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Navy Blue Angels fly into era of budget questions - AP | PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, Fla. (AP) — The Navy's Blue Angels have been thrilling audiences for more than six decades with their acrobatic flying in fighter planes, but a new era of federal budget worries and proposed deficit cutting has some inside and outside the military raising questions about the millions it costs to produce their shows. Some want the popular shows grounded and some readers of the Air Force Times newspaper — most of them active or retired service members — recently listed eliminating the Blue Angels and similar programs as one way to cut defense spending. The Pentagon spends $37 million for the Blue Angels, whose mission is to enhance recruiting for...

Santa's helper Lockheed Martin - Star-Telegram | Looks like Santa is being escorted by F-35s this year. The Blue Angels Fat Albert C-130 flew into Lockheed Martin facilities in Fort Worth and Marietta, Ga. on Tuesday to pick up loads of toys donated by Lockheed to Toys for Tots. The toys are being delivered to...

Viper West Before Dawn at the 2011 Jacqueline Cochran Airshow - Randy Rothhaar Photography | A 5am 11mm wide angle shot of the Viper West F-16s before dawn at the 2011 Jacqueline Cochran Airshow.

DVD Review: RAF Waddington International Airshow 2011 - Flightline UK | Recently, the Waddington International Airshow DVDs have been amongst the best airshow productions released each year and we feel the 2011 edition will be no different! What really marks the Waddington productions...

Peter Twiss - x planes | “Aviator Peter Twiss pictured with the model of the....

Sully, Skiles, Flight 1549 Passengers Fly Again - Aero-News Network | But Fundraising DC-7 Flight To Charlotte Not Without Problems | Some of the passengers from US Airways Flight 1549 got back into an airplane with Captain Chesley Sullenberger and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles Friday, but this time it wasn't an Airbus, and it wasn't flying over the Hudson River. Sully and Skiles had agreed to pilot a 1958 DC-7 (photo: Facebook) once flown by Eastern Airlines from Miami's Opa-Locka Executive Airport into...

National Naval Aviation Museum to feature Apollo 15 astronaut - PNJ | Apollo 15 astronaut retired Col. Al Worden will speak about his trip to the moon at the National Naval Aviation Museum next month. The event, which is 10 a.m. on Dec. 3, is part of the museum’s Discovery Saturday series, which features presentations by experts on a variety of aviation issues. Worden piloted the Apollo 15 command module on its 1971 flight to...

de Havilland Canada U-6 Beaver - Travel for Aircraft | What is not to love about this aircraft? Big radial engine for power and reliability. High wing with high lift devices to enable short field performance and ground maneuvering around field clutter. A roomy cabin and stout landing gear. A pick-up truck for the skies. Canada’s de Havilland company considers the DHC-2 Beaver their ¼-ton truck since that was the aircraft’s capacity, or about six people. So what’s not to love? Well, at first the Beaver wasn’t! De Havilland Canada (DHC) introduced the DHC-2 Beaver in 1947 but there were few customers. Then...

Model gift boost for museum - North Hampton Chronicle & Echo | A 10ft radio-controlled aeroplane model has ended its flying days to be displayed at Sywell Aviation Museum. Ken Harris, from Wellingborough, donated the model Avro Lancaster bomber, which took him years to build, to the museum over the weekend....

Mini Aerobatic pilots to show off - Katherine Times | ON?SATURDAY, December 3, the Katherine Model Aero Club will be hosting the final international miniature aerobatic competition for the year. These competitions can be found world wide and are devoted to the pursuit of excellence in aerobatic radio control aircraft flying. It follows the full size aerobatic rules and sequences. The competition is divided into five categories...

Grissom to host live Twitter Q-and-A session for potential Airmen - Grissom ARB | GRISSOM AIR RESERVE BASE, Ind. -- Do you have what it takes? That's the question many people ask themselves when deciding if they want to be an Airman in the world's greatest Air Force. That question, along with a host of others ranging from what basic military training is like to what to what it means to be an Airman, are what the recruiters here at Grissom aim to answer during a special live question-and-answer session on Twitter Dec. 1 from 7-8 p.m....

Convair CV-240 - Planeshots

Flying Scholarship... Relieving Stress - Flight to Success | ...Barry Schiff is spending the week with us, and today he is reducing the financial stress of learning how to fly. He is running a scholarship to give $3000 toward one lucky winner to learn how to fly, up to their solo!...

Airplane Geeks - Episode 174 - Airport_Girl Returns - Airplane Geeks Podcast | Returning guest Stephanie Gehman is the Manager of Marketing and Customer Service at Harrisburg International Airport. Find Stephanie on Twi...

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Greg Poe: Elevating Lives from Featured by Richard VanderMeulen
Greg Poe flying his two-seat MX2. (Richard VanderMeulen) For many, being a world-renowned air show performer at the top of his game would be the pinnacle of their career and the answer to lifelong dreams. For Greg Poe, that laudable position is simply a tool he uses to teach kids how they can elevate their own lives with his Elevate Your Life program. ...

Blue Angels Homecoming 2010 - NAS Pensacola - 11/11/10 from FenceCheck Forums

Cancelled or Postponed Airshows/Aerial Events for 2011 from FenceCheck Forums

ACC gets $2100 from Dakota Air show - Jamestown Sun
The Anne Carlsen Center received a donation totaling more than $2100, as money was raised through a Prairie Public Broadcasting program held in November. ...

