Saturday, September 1, 2012

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Elisa Amigo, Ohioans Fly with Blue Angels - Cleveland News - Fox 8 | CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland National Air Show is in town and that means Blue Angels are soaring high in the sky. This week, two men from Northeast Ohio experienced a once-in-a lifetime flight with the Blue Angels. A few months ago, Iwan Alexander ...

Cleveland Air Show features Goodyear-sponsored aerobatics superstar [The ... - Businessweek | Aug. 30--Mike Goulian will be putting his specially built single-seat plane through all sorts of precision aerial maneuvers this long Labor Day weekend over Lake Erie as part of the annual Cleveland National Air Show. The former U.S. National Aerobatic...

Air show chance for fun and chance for recruiting - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette | Make no mistake, the 2012 Fort Wayne Air Show hosted by the Indiana Air National Guard's 122nd Fighter Wing today through Sunday will provide the entertainment for aviation enthusiasts and fans alike. But it will also let officials at the base show off ...

This year's Reno Air Races start Sept. 12. - Fox News | The air race championship, entering its 49th year, is the only event of its kind in the world. It draws thousands every year to Reno Stead Airport, where it features aircraft flying at speeds of over 500 mph sometimes wingtip-to-wingtip around an oval ...

Annual Blakesburg Fly-In shows off the golden age of aviation - KTVO | BLAKESBURG, IOWA -- Each year, hundreds of antique airplanes fill the skies of Southeast Iowa for the annual Antique Airplane Association's Airpower Museum Invitational Fly-In. Flyers come from across the country for the event, including Clay Adams of ...

Toronto Air Show 2012 at the CNE - blogTO | Tips: Aside from the fact that you should know that you don't really need to pay any money to enjoy the air show, the big key for those looking to spend the day watching this display of militarism is that you need to save your spot along the waterfront...

Flier gets unique view of Seafair - Bainbridge Island Review | Navy Lt. Schuyler Boone pilots a specially painted P-3C Orion from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island over Lake Washington during the Seafair Airshow on Friday, Aug. 3. Boone flew in two flights over appreciative audiences at Seafair, which included two ...

Biplane makes emergency landing on Iowa highway - Sacramento Bee | KNOXVILLE, Iowa -- A biplane on its way to an airshow for antique aircraft has landed safely on a state highway near Knoxville in south ...

Something you don’t see everyday: a C-130 cruising down the street from David Cenciotti's weblog | Published by the Little Rock Air Force Base Facebook account the following picture shows a local C-130 being moved to be a static display in front of the base education center. The Hercules was taken apart, transported and...

Proud day as memorial to Red Arrows ace unveiled - This is Leicestershire | A glass and steel sculpture of three planes has been officially unveiled in memory of a Red Arrows pilot who was killed during an air show. Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging, 33, from Morcott, Rutland, died after his Hawk 1 jet crashed during a performance ...

WWII Fighters, Bombers & Armor Featured at Republic - Patch.com | The show offers a chance to tour the legendary B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-24 Liberator bomber and a P-51 Mustang fighter, beginning Friday, August 31, through Labor Day, September 3. These aircraft will also offer once-in-a-lifetime flight experiences, ...

Chanute Air Museum – Part 2: The 99th Fighter Squadron from CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | As the war in Europe heated up, it was anticipated that eventually the United States would be involved in it in some way. In 1937, funds were allocated by Congress to rebuild Chanute Field in Rantoul, Illinois, and turn it into a top aviation technical school for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Recruits at Chanute would train to become parachute techs, airplane mechanics, radio operators, pilots, electricians, maintenance officers and ground crew members in a relatively short time. By the spring of 1941, Chanute Field was “home” to thousands of...

Tucson News NowPima Air & Space Museum unveils historic fighter planes - Tucson News Now | Pima Air & Space Museum unveils two newly restored fighter jets this Labor Day weekend. The Vampire and the MiG-15 are both mid-20th century planes built and used in countries outside the U.S.. Tim Vimmerstedt, Director of Operations and Community ...

Air Force Week in Photos from Air Force Link Top Stories | This week's photos feature Airmen around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.  View the slideshow.

aviationphotography.be Update from apron6 | Aviationphotography.be is now updated with the Junkers 52 album

Beech D18-S N500MK from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | The blog post across at NZ Civil Aircraft (see here) prompted me to hunt out the photos of Beech D18-S N500MK on the occasion of its visit to New Zealand during winter 2005.  Notes from that time indicate it arrived at Auckland direct from Tonga on 23 August 2005 and flew to Ardmore two days later for a repaint and maintenance.  It...

Air Force tanker crew assists stricken jet fighter from Air Force Link Top Stories | When the 22nd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron crew stepped into their large tanker aircraft for a recent mission and departed the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, they believed they had just begun another "normal" day over Afghanistan.  This day, however, proved to be anything but normal as the crew found themselves in a unique situation, literally acting as a wingman to a much smaller fighter jet in trouble...

“Gray Dragon”: the only F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter painted in a two-tone gray experimental color scheme from David Cenciotti's weblog | Taken towards the end of 2003/early 2004 by a KC-135 boom operator using the nickname “boomer135″ and brought to my attention by Aviationintel‘s Tyler Rogoway the following pictures show the quite rare “Gray Dragon”, the gray F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter....

54 is a flying car sold for $ 2.5 million from NOTÍCIAS SOBRE AVIAÇÃO AVIATION NEWS | The Taylor Aerocar Transition N-101D is a classic car-plane, which was created in 1954 by aeronautical engineer Moulton Taylor. Almost 60 years later, the American collector Greg Herrick puts rarity for sale and who want to have the Aerocar in the garage or in-hangar - will have to pay to the tune of U.S. $ 1.25 million, which equates to about £ 2.5 million...

No-go for Endeavour ferry flight over air show - Florida Today | The payload bay doors of space shuttle Endeavour were closed in June, for the last time at Kennedy Space Center. This shuttle will eventually be sent to the California Science Center in Los Angeles...

Family Buries Neil Armstrong - Cleveland News - Fox 8 | Memorials were also being held around the country, including events at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The first man on the moon died on August 25, ...

2 Apollo veterans to promote Armstrong charity - NECN | The evening service was at the Armstrong Air & Space Museum. Friday's service comes the same day of a rare "blue moon." It occurs when there's a second full moon in one calendar month, and won't happen again until July 2015. The moon won't actually be ...

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