Video: Thousands gather to watch Blue Angels in SF * ABC | It was another gorgeous day for the second Fleet Week air show, featuring the Blue Angels. Thousands of families poured into San Francisco to watch the aerial acrobatics and admire the heart stopping twists and turns on Sunday...
Flying on the Blue Angels' 'Fat Albert Airlines' at SF's Fleet Week * cnet | It's Fleet Week in San 
Francisco, and though the ships and sailors enliven the town, the star of the show is always the Blue Angels. If you've ever watched these daredevil fliers, you know they put on quite a show, flying their F/A-18s within feet of each other as they roar over the city...
Wings and Waves air show wraps up in Volusia County * News 13 | Vintage airplanes and thundering jets are pumping big bucks into the Daytona Beach area. Jaques Chester brought took his two daughters to Daytona Beach for surf and sand, but what flew over them during the day was a surprise he kept from them on the drive to the coast...
Daytona air show draws crowd * news-journal | John Johnson could look out the window and see the planes twirling and tumbling above the Atlantic Ocean. The president of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University had a glass of lemonade on the table in front of him and Sunday afternoon his conversations were often interrupted by a tap on the shoulder from people passing by who wanted to say “Thank you” or “Hello.”...
Video: Watsonville fly-in and airshow closes the weekend * KSBW | In it's 50th anniversary, the Watsonville Fly-in and Airshow wowed crowds with aerobatics and WWII era planes.
Join the U.S. Army “Golden Knights” parachute team on a night skydive * The Aviationist | Nicknamed and commonly known as the Golden Knights, the United States Army Parachute Team, is a demonstration and competition parachute team which conduct parachute demos across the U.S. and, occasionally, abroad...
15th annual Culpeper County AirFest held at airport on Beverly Ford Rd. * Star Exponent | Spirits and hopes ran high at the annual Culpeper County AirFest Saturday morning as clouds and an intermittent drizzling rain hung over the event for the second consecutive year...
Special Guests Come to Rockford for Air Camp * My stateline | Boy scouts had a chance to check out planes and learn all about aviation. The Blackhawk Area Council hosted the third Air Camp at the Chicago-Rockford International Airport. They were especially excited to host the Tuskegee Airmen...
YOUR PHOTOS: Potomac Flight soars to honor veterans * Inside Nova
WWII Planes Fly Over National Cemetery, Pentagon * NBC | Twenty four World War II vintage aircraft flew over the DC area Sunday in tribute of Disabled American Veterans. The flight originated from the Culpeper Air Fest and traveled over the Arlington National Cemetery and the Pentagon. The planes were T-6 Texan aircraft, used to train pilots during World War II...
Chambliss lives a lifestyle full of adrenaline * Las Vegas Review Journal | Kirby Chambliss stands 11th in points among the 12 adrenaline junkies who will race airplanes through pylons at speeds approaching 230 mph today in Round 7 of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. So it hasn’t been the greatest of years for one of the world’s foremost air racers. He did, however, recently go off into the wild blue yonder with Amelia Earhart as his co-pilot...
Zhuhai Air Show to exhibit 120 aircraft from around the world * Want China Times | ...As is customary, the J-10 fighters of the August 1st aerobatic team will perform during the air show, however, this is the first time a female pilot of the People's Liberation Army Air Force will fly with the team during the air show. The Black Eagles aerobatic team of the South Korean air force was invited to join the show with its T-50 trainers as well, according to the paper. The T-50 Golden Eagle is a trainer produced by the Korea Aerospace Industries based in Sacheon...
Fly-in at Meriden Markham Airport on Saturday * By Lauren Sievert Record-Journal staff | Meriden- Markham Airport will host its first fly-in Saturday, featuring planes and helicopters. The event will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Constance Castillo, airport manger, said it is the first of its kind for the Meriden airport and differs from the air shows of the past...
Red Arrows 'should replace their ageing British-made Hawk jets with second hand American planes' * Daily Mail | The Red Arrows should replace their ageing British made jets with second hand American built planes, a senior RAF officer has suggested. The aerobatic display team currently fly the Hawk T1 jet, which is due to go out of service in 2020...
