LiveAirShowTV's Top Five for 2012 - #3 Reno Air Races Return!
- December 29, 2012
After the tragic events of September 16, 2011, there were many who
thought we had seen the last of the Reno National Championship Air
Races. No one wanted that to happen, but many thought it was a
possibility. Due to the amazing work of CEO Mike Houghton and the RARA
Staff, the races did come back and they did it in grand fashion. Once
again, LiveAirShowTV was on hand to bring race fans all over the world
the "Inside Story" on what was going on during race week. Because of
the...
LiveAirShowTV's Top Five for 2012 - #4 Passing of a Legend - December 28, 2012 There were plenty of memorials made and video clips shown of the first man to walk on the Moon. But Neil Armstrong had a very love of aviation than what was seen in the headlines....
LiveAirShowTV's Top Five for 2012 | #5 Aviation on the big screen | OK, some of it was real, and some of it was CG, but the stories were worth telling. In January George Lucas brought us Red Tails. He spent much of his own money to get this film made, and told a wonderful story about how the Tuskegee Airmen earned the respect of the bomber crews they protected. CAF squadrons and Social Media teamed up to create a grass roots effort to overcome a mediocre promotion budget for a strong opening weekend box office. The film created a buzz that was felt the rest of the year with the Rise Above Tour from the CAF Red Tail Squadron around the nation....
Owensboro Officials Planning for Next Year's Air Show | With the overwhelming success of the air show in Owensboro's Smothers Park just four months ago, city officials are planning another one next Fall. The show drew 13,000 people this year. The exact date and participant ...
Short Story: How Big Would A Ford Tri-Motor Be If You... from AirPigz by Martt | This is the first post in a new and occasional series called 'short story'. None too surprising, these will
be short little stories that hopefully are bigger on interest and intrigue than they are on words. Here we go... I was incredibly fortunate as a teen to get to know Chuck LeMaster from Ottawa Kansas, a man who had a very interesting life associated with several unique aircraft, including at least two antique Ford Tri-Motors and one of only two modernized Fords known as the Bushmaster 2000. In 1976, when...Flight 19 and Amelia Earhart: Could they be found? - Sun-Sentinel Florida Panthers (blog) | But experts say technology now exists to find both Flight 19, the Navy squadron that took off from Fort Lauderdale in 1945, and Amelia Earhart, the legendary aviatrix who in 1937 in Miami began her attempt to fly around the world. The National Oceanic ...
World War II bomber pilot is Museum of Aviation's oldest volunteer - The Augusta Chronicle | He flew the B-25 bomber in North Africa in World War II, supporting Gen. George Patton's epic tank battle against Nazi field marshal Erwin Rommel. When Rommel's troops were caught in valleys with no escape, Cross would swoop down to a low altitude and ...
From Test & Research Pilots, Flight Test Engineers:
Carl E.Alber 1915-1994
Frederick C.Rowley 1916-1989
Don Papish 1929-1964
Weekend book picks: WWII true story 'A Higher Call' - USA TODAY | Brown, the pilot of a B-17 bomber with a crew of nine, was on his first mission over Germany. Stigler, in his Bf-109 fighter, already had scored 22 "victories," or kills of enemy planes. Brown's plane, nicknamed "Ye Olde Pub," could easily have been No ...
How Aviation Was Seen in 1951 from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | Ever so often somebody stumbles across another old military film and uploads it to YouTube. Today a friend sent me a link to one such video. If you want to see how our country viewed aviation in 1951, take a few minutes to watch the film below.
Yankee Air Museum seeking uniforms from Iraq, Afghanistan veterans - AnnArbor.com | A Chelsea-area man has been working to unpack and organize donations of military effects at the Yankee Air Museum following a 2004 fire that destroyed much of its previous artifacts, the Observer & Eccentric reported. yankee_air_museum.jpg. The Yankee ...
Area aviator honored - Access North Georgia | BUFORD - A longtime aviator from Buford has been honored for more than just giving of his time and spirit. The Gwinnett Daily Post reports that Angel Flight Southeast, a non profit company, held a ceremony recently for Charles E. George and presented ...
The People and Planes of Friday Harbor from Air & Space Magazine | Time and tide wait for no man, but they seem to linger a little around the flying paradise of the San Juan Islands.
Schoolboy finds WWII bomb on first trip out with metal detector Christmas present - Telegraph.co.uk | It is believed to have been used in practice World War II bomb runs. Luckily the 10lb bomb head did not contain any explosive material. His mother, 39, a nurse at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, said: "Kids always love looking for ...
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