Tuesday, July 8, 2014

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Blue Angels "Fat Albert" out of air show * Pnj.com | The Blue Angels' transport aircraft, known http://www.pnj.com/story/news/military/2014/07/07/blue-angels-fat-albert-air-show/12317869/affectionately as "Fat Albert," has been damaged in a bird strike and won't be flowing at the Pensacola Beach Air Show scheduled on Saturday....

Vintage planes to carry veterans at Pensacola Beach Air Show - WEAR | Pensacola, Fla. -- The Blue Angels’ beach homecoming will open with a pre-show fly-over of World War II airplanes that will honor and include veterans of World War II....

Big Crowds Expected For Offutt Air Show July 19, 20 - WOWT  | The Offutt Air Force Base Airshow returns on Saturday July 19 and Sunday July 20 after government budget cuts forced it's cancellation in 2013. Planning for the show began last December with an overall group of about 70 people. Major Bryan Burger normally pilots the huge E-4 Advanced Airborne Command Post but he's also taken on the immense task of directing the 2014 Offutt Air Show....

Blue Angels dazzle Cherry Festival crowds - Manisteenews |By KATE HANSEN The Record-Eagle TRAVERSE CITY (MCT) — An estimated 400,000 people lined the beaches along West Grand Traverse Bay to experience the thrill of graceful, aerobatic maneuvers in the sky. Viewers set out early in the morning to secure their prime beach real estate for the best views of the 88th National Cherry […]

US Golden Knights Perform At Air Show - FOX 40 News WICZ TV | Another exciting part of this weekend's air show was watching the U.S Army's Golden Knights perform their parachuting show.  Prior to taking to the skies there are a lot of preparations that need to take place. The demonstration teams perform several types of shows. Golden Knight Luke Olk says the adrenaline rush keeps him coming back for more....

Vintage warbirds will soar at Gathering of Eagles Air Show July 19-20 - The Plain Dealer | CLEVELAND, Ohio – Warbirds from the past will be featured July 19-20 in the Gathering of Eagles XVIII Air Show at Lost Nation Airport, 38550 Jet Center Place, in Willoughby. The show is presented by the Cleveland-based United States Aviation Museum which uses a portion of proceeds from the event to support restoration of a vintage World War II Boeing B-29 Superfortress....

Unique air exhibit coming to Mason City - Mason City Globe Gazette * MASON CITY | North Iowans will soon get a chance to learn about the famed Tuskegee Airmen of World War II and take a virtual ride in a plane similar to what they flew.  It's all a part of a three-day exhibit at Mason City Municipal Airport Thursday through Saturday, July 10-12. And it's free....

Vintage war plane on display in Airdrie - Globalnews.ca | CALGARY- Airplane enthusiasts are flocking to Airdrie this week, to get a peek at a vintage B-25 bomber. Maid in the Shade was used in World War II, serving in Corsica just off the Italian coast. “It went out in a formation of four one day, and this is the only one that came back,” remembers Bob Taylor from Commemorative Air Force. “There was a possibility that you never came back if you went out on a mission.”...

Red Arrows Hawk grounded after bird strike damage at RAF Waddington ... - Lincolnshire Echo | A http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNE3xuciBzJ35RMgtu3MCQZaWGNaxw&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52778551011611&ei=lke7U9CRKdSawgGHo4DgDQ&url=http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Red-Arrows-Hawk-grounded-bird-strike-damage-RAF/story-21338241-detail/story.htmlbird strike high above the Waddington International Air Show has grounded an RAF Red Arrows Hawk aircraft. The Lincolnshire-based crack aerobatic display team's synchro leader, Red 6 Flight Lieutenant James McMillan, landed safely despite the damage to the plane. It happened right at the end of the team's afternoon display before an estimated 70,000 crowd at 3.30pm on Saturday afternoon....

Red Arrows meet mystery letter girl Tahnee Johnson - BBC News | A 10-year-old girl, who was tracked down after she wrote an unaddressed letter to the Red Arrows, has met her hero - Sqd Ldr Jim Turner.  Tahnee Johnson, from Bromley, who wants to become a pilot, wrote to the team last year asking if she could visit them - but forgot to include her address....

Red Arrows take to the skies at start of Tour de France * Telegraph.co.uk | The Red Arrows aerobatic jets trailed white, red and blue smoke as the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry performed the ceremonial launch cutting of the tape for the 21-stage, 2,276 mile race that will spend three days in Britain before working its...

