Preview: Wings Over Houston Air Show * KPRC Houston | Adventure takes flight this weekend at Ellington Airport! The Navy Blue Angels will soar into town for the 30th Annual Wings Over Houston Air Show...
Air show draws record crowd * Florida Times-Union | According to Undersander a lot of effort was put into moving air show traffic off base in a timely manner. “I'm very proud of our base security force as well as the 11 state and local law enforcement agencies who supported this event. When you have...
ShrinersFest cancel Blue Angels, all future air shows * 14 News WFIE Evansville | Evansville Freedom Festival committee members announced Wednesday they have decided to cancel air shows altogether in conjunction with ShrinersFest because the economy over the past three years has increased challenges and caused a financial risk...
Willow Run plant to officially become new home of Yankee Air Museum today * Crain's Detroit Business | Yankee Air Museum Chairman Ray Hunter is to sign papers today making the aviation museum the official owner of a 144,000-square-foot slice of the former Willow Run Bomber Plant, where Rose Will Monroe and other workers built B-24 Liberator bombers...
Pilot Spotlight: CAF Red Tail Squadron Pilot Paul Stojkov * Red Tail Squadron | Flying the CAF Red Tail Squadron’s P-51C Mustang might be the BEST. JOB. EVER. Soaring amongst the clouds, feeling the purr of that engine and meeting people all over the country to share the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen is nothing short of an honor. In today’s final installment of our Pilot Spotlight series, learn how CAF Red Tail Squadron Pilot Paul Stojkov channeled his love of flight into a career in the skies...
Niki de Saint Phalle's 84th birthday marked with Google doodle * Telegraph.co.uk | A different doodle marking the 107th birthday of Egyptian aviatrix Lotfia El Nady appears on the North African and Middle Eastern versions of the search engine's home page. Meanwhile, the South Korean version of Google celebrates the 510th birthday of...
A vital clue to the unfathomable mystery of aviator Amelia Earhart * Capital Wired | Well the quest for her last whereabouts have kept researchers, filmmakers and many other followers pretty much occupied ever since the pioneer aviator vanished over the Pacific while attempting to cross the world. The finding of a three foot scrap of...
Italian WWII Fighter Pilot Found At Controls Of Crashed Airplane * Aero-News Network | Aircraft Went Down During A Battle Nearly 70 Years Ago The wreckage of an Italian Macchi C.205 fighter plane has been found outside Pauda in northern Italy buried 13 feet underground with its pilot still at the controls...
Northrop Nomad (A-17A) Recovered in Canada * Warbirds News | An ultra-rare Northrop Nomad is slowly emerging from the frigid waters of Lake Muskoka near Bracebridge, Ontario. The Nomad was an export version of a US Army Air Corps A-17A, a small number of which ended up with the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII instead of their original customer in France, following that country’s seizure by Germany. None of the Canadian Nomads were known to...
Unmanned Antares rocket explodes after liftoff * Fox News | The owners of the unmanned 
commercial supply ship that exploded Tuesday over a launchpad in Virginia warned people to keep away from potentially hazardous debris and promised to figure out what destroyed the rocket that was supposed to ferry cargo to the International Space Station. No injuries were reported following the first catastrophic launch in NASA's commercial spaceflight effort...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014
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Thursday, August 14, 2014
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Check Out the Highlights From The Atlantic City Airshow [VIDEO] By Tom Morgan
Wings over Halls air show is this weekend * Jackson Sun | She got involved with the air show four years ago after she retired and started volunteering at the museum. The Veterans' Museum is located on the site of the base, and admission is $2. People can enjoy the museum before or after the airshow. The...
Air show soars back to Rochester this weekend * Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | Federal budget cuts grounded last year's Rochester air show, but the event will roar back into the sky this weekend. At least 14 acts will fly over Greater Rochester International Airport on Saturday and Sunday. The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will...
Island set to welcome iconic Red Arrows * Barry and District News | THE leader of the UK's iconic aircraft display team has flown to Barry ahead of his squadron's fly-by as part of the Barry Wartime Weekend. Squadron leader Mike Ling, 'Red Ten', of the RAF Red Arrows display team recently landed in Barry for a site visit.
Ipswich/UK: Former Ipswich schoolgirl flying high with the Red Arrows display team * Ipswich Star | But former Ipswich schoolgirl Victoria White was not in the bustling crowds – she was playing her part as one of the Red Arrows 'Circus' engineers. Corporal White, 29, is responsible for servicing the Red 5 aircraft as soon as possible after transit...
Patrol France fly over the town on August 23 * St. Méloir-des-Bois (translated) | On 9 November
2013, the municipality of Saint-Méloir des Bois paid tribute to the Norwegian aviator January Guer Von Tangen, whose plane had crashed on its territory during the Second World War, in 1943 this occasion, the Mayor Michel Desbois, could slip, with many personalities present his wish that one day, the Patrouille de France, making his tribute to the pilot tower disappeared. It has...Changes at Paradise Airshows · Paradise Airshows | Paradise will no longer be performing aerobatics at air shows. Static display and fly-bys are all that will be available.
Independence Airport Hosting Annual Fly-In * Polkio.com | A shuttle will take people from the Marquis Spa parking lot to the airport, Noell said, adding that the public should not park at the Starduster Café's parking lot for this event. For more information about the fly-in, Young Eagles or teen aviation...
Kerry Sanders, NBC Correspondent Tandem Parachute Jumps With Golden Knights * U.S. Army
Parachute Team "Golden Knights" | Mr. Sanders and SFC Watts began their morning at about 6:30 a.m. with an interview on NBC Today Show on Green Ramp at Pope Army Airfield. Mr. Sanders said, “ I am honored and thrilled to be part of the Hiring Heroes Plan and to thank all of the Soldiers for service to their country and to be with this program to help with what you do in the civilian world.”...Aerobatic Performers and Champions Take To The Skies Over Daytona Beach * Live Trading News | In addition to performing at air shows, Gene flies a T-6 in the Reno Air Races and has finished in the top five since 1986.
Model planes take to the air Saturday * Arizona Daily Star | He and his wife, Patricia, also started a company called Nemesis Air Racing and design full-size kit aircraft. Sharp's love for flying started when he and a friend would go to the park when they were kids and fly remote controlled airplanes all day...
