Catching up with the Thunderbird pilots before their Daytona 500 flyover - Skirts and Cuffs | U.S. Air Force Major Caroline Jensen and her pilot husband, like many couples across America, travel 
for work and juggle busy schedules as the parents of a small child. But Major Jensen’s job might be just a little more exciting and a lot more demanding than most—Jensen flies right wing with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and she will be part of the flyover Sunday during the National Anthem at the Daytona 500....
NASCAR-CUP: USAF Thunderbirds to fly high over Daytona Int'l Speedway - Motorsport.com | Years ago Thunderbird automobiles set speed records on the beach at Daytona Beach but these speeds are slow compared to those of the USAF Demonstration Squadron Thunderbirds, who will perform the flyover prior to the start of the Daytona 500. Flying at speeds between 300 and 400 knots, six Lockheed Martin F16 Fighting Falcon fighters will soar over the speedway to the delight of the capacity crowd and a national television audience. The Thunderbirds are accustomed to large crowds and since their inception in 1953, they have performed before 350 million people in the 50 states and in 61 countries....
RECORD SETTING RENO AIR RACER ATTEMPTS TO SET TIME TO CLIMB WORLD RECORD - AAFO | On February 28, 2012, record setting air race pilot Will Whiteside will attempt to set the Time to Climb Aviation World Record for fastest time from a standing start on the runway to 3,000 meters (approximately 10,000 feet). With clear weather, the attempt will take place at Santa Rosa Airport (KSTS) in Northern California. Progress and development in...
Red Arrows pilot speaks - Louth Leader | RED Arrows Pilot Red 3 was the speaker at the monthly meeting of the Wragby Supper Club held at the Methodist Chapel and he gave his audience an interesting insight into his experience as a member of the famous aerobatic team....
March 1 Marks Centennial of the First Parachute Jump From a Heavier Than Air Aircraft Over St. Louis - The Aero Experience | A special 100th anniversary celebration of the first successful 
parachute jump from an airplane will take place Thursday, 1 March, at 1:00 PM on the Jefferson Barracks military installation. Captain Alfred Berry parachuted onto the Parade Field at Jefferson Barracks on march 1, 1912. The event starts with a ceremony in Building 24 at 1:00 PM, and will move to the west parade...
Aerobatics and Formation Seminar 3/10/12 - Executive Flyers | The fifth class in our Ground Seminar Series will be Aerobatics and Formation on Saturday, January 14 from 10:00am to 12:30pm. Marc Nathanson will be teaching. This free seminar will explain the different...
Hernando County resident is last survivor of original Enola Gay ground crew - tampabay.com | John Bombara remembers seeing the war bird for the first time in late 1944. Arriving from its original air base in Omaha, its gleaming, polished aluminum skin nearly blinded him on the tarmac at Grand Island Army Airfield in Nebraska. As a ground crew mechanic regularly assigned to maintenance of B-17 and B-24 bombers, Bombara had been...
Warren A. Skon, Navy ace pilot in WWII, and wife Hazel Skon, both 92, die days apart - Washington Post | ...Capt. Skon was a highly decorated pilot who took part in several major air-combat operations during his two years as a naval aviator in the Pacific. He participated in the Navy’s first nighttime fighter actions from an aircraft carrier and was awarded the Navy Cross, the Navy’s highest award for wartime valor....
Tuskegee Airmen exhibit to highlight Catfish in the Alley - cdisptach.com | ...The boldly-painted, rolling history transport houses the Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron "Rise Above" exhibit -- a tribute to World War II's Tuskegee Airmen, America's first black military pilots and crew. Presented by the Columbus Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau, the City of Columbus and Columbus Municipal School District, the exhibit will be available for free tours by school classes, Scouts, sports teams and other groups and individuals....
Tuskegee Airman Found - VFWNC | What are the odds that you would ever find a fighter escort pilot who flew with you on a combat mission? They are great, but it can happen and did. This story is about Herb Heilbrun & John Leahr. One a B-17 pilot, one a red-tail fighter pilot. If you don’t know what a red-tail fighter pilot is, you will have to watch this story, a story that began in a small rust belt town with two little boys in the second grade...
WWII bomber to be displayed at Air Force museum - Dayton Daily News | The Memphis Belle dodged anti-aircraft artillery and bullets over the skies of Europe, but the historic B-17F has a future mission in Dayton decades after its trials in the air over France and Germany. Casey J. Simmons and dozens of his compatriots are restoring the World War II heavy bomber made...
Group plans to rescue, restore veteran plane to flying condition - Daily Journal | The massive 
plane’s Army-green body sat hidden behind an old airport hangar, its wings and tail in pieces next to it. Most of the window panes had been lost over the years. Those that remained were spiderwebbed with cracks. The interior was stripped nearly to its frame....Their mission not only will preserve an important part of the past but will provide Indiana Air Search and Rescue with an aircraft that will help during times of crisis....