Santa Fly-In Cash Drive For Interfaith - MyMotherLode.com
Sonora, CA -- The Santa Fly-In Food and Coat Drive is coming up Saturday morning at Standard Park, and the Santa Fly-In Cash Drive for Interfaith is coming ...
   
DC-3 75th Anniversary - ATWOnline
The British press ridiculed KLM Royal Dutch Airlines' entry of its shiny new DC-2 into the MacRoberston Air Race from London to Australia in 1934. ...

EAA to feature famed U.S. test pilot - JSOnline
POW during Vietnam War POW holds records for sky dives, balloon crossing
Joseph Kittinger had only 33 sky dives under his belt on the day in August 1960 when he stepped to the edge of a balloon gondola, peered into the white abyss and jumped.
Perhaps sky dive isn’t the correct term — space dive might be a better way to describe what he did, a feat that still stands 50 years later. Because on that day, Kittinger wasn’t just ejecting from a jet or leaping from a single-engine plane, he was setting the record for the highest, fastest and longest sky dive. ...

Skydivers, air acrobatics stun early morning traffic - Emirates 24/7
What appeared to be a bright yellow Cessna, the aircraft was engaged in an aerobatic display that delighted many onlookers from their cars, ...

Aerodays 2011 – Sixth European Aeronautics Days from Roger-Wilco 
The sixth European Aeronautics Days will take place from 30 March to 1 April 2011 in Madrid, following its successful predecessor events that took place in Brussels (1991), Naples (1993), Toulouse (1997), Hamburg (2001) and Vienna (2006). ...

Electric Airplane Sets New Speed Record from Autopia by Jason Paur
The cool news is there’s a new speed record for electric aircraft. A French pilot flew his twin-engine, electric powered Cri-Cri to a top speed of 162 miles per hour. This beats the previous record of 155 mph set by an Italian team in 2009.
The somewhat embarrassing news is the record was set September 5. ...

Come fly with me - Comet 24
... pilot from Hitchin who performs at air shows across the country is giving the opportunity for an aviation enthusiast to join him on an aerobatic flight. ...

My AOPA Summit '10 trip to CA from Life on the Road as a Pilot 
This November I left the weather in Northeast Ohio to almost the exact same weather in Southern California. No kidding, a solid week of sun and mid-60's in Cleveland, in November and I missed it? Yes, but what I got to experience in SoCal was SO much better!
I have to admit, however, I was totally dreading this trip on the airlines. I have not flown commercially since ...

Aerobatic Team Uses Warbirds for Waterskiing from Telstar Logistics 
This seems like a terrible idea. Yet somehow they managed to pull it off without catapulting nose-first into the wet.
These photos (and the video below) show the Flying Lions, a South African aerobatic team, performing a stunt in 2006. The trick is ...

Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2 - Aviation Geeks

Harrier from Let Let Let - Warplanes 
Classed as the first operational close-support fighter/reconnaissance aircraft with vertical take-off capabilities, the Hawker Siddeley Harrier or sometimes better known as the “Jump Jet” came to the eyes of the world in the 1960s. ...

Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell Delivers Ubben Lecture - DePauw University
December 1, 1995, Greencastle, Ind. - "Why am I here today?," asked former astronaut and retired business executive James A. Lovell Jr. during a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture at DePauw University today. "Because of teamwork both with the crew and the people on the ground," added Lovell, who has received a good deal of attention since Tom Hanks portrayed him in the hit movie Apollo 13. He called the Apollo 13 mission "a great study in crisis management."
Lovell discussed "Apollo 13: A Successful Failure" in an 11 a.m. address in the ...

Recreational Aviation Foundation seeks executive director - AOPA Pilot
The RAF's Tim Clifford joined Fuller on AOPA Live during Sun 'n Fun in April to discuss the mission and initiatives the nonprofit organization is tackling. ...

Museum of Flight from Flight To Success 
Today my sidekick, alias my granddaughter Kadence, and I hit the town delivering fliers for December 5th FREE FLIGHT Event.
First stop--- Museum of flight.  When I told her we were going to the museum, she said, "there's a snake." I told her this museum didn't have snakes. She asked, "Why grandma?" Explain that one to a two-year-old.   ...

Plenty Of Options For Aviator Gifts from AVweb Top News
If you're looking for unique holiday gifts for the aviator on your list, or compiling a list of your own, plenty of options have been flowing into the AVweb inbox. Bonham's auction house in Oxford is selling a pair of wooden photograph cases made from one of the main spars of the tri-plane flown by Manfred Von Reichthofen, known as the "Red Baron," in World War I. The airplane was shot down in April 1918. The two cases will be auctioned on Dec. 7 and are expected to sell for about $600 to $900. Build A Plane is holding an online auction to support its efforts to help kids learn about aviation and science by building their own airplanes. Bidders can find special passes to EAA AirVenture, a Garmin GPS, a Bahamas weekend and more. The auction continues until Dec. 17, with new items listed every day.

Book of the Day: 'Winged Victory' from Theo Spark 
At last the book of the Blog has arrived! “Winged Victory, 1940” is a 420 page book with illustrations of planes and people. The cover price is £12.95 plus postage.

Airplanes and Mountains from ASB.tv 
Have you ever wanted to travel the world by plane or jet to view all the amazing sights? In these pictures you can get a little taste of what it’s really like to do just that. Planes that are flying over mountains, large bodies of water, and massive canyons. Not to mention planes resting on glaciers, in snow storms, and finding secret cabins in the forest. Get away for a second and imagine being in these mysterious places: ...

