Sunday, October 7, 2012

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Blue Angels ready to thrill SF crowds - KGO-TV | SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- If you want to catch the Fleet Week Air Show, the action goes from noon to 4 p.m. both today and tomorrow. Be sure to get to your viewing location early, because this is just one of the many Bay Area events expected to draw huge ...

UC Berkeley professor Alex Filippenko flies with Blue Angels - Daily Californian | UC Berkeley astronomy professor Alex Filippenko took to the skies on Wednesday when he flew with the U.S. Navy's flight demonstration squadron — the Blue Angels. He was chosen to fly with the Angels as part of the Navy's Key Influencer Program, which ...

Don't wing the Fort Worth Alliance Air Show - here's what you need to know - Fort Worth Star Telegram | The show, presented by Bell Helicopter, is Saturday and Sunday at Alliance Airport, just off Interstate 35W at 2221 Alliance Blvd., in far north Fort Worth. The show features the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds.

Time For Embry-Riddle's Wings & Waves Air Show - PR Web | John Klatt – During his more than 23 years with the Air National Guard, Lt. Col. Klatt flew combat, air support and humanitarian missions in the F-16 “Fighting Falcon” and the C-130 “Hercules” and served multiple missions in Iraq. In partnership with ...

Fly-In and Veterans Reunion to be held - Mt. Vernon Register-News | The photo is scheduled to be taken at 10 a.m. during the 16th annual Little Egypt Fly-in and Veterans Reunion on Saturday, Oct. 20. First organized by the Experimental Aircraft Association, the event is held as part of the Mt. Vernon Fall Fest. It will...

Model airplane pilots hold Fall Fly-In - Tuscaloosa News | The West Alabama Aero Modelers will pay tribute to their 15 founding members, as well as past members who have died, during the group's Fall Memorial Fly-In today. The club, which will hold the fly-in at Munny Sokol Park, now has more than 100 members.

Gimont. Patrouille de France  - Ladepeche.fr | Crossings, avoidance, slaloms and tight formation flying will enchant the audience, many expected on the Esplanade des Capuchins, tomorrow, from 14 h 30 to the air show of the Patrouille de France conducted by eight pilots of the Army ...

More than 8000 people attend air-show fro Aviation Day - Focus News | Plovdiv. More than 8,000 arrived at the Graf Ignatievo airbase to attend the events and programmes organised on the occasion of the Aviation Day and the 100th anniversary of the first military flight of the Bulgarian aviation on Saturday, November 6 ...

Andrew Rogucki - from Apache Roll, patrolling blog by Breitling Grifil | Internet and Facebook in particular, allow us to discover talents in the field of aerial photography. Andrzej Rogucki is one of them and photo gallery on Facebook is to discover. We literally plunges into action flight demonstrations at rallies without abusing photo retouching become too common for many photographers....

Enola Gay navigator describes his crew's first atomic bomb run - Examiner.com | "The USS Indianapolis arrived at the small island of Tinian located 1300 miles south of Japan with the bomb's core uranium-235", Dutch explained, "just 11 days prior to the bombing mission". The B-29 Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb for use as a ...

Slideshow: B-17 Visits Indy Airport - Indiana Public Media | The B-17 was armed to the teeth, giving it the nickname 'Flying Fortress'. Each gunner station was stocked with at least 9 yards of .50 caliber ammunition. B-17. Image 4 of 9. Photo: Dan Goldblatt/WFIU News. The original 'Memphis Belle' was the first B ...

World War II bird maintains might - San Angelo Standard Times | In the 1960s and 1970s, the B-17, sold to Aero Union in California and converted for use against wildfires, flew thousands of missions around the country to battle forest fires. The plane was sold to the new Arizona wing of the Commemorative Air Force ...

WWII vets reminisce on missions - The Detroit News | The veterans, now in their late 80s and 90s, walked their wives, children and, in some cases, grandchildren around the B-17 Flying Fortress before the flights, pointing out where they used to sit during missions. The 483rd bomb unit, which was ...

One more flight aboard a B-17, one of the last of its kind - San Antonio Express | There are only 5 B-17 Flying Fortresses still flying in the world, this one is maintained by the Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing Aviation Museum in Mesa, Arizona.

Congresswoman Judy Chu honors WWII Chinese-American B-17 veteran - Examiner.com | Congresswoman Judy Chu of the 32nd District, hosted a special ceremony on Friday, October 5, at her El Monte district office to honor the late World War II Veteran, First Lieutenant Victor Bill Schoon in recognition of his military service to his ...

Tigermoth main attraction at IAF parade - Business Standard | The IAF is in the process of raising a new aerobatic display team with Advanced Jet Trainer Hawk aircraft as an RFP has already been issued to the British BAE systems for supplying 20 new aircraft for this purpose. The other aircraft which took part in ...

YPSILANTI: Yankee Gala to benefit Yankee Air Museum Nov. 10 - Heritage Newspapers | The 2012 Yankee Award for Valor will also be presented to Norm Ellickson, founding member of the Yankee Air Force and crew chief of the "Yankee Lady" B-17 that's still flying today. Lloyd Carr, the former University of Michigan head football coach ...

Chennault Museum program on early aerial aviation - Monroe News Star | Mike McMahan, grandson of C.B. McMahan and principal owner of McMahan Aviation of Monroe, will tell about his own experiences in the aerial aviation patrol industry as well as his grandfather's, a pioneer aviator who established the largest aerial ...

PICTURES: Circumstances of Syrian A320 collision remain hazy - Flightglobal | ...Unverified images of a Syrian Arab Airlines A320 in a hangar show damage to the fin and rudder consistent with at least two horizontal clockwise rotor blade strikes at a height of about 9.3m (30ft), ruling out a ground collision because the Mi-17's rotor height is too low...

EHS AFJROTC flies high with Young Eagles - The Tand D.com | CORDOVA — Cadets from Edisto High School's Air Force Junior ROTC program participated in a unique opportunity to fly on Sept. 21. Nearly 40 cadets took a field trip to Orangeburg Municipal Airport for orientation flights in light airplanes under the ...

'Liftoff! We have a liftoff' - San Antonio Express | The top 100 teams compete for $60,000 in prizes and scholarships and a free trip to the International Paris Air Show during the final fly-off May 11, 2013 at Great Meadow, The Plains, VA (near Washington, D.C.). Last year a team from Krueger School of ..

JAXA's Kimiya Yui Space Bound in 2015 from Spaceports | Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui will embark on his first space mission aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft around June 2015, staying at the International Space Station for about six months, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Friday, October 5, 2012...

Felix Baumgartner in Roswell, New Mexico for 23-Mile Near-Space JUMP Tuesday from Spaceports | Felix Baumgartner arrived at the launch site in Roswell, New Mexico when he got the news from meteorologist...

Red Bull Stratos launch pushed back a day due to wind from Aerial Sports Feed | With a strong cold front moving into the launch site of Roswell, New Mexico, Felix Baumgartner will have to wait till Tuesday to attempt his record-setting jump...

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