Back in the air: Thunderbirds plan 66 shows in 2014 - AirForceTimes.com | The Thunderbirds, grounded last spring by sequester-driven budget cuts, will be back in the air in 2014. The Thunderbirds schedule will begin New Year?s Day with a flyover at the Rose Bowl Parade in Los Angeles, followed by a year of airshows and flyovers across the country. In December, the team announced a schedule of 66 demonstrations at 34 locations this year, its 61st season...
Time-Lapse Video Of The Seat and Canopy Refitting On Vulcan XH558 · Warbirds News | The recent newsletter we received from the Vulcan XH558 organization pointed out that the team is ahead in the schedule as they strive to complete the winter service in good time to allow the wing modification work to begin in earnest from the middle of January. Last week both ejection seats and the canopy were delivered enabling the aircraft to be put up on jacks a good two working weeks ahead of plan. The time saved will...
Handley Page Victor | The Handley Page Victor was a British jet bomber aircraft produced by the Handley Page Aircraft Company. It was the third and final of the "V bombers" which...
Airliners In Slow Motion... Artsy Video From Simon Lowe (Must See) - AirPigz | It's another great airliner video from Simon Lowe's youtube channel and it's got just the right amount of art, music, and airplanes. This is definitely a good one for 1080p HD and full screen...
Air Force warns: We could start running out of pilots - News Tribune | The Air Force is flying into gale force winds as commercial airlines start a hiring spree while military aviators struggle with low morale due to cutbacks and idle jets. And the Air Force may see a shortage as pilots vote with their feet. Over the next year, the commercial airline industry is going to begin hiring tens of thousands of new pilots as aging flyers retire and the industry regains its economic footing. That could put...
'NORAD Tracks Santa' Program Says 2013 Was A Record-Breaker - Aero-News Network | Over 117,000 Calls From Kids Along with Nearly 10,000 Emails | The North American Aerospace Defense Command's NORAD Tracks Santa Program exceeded its own records in the number of calls, emails and social media followers this year...
Space shuttle Discovery ready for voyage to museum - Beatrice Daily Sun | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery has one last mission to complete. At daybreak Tuesday, the oldest of NASA's retired shuttle fleet left its home at Kennedy Space Center for the final time, riding on top a modified jumbo jet. Its destination: the Smithsonian Institution's hangar outside Washington, D.C...
NASA Employees Receive Presidential Early Career Awards - Aero-News Network | President Obama named five NASA researchers Monday as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). These recipients, and 97 other federal researchers, will receive their awards in a ceremony early next year in Washington. The PECASE awards represent the...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
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NTSB makes safety recommendations for Reno Air Races - RGJ | The National Transportation Safety Board has not yet determined what caused last year’s deadly crash at the Reno National Championship Air Races, but its chairwoman recommended a list of changes on Tuesday that she said would make the races safer for pilots and spectators. Photos and videos helped the agency determine two things -- the sequence of events leading up to the Sept. 16 crash took about 6 seconds and the pilot was unconscious while the plane was still in the air, NTSB chairwoman Deborah Hersman said...
WATCH: Evan Longoria takes flight! - WTSP 10 News | Rays third baseman Evan Longoria took a 
dizzying, acrobatic trip across Tampa Bay on board a Red Bull racing plane piloted by National Aerobatic Champion Kirby Chambliss. Scroll down to watch Evan experience cartwheels, drops and snap rolls!...
Commemorative Air Force Open Hangar Day - GardnerEDGE | See our WWII planes and watch them fly. Tour the hangar and museum. Take a jeep ride. Experience our 'Get Your Hands on History' exhibit. Featuring Johnny Rowlands and KC Copters. Learn about helicopters and take a ride for just $40 per person...
Downtown Kingsville Festival Set to Coincide with Air Show - KIII TV3 | Businesses in the downtown Kingsville area are looking to cash in on the large crowds coming to town this weekend for the Blue Angels Air Show at Naval Air Station-Kingsville. They call the show, Wings Over South Texas and it's expected to draw about ...
Fast jets to thrill crowds at Bray air show - Herald.ie | By Michael Lavery IRELAND's biggest air show is set to to experience the thunder of military fast jets. Fast jets have been lacking from the line up at the Bray Air Spectacular, unlike the now defunct Salthill Air Show in Galway where F-16s, ...
Marrakech Air Show: Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie celebrates 50 years of ... - Arabian Aerospace | Five decades of Eurocopter helicopter operations by the Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie were celebrated during the 2012 Marrakech Air Show, where a commemorative plaque was presented to the military service. The Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie Air Squadron ...
Salinas plane crash witness: Two rolls, then nose to ground - The Salinas Californian | A preliminary report on the Easter Sunday crash of a high-performance aerobatic plane near Salinas is expected to be available within 10 business days, the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday. The Monterey County coroner identified the ...
April 10, 2012 Texoma 100 Air Race from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | Linda: Busy schedules kept us from early preparation for the Texoma 100 Air Race. Examination of the race course and even hotel reservations would wait until we arrived in Sherman the night before the race. After over a year of installing upgrades to our Grumman Cheetah, now dubbed The Elyminator, chomping at the bit to turn it out and really see what it can do, the good-humored banter for the race season opener fueled my competitive streak. Wayne Lemkelde flies a Grumman Cheetah with...
