Monday, November 19, 2012

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Golden Knights parachute onto Faurot Field to express thanks - Columbia Missourian | Staff Sgt. Richard Sloan, left, of the Golden Knights parachute team shows a Golden Knights coloring book to 3-year-old Lucas Luhrus, his mother Leanne, and his father Mitchell on Friday afternoon at University Hospital. The Golden Knights parachuted ...

Stevens honored on 89th birthday - Cordova Times | Stevens, a U.S. Air Force veteran who flew with the Flying Tigers in World War Two, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He served as president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate from 2003 to 2007. Since his death in a plane crash in 2010 in ...

Unlocking the Sky: Glen Hammond Curtiss and the race to invent the airplaneby travelforaircraft | The Wright Brothers stood on the shoulders of many and in doing so were the first humans to experience flight under power and control. They not only opened the door to aviation as we know it today, they established an engineering paradigm in their approach to solving the design challenges of manned flight. Others soon followed, also significantly advancing aviation, and chief among them is Glen Hammond Curtiss...

The Versatile Beech 18  By Diane Tedeschi and Caroline Sheen | AirSpaceMag.com, November 16, 2012  | From sculptural beauty to functional transport, the Model 18 is an airplane of many guises....

2 Views from Apron 6 | 2 different views. ‘My view’, and the ‘view through the lens’.

Indiana: Air race pilots will visit MC airport from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | ...Janice Welsh and Margaret Wint, two pilots who participated in the annual, all-female Air Race Classic (ARC), will be at the Michigan City Airport on Saturday, Nov. 17 at 10:30 a.m. to speak about their experiences participating in the June 2012 race. The ARC is part of a national tradition that began back in 1929 with the First Women's Air Derby, which involved 20 women pilots, who raced from Santa Monica, Calif. to Cleveland, Ohio....

Formation flight Sunday. Cleveland Air Races 1948 from Planeshots

CAP pilots volunteer for 'target' pratice from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | It’s a beautiful day to be flying your Cessna above Maryland’s scenic Eastern Shore, taking in the view of the Chesapeake Bay, when — out of nowhere — an F-16 fighter jet suddenly pulls up beside you because your plane has no business being there....

Hercules makes final flypast over Sydney - Sydney Morning Herald | AAP. Two Hercules aircraft will end more than 30 years of service with a final low level flight over Sydney. The Hercules C-130H planes will fly over Sydney on Monday morning before retiring from the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) on Friday. It ...

Another dedicated pilot helping to grow aviation: OpenFlightManual.org brings the open source concept to flight training from Airplanista Aviation Blog by Dan Pimentel | In my continuing series on pilots who are devoting their valuable time to projects designed to move GA forward, Cedar Rapids, IA pilot and CFII Casey Hansen (@kchansen on Twitter) is developing an idea he says will "make flight training materials freely available and accessible to all" through an online depository of aviation information that he and a team of volunteer "experts" will maintain....

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