The December edition of the Heartland Warrior is now available. The official E-Paper of the 434th Air Refueling Wing includes seven pages of stories, photos and features pertaining to Grissom ARB and the U.S. Air Force. Top stories include:
--President Obama arrives at Grissom
--Grissom families reunited after deployments
--74th ARS has new commander
--Bridging the gap
--Turkey trot
To read this issue of the Heartland Warrior, click here

UDT-SeAL — their national museum from Travel for Aircraft 

Air France Sends the A380 to Washington from Things in the Sky 
Air France announced Tuesday that it would send its A380 superjumbo aircraft to Washington-Dulles this summer, with daily service beginning on June 6. ...

A first landing for Virgin America from Sky Talk 
It was a smooth first landing for Virgin America's inaugural flight to Dallas/Fort Worth airport. With the Fort Worth cattle herd and champagne, local dignitaries greeted the plane. "This our first midcontinent city," said Virgin America ceo David Cush. "We hope to have a long history here."
The carrier - which is 25 percent owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group - launched service today from D/FW to Los Angeles. Flights to San Francisco start on December 6. It will have two daily flights to each city. ...

Sierra Nevada looking at X-34 as Dream Chaser testbed from RLV and Space Transport News
Sierra Nevada is one of the firms that supported NASA's retrieval of the X-34s from storage: Sierra Nevada Studying X-34 As Rocket Testbed - Aviation Week.
They want to use the suborbital vehicles to support their Dream Chaser program. They are thinking of powering a X-34 with one of their hybrid motors:  ...

Mystery Space Plane Coming Home, Still No Clue What it Does from Defense Tech 
So, the world’s most mysterious UAV is set to return to Earth after spending nearly eight months in space where it did lord only knows what. Courtesy of the LA Times: The X-37, an unmanned spacecraft that resembles a miniature version of the space shuttle, is set to land at Vandenberg Air Force Base as [...]

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Atlantic City Airshow - Best Air Shows - Thunder Over the Boardwalk
from www.atlanticcitynj.com
ALERT! The Atlantic City Airshow will take place rain or shine as long as the cloud ceiling and visibility are within Federal Aviation Administration minimums for flying aircraft. There is no rain date for the show. The AC Airshow has never been cancelled in its eight years in Atlantic City. ...

California Capital Air Show 2010 from Airplanes Channel: 
The skies over Downtown Sacramento will come alive with breathtaking aerial displays and thrilling fighter jets, as the 2010 California Capital Air Show gets underway. The show will offer visitors the opportunity to browse through vendor stores and exhibits and participate in a variety of activities, but it is the performers that steal the limelight at the shows, and will include Robosaurus, unmanned flights, Tuskegee Airmen, F-22 Raptors and many more.
For more information regarding the California Capital Air Show, visit their official website at http://www.californiacapitalairshow.com/.
Date: 11 – 12 September 2010 | Mather Field | Sacramento, California | United States of America

WW1 Air Show 2010 - Airplanes Channel
The WWI Biplanes and Zeppelins Air Show, is an event that is hosted by the Military Aviation Museum, located at the Virginia Beach Aerodrome. It is a journey into the past, with restored combat aircraft taking to the skies, ...

Pilots Fly In for a Fun Weekend at the Bayport Aerodrome - Patch
Pilots from across the country gathered at Bayport Aerodrome for the Antique Airplane Club of Greater New York's annual "fly-in." By Krystle L. DiNicola ...

Edwards AFB hosts first GA fly-in from General Aviation News 
Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California is hosting a general aviation fly-in Oct.1. A lottery will be held to determine which 100 GA pilots will have the chance to fly their aircraft into Edwards’ airspace and land on on historic Rosamond Dry Lakebed. ...

Tags to keep air show children safe - Clactonan Gazette
A TAGGING scheme will be used to stop parents losing their children at the Clacton air show. The Clacton Lions will provide free wristbands for any child ...

Evanston Airport Day and Airshow: Free for entire family! - Uinta County Herald
With everything from exciting aerobatic tricks and loops to good food and fun in the sun, the annual Evanston Airport Day Airshow and Fly-in celebration ...

Radio-control air shows, taildragger fly-in coming from AviationDayton 
Aviation festiivities abound Labor Day weekend with an air show and Taildragger Fly-in at Red Stewart Airfield near Waynesville, the giant scale radio-control air show at the National Museum of the United States Air Force and the R/C Warbird Fly-in in Hamilton.

Director named for Ohio Aerospace Hub in Dayton from AviationDayton 
DAYTON – A selection committee has named retired Air Force intelligence officer Kerry Taylor as the first director of Dayton's state-supported Ohio Aerospace Hub of Innovation and Opportunity.

Historic B-24 aircraft in the sky - Suburbanite
B-24 Liberator and a B-17. We were given the choice of which plane we would like to ride back to Akron so three of the vets and I made our selection of the ...

Chance to see Red Arrows this Bank Holiday - Lynn News
THE world-famous Red Arrows aircraft dispay team will be at Norwich International Airport this bank holiday when they use it as a base while they feature in ...