French aviator Louis Paulhan makes record-breaking flight to... from Planeshots | ...makes 
record-breaking flight to 4,600 feet ...
Aviation Hall of Fame to induct four additional members on April 21 - The Warner Robins Patriot | by Gene Rector Four new members will be added to the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame April 21 during a formal banquet at the Museum of Aviation. The four are Col. Stanley Newcomb Collins, Jr.; Jack Gray; Robert David McSwiggan and Maj...
USS Hornet Museum and Jimmy Doolittle Air & Space Museum to Pay Tribute to ... - MarketWatch | The commemoration is a joint effort between the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda and The Jimmy Doolittle Air & Space Museum in Fairfield, CA. Special media availability will be held from 10:00 - 11 am Although best known for planning and leading the raid ...
Tuskegee Airman Visits Jackson Township School, Tells His Story to Students - Jackson NJ Online | He was an aviator for the prestigious Tuskegee Airmen. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American aviators in the United States military. The students had the privilege of listening to Dr. Holmes speak about his time in the service during ...
EAA Mourns Harry Zeisloft, Longtime Board Member from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Harry Zeisloft, who was one of EAA's longest-serving board members and an integral part of EAA's effort to create the auto fuel Supplemental Type Certificate (STC), passed away Sunday, April 1, in Mesa, Arizona. He was 93....
Forty-Seven Years in Aviation: A Memoir; Chapter 12: Boxcars and Albatrosses from AVweb Top News | Released from active duty in the Air Force and starting a non-flying civilian job, Dick Taylor misses aviation and joins a local Air National Guard squadron. But instead of Stratotankers, he flies Fairchild Flying Boxcars and later, in the Air Force Reserve, Grumman Albatrosses. Click here to read the 12th chapter....
Travel Air 6000 Restoration at Everts Air Cargo in Fairbanks from Antique Airfield News | Marty Hall is the company DER for Everts Air Cargo in Fairbanks, AK. They're currently rebuilding the Travel Air SA-6000-A (N9966 SN 1099) owned by Rob Everts, the owner of Everts Air Cargo. Here's a quick history and a few photos. By the way, Marty is looking for drawings for the Travel Air A-6000-A fuel tanks and seats if you have a lead on them....
Air to Air Pics of Mike Araldi's Waco AGC-8 from Antique Airfield News | Mike Araldi sent us some air to air photos of his newly restored Waco AGC-8, from a dawn photo shoot with Jim Koepnick and Bruce Moore. By the way, congratulations to Mike on winning Reserve Grand Champion at Sun N Fun....
Argenteuil and aviation: 100 years of adventures together! from Passion for aviation by Xavier 
Cotton (translated) | From the late nineteenth century, a major aviation activity grows on the banks of the Seine, more specifically oriented hydroplane. In 1912 Donnet-Leveque, first flying fuselage shell of the world's first successful flight on the Seine at Argenteuil! The establishment of the company Donnet-Leveque in Argenteuil, first of France specializing in seaplanes, Argenteuil was the cradle of the history of aviation in the twentieth century. In 1953, the company installs a Dassault plant construction and engineering firms, aerospace continuing adventure of the city....
Lots of awesome in this photo. The HL-10 lifting body sits on... from You like airplanes, too? by 
marvinsmith | The HL-10 lifting body sits on ...
Old San Antonio hangar focus of preservation plan - Houston Chronicle | Hangar 9 now stands as the cradle of Brooks' aviation history. When it was built, the Army was quickly growing its aviation force in response to World War I. It initially housed primitive machines of canvas and wood that were flown by early aviators...
Tail Dragging! from Aviation Queen | Yesterday, my regular flight instructor was a bit under the weather, so she suggested I fly with my original instructor. Dave Hirschman has one of the best jobs at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Not only is he the senior editor of AOPA Pilot magazine, but he’s also the handler for our sweepstakes aircraft, the Aviat Husky....
We need a stronger bug spray! from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | I'm intrigued to learn of the deployment of a new micro-UAS (unmanned aerial system) by the British armed forces....
Air Rangers - airspacemag.com | The wild flights of Park Service pilots.
The Kid Correspondent Goes Nowhere from Flight Monkeys | We’re living dangerously here at FlightMonkeys headquarters. Don’t doubt us, we wouldn’t lie. Have you ever tried to wake up a teenage girl, stuff her in a car, drive her to a secondary location, then disappoint her? We did, and we lived to tell the tale....
Shuttle Discovery Set For Final Flight from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Pilots in the Washington, D.C., area on Tuesday morning, April 17, may catch a glimpse of the space shuttle Discovery taking its final ride strapped to the back of a 747. The now-retired shuttle will be making its move from a storage facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Dulles International Airport in Virginia, en route to its final home at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center. The modified NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft will depart from Florida just after sunrise on Tuesday and arrive in the Washington, D.C., area about 10 a.m., taking a final victory lap around various landmarks before touching down....
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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