Lend Me Your Ears: Flight on iconic B-17 'Memphis Belle' evokes tears, triumph ... * Hudson Hub-Times | For Mills, a POW for a year in Germany's Stalag Luft 4 after being shot down May 12, 1944, in the B-17 "Princess Pat" (later to become "Princess Patches" in honor of the heavy bomber's final resting place in a German farm field), the flight brought...
Greenwood Lake Air Show honors Tuskegee Airmen * NorthJersey.com | Also on hand will be the Commemorative Air Force's traveling exhibit honoring the Tuskegee Airmen. Air show guests will watch a P-51 Mustang roar through the skies and perform maneuvers that the pilot's of WWII aimed to perfect. "We were just kids...
Flying high at Cruden Bay * Aberdeen Press and Journal | To mark the centenary of the flight, a commemorative flypast by the Buchan Aero Club will take place at 2pm. David explained that the connection between Gran and Cruden Bay is only part of the reason behind the flypast: it's also worth marking as an...
Airport looking to host women-only race in 2015 * Stafford County Sun | The Stafford Regional Airport is looking to host the launch of the Air Race Classic in June of next year. The regional airport authority gave unanimous conceptual approval on Tuesday to a proposal to host the beginning of the race at the local airport.
Martin Mars Movements… * Warbirds News | The last operational Martin JRM-3 Mars water
bomber seems set to retire this year, judging by a recent announcement in the Coulson Group’s August 2014 news letter. Sadly the provincial government in British Columbia, where the Mars is based, has eliminated the Mars from contention for fire fighting contracts, despite its proven superior performance, price structure and 54 year track record. The last operational example, nicknamed “Hawaii Mars”, has been...Georges Jacquemart Chief Pilot Flying Club of Normandy in 1937 * Xavier Cotton | Georges Jacquemart was born on the 08/06/1892 at Aubrives in the Ardennes. He joined the Army September 7, 1910 and after training Caudron G3 at the School of Aviation Caudron brothers Crotoy (Somme), he obtained...
Milwaukie landmark B-17 bomber touches down in restoration effort (Video and ... * The Oregonian | The B-17 bomber, a famous landmark on McLaughlin Boulevard in Milwaukie, was lowered to the ground Wednesday, part of a long-term restoration effort to restore the "Lacey Lady," a World War Two bomber, to flying condition.
F-104 for the Palm Springs Air Museum Open Cockpit * Warbirds News | This Saturday, from 1 – 3 PM, aviation enthusiasts will have the opportunity to sit behind the controls of an F-104 Starfighter at the The Palm Springs Air Museumin Palm Springs, California. This Starfighter is...
History's Alive with Amelia Earhart * Martins Ferry Times Leader | MOUNDSVILLE - Go back in time to when long-lost aviatrix Amelia Earhart is about to embark on a round-the-world flight A History Alive!-style performance by Patty Cooper as Earhart will take place at the Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library on...
WomenVenture Boosts Visibility of Women at EAA AirVenture * WAI Connect Blog | Gone are the days when "Women's Activities" meant arts and crafts projects. Women attending EAA AirVenture 2014 had the opportunity to network and participate in a day-long roster of women-centered events, all geared toward their active involvement in the aviation community...
Airbus E-Fan Electric Airplane Receives EAA Award * evWorld | The E-Fan, Airbus Group's all-electric general aviation training aircraft, was honored with the prestigious Personal Aircraft Design Academy (PADA) award and trophy August 1 at the AirVenture Oshkosh Airshow. The PADA Trophy is awarded each year by the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation to the world's best personal aircraft designers and engineers....
Pilot, Avgeek, Airplanista: A Guide to Aviators, for the Non-Flying Public * Airplanista Aviation Blog
Young Eagles flight rally to soar Saturday * Hopkinsville Kentucky New Era | Ever pondered what Hopkinsville would look like from the sky, or wondered how to become a pilot? If the answer is yes, Saturday's Young Eagles Flight Rally offers the opportunity to experience flying and learn from pilots first-hand. Local children...
Rosetta Comet Chaser Reaches Destination * Aero-News Network | After A Voyage Of 3.7 Billion Miles, Satellite And Lander Embark On Search For Primary Matter The Rosetta comet chaser has arrived at its destination after flying for more than 10 years and travelling more than 3.7 billion miles. It is now ready to swivel into an orbit around the comet called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The mission assigned to Rosetta and to the Philae lander that it is carrying, is to examine primary material from the nursery of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago over the next one and a half years...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
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Everything you need to know about this weekend's Red Bull Air Race * GQ.com | After a three-year hiatus the Red Bull Air Race World Championship has returned to pit the world's best pilots against each other. With new rules standardising the engines and propellers, and various safety and technical regulations introduced, the...
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Stunt pilot was flying high before harrowing drop onto Maine road * Portland Press Herald | ...The 
experimental Christen Eagle is capable of incredible feats in the air – even flying upside down over the runway so low that his brother, speeding along on a motorcycle, can grab the plane’s tail. But without power, the stubby aircraft flies “like a bag of wet hammers,” Werth said.... [Note: We're elated Billy is OK. Indy Transponder staff]
Warsaw Air Show Returns This Weekend * Stacey Page Online | ... Bob “Pitts Bob” Richards in his Pitts S1S; Ralph Lutes in his Air Tractor; Dave Folk piloting a F-4U Corsair; Patrick McAlee in a Pitts S1S “Blue Demon”; Hoover with a Staudacher S300 and the Commemorative Air Force/Glider Demo of a PT-26 Tow Ship....
Legendary plane on display at this year’s Abbotsford International Airshow * Global News | Former WWII Mosquito Pilot Bill Mar is one of the few who flew a unique and rare plane, the de Havilland Mosquito. More than 7800 Mosquitos were built. Today, one of two that can still fly was featured in Abbotsford...
Daring performers boost air show excitement * Quad-City Times | ...Fans were treated to an array of 
stunts, including trick aerial maneuvers from a variety of planes, races between jet cars and flying machines, skydiving acrobatics and other death-defying deeds. While mild weather helped boost the total attendance to at least 45,000 for the weekend, the performers undoubtedly pump the blood through the event for the appreciative audience. Just think about how it feels for the performers....
Annual fly-in breakfast takes flight Saturday * The Newark Advocate | The Newark-Heath Airport and Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 402 are hosting their annual fly-in breakfast from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Newark-Heath Airport, 530 Heath Road.
