dallas Morning News | Take to the Skies AirFest features two days of air shows, static displays, rides and more. Spanky Gallaway, commentator for the Red Bull Air Races, will be the announcer. See solo aerobatics, formation flights, precision teams and the ARC Aerobatic Air...

Andrews air show switches to biennial event from Air Force Times - News | MORNINGSIDE, Md. — Officials at Joint Base Andrews near Washington say budget cuts are forcing them turn a popular air show into a biennial event instead of an annual one.

Cazaux, in secret Alphajets - The Dispatch Basin (translated) | Twelve aircraft, nine pilots and thirty-seven mechanics for the Patrouille de France (PAF). The device, installed this Thursday, May 17, on the track of the Cazaux Air Base 120, is supported by a Tra On the sidelines of the gathering of seaplanes...

B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" flies over Seattle - Seattle Post Intelligencer | The WWII-era B-17 "Flying Fortress" bomber is one of only a dozen remaining airworthy aircraft. From May 24 through 27, the Experimental Aircraft Association and the Museum of Flight will offer ground tours and "mission" flights over the Seattle area...

Remembering a fallen hero - Willcox Range News | He was a radio operator with a 10-man crew flying the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses. These four-engine bombers were considered at that time to be the most advanced bomber in the world. Powered by four 1200 HP turbo-charged cyclone radial piston engines...

A-10 jet engine nacelle damaged by missile in Iraq on display at Air Zoo - Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com | ... Selden | Mlive.com Master Sgt. Ron McKellar closes the back of the Penske truck that transported an engine nacelle off an A-10 Thunderbolt that wasmoved from the Battle Creek Air National Guard Base to the Kalamazoo Air Museum on Wednesday, May 23.

Free admission to Grissom Air Museum on memorial Day - Kokomo Perspective | Grissom Air Museum is offering free admission to the public on Monday, May 28th in observance of Memorial Day. Families are encouraged to spend the day at the museum, and to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy at the picnic pavilion.

Spitfire Classic from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave | About five years ago I stood on the 10th tee box at a golf club which occupies land along the Nation River directly adjacent but lower than the former No. 10 EFTS at Pendleton. It was a lovely, hot afternoon in the dead of summer. I waggled my driver over the ball and looked up at the fairway – a par 5 dogleg right, into the afternoon sun. I froze in mid-waggle. Rounding that dogleg about 400 yards down and 200 feet up was a Spitfire, sun dazzling off its banked wings, looking like it might have in East Anglia in the hot summer of...

Wingsuit Skydiver Lands Without Chute (On Purpose) from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Forty-two year-old Gary Connery Wednesday may have become the first person to land a wingsuit without first deploying a parachute, on purpose and without injury, with the aid of about 18,000 cardboard boxes. Connery performed the stunt near his hometown of Henley, England, and flew two test jumps from a helicopter hovering at 2,400 feet about one mile from his landing site. He landed those under canopy,...

Chip Yates announces plan to trace historic Lindbergh transatlantic flight in electric aircraft - autogreen | Chip Yates retired his electric motorcycle last year after setting records at the Mohave Mile and Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, and notching several (slower than Lightning) FIM World Land Speed achievements on the Bonneville Salt Flats. If you thought he was done with his pursuit of battery-powered feats, however, you have underestimated just how crazy this Californian is. Case in point? He's just announced a plan to trace the path Charles Lindbergh took during his historic flight from New York to Paris in an electric airplane....

Four years later from A mile of runway will take you anywhere. by Steve | ...Another year has come and gone as I sit here writing about my annual birthday flight. It's hard to believe that I've already been flying at Stewart for four years; it's still as great as it was the first time I set foot there in 2008. Today there was a new twist to the annual fun - my friend Mike went flying in the other Cub at the same time....

"King Tut" UCAP #287 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast

The Inquisitive Astronaut - airspacemag.com | Don Pettit turns his curiosity—and his camera—loose on board the International Space Station.

Blue Origin Charon VTOL test vehicle on display at Museum of Flight from RLV and Space Transport News | ...KENT, Washington. – A new exhibit opens today at The Museum of Flight in Seattle that features Blue Origin's first flying vehicle, Charon. Built as an early development project in 2005, Blue Origin has loaned the vertical take-off, vertical-landing jet-powered vehicle to the Museum. Charon will be on display in the new Charles Simonyi Space Gallery on the west side of the Museum of Flight campus, accompanied by the NASA Full-Fuselage Space Shuttle Trainer and the TMA-14 Soyuz space capsule...

Would You Ride This Pencil-Shaped Capsule To Space? from POPSCI | The amateur rocketeers at Copenhagen Suborbitals are getting closer and closer to orbit, testing a new bi-liquid fuel combination for a hand-built, donation-funded, non-profit rocket. The group tested its alcohol- and liquid oxygen-powered TM65 rocket over the weekend, the largest amateur bi-liquid rocket in the world....

100-year starship projects from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | Tonight, High Power Rocketry points us to a proposed fantasy-scale project that would Build the Enterprise.   The term fantasy-scale, borrowed from NAR contest rocketry, implies a flying model of a fictional or proposed, but unflown, subject.  The term fantasy further implies because the scope of the project will...

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