Old Buckenham Airfield events in 2013 - OLD BUCKENHAM BLOG | The Military Fly In. Military aircraft of all eras are welcome, with the vehicles of the East England Military Museum on the ground. Sunday 8 September The LAA & Homebuilt Autumn Fly In. Another chance to celebrate homebuilt wonders. Friday 4, Saturday ...
European soaring through Polish skies - World Air Sports Federation | The event was organised by the Ostrów Aero Club. 93 pilots took part in the competition in 4 different classes: 19 pilots in Open Class, 20 in Standard Class, 40 in Club A and 14 in Club B. A lot of foreign teams also participated in the competition ...
Return the tricolor arrows .... the Olive Museum - Primocanale | A little more than two months after the extraordinary performance of the Tricolour Arrows in the sky of the capital, for the Lions Club Imperia Tower is time to draw a final budget and especially thank all those who, for various reasons...
Springfield claims the original 'Fearless Felix' - The State Journal-Register | Joe barnstormed with the flying circus through the Midwest, even wing walking on occasion. He said his approach was to jump, then wait as long as he could to open the chute, just to scare the crowd below. In 1925, he fell 2,250 feet (another record ...
Constellation(s) from CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | ...When I went to the Chanute Air Museum this summer and stepped outside to see the array of airplanes on display, my eyes went right to the Connie. There's just something about its striking tapered profile and triple tail design that makes it stand out. Frankly, it's beautiful - this from someone who thinks ALL airplanes are exceptional and oohs and aahs over every war bird and 747 she sees....
Chanute Museum improvements include base timeline, DC-9 flight simulator - Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette | Those are two of the entries in the recently completed timeline at Chanute Air Museum that features some of the rich history of what was Chanute. As the economic health of the air museum steadily improves, employees and a solid core of volunteers ...
From Antique Airfield:
- Thanksgiving 2012 Message from Antique Airfield
- Fly-in Announcement: Radial Rendezvous at Pasa Robles, CA April 2013
- Florida Cub Flyers and Florida Antique Biplane Association November 2012 Newsletters
- MAAG's Blog: MAAG Meets at Dead Cow Airport
- Dan Linn's Blog: Stearman Model 4 N667K
- APM American Eaglet November 2012 Restoration Project Update
- Don Luscombe's Gravesite
Dr. Eckener’s Dream Machine from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Dr. Eckener’s Dream Machine Dr. Eckener’s Dream Machine: the great Zeppelin and the dawn of air travel, Douglas Botting, 2001, ISBN 0-8050-6458-3, 331 pp. The first part of the 20th Century was a time when anything seemed possible in aviation. Dirigibles, especially the rigid airships, vied for dominance over airplanes and ships with regard to [...]
Banana from Apron 6 | On our way to Lahr we stopped at the Auto und Technik Museum in Sinsheim. Kind of a strange place with planes on all the rooftops and a playground in and around some of those planes. But certainly worth a visit as it is nice to see a Tupolev 144 and a Concorde next to [...]
Museum Curator Produces Authoritative Work on Washington Park, the First St. Louis Airport
from News Mr. Jack Abercrombie, Curator for the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum, has produced a scholarly work entitled, “Washington Park: The First St. Louis Airport.” The 18-page article took hundreds of hours of painstaking research to establish the location for the “National Aviation Meet for Novices,” the first event to attract amateur flyers. Access to the preferred location that would later be known as Kinloch Field in St. Louis County was still pending, and the President of the St. Louis Aero Club, Albert Bond Lambert, searched for ...
More about Camaro chase cars for the U-2 spyplanes from David Cenciotti | An article written by W.J. Hennigan for the LA Times, provides some new interesting details about the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of cars used to chase U-2 (and, presumably, RQ-4 Global Hawks) spyplanes. Chase automobiles are used to supervise take offs, landings (and touch and gos) wherever U-2 Dragon Lady pilots (from Beale Air Force Base, California, home of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing) bring their planes....
Ruth Morales from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Friday's Fabulous Flyer | ...I met Ruth at a Fly-It-Forward event when she came to share her time and experience with our young ladies at two different events. She was ground support for our helicopter on the first. And during the rained out event, she took the time to talk to the kids and teach them about the plane in a walk-around demonstration...
Through Airmen's Eyes: 65 years later, WW II veteran returns to England from Air Force Link Top Stories | (This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series on AF.mil. These stories focus on a single Airman, highlighting their Air Force story.) On a typical day from 1942 to 1945, the flightline on Royal Air Force Alconbury, England, would be full of activity as aircrews, maintainers and weapons troops prepared as many B-17 Flying Fortresses as they could for missions in Germany...
F-35B’s Delivered to MCAS Yuma from photorecon.net by Douglas Aguillard | Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 and it’s a beautiful day in Yuma, AZ. A large crowd of hundreds is gathering at MCAS Yuma, and the crowds included dignitaries such as General James Amos, the 37th Commandant of the Marine Corps, former U.S. Navy pilot and Vietnam War P.O.W., Senator John McCain, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, and many others including the media,...
Remembering Pete from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Dan Hagedorn, Chief Curator for The Museum of Flight, pays tribute to General Aviation News columnist and renowned aviation historian Peter M. Bowers in this piece reprinted with permission from the museum's magazine "Aloft." It was late one night at our home in Copperas Cove, Texas, while still serving with the 1st Cavalry Division at nearby Fort Hood around 1986, when I received a phone call that started with a very...
Women in Aviation Is Theme of Presentation at Maplewood, MO Library from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | Libby Yunger, Chairman of the Greater St. Louis Ninety-Nines, recently gave her presentation, "A Century of Women in Aviation," at the Maplewood Public Library in celebration of National Aviation Month. The Ninety-Nines, an international organization of women pilots, was founded in 1929 by the first ninety-nine licensed women pilots including Amelia Earhart....
skydiving family boost charities - Messenger Newspapers | ... him his name he replied 'your best buddy'. “Billy was pulling my leg all the way down. He pointed out the Blackpool lights and the beautiful sunset. “When I got down I was blubbering, it was so great.” “Now I've done that, I'd like to go wing ...
'It reeks with history' - Bowling Green Daily News | However, since it's about history, it seems that kids should be given the chance to see that there's more to aviation than just the warbirds. A DC3/C47 would be a nice addition to demonstrate the double edged nature of technological acheivement. Link ...
You will not believe this weird flying machine flew 1,000 test flights 60 years ago from David Cenciotti | The Saab J-35 Draken is one of the most famous Swedish aircraft, ever. However, its
particular double delta wing configuration was something never seen before in the ’50s and, in order to move towards that new shape, a special test-bed scale model was developed....the Dornier Do 31 (via) from x planes
Starbase Indy convention: See a moon rock from Apollo 15 mission - Indianapolis Star | Also on hand during the weekend: Indiana astronaut Dr. David Wolf, a four-time space veteran who has flown on shuttles, lived on the former Russian Mir space station and made seven spacewalks. Indiana's most experienced astronaut, Wolf is an ...
Virgin Galactic Threatens to Depart New Mexico Over Liability Waivers for Suppliers from Spaceports | There's real concern that the quarter of a billion dollars New Mexico has invested in Spaceport America could be gone if the New Mexico legislature does not enact a spaceflight liability extending protection to commercial space launch firm suppliers, according to KTSM-TV (news video) and SpaceNews.
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