March Field Air Museum flying high with upgrades * Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | There have been quite a few changes to March Field Air Museum in Riverside since I first went there a decade and a half ago, including a few since my last visit a couple of years ago...
Search for Warbirds in India by WarbirdsNews | Accordingly to several news reports coming from India, a group of researchers has identified sites in Loktak lake, near Manipur, India where two Japanese Ki-43 fighter aircraft and a British Wellington bomber came to rest following a dogfight on June 17th, 1944. After getting official records from the Burma Campaign Society based in London...
Avro Lancaster 1941 onwards All marks by travelforaircraft | Cotter's authorship of this beloved aircraft lives up to the Lancaster's reputation. Another of the Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual series this book includes what has become expected from this excellent series. History and design of the Avro Lancaster is addressed and quite well. The heart of the book is operating a Lancaster (the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight or BBMF) as well as the maintenance and costs — all are quite enlightening...
Farman F40 F-AHMF * Passion for aviation (translated) | The aircraft in the foreground is the Farman F.40 (F-AHMF) aircraft designed as an observation aircraft by Maurice and Henry Farman at the request of the Air Force in 1915 and served very often after war make "First flight"...
1st flight to Reunion by Marcel Goulette * Passion for aviation (translated) | From 17 to 27 Oc t ober 1929, Maurice Goulette, R ené Marchesseau and Jean Michel Bourgeois established a record on its lia i Paris (Le Bourget) -Madagascar (Antananarivo) aboard Farman 192 No. 3 (F-AJBB) by browsing 12400km in 1 0 days 8 hours and 4 min 0...
NASA technology helps remote Alaskan pilots * General Aviation News | WASHINGTON, D.C. — NASA has formally delivered to Alaskan officials a new technology that could help pilots flying over the vast wilderness expanses of the northern-most state. The technology is designed to help pilots make better flight decisions, especially when disconnected from the Internet, telephone, flight services and other data sources normally used by pilots...
Young Eagles Take To The Sky * Payson Roundup | On Saturday, Oct. 4, a group of dedicated Payson pilots hosted a Young Eagles flight day at the Payson Airport...
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Monday, October 13, 2014
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014
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U.S.A.F. Thunderbirds Headline Wings Over North Georgia Airshow * Virtual-Strategy Magazine | In their final fall-season airshow in the Southeast, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will join 18 other aerial performances in the two-day, one-evening Wings Over North Georgia Airshow as well as serve as the...
The CAF AirSho WILL Stay In Midland * Permianbasin360 | "I think people are confused when they think the headquarters is moving they think the entire CAF is moving," said CAF Airsho Chairman Gena Linebarger. A misconception the Commemorative Air Force keeps trying to clear up. "Yes, the CAF Headquarters is...
What It Feels Like To Do A Barrel Roll * Jalopnik | Red Bull Air Race World Champion Kirby Chambliss is at his best when he's flipping his stunt plane around at high speeds, enduring the kind of gravitational forces that turn stomachs inside out. I've always wanted to "do a barrel roll," but I wasn't...
Soaring into the past with the Flying Circus Airshow * Yakima Herald-Republic | A Cole Porter recording crackles and pops over a loudspeaker as World War II-era aircraft wait in a neat row on a grassy field. A pilot dons a leather helmet and large goggles. All the elements are in place to transport onlookers back to a place in...
Airport Appreciation: High Flying Success * Oakdale Leader | “The B-25 'Old Glory' beat the Douglas DC-4 spot landing contest at Oakdale Airport touching down on the runway a mere six paces past the numbers compared to an additional 26 paces by the bigger plane,” stated Gutridge of some friendly competition...
Bulgaria's Air Force To Host Air Show In Sofia * Novinite.com | Bulgaria's Air Force will host the air show “This Is Us”, celebrating the 102-th anniversary of the country's air force, on October 11 at the Sofia airport in Vrazhdebna. The show will present the Mig-21 and 29 fighters, the Su-25 attack aircraft, the...
2014 Precious Metal Deadstick after engine failure * LiveAirShowTV | Have you guys seen this? Here's what happens when your engine goes during a lap at Reno...
