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Blue Angels Homecoming Show This Week - WKRG-TV | Prior to the world famous Blue Angels F/A 18 Hornet performances, the Blues' C-130 Hercules transport known as “Fat Albert” will thrill the crowd with its short field take-off and low level passes. The Emerald Coast Skydivers and the Army Black Daggers ...

Hanging out, literally, with the Air National Guard Aerobatic Team (video, photos) - The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog) | Lt. Col. John Klatt of the Air National Guard Aerobatic Team flies upside-down over Perdido Key, Florida on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Klatt and the ANG team will perform at this weekend's Blue Angels homecoming ...

Flying monuments at Wings Over Houston - Your Houston News | For the estimated 100,000 thousand people who braved traffic on Highway 3 and the windy weather transition from summer to fall, the Wings Over Houston Airshow was a great reward. The annual event is usually accompanied by more cold Coca-Cola than ...

World War II veteran Barre honored by Legion motorcyclist escort to airshow - NeighborNewspapers.com | World War II veteran Clarence “Shorty” Barre was recognized as a guest of honor by the Salute America airshow at the Paulding County Airport on Oct. 20. Barre received a motorcycle escort that morning from 10 members of the Legion Riders of American ...

Famous Co-Pilot Speaks in Indy - 93.1 WIBC Indianapolis | He says the EAA is best known for their air show EAA AirVenture in Osh Kosh, Wisconsin, where the organization is based. As for the "Miracle on the Hudson", Captain Skiles summed up the experience aboard US Airways Flight 1549 as having "one moment ...

The Thrill of Flying with the Blue Angels from Featured by Russ Albertson | Ernie, the C-130 Herclues used by the Blue Angels. (Russ Albertson)The U.S. Navy Blue Angels have thrilled hundreds of millions of spectators at airshows across the country since 1946. The team demonstrates seemingly effortless precision in all their maneuvers as they fly the beautiful Boeing F/A-18 Hornets just inches apart. The team was established just after WWII as the U.S. Navy saw its budget diminishing. The Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Chester Nimitz, directed his staff to find a...

Mister Mulligan: Golden Age Race Winner with a Fine Irish Name from Featured by Alan Smith | Benny Howard’s Mister Mulligan, 1935 winner of both Bendix and Thompson trophies. (San Diego Air & Space Museum)As air racing’s Golden Age of the 1930s went on, the design of new racers continued to lead advancement in both military and civil aviation. In 1935, Benny Howard’s high wing monoplane Mister Mulligan was a classic example of this. With Gordon Israel as co-pilot, Howard won...

Charity Status for The People’s Mosquito | ...John Lilley, Project Lead, says “This is a hugely significant step forward for the project. Becoming a charity will strengthen the credibility of the project and enable us to take real steps towards securing funding and sponsorship”...

Ghost Caught on Security Camera - YouTube | Ghost caught on hangar security camera at Fantasy of Flight.

Flying the High Arctic - Vintage Wings of Canada | ...To attract crews to the difficult challenge of flying in the North, a system of two weeks on and two weeks off allows them to continue their lives in the South. Crews live together in crew houses in Iqaluit, Nunavut and Yellowknife, Northwest territories during while they fly all over the Arctic. Yellowknife crews fly the expansive and windswept tundra of the Western Canadian Arctic and roam worldwide with the C-130 Hercules, while Iqaluit-based crews operate primarily in the mountainous terrain, deep fjords and craggy archipelagos of the High Arctic and Baffin Island. Shared tribulations...

Winter Park woman one of first female military pilots - Winter Park/Maitland Observer | “It opened the door for women in aviation.” “It did have a really huge effect. … they are the forerunners, the foremothers if you will,” Lyons said. But it didn't last long. The WASP program was abruptly disbanded in 1944 when World War II was drawing ...

Wally Dier – Flying high in restored biplanes - Pomerado Newspaper Group | On Oct. 13, while tens of thousands of San Diegans were gathered to watch the Miramar Air Show, Dier had a small air show of his own, flying his third Stearman biplane for the first time at Gillespie Air Field, with pilot Don Crim. His audience was ...

Air Force Museum Foundation to hold 'Air Legacy Competition' from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | This November, don't let the cold weather keep you stuck inside. Instead, visit the National Museum of the United States Air Force to find out if you have what it takes to call yourself an 'Ace'. For the entire month of November, the museum will be sponsoring an "Air Legacy Competition" using our two, 360-degree Interactive Simulators....

Sky's no limit at air museum - San Gabriel Valley Tribune | It's been a few years since I took the Van Buren turn off the 60 Freeway going east. March Field Air Museum is one of those great places that always seem to be beckoning, and it's always fun to visit. As I pulled into the parking lot I could tell that ...

Replica of pioneering Romanian airplane, the Coanda 1910, presented at air show - Romania-Insider.com | coanda 1910 Replica of pioneering Romanian airplane, the Coanda 1910, presented at air show A full size replica of Henri Coanda's experimental airplane has been made in Craiova. The replica of the Coanda 1910, the original airplane designed, built and ...

Wartime bomber flies again - virtually - The Northern Echo | Sadly not one flying version still exists, although the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington near York contains a meticulously accurate reconstruction. However visitors there can now try flying one themselves thanks to a new high-tech simulator. The new ...

Spain’s Arrow — the Hispano Aviación HA-200 Saeta (Arrow) from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Spain’s Arrow — the Hispano Aviación HA-200 Saeta (Arrow) 35º 44′ 30″ N / 81º 23′ 22″ W Willy Messerschmitt left Germany after WW II’s end to continue what he did best — design advanced aircraft — as treaty limitations did not allow him to work on military aircraft in his home country. Spain, no stranger in [...]


All my avi-yesterday's 01 EE Lightning encounters from stickandrudderWTO by G-GARY other links | This is a look back, of my encounters with the English Electric Lightning over the years. The first time I came across the EE Lightning, was during the airshows at Rolls Royce Hucknall. They would beat-up the runway at Hucknall during there 'slot'. I don't remember ever seeing a Lightning take off from Hucknall at a show, but feel that they came from elsewhere, because I do remember solo display Lightnings, 'orbiting' over in the Annersley/Brinsley area prior to their 'slot'. The airshows at RAF Finingley had some attending on static and in the air, and of them, I remember them being in 'camo' finish. I did see what I assumed to be Lightnings based at...

Video: Ikhana's X2 Remanufactured Twin Otter from AVwebFlash Current Issue | No other airplane does what de Havilland's famed Twin Otter does, which is why there are so many of the legacy aircraft still flying. Viking Air recently resumed production of an updated version of the utility twin but and Ikhana Aircraft is remanufacturing the original production aircraft into virtually a new airplane. AVweb checks it out in this video from NBAA.This video is brought to you by WxWorx XM WX Satellite Weather AND Avidyne...

Red Bull Stratos' contribution to science | Learning to fly from Aerial Sports Feed | Global recognition continues to pour in for Felix Baumgartner and the Red Bull Stratos team as they highlight the mission’s contribution to science and what Dr Jonathan Clark calls a 'true aviation milestone'...