Air Show Takes Flight Saturday at Leesburg Airport - Patch.com | The annual show features antique and experimental planes, skydivers, a wing walker and more. | You don’t really have to be an aviation enthusiast to have a great time at the annual Leesburg Air Show, so don’t miss out on the event Saturday, Sept. 28, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Leesburg Executive Airport. The show is in its fourth year....
Rotors to Remember support firefighters - General Aviation News | Prescott Valley, Ariz. — Guidance Aviation, in partnership with Tim’s Toyota Center and the 2013 Yavapai Fair, will provide helicopter rides during “Rotors to Remember” in support of the Prescott Firefighter’s Charities. The fundraising flights will take place on Friday, Sept. 27, and Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Yavapai Fair...
12' Oclock High October 24 - 26 at the Lakeland Airport - Academy of Model Aeronautics | Just about four weeks away now. Monster Planes USA with 12' Oclock High October 24 - 26 at the Lakeland Airport - Check out this super big C-17... It's really BIG...
Meet Maj. Tyler Ellison, Thunderbird 7, Operations Officer (2013-2014) - www.youtube.com | Maj. Tyler Ellison talks about being a Thunderbird.
CFAA to debut student-led live radio show - General Aviation News | LAKELAND, Fla. – Students from the Central Florida Aerospace Academy, let by Robert Decker, will debut a live radio show on Wednesday, September 25 (3 pm EST) on SNF Radio. The show can be heard on AM 1510 in the immediate area of Lakeland Linder airport or online at LiveATC.net/SNF...
Update On The Vulcan XH558 · WarbirdsNews | We have recently reported that the Vulcan XH558 had to cancel the remaining flights this year due to the fuel tank issue. Now the management have turned the attention to securing the necessary funding to safeguard not only the immediate future of XH558, but the planning needed to achieve success with the pledge fund campaign within Operation 2015. This is intended to secure sufficient promised funding to enable the flying life extension to become reality. This would then give XH558 the potential for another two full display seasons....
Dramatic video recorded from a MEDEVAC pilot helmet camera shows how a medal of honor was earned in Afghanistan - The Aviationist | Filmed more than four years ago during a MEDEVAC (Medical Evacuation) in a valley in Afghanistan, the following video shows how Capt. Will Swenson of the U.S. Army earned the medal of honor will receive on Oct. 15. The dramatic footage, recorded with a camera attached to the Black Hawk helicopter pilot’s helmet on Sept. 8, 2009 during the so called Battle of Ganjgal, shows Swenson in...
Vietnam-era fliers buried side-by-side at Arlington - FoxNews | ...Overhead, eight civilian pilots performed a tribute flyover at their own expense after the Air Force said it couldn’t perform a traditional flyover due to sequestration budget cuts. “I would hope that somebody would have done the same for me had I not made it back home from my tours overseas,” said retired Marine pilot Lieutenant Colonel Art Nalls, who flew an F-39 trainer over the cemetery....
A Night Flight With S. Elmo, Flying the A-26 Invader in Vietnam By Warbirds News | “On a summer night in 1967, my navigator and I launched from a remote jungle airfield west of the Mekong River for an interdiction mission in Laos over the Ho Chi Minh Trail. We were flying a renovated twin engine, fully loaded A-26A attack bomber modified for special operations. We headed out to find and destroy...
Statue Unveiled Honoring Jerrie Mock, First Woman to Fly Solo Around the World - WAI Connect Blog | A life-size statue of the first woman to fly solo around the world has been unveiled in her central Ohio hometown, Newark. Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock watched the unveiling from her Florida home via Internet. Mock's historic flight in 1964 ended in Columbus, and some area residents had considered a tribute long overdue. Mock's sister and daughter attended the...
Aviation History... - Flight To Success | "Howard Hughes’s H-4 Hercules is the largest flying boat ever built, and has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in history. Due to wartime restrictions on using aluminum, the aircraft was...
Museum to host Fall Home School Day - National Museum of the USAF | Home school children, ages 3-18, can participate in educational activities during Fall Home School Day on Oct. 7 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Admission to the museum and activities are free, and there is no advance registration. Additional information is available at http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/education/homeschool/index.asp. Space for the programs is limited....
The Making of a Joint Strike Fighter Pilot - Air & Space Magazine | At 5:30 A.M., it's still dark as I key in the code to enter the hangar at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, home of Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501. In the ready room, I glance at the two flat-panel displays behind the duty desk: The first has weather radar, current and forecast weather, and airfield status; the other, today’s flight schedule, including pilots, aircraft, mission, and assigned training area. I am scheduled for a training mission, a formation sortie, with a student on his fourth flight in the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II. He’ll demonstrate...
New Sikorsky S-97 Raider similar to the mysterious Stealth “Osama Bin Laden raid” helicopter? - The Aviationist | This week, Sikorsky is expected to start the assembly of the S-97 Raider helicopter prototype, Defense News reports. The helicopter, among the choppers pitched for the U.S. Army’s Armed Aerial Scout program, to replace the Army’s aging fleet of OH-58 Kiowa Warriors, in use since the late 1960s, features a futuristic shape (compared to that of current helos) and is based on Sikorsky’s X-2 technology....
New Nevada license plate helps fund rural airports by General Aviation News | Proceeds from a new Nevada license plate will benefit 44 rural airports in the state. The Nevada Airports Association specialty plate includes a twin-engine plane in one corner, with the slogan “Sky is the limit.”...
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Yields to Soyuz Crew - Spaceports | Orbital Sciences Corporation had hoped make a second attempt tomorrow (September 25, 2013), but now says the schedule is too tight given another arrival due at the ISS. A trio of astronauts and cosmonauts in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft are expected at the space station on Wednesday. Cygnus will now have to wait until Saturday at the earliest, though the exact schedule will depend on how the Soyuz spacecraft performs on orbit....
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