Chicago Air & Water Show adapts to loss of Thunderbirds, other military acts - Chicago Tribune | Vintage aircraft and elite parachutists will slice through the skies above North Avenue Beach next weekend during the Chicago Air & Water Show, but it's not enough for Chris Connelly. Without military headliners like the Air Force Thunderbirds roaring through the air, the father of two says making the trip from Palatine isn't worth it....
Simsbury Fly-In Will Not Disappoint - Patch.com | Written and submitted by Bill Thomas, manager of Simsbury Airport | ...As with any Fly-In, much of the enjoyment is anticipating what airplanes might arrive for viewing. But none will disappoint. There are always antiques dating back to the 20's, many homebuilts, classics from the 50's, helicopters, light sport, and small warbirds. The car display is just as diverse, featuring everything from very old cars, trucks, fire engines and ex-military 
vehicles to exotics such as Ferraris. The Simsbury Fly-In features many additional attractions, including kids activities, aviation seminars, and flying demonstrations....
Stunt Pilot: Flying for Regatta different than other shows - Madison Courier | Stunt pilot Brett Hunter has been flying airplanes professionally for 25 years, but his head has been in the clouds for longer than that. Hunter's first memories are of sitting in the cockpit of his father's Piper Tripacer...
Video: Rare Aircraft in town for Air Museum Ground Breaking - Valley News Live | Some of the rarest aircraft in the world have landed at the Fargo Air Museum for a big weekend and a big ground breaking. Ground will be broken Saturday at 10am on the brand new Beck-Odegaard Wing of the museum. The new building will be 100 by 150 feet and house a variety of aircraft, the museum currently has to store elsewhere throughout the region....
The Hartman & Hilt Show – Post Oshkosh Recovery – Episode 11 - WarbirdRadio.com | Recovering from EAA’s AirVenture is something like a hangover. For about a week you’ll feel extremely tired, depressed and general withdraw symptoms. For some flying helps…for others it only makes the feelings worse. Several noted pilots believe petting baby kittens and drinking water purified from the heat of volcanos is the only cure. For the rest of us, there’s the Hartman & Hilt – Post Oshkosh Recovery Episode.
biplanes with only a small harness, the
Breitling Wingwalkers stunned crowds at the Sunderland Airshow 2013 with
an astonishing display of aerial acrobatics. The distinctive orange
biplanes sped past the Sunderland coastline in front of thousands of
spectators at the Sunderland Airshow 2013. The two lycra-clad gymnasts
climbed to the top of the stunt planes in mid air and performed a
dazzling routine as the planes swooped low above the crowds and went
upside down.The Red Arrows will perform at Cowes Week tonight. - Daily Echo | A BREATHTAKING show by the iconic Red Arrows display team will bring the world’s biggest regatta to a close tonight before spectacular fireworks light up the Isle of Wight skies. The action-packed programme of events will bring to a close the annual Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week which has seen hundreds of boats, thousands of competitors from across the world and tens of thousands of spectators descend on the island...
Vulcan coming to Bournemouth Air Festival - Bournemouth Echo | THE Vulcan is coming. Today the Daily Echo can reveal that the crowd-pleasing Cold War bomber will be at the Bournemouth Air Festival this year. Fundraising efforts by the Bournemouth branch of Vulcan to the Sky and donations from Merley House and Stephen Young, Lord of Westbury and Waxham, have secured the plane’s appearance on Sunday, September 1....
Pilots to compete in aerobatic contest in Chatham-Kent - Chatham Daily News | Loops, rolls, spins and various combinations of those maneuvers is how Bill Ludwig describes precision flying. As a professional pilot, Ludwig has been participating in aerobatic competitions since 2006 and said it has added “a whole new level” to his flying experience. “Suddenly you’re flying in three dimensions rather than two,” he said. “It requires considerable discipline to fly an (aerobatic) sequence in the correct order, in the right direction.” Ludwig referred to precision flying as a cross between figure skating and platform diving, and it’s these complex plane aerobatics that will be coming to Chatham-Kent on August 23-25 at the municipal airport....
COMPETITION WINNERS FEEL SKY HIGH - Royal International Air Tattoo News |Last month
we gave you all the opportunity to enter a fantastic competition to win the flight of a lifetime. Up for grabs were four seats in a Catalina PBY-5A, and one seat in Tracey Curtis-Taylor's Boeing Stearman! On Thursday 8 August we went along to meet our winners and see the smiles on their faces as they took to the skies...Timeless Voices - Paul Poberezny Interview Part 4 · eaavideo.org | In this fourth of a multi-part series, EAA Founder Paul Poberezny reflects on the founding of the organization in 1953, its growth and expansion and the resulting HQ location changes, and some of the issues that EAA has faced over the years.
Photo gallery: B-17 bomber tour a reminder of bygone era - Military Times | WEST LAFAYETTE, IND. — Charles Ormsby can describe his experience as a flight engineer in B-17 bombers during World War II in three short words. "Cold as hell," he said. On Thursday afternoon, Ormsby and a handful of others got a preview of what awaits those who visit "Aluminum Overcast," a traveling B-17 bomber plane maintained by the Experimental Aircraft Association...
View from the gun turret of a WWII Lancaster bomber as it soars over London - The Aviationist | The Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’s Lancaster PA474 once again took part in the Queens Birthday Celebration fly past over London 15th June 2013. The UK Ministry of Defence shared two extremely interesting videos captured from aboard the WWII plane that was famous for its attacks on German dams...
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Erik Lindbergh Keeps Aviation Pioneering In The Family - Translogic | LEAP, the Lindbergh Electric Aircraft Prize, encourages high school and college students, as well as corporate engineers, to let their imaginations soar. Among the ten LEAP winners so far are the Antares 20E electric aircraft and e-volo, makers of ...
Amelia Earhart admits she's not kin to famed aviatrix - Denver Post | Denver’s Amelia Earhart, a traffic reporter for KUSA, has always claimed a distant family relationship with her namesake. On Friday she admitted they’re not related....
McCurdy in Art by travelforaircraft | ... The 1911 vintage image is of J.A. Douglas McCurdy with a Curtiss Pusher in West Palm Beach. McCurdy was a Canadian destined for fame and importance. He was a party to Alexander Graham Bell's Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) as early as 1907 and greatly assisted Glenn Curtiss in his early days. He was Canada's fist pilot, the first British subject to fly and flew from Florida to Cuba in 1911 (no mean feat given aircraft reliability of the day). He was awarded the McKee Trophy in 1959 for his 1909 flight with the AEA Silver Dart (one of the first successful aircraft of the AEA)...
Rare Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece at National Air and Space Museum · General Aviation News Staff | WASHINGTON, D.C. — Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex on the Flight of Birds” will be exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for 40 days this fall, from Sept. 13 until Oct. 22....
Watch this: Superscooper plane water bombing a truck - The Aviationist | Canadair CL-415 water bomber aircraft are not only used to support ground firefighting activities in case of forest fires. The “Superscooper” planes can be extremely useful when you need to extinguish fire following a car crash and your firefighting trucks are several miles away. The following video shows a CL-415 water bombing a truck who caught fire after colliding with a bulldozer on the Trans-Labrador Highway...