Forest Lake Airport Fly-in lifts off * Forest Lake Lowdown | Up to 3,000 attendees, including an estimated 200 pilots, are expected at the 13th Annual Forest Lake Fly-In and Open House event from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16. Ashbach said those numbers have risen from about 1,700 attendees when the event...
Fester will help pilot B-25 at Sullivan Airport Fly-In * Three Rivers Publishing | Free airplane rides for kids will be just one of the exciting events held at the 5th Annual Sullivan Airport Fly-In on Saturday, August 16 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Children aged eight to 16 are welcome to come out for a ride, sponsored by the EAA Young...
Melbourne air show includes Thunderbirds, parachute jump team * Florida Today | In addition to the previously announced U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, the Oct. 4-5 air show will include such acts as the U.S. Army Silver Wings parachute jump team, as well as aerobatic demonstrations from Greg Connell, Gary Ward and Kent Pietsch, who...
Vintage World War II aircraft coming to 1940 Air Terminal Museum Saturday * Your Houston News | It has been nearly 70 years since the last combat aircraft lifted into the air during World War II to join the largest air armada ever to fill the skies, but on Saturday, August 16, four rare WWII warbirds will be roaring over Houston. Leading the...
Historic B-17 lands in Pittsburgh * Pittsburgh Post Gazette | After waking at 3 a.m., Stanley Lantz and other members of the 452nd Bomb Group in England would clamber into the back of a B-17 called “Lady Be Good” and wait to hear about their next mission, hoping for somewhere other than Berlin. Snow or sleet, in...
WWII B-17G plane in Glenville * Albany Times Union | GLENVILLE -- To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the Empire State Aerosciences Museum has special events all week. On Monday, the Commemorative Air Force's World War II B-17G Sentimental Journey flew in for the week. Events include tours, new...
WWII era Bomber lands at the Olympic Flight Museum for a week's visit * The Olympian | Commemorative Air Force pilot Spike McLane gives the history of the WW2-era B-25 Mitchell bomber, "Maid in the Shade" at the Olympic Flight Museum before airplane loadmaster Mike Mueller gives pre-flight instructions to a group of passengers Aug. 11...
Airport seeks memories of Stead Air Force Base * Reno Gazette Journal | He was the brother of Reno Air Races founder Bill Stead. Today, the military history largely exists in the memories of those who served and worked there and a scattering of buildings still standing in Stead, many of them boarded up and likely bound for...
Lawrence native is one of few black pilots in rare World War II aircraft * Lawrence Journal World | He's a volunteer pilot for the Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron — an organization aimed at sharing the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the black pilots most famous for their success flying Mustangs in WWII. Shepard performed in an air show in...
A Terrifying Beauty – the Art of Piotr Forkasiewicz · Vintage Wings of Canada | In the black of night 
of June 8, 1944, two days after the D-Day invasions of Normandy, the dark hulk of a four-engined Lancaster bomber of 15 Squadron, Royal Air Force, trailing a blow-torching curtain of livid flame, lurches heavily into a dive over the French countryside, a few miles to the west of Paris. The flame is bright enough to illuminate the farms below in a pale and ghostly light. The big bomber is dying, her lifeblood streaming in angry, high octane sheets from her starboard wing fuel tanks. Behind the Lancaster, a Luftwaffe night fighter follows her down to finish her off. Its cannons hammer continuously at the British aircraft, while their tracer rounds rocket and shriek past, trailing smoke, lit by the burning, streaming wounds of the Lanc....
Historic Aircraft: Spruce Goose | One of the highlights of the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, is the historic “Spruce Goose” – the one and only Hughes H-4 Hercules ever manufactured. With a wingspan of 320 feet and measuring 219 feet long, the H-4 is the largest flying boat ever to be constructed, and although it only ever made one flight on November 2, 1947, it proved that an airplane of that...
A Pilot’s View of Historic Aircraft · WarbirdsNews | Aviation fans from across the country are being given the chance to sit inside some of the world’s most historic aircraft at the Open Cockpits Evening being held at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford next month. Just 300 tickets are available for this exclusive evening on Saturday 20 September, where a wide range of aircraft will be available for close viewing on the night: including transport aircraft, jet fighters and unique research airframes. Aircraft enthusiasts will be able to get a feel for what it was like to fly these much loved machines by entering their cockpits and enjoying a Pilot’s view. In addition....
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Amelia Earhart: Canadian aviation protégé * RCAF | ...This well-known American aviatrix made a name for herself in the field of aviation during the 1920s and 30s through a series of "firsts". The most famous of these was perhaps being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932; a feat for which she received the Distinguished Flying Cross from the United States
Congress....Breathtaking photo as F/A-18E Super Hornet pilot seemingly activates “Hyperspace Drive” * The Aviationist | This photo was taken by an F/A-18E Super Hornet pilot with the U.S. Navy’s Strike-Fighter Squadron 27 (VFA-27) “Royal Maces” during a night gun strafe practice. The visual effect of the...
NASA's 'flying saucer' test project deemed a success * Valley Sun | When it was at the right height and spin, a Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator installed around the edge of the payload instantly filled with air to reduce the speed to Mach 2.5. Fractions of a second later, a helium-filled balloon parachute...
Friday, August 8, 2014
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Atlantic City Airshow to Draw Impressive Crowd * Aviation Today | The Atlantic City Airshow will take place on August 13, 2014 and is expected to draw nearly one million spectators. The air show, one of the largest in the United States, will feature GEICO Skytypers, a team of eight pilots...
Chicago's Top Guns: A Wet And Wild Weekend * WLS-TV | ... the Red Bull Helicopter, Matt Chapman Airshows, Dave Dacy in the Super Stearman Model 70, Warbird Heritage Foundation: A-4 Skyhawk Jet Tac Demo, Aerostars,Team AeroDynamix, (new 12 plane team), and Chicago Fire Department Air/Sea Rescue.
Air show works to bring in high-flying acts * Quad City Times | Also appearing will be Roger Buis, piloting Otto the Helicopter, which was voted 2013 Air Show Performer of the Year ("He hasn't been here for a while. We're super-excited to have him," Hopper said); and Dave Folk, piloting the F4U-5 Corsair, a World...