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B-52 Takeoff Andersen Air Force Base (2012) from AIRBOYD.TV
The sky is no longer the limit, six world records set at 16 years-old - Milwaukee Courier | He has been flying since he was 8-years-old. His interest in aviation began from the cradle before he was able to say the word “plane”. As a child, he lived near Los Angeles International Airport and enjoyed watching the air traffic. According to his biography, he would often point to the jets in the sky that were headed towards LAX....
Teen's love for aviation lives on 2 years after his death - Kare11 | ...Patrick Marzitelli, a former White Bear Lake student, also wanted to get his pilot's license. He was just months away from finishing his pilot training when his life ended in an ugly accident. The 17-year-old student died almost two years ago after he fell into a fuel tank at the Anoka County Airport. He left behind broken hearts and broken dreams. But his family was determined to keep his love of aviation alive. Last year they started the Patrick Marzitelli Scholarship Fund. The fund pays for the class that helps kids like Carly fulfill their dreams....
Students test their wings at Louisville aviation contest - Courier-Journal | Twin brothers Ted and Terry Loeser already have lofty plans to fly in the military someday, though they’re just high school sophomores. The 15-year-olds were put to the test Friday during a statewide aviation competition held at their high school, the Academy at Shawnee. The SkillsUSA Aviation Competition pitted...
Video: Russian Plane pass under a bridge caught on camera - Takeoff Tube
Sunday, February 26, 2012
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Neb. Guard air show wins international award - KGWN | (AP) - An air show hosted by the Nebraska Air National Guard has won an international award. The International Council of Air Shows awarded the 155th Air Refueling Wing with the Dick Schram Memorial Community Relations Award....
Blue Angels to return to Bethpage Air Show - Newsday | The Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds had alternated appearances at the annual Memorial Day weekend show since it started in 2004, but last year neither of the headliners could make it because of scheduling conflicts. The Bethpage Air Show will be held 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 26, and Sunday, May 27....
Bethpage FCU, NY Officials Announce Air Show - Credit Union Times | John Klatt – National Guard Reserve, world renowned sports aviators Mike Goulian, Matt Chapman, David Windmiller and Ed Hamill, who will fly the Bethpage Bi-Plane. “We are pleased that the United States Navy Blue Angels have committed to perform again ...
Bournemouth children to design Jon Egging memorial - BBC News | Every school in Bournemouth is invited to submit their ideas for a memorial to a Red Arrows pilot who died after an airshow display. Flt Lt Jon Egging, 33, from Rutland, was killed when his aircraft crashed into a field at the village of Throop, ...
2nd Annual AirPigz/Air Force Museum Meetup: January 27-29, 2012 - AirPigz | 2nd annual
AirPigz meetup at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio will take place January 27-29, 2012 (Fri, Sat, Sun - come 1, 2 or all 3 days) | Come-if-you-can to this casual gathering of avgeeks to again experience the amazing collection of aircraft at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. Nine people made the trip in 2011, including two that flew via the airlines to join in. Museum admission is free and of course the meetup is too. This is a great winter getaway and a fantastic aviation history experience. | Friday (January 27, 2012) will include the behind-the-scenes restoration shop tour. You must register in advance with the museum for the restoration ...Feats of flight: High-flying hybrids - AOPA Pilot | That brings renowned aircraft designer Burt Rutan into the conversation, and before you rush to add the prefix “retired” to his name, the story of the BiPod hybrid must be told, which AOPA Pilot Editor at Large Thomas A. Horne did in this AOPA Online...
Modification XXX - by Gaëtan Marie | In the lighter moments of World War II, the Spitfire was used in an unorthodox role: bringing beer kegs to the men in Normandy. During the war, the Heneger
and Constable brewery donated free beer to the troops. After D-Day, supplying the invasion troops in Normandy with vital supplies was already a challenge. Obviously, there was no room in the logistics chain for such luxuries as beer or other types of refreshments. Some men, often called “sourcers”, were able to get wine or other niceties “from the land” or rather from the locals. RAF Spitfire pilots came up with an even better idea....Marines in Afghanistan Execute the World's First Cargo Resupply with an Unmanned Helicopter - PopSci | In Afghanistan, supply convoys have been a favorite target of insurgent fighters, not only because they make warfighting possible for troops at forward operating bases but also because they are so very vulnerable to ambushes and IEDs. But on Saturday, NATO logisticians hit a major milestone in Afghanistan, reaching out and touching one of the holy grails of robotic warfare when an unmanned K-MAX helicopter successfully delivered a sling-load of beans, bullets, and band-aids to an unspecified base for the first time....
Meet the pilots who fly America's drones - TucsonSentinel.com | Almost everyone involved with unmanned aerial systems winces when they hear their vehicles called “drones.” It's a misrepresentation, they say, to conflate their highly-sensitive aircraft — navigated by a team that includes a certified pilot — with ...
Sporty's Pilot Shop Offers Fast Track to First Solo Flight from PR Newswire: Airlines/Aviation | No matter your ultimate goal, if you want to learn to fly, you have to solo. Talk to any pilot and a major milestone in their flying is the first time they flew an airplane alone. For most pilots, soloing an airplane is even more...