B-17 lands at Texarkana Regional Airport for 4-day layover, tours available * KSLA-TV | The B-17 bomber arrived at Texarkana Regional Airport for a four day layover. "It's heart warming to see that thing" says former B-17 crew member Billy Walker. Billy, from Wake Village, Texas, was waiting for the B-17's arrival. "It brings back a lot...
World War II B-17 flies into Southport airfield Oct. 17-19 * Brunswick Beacon | One of the few remaining operational World War II B-17s, also known as the Flying Fortress, will fly into the Southport airport Oct. 17-19, hosted by the Experimental Aircraft Association, Chapter 939 of oak Island. Named “Aluminum Overcast,” the B-17...
Airmen Missing From WWII Accounted For * Aero-News Network | B-24 Crew Shot Down Over Madang Province, New Guinea In 1944 The remains of U.S. servicemen, missing in action from World War II, have been accounted for and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors, according to The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office...
Museum slates 10th annual Women Take Flight event · General Aviation News | WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. – The New England Air Museum will host its 10th annual Women Take Flight event on Sunday, Nov. 2. The program features women who have pioneered new careers for women in aviation and aerospace engineering. Guests will share their experiences at stations around the museum one-on-one with visitors, at presentations, and at panel discussions. Impersonators will portray the characters of early aviation pioneers...
Whirly-Girls celebrates 60th anniversary with scholarships, logo contest · General Aviation News | LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Whirly-Girls International celebrates 60 years of supporting women in the rotorcraft industry with its 2014 round of scholarships and a call for a diamond anniversary commemorative logo design...
Pensacola Celebrates a Century of Naval Aviation * airplanes.com | To mark a century of training the Navy’s top pilots, and more than 50 years since the opening of the National Museum of Naval Aviation, the Pensacola Naval Air Station held a gala on September 20, 2014, attended by a host of dignitaries, some of whom were once trainees at the legendary institution. The event featured a slide presentation paying tribute to the first naval aviators, as well as a speech by Jeb Bush Jr., grandson of former President George H.W. Bush, during which he read a letter from his grandfather. Also present was former US Navy Blue Angels pilot, now Aviation Museum director, retired Navy Captain Bob Rasmussen, who expressed his hope that the museum will continue to expand, as it has since it opened in 1962...
Lighter-than-Air flying with the Navy’s MZ-3 * Travel for Aircraft | The U.S. Navy formerly flew a great many lighter-than-aircraft yet operates a single manned one today through a contractor. The MZ-3 is a blimp produced by the American Blimp Corp. and is generally used for research purposes whether testing sensor payloads or investigating other research and development endeavors. Power...
'Young Eagles' tragedy that killed 2 leaves surviving pilot groping for answers * Buffalo News | Designed to introduce young people to flying, the Young Eagles event involved one plane after the other flying the same route, from the Buffalo-Lancaster airport to the skies above Darien Lake, in Genesee County, and then back. Nearing the end of the...
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Monday, October 6, 2014
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Triumphant return of Blue Angels to Miramar Air Show * DVIDS | A Blue Angels’ formation of F/A-18 Hornets buzzes through the air as they make their return to the world’s largest military air show...
Blue Angels' Fat Albert is back * PNJ | The Blue Angels' C-130 Hercules aircraft, Fat Albert, will be making a comeback in the Miramar Air Show today through Sunday on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar as well in the homecoming show on Pensacola NAS on Nov. 7 through 9...
Thunderbirds draw large crowd at air show * Florida Today | Four-year-old Dekkin Anderson jumped and flailed his arms as he watched an F-16 jet go vertical Saturday as if it was launched from Melbourne International Airport...
Video: USAF Thunderbirds media flight * Orlando Sentinel | Come along for the ride as Orlando Sentinel photographer Joshua Cruey takes a ride with USAF Thunderbirds pilot 7 Major Tyler Ellison at the Melbourne Air and Space show.