B-24 Liberator rides still available during Thunder Over Michigan airshow * Heritage Newspapers | On behalf the Commemorative Air Force B29/B24 squadron in Dallas, Texas, I'd like invite you to take part in a piece of history you'll never forget! The B-24 "Diamond Lil" will be at the Thunder over Michigan airshow- Aug. 9-10 at the Willow Run airport...
Photos: Snowbirds perform over White Rock * Regina Leader-Post | Dazzling the locals Canada's 
iconic precision flight team, "Snowbirds" gave a special show in the skies above White Rock on Wednesday, August 6 2014. Visitors and residents were amazed by their famous flying demonstration.
Trojan Phlyers to fly at inaugural Pikes Peak Regional Airshow · General Aviation News | The Trojan Phlyers Demonstration Team is gearing up for a return to Colorado to perform in the inaugural Pikes Peak Regional Airshow at the Colorado Springs International Airport Aug. 9-10....
Air tricks, Tuskegee Airmen and 40 war aircrafts at Pikes Peak Regional Airshow * Colorado Springs Gazette | A highlight of the weekend is the Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron's traveling Tuskegee Airmen exhibit, a semitrailer that houses a 40 foot panoramic movie screen. The 30-minute documentary "Rise Above" will air throughout the weekend to...
4000 Scouts coming to Lewis University for AirFest * Morris Daily Herald | AirFest coordinator Ken McCafferty said the event is a culmination of two years of working with Lewis University, the Joliet Regional Port District and the National Weather Service to establish what he called the largest gathering of Scouts in the area.
Warbirds & Aerobatics at Owls Head Museum Spectacular * Freepress Online | Owls Head Transportation Museum will present its annual Wings & Wheels Spectacular, featuring classic cars, steam engines, aerobatic performances and World War II aircraft, on Saturday and Sunday, August 9 and 10. Aerobatic father-and-son duo Jim and...
Fly-in to support Down Syndrome | Current in Westfield - This year's event will combine with the Sport Air Racing League's Indy Air Race, sponsored by Aerodine Composites. This is the fourth year that the Indy Air Race has been held at Indy Exec airport featuring aircraft of all types...
Family fun at NW Classic Fly-in & Cruise-in * St. Helens Chronicle | SCAPPOOSE — Whether your transportation of choice has pedals, propellers or pipes, you're bound to appreciate the display of cars, motorcycles and airplanes at the very first Northwest Classic Fly-in & Cruise-in on Saturday, Aug. 16. Hosted by the...
OMAS RC Air Show: Tiny planes to offer big fun in Forest Grove this weekend * The Oregonian - OregonLive.com | The Oregon Miniature Aircraft Squadron (OMAS) is hosting the 33rd annual Radio-Controlled Modelers Air Show and Food Drive from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Club Vice president Dave Noel says the event is an opportunity to invite the...
Fly-a-Thon, Mini Air Show in Rosenberg to benefit MDA * Katy Times | The Fort Bend Radio Control Club will host its 16th annual Model Air Show and Model Aircraft Fly-in on Saturday, Aug. 30, at the club's flying field in Rosenberg. The program is held to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Fund (Jerry's Kids).
Kansas Aviation Expo takes off Sept. 22 · General Aviation News | The second annual Kansas Aviation Expo, slated for Sept. 22-26, will showcase business aviation as part of the event’s presentation on the importance of aviation to the state. This year’s expo, with the theme “Where Dreams Come True,” will include a career fair and three-day air tour of the state, said Jesse Romo, director of the Kansas Department of Transportation’s aviation division....
Lancaster Airport to Host FMA Fly-In MusicJam · General Aviation News | The Flying Musicians Association (FMA) and the Lancaster Airport Authority, in cooperation with Fiorentino’s Italian Restaurant & Bar and the Civil Air Patrol-Jesse Jones Composite Squadron 304, will hold a Fly-In MusicJam at Lancaster Airport in Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 12-13...
Group plans air show in village * Deming Headlight | Although the air show has a long and colorful history in West Texas' largest city, recent Pentagon budget cuts, commonly referred to as "sequestration," have necessitated a relocation of the famous air show to nearby Santa Teresa, NM, adjacent to west...
Bob Hoover documentary premieres Aug. 10 · General Aviation News | Oshkosh, Wis. — A new documentary on aviation legend Bob Hoover debuted at this year’s AirVenture and will make its world premiere Aug. 10....
Expedition Amelia seeks funding to finally solve Earhart mystery · General Aviation News | On May 21, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan boarded their Lockheed Electra and took off from Oakland, California, on their second attempt to fly around the world. This time, they flew to the east. Earhart was supposed to have landed on Howland Island, a coral island some 1,700 miles from Honolulu for refueling, but she never arrived. The United States Navy searched for 17 days, but no trace of Earhart was found — and people still haven’t stopped looking...
Nominations now open for HAI Salute to Excellence · General Aviation News | The Helicopter Association International (HAI) is accepting nominations for its 2015 Salute to Excellence Awards, effective immediately. The awards will be presented during HAI HELI-EXPO 2015 on Wednesday, March 4, 2015, in Orlando, Florida.
Unseen First World War Casualty Card Archive and Muster Roll Now Online · WarbirdsNews | The Royal Air Force Museum has today launched a new website, rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk, which enables members of the public to interrogate previously unseen Casualty Cards of members of the Royal Flying Corps who suffered injury during the First World War. In addition to these records online visitors are now also able to search the Muster Roll for the RAF as drafted on 1 April 1918 and the Air Force List as of 1 February of the same year. This...
Newly Restored Stearman PT-13D Kaydet on Display at The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force · WarbirdsNews | A highly-accurate, pristine example of one of the most used trainers during World War II is now on 
display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.The Stearman PT-13D Kaydet was a standard primary trainer flown by the United States and several allied nations during the late 1930s through World War II (WWII). It represents a family of trainers that also included the PT-17, PT-18 and PT-27, which all used a common airframe and were differentiated only by engine and minor fuselage modifications. All were referred to....
Video: ‘Aviation: The Invisible Highway’ documentary set for 2015 release · General Aviation News | From the creator of One Six Right comes a documentary called “Aviation: The Invisible Highway“. From the YouTube description, “AVIATION: THE INVISIBLE HIGHWAY is a story about how the airplane has changed the world. Filmed in 18 countries across all 7 continents, it renews our appreciation for one of the most extraordinary and...
