The Wood, Fabric, & Tailwheels Fly-In is Back * NORDO News - Aviation Unedited · Rich 
Davidson | The Wood, Fabric & Tailwheels Fly-In is back. Many of you have been asking about it for months and up till now all we could say is we’d get back to you. Well, this is us getting back to you. The Lee Bottom Fly-In is a go for this year and the dates are September 19-21; that’s a Friday through Sunday. Now, before some of you start sending angry emails because of the date and the rest of you begin asking questions, let me try to address them first....
PHOTOS: Tinker Air Force Base Air Show * KOCO | Last weekend, Tinker Air Force Base held its air show. Viewer Jeff Halasz sent us these photos. He's a retired Airman and an amateur photographer from Midwest City.
45th Annual Cracker Fly-in set for Sat. - Access North Georgia | GAINESVILLE - The Gainesville-based Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 611 will host its 45th Annual Cracker Fly-In July 5 in Gainesville at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport...
Typhoon and Spitfire D-Day Flypast at The Royal Air Tattoo · WarbirdsNews | On Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 July we also have a special flypast to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of D-Day when an RAF Typhoon from 29(R) Squadron and a Spitfire from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will fly together, both in their D-Day markings. Another flypast is scheduled to commemorate the British aerobatic team Red Arrows.The Patrouille de France, Frecce Tricolori, Patrouille Suisse and the Breitling Jet Team will all take part in this tribute to...
Boeing P-26 Peashooter Heads To Duxford for Flying Legends · The Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California is sending their
Boeing P-26A Peashooter to England this July to take part in the Flying
Legends air show over the weekend of July 12th/13th at Duxford, in
Cambridgeshire. This ulra-rare fighter plane is one of only two
originals in existence, and the only one flying....
Air Show San Diego 2014 - Photorecon.net · On Saturday and Sunday, June 7th and 8th, the San Diego Wing of the
Commemorative Air Force, ‘Air Group One’, held their 19th annual airshow
at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, Ca. The show (formerly known as “Wings Over Gillespie”) has been renamed
“AirShow San Diego”. This years show commemorated the 70th anniversary
of D-DAY. The star of the show was the C-53 Skytrooper known as “D-Day Doll”, which actually flew 3 missions in the invasion of Normandy....
ERAU Team Takes Top Collegiate Honors In Women's Air Race Classic * Aero-News Network | Daytona Beach Campus Students Also Finished Second Overall | Pilot Val Mehanja and co-pilot Nancy Snyder from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach, FL campus took first place in the collegiate division of this year’s women’s Air Race Classic, besting 11 other university teams. Mehanja and Snyder also finished second overall out of 50 teams from across the country in the 2,338-nautical-mile race that concluded last Saturday in New Cumberland, PA...
World War II aircraft to land in Marion * By Scott Fitzgerald | MARION -- One of the world's oldest flying bombers is coming to Southern Illinois. The Consolidated B-24 Liberator "Diamond Lil" will land sometime between 10:30 a.m. and noon Monday at Williamson County Regional Airport. Free tours will be offered throughout the day as people will be allowed inside the aircraft....
A conversation with Jack Pelton * Kansas.com | As child, former Cessna Aircraft chairman and CEO Jack Pelton attended the country's largest aviation event – AirVenture Oshkosh – with his dad. It was through his father that he got interested in the aviation industry. “My dad was always an aviation...
‘No Guts, No Glory’: 334th FS honors legendary fighter pilot * seymourjohnson.af.mil |The Air Force is no stranger to excellence. It is a virtue engrained into the service's core values and is an integral part of each Airman's life. According to those who knew and served with, Maj. Gen. Frederick "Boots" Blesse, a former Air Force ace pilot, he exemplified excellence during his service....
Aviator hall gets remodel - Paris News | Nine years after it was first begun, a display of military aviator pride has received a face lift. In 2005, Capt. Jack Ashmore, a member of Cox Field’s airport advisory board, envisioned converting the airport’s conference room into something akin to a museum, showcasing photographs and memorabilia from military pilots with local connections...
