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Red Arrows to soar at Cosford Air Show - shropshirestar.com | Red Arrows to soar at Cosford Air Show. The Red Arrows will headline this year's Cosford Air Show, organisers confirmed today. RAF Cosford Air Show Red Arrows. Tweet. The world-famous RAF display team will fly at the 75th anniversary event on June 9.

My Favorite Planes  by kf6ybl  | The Chino Planes of Fame Air Show is just around the corner! Mark May 4th and May 5th in your calendar. This year should be great, there’s supposed to be 5 P-38′s in the air....

WWII aviation pioneer dies at the age of 94 - Local 10 | But Snapp says the women in aviation were quickly forgotten about. “It was completely left out of the history books,” said Snapp. Snapp flew numerous target missions. Her secret assignments came by telegram, directly from the Pentagon. She says the ...

SIPA S.200 minijet from Planeshots

From Commemorative Air Force, Indiana Wing's Facebook Wall | ...Prior to 1940, most US cadets were cutting their teeth in Boeing-Stearman PT-13/17/18 bi-planes. While the Stearmans were a challenge to handle on the ground, their characteristics in the air were quite docile. Given the rapid growth in performance of WWII combat aircraft, Army leaders were concerned that the existing fleet of trainers did not sufficiently challenge new pilots. Army leaders wanted a new breed of trainers with higher wing...

New POW Exhibit Opens at Enlisted Heritage Hall from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, GUNTER ANNEX AL -- Forty years since America welcomed home 591 Vietnam War prisoners under the Operation Homecoming mission, Gunter's Enlisted Heritage Research Institute honored their sacrifice and those still missing. On Feb. 15 a new exhibit focusing on one enlisted man's story of freedom was unveiled....

Bills Filed Seeking Congressional Gold Medal for CAP WWII Members from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS - Civil Air Patrol members who served during World War II may soon be recognized for their service with the Congressional Gold Medal.U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has introduced S. 309 and U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, has introduced H.R. 755 in the 113th Congress to honor the founding members of CAP, who used their own aircraft to conduct combat operations and other emergency missions during World War II....

MV-22 Ospreys Land On USS Bonhomme Richard from Aero-News Network | First Tiltrotor Operations Aboard An Forward-Deployed Amphibious Assault Ship For the first time while forward-deployed, amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) conducted landing operations with the MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, Feb. 19. The MV-22 Osprey is...

B-2 Spirit with USAF Lt Col (Ret) Chris “Cliff” DeVaughn – Audio Episode Show Notes from Airspeed Online by Steve Tupper | These are the show notes to an audio episode. You can listen to the show audio by clicking here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/airspeed/AirspeedB2withPreRoll.mp3. Better yet, subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your other favorite podcatcher. It’s all free! In 2010, Rod Rakic and I flew to Whiteman AFB near Knob Noster, Missouri (or very close thereto) to meet Lt [...]

Video: the advantages of an afterburner from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | I'm sure many readers know that most military fighter and strike aircraft are equipped with afterburners...