Young Eagles invited to soar over the lake this Saturday * Lakenewsonline.com | Volunteer pilots will be available to introduce youth to flying, explain the fundamentals of flying and give them a short flight over the lake. The Young Eagles Event will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and will include free hot dogs, chips and drinks. The...
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Thursday, July 3, 2014
Checking in on Amelia, Remembering Amelia
73 Years Later, Amelia Earhart Flies Again * Mashable | Taking after her famous aviator namesake, 
Amelia Rose Earhart took off Thursday to become the youngest woman to fly a single-engine airplane around the world. In spite of their nearly identical names — the original Amelia Earhart's middle name was Mary — there is no biological relation. But that didn't stop the modern-day Earhart from pursuing similar passions...
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Track Amelia Earhart's Flight Around the World * NBC News | A 31-year-old pilot took off from Oakland, California, Thursday, flying a single-engine plane and hoping to make history. And her name just happens to be Amelia Earhart (no relation to her famous namesake). The modern-day Earhart is planning to recreate the same journey; an around-the-world flight that's expected to take nearly three weeks....
World flight by namesake honors aviation hero Amelia Earhart * fdlreporter | These days when Amelia Rose Earhart walks on the airport tarmac with a group of young children, it doesn't matter how many adults are around, she said they all become children again. In an instant, they are nine years old again, spreading their wings to catch the air and light high above the clouds guided by an infinite horizon of patchy green fields and blue water....
Video: Could this long forgotten picture and a battered sheet of aluminium FINALLY solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance? * Daily Mail | A photograph forgotten for almost 80 years could hold the key to solving the mysterious disappearance of Amelia Earhart. The picture, taken immediately before the legendary aviator launched her ill-fated attempt to circumnavigate the globe from Miami in June 1937, shows a distinctive patch of aluminum bolted to the side of her Lockheed Model 10 Electra....
The Legend of Amelia Earhart’s Disappearance by The National Air and Space Museum | The mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in July 1937 during her around-the-world flight attempt persists to the present day, and is especially alive and well on the Internet. If you were to Google the term “Amelia Earhart Disappearance,” for example, the list of hits would be about 1,950,000 items! Some websites, too numerous to mention, are filled with crank conspiratorial ideas. One...
Thursday, June 12, 2014
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Incoming! Blue Angels zooming over downtown Nashville tomorrow * Nashville Business Journal (blog) | If you're working in downtown Nashville tomorrow, it might be hard to hear during that mid-morning meeting or conference call — or focus on it at all. The famed Blue Angels air squadron will fly over part of downtown Thursday for a photo shoot. At...
17th annual Pylon Racing Seminar flies into Reno * KRNV My News 4 | RENO, Nev. (MyNews4.com & KRNV) -- The Reno Air Racing Association announced this week that a record number of pilots and planes will take to the famed Reno Air Race course for the first time in 2014 during the 17th annual National Championship Air...
Thunder Over Utah to feature state aircraft enthusiast * St. George Daily Spectrum | Shortly afterward, Wursten bought his first aerobatic plane and has been flying aerobatics for 10 years. Although Wursten is a newcomer to the air show scene, the high-energy and high-speed aerobatics he performs are nothing short of aggressive and ...
Vulcan in full effect at Bournemouth · UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | It’s the news everyone has been waiting to hear – Air Festival organisers have confirmed the Avro 
Vulcan XH558 will be bringing its awesome roar to Bournemouth this August. Thanks to a collective effort by Merley House, Vulcan to Bournemouth and Vulcan enthusiast Stephen Young Lord of Westbury and Waxham, the only airworthy example of the classic Cold War bomber has been funded for a single appearance on Saturday 30th August....
Videos: Skip Stewart Flies UNDER Jumping Motorcycle... Or Is It Cody Elkins Jumps OVER Flying Airplane!?! · AirPigz | This well executed stunt last weekend at the Cameron Airshow between airplane (Skip Stewart) and motorcycle (Cody Elkins) is extremely impressive... but I think I like the view of Skip flying over the camera and making a mountain of smoke just as much!
SEE IT: FMX bike rider jumps over airplane in Missouri air show stunt * New York Daily News | The video features a unique stunt at the 2014 Cameron Air Show in Cameron, Mo., last weekend. FMX jumper Cody Elkins rides his bike along a ramp and jumps high in the air as a modified Pitts special single engine biplane, piloted by Skip Stewart ...
Congratulations to Bob Johansen, GEICO Skytypers... · The International Council of Air Shows | Congratulations to Bob Johansen, GEICO Skytypers and the latest winner of the prestigious Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award that recognizes pilots for their half-century of aviation safety.
Midwest Airport Fun Days Provides Aviation Experiences for Visitors · Midwest Airport Fun Days concluded the first annual event at St. Louis Downtown Airport with cloudy but dry weather following a stormy Saturday afternoon. The ramp in front of Ideal Aviation and The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum was full of warbirds and fly-ins, and visitors were...
Nebraska Fly-In a huge success * York News-Times | ... June 11, 2014 12:00 am. Nebraska Fly-In a huge success By News-Times Staff York News-Times. YORK – Despite cooler weather, hundreds of people turned out this past weekend for the Nebraska State Fly-In at the York Municipal Airport. The fly-in event...
Organizers call county air show a success * The Henderson Daily News | A crowd of just over 2,000 enjoyed sun, food and plenty of vintage airplanes during the Rusk County Air Show and Fly-in Saturday at the Rusk County Airport. Rusk County Airport Manager Ron Franks and his volunteer team were lauded by the Rusk County ...
Folkestone Airshow may not return * Folkestone Herald | THE future of the Folkestone Airshow is unknown after the organisers admitted making a loss. About 180,000 people came to the event on Saturday and Sunday, watching the likes of the world-famous Red Arrows and Breitling Wingwalkers. A ticketed concert...
Concord to Pennsylvania: Female pilots' cross-country air race begins June 16 * Contra Costa Times | The Air Race Classic is not just the only cross-country air race for women, it's the only cross-country air race that exists. "In today's reality of races, yes, we have the Reno Air Races, which are very exciting, but that's a closed loop," said Dianne ...