Video: 34th Annual WWII Stearman Fly-in * KPLC7 | About 40 World War II Stearman training airplanes flew into Jennings for the 34th annual Stearman end of season fly-in. "Stearman planes were developed in 1926 or so," said Jennings City Coordinator Michelle Herbert. "They were used as trainer planes for most of the military. You see them a lot now as crop dusters. There's not a whole lot of them left, I've heard maybe about one thousand."...
Great Tiger Moth Air Race 2014 soars over Newcastle * Mail | A SWARM of Tiger Moths hummed 
over Newcastle this morning before doubling back in the afternoon. Maitland mayor Peter Blackmore farewelled the fleet of almost 40 planes as they departed from Luskintyre on Saturday, making their way over Newcastle about 9.15am as part of the Great Tiger Moth Air Race's first leg to Camden....
Pyrohelia: ‘Otto’ Goes to the Disco * AIN Online | If you’ve frequented major American airshows in the last 25 years, chances are you’ve seen Otto The Helicopter, a 1985 Schweizer 300 with its canopy done over in clown face. Roger Buis is Otto’s second pilot; he and his wife Pauline bought the act in 1999...
Aviation Roundup at Minden-Tahoe Airport Oct. 11 * General Aviation News | On Oct. 11, the Minden-Tahoe Airport (KMEV) in Nevada, will hold its annual Aviation Roundup. This year will have a few new events, according to organizers. In the morning there will be rocket launches. As Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) dominate a lot of news today across the country, the Aviation Roundup has secured a “Drone Zone.” Roundup attendees will be able to observe UAS flights on an obstacle course and learn more about UAS applications...
Jacqueline Cochran Air Show Fills Coachella Valley Skies * Palm Springs Life | The Jacqueline Cochran Air Show returns to the Coachella Valley Oct. 25. The Riverside County Economic Development Agency and Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport Authority puts on this free biennial community event...
Red Bull Air Race pilot Kirby Chambliss: ‘There’s always a sense of danger’ * Las Vegas Sun | Death-defying Red Bull Air Race pilot Kirby Chambliss admits that “there’s always a sense of danger” when he battles 10G forces zigzagging sideways and upside down over 200 mph just 80 feet in the air, but laughs it off saying spectators are in more danger if they forget their sunscreen. Welcome to the greatest air race in the world...
Video: Kirby Chambliss meets Amelia Earhart * Red Bull Air Race | Amelia Rose Earhart is taken on the flight of her life with Kirby Chambliss
SUN ‘n FUN slates Aerospace Discovery Weekend * General Aviation News | LAKELAND, Florida — For the first time ever for Aerospace Discovery Weekend (formerly Wings ‘n Things) on the SUN ‘n FUN Convention Campus, Jerry ‘Jive’ Kerby, a fighter pilot at the controls of his RV-8A known as Wild Blue with a maximum speed of over 200 mph, will fly as part of the activities Oct. 24-26...
Lee Bottom Fly-In Review Part 3 - The Layout * NORDO News | This year we introduced a new fly-in layout. Since the beginning of Lee Bottom time, all events have been focused around the home and hangar situated mid-field. That's no longer the case...
Museum slates open cockpit day and swap meet * General Aviation News | WINDSOR LOCKS, CONN. — The New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Conn., will hold two events on Sunday, Oct. 12. The first event is the Fall Open Cockpit Day. Visitors will be permitted to climb into the cockpits of up to 12 aircraft. These include the Vietnam era “Huey” helicopter; the North American F-100 Super Sabre jet fighter; the Coast Guard HH-52 rescue helicopter; the Coast Guard HU-25 Falcon and the Lockheed F-104C Starfighter. Also to be...
Last Flying Tigers Pilot Dies At 91 * China Topix | China’s last Flying Tiger pilot died at the age of 91 of lung failure in the country’s southwest hospital...
Video: Aviator Memorial Unveiled at NAS Lemoore By KMPH NewsDesk | A new memorial now stands at Naval Air Station Lemoore to honor Navy pilots killed in the line duty...
