Homecoming show for Snowbird #4 - KenoraOnline | It was a great feeling to be up in the air and over the lake. You couldn't ask for a better setting to do an airshow," he said. The Snowbirds even dedicated a maneuver to his family, as they drew a great big heart with their smoke trails. For more...
Blue Angel blazes trail home - Cincinnati.com | CINCINNATI — Fort Mitchell City Council members greeted Blue Angels pilot and Fort Mitchell native John Hiltz immediately after he flew his F-18 Hornet into Lunken airport in Cincinnati on Wednesday.Hiltz was selected to lead Fort Mitchell’s 4th of July parade earlier this year and said he is happy to have been chosen....
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Rarities, Round Engines Set Stage for Incredible Week in Vintage | The Vintage Aircraft Association is gearing up for a week for the ages at AirVenture with a plethora of rare aircraft, anchored by the Round Engine Rodeo airplanes that, according to organizers, is approaching 50 confirmed airplanes and could reach upward of 75.Timeless Voices - Paul Poberezny Part 1 · eaavideo.org |In this first of a multi-part series, EAA Founder Paul Poberezny reflects on his early childhood, learning to fly, and some of the aerial adventures he had as a young man prior to the outbreak of World War Two.
Texas Flying Legends Heroes: Herb Stachler | Along with an awesome collection of World War II aircraft, the Texas Flying Legends Museum will bring a number of WWII veterans to AirVenture in a C-53 transport. Here is the seventh in our series of profiles of those veterans, P-47 pilot Capt. Herb Stachler, U.S. Army Air Corps.
The Time Is Here For AirVenture Planning - AVweb | Now that July has arrived, AirVenture is just a few weeks away, and EAA is promising a full agenda for the seven-day event. Terrafugia is bringing the latest prototype of its Transition flying car to Oshkosh for its first public airshow flight. The...
EAA: ‘You’re absolutely right – it’s complicated’ - GAN | By Dick Knapinski, EAA Communications | I had the opportunity to read your column regarding the AirVenture ATC fees being assessed by the FAA. You’re absolutely right – it’s complicated....
Red Arrows help school to celebrate 200th anniversary - This is Bristol | THE Red Arrows helped a Winterbourne school mark its 200th anniversary with a flypast. St Michael's Primary School was honoured by the flight team at 11.09am yesterday as part of its week of celebrations....
Taking flight in a T-6 before air show - KVUE | Is that Goose? Nope, it's WFAA's Colleen Coyle taking on the skies in a T-6 Texan with Kevin Raulie, the assistant director of the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, in the pilot's seat. Doug Jeanes, the museum director, introduces the plane before Coyle goes up into the sky, hanging tight as the plane takes her upside down in a loop....
WWII pilot recalls dodging antiaircraft fire, saving his B-17 - Topeka Capital Journal | Lt. Bob Armstrong piloted a B-17 heavy bomber — riddled by more than 300 flak holes and carrying a seriously wounded pilot and gunner — and landed the bomber without brakes or rudders on a summer day in 1944. More amazing is that it was only the second time the 23-year-old Army Air Corps pilot from Kansas had ever landed a B-17, he said in an interview this week. Armstrong, 92, and Mary, his wife of nearly 68 years, live in Topeka....
Air Show Report: Germany’s Phantom Pharewell - Warbirds News | After 40 years in service with
the German Air Force, the service is retiring the last of their McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs. Reflecting the central role these warbirds have played in the defense of the country, the air force crreated the F-4F “Heritage Flight”, refinishing four F-4Fs in paint schemes reflecting each of the decades that the plane was in service as well as has organizing the intentionally misspelled Phantom Pharewell send-off that was held last weekend. We’ll give you a complete report from our man at the event, but first some background:...South Carolina July 4 flyover will be a blast from the past - Reuters By Harriet McLeod |...The South Carolina air show will include a wartime C-47 cargo plane, two C-45 "Twin Beech" planes and an SNJ-6 Navy aircraft, said volunteer pilot Barry Avent, 53, who will fly his C-47. Vintage Stearman biplanes and small Globe Swifts will round out the fleet, he said, adding that the C-47 flies at about one-third the speed of a modern jet....
Warbirds arrive at new roost - Otago Daily Times | Two more ''warbirds'' will call Wanaka home after landing at the town's airport last night. The two aircraft, a 1996 Yak 52 and a 1941 Harvard T6 belonging to XX Aviation, were flown from Tauranga by John Lamont and Peter Meadows. Bad weather meant an unscheduled stopover in Ashburton before the last leg of the flight to Wanaka...
Fleet Air Arm Museum - Culture24 |...All three saw war service but the Swordfish, an antiquated bi-plane even by 1939 standards, remarkably saw service throughout war and is perhaps the most iconic. It was a torpedo from a Swordfish flying from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal that crippled the German battleship Bismark, which was later scuttled by her crew following a fierce and fatal engagement with a British fleet....
Women in Aviation - Marinscope Community Newspapers | Kristin Winter is a 34-year pilot and a lawyer who practices aviation law. She lives in Petaluma and flies a Piper Twin Comanche she calls “Maggie.” Winter will be a part of the Women in Aviation seminar at Wings Over Marin, the Gnoss Field open house and air show, held on Sept. 21. “I got sick the first time I flew, though I loved being in the air,” Winter said. “It was the beauty of it … and the excitement of learning it was something I could actually do: fly an airplane.” She was 21 years old....
Own a Spitfire — or part of one · General Aviation News Staff | LONDON — Always wanted to own —and fly — a Spitfire? Now you can — or at least part of one. The Boultbee Flight Academy is now offering the possibility to purchase a 1/10th share in an original Supermarine Spitfire in flying condition. In addition to this, as the only accredited Spitfire training academy in the world, the Boultbee Flight Academy will provide training that will allow the new owners to fly this iconic machine themselves....