An Electric Altitude Record in Short Sleeves · Dean Sigler, CAFE Foundation Blog | Gary Davis of Greenville, South Carolina set a world altitude record for electric trikes, about the simplest of powered flying machines. His flight to 4,790 feet above mean sea level (under 4,000 feet above ground level) exceeded his hope to reach at least 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) and puts him and power system provider Randall Fishman in the record books, at least when the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) ratifies the numbers....
Palm Springs Air Museum Announces New Development Manager · WarbirdsNews | Palm Springs, CA: After eight months of lengthy interviews, the Executive Board of the Palm Springs Air Museum is pleased to announce Victoria Cracknell as the museum’s new Development Manager. Board Chairman Dan Gilbertson said “As a non-profit organization, our dedicated staff must wear many hats and Victoria’s multi-skill-sets definitely fit our requirements; it’s the Board’s pleasure to welcome her into the family of the Palm Springs Air Museum.”...
The F-106 which almost got away with it by travelforaircraft | The F-106A on exhibit in the Heritage
Hill Air Park of the McChord Air Museum was originally assigned to Major Joseph "Joe" Rodgers for a speed record attempt. As so often happens with complicated aircraft it was grounded at the last moment so Maj. Rogers simply hopped into another F-106, setting a still standing record of 1529.29 mph (2446.864kph) — impressively, though set in 1959 the record stands for a single engine aircraft.... Illinois National Guard Troops Welcomed Home at Mount Vernon Outland Airport · Carmelo Turdo, The Aero Experience | Members of the IL Army National Guard were welcomed back from a training deployment at Mount Vernon Outland Airport Thursday. The troops arrived in six C-130H Hercules transport aircraft flown by the IL Air National Guard 182nd Airlift Wing based in Peoria, IL. Airport Manager Chris Collins assembled a great team of staff and volunteers to safely direct and park the aircraft. The troops were greeted at the terminal by a unit of Young Marines and ushered to waiting coaches for the remainder of the trip. The Aero Experience was on site to capture the arrivals, and we can now share some of the photos here...
Eyes On the Sky: Six Tips For Photographing An Air Show ... · Andrea Nay | The 2014 Vectren Dayton Air Show has one more day left, and — weather permitting — you might find yourself there with your eyes on the sky and a cell phone in hand. I’ve covered the show for Tipp News Daily several times, and I’ve had a chance to photograph the Blue Angels three different years. Would you like a few tips for stopping time and snapping some fantastic memories?...
Sun N Fun pilots to participate in 'Fly In' to Grand Bahama and Bimini | PLANTATION, Florida -- For decades aviators have loved flying over the pristine waters and clear skies of The Islands Of The Bahamas, and June 25-29, 2014, some twenty-five pilots of Sun N Fun, led by Captain Mike Zidziunas, The Bahamas’ Flying Ambassador, will navigate the skies of Grand Bahama and Bimini. The Fly-In is a...
F-35A Flights at Eglin Suspended After Fighter Catches Fire * Aviation International News | The grounding will not affect the imminent departure of four F-35Bs to the UK, where they will appear at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) and the Farnborough Air Show. The aircraft are set to fly direct from NAS Patuxent River, MD to RAF...
Irena Raymond on Flying the Sunseeker Duo · Dean Sigler, CAFE Foundation Blog | A few days after posting the entry on the Raymond’s first cross country flight in their new solar-powered Sunseeker Duo, your editor received followups from Irena and Eric. First, Irena shares her impressions of what sounds like a beautiful flight....
NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility Operations Highlights · WarbirdsNews | You got to Love YouTube! Here is a great find, this videos show the historical archive film footage from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility. Part 1 shows the1940′s experimental aircraft including the Northrop YB-49 flying wing and the X-series research aircraft on the ground and in flight, including scenes of
Chuck Yeager’s record breaking X-1 flight and the X-15 space plane.Parasail & lifting body experiments.... Phantom Eye - Boeing | Let's learn about a surveillance plane that can stay aloft for 4 days.
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