Spitfire and Hurricane flypast on 70th anniversary from Flight Image of the Day 

Wings Over Wine Country Air Show 2010 - Santa Rosa - 08/20/10 - Fence Check

Windsor International Air Show 2010 - Warbirds and Airshows
Windsor International Airshow, Ontario, Canada
August 21-22, 2010 (Photos taken 8-22)
Diversity is good.  Especially when it allows me to find and visit new and different airshows with warbirds I have not seen before.  The 2010 Windsor International Airshow fits my definition exactly.  I visited this second year show and was able to view several warbirds not seen before but also witness several non warbird acts for the first time, such as the ...

Windsor International Air Show 2010 - Windsor - 08/21/10 from FenceCheck Forums

World War II veteran flies again in B-17 - News-Leader.com
The last B-17 plane Chuck Huber flew in was shot down in World War II, but on Monday he got to fly again, over Springfield. Huber was flying over Germany on ...

Earl Newton Thomas, 88 - The Citizen.com
Thomas completed basic aviation training and advanced training in the B-17 “Flying Fortress” at a number of different bases in the US He earned his ...

Velma Wallace to receive first Wichita Aero Club trophy - GA News
The Wichita Aero Club will present its first Wichita Aero Club Trophy to Velma Wallace. The trophy, which is awarded annually to a living person or persons with a strong relationship to the Wichita area who has distinguished himself or ...

Concorde's grace and beauty take your breath away - Bristol Evening Post
The sleek and statuesque aeroplane that waits for us in a secluded spot beside Filton Airfield was one of the 20th century's true high-flyers and a ...

B-22 w F-22 escort - Planeshots

Secret X-37B Space Plane Has Changed Orbit. from Planenews Aviation News 
The U.S. Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane apparently boosted itself into a new orbit Aug. 9, according to reports from seasoned satellite trackers around the world, SPACE.com has learned.

Quietly Soaring into History: First African American in Space by The National Air and Space Museum
As August 30 approaches, a significant anniversary in American history may come along virtually unnoticed, just as it almost did twenty-seven years ago. Two months after Sally K. Ride rode into history as the first American woman in space, a shy Philadelphia-born African American also flew into history on the next space shuttle mission. The media, even magazine covers, celebrated the milestone of the first American woman in space with fanfare, but in comparison, the next space milestone received little attention. Considering his quiet and humble demeanor, this may have suited him just fine. Who is this, you ask? Colonel Guion (Guy) S. Bluford Jr., the first African American in space. ...

August 24 from Cut and Paste Aviation 

Last German Phantoms detachment in Decimomannu by David Cenciotti
14 F-4 Phantom belonging to the JG71 of the German Air Force have been operating from Decimomannu airbase, in Sardinia from Aug. 2, 2010. Most probably, this will be the the last F.4 deployment in Italy for the German Phantoms, as they are expected to cease the operations at Wittmund airbase next year. The F-4s were ...

747-8 heaviest takeoff in Boeings history from AVIATION-NEWS 
The new Boeing 747-8 took off from Victorville, California with a weight more than one million pounds. After a four-hour flight, Capt. Stemer and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s Capt. Bob Stoney landed RC521 safely back in California, completing the flight that began with the heaviest takeoff in Boeing’s history. Boeing engineers stretched the fuselage [...]

Employers visit Grissom from Grissom Air Reserve Base, Ind.
Civilian employers of reserve personnel at Grissom recently visited the base and flew on an orientation flight aboard a KC-135R Stratotanker.
During the mission, the employers we able to interact with aircrew and get a close-up view of the in-flight refueling mission of the 434th Air Refueling Wing as the KC-135 refueled a B-52.
The group was also able to get a tour of Grissom and meet with members of the Indiana Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve.  ...

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Air Force alerts New York of F-16 flyovers by Thunderbirds aerobatic team ... - New York Daily News | Specifically, jets from the famed Thunderbirds aerobatic team will make multiple flyovers above the Intrepid. ... Photo Credit
   
2010 Atlantic City Air Show: 100 Years of Thunder - Atlantic City Weekly
The Atlantic City Air Show is easily the biggest event in Atlantic City each year and the biggest mid-week air show of its kind in the world ...

"Warbirds Over Salem" is this weekend. - WDBJ7.com
Just as interesting as viewing the warbirds in the air is seeing them close up. "Some of these pilots have spent hundreds of hours putting these models ...
   
'Safety first' at Westfield Air Show - WWLP 22News
(WWLP) - This CF-18 fighter jet pilot narrowly escaped death at an air show practice in Alberta, Canada last month. The cause of the crash is still being ...

9th annual Forest Lake Fly-in is Saturday - Forest Lake Times
The Daniel A. Deponti Airport in Forest Lake — the home of the 24-hour gas and grass —will host the ninth annual fly-in from 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday The ...

Fly-in not just for flyers - St. Albert Gazette
All welcome at Villeneuve Airport open house
Whether your vehicle has wings or wheels, you’re invited to drop in for a visit to Villeneuve Airport this Saturday, which will mark the fifth annual open house and fly-in at the facility.
The event is aimed at showing the general public and the flying community what the airport is all about, said Theresa Tsoukalas, general aviation co-ordinator for Edmonton Airports.
For the public, it’s a chance to go ‘airside’ to see some aircraft up close and talk to some pilots. For pilots, it’s a chance to see what the airport has to offer, she said. ...

Waukegan Airshow Coming September 11 from Winging It by Tom
Fast jets, exciting aerobatic acts, skydivers and a jet powered school bus - the 2010 edition of the excellent Waukegan Airshow is scheduled for September 11. Many outstanding airshow performers are lined up for this years event. If you are in the area, you really should catch the show. ...

