Thursday, September 6, 2012

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Web Extra: Jessica Dean Readies for Flight with the Blue Angels - KARK | KARK 4 News Anchor Jessica Dean is flying with the Blue Angels today in advance of their appearance at the Little Rock Air Force Base's 2012 Heritage & Heroes Open House & Air Show this weekend. She's in Jacksonville for Media Day, where three of the ...

Airmen ready to put on air show - FOX16.com | NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR -- Watching the Air National Guard Aerobatic Team fly upside down and zig-zag across the sky can make your stomach flip. "When I'm flying for that twelve minutes of unlimited aerobatics, it's really just task at hand," said Lt. Col...

California Capital Airshow returns to Mather Airport this weekend featuring ... - The Sacramento Press | The Air Force's Thunderbirds jet team will be the highlight at this year's California Capital Airshow, which draws thousands each year. Spectators will be treated to a show by some of the world's best pilots Saturday and Sunday at Mather Airport as the ...

Snowbirds to fly at Waukegan air show - Lake County Journal | “For that 15 minutes I'm not a husband and I'm not a father – I'm just doing the wing walking,” Kazian of Harvard, Ill. said, adding that he does not wear a belt or cable while standing on one leg or his head outside of the plane. “I have way too much ...

Plymouth Air Show reveals another side of flying - Wicked Local | For most of the hundreds of people who attended the air show held Sunday at Plymouth Municipal Airport, flight is exciting. They may think nothing of driving 75 mph down the highway, but if their minivan suddenly lifted 1,000 or more feet into the air ...

AirFair gains another act - Leader and Times | Greg Shelton is a late addition to AirFair 2012 and will bring his vintage Navy aircraft to Liberal....

WW1 Airshow - Bi-Planes and Tri-Planes - Military Aviation Museum | Less than a dozen years after
the invention of the first frail airplane to lift into the sky of nearby Kitty Hawk, NC, young men were jousting over the trenches of France in primitive wood and fabric aeroplanes...

1 Year After Tragedy, Minn. Team Prepares For Reno Air Race - CBS Local | BLAINE, Minn. (WCCO) — In a large airplane hangar at the Anoka County Airport a team is putting final touches on a high speed competitor. The 1949 Hawker Sea Fury will once again compete in the unlimited class of aircraft at the 2012 Reno air races, Sept...

Sky's the limit for entertainment at Fly-In, Cruise-In - The Daily Jeffersonian | The fly-in will feature planes spanning several categories, including sports planes, experimentals and general aviation aircraft. Pilots are eligible for a $50 gas card drawing every hour during the event. Though aircraft of the Ohio State Highway ...

Buchan Fly-In set Oct. 13 - Gasparilla Gazette | The sixth annual Buchan Aviation Fly-in breakfast will take place at Buchan Airport on the north end of Old Englewood Road from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 13. Free admission and parking. Quiche breakfast including pastry, orange juice, and coffee, $6.

Sullivan Missouri Fly-In a Great Community Event from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | This year's Sullivan Regional Airport Fly-In was a success by any measure. A variety of aircraft were on hand, including homebuilts, Ercoupes, Bonanzas, Cessnas, helicopters and even a Stearman. Community law enforcement, emergency responders and military recruiters also contributed to making the event enjoyable and educational. According to...

Balloons opens with the Frecce Tricolori - Telestense | The festival of balloons opens Friday, September 7 in full regalia with a pass right on the Urban Park, at 17 o'clock, the Frecce Tricolori. The hot-air balloon festival, which will continue until Sunday 16, provides for a ...

Annual Club Comps 2012 from Making a Kiwi Fly | So here we are at the 2012 Club Competitions. The wrinkle this time was that I had to organize it! It's funny when I think about the contributions I used to make to the running of previous years comps I didn't understand how much work was involved before you even start.

What's it like Attending the Farnborough Airshow PART 1 - Seattle Post Intelligencer | Monday through Friday, the airshow is only open to vendors, media and invited guests, where Saturday and Sunday is a public airshow. I was curious to check what was offered during weekday since the show is quite different over the weekend. To get to ...

