PFLUGERVILLE, TX – APRIL 21, 2011 - LiveAirShowTV has been awarded the contract for the LED Screens and video production for the 2011 Joint Service Open House at Joint Base Andrews in Silver Springs MD. “We are very excited to be returning to Andrews for the show,” said LiveAirShowTV President Jeff Lee. “I directed the screens from 2007 through 2009 for another company. This year we will put our team and technology on the ramp to enhance an already great show for air show fans.”
The 2011 Joint Service Open House, May 21st and 22nd, will feature the USAF Thunderbirds, the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights, the Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet, and the USAF A-10 demo. Aerobatic performers include Sean D. Tucker, John Klatt, the Geico Skytypers .and Greg Poe. Plus the E-Team Sky Divers, Smoke-n-Thunder Jet Car and much more.
A live Internet broadcast is also being planned for the Saturday and Sunday shows. Air Show Announcer Rob Reider will guide air show fans both on the ramp and watching on their computers, through a great day of flying. “Working with Jeff Lee & LiveAirShow TV is always a treat”, said Reider. “He understands the air shows, airplanes, and how to get the right thing on the screen at the right time! He's a consummate pro. It'll be great to be working with him at the Joint Service Open House this year.”
LiveAirShowTV continues to cover the air show industry like no other. Whether it’s individual performers or larger air shows, the Reno Air Races, or the ever expanding Sport Air Racing League, LiveAirShowTV is there to give fans the inside story. To see stories from the 2010 air show season, and before, go to www.LiveAirShowTV.com
Commemorative Air Force to hold air show Saturday at Jabara - Kansas.com | By Eagle staff WICHITA — The Jayhawk Wing of the Commemorative Air Force will hold its Spring Fly Day at Jabara Airport on Saturday. The event begins at 10 am and will include flying World War II airplanes and a static display of other airplanes. ...
Blue Angels coming to Lincoln - KLKNTV | The Navy's Blue Angels are planning to perform at an air show in Nebraska next September. The aerial exhibition team will be part of the Guardians of Freedom Air Show in Lincoln that is scheduled for Sept. 6-11. The event has also been designated a ``Navy Week,'' so ...
Air Show With a View Into the Future - The Voice of Russia | A grandiose air show with the participation of all types of planes will take place on April 23rd. the city of Ulyanovsk in the Volga Region is often referred to as Russia's aviation capital, the Editor-in-Chief of the “Vzlyot” (“Take-off”) magazine ...
A Call To Honor, request from Weir Cook Memorial Project | I don't ask for much because I am just honored to be able to promote our military and aviation history. But today I am coming humbly to you with a request. I started the Weir Cook Memorial Project in 2000 as a grass-roots effort to restore honor to a military hero and aviation pioneer. Eleven years later, we are on the final phase which we hope to have completed by 2012. WCMP is now a 501 (c)(3) with a board of volunteers determined to see this project get completed. ...
Argonaut - R2800 first flight! from www.aafo.com
Set the DVRs! There will be some air racing history on TV as ESPN celebrates 50 years of ABCs Wild World of Sports. Check out the 2am time slot on Thursday, April 28! 1965-66 & 1968 Reno Air Races.
Michelle Bassanesi from Flight To Success | ... "I have been keen on participating in air races and especially the ARC since I started flying in 2000. If it is not this year I DO HOPE IT WILL BE NEXT year, Why? because that’s when I turn 50! The Air Race Classic is always on my birthday week (June 23rd). What a great way it would be to celebrate my birthday and have fun learning doing what I love in the company of so many sisters in aviation! In April 2004 I participated In the New Zealand Air Race “044Fun” and truly had fun and got to see both the North and South Islands from above. What an awesome experience that was." ...
South Dakota's first aviatrix - Black Hills Pioneer | This was a transcontinental air race for women only that went from the West Coast to Cleveland, Ohio. Until 1944 at the age of 52, Nellie worked as a commercial pilot, delivering airmail, and she was inducted into the South Dakota Aviation Hall of Fame ...
Zeke Saunders' life tells aviation history - Winston Salem Journal | Pilot H.K. "Zeke" Saunders, now 90, made repeated flights from Burma to China in 1945 "over the most hazardous terrain in the world, from air strips that were virtually carved out of mountains, during all types of weather, day and night," his Army letter of commendation said. Saunders, the recipient of the rare Distinguished Flying Cross medal during World War II, flew as high as 20,000 feet, so high that he had to take an oxygen tank with him. ...
Burton Takes on New Leadership Role as Florida Air Museum President - AMTOnline.com | SUN 'n FUN President John Burton is taking on a new role and a new challenge: raising the profile and prestige of the Florida Air Museum (FAM) at the local, regional, national and international levels, FAM officials announced today. ...
The flying fortress and the face of war | Dennis Box - PNW Local News | The Liberty Foundation's 2011 Salute to Veterans tour will feature the Boeing B-17 “Liberty Belle” and the rare Curtiss P-40E “Warhawk” fighter aircraft. The B-17 flying fortress is particularly fascinating for a couple of reasons. ...
OC WWII vet flies again in a B-25 - OCRegister | SANTA ANA – The World War II-era B-25 bomber slowly rolled out of the hangar at the William Lyon Air Museum. Watching was 89-year-old Kenneth Pruitt, a retired US Marine major. A 50-caliber machine gun pokes from the front of the B-25 sits poised for ...
Mothballed NZ Skyhawks find new homes - New Zealand Herald | One will go to Tauranga aviation museum Classic Flyers, one to Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre in Blenheim, two will go to the Air Force Museum at Wigram and another to the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland and one will be sent to the Royal ...
New Life: Rutan’s Catbird Being Readied for Oshkosh Flight from Aviation Blogs | If a cat has nine lives, maybe a Catbird has at least two. For the past 15 years or so, Scaled Composites Model 81 aircraft, better known as the Rutan Catbird, could be seen hanging – inverted – from the ceiling between Scaled’s offices and the flight center in Mojave, California. These days it’s back in the shop, being restored to airworthiness by volunteers so it can be flown to AirVenture Oshkosh this summer and take part in EAA’s Tribute to Burt Rutan on Thursday, July 28. ...
Teacher's Day at AirVenture from WAI Connect Blog | BuildAPlane, in cooperation with the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) and the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), will once again sponsor Teacher’s Day at EAA’s AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, July 26, 2011 and will expose teachers to a variety of ...
And, retiring the Shuttle was a good idea, because? from The Original Rocket Dungeon | A few weeks ago, in the shadow of Discovery's final flight, we heard the cost of Soyuz seats was going up. I don't think anyone was surprised. But, I felt better when NASA noted that the increase was in line with ...
Katie Couric to Interview Astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly Monday April 25 from TVNewser | “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric sat down with astronauts (and twin brothers) Mark Kelly and Scott Kelly, for an interview slated to air Monday, April 25 on the program. Mark Kelly is the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was shot earlier this year in the massacre at Tucson. Kelly is also slated to command the final mission for the Space Shuttle Endeavor, scheduled to launch April 29. His brother Scott Kelly just returned from the International Space Station. ...
