Fearless Felix has to say as the hours tick down....Godspeed Felix Baumgartner (Red Bull Stratos) - Spacedive Balloon Launch Set For Early Sunday Morning 10-14-12 from AirPigz by Martt | The video above shows the attempt to launch Felix Baumgartner out of Roswell New Mexico last Tuesday (October 9, 2012) as part of the Red Bull Stratos project, an effort to make a jump from the edge of space at 120,000. The video shows how to winds were too strong to launch, and that Felix had hopes that they would be...
World’s Largest Manned Balloon Ready For Historic Mission from Aero-News Network | Red Bull Stratos Aircraft Is 55 Stories Tall, Spread Out Would Cover 40 Acres The balloon that will take Felix Baumgartner up to 120,000 feet for his record-breaking mission is constructed of nearly transparent polyethylene strips about the same thickness as a dry cleaner bag, which are heat-sealed together. Despite the light weight of the polyethylene, Felix’s balloon weighs 3,708 pounds simply because there is so much of it (40 acres) needed to carry the Red Bull Stratos Capsule ... which weighs nearly 3,000 pounds ... aloft.
Above: US Navy Blue Angels in flight. Photos courtesy of US Navy Blue Angels - KPBS | The world's best military and civilian pilots will soar through San Diego's skies at the world-famous MCAS Miramar Air Show October 12-14, 2012 featuring the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels and the Marine Air Ground Task Force simulated combat demonstration....
Air show celebrates anniversary of Marines in space - U-T San Diego | Gavin Elliott and his grandmother stopped at the Miramar Air Show Saturday to look at reproductions of the Challenger shuttle and the space suit Neil Armstrong wore to walk on the moon. Astronauts, “I think of them as brave people,” the 9-year-old from ...
Planes fill skies over Daytona Beach - Daytona Beach News-Journal | DAYTONA BEACH — The first day of this year's Embry-Riddle Wings and Waves Air Show roared over Daytona Beach on Saturday, buzzing the heads of thousands of spectators who crowded the beach for a free display of aerial maneuvers over the ocean.
Air Expo taking flight today - Parkersburg News | While the performers at the air show will get a lot of credit, it takes an army of volunteers to get the event going, said emcee Hugh Oldham. "These events don't happen by accident," he said. "This is my 20th or 21st air show this season and every one...
13th annual AirFest a roaring success - Culpeper Star Exponent | Sunny skies and an enthusiastic crowd came together Saturday at the Culpeper County Airport to celebrate the facility's 13th annual AirFest. Throughout the morning and afternoon hours, county school buses shuttled visitors by the hundreds to and from ...
Planes, cars and history wraps up Mustang Days in Vacaville - TheReporter.com | From the way David G. Styles talks, citing dates, pilots, aircraft, aircraft carriers, Asian geography, you might think he curates the Jimmy Doolittle Air & Space Museum on Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield. "He was the one who pioneered 'blind flying ...
Breitling Dragon Tour - YouTube | The Breitling Jet Team, Breitling Wingwalkers and Jetman are
flying East for the winter, to bring Breitling's passion for aviation to new audiences. All three teams are headed to Asia to...Breitling Aerial Performers Head To Asia from Aero-News Network | Jet Team, Wingwalkers, Jetman Set Out On 'The Breitling Dragon Tour' The Breitling Jet Team, Breitling Wingwalkers and Jetman are flying East for the winter, to bring Breitling's passions for aviation to new audiences in what is being collectively called 'The Breitling Dragon Tour". All three teams are heading to Asia to participate in Airshow China 2012, held in Zhuhai, Guangdong province....
Air Associates Haunted Hangar Introduces Flight to St. Louis Community from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | Air Associates of Missouri, an FBO at Spirit of St. Louis Airport, held its "Haunted Hangar" fall event today. The offices and hangar were decked out in festive Halloween decor, and the friendly staff was available to demonstrate the operation and...