100000 attend NBVC Air Show at Point Mugu - Ventura County Star
7 for the Air Force Demonstration Team, The Thunderbirds, assists Ventura County Sheriff Capt. Monica McGrath disembark after her flight on one of the F-16 ...

Bournemouth Air Festival schedule: day one - Thursday, August 19 - Bournemouth Echo
Join us from 10am on Thursday when we'll be live blogging latest news, traffic and travel information. Expect to see the The Princess of Wales's Royal ...

Rain falls mainly on planes at Kenley airshow - Croydon Guardian
Despite the wet weather up to 7000 people turned up at the Kenley airshow to commemorate the Battle of Britain. ...

Leuchars Airshow to celebrate past, present and future  - Scotland Courier
A Eurofighter Typhoon will perform a fly-past with a Spitfire and Tornado at the RAF Leuchars Airshow next month to herald its arrival at the Fife air base.
The first Typhoon squadron will be officially welcomed at the event on September 11.
During a parade of the new 6 Squadron and its presentation of squadron colours to Air Officer Scotland Air Commodore Harry Atkinson, the three aircraft will pass over the show ground representing the past, present and future. ...

Flying and racing at Wings & Wheels launch - Get Surrey
Other flying highlights include the RAF Typhoon, Vulcan bomber, Blades aerobatic team, Breitling wing-walkers and Tigers parachute team, while there will be ...

Lanark Airshow Centenary Fly Past - Carluke Gazette
The centenary of the 1910 Lanark Air Show — Scotland's first aviation display and only the third ever held in the UK — is being marked in several ...

In pictures: Cromer Carnival 2010 featuring Red Arrows - BBC News
Sunseekers and holidaymakers from all over the country turned out for the main day at the 2010 Cromer Carnival, featuring carnival favourites The Red Arrows ...

MHI High Speed Delivery At Balloon Festival - Hellmail Postal News
Mail Handling International Pulled off a spectacular high speed delivery to over 100,000 people at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, they organised for The Red Arrows to wow the crowd on Sunday the 15th August for the Fiesta’s finale.
Gary Barnett, MHI Group Ops Director said: “The Red Arrows deliver an amazing display MHI are proud to be able to bring them to our home city”  ...

WAAC Finishes -- Vignes Captures World Title
from FAI Aerobatics Commission - CIVA
The 9th FAI World Advanced Aerobatic Championships was completed on Saturday, the 14th of August, in Radom, Poland with Baptiste Vignes winning the title of World Advanced Aerobatic Champion. Baptiste was flying the CAP 231 (F-GVFF) and was well coached by French Team trainer Coco Bessiere who has trained many French Champions. In second was Nigel Hopkins of South Africa (MX-2) and in third, Julian Ehrhard to France (CAP 231).  ...

Alejandro MacLean Lost in Practice Accident
from FAI Aerobatics Commission - CIVA
Former Spanish Team member Alejandro "Alex" MacLean was killed on Tuesday, the 17th of August, in an aerobatic practice accident in Casarrubios del Monte, in the province of Toledo (central Spain). He was flying his Edge 540 in preparation for an upcoming airshow.  ...

"Staying Alive" Air Show Crash Video Stuns Today Show - Jalopnik 
Brian Bews, the pilot who survived ejection from his CF-18 fighter jet just feet from the ground at an air show last month in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. ...

B-17 in flight - Albany Times Union
Volunteer pilot Kent Holiday of Churchtown, Texas, taxis the WWII era B17 ?Aluminum Overcast? up to the Empire State Aerosciences Museum in Glenville on Aug ...

Wing-walk Matt is a queasy rider - The Sun
TOURING car star Matt Neal endured "the most terrifying experience of my life" when he wing-walked on a plane.
Neal, who is SCARED of heights, was strapped to the top of a Boeing biplane flown by David Barrell, pilot of the Breitling Wingwalkers stunt team. ...

Air Force One from FenceCheck Forums


Quietly Soaring into History: First African American in Space 
by The National Air and Space Museum
As August 30 approaches, a significant anniversary in American history may come along virtually unnoticed, just as it almost did twenty-seven years ago. Two months after Sally K. Ride rode into history as the first American woman in space, a shy Philadelphia-born African American also flew into history on the next space shuttle mission. The media, even magazine covers, celebrated the milestone of the first American woman in space with fanfare, but in comparison, the next space milestone received little attention. Considering his quiet and humble demeanor, this may have suited him just fine. Who is this, you ask? Colonel Guion (Guy) S. Bluford Jr., the first African American in space. ...

Goderich's tie to the most dreadful of 'warbirds' in aviation history - Goderich Signal-Star
The Avro Lancaster heavy bomber was one of the most dreadful 'warbirds' in aviation history. The 'Lanc' was the primary bomber that flew in great aircraft ...

Major celebration of Battle of Britain 70th anniversary - Fylde Borough Council
A flypast by Spitfires and Hurricanes, WW2 battle re-enactments, a George Formby soundalike … Fylde is scrambling for a major celebratory weekend of the ...

Kissimmee Air Museum - Seattle Post Intelligencer
This is the type of museum I enjoy the most. Little in the way of formality, volunteers diligently creating displays and keeping aircraft in top shape, ...