Sopwith Camel Installed in WWI Exhibit at RAF Museum Hendon * Warbirds News | The RAF 
Museum has just raised their Sopwith Camel F.1 serial F6134 into the rafters of the Grahame White Factory building at RAF Museum Hendon. The Camel will be a key feature in the RAF Muesum’s First World War in The Air Exhibition, a celebratory display commemorating the Royal Air Force’s exploits in WWI. Please click HERE to see more details about the exhibit....
Restored 747 prototype now open to public at Museum of Flight * General Aviation News | SEATTLE — The first Boeing 747 was never an airliner. For more than 25 years it was used by Boeing for flight tests until the plane was retired and grounded in the 1990s, then moved to The Museum of Flight years later....
Junkers Ju-87 Stuka Discovered Off Croatian Coast * Warbirds News | A fascinating video surfaced recently showing the remarkably intact frame of a Junkers Ju-87 Stuka in the Adriatic sea off the coast of Croatia close to the island of Žirje. Divers from the Croatian Department of Underwater Archeology, alongside members of the diving club ZG-SUB, and the Ministry of Defense Military Museum discovered the seventy year old wreck following details from local fishermen. The video by Hrvoslav Pavic is provided below courtesy of Avialogs.com....
XP-82 Twin Mustang – September, 2014 Restoration Update * Warbirds News | As usual, 
WarbirdsNews has received the latest XP-82 Twin Mustang restoration update from Tom Reilly at his workshop in Douglas, Georgia. Here’s what they’ve been up to this month! September was another incredible month for accomplishments at the XP-82 restoration shop!...
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
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WCBS 880′s Alex Silverman Takes Controls Of Air Show Stunt Plane - CBS Local | ...“What I just did was take a guy who liked roller coasters flying,” Sean D. Tucker said after the plane landed...
Video: Flying upside-down in a Bethpage Air Show stunt plane By Tara Conry | With a parachute on my back and my seat belt pulled as tightly as possible, I stared out the window of Lt. Col. John Klatt’s Air National Guard MXS stunt plane Wednesday morning, not knowing what to expect. Klatt, a 24-year member of the Air National Guard and aerobatic pilot, was giving me a front-row seat to some of the stunts he’ll be performing in this weekend’s Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach State Park...
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Truckee Tahoe AirShow Returns in Full Force * PR Newswire | Some of the world’s finest aerobatic performers will soar through Truckee’s pristine skies on July 12, 2014. The free AirShow & Family Festival offers an exhilarating and enriching family experience that showcases Truckee Tahoe Airport’s commitment to giving back to its community through inspiring youth to learn more about career and educational opportunities in aviation, aerospace, aeronautics, science and technology...
Video: Vicky Benzing! · TVR Photography.com | Aerobatic performer Vicky Benzing flying her 1940 Boeing Stearman at the 2014 Hangar 24 AirFest at Redlands Airport.
Extreme Aerial Athletes Fly Over New York City in Wingsuits * Mashable | ...Five members of the Red Bull Air Force dove from a height of 7,500 feet above Manhattan's Financial District. The group reached speeds of 120 miles per hour before landing safely on a small barge in the Hudson River just two minutes after jumping. The stunt was performed in preparation for the Bethpage Air Show, which will be held at Jones Beach on May 24 and 25....
Air power over Suffolk - Suffolk News-Herald | This year’s Festival of Flight will combine the past, present and future of aviation as activities include everything from a traveling Tuskegee Airmen museum to a forum on drones. Happening May 31 and June 1 at the Suffolk Executive Airport, there’s something for everyone — whether they arrive by land or air — at the festival, said Dee Whittington, festival marketing chair...
Air Force pilots prepare ahead of Va. Beach air show - The Virginian-Pilot | Capt. John Cummings got out of the cockpit of the F-22 Raptor, the Air Force's top fighter jet, with ease and comfort at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton. The captain stood confidently as Col. Kevin Huyck, commander of the First Fighter Wing, boasted about the high-performance aircraft and the elite group of pilots who fly it...
Video: F-22 Raptor ready for this year's Oceanfront Air Show - wtkr.com | Hampton Roads, Va. – NewsChannel 3 got a first-hand look at a F-22 Raptor as it did every maneuver in the book, preparing for this year’s Virginia Beach Patriotic Oceanfront Air Show next weekend. “It’s always a ton of fun for me. I get out there. I’ve got a good airplane. The weather was great today. A little bit of wind but nothing we couldn’t handle,” said Capt. John Cummings, pilot of the F-22...