Video: SpaceX's Future Rocket System Will Guide Itself Home, Land Gently on the Launchpad - PopSci | Commercial spaceflight venture SpaceX has been talking for a while now about reusing
every part of its space launch system, from the optionally manned Dragon capsule (which is already reusable) to the rocket stages that it discards on its way to orbit. Via a new animation, the private space enterprise is showing exactly how this would happen, not via splashdown and recovery at sea like you might be thinking, but by vertically landing back at the launch site under their own power....Vega To Fly ESA Experimental Reentry Vehicle - Aero-News Network | Launch Of IXV Planned In 2014 From French Guiana | The launch of ESA's IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle on Europe's new Vega rocket is now in detailed planning, a major step towards the craft's flight in 2014. After launch into a suborbital trajectory from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, IXV will return to Earth as if from a low-orbit mission, to test and qualify new critical technologies for future reentry vehicles....
Monday, November 21, 2011
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2011 Heritage Trophy Winner Profile - LiveAirShowTV | One of a kind aircraft is nothing new to the NationalAviation Heritage Invitational, and 2011 was no exception. The 1911 Bleriot XI, is the only one in the world today. It is owned by CC Air Corp. and restored by Chuck Wentworth of Antique Aero and was the winner of the 2011 Rolls-Royce Aviation Heritage Trophy....
Fantasy Of Flight Announces Fourth 'Legends & Legacies' Series - Aero-News network | American Military Heroes Share Tales Of Trial, Triumph And Heartache | History cannot be rewritten, but Fantasy of Flight is bringing America's proud military history to life in an even more compelling and deeply personal way this year through its Fourth Annual Legends & Legacies Symposium Series, which features new and seldom explored aspects of World War II and for the first time, the Vietnam War. Each year, the Central Florida aviation attraction, home to what it bills as 'The World's Greatest Aircraft Collection', creates a forum for the public to hear firsthand about the experiences of some of America's most courageous aviators and military heroes through permanent and...
Celebrating Life’s Experiments: The Tuskegee Airmen and the Wings Over the Rockies Spreading Wings Gala - Flying with Amelia | Last night at the Wings Over the Rockies Spreading Wings Gala, myself, along with over 700 guests, sat in the presence of greatness. The Tuskegee Airmen were honored for their incredibly bold and inspirational contributions to the culture of aviation and to our country. I want you to know that last night was about so much more than simply meeting aviation heroes… it was about celebrating the deep longing to soar that resides inside all of us.....
Air Force Museum receives $50,000 donation - General Aviation News | DAYTON, Ohio – The Air Force Museum Foundation has received a $50,000 pledge from Alenia North America to support the construction of the new 224,000-square-foot building addition at the National Museum of the United States Air Force Museum. The building will house the museum’s Space Gallery, Global Reach Gallery, and Presidential Aircraft Gallery. In addition, the facility will offer new educational opportunities for history, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-based (STEM) programs....
Infographic Display of the Dead with the Living--1912 Aviation Losses - JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post | The article asks the question of whether air travel (and flight in general) was "safe", and responded by graphing its "yes" response with this image. The larger groups in the top half of the image represent the number of flyers flying for that particular country; the small groups below show the number of aviators killed. (There is no date of reference in particular but it seems to me that these are total deaths since flying began in Europe in earnest in 1905.) The photo montage below shows a...
video: Local Group Hosts Fly-In to Benefit Toys for Tots - 13 WMAZ | Dixie Aeromasters helped raised money for Toys for Tots on Saturday by hosting a fly-in. More than 100 people showed up at Commissioners Field in Jones County to see...
Scholarship for Primary and Aerobatic Students - Excutive Flyers Aviation | The International Council of Air Shows’ new Marion Cole Memorial Scholarship provides money for any aspiring pilot who is interested in primary flight training or in aerobatic training. The emphasis of the award is to encourage young people who are interested in the aviation or air show business....
Today in Aviation History – November 20 - CRUFC
Monday, May 23, 2011
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Legendary Air Force Thunderbirds Give Camelina Jet Biofuel a Workout - Clean Technica | It’s showtime for camelina, a modest, weedy little plant that has started to make a big splash in the biofuel world. The U.S. Air Force took camelina under its wing a couple of years ago and tested it out on the A-10C Thunderbolt II, and it must have done pretty well because for the first time ever a camelina based jet fuel has been used by the Thunderbirds, the Air Force’s official aerial demonstration team...
Atwater air museum holds open cockpit day (California) - ModBee | Castle Air Museum will hold its annual Open Cockpit Day on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Castle Air Force Base in Atwater. The event will include food, helicopter rides, restored aircraft and other activities. Tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for seniors, $30 for a family of four, and $5 for children 6-17. Children 5 and younger and active duty military personnel with identification are admitted free.
Grosseto, arrows Tricolore A real show in the Gulf - La Nazione | A ground commander Mark Lant, Tricolour Arrows in the sky. Yesterday, the Italian Air Force aerobatic team has enchanted audiences Follonica coloring the sky in the Gulf. All over the heads of tens of thousands of people who were discharged early in the morning on the waterfront: the first digit (official) spoken by at least 40 thousand visitors...
