year as exclusive automotive partner of The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration, Ford Motor Company will bring new attractions and fan favorites to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012...e-volo VC2 to Make World Debut at AirVenture from EAA AirVenture | German company e-volo announced this week the world debut of its VC2 Volocopter at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012. VC2 is the successor of the 16-motor VC1 – the world's first multicopter - which first flew in October 2011.
College Mixer to Shine Light on Aviation ... - EAA AirVenture from EAA AirVenture | Young people ages 14-18 prospectively seeking an aviation career are invited to attend a fun and information-filled College Mixer on Friday, July 27, at EAA AirVenture 2012. This event is free, but registration is required as ...
Enola Gay navigator calls A-bombs 'lesser of two evils' - Dayton Daily News | With the annual Vectren Dayton Air Show set for the weekend, Van Kirk's testimony was a potent and timely reminder of the military's might. The greater evil Van Kirk referred to was a possible invasion of Japan that likely would have resulted in mass ...
Warbirds return to Burlington July 21-22 - InsideHalton.com | BURLINGTON POST - There will be 'warplanes' flying over Burlington soon. The Burlington Radio Control Modellers club is again hosting Warbirds Over The Bay the weekend of July 21-22.
Tuskegee airman in Truckee from RGJ.com by By Gianna Cruet | Lt. Le Roy Gillead, 93, said he takes things as they come when he's invited to an event like the Tuskegee Airmen Honorary Dinner at Truckee Tahoe Airport. But things weren't always like that...
Fly-In draws large crowd - Review Atlas | July 4, 2012 marked the 45th annual Monmouth Flying Clubs Fly-In Breakfast at the Monmouth Municipal Airport. Started in 1966, the Monmouth Flying Club has seen over 100 planes, and1300 people, come to enjoy the sites, sounds and the great food of the breakfast. Sponsored this year by Crop Production Service, the Flying Club raises money for their pilot training program and to help the city support the city-owned airport. ...
New flight speed record honors homeless veterans (AUDIO) - Missourinet.com | Missourians living along a line from St. Joseph to St. Louis might have seen some aviation history made on Independence Day if they had looked up at the right time. Air Force veteran Brian Kissinger of St. Louis, a two-time brain cancer survivor ...
Tom Reilly & The XP-82 Project – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Monday – 10am (EASTERN) from WarbirdRadio.com by MattMONDAY – Tom Reilly joins Matt Jolley on Warbird Radio LIVE with an update on his XP-82 project. Tune in for this special episode of WRL at 10am (EASTERN).
Local World War II Vets flew into the Fort Collins-Loveland airport in vintage ... - ReporterHerald.com | The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber and the North American P-51 Mustang, which had gone ahead to Loveland, stopped in Gillette over the Fourth of July holiday before the next stop in Loveland. The three are part of a ...
Amelia Earhart impressed Fort Wayne residents during a visit 1935 visit here - News Sentinel | Throughout her Fort Wayne interview and lecture, Earhart spoke up for women's rights, exercising the modern woman's prerogative to try any line of work regardless of gender stereotypes. “In those times, women in aviation were unheard of,” Decker said...
Flying The New Standard from Pacific Flyer | Story and Photos | By Gilles Auliard | "It actually is
harder work than I thought it would be, but you can make a living barnstorming, especially with a New Standard D-25" states Ted "Scooter" Davis, of Brodhead, Wisc., who spends all his summers selling rides at various venues around the Midwest. After the way of life of the 1920's barnstormers made it in the history books, it became the fabric of legends. Inspired by their tale, writer Richard Bach decided at the end of the Ô60's to spend his entire summer going from places to places, in his newly acquired Bird biplane, covering all his expenses by selling rides...Aviation Park And Garden Of Heroes Unveiled At Lahm Airport - WMFD.com | Airport Day Co-Chair and long-time Airport Commission member Bill Schmidt says it's intended as a place for families to have a picnic, and to honor the history of aviation in Mansfield. It includes plaques remembering the airport's namesake General...
