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Indian skies, foreign thrills at Aero India - Deccan Chronicle | The Surya Kirans were among the top three nine-aircraft aerobatics teams of the world, along with the British Red Arrows and the Canadian Snowbirds. At the 2003 edition of Aero India, the then Air Chief had said that Hindustan Aeronautics Limited would ...

F-22 to fly at Avalon - Australian Aviation | The USAF has confirmed the F-22 Raptor will conduct its first ever aerial display at the Australian International Airshow in February-March. The F-22 will be flown by F-22 Raptor Aerial Demonstration Team Chief Major Henry 'Schadow' Schantz from ...

Chiriquí Air Festival 2013 from Aviation News - Airplane-Pictures.net | More than 40,000 people packed the Enrique Malek airport to witness the Chiriquí Air Festival 2013. Airplane-Pictures.net member Philippe R was there to capture the...

FAA looking into dangerous stunt at Lancaster airport - KHOU | “He does have an FAA aerobatic waiver,” Robertson said. “We are required to keep a copy the waiver on file. We do have a copy of that waiver, and have verified it's currently valid.” The FAA, however, has not been able to find that document. In a ...

Tuskegee Airman Quentin Smith laid to rest in Indiana - WTHR | GARY - A Gary man who was a member of the famed all-black World War II unit the Tuskegee Airmen has been laid to rest in northwestern Indiana....

Don Schilke helped rescue wounded 1st Division Marines in his ‘Avenger’ fighter plane from War Tales by Don Moore | Don Schilke joined the Navy Reserves while still in high school in Oak Park, Ill. in 1947. After graduation he found himself in Composite Squadron 21 at North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego training for a job as an anti-submarine warfare crewman aboard a Grumman “Avenger” torpedo bomber. His first three years flying [...]

Timeless Voices - Mac McLeod from eaavideo.org | Mac McLeod was a C-47 pilot with the 46th Troop Carrier Squadron of the 317th Troop Carrier Group during World War Two. He flew combat cargo missions transporting troops and supplies in New Guinea and the Philippines from May 1943 until June 1945.

New CEO for Jimmy Doolittle museum team - The Reporter | This state of the art public air and space museum will bring the best of the original Travis Air Museum to a new public site where people from around the world will learn about and leave inspired by the history of California aviation pioneer Jimmy ...

Colin Callender Takes Off With 'The Flying Tigers' TV Series - Deadline.com | Former HBO Films president Colin Callender's Playground Entertainment today announced that they are turning the Flying Tigers into a ten-hour TV miniseries. The Flying Tigers were ace American volunteer pilots who served under General Claire Chennault ...

Jenner fought WWII from B-17 gun turrets - West Orange Times | Some 70 years after it happened, Melvin Jenner still gets choked up when he recalls watching his buddy's plane being shot down during a series of fighter and bomber missions over Europe in World War II. That is a moment he will never forget — and one ...

Virginia Man Tells WWII Tale To St. Louis County Board - Northland's NewsCenter | During World War Two, Robert Givens of Virginia was a B–17 top turret gunner with the 452nd Bomb Group based in England. On his sixth mission, pilot error or mechanical malfunction sent his plane into the English Channel. "It went up like this and then ...

WAI Philadelphia Chapter Meets the USCG in Atlantic City from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | Women interested in aviation caught a brief glimpse of what a career in the air could be like. As the Philadelphia chapter of Women in Aviation, International came to the Coast Guard Air Station in Atlantic City to educate interested women on the possibilities....

Video: Sikorsky S-43 To Kermit Weeks from Another Time by Dan Linn | ...Collector Kermit Weeks has purchased the Sikorsky S-43 once owned and flown by Hughes and is in the process of disassembling the aircraft to take to his Florida aviation attraction Fantasy of Flight....

Buried Spitfires is a tall story, says RAF veteran from The Kathryn Report | Former RAF Flying Officer Pat Woodward has vivid memories of his time in Burma after end of the Second World War. They were endless days of boredom in an oppressive heat broken only by tremendous monsoon storms, as he waited for word that he could return to Blighty. But one thing the veteran pilot does not recall is Spitfires being buried at RAF Mingaladon in the capital Rangoon.That is, he...

Convair’s B-58 Hustler — Mach 2 hot and Bendix Trophy cool by travelforaircraft | Convair's B-58 Hustler was a fast mover — a strategic bomber which could fly high and fast or low and fast — more like a fighter aircraft than a conventional bomber. Four afterburning engines and a crew of three flying an aircraft meant to attack at Mach 2 brought challenges beyond the norm. So that crewmen could survive ejection into Mach velocity windstreams each ...

Aviation Photography of Bill Larkins During the 1940s By Pete Shirk  | Bill Larkins at Lowry Field AAF Photography School in June of 1943. (Photo taken by a classmate of William T. Larkins)In In Flight USA’s December 2012 issue, the start of Bill Larkins’ eight-decade photography career was illustrated by the 1938 shot of a Grumman F3F US Navy/Marine biplane fighter parked at the Oakland Airport. Bill was about 16-years old when he took the photo....

The Misty Mystique from Air & Space Magazine | ...Before the Misty F-100s started flying as forward air controllers, the mission was flown by slow-moving propeller-driven aircraft (the Cessna O-1 Bird Dog and the Cessna O-2 Skymaster), which were getting shot at and, as North Vietnamese anti-aircraft weapons improved, hit with increasing frequency. “Neither aircraft was suitable for a dense automatic-weapons environment,” says former Air Force Historian Richard Hallion....

VIDEO: RAF puts Hawk T2 through its paces from The DEW Line by Craig Hoyle | Thanks to the good folks at the Royal Air Force's 4 Sqn for putting together a punchy video showing their Hawk T2 advanced jet trainer in action....

Flight For Control The Movie  from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Today is my first day of class in Maui, and I'm getting ready to put Flight For Control into a movie. That doesn't mean Flight For Safety is being neglected. The...