Flying Dreams Could Become A Reality At The Cosford Air Show - Shropshire Live | The dream of joining one of the UK’s top aerobatic display teams as they complete thrilling close formation moves could become a reality for fundraisers in the Midlands. The Blades will show off their skills in the skies above RAF Cosford at the annual air show on June 12 – but the crowds at the event now have the chance to experience it for themselves. Now in their sixth consecutive display season, The Blades are made up of four Extra 300 stunt planes flown in an array of intricate manoeuvres...
CAF' B-29 "Fifi" Scheduled to Visit Spirit of St. Louis Airport August 1-4 - The Aero Experience | (with Video) Commemorative Air Force B-29 "Fifi" is scheduled to stop at Spirit of St. Louis Airport in Chesterfield following AirVenture at Oshkosh. For more information, visit http://www.cafb29b24.org/
Congress honors Antarctic explorers, May 23, 1930 - Politico | On this day in 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed legislation awarding congressional gold, silver and bronze medals to members of an Antarctic expedition led by Rear Adm. Richard Byrd. On Nov. 28, 1929, Byrd, a pioneering aviator and polar explorer, led the first expedition to fly over the South Pole...
National Wings of Freedom Tour - CBS | MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Three planes with a long history of service in the United States military made a stop south of San Francisco as part of the National Wings of Freedom tour, a traveling aviation museum honoring World War II veterans and providing a living history experience to attendees... (Great picture gallery)
Mr. Lincoln’s Air Force: Top 10 Reasons to visit the Museum on June 11th - NASM Blog | How do the National Air and Space Museum and the Civil War intersect? Come find out as we tell the story of the Union Balloon Corps founded in June 1861 by President Abraham Lincoln. 150 years ago next month Thaddeus Lowe demonstrated ballooning to President Lincoln on a spot just north from where the Museum now stands on the National Mall...
Hurricane Walkaround - Air & Space | During his 38-year career with the Royal Air Force, Ron Dick flew 60 aircraft types and accumulated more than 5,000 flight hours. A contributing editor of Air & Space/Smithsonian, he now lectures and writes about aviation history. In December, Dick met with the magazine's editors at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, where he gave an engaging lecture about the Hawker Hurricane on display there...
Seating still available for CIA symposium at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force - Air Force Museum | DAYTON, Ohio -- Seats are still available for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) symposium recognizing the sacrifice and dedication of Civil Air Transport (CAT) and Air America (AA) personnel, June 2 at 5:30 p.m. at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
Movie Monday - May 23 - Lockheed's 56 year old C-130 - FlightBlogger | This week's Movie Monday is another trip into the vault for classic aircraft development footage. This declassified 1955 report on the original Lockheed C-130 Hercules runs 13min - a bit shorter than usual MMs - but the level of detail provided in the report is really extensive. The C-130 airframe has been upgraded and adapted to so many different missions over the years that the 1955 C-130 bears little to no 'under the skin' resemblance to the C-130J of today...
Videos by Liz Matzelle (short with awesome sound)
Bearcat and Tigercat taxi out for GA Day
Spitfire and Mustang Fly-by at Historic Flight's GA Day
Artist scoops first prize in Lincolnshire aircraft competition - Lincolnshire | A YOUNG artist has won a competition to design aircraft nose art. Heidi Weightman, 20, was given first prize for her age category in the county-wide competition. But the winning design is being kept top secret until the official unveiling at Newark Air Museum for its annual Cockpit Festival...
A Week in the Philippines - Gyrox Goes Global | Following Norman’s arrival a week ago at Woodland Air Park in the Philippines, people may have been wondering what he has been up to. Obviously, because of the long gap since the circumnavigation was put on hold last year, Norman has been extremely busy with updating flight plans and attaining new permits for flying to modified destinations...
Image of the Day Gallery - NASA | Astronaut Andrew Feustel reenters the space station after completing n 8-hour, 7-minute spacewalk at 10:12 a.m. EDT Sunday, May 22, 2011. He and fellow spacewalker Mike Fincke completed this, the second of the four STS-134 spacewalks, for a mission total of 14 hours 26 minutes...Monday, May 16, 2011
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Angels in the sky - BSU Daily News | From wing-walkers to F/A-18 jets, the 15th Annual Indianapolis Air Show was filled with stunts that made many observers weak in the knees at Mount Comfort Airport on Saturday. The day started off with the flights of remote controlled model airplanes, many of which were scale models of planes used in combat. The controls were even more difficult than those of typical planes, due to being outside the aircraft, announcer Rob Reider said...
PHOTO GALLERY: Indianapolis Air Show - BSU Daily News
Air show soars in Jacksonville - Biz Journals | The homecoming of American Idol finalist and Garner native Scotty McCreery was the big news in the Triangle this past weekend. But down east, in Jacksonville, a different group of well-known Americans – the U.S. Marines – were putting on a special show of their own...
