Alliance Air Show - Fort Worth Star Telegram | The Thunderbirds arrive at Alliance Airport in their Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcons on Thursday October 4, 2012. The Alliance Air Show runs this weekend. Air Show Advance. Star-Telegram/Ron T. Ennis. The Canadian Snowbirds fly their CT-104 ...
Embry-Riddle ready for Homecoming fun to start - Daytona Beach News-Journal | Events start Sunday and end after Embry-Riddle's free Wings & Waves Air Show on Oct. 13 and 14 at the shoreline in front of Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort, 100 N. Atlantic Ave. The Homecoming theme is "Embry-Riddle Homecoming: Topping the ...
Apache Longbow to Appear at Copperstate from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Visitors at this year's Copperstate Fly-In and Aviation Expo will get a rare, up-close look at an Apache Longbow, one of the most technologically advanced attack helicopters in the world as the event convenes October 25-27 at Casa Grande Municipal Airport (CGZ), Arizona.
RIVERSIDE: March Field Air Museum holds annual fundraiser - Press-Enterprise | March Field Air Museum is hosting its 28th annual MASH Bash on Saturday, Oct. 13. Advance tickets are $45 per person and $55 per person on event day. The 1970s “M*A*S*H” television series continues to be one of America's favorite sitcoms because of its ...
No aerobatic team display at Air Force Day this year from The Kathryn Report by Kathryn | There will be no aerobatic team display at the Indian Air Force (IAF) Day parade this year as the famed Sarang helicopter team is out of action and the Surya Kiran formation team was disbanded last year.The 80th anniversary celebrations are scheduled to be held at the Hindon air base next week.While the IAF has kept a tight lid on the issue, sources said the helicopter display team is out of...
Would-be pilot revisits WWII B-29 - Tulsa Beacon | Other World War II era aircraft from the Commemorative Air Force joined FIFI throughout the weekend including a North American P-51 Mustang and a Beech C-45 Expediter. In conjunction with FIFI's visit, the Tulsa area Food Truck community collected ...
Veterans relive war memories on B-17 flight - Dothan Eagle | Virgil Fenn stands near the B-17 bomber "Aluminum Overcast" late Wednesday evening on the Aero-One Aviation ramp at Dothan
Regional Airport. Fenn, who began flying in the 1940s, flew this particular B-17 extensively for Dothan Aviation Corporation in ...B-17 Bomber Lands in Dothan, Honors Local WWII Veterans - WTVY, Dothan | Arthur sat as the 'Ball Turret Gunner,' in order to be the gunner and fit in the small spot you had to be no taller than 5'6. "The ball turret is very uncomfortable," explained Osepchook. WWII Veteran Fred Fellows also flew on B-17's over Germany. "We ...
Victims of WWII Plane Crash Finally Identified from Warplanes Online Community by yna | After 68 years, the remains of seven U.S. servicemen who went unaccounted for after their aircraft crashed on an island in Vanuatu during World War II were finally identified and returned to their families. Vanuatu was a former French-British Condominium located east of northern Australia, it is now known as Republic of Vanuatu. On April 22, 1944, a team of seven marines were conducting a night training mission aboard a PBJ-1 patrol bomber, the military variant of the North American B-25 Mitchell. It...
Historic New Mexico Aerodrome Being Restored from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Almost a century after its founding and 35 years after it was closed, the First Aero Squadron Aerodrome and Columbus Airport are undergoing a rebirth in Columbus, New Mexico.
Photographer makes P-51 shine from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Al Marsh | Here’s a shot we all wish we could make. I’ve never seen pixels shine like this before.
Famous Aviators from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | ...Amazing the number of women aviators that we never heard about in school. This beautiful young lady was told that she "would never make a flier."And yet, she achieved greatness. What did she do?...
Respect and affection, nearly 70 years on by hogdayafternoon | ...The first two films were recently discovered and were special for a couple of reasons, the first being that they were shot in colour, most unusual for that time and the second and most special reason was that they were shot by aircrew. They were home movies, a personal record of life on a USAAF/RAF air base in the East of England. East Anglia, as this area is known (for us English were once known as “Angles” in ancient times) was turned into one huge American airfield, predominantly bomber bases. Col. Jimmy Stewart flew from an airfiled 10 miles to the north of where I type this and within a 5 mile radius were numerous other airfields that were the home to B24′s which were gradually replaced, as action intensified, by B17′s. Other bases were gradually equipped with P51′s and P47′s, the “Little Friends”. Memorabilia is everywhere, if one chooses to seek it out...
Estelle Wingster: A vintage airplane with a modern message from General Aviation News by Meg Godlewski | In 1953 Ken Miller of Van Nuys, Calif., was a college student. He went to the airport with two friends and met a man who was giving rides in his Cessna 150. “The guy said he would take each of us up for $10 a piece,” Miller recalled. “I had $20 in my pocket. The first guy goes but doesn't have any money, so I paid for him. Then the second guy goes and he doesn't have any money so I pay for him too and then I told the pilot I was out of
Mike Newman aiming for grand slam speed records on land, sea and air - Power Boat - World | Mike also holds a Guinness world blind aerial acrobatic record; gained as part of a team record whilst flying the most consecutive loops in formation with The Blades Aerobatic Team in 2011. After successful trials in Leicestershire and Devon, Mike ...
New cameras for winners of the Air Festival photo competition - Bournemouth Echo | THE winners of the Daily Echo/Castle Cameras Air Festival 2012 photographic competition have collected their prizes. Judges sifted through hundreds of entries before selecting Geoff Taylor to win the adult competition and Matthew Le Riche the junior ...
Former Young Eagle Receives Flights of a Lifetime from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | A flight package offered for auction at the Gathering of Eagles held at EAA AirVenture 2011 became a weekend to remember for pilot and former Young Eagle Tyler Stargardt, of Marshfield Wisconsin, at the grand opening weekend for the Fagen Fighters World War II Museum in Granite Falls, Minnesota.
Kids can discover aviation on Oct. 13 - The Trentonian | TRENTON—The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 176 is sponsoring “Young Eagles Day” on Saturday, Oct. 13,from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Trenton-Mercer Airport. CONTRIBUTE. Story Ideas. Send Corrections. All children ages 8 to 17 will have an ...
'In Descent Proposal' Pilot Flies for a Living from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | On Monday, when EAA first posted the story about the viral YouTube video showing EAA member Ryan Thompson's feigned in-flight emergency ruse to propose to his girlfriend Carlie Kennedy, the video had garnered just more than 1.4 million views.
"Jetpack" Sets "Record" from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The president of Jetlev Southwest, Dean O'Malley, flew (tethered to a floating powerplant and not without stops) over 26.2 miles of open ocean from Newport Beach California to Catalina Saturday, September, 29, to promote the company's jetpack product. The promotional stunt aimed to set a record for longest jetpack flight. Jetlev manufactures a jetpack that uses water pressure for thrust. The water is pumped from a floating power unit through a hose to two downward facing nozzles attached to a backpack worn by the pilot. The system handled the trip in about four hours but its 200 hp four-stroke marine engine emptied the craft's 22-gallon fuel tank twice along the way, with varied results.
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