Payette pilot competes in oldest air race * Ontario Argus Observer | Local pilot Brenda Carter, Payette, will soar across the country in her team's small aircraft competing in the 2014 Air Race Classic this summer which begins June 16 in Concord, Calif. and spans over 2,338 nautical miles. Racers will undergo briefings ...
China To Host Cross-Continent Air Race * Flying Magazine | Pilots of light piston airplanes are being invited to participate in the epic air race next year from Istanbul to the Chinese coast. September's qualifying race will cover a course from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, cutting across the heart of China to Xian ...
WWII bomber draws crowd to Cheektowaga By News 4 Digital Staff | CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) – “Diamond Lil,” the world’s oldest flying bomber, is drawing a crowd to Prior Aviation in Cheektowaga. Some World War II veterans were at the site on Tuesday, which is where we met Silviu Dan. He was an aerial gunner on another B-24 during the War....
Lee Matthews Takes A Flight on the B-17 Used In The Movie Memphis Belle-You ... * KTOK | Bookmark and Share. RSS. Posted Wednesday, June 11th 2014 @ 12pm. Have a look at my video blog of a flight I recently took on an authentically restored B-17. So authentic it was used in the movie Memphis Belle! It was definitely a bucket list item for ...
PHOTOS: Warbirds soar over Reading at 24th annual World War II weekend * The Mercury | Robert Wood, of Phoenix, Ariz.; June Otto of Douglassville; and Ryan Wood, of Phoenix, Ariz., pose with their flag that has been around the world at the 24th Annual World War II Weekend and Airshow at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum held June 6, 7, 8 ...
Hot air balloons to soar during Van Wert County Fair * Van Wert independent | Jerry Mazur, organizer of the Hot Air Fest, a successor to the former Hot Air Affair created by the Van Wert Area Jaycees several decades ago, noted that, while financial constraints made having a third edition of the festival a non-starter, he helped ...
We've Got Your Six, Hero · Voices From The DC-3 | The formation of ten wheelchairs lined the jet bridge as we disembarked in Dallas after the flight from Paris. After ten hours folded into an economy seat, I no longer felt the need to complain about my minor aches and fatigue upon seeing that reminder. For each chair in that lineup represented a man who had survived D’Embarquement--D-Day--and the ensuing 70 years. Each one had made the journey to France for the 70th anniversary of the invasion, and each was flying back home on American Airlines Flight 49 that day...
The Kansas City B-25 Factory * Air & Space Magazine | This hastily constructed plant produced 
6,608 bombers during World War II
Daedalus D-Day 70th Airmen & Airborne Memorial Service – Lee-on-the-Solent – 3 June 2014 | Avpics * Avpics - Phil Whalley | A memorial service was held at the Civic War Memorial on the Lee-on-the-Solent seafront in the evening of 3 June to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of D-Day – one of many such events each side of the Channel. The Memorial is located just a few hundred yards from HMS Daedalus, an airfield which played a major part in the embarkation of troops for ‘Operation Overlord’. Much of the...
Timeless Voices - Harold Olsen · eaavideo.org | Harold Olsen (1921-2009) was a B-17 copilot with the 95th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force during World War II. His plane was shot down on his very first mission, March 16, 1944, and Harold become a POW in Stalag Luft III for the duration of the war.
AD-4 Skyraider (BuNo:128988) Wreck Discovered In Florida · WarbirdsNews | WarbirdsNews recently learned of the discovery in April of the wreck of a long-lost AD-4 Douglas Skyraider in the Florida Everglades. The aircraft was located by the aviation-archeology minded volunteers at Aeroquest.org, and we have reproduced some of their photographs here for your interest. The group had actually been out on a quest to locate the remains of a TBM-3 Avenger which belonged to Lt. Charles Taylor, the commander of Flight 19, the infamous “Lost Patrol” of Bermuda Triangle lore. Instead they came across the substantial remains of a US Marine Corps Skyraider. The data plate they....
The Red Baron — graphically shown ·Travel for Aircraft | The Red Baron — graphically shown The Red Baron: the graphic history of Richthofen’s Flying Circus and the Air War in WWI, Wayne Vansant, 2014, ISBN 9780760346020, 100 pp. Wayne Vansant brings his history skills with the graphic arts to us with another enrapturing graphic novel, this one on the life of “The Red Baron”...
Cessna kicks off third annual Discover Flying Challenge · General Aviation News | WICHITA, Kan. – Cessna has kicked off the third annual Discover Flying Challenge (DFC) during a launch event here. Eight pilots will take part in this internship promoting general aviation and engaging aviation enthusiasts across the country.
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AirFest 2014 Attendance Released * WIFR | ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Airfest attendance is estimated to be around 135,000 people. Two years ago there were about 100,000 people at the air show. We wont know how much money the event bought in for a couple weeks...
MILLER: Great Tennessee Air Show to consume land and sky * The Daily News Journal | When 
Smyrna is lucky and the stars line up just right, we are privileged to host the Great Tennessee Air Show. Saturday and Sunday, we will again be able to hear the roar of the engines as skilled pilots push the limits of their aircrafts. With the...
Plane-a-palooza: We think we're ready (maybe) to get this thing started * Pueblo Chieftain | There will be some planes from the Commemorative Air Force on display — wonderful World War II vintage machines that have been lovingly restored. There is also some sort of noisy flight-dogfight cockpit exercise, a winch-released glider demonstration ...
Warbird Fly-in on tap for Saturday * Henderson Daily Dispatch | The 95th Squadron Radio Control Model Aircraft Club will hold its fifth annual Warbird Fly-in event this Saturday at the club's flying field in Gaston. Radio control pilots from North Carolina and Virginia will demonstrate their flying skills ...
The Rockford AirFest was a tremendous success · The International Council of Air Shows | The Rockford AirFest was a tremendous success - check out some of the airport's snapshots.
Miho Airforce Base Airshow by Fred Boureau | 60th anniversary of the Japan Air Self Defense Force and 56th anniversary of the establishment Miho AB
Wisconsin pilot unhurt when vintage plane crashes during Minnesota fly-in * Minneapolis Star Tribune | RUSH CITY, Minn. — A Wisconsin pilot is OK after a vintage plane crashed during the Rush City Fly-in in east-central Minnesota over the weekend. The Chisago County sheriff's office says the 1936 Tailor J2 airplane was trying to land Sunday morning ...
