Tuesday, September 24, 2013

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National Red Bull Flugtag Holds Five U.S. Events In One Day Aero-News Network | World Distance Record Shattered With A Flight Of 258 Feet In Long Beach, CA Taking off in Washington, D.C. and landing in Long Beach, CA, with layovers in Miami, Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth, National Red Bull Flugtag, the homemade flying craft competition, made history Saturday by taking place in five cities in one day.

Teaser: 2014 Selfridge Open House and Air Show - Herb Gillen Advertising's Facebook Wall | Here is a :30 teaser spot we did for the 2014 Selfridge Open House and Air Show. The show is scheduled to take place in September 2014 and host the U.S. Navy Blue Angels.

French Pilot Crosses Mediterranean In WWI Replica Airplane Aero-News Network | Followed The Flight Of Roland Garros Made In 1913 On September 27, 1913, French pilot Roland Garros took off from Fréjus in the south of France, and flew to Bizerte in Tunisia in a Morane-Saulnier G racing monoplane. His accomplishment was re-enacted Sunday by 29-year-old Baptiste Salis, who flew an exact replica of the Morane-Saulnier, albeit with an upgraded, modern engine, 500 miles in seven hours.

Seaplane Lost 30 Years Ago May Be Found Aero-News Network | Sonar Picks Out Aircraft At The Bottom Of Lake Norman, NC A woman from Cornelius, NC says that a plane that was recently located by sonar at the bottom of Lake Norman north of Charlotte in North Carolina may be one that sunk 30 years ago. And she thinks so because the plane may have belonged to her...

World's Largest Private Vintage Aircraft Collection - Fantasy of Flight | ...The fleet of vintage aircraft displayed at Fantasy of Flight has earned the admiration of knowledgeable aviators and inspired the imagination of those who have always dreamed of soaring above the clouds. The vintage aircraft, painstakingly acquired by lifelong aviation enthusiast and Fantasy of Flight founder Kermit Weeks, represent all eras of aviation from early flight to the 1950s....

The fleet of vintage aircraft displayed at Fantasy of Flight has earned the admiration of knowledgeable aviators and inspired the imagination of those who have always dreamed of soaring above the clouds. The vintage aircraft, painstakingly acquired by lifelong aviation enthusiast and Fantasy of Flight founder Kermit Weeks, represent all eras of aviation from early flight to the 1950s. - See more at: http://www.fantasyofflight.com/aircraft/aircraft.aspx#sthash.O6cGj7aR.dpuf
The fleet of vintage aircraft displayed at Fantasy of Flight has earned the admiration of knowledgeable aviators and inspired the imagination of those who have always dreamed of soaring above the clouds. The vintage aircraft, painstakingly acquired by lifelong aviation enthusiast and Fantasy of Flight founder Kermit Weeks, represent all eras of aviation from early flight to the 1950s. - See more at: http://www.fantasyofflight.com/aircraft/aircraft.aspx#sthash.O6cGj7aR.dpuf
Jet Race - Air & Space Magazine | In 1956, the Soviets held first place — briefly. | Anatoly Gorbachev remembers that he was supposed to be flying from Peking back to Moscow that moonless night in October 1958. But his friend Garold Kuznetsov asked if he could take his turn in the pilots’ rotation. Kuznetsov was trying to prove himself as a captain of the Tupolev Tu-104A, the Soviet Union’s leap into jet-powered civil aviation, and needed to log flight time. Gorbachev said okay....

Pilotless F-16 Video Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | TYNDALL AFB- As a pilotless F-16 roared into the sky last week at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., members of Boeing's QF-16 team and the U.S. Air Force celebrated. The flight represented the first unmanned QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target flight. Put another way, fighter pilots now have an adversary for which to train against that prepares them like never before...

Why Michigan athletics paid for ‘Go Blue’ skywriting above MSU stadium - USA Today | ‘Another whimsical episode in a great rivalry.’ | ...Michigan assistant athletic director Dave Ablauf said that the company hired for the skywriting had been used before by Michigan, but this time, they were directed to write messages in multiple, nonspecific areas. He said there were messages over Jackson and the Detroit area Saturday, in addition to Ann Arbor and East Lansing. “We hired the skywriters to canvas southeast Michigan with slogans and numbers prior to our game last Saturday,” he said. “That’s all we did. We didn’t target locations.”...

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