Thursday, July 19, 2012

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Start planning your visit to this weekend's 2012 Air Expo at JBLM - TheNewsTribune.com | Two U. S. Air Force Thunderbird pilots practice a maneuver during a rehearsal in preparation for a weekend air show, in Oklahoma City in June 2010. The Thunderbirds are closing the air show Saturday and Sunday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord...

USAF Thunderbirds Team History Comes Alive at Community Library Presentation from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The history of the world famous USAF Thunderbirds Aerial Demonstration Team came alive during Joe Gurney's presentation at the Tesson Ferry Branch of the St. Louis County Library today. The audience was treated to a a slide show and video presentation of the various aircraft flown by the...

Shinedown's Eric Bass Flies With the US Air Force's Thunderbirds (PHOTO ... - Noisecreep | "It was always a childhood dream of mine to fly an airplane. I actually wanted to be a pilot as a kid. I obviously took another path in life and sort of wrote it off," Shinedown bassist Eric Bass tells Noisecreep who is on the phone talking about his ...

A Flight With The Blue Angels - KELOLAND TV | Everything from bi-planes to B-2 Stealth bombers will be over the skies of southeast South Dakota. One of the highlight performances is the Navy's Blue Angels. Keloland's Austin Hoffman had the opportunity to fly with one of the pilots to see just what ...

SubSonex Jet Prototype to Fly in AirVenture Showcase from Sonex Aircraft, LLC and AeroConversions Press Releases  | Sonex Aircraft, LLC is pleased to announce that JSX-1, the #1 proof-of-concept prototype of the SubSonex very, very light jet will be flying during the Showcase presentation at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012!

Planes to practice flight formations in preparation for Oshkosh's EAA AirVenture - Herald Times Reporter | MANITOWOC — Area residents can get a free sneak preview this weekend at the Manitowoc County Airport of some of the air action that will take place at the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture show next week. Between 20 and 30 pilots flying ...

Warbirds over Manitowoc - Herald Times Reporter | The pilots belong to the T-34 Association, a group of owners and collectors of 1950s and 1960s former military trainer warbirds, said Billy Smith, event organizer for the association. “They're an affordable warbird. They have all the allure of a World...

On way to Oshkosh air show, New Zealand pilots stop in Longmont - Longmont Daily Times-Call | Richards shipped his airplane from New Zealand to California and is now flying across the United States to Wisconsin for the Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture Convention...

Commemorative Air Force to Showcase Multiple Aircraft at EAA AirVenture from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Midland, Texas - The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) is excited to announce that more than 10 of its vintage aircraft will attend at EAA AirVenture 2012 in Oshkosh, Wis. "The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration," AirVenture will feature CAF performances new to the event as well as ride opportunities in the B-29!

"He'll see the big board!" UCAP #296 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | It's a smorgasbord of aviation chatter when what we're really thinking about is going to Oshkosh.

Oshkosh: Go or no go? from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Air Facts blogger John Zimmerman says all pilots can be divided into two groups: Those for whom the thought of flying into Wittman Regional Airport during AirVenture excites and challenges them and those who think you’re nuts to be in the air within 50 nm of Oshkosh that week.

The Tricolour Arrows in flight to Italy. All performances of 2012  - Zazoom Blog | ...Evolutions tactics, overtaking front approaches, tonneau, looping and "screws" improvised performed with acceleration of gravity enough to shake the hardest to stomach. Approximately 20 appointments that will touch many Italian cities from Caserta. Stages abroad in Norway and the United Kingdom, Romania, Russia and Slovakia, to present to the world the Italian excellence. Among the next steps that the Air Show on August 4th at Senigallia, near Ancona and 5 August in Porto Recanati....

JURUPA VALLEY: DC-3 flying from Flabob to airshow - Press-Enterprise | The Flabob Express, a DC-3 based at Flabob Airport in Jurupa Valley had a distinguished passenger list during World War II that included British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and British General Claude Auchinleck on missions in India. Add to the ...

Interesting Happenings in Vintage Aviation from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | I recently learned information about two interesting projects. There are many reasons to discuss both but I’m going to leave it at a bare minimum. Why? I really just want to see them fly; for the first time and again.  Rhinebeck News | With little fanfare, it appears Rhinebeck has contracted Ken Cassens to finish the museum’s Spirit of St. Louis replica...

Lee Bottom to Exchange Hamburgers for Help from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | Have you heard about The $100 Hamburger Tornado Relief Fundraiser Fly-In? Ron Wilson has. “Here’s your first $100. Tell everyone I challenge them to do the same”. Spoken by Ron Wilson last month. Consider these sentences; “How about we go for a hundred dollar hamburger”, or “We flew up to the airport today to get hundred dollar hamburger”. How many times have you heard conversations that...

WWII B-17 bomber coming to CT: sign up to fly on it
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Feds to Decide on Air Museum Proposals - Patch.com | As part of the 862-acre redevelopment plan approved locally for Willow Grove air base, the air museum would nearly double its existing acreage to a total of 13 acres. Other more immediate DVHAA proposals discussed Wednesday include the creation of a ...

Texas Army Guard retires Army's last A-model AH-64 Apache helicopter from Milcom Monitoring Post by Larry | By Sofia Bledsoe, Program Executive Office, Aviation | REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. - It was a proud, historic and emotional moment for the Soldiers of the Texas Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment (Attack/Reconnaissance) as the last AH-64A Apache helicopter, aircraft 451, was “retired” from the Army and handed over to the Project Office for Apache Helicopters during a ceremony on Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston, July 15. The event was hosted by the battalion as it was the unit that had the last A-model Apache in its fleet...

Potez 36 F-ALUA from Passion pour l'aviation by Xavier Cotton | Hemet Jacques was kind enough to send me some pictures taken to Toulouse-Lasbordes. To begin an image of the Potez 36, which at that time belonged to the AC of the Languedoc-Lasbordes based in Toulouse.  Mr Collobert instructor pilot of the flying club is based in the Languedoc propeller. Mr Collobert, formerly of the Air Force ended his career as an instructor at Montauban and then as a pilot of the aircraft that made the fight hail...

Hands-on aviation camp spurs new company from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | For the 11th year students attending the “Cleared For Take-Off” Aviation Education Camp at Alexandria Airport in Pittstown, N.J., spent a week in a “living laboratory” getting hands on lessons in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). The camp’s proven curriculum is...

Orion Parachute Test Successful - Video from Spaceports |NASA completed another successful test Wednesday of the Orion crew vehicle's parachutes high above the Arizona desert in preparation for the spacecraft's orbital flight test in 2014. Orion will carry astronauts deeper into space than ever before, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during space travel and ensure a safe re-entry and landing.

Preparing Body and Mind for the Ultimate Jump from Aerial Sports Feed | Soon, Red Bull Stratos' Felix Baumgartner will jump from 120,000 feet above the Earth. But first he must control his anxieties.

NASA Administrator Bolden To Help Open Intrepid Space Shuttle Pavilion - U.S. Politics Today | NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will attend the Thursday opening of the Space Shuttle Pavilion at New York's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum...

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