ST. AUGUSTINE AIR SHOW - St Augustine | May 28-29: Northeast Florida Regional Airport will be the site of the St Augustine Air Show on Memorial Day weekend.
Gates will open at 9:30 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. each day at the airport, 4900 U.S. 1 North...
Blaine Aviation Days! May 21 & 22, 2011 - Midwest Flyer | BLAINE, MINN. – Kids, parents and aviation enthusiasts young and old are encouraged to attend “Blaine Aviation Days” at Anoka County-Blaine Airport, May 21 and 22, 2011. This is a great opportunity for members of Scouts, 4-H, the YMCA and other youth groups to explore aviation as a career or hobby. It is also an opportunity for adults to find out more about flight training and aircraft ownership, and experience flight in a variety of aircraft...
Father, son and daughter deploy to Iraq as Apache pilots - Warplanes | Having an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter pilot for your dad is pretty cool. Even cooler is being an Apache pilot and having two of your children follow in your footsteps to become pilots, too...
VIDEO: B-25 Honors Doolittle Raider With Fly-Over At Arlington National Cemetery - Warbird Radio | The last living Command Pilot of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders, Colonel William Bower, was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on May 16th 2011. B-25 owner / operator Larry Kelley piloted “Panchito” over the ceremony as tribute to Col. Bower and all the Doolittle Raiders. The video above shows his approach to the cemetery...
Book about the Vulcan released ahead of Shoreham Airshow - Shoreham Herald | UK -- THE history of one of the world’s most distinctive aircraft, the AVRO Vulcan XH558, is celebrated in a new book. Written by the Vulcan to the Sky Trust, 50 Years of Vulcan XH558, has been published to celebrate her 50th year...
The Air Force suspended its aircraft festival - Clarin | Argentina -- Had for years as "open day" of the Air Force and in the last three had climbed to megafestival, with a record of 800 thousand people in 2010, to the point that accompany the international nature had taken it renamed "Argentina Air Fest Moron...
Burton moves next door to head Air Museum - Newschief | Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In President John Burton won't need much fuel to fly over to his new job next month - he will be heading up the Florida Air Museum right next door. He put in a long run at Sun ‘n Fun for 12 years, but said he's psyched about his new position...
Movie Monday - May 16 - Saving the B-29 Kee Bird - Flight Blogger | Aviation restoration projects may be commonplace in this industry, but they are never unimpressive when those passionate enough to attempt the undertaking seek to bring a flying machine to museum quality. It's even more impressive when an aircraft is restored to flying condition...
Local man helped plan operation to rescue POWs from North Vietnam - LVRJ | When John Gargus helped plan the historic but unsuccessful raid to rescue U.S. prisoners of war from the infamous Son Tay compound in North Vietnam, radar-evading warplanes and stealth helicopters weren't among his options. Forty-one years ago, aircraft that delivered Special Forces soldiers to reach their target deep behind enemy lines had to fly below the radar...
Winners announced for national writing competition award from National Museum of the U.S. Air Force - Air Force Museum | Tad M. Staller Jr., Robert M. Harris and Jeremy Lund were announced as the first, second and third place winners, respectively, of the Air Force Heritage and History Writing Competition, sponsored by the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio...
Air pioneer Kittinger brings thrill of flight to kids - Aviation Dayton | National Aviation Hall of Fame Enshrinee Joe Kittinger brought the thrill of flight to kids today with a visit to Valley View Middle School that included lofting several students and teacher Jill Weaver in a tethered balloon...
WAI Photographer Tells How to Take That Perfect Air Show Photograph - WAI Show Daily | At Women in Aviation Conferences, and as a professional photographer on the job, I"m often asked questions about how to make better pictures. Having often considered this, I thought I might offer a few tips that will make your photographs "better." When it comes to creating an image, I'm not an overly technical photographer myself...
Chanute Museum curator delves into history of city, air base - News Gazette | Mark D. Hanson, curator of the Chanute Air Museum, thought he knew quite a bit about the history of the Air Force base that called Rantoul home for about three-quarters of a century. He was surprised, though, when he began delving into the past for a book he planned to write about the former base and Rantoul...
Video: Shuttle Launch Triple Play As Endeavour Makes Final Flight - Martt | The bittersweet days of the Space Shuttle program resurfaced in a big way this morning as Endeavour lifted off on her final mission. For mission details, check out the NASA STS-134 overview page, and you might also like this NASA Endeavour tribute image gallery...
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USAF Museum Series: Part 12 - A Mile Of Runway | I thought it would be best to separate these photos from the ones I posted the other day. Yes, they're all from the same visit to the Restoration Hangars at the USAF Museum. However, these two aircraft are so special that I believe they deserve their own post. The Swoose is the only B-17D remaining in existence...
Air show boosts local economy - WAVY | HAMPTON, Va. -- For the Lowery family of Maryland, AirPower Over Hampton Roads means more than a quick vacation and amazing acrobatics in the sky. "We came down to the air show at Langley because our daughter flew in on a B-52...