On This Day in Aviation History: August 18th from NYCAviation.com 
On this date in 1871, Alphonse Pénaud achieves the first flight of an inherently stable airplane; in 1911, first flight of the F.E.2 biplane in England; in 1930, the first westbound crossing of the Atlantic; in 1932, the first solo westbound Atlantic crossing. ...

August 18 from Cut and Paste Aviation 
... 1930 -- Captain Wolfgang von Gronau and crew make the first east to west crossing of the Atlantic from Germany to New York. ...

During National Aviation Week, pilots at Tahlequah Regional Airport talk about their love of flying. - TAHLEQUAH Daily Press
Flying airplanes is fun for all ages – at least, for the folks who hang out at the Tahlequah airport.
Pilots across the country are celebrating National Aviation Week in various fashions. Some may be having fly-ins, while others are simply taking leisurely air cruises across the region. ...
   
Va Guard's longest serving aviator retires - WTKR Your NewsChannel 3
An age requirement is doing something that the jungles of Vietnam and the deserts of Iraq couldn't--ground Norman McIntosh. ...

North Korean Jet Fighter Crash May Have Been Defection from Black Horizon 
A North Korean aircraft, which may be a fighter jet, has crashed in China near the country's shared border, say Chinese and South Korean reports. ...


Grissom hosts employer flight today from Grissom Air Reserve Base, Ind.
As part of its employer outreach and education program, Grissom ARB will host civilian employers of reserve personnel for a base visit and flight aboard a KC-135R Stratotanker during an aerial refueling mission on August 18.  The activities are designed to provide the employers with a first-hand look at the mission of the 434th Air Refueling Wing and Grissom ARB. ...

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Air show coming to Summerside in 2011 - Charlottetown, The Guardian
the Canadian Forces Snowbirds (pictured), Skyhawks, the CF-18 Hornet and more will be featured at the Atlantic International Air Show when it comes to ...

Fundraiser to benefit Scott Air Park and SAFB Air Show - Belleville News Democrat
A fundraiser for the Scott Field Heritage Air Park and Scott Air Force Base Air Show will be held Aug. 27 at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport. ...

Thunder Over Michigan 2010 - Belleville - 08/07/10 from FenceCheck Forums

Photos: Vintage Glider Club Rally Tibenham Last Week from PPRuNe Forums 

AOPA VP dies in sailplane mid-air from General Aviation News 
AOPA Vice President of eMedia Chris O’Callaghan died Wednesday, Aug. 4, in a mid-air collision between two sailplanes in Uvalde, Texas. O’Callaghan had just completed an aerial contest circuit and was returning to the airport when the Schempp-Hirth Ventus-2bx sailplane he was flying and that of another competitor collided. O’Callaghan’s aircraft crashed while the other pilot was able to land his damaged craft safely. ..

Volunteers sought to staff air-show food, drink booths - Modesto Bee
The groups will share in a percentage of the booths' gross sales during the air show Sept. 11-12. All booth workers must be working on behalf of a nonprofit ...

What IS An Air Show? from Windsor International Air Show 
With tens of millions of spectators attending air shows each year, the air show industry represents one of the very largest, if not the largest, outdoor professional sports in North America. And it’s no wonder, as the shows themselves deliver entertainment value at a modest cost for families the likes of which can’t be found anywhere else, at any price. From supersonic-speed military jets to gravity-defying aerobatic acts to a host of on-the-ground displays and activities, a day at an air show yields memories that truly last a lifetime. Indeed, air shows have become anchor events within the calendars of local communities coast to coast.
Air shows are flying museums with the vintage aircraft and are also a look into the technological aspect that many of the fast movers have become today. ...

American Air Day 2010 from Airplanes Channel
The Third Air Force of the United States Air Force is partially located in the United Kingdom, and to celebrate the relationship between the battalion and Duxford, dating back to 1918, the American Air Day is presented to the public. It is a family day that combines breathtaking aerial displays and activities on the ground, and the Imperial War Museum is also home to the American Air Museum, which gives visitors insight into the history of the countries and their Air Forces.
For more information in regard to the air show, visit the Imperial War Museum website at http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/server/show/conEvent.3256.
Date: 20 August 2010 | Venue: Imperial War Museum | City: Duxford | Country: United Kingdom

Pilot in GCI plane crash lost son-in-law in C-17 crash last month - Alaska Dispatch
Rogoff described Smith as the "most skillful aviator imaginable." "The fact there were four survivors is testament to his skills," she added. ...

Local pilot soars to redemption at world's top air show - Forest Lake Times
His connections at work eventually led Michaud to find fame at the famous Wisconsin air show which he visited with his family both as a child and as a ...

Great Forums At Oshkosh! from Wasabi Air Racing 
We'd like to thank everyone who made it out to the forums. Turn out was great and it was great to put some faces to some names of people we have been talking to.  And as always the show and the airplanes were great!!

Dream takes flight - reddeeradvocate.com
“I started on ultralights, then bought an aerobatic ultralight,” recounts the 52-year-old. “I qualified for my licence in my four-seater Piper then bought ...

Super Hornet takes stage at FIAS from AVIATION-NEWS
Members of the F/A-18 and EA-18G Program Office (PMA-265) here, as part of a Naval Air Systems Command contingency, made their way across the pond to participate in the 2010 Farnborough International Air Show Jul 19 – 25 in the United Kingdom. FIAS takes place biannually and [...]