Sophie Blanchard — First Woman Balloon Pilot by HW | A Disaster on this Day in Aviation History — July 6, 1819. At age 47, a final disaster struck during a late evening show at Tivoli Gardens in Paris. Unusually nervous prior to the show, she appeared almost as if forewarned of ...
Now arriving at the water gate: Nixon's Air Force One today fights flames for ... - Canada.com | ... when U.S. journalist Thomas DeFrank — a veteran political reporter who had covered the Nixon-Ford era in Washington — traced the post-1972 history of Nixon's Air Force One-for-a-day Corvair while researching a 2008 story for Air & Space magazine.
Aviation mystery solved, answering questions for local woman - WEAR | In June, the wreckage of a missing military plane was found on a glacier in Alaska. Evidence found at the site correlates to the 60 years missing C-124A Globemaster that crashed in 1952. The crash killed all 52 people on board; one of them, Swift's father....
Survivor of C-130 plane crash expected home soon - WBTV | Josh Marlowe, 28, was originally supposed to arrive Friday night, but his church, Zoar Baptist Church confirmed would be at a hospital in Chapel Hill for another night. He is now expected to return home...
Unique Flight By Uncle Sam’s Bombers! from AIRBOYD.TV
Douglas XB-19 from AIRBOYD.TV
Potez 540 from Planeshots
Arturo's Desert Eagle: The 800 lb gorilla of the paper airplane world from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | Builder/sponsor: Pima Air and Space Museum
Named for: 12 year old Tuscon resident Arturo Valdenegro...
This is pretty awsome. Looks like they could have trimmed it a tad better, however. I'd like to see an 'M' motor strapped to it.
"Balloon Alliteration" UCAP #294 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | The Cluster Balloon guy is at it again... EAA is holding a hangar sale, sort of... 11 things to do with an airplane... Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded July 2, 2012.
Civil Air Patrol cadet, 18, has Air Force dreams - Smart Brief | Civil Air Patrol cadet Lynlea Ressler is just
18, but she has already earned her private pilot's license and completed
her first solo flight. Now, the Florida teen is setting her sights on
becoming a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot. "I love flying," Ressler said.
"There's an exhilaration, and when you solo you are totally
responsible."
Aviation-loving teens fill first class - The Columbian | A group of teenagers ran across the grass behind a hangar at Pearson Field on Thursday. They laughed and chased the paper airplanes they'd tossed into the blue sky.
Taking flight: Young Eagles rides for kids part of the fun at Rio Creek Fly-In ... - Green Bay Press Gazette | Young men and women ages 8-17 fly free the morning of July 7 as part of the annual Rio Creek Fly-In and Hangar Dance at the Rio Creek Airport.
XCOR may be taking off for Texas [updated] | from Personal Spaceflight by Jeff Foust | According to media reports, Mojave, California-based XCOR Aerospace plans to establish operations in Midland, Texas, with an agreement about a deal with Midland officials scheduled for Monday. The Midland Reporter-Telegram and KOSA-TV reported late Thursday that the Midland Development Corporation (MDC) will seek approval at a special meeting Monday of an agreement with XCOR that would see the suborbital vehicle developer set up operations at Midland International Airport. The agenda for the meeting includes consideration of a resolution “authorizing the execution of an economic development agreement” between XCOR and MDC, as well as a lease agreement for two hangars and tracts at the airport...
Shuttle Enterprise exhibit to open July 19 at NYC's Intrepid - msnbc.com | The Intrepid is the latest and — by all plans — last home for Enterprise, which previously was exhibited at the 1983 Paris Air Show in France, the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans, and most recently at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum...
Soyuz TMA-05M Launch Coverage July 14th from Spaceports | NASA TV coverage of the Soyuz
TMA-05M launch begins at 9:30 p.m. EDT, Saturday, July 14. NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams, veteran Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Flight Engineer Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch to the station at 10:40 p.m. (8:40 a.m., July 15 Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Astronaut panel at KSC visitors center to discuss future of human spaceflight from RLV and Space Transport News A panel of former NASA astronauts will discuss spaceflight at KSC next Wednesday:...
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