GOULIAN AEROSPORTS: Local business owner, an acrobatics and racer pilot competes i Redbull Air Race Championship * Wicked Local Plymouth | ...Goulian has just returned home from Malaysia where he raced against 11 international competitors in the Redbull Air Race World Championship. He didn’t win, but he is a man with a plan. His team is now disassembling the plane for transport to Gdynia, Poland, where he will compete again July 26 in the next round of this grueling event. Team technicians Dennis Sawyer and Matt Chapman are working on aerodynamic and engine modifications in an effort to lighten the plane....
On your mark, get set…Air racing season begins * General Aviation News | For most aviators, air racing is on the Bucket List, somewhere between flying into AirVenture and getting a seaplane rating. The Sport Air Racing League can help you cross that one off the list — and you don’t need a special airplane to do it. Established in 2006, the Sport Air Race League conducts races all over the country. As this was written, John Smutny, director for the Great Northwest Air Race, was putting the finishing touches on an event slated for June 21 in the Northwest part of the country....
Bryn Athyn woman set to compete in transcontinental Air Race * Montgomery Newspapers | Lindrooth and flying teammate 55-year-old Teresa Morse, of Media, whose been flying since 1977, will participate in the 2014 Air Race Classic, which is the longest running cross-country air race in the United States for female aviators. The women will ...
Students Set For Air Race Classic - Inside Indiana Business (press release)
| After a three year absence, a trio of aviators from Indiana State
University is preparing to make its mark in an annual transcontinental
race for female pilots. The Air Race Classic begins June 16 and will
take the trio on a 2,692-mile race across the mid-section of the United
States. It begins this year in Concord, Calif. and ends June 19 in New
Cumberland, Pa. Indiana State is one of 50 teams involved in the race.
Eleven colleges and universities have teams in the field....
Tulsa woman races through the skies for third straight year - Tulsa World
| Sand Springs aerial racer Emily Applegate and flying partner Zia
Safko have taken a page out of the past in their continuing bid to be
some of the fastest and most adept cross-country pilots in the nation.
For each running of the Air Race Classic, Applegate and Safko dawn
“Rosie the Riveter” jumpsuits, complete with an arm patch depicting the
World War II era symbol of the female contributions to the war effort.
They call themselves “The Racing Rose,” put their hair in curls, wearing
polka-a-dotted headbands and red lipstick....
Three F-35B Lightning IIs to fly at RIAT 2014 - Flightglobal | More than 150 military and civil aircraft from all over the world are confirmed for the 2014 Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the UK, with the stars of the show being three Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning IIs. The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust – organiser of the event – boasts that Fairford is the first place outside the USA where the F-35B will be on display....
D-Day Tribute at Air Day * UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | Aircraft linked to the D-Day 70 commemoration, both old and new, will take part in this year’s RNAS Yeovilton Air Day flying and static displays on Saturday 26 July. While 6 June is the actual anniversary date, Air Day’s timely inclusions will help extend the tributes well into the summer as the nation reflects back on the Normandy landings of 70 years ago....
Icemen aim high and fly for Wounded Warrior Project * Arctic Sentry | 6/5/2014 - EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- What began as an opportunity to fly to Oshkosh, Wis., to attend Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture, two airmen saw as the perfect chance to take their love for general aviation and use it to ...
Red Arrows fun day to mark association's 20th anniversary - Bournemouth Echo THE association that helped bring the mighty Red Arrows to Bournemouth years before its successful air festival is hosting a major celebration event this month. The Bournemouth Red Arrows Association (BRAA) is marking its 20th anniversary with a fun day at Bournemouth Aviation Museum on June 28....
Quonset Point’s Air Show in Top Form After Hiatus · Ken Kula, Photorecon.net | After taking an uncharacteristic year off in 2013, the (almost annual) Rhode Island National Guard Open House and Air Show roared back to life in mid-May, 2014 with an entertaining combination of past favorite and first-time performers. The organizers weaved a fine air show tapestry containing both historic and current cutting edge aircraft, flown by some of the biggest names in the industry. Held earlier in the year than in the past, the weekend show dodged early rain and low ceilings and was blessed with blue skies and puffy clouds during Saturday’s and Sunday’s flying....
Flying Back in Time on a B-17 - KGAN TV | Pilots say it handles like a cement truck with two flat tires and no power steering. The B-17 bomber was used a lot during World War II on missions over Europe, and it’s a lot different than almost any plane you would fly in today, but that’s the point. When people around Cedar Rapids go up in it on the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the idea is to take a step back in time....
Air Museum Dedicates B52 Model - KXNet.com | Today, a ceremony dedicated the refurbished B52 model at the Dakota Territory Air Museum to Chief Master Sergeant Richard Etchberger who served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. Before his deployment, he worked at the radar station in bismarck, his only domestic station during his enlistment. On March 11, 1968, He lost his life saving three comrades who had been maintaining and defending a radar installation in Northern Vietnam. In 2010, Etchberger posthumously became the only Chief and E-9 to ever receive the Congressional Medal of Honor....
After long hiatus, US Air Force vet flies again in B-25 - Montrose Daily Press | The minute the twin propeller engines of the World War II-era bomber Maid in the Shade cranked up with a gritty hum, a familiar smile returned to the face of one honorary passenger. Bob Hansen, a Montrose resident, grinned knowingly as the engines reached full power and the historic aircraft tiled back and lifted off the runway at Black Canyon Jet Center. It was a reunion of sorts for Hansen, a former pilot instructor, who was now airborne in a B-25 for the first time in nearly 60 years. Hansen was stationed at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Okla. as a student in 1955 and later as a pilot instructor in 1957. During his service training pilots, Hansen logged more than 1,000 hours in B-25s....
This Secret Warplane Graveyard Has A Great American Story Behind It (PHOTOS) - Huffington Post | In 1947, Walter Soplata could already see the American WWII war bird going extinct. The scrapyard worker -- who'd been disqualified from military service due to a stutter -- saw thousands of warplane engines dismantled and scrapped after they were declared surplus. So instead of watching the end of awesome WWII planes, Soplata bought a big chunk of land in Ohio and began to collect....
National Air and Space Museum receives $30 million from Boeing · General Aviation News | Boeing is donating $30 million to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum to support the museum’s educational activities and exhibitions, including an extensive renovation of its main hall, “Milestones of Flight.” It will be completed in time for the museum’s 40th anniversary in 2016, which is also the aerospace company’s 100th anniversary...
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