The Final Red Bull Air Race from Lausitz from Aerial Sports Feed  [video]
A summary of the sixth and final round of the 2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship. Hannes Arch came first, Paul Bonhomme second but still managed to retained his World Title.

Six Weeks and Counting Race Fans! by warbirdbabe
We’re almost at the starting Pylon for the Reno Races! Six more weeks to go!
Pilots have completed the Pylon Racing Seminar and are preparing their aircraft to fly with precision and speed. Race teams are communicating weekly, probably waiting for parts to arrive and planning their strategies to move up in the pack or continue their winning streak. ...

Flypast will honour sacrifice of pilot,24 - East Anglian Daily Times
A Hurricane, Spitfire and Lancaster will make a dedicated flypast at the Naze Tower after taking part in the Clacton Air Show. En route the formation is ...

What Would You Ask the Boeing Historian? from Airline Reporter 
Tomorrow morning (Thursday) I will have the great opportunity to sit down with the Boeing Historian for an interview. I feel overwhelmed with questions I could and want to ask.
However, I want to share this opportunity with you as well. What questions do you have for the Boeing Historian? Either leave them as a comment or email them to david@airlinereporter.com and if I am wondering the same thing, I will ask!

Celebrate National Aviation Day during Family day from National Museum of the USAF 
Celebrate National Aviation Day and Orville Wright's birthday while participants can build and fly an egg carton gliders from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Aug. 21 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
"Storytime" begins at 11:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. in the Early Years Gallery. Preschool and primary-grade children are invited to sit under the wings of airplanes and listen to stories about the different types of airplanes. Participants can also create their own paper airplane decorations. ...

Aerospace Celebration Expands National Aerospace Week Planned for Sept. 12-18 from www.bizjournals.com
"Together let's use National Aerospace Week as an opportunity to remind our citizens and elected officials that we are 'the Strength to Lift America,'" said Marion C. Blakey, president and CEO of AIA. "We want to encourage all aerospace employees and supporters, elected officials and aerospace-related organizations and educational institutions to participate in this national celebration."
The aerospace and defense industry employs 817,000 workers directly, supporting more than 2 million middle-class jobs in related fields. There are also 30,000 suppliers to the industry across all 50 states. The tagline for the celebration –"Aerospace and Defense: The Strength to Lift America" – captures the contributions of one of America's leading manufacturing industries to our way of life and economic well being.   ...

National Air & Space Museum after dark from FlightBlogger
Late last week, I had an opportunity to catch an evening flick at the National Air & Space Museum IMAX theater. (Inception was excellent, highly recommend it) When the movie ended around 10:30 PM the museum was long past closed and the completely empty exhibit hall was a brilliant sight to behold. During the daytime, the museum is lit naturally through the massive windows that face the National Mall. At night however, spotlights set between the two levels light the main exhibit hall. Unfortunately I only had my iPhone on me, but I did my best to capture some of aviation's most historic artifacts in a different light. ...

Fiat CR.32 Aces of the Spanish Civil War – Aircraft of the Aces 94 - Let Let Let - Warplanes 
The Fiat CR.32 was an Italian biplane fighter used in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. This nimble little Fiat was compact, robust and highly maneuverable. The Fiat CR.32 was designed by Celestino Rosatelli. Derived from earlier Fiat CR.30 designs, the CR.32 was a more streamlined and smaller biplane fighter. The prototype MM.201 first flew the 28 April 1933 from the Fiat company airstrip at Turin. The CR.32 fought in North and East Africa, in Albania and in the Mediterranean theatre. The CR.32 saw service in the air forces of China, Austria, Hungary, Paraguay and Venezuela. Used extensively in Spanish Civil War, it gained a reputation as one of the outstanding fighter biplanes of all time. But then it was overtaken by more advanced monoplane designs and was obsolete by 1939. ...
August 11 from Cut and Paste Aviation 

KC-135 Social Media Flight - Indy Transponder
Updated with a link to the story out of Grissom ARB about the same flight.

t/Space Concept Remains a Flight Option from Spaceports 
A narrated video exhibits the t/Space full concept of operations from take-off to landing was was posted by SpaceRenaissance today. The carrier aircraft (VLA), booster (QuickReach 2), and crew vehicle (CXV) are all accurately depicted. More on the Reston, Virginia-based t/Space.

Air Force Two in minor incident on Long Island - MSNBC
Jet wash from vice president's plane knocks over small, private craft

"Shaken Not Stirred" UCAP #202 from Uncontrolled Airspace
Back home after OSH10, the boys share in the afterglow. Plus Jeb tells the whole story of his legendary #jeb2osh10 flight to Oshkosh this year. All this and more on Uncontrolled Airspace #202 "Shaken Not Stirred"


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Wings Over Houston Airshow Takes To The Skies October 23 And 24th from Aero-News Network | Mark Your Calendars -- It Sounds Like A Heck Of A Show.... ANN is told that the 26th Annual Wings Over Houston Airshow will take flight Saturday, October 23 and Sunday, October 24 at Ellington Airport with 'thrilling aerial performances, aerobatics and demonstrations' (but... ain't they all???). The United States Air Force Thunderbirds will perform in the F-16C Fighting Falcon Block 52 aircraft…

Red Arrows to open Drimpton Fun Day - Real West Dorset | Now at 12.30pm on Saturday 21st August for one very special time the Red Arrows are coming to the sky over Drimpton in West Dorset! It's true! Why? ...