Flooding hits Smyrna, but air show goes on - Murfreesboro Post | While one end of Smyrna Airport was filled last weekend with spectators witnessing the thrills of the state’s largest air show, the other end of the historic former Air Force base was filled with flood waters from the over-flowing Stewart Creek...
Historic aircraft, ‘bomb drop’ to highlight Terre Haute International Airport open house - Tribstar | The ride may be noisy and mildly smelly, and the quarters a bit close, but the thrill of taking a ride in a World War II B-25 bomber will be a highlight of the open house at Terre Haute International Airport on Saturday...
2011 MT Air Show Guide Now Available Online - Milcom | I am pleased to announce the public release of our 12th annual 2011 Monitoring Times Air Show Guide, now available on the Monitoring Times magazine website. You can get your copy by...
All eyes above for superb display - Fraser Coast | Australia -- ALL eyes looked to the skies above Maryborough over the weekend as the Wings, Warbirds and Wheels event flew into town. Organisers said more than 5000 spectators attended and more than 70 pilots brought all manner of aircraft to the Heritage City for the two-day event...
Amelia Earhart's Visit to Grosse Pointe - GrossPointePatch | On July 21st, 1932, Amelia Earhart was invited to christen a new line of automobiles produced by the Hudson Motor Company. Amelia Earhart is the most famous aviatrix since the advent of the airplane...
He flew with Jimmy Stewart in WW II - War Tales | “Jimmy Stewart was just one of the guys after we got to know him,” Jim Myers said. The Englewood, Fla. aviator flew with the movie star in a B-24 Liberator bomber during World War II. “Jimmy became our squadron commander early in the war when we were back in the states, and I became the squadron bombardier,” Myers said. “I flew 13 missions with him.”...Scholarships awarded - GA News | This year as part of the annual “Green Skills for Life” competition, the San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDASM) and Ford Motor Company Fund asked San Diego County students the following question: What is one change or action you think you and others could do in your everyday lives in order to make the world a greener place?...
Human-Powered Helicopter- The Gamera - Web Aviation | A team of 52 graduate students of the University of Maryland has successfully flown their human-powered helicopter called the Gamera this week Thursday. The project was started in a bid to set an aviation 'first', a world record, and to win the $ 250 000 Sikorsky Challenge...
Atomic- , Vacuum- , & Solar-Powered Dirigibles with Built-in Airports--Bits of a Bad Historic Future - Ptak Science | A post ("Nuclear Everything") over at Dark Roasted Blend that featured a magnificent and stodgy atomic-powered zeppelin pushed me into this short visual note on differentially-powered airships, and then in general about airships with airports on them. (There's a whole other category for planes-of-tomorrow that were so enormous that they had landing strips on their wings, but that's another story)...VIDEO: Buzz Aldrin Talks Future Space Goals - Spaceports | Dr. Buzz Aldrin talks of the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's speech to the Congress May 25, 1961 as a political launch pad to advance space politics to lead to a permanent settlement on Mars by 2035...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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Blue Angels and beams from WTC will be key attractions at earlier-than-ever air show - Daily Reporter | Indianapolis Air Show - The roar is back: The Blue Angels, which last appeared at the air show in 2009, are back this year. Accommodating the Angels' schedule is one reason the air show, typically held in August and then June over the past few years, is early this year...
Langley Air Show Wynne Hampton Local Ford Dealer - Ford Dealer Virginia | Wynne Ford in Hampton is part of your Local Ford Dealers and happy to have the AirPower over Hampton Roads Show in their community. The show runs from Friday May 13th through the 15th, 2011. Below is a schedule of events. Please enjoy and stop by to see Wynne Ford of Hampton...
Kirtland Air Force to put on a show - KASA | KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (KRQE) - The air force thunderbirds will dazzle crowds with their aerial maneuvers at Kirtland Air Force Base. It’s part of the Kirtland’s open house to celebrate its 70th anniversary...
New River Air Show This Weekend - WCTI | ONSLOW COUNTY -- At the 2011 New River Air Show, the Marines appear to be going the Canadian way. The Snowbirds, a Canadian military jet team, will headline this year's show with a nine-plane demonstration team...
CAF’s Red, White & Loud to take part in AirVenture - GA News | The world’s only flight-worthy Boeing B-29 Superfortress FIFI, and country music star/pilot Aaron Tippin will take the CAF’s Red, White & Loud Tour to the “World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration,” EAA AirVenture July 25-31 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh...
Michelin inks deal with Rob Holland - GA News | Michelin Aircraft Tires has signed a sponsorship agreement with aerobatics expert pilot Rob Holland. Holland, the 2008 World Advanced Aerobatic Champion, will feature Michelin Air tires on his plane at the 2011 World Aerobatics Championships, as well as showcase his plane for Michelin at a number of air shows in 2011...
First F-35A formally delivered - Aviation week | he U.S. Air Force officially accepted the first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from Lockheed Martin at its Fort Worth, Texas facility on May 5. The milestone, which occurred with the formal acceptance of F-35A AF-7, comes just under 10 years since the F-35 System Development and Demonstration contract was awarded to Lockheed...