Fly-in hosts vintage aircraft * Fort Morgan Times | The fly-in breakfast was started by the Fort Morgan Lions Club before the Glenn Miller SwingFest began, organizer Vernon Tryon said. Then the events were merged, said Tryon, who has been helping promote the fly-in since its beginning. The fly-in has ...
Canadian Xpress June Fly-In - Summer Solstice by Nels_Anderson | ...This month we celebrate the peak of 24 hour sunlight in the north with a trip to Ketchikan Alaska on the Summer Solstice. Canadian Xpress® would like to invite all pilots to join us on Saturday, June 21st, 21h00edt (Sunday 01h00z) for our June 2014 fly-in where we have two points of departure, one for those looking to fly something heavy Anchorage (PANC) and one for those wanting to fly a lighter prop Juneau (PAJN) and enjoy the local scenery.This is an open invitation to all pilots no matter what your flying experience to attend this Canadian Xpress® sponsored event that will be flown on the VATSIM network....
Daks Over Normandy – Event Report · WarbirdsNews | Organized by the Round Canopy Parachuting Team (RCPT), the plan to bring a large number of Douglas Dakota transport aircraft to Normandy on June 6th, 2014 for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, has been a huge success. Ten DC-3/C-47 variants – known as the Dakota in the RAF and Skytrain with US Forces – gathered for the largest assembly of the type seen over Normandy since 1944. Most of the Dakotas initially gathered at Lee-on-Solent airfield, near Portsmouth, England. On Thursday June 5th they flew across the English Channel to France and landed at Cherbourg’s Maupertus airport....
Daks over Normandy Aviation Headlines - Airplane-Pictures.net | A fleet of 9 Dakota's/Skytrains and 1 Lisunov that gathered in Normandy to commemorate and repeat the paradroppings of D-Day, June 6, 1944....
WWII warbird 'Maid in the Shade' celebrates the big 7-0 in Utah * Deseret News | Adrienne Pahnke, 8, cover her ears as the B-25 Maid in the Shade prepares to take off at the Heber City Airport, Monday, June 9, 2014. The historic plane was restored by the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force. It was commissioned into the Army ...
Restored Memphis Belle B-17 coming to Wichita * Kansas.com | The Memphis Belle, a restored B-17 Flying Fortress, will be available for public flights and viewings June 21 and 22 at the Colonel James Jabara Airport. And for those who can't visit the World War II bomber, they probably will be able to hear it. “It ...
Andrews, Harris to be honoured with B-17 Flying Fortress flypast * Eurosport.com ASIA | Simon Andrews and Karl 'Bomber' Harris will be honoured at this weekend's Snetterton MCE British Superbike with a flypast of a B-17 Flying Fortress and a Tornado GR4 from RAF Marham. Simon, who lost his life at the North West 200, traditionally ran the...
13 photos: B-17 Aluminum Overcast flies over Des Moines * DesMoinesRegister.com | 13 photos: 
B-17 Aluminum Overcast flies over Des Moines. View of the side of the B-17 Aluminum Overcast Monday, June 9, 2014, being flown from the Ankeny Regional Airport. The B-17 Flying Fortress is a World War II bomber used primarily in Europe....
Buchanan Field Airport Start of the Oldest Air Race * Virtual-Strategy Magazine | Buchanan Field Airport in Concord, California will be the start of this year's Air Race Classic (ARC) which spans over 2,338 nautical miles. The 2014 Air Race Classic will be held June 16–19. Racers will zoom through ten intermediate stops in four days ...
Local Female Pilot, Joyce Wilson Competes in the Oldest Air Race * Virtual-Strategy Magazine | The Racing Aces have partnered with Cirrus Aircraft™ to show their commitment to the education of women in aviation. All of the team's proceeds gained during the 2014 Air Race Classic will be put towards a scholarship for one deserving future female...
Waco: TSTC Pilots Compete In Air Race Classic * KWTX | Two Texas State Technical Institute Aircraft Pilot Training students and an instructor head out Tuesday to compete in the annual Air Race Classic. The cros...
WMU pilots 'Go West' to compete in decades-old women's air race * WMU News | A pair of Western Michigan University women aviation students headed west June 8 to compete in the 2014 Air Race Classic, a cross-country flight competition that dates back to the days of Amelia Earhart. Elizabeth Howerton of McHenry, Illinios, and ...
SU Student Aviator to Fly Across United States * Newswise | In June, Emily Lewis, a junior geography major from Mickleton, NJ, will fly from California to Pennsylvania as part of the Air Race Classic, an annual competition for female aviators. The event, founded in 1977, recalls similar contests that began as...
Tilden native to join Lincoln woman in air race across country * Norfolk Daily News | Now, the Tilden native — who returned to flight as a celebration for her 75th birthday — is gearing up to soar more than 2,300 nautical miles across the country in the 2014 Air Race Classic. “(I'm) definitely excited, and perhaps somewhat anxious...
Amelia Earhart: 1932 * Shorpy | June 1932. Washington, D.C. "Aviator Amelia Earhart Putnam being greeted by Drs. Gilbert Grosvenor, right, and John Oliver la Gorce of the National Geographic Society." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.
Cafferata: Amelia Earhart's landings in Nevada * Reno Gazette Journal | After she left Salt Lake City at 8:30 a.m., she touched down in Wendover and reached Elko at noon, where a large crowd greeted the aviatrix. Then, she took off for Reno at 2 p.m., landed at Battle Mountain and then flew toward Reno, but she zoomed into...
New Paint For Italian F-104 Gate Guardian · WarbirdsNews | By Daniele Mattiuzzo. F-104S-ASA 
MM6804, ended its career at Istrana on June 1998, flying as “51-07″ with the 22°Gruppo CI.Later, was unveiled mounted on a support as a monument, on the November 3, 1999, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the...
Motivation, inspiration, and big ol’ dreams * General Aviation News · Jamie Beckett | ...Among Ben’s great contributions to the world is the love of flight a handful of middle-aged men share. They were young, barefoot, Florida kids when Ben met them. Friends of his own kids, mostly. Some were just locals who happened to catch Ben’s eye. But in each case he found a way to put those kids into the SuperCub on floats he kept tied up in his back yard. They’d motor out into the lake, take to the skies, and let dreams become reality for an hour or so. At least one of those kids is now a captain flying a widebody airliner for one of the majors. All of them benefitted from the experience, whether they went on to earn a living as a pilot or not....
