Aero India 2013: Big business and a celebration of aviation, past and present - NDTV | Making their debut at Aero India will be the world famous Rafale display team and the Russian Knights aerobatic squadron which features the Sukhoi-27 jet. Other star attractions include the giant US-C-17 heavy transport which enters service with the...
Fighter plane Rafale set to dazzle at Bangalore airshow - Deccan Herald | Even though most of the fighter planes have decided to give the 2013 Bangalore air show a go by following India's shortlisting of Rafale as the preferred choice for 126 new fighters, the French-origin jets will leave no stone 
unturned to impress ...
David and Goliath to Fly in Bangalore - Wall Street Journal (India) (blog) | A World War II aircraft will take to the skies above Bangalore alongside one of the biggest aircraft in the world at India's biennial aerospace, defense and civil aviation exhibitions, which begins Wednesday. It will be the first time a vintage Tiger ...
F-22 Raptor to perform at Stuart Air Show - TCPalm | STUART — The world's only operational fifth-generation fighter, the F-22 Raptor, is scheduled to perform at the 23rd annual Stuart Air Show. The F-22 Raptor is the most advanced operational fighter aircraft in the world. It is incredibly maneuverable ...
Tickets to go on sale for Raiders reunion (VIDEO) - The Northwest Florida Daily News | The Doolittle Raiders will not open the historic bottle of cognac given to them by Gen. Jimmy Doolittle when they meet in Fort Walton Beach this April for their final official reunion. However, according to Raiders business manager Tom Casey, the four ...
Military spending cuts could cancel some Blue Angels' air shows - Pensacola News Journal | The elite flight demonstration team's air shows scheduled between April and September, including the annual July performance over Pensacola Beach, would be canceled if the proposed military spending cuts known as sequestration become reality, ...
AIRSHOW NEWS: At RAF Tornado Role Demo in 2013 from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | Taken from the RAF Tornado Role Demo Facebook Page: In response to mounting speculation, the team regrets to inform you that a decision has been made to cancel the Tornado Role Demonstration participation in the 2013 airshow circuit season. We...
Classic Aero-TV: Bob Hoover At Airventure -- Getting a Little Help Along the Way from Aero-News Network | Aviation's Greatest Living Legend Talks About His Life In Aviation (Part 3) ANN is pleased to offer you yet another snippet from the public conversations that took place with Bob Hoover at AirVenture 2011... where he was honored for a lifetime of aviation excellence. In this program, Bob continues his...
Airshow Performer Duane Cole - IFLYblog | When I was growing up, one of the best known aerobatic pilots was Duane Cole. It wasn’t because Duane flew a fire-breathing monoplane or did countless snap-rolls on his down lines; Duane was popular because he was an entertainer. He campaigned a modified Taylorcraft for most of his career, which spanned over 50 years....
Schedule for Everett Film Festival Feb. 8-9 - Snohomish County Tribune | Feature documentary of Florence “Pancho” Barnes, a tough and fearless aviatrix, competitor of Amelia Earhart, and Hollywood's first female stunt pilot. Her story is largely unknown …
W.Va. air show won't include open house at Air Guard facility - The Herald-Mail | The open house planned as part of the Thunder Over the Blue Blue Ridge Air Show in May will not be held due to Defense Department budget cuts and "fiscal uncertainty," organizers announced Tuesday. With the change, the 167th Airlift Wing of the West ...
FedEx Express donates 727 to SUN ’n FUN from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | SUN ’n FUN CAMPUS, LAKELAND, FL. – FedEx Express has donated a Boeing 727 to SUN ’n FUN to use as an interactive aviation classroom. SUN ‘n FUN CEO and President John R. “Lites” Leenhouts commented that, “It is truly an honor for SUN ’n FUN to be recognized by the aviation industry giant FedEx as a credible air and space education center promoting the growth of aviation careers around the world....
WACO kicks off Great Lakes Paint Scheme Contest from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The WACO Aircraft Company has launched a Great Lakes Paint Scheme Contest. “With the Great Lakes 2T-1A-1 project coming along quickly, we are looking for a great new paint scheme to use on our first airplane,” officials said in a prepared release....
WWII Veteran One of Last Area Members of 8th Air Force - MyHighPlains | I was a tailgunner, B-17, I flew a tour there, and stayed in the air force and went back to Europe and was involved with the Berlin Airlift, and then I went to Greece when the, the communists were about to take that country," Rude said. Now, he's ...
MY VIEW: WASPs honored with museum - YourWestValley.com | Love, who created the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS), the pre-cursor to the WASP, was part of the first female team to fly a B-17 Flying Fortress and the first woman certified to fly the P-51 Mustang. Cornelia Fort, Hazel Ying Lee, Marie ...
WWII radio pioneer gives new life to planes at SAC museum - Lincoln Journal Star | They needed equipment. They stopped at the secret Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard to pick up their new -- and unreliable -- receivers. They flew to a base in Ohio to outfit their B17 and meet their flight crew. "We had one of the last enlisted ...
Warbird nose artist at museum from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | On Feb. 17, as part of its February Open Cockpit event, the New England Air Museum welcomes Connecticut native Gary Velasco, who has developed a reputation as one of the finest “nose artists” in the business. “Nose art” refers to the caricatures painted on wartime aircraft, an art form popularized during World War II. Velasco recreated the nose art on the museum’s B-29 Superfortress “Jack’s Hack.”...
U.S. Air Force Academy professor to speak at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories |Col. John Plating, an associate professor of history at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, will present "Air Transport and the Politics of War" on Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force....
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The post-war bubble from General Aviation News by Dennis Parks | On May 17, 1945, with the war in Europe ending and military production being cut back, the War Production Board announced the end of the prohibition on the production of civilian aircraft, providing such manufacturing didn’t interfere with war output...
Henri Wenisch, former staff ace mechanic Edmond Marin la Meslée has left us from Passion for aviation by Xavier Cotton | It is a figure of the Air Force, the latest of the "big old" the defunct air base 112 of Reims who has just died: Henri Wenisch, eighty-five years old Fighter Group I / 5 of Reims, who during the war was the mechanic staff Meslée the commander Marin, one of the most glorious ace of World War II...
Poster Air Show at Rouen-Le Madrillet from Passion pour l'aviation by Xavier Cotton | Here is a beautiful display (155 x 117 cm) designed by B. Delcourt journalist designer at Paris-Normandie
interfaced recently announcing a day on the airfield of air Rouen Rouvray "Le Madrillet" (closed in 1968). This event organized by the Aeroclub of Normandy under the patronage of Paris and Normandy Sprint took place on June 6, but you can ask what year?... Sightings: Blackhawks Descend on Farmington Regional Airport from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | A recent visit to Farmington Regional Airport became part of an aviation photographer's perfect storm: eight Blackhawks descended on the airport in southeast Missouri for a brief rest and fuel stop. The airport...
New Israeli astronaut could venture to space - Cleveland Jewish News | ... the world were in attendance at The 8th Ilan Ramon International Space Conference, held this Tuesday through Thursday in Herzliya, organized by the ISA, the Ministry of Science and Technology and The Fisher Institute for Air & Space Strategic Studies.
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