Saturday, August 4, 2012

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Riding in Fat Albert, the Blue Angels cargo plane, is an intense experience - Seattle Post Intelligencer | For most people at Seafair, Fat Albert is a precursor — a tease, if you will — to the main spectacle of the Blue Angels F/A-18 fighter jets. The big, blue Lockheed C-130 Hercules cargo prop lumbers over Lake Washington, diving and climbing and ...

Oregon International Air Show kicks off in Hillsboro -  OregonLive.com | View full sizeAndrew Theen/The OregonianMedal of Honor recipient Leroy Petry descends with staff sergeant Noah Watts of the U.S. Army Golden Knights to start the 2012 Oregon International Air Show in Hillsboro Friday. Day one of the 25th edition of the ...

Thunder Over Michigan air show this weekend - WDIV Detroit | The Yankee Air Museum's 2012 "Thunder Over Michigan" Air Show is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, August 4-5, 2012 and will showcase numerous P-51 Mustangs, the Sea Harrier F/A2, a WWII Battle Reenactment, and the F-86 Sabre "Smokey," at ...

Great New England Air Show marks honorary kick-off for sponsors and supporters -  MassLive.com | Enlarge Mark M. Murray, The Republican 08/03/2012 Chicopee-- Republican Photo by Mark M.Muray - Great New England Air Show and Open House at Westover Air Reserve Base- An aerial performer lifts his plane into the air as he passes by the static ...

I flew in an aerobatic racing plane for Seafair, and it was terrifyingly awesome - Seattle Post Intelligencer | Intense. And in those Red Bull Air Races, pilots like Chambliss are pulling 12 G's. Red Bull plane 4. That's not where the ground is supposed to be...

Stunt plane ride-along video highlights adrenaline rush for air show pilots - OregonLive.com | In case you missed coverage from earlier in the week, John Klatt Airshows took The Oregonian on an adrenaline-filled ride on Wednesday, showing what it's really like to fly in a stunt plane. In a word - it's awesome. The plane comes equipped with HD ...

Westover Air Show: Economic Impacts - abc40 | The Great New England Air Show at Westover Air Reserve Base is expected to help boost the local economy this weekend. Organizers are projecting hundreds of thousands of people to visit the two day event...

#74 Takes to the Course at Reno Air Races '11 - YouTube (thanks Moose) | You'll be put in the cockpit of the famous #74 Super Corsair piloted by Robert Odegaard while he flies an Unlimited Heat at the 2011 Reno Air Races. You'll see the race like never before!

Tricolour Arrows: the father of the Italian Aerobatic Rossini remember the Tigers ...  - Living Senigallia | He was nicknamed "The Eagle" and was the first pilot of the aerobatic 51 ° Air Brigade formed in 1954. On the day when they return to the Tricolor Arrows fly over the skies of velvet beach, think back to Italo Rossini ...

Antique airplane fly-in today in Three Forks - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle | Stan Mills of Belgrade polishes his KitFox Series 5 airplane at the Three Forks Airport on Friday, August 3, in preparation for the Three Forks Fly-In this weekend. Buy this photo. Posted: Saturday, August 4, 2012 12:15 am. Antique airplane fly-in ...

Vintage aircraft on display - StarPhoenix | A century of air travel will be celebrated in Prince Albert on Sunday with a free air show featuring a display of more than 30 vintage aircraft. It's been 100 years since the first airplane - a Curtiss Golden Flyer - touched down at the Prince Albert ...

My Oshkosh Experience - Part 2 from Toriaflies | ...Celebrity wise?  Well I just hung out with Sean Tucker for a bit.  I was very exited when Bob called over stating he had saved a spot for me in line.  Luckily, I held my composure around this amazing aerobatic pilot.  Bob let Sean (yeah we're on a first name basis) know that we are newlyweds and that I have had aerobatic training...

Ride In a 1941 Waco Biplane at the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum Saturday from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum will be hosting a 1941 Waco UPF-7 biplane during regular hours 10am-4pm tomorrow, August 4, at historic Curtiss-Wright Hangar 2 at St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia, IL. Pilot Kevin Kegin will display the aircraft on the ramp near the museum, and will...

World War II planes stir memories for the vets who flew them - Evansville Courier & Press | The plane exploded shortly after it had been shot and Birkhead and one other man were blown out of the plane. Six others died and one jumped out. Birkhead was then captured and spent the rest of the war as a POW in Germany. Nelson piloted both B-17's ...

Proflight celebrates Amelia Earhart - Zambia Daily Mail | Capt Taylor is also a member of the Australian Women`s Pilot Association and Women's in Aviation International. Whereas Ms Willis joined Proflight in June 2011 and is now a first officer on the Jetstream 32, having started on Jetstream 31. Ms Muma is a ...

Intrepid's mission - New York Post | Three decades later — and with the addition of more than 30 aircraft, the Growler submarine, the Concorde and, most recently, the space shuttle Enterprise — the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum has powered the resurgence of the Hudson River ...

The Coming Kamikaze Threat in World War II We Never Faced from Tails Through Time by JP Santiago | As the American fleet began to become proficient at meeting the kamikaze threat during the Second World War, night time was usually a period when sailors got a respite from the waves of suicide attackers- the vast majority of kamikaze attacks that took place were during the daylight hours. At night the fleet could repair...

PILOT’S BILL OF RIGHTS BECOMES LAW | State Aviation Journal - www.stateaviationjournal.com | U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a member of the Senate General Aviation Caucus and certified flight instructor with more than 10,000 flight hours, today announced that his Pilot's Bill of Rights (S.1335) has been officially signed into law. Inhofe has worked to pass the legislation for the past year...

NASA takes more than a year to provide shuttle decision documents - Dayton Daily News | ... to the California Science Center, Los Angeles; Atlantis to Florida's Kennedy Space Center; Discovery to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., and the full-scale test vehicle Enterprise to New York's Intrepid Sea, Air ...

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