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Bob Hoover to honored with Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy · General Aviation News | ...Doolittle called him, “the greatest stick-and-rudder man who ever lived.” Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, called Hoover, “the best pilot flying today.” The Centennial of Flight edition of Air & Space Smithsonian named him the third greatest aviator in history...

Miramar Air Show To Feature Final Flight Of Sea Knight 'Phrog' (Video) * KPBS | The San Diego-based U.S. Navy Parachute Team, better known as the Leap Frogs, will also show off their high-flying skills at the air show. The Leap Frogs are an all-volunteer team made up of Navy SEALs and Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen...

Owensboro Air Show * Official website | Performers include: US Army Golden Knights, Paul Wood, Randy Ball, The 4ce and more

World War II warbirds prepare to take flight * Midland Reporter-Telegram | Engines roared as warbird fighters prepared to take flight Tuesday at the Commemorative Air Force's Main Hangar. “During AirSho, this is what it will sound like,” said Steve Buss, director of the CAF's American Airpower Heritage Museum, with a smile.

Video: CAF Prepares For This Year's AIRSHO * Local Big 2 News | ...AIRSHO officials allowed Local Big 2 to fly in one of the trainer planes from World War II, giving us a bird's eye view of the City of Midland. Randy Wilson a colonel with the CAF says this is just one of the many planes set to fly October 11th and 12th...

Fly-In is successful event for the Flora Airport * Carroll County Comet | The sky above Carroll County in the vicinity of the Flora Municipal Airport was abuzz with flying machines last weekend. A two-day fly-in for powered parachutes and other aircraft was held to help promote the Flora community as well as the airport...

Catalina air show going all out under new organizers * The Daily Breeze | The Scheyden Catalina Air Show will take place at the picturesque Avalon Bay with high-flying excitement coming from a group of skilled pilots in agile planes performing aerobatic maneuvers like rolls, spins, loops and close-formation flying at speeds...

The Moss Super Q.E.D. II… And So It Is Proven · Ken Kula, Photorecon.net | “Quod Erat Demonstrandum”, a Latin phrase which translates into English as “what was to be proved” has a universally accepted acronym: “Q.E.D.”. This is attributed to the Greek mathematician Euclid… and Euclidean geometry. It...

Grand County pilot enshrined in Aviation Hall Fame * Sky Hi Daily News | In 1992, Warner was inducted into the Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame. In 1993, her name was installed in the International Forest of Friendship. The Emily Howell Warner Aviation Education Resource Center was established in the...

WWII Signature Collection Hits Auction Block in Kansas City * News-Antique.com | “Famed airborne commander Maxwell Taylor, Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets, numerous Doolittle Raiders, German fighter ace Hugo Broch, US fighter ace and Medal of Honor recipient Joe Foss, Asian American fighter ace Freddie Ohr . . . the list goes on and ...

'Wounded high over Germany' Martinsville veteran injured while serving on B-17 * Reporter-Times | By some estimates, the average crew member of a B-17 bomber during World War II had only a one in four chance of completing his required 25 missions and remaining alive. Verle Maxwell almost didn't make it past his third flight mission...

B17 flew in Hollywood movie based on Asheville war hero * Asheville Citizen-Times | The Asheville native has been celebrated for daredevil antic, flying his Memphis Belle B-17 at a 60-degree angle low between City Hall and the County Courthouse in downtown Asheville in 1945 during a trip for a war bond rally. A plaque memorializing...

Area 51's Black Jets * Air & Space Magazine | The highly classified inventions tested at Groom Lake are some of the greatest aircraft ever flown. By Bill Yenne. airspacemag.com. September 30, 2014 3:36PM. When Kelly Johnson, head of Lockheed's Skunk Works, decided that his company's...

NASA to crash helicopter to test safety improvements · General Aviation News | NASA researchers will crash a 45-foot-long  helicopter fuselage from a 30-foot height for the second time in a year — all in the name of safety. NASA is collaborating with other U.S. and international government agencies on the Transport Rotorcraft Airframe Crash Test Bed full-scale crash test scheduled for Oct. 1, weather permitting, at NASA Langley Research Center’s Landing and Impact Research Facility...
 
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