Red Arrows in Barnstaple fly past - North Devon Gazette & Advertiser | THE Red Arrows display team will be doing a fly past over Barnstaple next Wednesday (August 11) to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and ...

Women In Aviation International And WomenVenture Gather At AirVenture 2010
from AvStop » Number One Online Resource For General Aviation News | WomenVenture, Women in Aviation International and the Experimental Aircraft Association repeated their WomenVenture initiative, with a week's worth of camps, seminars, panels and of course, networking breakfast and reunion picture during AirVenture 2010 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin…

The Most Fun Ever Had by a Human
from AcroCamp by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper) | I've been working my way through the footage from Friday 14 May, the first real day of flying for Acro Camp. I've been working mostly with the wing-mounted and other exterior camera footage over the last week. But, this evening, I began going through some of the footage from the in-cockpit cameras as well. I've decided that no human has ever had more fun flying aerobatics (or doing anything else) than Paul Berliner. I could tell that he was smiling from the wing cam footage, but the in-cockpit cameras really tell the story. There are even times that I can hear min shouting over the engine noise on the ContourHD camera (and I don't have the intercom audio synched up yet, so it's strictly ambient sound for now). The frame grab above is Paul's reaction to his very first loop. I think they heard about it in the tower back at Pontiac. Without the need for the radio…

Cessna Skycatcher lands on 18th fairway at Crestview - The Wichita Eagle | But as golfers relaxed after rounds of golf Sunday during the Wichita Aero Club's tournament at Crestview Country Club, Cessna pilot Kirby Ortega landed the ...

Tauranga City Airshow 2012 Announced
by johanterbeek@xtra.co.nz (Johan ter Beek) | On Auckland Anniversary weekend 2012, Tauranga will be the place to be when the Tauranga City Air Show fills the skies over the city's airport again, providing a dynamic event for both Bay of Plenty citizens and visitors alike…

United States - Washington - Seafair 2010 - Seattle - 08/06/10
from FenceCheck Forums :

KC-135 Social Media Flight
from Indy Transponder | Just before AirVenture we were able to join the 434th ARW on a refueling mission over Louisiana to refuel a B-52 Stratofortress.  Below is a video from that flight. Here's a link to an article from Scott Murphy, who was also on the same flight. Photos are from Mike Souders - Indy Transponder and the United States Air Force…

Real Top Guns
from Military Photos by grendel | So somebody has finally uploaded the series... (TV documentary from 2007)…

Father, Daughter Share 'Herk' Heritage from Aero-News Network | Tell The Truth... Does The C-130 Suggest "Family" To You? While many daughters may share similar interests with their fathers, one NCO has related the challenges of her job with an understanding dad. He's been there and done that. When retired Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer 3rd Class William Seibt learned that his daughter, Jennifer, was going to be promoted from technical sergeant to master sergeant July 30, he made the trip from Hillsboro, Ore., to Cannon Air Force Base to share the event with her.

Giant balloons could clear out space junk - New Scientist | The company is now looking for funding to do a flight demonstration of their concept, called GOLD (Gossamer Orbit Lowering Device). ...

The Spiroid Winglet
from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | In the late 1990s Aviation Partners Inc. (API), the developer of the blended winglet, began to flight test on a Gulfstream II a completely different winglet shape than anything that had flown before, the spiroid winglet. The original patent of the closed-loop shape winglet was originally filed in 1992 by one of API's founders. The basic idea of the spiroid winglet is to take the benefits of the blended winglet to their fullest by essentially bringing the blended winglet to loop back onto the wing. The vortices that stream off the wingtips of aircraft are a major source of drag and in the blended winglet, they have resulted in 5-7% increase in fuel efficiency by attenuating those vortices…

KC-135 Social Media Flight

Just before AirVenture we were able to join the 434th ARW on a refueling mission over Louisiana to refuel a B-52 Stratofortress.  Below is a video from that flight.



Here's a link to an article from Scott Murphy, who was also on the same flight.

Photos are from Mike Souders - Indy Transponder and the United States Air Force.

Related links are below:
434th Refueling Wing
KC-135R Stratotanker
Grissom ARB photos
B-52 - Wikipedia
Patches and Shields
Airco DH4

UPDATES:
8/11 - Story from Gissom ARB

8/13 -
Grissom week in photos: 13 Aug via Grissom Air Reserve Base, Ind.
This week's slideshow features recently published photos from Grissom Air Reserve Base, Ind. This weekly feature showcases the activities of the dedicated military and civilian workforce of the 434th Air Refueling Wing. To view the slideshow, click here..

8/17 -
KC-135 Ride! 434th ARW (Grissom Air Reserve Base) + Thirsty B-52 from Airpigz

8/18 - From a different mission, but related, so we are sharing:
Hoosier PRSA, and their photos

8/20 -  
KC-135R/B-52 Pictorial: Passing Gas at 33,000 Feet With the Stratotanker and the Stratofortress - MySkyMom

8/24 -
CoolPix - Modern Military: Barksdale B-52 Via Grissom KC-135 from Airpigz
 My incredible ride with the 74th Air Refueling Squadron in a KC-135 based out of Grissom Air Reserve Base (Indiana) on July 21st gave me the opportunity to capture this ultra-cool image of the Barksdale Air Force Base (Louisiana) B-52 that we had just finished refueling. This view was beyond stunning to see in person, and I hope ...

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