Saturday, September 29, 2012

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Celebrating 100 years of Marine Corps Aviation with the Red Bull Air Force Team - Hawaii News Now | This is only a taste of what you'll see this weekend during the Kaneohe Bay Air Show. "Hats off for those gentlemen for dialing us in and giving us those freedoms to enjoy what we are doing," said Daisher while sharing his appreciation to the military ...

Blue Angels From Above - Military Times (blog) | A formation of Navy Blue Angel FA-18 Hornets from Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., fly together after being refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker from Altus Air Force Base Sept. 20, 2012. Aircrew from the 54th Air Refueling Squadron at Altus AFB refueled ...

Thousands heading to North Georgia for weekend air show - WRCB-TV | ROME, GA (WRCB) -- With an amazing lineup headlined by the Canadian Forces Snowbirds, the 2012 Wings Over North Georgia Air Show is expecting a great show this weekend. Gates open to the public at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, and at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday ...

Support our local air force base - Kansas.com (blog) | The question of whether Sedgwick County should spend $10,000 on a hospitality tent for the Wings Over McConnell air show this weekend got a lot of attention, with commissioners having a worthwhile debate about such taxpayer-funded perks before voting ...

Spoleto A FORMER COMMANDER OF ARROWS TRICOLORI  - Spoleto City  | This is what will take place Tuesday, October 2 on the occasion of the visit to Spoleto the former commander of the Frecce Tricolori Massimo Tammaro. The day will begin at 10:30 am with a visit to Casa Menotti, host of Monini Foundation, which manages the museum house ...

Libyan Chinook for Malta Air Show - Times of Malta | A Libyan air force Chinook twin rotor helicopter is to participate in the Malta Air Show this Saturday and Sunday. This will be the first time that a Libyan Chinook will be in Malta and it is very rare for such helicopters to fly outside Libya. The two ...

Cold Front Hits Gold Team from US Army Golden Knights by wfallin | The Duluth Airshow is a celebration of aviation that brings together aviators and aviation enthusiasts from all over the world and is also the largest event of the year in Minnesota. This event was also the first time in 30 years that the Canadian Snow Birds performed there. The Gold Demonstration Team arrived on Wednesday prior to the Airshow to make some appearances and let the Minnesotans about the great demonstration the team would make later on in the week. Among those was a visit to Superior High School to talk some select science classes on the physics of skydiving and to let them know that their Assistant Principal Bill Punyko would be making a tandem skydive with the Golden Knight’s very own SFC Aaron Figel into the football game that afternoon. The team was excited and ready to go until the plane took off and reality started to set in as the temperature dropped to below freezing. The team knows all too well about the temperature shift from the ground up to altitude but this time the ground temp was in the upper 40s so that made the temp at altitude was about 10 degrees. The team performed a spectacular show for the high school and Mr. Punyko got the ride of his life and a story to share with his students...

US Air Force Thunderbirds (circa 1959) by doobybrain | ...video of a bunch of retro US Air Force Thunderbirds flying in formation...

The Knickebein from CAF Red Tail Squadron | ...The British confirmed that the Germans were using this landing beam system to drop bombs by eavesdropping on captured Luftwaffe pilots. However, many scientists refused to believe this was possible because they felt the curvature of the earth would not allow radio beams to be sent accurately. Winston Churchill finally settled the controversy by sending British pilots up to find out if the beams were really there. A crew found the beam and followed it. They found the crossbeam, marked the coordinates and later found out that the beams crossed directly over the Rolls Royce plant where the Merlin airplane engines (yes, like the one in our P-51C Mustang) were manufactured...

Poll: Lowestoft people asked 'has the Airshow got any future?' - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press | And although the airshow committee is downhearted, it has pledged to meet in a “couple of months' time to review the situation” but because of a £60,000 shortfall in the wet weather contingency fund, caused by this year's poor weather, there is no ...

WWII pilot remembers B-29 bombers - Tulsa World | The aircraft is owned and maintained by the nonprofit Commemorative Air Force, and it is in Tulsa at the museum for public viewing and revenue flights through the weekend. Along with the B-29, a North American P-51 Mustang, a Beech C-45 Expediter! and ...

World War II era airplanes land at Norwood Memorial Airport - Wicked Local | Peter Kidd, James Kidd and Harold Bleicher weren't going to let the opportunity pass them by: They were going to fly on a B-17 Flying Fortress. “I want to go because it's the last chance I'll ever have to fly in a piece of history,” Peter said at the ...

B-17 "Flying Fortress" Tour Makes Local Stop - WFPL | Its' been restored by the non-profit Liberty Foundation and was used in the 1990 film Memphis Belle, about the famed B-17 that survived 25 combat missions in the war. This is a plane built for combat, not for comfort, and just climbing aboard is an ...

GoPro - Kermie Cam - Albatros over Shuttleworth - YouTube | You Are There! Come fly the Albatros with me over the beautiful countryside at Shuttleworth Old Warden Aerodrome in England. This plane is one of the magnificent works of art built by Peter Jackson's, The Vintage Aviator Limited in New Zealand. This is my first flight over here with this aircraft, so let's take to the skies... maybe we'll run into Gene DeMarco from TVAL piloting the Re-8. - Kermit Weeks (20120831)  http://www.fantasyofflight.com

Airman missing from WWII identified from Air Force Link Top Stories | The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

How many A-10 combat planes can you count in this photo? All of them are deploying to the Middle East… from David Cenciotti's weblog | Although the caption of the following picture reads “more than a dozen A-10 Thunderbolt….” I can count 19 such combat planes belonging to the 354 FS, 355th Fighter Wing from Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona at Westover Air Reserve Base...

The end of an era from Air Combat Command - Top ACC Stories | For 37 years Dyess' C-130 Hercules and its Airmen have built a legacy in the Air Force. That legacy came to end Sept. 26 as the last two C-130 H models, tail numbers 1667 and 2063, departed for Little Rock AFB, Ark...

Fifth-generation formation from Milcom Monitoring Post by Larry | An F-35A Lightning II joint strike fighter from the 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and an F-22A Raptor from the 43rd Fighter Squadron at...

AĆ©ropuces 2012 from Passion pour l'aviation by Xavier Cotton | AĆ©ropuces 20 and October 21, 2012  | For the 6th consecutive year, the Museum of Air and Space organizes its large flea aeronautics. Collectors, individuals and professionals find themselves under the wings of two Concorde Museum for two days of "treasure hunt" in a festive atmosphere. More than 60 exhibitors are expected to exhibit linear 300m. Free admission.

Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority Readies ISS Cargo Launches from Wallops
from Spaceports |  The Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority has handed over the newly constructed Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport to Orbital Sciences Corporation for the new Antares rocket booster. The new rocket is set to commence commercial cargo launches with the new Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station from Virginia's Eastern Shore...

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