After Year Off, Homestead Air Show Screams Across Skies - CBS Local | CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald reports the free air show will feature Air Force Thunderbirds, war planes and the Army Golden Knights parachute team freefalling from thousands of feet in the air. “It's about showing the capabilities of the base...
Monster Splash Seaplane Fly-in Saturday - Central Florida News 13 | Tavares Seaplane Base is hosting a Monster Splash seaplane fly-in on Saturday, Nov. 3, at Wooton Park. The public is invited to be there to welcome seaplanes and pilots as they fly in from all over to visit “America's Seaplane City!” Seaplanes are ...
Going loopy for planes at fun Coolidge fly-in - AZ Central | ...Once a month from October through May, dozens of aviators from across the state buzz in, show off their airplanes, eat breakfast and then strut around in flight suits, talking shop with other pilots and taking questions from the curious. Everyone’s welcome on the tarmac to wander, peer into the planes, discuss whose father flew what planes in which war, and envy one another’s toys....
Pilot to speak at Veterans Day ceremony in Braintree - Wicked Local | The ceremony will be presented by the Braintree Veterans Council (BVC) under the auspices of American Legion Post 86,
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1702 and Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Chapter 29 to honor all veterans, living and dead...Georges Madon and Racer Arnoux "Simplex" - Passion for Aviation | Massimiliano De Antoni, a friend who goes every week at the flea market in Turin sometimes contain photographic treasures for the French Air Force and wants you to share.
It is here Georges Felix Madon as the first World War with 41 victories posing in front of the futuristic racer Arnoux "Simplex" by Carmier with a Hispano-Suiza engine with 320 hp designed for cutting Deutsch de la Meurthe of 1922...
Ravecopter - Osprey on deck at night from Flight Image of the Day by Dominic Perry | Pictured on 29 October is this Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor conducting night operations onboard amphibious assault ship USS Boxer off the coast of California.
Aircraft museum expands for heightened publicity - Lamron | The 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum on Big Tree Lane has hosted the annual Geneseo Airshow and housed historical planes since 1994, and now has plans to expand and update its facilities. “The expansion project is to build a new hangar and repair ...
“A Company of Scholars”: A Brief History of the National Air and Space Museum’s Fellowship Program Published by The National Air and Space Museum | Most people know the National Air and Space Museum as the premier location in the United States, and perhaps in the world, for the display of the artifacts of aerospace history. Not so well publicized is the fact that the Museum is also home to what former Smithsonian Secretary Dillon S. Ripley called “a company of scholars … a small
university that awards no degrees.” Ripley’s comments refer to his strong belief that the Smithsonian should be a place where scholars from around the world conduct research and exchange ideas with each other and with Smithsonian researchers. The Smithsonian has...John A. Macready, holder of the flight altitude record in 1921... from x planes
Coming to the end of the elevator from The EAA Zenith Project by ChadJensen | After all the deburring fun had come to an end, it was now time to put the elevator back together, and begin riveting...
China flying second stealth prototype from Black Horizon by Steve Douglass | BEIJING — China has test flown a second model of a prototype stealth fighter, aviation experts said Thursday, in a sign of its aircraft industry’s growing sophistication. Photos posted to the Internet Thursday showed the radar-avoiding aircraft airborne near the northeastern city of Shenyang with its landing gear still down...
Alyssa Mae's Final "Dreams Take Flight" GWW Scholarship Essay from Life on the Road as a Pilot Lynda Meeks | I give to you the third and final essay from Alyssa Mae, the recipient of our 2012 Summer Dreams Take Flight Scholarship. The Girls With Wings Scholarship Program provides funds for flight training to selected individuals with a willingness to be superlative GWW role models. Winners show potential to continue her interaction with the GWW organization, via the website and events, so she can assist GWW in encouraging more young girls to have an interest in aviation. Part of the obligation for being awarded the scholarship is to submit at least one ...
NASA's last space shuttle heading to Florida retirement home - Reuters | The prototype shuttle Enterprise, which was used for atmospheric tests but never flew in space, was relocated from the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, located on the Hudson River in New York City.
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