WWII paratrooper skydives at 85 (With VIDEO) - USA Today | TURTLECREEK TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Clarence Turner Jr. had open heart surgery in 1999 and knee replacement surgery in 2009. Before anything else happened, the 85-year-old wanted to realize a dream: A parachute jump, just like he did 65 years ago right after World War II...
B-25 Vets To Hold Reunion in Crest - CMC Herald | WILDWOOD CREST - Veterans from World War II and their families will be having their Eastern Reunion at the Pan American Hotel in Wildwood Crest this weekend, May 13-16. These veterans are from the 57th Bomb Wing. They flew B-25's over North Africa, Corsica, and Italy in 1943-1945...
RAF aerial photos from WW2 used to discover location of £500m Nazi gold bunker - Daily Mail | Historians using RAF surveillance photos shot by Mosquito fighter-bombers over Germany during WW2 believe they are poised to uncover a mammoth bunker containing the secret gold reserves of the Third Reich. After using photos and eyewitness reports from the time to pinpoint the spot, a dig is due to start next month in the Leinawald forest near Leipzig in the hope it will uncover the lost underground complex...
Naval Aviation: Breathing Life into Pilots and Passengers - DoD Live | This month we celebrate the centennial of Naval Aviation. This is a huge milestone in the history of our service and I am incredibly proud of our aviation community. For the past 100 years, Navy Medicine has been committed to keeping our pilots and aviators in the air and I am elated at the success we’ve had and the partnerships we’ve built within the community...
Lockheed Martin pledges $10M to Air Force Museum Foundation - Aviation Dayton | WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc. today announced its acceptance of a $10 million pledge from Lockheed Martin Corp. It's the single largest dollar gift the Foundation has ever received, according to the announcement...
1939 Waco popular bird at fly-in - Abilene-RC | A hobby of Jim Clark is to restore biplanes and his rare 1939 Waco bird was a star at the annual Abilene Fly-In this past Saturday. Clark, Chapman, said his 1939 Waco Custom Cabin EGC-8 was built for the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the fore-runner of today’s Federal Aviation Administration...
Delaware Aviation Hall of Fame to honor outstanding youth - Milford Beacon | Wilmington, Del. - The Delaware Aviation Hall of Fame will confer its annual “Youth Aviation Achievement Award" this fall to the young man or woman who has distinguished himself or herself in aviation training, career development or participation in aviation community activities. Delaware youths ages 15 through 21 are eligible...
CHELSEA: Resident to be inducted into Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame - Heritage | Chelsea resident Captain Jim Mynning was enthralled as a child watching the planes flying over his home -- so much so that he hitchhiked to the Ann Arbor airport when he was 9 years old. There, his aviation career began. Pilot Roy Rice hired young Mynning on the spot at the airport to hawk rides in his 1929 Stinson SM-8A...
Earning her wings: Montana teen flies solo at Eagles Nest - The News Virginian | She started by biting her lower lip. Pre-flight jitters, mostly hidden in a stiff westerly wind that tossed the hair of a dozen onlookers. At 14 years old, Lillymae Gunick prepared Friday to do what few before her have attempted in their early teens: a solo flight in a glider plane...
V750 Unmanned Helicopter Can Rival US Counterparts - Gizmodo | Shiny and purple. It may look like a baddy chopper from an 80s TV movie made in a Foxconn factory, but it's China's latest flying machine, the V750. And it means the Chinese's aerospace industry is maturing dangerously quickly...
Endeavour's Launch Set for Monday ... - Black Horizon | NASA managers have set the liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour for 8:56 a.m. EDT on Monday, May 16. Space Shuttle Program Launch Integration Manager Mike Moses and Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach announced the date at a news briefing Monday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida...
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Joint base Charleston Air Expo 2011 - Live 5 News | There will also be a B-25 on display and an appearance by America's own Thunderbirds. "We are just excited to be here in the Lowcountry Charleston Air force base. We are really looking forward to a great weekend and we hope that folks come out and see ...
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Blue Angels Pilot Interview - YouTube (MzeroA) | Here's my exclusive Blue Angels Pilot Interview with Captain Ben. Pilot of Fat Albert the Blue Angels C-130
Podcast: A Sun 'n Fun to Be Remembered from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast
If you were there, you'll never forget it and if you weren't, you certainly heard about it. AVweb's Russ Niles spoke with SNF CEO John Burton to recap a show that offered more than its share of challenges and could ultimately be called a success.
Team RV rebounds after severe storm - AOPA Pilot | Team RV, a formation and aerobatic display team, is back at full strength after two of its airplanes were destroyed and others damaged by the March 31 tornado that struck during the Sun 'n Fun Fly-In. The event was to have been the ...
VIDEO: Russian Knights celebrate 20 years on Moscow from CavokBlog | On the last day on April 5, the legendary squadron of Air Force aerial demonstration of Russia, the Russian Knights (Russkie Vítiazi) completed 20 years of existence . To celebrate the milestone, the Russians conducted a demonstration riders in the sky of Moscow. The team flies four aircraft Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker, two versions of single-seat Su-27 and Su-27UB two seater, painted in the colors blue, red, white and yellow. Three aircraft remain in the squad, but did not present themselves more with the group. ...
