Flyovers at Sporting Events One Casualty of Cuts to the Military – Are They ... - New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio | According to ESPN.com, military spending cuts to the Air Force at up to 30 percent have forced the branch to trim flying hours by up to 20 percent, part of which will come from air shows. Some of those air shows include the Thunderbirds aerobatic ...
U.S. Navy Blue Angels, U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and Air Shows Potentially on the Budget Chopping Block - DigitalJournal.com | Last year, more than 13 million Americans attended an air show. Hundreds of air shows are held every year in the United States, featuring world-class entertainment and bringing significant economic impact – sometimes tens of millions of dollars – to...
Blue Angels Lend a Helping Hand - Military.com | Several Blue Angels team members, along with Lt. Jared Smith, Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro base chaplain and Lt. j.g. Lisa Lill, Navy Public Affairs Support Element East, assisted in bagging and distributing 438 bags of food for those in need in ...
Yuma military air show not affected by sequestration - KSWT-TV | YUMA, AZ - The looming sequestration deadline could also bring nearly $50 billion in military budget cuts. Some viewers wanted to know if the upcoming military air show would be affected. Captain Staci Reidinger with Marine Corp Air Station Yuma says no.
Air Fiesta 2013 marks half century of Valley aerial expositions - Brownsville Herald | This year's event will focus heavily on World War II airplanes in recognition of the 50th anniversary of Commemorative Air Force air shows in the Rio Grande Valley. Posted: Monday, February 25, 2013 10:40 pm. Air Fiesta 2013 marks half century of ...
Breaking news Red Arrows confirmed for Lyme Regis Lifeboat Week - Bridport and Lyme Regis News | Breaking news Red Arrows confirmed for Lyme Regis Lifeboat Week. 10:08am Tuesday 26th February 2013 in Local News By Adrianne Maslen. The Red Arrows are confirmed for Lyme Regis Lifeboat Week. THE Red Arrows will appear at Lyme Regis ...
Frecce Tricolori calendar of exhibitions - Translated | There are 19 events, including exhibitions and overflights, which will touch many Italian places, including the islands and foreign cities. Pan will be in Lignano August 18 and 25 in Grado...
10 best air shows around the world - USA TODAY | Bournemouth Air Festival, Dorset, England. The Bournemouth Air Festival, the largest free annual airshow in Europe, combines two great things: airplanes and the beach. The four-day festival draws over a million spectators for its aerial shows, hot air ...
Looking Forward to the Cape Girardeau, MO Air Festival by Looking Back: 2006 from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The Cape Girardeau, MO Air Festival is returning this year after a two-year absence from 2011 - 2012. I thought it would be nice to take a look back at a few of their previous shows in anticipation of what we might see at this year's show....
The Ice Pilots NWT lost a family member | While filming with a different production company in Kenya, Director/Cameraman John Driftmier was involved in a fatal plane crash....
Yeager brings 'Right Stuff' to symposium from Air Force Link Top Stories | The first person ever to travel faster than the speed of sound didn't know anything about airplanes when he enlisted in the Army Air Corps in September 1941. But retired Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager did have a knack for fixing machines and a willingness to do whatever his duty required of him and to take advantage of any opportunity that presented itself, which is how he ended up behind the controls of the X-1 experimental aircraft when it made its first supersonic flight just six years later....
Register NOW to Race in the 37th Annual Air Race Classic from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Albuquerque, NM -Entries for the 2013 Air Race Classic immediately started arriving at noon on January 2nd for this year's race when opened. Over the past month, two-thirds of the available racer slots were claimed. Entries will be accepted until April 1st, but the opportunity may not last that long, if all 55 race team slots are filled before then. Excitement is building early for this 2,400+ statute mile daytime VFR race from Pasco, Washington to Fayetteville, Arkansas. Challenge yourself to fly this year's route in four days (June 18-21)....
Women Fly! March 5-10 from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Women of Aviation Week March 4-10, is one week away! The Museum of Flight is celebrating from the 5-10th.