B-29 Goes on Display at Museum - WOWT | The Strategic Air & Space Museum is proud to unveil one of the world's last surviving Boeing B-29 Super Fortresses on Saturday, September 22, in commemoration of its first flight 70 years ago on September 21, 1942. Saturday, September 22 6:00 p.m. ...

WWII B-25 bomber "Maid in the Shade" offers history, thrills at Sterling airport - Journal-Advocate | U.S. Congressman Cory Gardner holds a machine gun while riding in the belly of the B-25 Bomber "Maid in the Shade" on Tuesday. He said the 15-minute impromptu plane ride over Sterling was "just amazing."...

Restored B-17 draws out those 'warbirds' that kept them flying - Suburban Life Publications | B-17 Crew Chief Meredith Whillock goes over pre-flight instructions at the Lewis University Airport in Romeoville on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. To honor World War II veterans, the Warbirds of America Squadron 4 is offering rides on the "Aluminum Overcast ...

WWII vet receives Distinguished Flying Cross - San Antonio Express | Family, friends, senior leaders and pilots gathered Aug. 24 to honor a World War II B-17 Flying Fortress pilot during an award ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph's Taj Mahal where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross medal. Second Lt.

EAA AirVenture Museum Receives Piper Cub Replica from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | The EAA AirVenture Museum received a tremendous gift this summer from a longtime EAA member and AirVenture volunteer. Marv Hoppenworth, EAA Lifetime 2519, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and EAA Chapter 33, presented the museum with a homebuilt replica of a Piper Cub on the 75th anniversary of William Piper's masterpiece.

Riding the Wings of Empire from Hiller Aviation Museum by hillermuseum | Historic Flights of the Vickers Vimy  | Shortly after the end of the first World War, the British Empire spanned the globe. From humble beginnings during the 17th-century reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the Empire grew to spread its dominion over nearly half a billion people by the early 1920s. One of every five human beings was a subject, and despite the toll taken by four long years of war it remained peerless as a military and economic power. For much of the preceding century, Great Britain led the...

North American XB-70 Valkyrie NASA Flight Research Video Compilation from The Lexicans | I’ve had a busy week at work AND I’m working on the mother of all blog-posts. I’m hoping to get done with it by the end of the week (riiight). Quite frankly, the post I’m working on is getting messy but I’m more than enjoying the research....

F-35 fighter reactivates Grim Reapers, storied Naval flight squadron - PNJ.com | ...Now the Grim Reapers, periodically deactivated over the years, are back and brandishing a brand new scythe...

Fly By Brainwave (With Video) from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A Chinese team of researchers has developed a system for controlling a quadcopter using brain signals and has suggested that further development could create a system that allows disabled pilots to act as pilot in command of their own aircraft. And there could be other applications. The system works by using an

Putin to pilot hang-glider at head of endangered Siberian crane migration - The Guardian | Russian president will have to wear white overalls and a special 'beak' to be recognised by the cranes...

Meagan's First Scholarship Essay! from Life on the Road as a Pilot | I give to you the first essay from Meagan, the recipient of our 2012 Summer Private Pilot Scholarship. The Girls With Wings Scholarship Program provides funds for flight training to selected individuals with a willingness to be superlative GWW role models. Winners show potential to continue her interaction with the GWW organization, via the website and events, so she can assist GWW in encouraging more young girls to... 

Young Eagles to take wing at Independence Airport - Statesman Journal | Organizer David Ullman of Independence said that Young Eagles flights were launched in 1992 and aim to give youth an opportunity to fly in a general aviation airplane. Sponsored by volunteer members of the Experimental Aircraft Association, more than 1 ...  

Spacewalk Successful; New Female Record from Spaceports | NASA astronaut Suni Williams broke the world record for most amount of time spent spacewalking for a female astronaut today as she passed the record that was held by fellow NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson at 39 Hours and 46 minutes...

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