Aviator Ball at Arkansas Air and Military Museum, Fayetteville - In Arkansas | The Arkansas Air & Military Museum invites you to the third annual Aviator Ball at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at the World War II hangar at Drake Field, home of the museum. Surrounded by vintage aircraft and memorabilia, you can dance to the nostalgic sounds of ...
World War II B-17 "Memphis Belle" Flights - South County Times | The public will have an opportunity to take a flight aboard the World War II B-17 "Memphis Belle" when it makes a stop at the Spirit of St. Louis Airport in Chesterfield on Sunday, Oct. 14, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This restored "Flying Fortress" bomber is ...
Video: Lockheed T-33 at Palm Springs Air Museum from AVwebFlash Current Issue | AOPA Summit 2012 brought together pilots and aviation enthusiasts from across the nation and also provided a stage for local aviation attractions like the Palm Springs Air Museum. The museum contributed three warbirds to AOPA's outdoor display. In this video, Palm Springs Air Museum director of design Richard Grosser talks about the Lockheed T-33 jet trainer.This video is brought to you by WxWorx XM WX Satellite Weather, Avidyne, and Sennheiser.
'Doolittle's Raiders' recall historic attack on Tokyo - Pensacola News Journal | Retired Lt. Col. Dick Cole, who flew as Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot during the daring raid on Tokyo during World War II, marvels at the displays at the National Naval Aviation Museum during the 1st Air Commando Group reunion Friday.
Rico: Build it, and it will fly - TheReporter.com | From a minor league team to a major league museum, with a new name to honor Doolittle Raiders hero, Gen. Jimmy Doolittle. An initial 11.4-acre land buy is in escrow. They're on the move, museum education foundation director Phil
Lancaster told me.Airspeed Online:
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DH. Mosquito HJ767 UP-G latest update 13-10-2012 from stickandrudderWTO by G-GARY | From a conversation this morning via Graham Norbury, who is the driving force behind the recovery of parts from DH Mosquito HJ767, from a field in Bunny near...
World War II air combat over Italy from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | While looking for video clips to include in a forthcoming article, I came across this compilation of Allied air combat footage from the Italian campaign during World War II. The video includes air-to-air combat scenes, bombing raids, and other interesting shots. Those were the...
Corpus Christi Army Depot Welcomes Its First Female Test Pilot from You Fly, Girl by Cathy GaleFrom Avionics Intelligence: The U.S. Army issued the following news: For the first time in its 51 year history, Corpus Christi Army Depot welcomed a female maintenance test pilot. CW2 Trina Moreno, a test pilot for the UH-60 Black Hawk, came to the depot in 2011 to help with crash battle damaged and recapitalized Black Hawks. She can be found in the hangar or on the flight line dressed in her ACUs performing inspections, test flights and the occasional aircraft delivery....
Past and present from Roger-Wilco by steve | Sometimes the past and present meet in the strangest ways. Here is a USAF C-17 at the Papa air base in Hungary and a...
Pilots start a local flight school from You Fly, Girl by Cathy GaleFrom Tallahassee.com: Pilots Lacey Mayer, left, and Faith Drewry founded FL Aviation Center at Tallahassee Regional Airport to provide flight instruction, aircraft rentals, aerial photography and supplies for pilots. / Special to the Democrat
It might not look like your typical school building, but classes are now in session at Hangar A at Tallahassee Regional Airport....
Hits and Misses: 'Young Eagles Day' at airport; Trenton Marriott to change names - The Times of Trenton - NJ.com | HIT: The Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 176's “Young Eagles Day” today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Trenton-Mercer Airport in Ewing. Children ages 8 to 17 will have an opportunity to fly in an aircraft piloted by an EAA member pilot, free of ...
Mojave rocketeers evoke early days of aviation - The Seattle Times | Inside one of the bustling ramshackle hangars at the Mojave Air & Space Port, 23-year-old Kyle Nyberg is tightening dozens of
stainless-steel nuts that make up the innards of the rocket sitting before him. As the searing desert heat creeps in through ...Not something you see everyday... from TVR Photography.com's Facebook Wall
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