Fly it Forward Opens to ALL Ladies on March 9th!!! from Toriaflies | The 2013 Frederick Women Fly It Forward Committee is happy to announce that flights are now available for all women on Saturday, March 9th at our PINK – Women Fly It Forward event. As our week-long Women Fly It Forward event draws near, we have seen a steady increase in interest for our Saturday flights from women and girls of all ages.
Balloon Crash Kills 19 In Egypt from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Nineteen tourists flying above the temples and tombs near Egypt's Nile River in a hot-air balloon were killed on Tuesday when the aircraft caught fire, according to the Associated Press. The passengers were from Europe, Hong Kong, and Japan. The pilot and several others survived and are being treated for burns. Tourist flights are popular in the Luxor region, where they are a mainstay in the local economy, and several other balloons were flying at the time of the accident. Local officials have grounded all flights.
Tim Timmins from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave | Every Tuesday and Thursday morning around 1130 AM, rain or shine, winter or summer, former fighter pilot Tim Timmins wheels his car
into the parking lot at Vintage Wings of Canada. As the wind sweeps hard across the pavement, often carrying drifting snow or sleet, he retrieves a document bag from the passenger seat, tucks it under one arm, locks the car door, walks up the sidewalk into the wind and enters the front door of the Vintage Wings hangar. Waiting at the door for him is Wallace, the front office dog. Tim stops by the reception counter, chats up the young ladies in the administration office, as fighter pilots are wont to do. He fishes a sandwich bag out of his pocket containing dog treats and turns to Wallace, who is waiting not so patiently and offers him “just one”. A minute later he offers him another. Then Tim Timmins makes his way to the library, taking time to stop in...Wodicka tells harrowing tale of B-17 crash - Estherville Daily News | Editors note: The following narrative is from a telephone interview that Jerry Penry had with Edward S. Wodicka, navigator and survivor of the B-17 Flying Fortress 1st Lt. Charles Young was flying. The aircraft was shot down over Rodenbeck, Germany.
Red Bull P-38 and Corsair Video from Another Time by Dan Linn | Wow... you must take the time to watch this video showing The Flying Bulls collection P-38 Lightning and F4U Corsair flying in the skies over Austria! When I was young I saw these two Warbirds flying in the skies over Texas. Now years later...
Tourism award for Yorkshire Air Museum - The Press, York | THE Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington has been voted the best visitor attraction in the UK by a leading tourism industry magazine. For a second year the museum has been recognised by readers of Going Places magazine, for its friendliness and welcome, ...
Oklahoma City, OK: Museum of the 99s from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
Quicksilver Pilot George Karamitis a Wright Master Pilot from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | The FAA's prestigious Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award was presented to George Karamitis, EAA 144192, of Avon Park, Florida, at the 2013 U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Florida. Wright Masters are honored for 50 years of flight free of accidents, incidents, or citations.
Was there ever a YF-24? from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | Was there ever a YF-24? The US Air Force says no. "Our historians said there is no record of there ever having been a YF-24," says Lt
Col Max Despain, an Air Force spokeswoman at the Pentagon. "Perhaps it's being mistaken for an X-24 which wasn't a fighter?" That said, this old bio for a former test pilot, Colonel Joseph A. Lanni lists such an aircraft--which is curious... Academy glider instructor named most active in nation - Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base | He is the first instructor recognized and certified as a master SSA cross-country instructor in U.S. Air Force Academy history and is the first instructor to be a national judge for the International Aerobatic Club. "I rely on Matti's talents daily to ...
NASA-Dryden Renamed for Neil Armstrong; Dryden Gets Test Range - SCV News | U.S. Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, praised the passage of legislation to re-designate NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center and the Western Aeronautical Test Range as the Hugh L. Dryden Aeronautical Test Range. McKeon joined fellow local representative Congressman Kevin McCarthy in introducing this legislation....
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