Navy Week Returns To Chicago - NBC Chicago | Among the events to look for are the “Leap Frogs” parachute team, visiting U.S. Navy ships, Navy Band musical performances, admirals and other senior leaders in events with local leaders, simulator and other interactive displays, visits to area schools ...
Sky was the limit at Abbotsford Airshow's 50th celebration - Abbotsford Times | The Abbotsford International Airshow's 50th celebration was an unqualified success at all levels and had near record attendance, say organizers. "It was outstanding. The weather was perfect, the show was excellent, the crowds were great and everybody ...
Dropping in: Navy SEALs Leap Frogs at the Air & Water Show - ThirdCoast Digest | Flying at 6000 feet with a ten-foot cargo door wide open is everyday business for a group of specialized U.S. Navy SEALs known as the Leap Frogs Parachute Demonstration Team. Each day of the 2012 Milwaukee Air & Water Show kicked off with an ...
Lifeboats called for real rescues during airshow's busiest day - Eastbourne Herald | Eastbourne RNLI took part in a demonstration with the RAF search and rescue Sea King helicopter and provided safety cover for Airbourne. However, both boats were also involved in three real-life rescues on Saturday (August 11), the airshow's busiest day...
September Fate Test Flights - Reberry Air Racing | September Fate had its inaugural flight on May 31, 2012. The crew watched in great anticipation as Brian took to the runway and then to the sky. It was a great first flight. With this inaugural flight we are debuting our website.
Steve flew in to join in aero club celebrations - Spalding Guardian | The open day, Wheels and Wings, and hangar dance were followed with a hog roast. Katie Booth, of OK Catering, laid on a magnificent spread to accompany the hog roast, and part of the proceeds were used to support the Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire ...
Oshkosh Seaplane Base 2012 - Ladies Love Taildraggers | If I have any regrets about AirVenture 2012 its that I never made it over to the Seaplane base. I kept bumping into people all week long who'd taken the EAA bus over and they were raving about the picturesque seaplane base, ...
Fly in a B-17? Why Not? - Baltimore City Paper (blog) | Nearly 13000 B-17s were built but there are no more than 14 Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortresses” airworthy these days, and only one that flies as “Memphis Belle,” the name made world famous in 1943 after it and crew completed 25 bombing missions in Europe...
World War II veterans take special flight in B-17 - WJLA | He and a crew of nine others fought through hostile skies over Europe to complete 26 bombing mission in a B-17. "We came back to the barracks there were 26 men that morning, six came back. A lot of close calls," Hutcherson added. Roughly, one in four ...
The WWII B-17 Bomber Took To The Skies Over Baltimore On Their First ... - WBFF/WNUV Baltimore | The Movie "Memphis Belle", a restored WWII B-17 "flying fortress" bomber and Rare Curtiss P-40 Warhawk took to the skies over Baltimore on their first national tour Monday. "I'm glad they're still flying," Warren Dorfler said. "I was hoping they'd keep them going so that the present generation could see what we were in."...
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'The Hunt for Amelia Earhart': New Book With Firsthand Accounts - Huffington Post (blog) | While we might guess that a missing plane flown by the famous aviatrix would spawn massive press attention, most people today would be surprised to learn that within a couple of hours of determining that the Electra was lost, the Navy and Coast Guard ...
Artist uses her talent to honor military pilots - Norwich Bulletin | Aviators, and military pilots in particular, have been a lifelong source of fascination for Boggs, from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. “More than anything, it's the spirit of the aviator,” she said. “When I was a little girl, I used to watch 'Black Sheep ...
X-48C Flies for the First Time - www.key.aero | A modified Boeing Blended Wing Body research aircraft – designated the X-48C – flew for the first time on August 7 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
NASA Global Hawk Pilots Face Challenges Flying Hurricane Missions from sUAS News | NASA’s Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel, or HS3, mission will be a complex one for the pilots flying NASA’s Global Hawk aircraft from the ground. The mission, set to begin this month, will be the first deployment for the unmanned aircraft away from their regular base of operations at the Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. In addition the pilots
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