Students awarded in memory of Red Arrows pilot * ITV News | Students in Lincoln will be presented with awards today to recognise their completion of an RAF programme set up in memory of a Red Arrows pilot from Warwickshire who died during a display three years ago. The Blue Skies Programme charity was set up ...
Young Eagles event provides free flights for kids at Greenville airport * Greenville Daily News | GREENVILLE — Now in its eighth year at the Greenville Municipal Airport, the Young Eagles I Can Fly event puts children in the seat of a private aircraft to show them exactly what it's like to fly. Put on by the Greenville Area Aviation Association...
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Breitling Jet Team to perform in Wisconsin in 2015 - Pioneer Press | OSHKOSH, Wis.—The Breitling Jet Team will be performing in the United States for the first time ever and it will be in Wisconsin. They are performing at the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual AirVenture in Oshkosh in 2015. The aerobatic...
RAF line-up confirmed for Wings & Wheels 10th Show * UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | Plans for the 10th annual Wings & Wheels have got off to a flying start with confirmation from the RAF that the Red Arrows, Tucano and Tutor as well as iconic legends from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight – Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane – will all be part of the weekend’s aviation line-up...
Aerobatics and Education at Sun n Fun - Dylan Aviation | My Super D is on display each year in the aerobatic welcome center at Sun n Fun. Note the tiger tail hanging from the right wing. I mark the aileron spades with tiger tails to warn “lookers’. Without those markers, people have a propensity to walk into the spade, cutting their heads and damaging my spades. My Super D is on display each year in the aerobatic welcome center at Sun n Fun. Note the tiger tail hanging from the right wing. I mark the aileron spades with tiger tails to warn “lookers’. Without those markers, people have a propensity to walk into the spade, cutting their heads and damaging my spades...
EAA Invites WWI Aircraft to AirVenture Oshkosh 2014 - EAA | A call is going out to all World War I-era aircraft, aircraft replicas, and reproductions to join in commemorating the centennial of World War I aviation technology at the annual EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014, July 28-August 3 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin...
The Blue Angels Used to Travel Aboard a Rocket Powered Hercules - Gizmodo [w video!] | There is much more that goes into a Blue Angels show than what you see in the air—every event requires a 
massive behind-the-scenes effort to coordinate. In order to ferry all of the spare parts equipment and support personnel that make this happen from show to show, the Blue Angels employ a United States Marine Corps C-130T Hercules, dubbed Fat Albert. Measuring nearly 100 feet long with a 133 foot wingspan, the C-130T is equipped with four Allison T56 engines, providing a top speed of 320 knots, a range of 2,400 miles, and a 45,000 pound payload capacity. The T variant denotes that it carries extra under-wing fuel tanks and has an upgraded avionics system over older models, though it isn't quite as capable as, say, the C-130H Spooky...
Nine aviation mysteries highlight long history of plane disappearances - CNN | While such situations are rare, the puzzling disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370 is not the first time a plane has vanished without a trace. Here are nine cases of mysterious plane disappearances and disasters. Some remain unsolved, decades later...
The Stealth Bomber Elite By James R. Chiles Air & Space Magazine | Fewer than 100 pilots climb the ladder to the B-2 cockpit
Above & Beyond: Recovery: Bataan By Ralph Wetterhahn Air & Space Magazine | Two fighters went after each other at midafternoon on February 9, 1942, with machine guns blazing. They were scant feet above the dense jungle enveloping the Mariveles volcano on the Philippines’ Bataan peninsula. Sergeant Toshisada Kurosawa, Imperial Japanese Army, was flying a Nakajima Ki-27 “Nate”; U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant Earl R. Stone was in a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk...
Curtiss Jenny Open Cockpit Event at Yanks Air Museum · Warbirds News | The Yanks Air Museum is holding an open-cockpit event with their rare Curtiss 1C Jenny this Saturday between 10:00am until 3:00 pm. Sitting in the cockpit, the visitor will undoubtedly understand how frail and vulnerable an American military pilot from WWI would have felt as they prepared to join the fight. The Jenny was a vital element of America’s arsenal a hundred years ago, and trained 95% of US WWI pilots. 2014 marks the centennial for the beginning of that global conflagration...
World Tour for Pearl Harbor Documentary Lands at Palm Springs Air Museum · Warbirds News | Starting in June of 2011 Liz Watkins, worked with Holly Shelton and retired Lt. Colonel Bill Phillips to organize and raise funds so that six Pensacola, Florida area Pearl Harbor survivors could return to Pearl for the 70th anniversary of the attack. The film documents the...
In the Pink: Dazzling Cessna 425 Conquest Keeps Alive Memory of World War II Women Air Force Service Pilots - The Aero Experience | St. Louis Downtown Airport was pleased to host the arrival of 
the
pink Cessna Conquest that occasionally visits the St. Louis area.
Flown by Ron Buchanan for Three Lakes Enterprises out of New London,
Minnesota, the aircraft flies corporate clients throughout the region.
The aircraft retains it's pink hue and hot pink stripes in honor its
previous owner, World War II Women Air Force Service Pilot (WASP)
Suzanne Parish (1922-2010)....
Deja vu: Pilot named Amelia Earhart to fly around world this summer (video) - al.com (blog) | DENVER, Colorado -- Amelia Earhart will have a second chance to complete her flight around the world. Sort of. A Colorado woman named Amelia Earhart in June plans to fly around the globe, covering more than 24,000 nautical miles. Earhart, a news anchor for Denver's NBC affiliate, is taking the challenge in conjunction with the Fly with Amelia Foundation, an organization she founded last year to promote aviation for young girls....
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Aviation Community Unites Behind 'One Week Wonder' AirVenture - EAA | More than a dozen companies are pitching in to support our unique 'One Week Wonder' airplane building project planned for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014. The goal is to build a complete airplane during the seven-day annual convention and fly-in scheduled for July 28-August 3 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh...
Video: See how Sparks was a player in the space race from RGJ.com
NASA & the crew of Star Trek's Enterprise - io9 | 1976. The Shuttle Enterprise, about to embark on a continuing mission to test in-atmosphere flight, and never quite get into space. The shuttle's rollout ceremony with most of the main cast from Star Trek was neither the first or last collaboration between NASA and Star Trek....
