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Aircraft Perform at Airshow in Singapore - English.cri.cn | Photos

Take to the Skies AirFest gets ready for second annual show in Durant! Shutik Isht Ia! - The International News Magazine | Mike “Spanky” Gallaway, announcer for the famous Red Bull Air Races and other prestigious events will have you jumping in excitement as he announces the show and flies as well! The stars of the show are the breathtaking Trojan Phlyers Demo Team with...

Cobden Aero Club fly-in set for takeoff - Warrnambool Standard | It will be a case of keep an eye on the sky this weekend when Cobden Aero Club holds its final fly-in event on its soon-to-be-replaced runway. In the wake of last year's fly-in success, new asphalt and lighting will be added to the airfield off...

Celebrity drops in at Cobden aero show - Las Vegas Blog | Four years of time in the making, pilot Derek Dyer flew his home-built kit plane from Digby to the Cobden Aero Club's annual yearly fly-in. The two-seater Celebrity was among a type of aircraft to drop in for the event. “We had 20-odd planes come in...

Volunteers Needed for Daughter Day at Conference - WAI Connect Blog | Here come the girls! This year's Daughter Day is the most successful ever. We have 250 girls attending the all-day Saturday event, and we need help working with the girls ages 10 to 17.

MV-22 Flight Photo Essay - Aviation Week | I had a once in my lifetime opportunity to fly in an MV-22 at the Singapore Airshow on Wednesday, February 12. Bell Boeing obviously had the Osprey at this show to further interest among foreign governments. One of the end slides in the briefing concluded with ‘Ready for Export!’...

Oakland honors pioneering black aviator - Inside Bay Area | OAKLAND -- The Port of Oakland honored the first African-American female aviator Friday, who briefly worked in the city nearly a century ago, by renaming a portion of Airport Drive as Bessie Coleman Drive. Coleman was a 23-year-old manicurist at a Chicago barber shop in 1915 when accounts of the Flying Aces in World War I inspired her to become a pilot....

XP-82 Restoration January 2014 Update · Warbirds News | It’s that time again, and we have another of our monthly updates from Tom Reilly about his intrepid team’s efforts in restoring the sole surviving XP-82 Twin Mustang. Tom Reilly is a master craftsman, and the quality of the workmanship going into this project is clear for all to see. This update is based upon Tom’s words....

Historic airplane heads to new home - Norman Transcript | ...The aircraft was built in 1945 at Tinker Air Force Base for the U.S. Navy. In 1956, the Civil Aeronautics Administration took it over and refurbished it for its flight inspection program. The Navy officially gave ownership to the FAA in 1966, Solinski said. It was one of 50 such aircrafts the FAA used to certify navigation equipment...

Local air museum to host annual banquet - Bakersfield Californian | The Minter Field Air Museum's annual Founder's Day Banquet will be held Feb. 22 at Hodel's Country Dining in northwest Bakersfield. A social hour is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. with the banquet beginning at 7 p.m. in Liberty Hall, organizers said in a news release. Special guests will include...

X-15: the World’s fastest rocket plane and the pilots who ushered in the Space Age by travelforaircraft | This is, in the authors' words, a biography of the North American X-15 and the program's 199 flights. Yes, there are technical aspects as there are descriptions of the records obtained in the X-15 but there is so much more in this colorful book which has it differ from previous books on this aircraft. Anderson (Curator of Aerodynamics NASM) and Passman (also with the NASM and was influential in the X-2 and X-16 programs) have written the X-15's bio so that we can understand the unique niche these three aircraft (X-15-1, X-15-2 and X-15-3) created and still solely occupy...

Near the Equator Grumman Albatross by travelforaircraft | The Grumman Albatross was designed for maritime patrolling as well as overwater search and rescue missions. The pair of Twin Wright R-1820 nine-cylinder radial engines could power the Albatross off medium seas and carry 15 people. Flights could be as far as 2850 miles/~4600km at a leisurely 124 mph/200kph. Albatrosses were the last of the...

WWII Wreck Reveals Wartime Romance: Photos - Discovery News | The final flight was part of a mission which involved the use of 38 B-17 Flying Fortresses divided into two waves. The primary target was the railroad bridge in the town of Certaldo, south of Florence. The alternate target was a marshalling yards at ...

They found romance in the museum - Camarillo Acorn | THE START OF IT ALL—Steve and Holly Barber, with their sons, Jake, 2, and Luke, 3, met at the Commemorative Air Force Museum in Camarillo. IRIS SMOOT/Acorn Newspapers THE START OF IT ALL—Steve and Holly Barber, with their sons, Jake, 2, and Luke, 3, met at the Commemorative Air Force Museum in Camarillo. IRIS SMOOT/Acorn Newspapers For Stephen Barber, the Commemorative Air Force Museum in Camarillo is more than just a collection of vintage aircraft. The hangar at the Camarillo Airport is where Barber forged a love for aviation and landed the love of his life—his wife of five years, Holly...

Vulcan, Provost & Bronco A2A - Photos

Lindbergh Flight Featured in Class Project on 250th Anniversary of the City of St. Louis By Mark Nankivil The Aero Experience | Miriam School Celebrates the 250th Anniversary of St. Louis (photos)

Crossing Flight Paths With Able Flight (And A Nudge For Aspiring Pilots) - ForeFlight | Here at ForeFlight we live and breathe aviation and we love inspirational aviation-related stories, especially when they hit close to home. We thought we’d take a moment to share this one with you. Many of you may know Pete Vincent who is one of our fanatical Pilot Support Team members. When Pete is not busy helping ForeFlight customers, he is a flight instructor at Redbird Skyport in San Marcos, Texas (HYI)....

Snow Bird: 1922 - Shorpy | February 1922. "Woman on sled being pulled by biplane in snow, with Washington Monument in background." Why not make the snow work with your commute, instead of against it? Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.