Amazing Red Arrows picture as two Hawks appear to make contact in mid-air - Lincolnshire Echo | http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNEUC82_wH1QCvQr1MaQ-GYzeQiNmw&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=tea6U8jfAuOswQH_34CYCw&url=http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Amazing-Red-Arrows-picture-Hawks-appear-make/story-21338783-detail/story.htmlPic: David Sleight/University of Lincoln | An aviation fan captured this amazing image of two Red Arrows planes seemingly touching in mid-air. Thankfully it was just an illusion as the world famous Reds wowed the crowds at the RAF Waddington International Air Show over the weekend.

Lockheed F-35's International Debut Up in the Air - Wall Street Journal (blog)  | This month’s U.K. aviation-show extravaganza is shaping up very differently for two new fighter planes at opposite ends of the price spectrum. For the Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter—the Pentagon’s most expensive weapons program at $399 billion—time is running out to prepare for its planned international debut at two upcoming U.K. airshows starting Friday. The F-35 fleet remains grounded in the U.S. as investigators probe the cause of a June 23 engine fire on one of the planes....

Fog in the cockpit of Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 demo team during Roma International Air Show. * The Aviationist | High G maneuvers, hot and humid air, air conditioning and a sweating pilot: these are the factors that caused the canopy (and the lens of the GoPro used to take the selfie) of the RNlAF F-16 of the Dutch Demo team to fog up during the seaside air display at the Roma International Air Show (RIAS) 2014...

Animal rescue flight to depart from Southeast Aviation Expo · General Aviation News | Calling all pilots and animal lovers! On Saturday, Sept. 27, a special air caravan containing rescued animals will depart from the Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU) in South Carolina as part of the Southeast Aviation Expo. Their destination? New homes and non-kill shelters throughout the U.S....

My First Landing At Oshkosh Was In A Citabria In 1974... At Age 13 (8 Pix) · AirPigz | With OSH14 being just weeks away now, I got to thinking about the first time I made a landing at Oshkosh. I guess I dream about the past since once again I won't be flying into Oshkosh... it'll all be ground-bound again this time around. Nothing wrong with driving in, but of course it's always better to be able to fly in....

Antique Airfield

Model aircraft day at the Aviodrome * Let Let Let - Warplanes | On Saturday 5 July 2014 the Dutch branch of the I.P.M.S. had organized at the Aviodrome theme park museum, Lelystad airport a model builder’s day. The meeting hall in the main building was used to house all I.P.M.S. members to show the models they had built... 

The Aero Experience

Amelia Rose Earhart | It is hard to believe that later today we will fly to Papua New Guinea, the last place that Amelia was seen before she disappeared. After PNG, the next leg takes us over Howland Island on our way to Kiribati. Honoring someone you've never met is an interesting thing...

The Green Speed Cup – Fourth Edition · Dean Sigler, CAFE Foundation Blog | Robert Adam helps run the Green Speed Cup, a time, speed and economy run for aircraft in Germany. The rules for this year’s contest elucidate the intent and ambitions for the event: “The GREEN SPEED CUP is an aviation competition focusing on efficient flight. The emphasis lies on...

NASA Langley Talk: How Six Decades Flew by Faster than the Speed of Sound - Space Ref (press release) | On Tuesday, July 8, at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, former NASA engineer and Eagle Aeronautics Director for Projects Domenic Maglieri will present "Sonic Boom: A Review of Six Decades of Research" at 2 p.m. in the Reid Conference Center.  Maglieri will take a look back at how 60 years of aeronautics research has helped to understand the sonic boom, created when aircraft breaks the sound barrier....

Virgin Galactic partners with New Mexico hotel * WTHR | ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Virgin Galactic appears to be getting closer to reaching its long-delayed goal of launching tourists into space.  The company said Monday it has selected Hotel Encantado de Las Cruces as the preferred hotel for its elite roster of passengers, who will pay $200,000 a person to make the flights from Spaceport America....

Astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger Leaves NASA * Aero-News Network | Says She Plans To Pursue Other Interests  | NASA astronaut and educator Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger has departed the agency for other pursuits. Selected by NASA in 2004, Metcalf-Lindenburger was among NASA's first class of educator astronauts...

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