Australian pilots recreate aviation history - ABC Online | MARK COLVIN: Two Australian pilots are attempting to recreate aviation history by flying around the world in the path of Charles Kingsford Smith and Amelia Earhart. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic but her attempt to ...
Mutley's Hangar Announces the Great UK Air Race from Flight Simulator News | Joe Lawford the owner of Mutley's Hangar has announced the launch of the Great UK Air Race! Also known as MEBAR - Mutleys' Easter Bunny Air Rally 2011. This event forms part of the wider Global event initiated by Bluegrass Airlines who have already completed the first in the series The Great Australian Air Rally (GAAR). This event is based around the south coast of England, briefly venturing into the Channel Islands, Isles of Scilly, Wales then back to the home of Mutley's Hangar, ...
TV presenter Bleakley wingwalks for Rio from Flight International | Daybreak presenter Christine Bleakley recently took up wingwalking to promote the release of the 3D animated film Rio. She described the experience as 'completely insane and exhilarating' adding it was like being in a Duran Duran music video. The film Rio follows a young bird called Blu who isn't capable of flying. Christine after wingwalking thousands of feet above the ground sympathised with Blu and said: "No wonder Blu doesn't want to fly." ...
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B-17 Gets New Tail! - Planes of Fame | Piccadilly Lilly finally has her vertical stabilizer and rudder back. Now she is one step closer to flight thanks to all your generous donations! Find out how you can help us with this historic restoration. Please visit the B-17 Piccadilly Lilly "Restoration Project" page to learn more.
Warbird hopes high for Skyhawk - Otago Daily Times | It is not yet known whether the new Warbirds Over Wanaka visitor attraction will get one of nine mothballed Skyhawk jet fighters from the Government. Four of the nine were allocated to museums by Defence Minister Wayne Mapp and the fate of the ...
Missionary Pilots Share Stories, Backcountry Flying Tips from Aviation Blogs | Something didn’t seem right. Glen Ferguson had just departed a Brazilian airstrip to fly to a remote village and pick up a young missionary family. The aircraft performed normally. The engine instruments checked out. The only thing slightly amiss was a periodic fluctuation in EGTs. Still, Ferguson couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wrong with the aircraft. He leveled off in cruise and checked the magnetos. Left mag: normal. Right mag: silence. Ferguson immediately turned the mags back to both and returned to his departure airport less than 15 minutes away. ...
The RAAF's Balloons from Vintage Aeroplane Writer | ... Certainly the RAAF never operated airships or balloons for warlike purposes back in the inter-war period, but while at the Antiquers airshow and fly in at Echuca last weekend, I bumped into a current RAAF balloon airman - who is one of the crew operating the RAAF's balloons. Details of the balloons, and their (recent) history is here. Serendipity! ...
Super Chipmunk R90S - ModelFlying | I immediately found lots of references to aerobatic championships from the late '60s and '70s. Indeed Art Scholl, the owner of this particular variant (N1114V) was one of the best aerobatic pilots of his era, and this was his chosen weapon. ...
Cassie Mathews from Flight To Success | Friday Fabulous Flyer! - Cassie Mathews: A few weeks ago I was at Renton Airport cleaning airport seats and I got to watch Cassie Mathews take her solo flight. I was upset because I'd deleted her pictures from my computer. But when Cassie heard what I'd done, she sent me some that her instructor had taken. And since then I've had the chance to learn a little more about this female aviator soaring into the sky and kissing the runway at Renton Airport. ...
VIDEO: Yes, the F-35 ejection seat works from The DEW Line | There is no truth to the rumor that the video clip below depicts the moments immediately after former F-35 program director Brig Gen David Heinz's final meeting with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
Fly From San Francisco to Paris in Two Minutes from Telstar Logistics | YouTube user nbolt produced a sweet little time-lapse video that compresses an Air France flight from SFO to CDG into just two minutes -- including a special cameo appearance by an aurora borealis. ...
ESA Euronews: First Man in Space from Spaceports | 50 years ago, for the first time in history, a human travelled into space. Who was Yuri Gagarin ? How did this flight change his life and the future of humankind?
ESA Notes 50 Years of Humans in Space from Spaceports | ESA pays tribute to five decades of human spaceflight with a video from the European Astronaut Centre remembering the historic flight of 12 April 1961. Yuri Gagarin was the first to see Earth from space and his legacy has motivated many young people to follow careers in science and engineering - and to become astronauts and cosmonauts.
Public has opportunity to watch shuttle announcement at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force will host an opportunity for the public to watch a live broadcast of NASA's commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch beginning at 1 p.m. on April 12. During that time, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is scheduled to announce the locations selected to receive the space shuttle orbiters when they are retired. ...
Space Shuttle's Maiden Launch and Landing from SPACE.com | The STS-1 mission launched NASA astronauts John W. Young and Robert Crippen into space for a 54.4 hour, 36 orbit test flight of Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981. ...
