History takes flight in Charlotte County this weekend - Wink News | Visitors can view a large variety of Warbird Aircraft such as B-25, C-45, P-51 Mustang, Yak-9, PT-17, BT-13/15, T-6, T-28, T-34, L-39, O-2, DeHavilland Chipmunk. Food and drinks will be available for purchase from EAA Chapter 565. Rides on tan AT-6...
Cashman ready to take dive, will parachute from plane - New York Daily News | Cashman will parachute over Miami Monday morning with the Golden Knights of the U.S. Army to raise awareness for the Wounded Warrior Project.
Westmoreland County Air Show canceled - Tribune-Review | The 2013 Westmoreland County Air Show at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport has been canceled because the Air Force ended public aviation performances by the Thunderbirds precision jet team as a result of the federal sequester, the executive director of...
Spending cuts grounding an AFA graduation tradition - KXRM | Thunderbirds and Heritage Flight crews will complete the certification procedures for safely flying those demonstrations, in the case that the budget changes and scheduled events in 2013 are resumed. The Air Force said this will reduce flying hours by ...
AF traces women's roles to World War II from Air Force Link Top Stories | The Air Force's acceptance of women into the force dates back to long before the first "Women's History Week" celebration in 1978. In 1942, the U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) took the unheard-of step of forming and employing two women's aviation units. That same year, a unit of flight nurses who had not yet quite finished their training, were sent into North Africa on Christmas Day following the Allied invasion in November of that year...
Celebrating women in aviation - San Mateo Daily Journal | Women in Aviation International Week is celebrated during the week of March 8, which marks the anniversary of the first female pilot license worldwide earned by Raymonde de Laroche in 1910 as well as International Women's Day, first observed March 8, ...
Chinatown landmark named for pioneering jurist - Los Angeles Times | As a navigator on a B-17 Flying Fortress, he completed 30 bombing missions in Europe, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross and four Air Medals. When he returned home, Wong decided to attend law school. His parents disapproved, fearing that racial ...
Storch from Apron 6 | With the high cockpit, the bars and the narrow entrance to the plane, it’s certainly not easy to get in the plane or to get out. I experienced it myself when I tried to get into the backseat for a flight! But once you’re in it and you’re up in the air, the view [...]
Gamera II Team Still Short Of Sikorsky Prize from Aero-News Network | Made Several Attempts This Week But Could Not Break 10 Feet Of Altitude The Gamera II team from the University of Maryland's Clark School of Engineering made several attempts this week to meet the requirements of the Sikorsky Prize, but were unable to reach more than six feet of altitude in the latest iteration of the human-powered quad-copter ... the Gamera II XR.
"Dee Whiz" UCAP #319 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Legendary aircraft company Beechcraft exits bankruptcy... They're building a really big airship in Tustin, wherever that is... We disagree on what the impact to GA will be from the sequester budget cuts... And... Trying to avoid notice by the Feds, by changing the tail number on your plane... not a very good idea. Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded Feb 27, 2013.
Dragon Spacecraft Hits Glitch On Way To ISS from Aero-News Network | Spacecraft's Thruster Pods Failed To Initialize Properly Once In Orbit After a perfect launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket Friday morning, the SpaceX Dragon supply capsule carrying stores and experiment to the ISS hit a glitch. The spacecraft reached orbit on time at 1010 EST Friday, but a problem with the capsule's thruster pods delayed the deployment of the spacecraft's solar arrays.
Dragon to Dock with ISS @6 a.m. EST Sunday from Spaceports | International Space Station managers on Saturday cleared the Dragon to approach the orbiting research complex after SpaceX reported that all 18 thrusters, and other systems, were operating normally.
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