Squadron, the Blue Angels, will close the 2012 season at their annual Homecoming Air Show aboard Naval Air Station Pensacola today and ...In His Own Words: The Ride Of A Lifetime With The Blue Angels - NorthEscambia.com | An interesting thing I learned from Lt. Tedrow was that as a part of the rotation process coming on to the Blue Angels, many of the pilots spend their first year serving as narrator, before they rotate up to the actual demonstration team. While serving ...
Airshow returns with new attractions - Hometown News | STUART - About 4,000 people are set to converge on Witham Field for the Stuart Air Show next weekend. Aerial stunts, pyrotechnics, flight demonstrations, vendor and community booths, live entertainment, aircraft and military equipment displays, a ...
'Wings Over' Possibly Coming to East Arlington - Patch.com | A Wings Over, the franchise known for its airplane-inspired orders, such as the B-17 Bomber (60 wings), could be coming to East Arlington, according to the Board of Selectmen's Monday agenda. Robert Savin, who already owns a handful of Wings Over ...
A piece of movie history takes to the air in Jacksonville this weekend - Florida Times-Union | But you can fly in the B-17 from the 1990 film of the same name, seated where actors like Harry Connick Jr. and Matthew Modine were when they replicated the original's historic final World War II mission. Part of the Liberty Foundation's Salute to ...
Win a Stearman! Iconic Biplane is 2013 EAA Sweepstakes Grand Prize from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the annual EAA aircraft, and the grand prize was unveiled this week in the EAA exhibit at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Annual Meeting and Convention in Orlando: a completely restored 1943 Boeing Stearman Model 75 biplane!
Frank Christensen to Speak at EAA Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | On December 14, EAA will welcome Frank Christensen, innovative pioneer in the homebuilt kit movement, as keynote speaker at the annual Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet. The banquet, held in the Founders Wing of the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, commemorates the 109th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina...
Swashbucklers and Black Sheep — history making fighter squadron and “Pappy” Boyington from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Swashbucklers and Black Sheep: a pictorial history of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II, Bruce Gamble, 2012, ISBN 13-978-0-7603-4250-3, 216 pp. <><><><><> As is the publishing business custom, Zenith Press provided a copy of this book to review so that an objective review would [...]
Today in Flying History - 02 November 1947 from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | 1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 ‘Hercules’; the largest span aircraft ever built....
An aviation mystery from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | ...It's a beautiful seaplane abandoned between the sea and the desert of Saudi Arabia and it's been left there for almost 50 years. The plane is a PBY-5A Catalina, a military American seaplane from the 1930's...
Profile 73: "870" as flown by Hank Snow, 173rd Airborne from WWII & Korean Conflict Airplane Profiles by JSM | ...I first met Hank ten years ago at a reunion of a WW2 fighter squadron. These guys were the rough and tumble type that you'd imagine - back-slapping, loud hollers, scotch-fueled braggadocio - basically, the kind of buddies any man would you'd love to hang with. And, I was at the bar with Earl Ashworth, Bill Creech, "Doc" Perrit. Why me?! I could do something they couldn't - I could fly a PENCIL...
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NTSB On Wright B Flyer Crash from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A replica Wright B Flyer built in Dayton Ohio crashed for unknown reasons on July 30, 2011, killing both volunteer pilots and the NTSB's October 30 Factual Report doesn't determine a cause but does note deficiencies with a weld. According the NTSB, the aircraft's left propeller shaft tube exhibited a separation at its aft weld. Contact points in that area exhibited evidence of rotational rubbing. The aircraft was equipped with a modern engine and avionics, and video recovered from onboard recorders showed circumstantial evidence that could lead some to an early conclusion not yet officially supported by the NTSB.
Inspiring Aviator Speaks To Youth at NBAA - Aviation International News | Renowned aviator Barrington Irving gave an inspiring message about aviation as a career to hundreds of middle and high school students from central Florida today at the NBAA Convention. In 2007, at just 23, Irving flew solo around the world in a ...
Young Eagles Rally - Yankton Daily Press | Yankton EAA Chapter 1029 held a Young Eagles Rally on Sunday, Oct 30, at Chan Gurney Airport from 8 a.m. to noon. The Yankton Middle School sixth graders who earned an Independent Reading Certificate signed by Mrs. Jacalyn Hovden were eligible for ...
Superstorm deflates Intrepid's shuttle pavilion - Art Daily | The space shuttle Enterprise is draped with cloth that had protected it before Superstorm Sandy passed though, leaving the spacecraft shrouded on the deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, at its dock on the Hudson River in New York, Tuesday ...
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