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What does being a Blue Angel mean to you? - BA #2 from U.S. Navy Blue Angels's Facebook Notes | Every member of the Blue Angels team is a 24/7 representative of the fighting men and women of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The responsibility of that position requires each member to do their very best to exemplify our core values of Honor, Courage and Commitment...

When Pigs Fly South to SUN ’n FUN from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | SUN ’n FUN CAMPUS, LAKELAND, Fla. — The grounds at SUN ‘n FUN will look very different “When Pigs Fly South” on Saturday, Dec. 1, from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Classic cars, show motorcycles and vintage aircraft will surround more than 20 BBQ Masters as they compete for awards in three competitive classes...

Hardworking Fat Albert crew over the threshold at... from You like airplanes, too? by marvinsmith | PENSACOLA, Fla. (Nov. 28, 2012) Pilots prepare to perform a touch and go maneuver aboard Fat Albert, a C-130 Hercules aircraft assigned to the U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, during a training flight as Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet pilots taxi for takeoff at Naval Air Station Pensacola. An all-Marine crew of three pilots and five enlisted aircrew fly Fat Albert, provide...

Blue Thunder Air Racing - November News letter. We forgot to share this last week.  Our apologies!

Future 'Up in the Air' For Garfield County Air Show - KREX News Channel 5 | The air show took place this past July at the Garfield County Regional Airport in Rifle for a second straight year following a one-year hiatus in 2010. Garfield County Commissioners won't make a final decision until Dec. 10...

 The Plastic Scale Modeling Hour – Kits For Vets – Ep45 from WarbirdRadio.com by Gerald Voigt | The Plastic Scale Modeling Hour is honored to have as this week’s guest, Sonny Tomlinson who has found a way to give back to the community, help Veterans in need and promote scale modeling! Listen in as Sonny explains his mission to help hospitalized Veterans rehabilitate through scale modeling. If you want to support Sonny [...

Film depicts historic airplane up for sale at Bonhams from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Auction house Bonhams is offering video footage of the 1942 Hawker Hurricane set to go under the hammer at its pre-Christmas sale at Mercedes-Benz World – the spiritual home of the Hurricane – in Weybridge, Surrey, UK, on Monday Dec. 3...

Toys for Tots to Benefit From Airshow - Longview News-Journal | Toys for Tots to Benefit From Airshow. A remote control airshow will take place in Mineola on Saturday, December 1 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Industrial Park. R/C aircraft of all kinds, including helicopters, electric planes and larger gas ... 

Wreckage of plane of War 2 are found in Miami from AVIATION NEWS ABOUT AVIATION NEWS  | The remains of this aircraft, very tough in combat, were first detected on June 29 and since then there were eight dives to make observations and collect data.  The plane was found to be very popular in the U.S. Navy, which once had 12,275 of them, according to the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola (Florida)...

B-36 Peacemaker Museum at Veterans Memorial Air Park from travelforaircraft | Convair produced B-36 Peacemakers in their Fort Worth Plants No.4 during the 1950s. Built as the only aircraft to fly and deliver the Mark 17 nuclear weapon (24' 8"/7.52m long and weighing 21 tons/19,090kg) the B-36's career was a peaceful one, never having sortied on a combat mission. First flying in 1949, the Peacemaker dwarfed the largest strategic bomber of WW II — Boeing's B-29 Stratofortress — and is the largest piston engine propelled aircraft to be built. A half-dozen pusher piston engines protected the design from opposing interceptors by flying at high altitude with great speed though four turbojet engines were soon added to keep apace with jet fighter developments...

Veterans Memorial Air Park — Ft. Worth's Best Kept Secret and it is a 3-fer! from travelforaircraft  | Marty Davis and I pulled into the Veterans Memorial Air Park recently, right up to the front door with a nearly rare twin 20mm cannon gun turret from a B-36 Peacemaker there as a welcoming interest to get things going. We were particularly excited to see this museum as it is has many outdoor displays and the bright autumn day was providing fantastic photographic lighting. Also at the door was Ike Gallop, museum docent, and like the sunlight that day he would shine directly as well as clearly...

American Helicopter XH-26 Jet Jeep by travelforaircraft | American Helicopter designed the XH-26 Jet Jeep in the early 1950s to serve as an airborne Jeep, which could be towed by a Jeep and use the same fuel as a Jeep. Pulse jet engines at the rotor tips provided  power to turn the rotor with a small fan belt driven tail rotor which was used for directional control, not to counter the rotor torque as there was none. The pulse jets were...

Surveillance camera video shows F-18 crashing into Virginia Beach apartments
from David Cenciotti's weblog | On Apr. 6, 2012, a U.S. Navy F/A-18D Hornet crashed into Mayfair Mews Apartments off of Fleming Drive, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. Fortunately, no one was killed in the accident even if several people were treated for injuries, including both pilots, a student pilot and an instructor, which ejected safely at low altitude....

Aviation art and a higher calling from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | SEATTLE — On Dec. 8, renowned portrait and aviation artist John Shaw will share his thoughts about his craft, World War II aviation and the stories that inspire his paintings. Joining Shaw is aviation historian Larry Chambers. This unique program will blend tales of the war's heroism with recent stories about the peace time heroics of Angel Flight West, a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization that arranges free, non-emergency air travel for children and adults with serious medical conditions and other compelling needs...

Fourth-Gen Pilot Solos in Great-Grandfather's Airplane from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | For Tanya Brown, EAA 1103125, it was never a question of if but when she would learn how to fly. After all, her great-grandfather Elmore was a pilot. His son, Tanya's grandfather Richard, flew for a living and owns an air strip. And Richard's son, Tanya's father Tom, has been a pilot for more than 40 years.

Riveting wing skeletons from The EAA Zenith Project by ChadJensen | So it’s been a couple of weeks since my last blog post, but we have only worked two sessions since then because of the Thanksgiving holiday last week. Progress has just been outstanding on the wings though!

X-47B First Land-Based Catapult Launch from AIRBOYD.TV | Credit: U.S. Navy/Naval Air Systems Command/NAVAIR NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator successfully completed its inaugural land-based catapult launch here Nov. 29, marking the start of a new era for naval aviation. “Carrier-based unmanned aircraft will change the concept of operations for the carrier-controlled airspace,” [...]