Air Show showcases each MAGTF element - DVIDS | CHERRY POINT, N.C. - The Marine Air-Ground Task Force demonstrated their capabilities at the 2014 Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point “Inspiration to Innovation” Air Show May 16-18 highlighting the Marine Corps amphibious abilities. Four core elements comprise the MAGTF. The command element, ground combat element, aviation combat element and the logistics combat element...
Nominations open for 2014 Air Show Hall of Fame · General Aviation News | Air shows are one of the most popular outdoor events around the world, and each year, the Air Show Hall of Fame inducts one or more members of the air show community who have recently or historically made significant contributions to the world of air shows. Nominations may be submitted by any person or organization until July 1, 2014...
Russian Helicopters to showcase latest models at Berlin Air Show * HeliHub | Russian Helicopters, a subsidiary of Oboronprom, part of State Corporation Rostec, is bringing a line-up of commercial and military helicopters to ILA 2014, taking place on 20-25 May at Berlin ExpoCenter Airport. The company’s display can be found at stand 4209 in hall 47...
Radio control air-show and fun-fly scheduled - Paragould Daily Press | Piggott Radio Control Modelers will host its 17th annual Spring R/C Air Show and Fun-Fly and competition May 31 and June 1 at Pfeiffer Field in Piggott, half mile east of the Piggott Swimming Pool...
Red Arrows air show coming to Donegal at the end of next month - Highland Radio (podcast) | The Red Arrows will take to the skies over Donegal at the end of next month to bring a spectacular close to the 2014 LegenDerry Maritime Festival. The display, which is being jointly promoted by the three councils in Donegal, Derry and Limavady will mark the departure of the Clipper 2013-14 Round the World Yacht Race from Greencastle on Sunday 29th June 2014...
Red Arrows flyover for Shrewsbury River Festival - shropshirestar.com | The daredevil team will appear in the skies above the county town at approximately 2.56pm on Sunday, June 8, before heading off to perform at the Cosford Air Show. The air display team aims to fly west of the Quarry bandstand and over St Chad’s Church. Last year’s event, which takes place in the Quarry Park and on the River Severn, attracted over 7,500 visitors...
Sentimental Journey starts Tuesday - The Garden City Telegram | "Sentimental Journey" will be on display and available for rides and tours Tuesday through June 1 at Garden City Regional Airport. The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was the primary bomber used by the American Air Force against Nazi Germany...
World War II-era warbirds visit Livermore - Contra Costa Times | LIVERMORE -- A trio of World War II-era warbirds will roar into Livermore Airport for the Collings Foundation's annual Wings of Freedom Tour on Memorial Day weekend. The planes will be in town Sunday through Tuesday...
World War II hero from Houston, MN sought for autograph - Coon Rapids ECM Publishers | Out of 80 men who made up the five-man flight crews of the 16 B-25 bombers of the Doolittle Raiders, only four remain alive today...
Congressional Gold Medal honoree to speak at Hangar #1 - Shore News Today | LOWER TOWNSHIP — Naval Air Station Wildwood (NASW) Aviation Museum will close its 2014 Historic Lecture Series on Thursday, May 29, at 7pm. Lectures are free and light refreshments are provided. Bernice “Bee” Falk Haydu, Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) will be the highlight of the free Historic Lecture Series. From 1942 to 1944 the WASP were the first women to fly military airplanes for the Army Air Force in WWII. In 1944, at age 23, Haydu started the 7-month training program (almost identical to that of the male cadets) at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas. After graduation she was stationed at Pecos Army Airfield, Pecos, Texas. which was an advanced training field...
IndieGOGO Campaign for B-17G ‘Lacey Lady’ * Warbirds News | WarbirdsNews recently held a conversation with Sean O’Brien, Director of Operations for the B-17 Alliance Group. The organization, based in Aurora, Oregon is working to preserve the famous Gas Station Flying Fortress, B-17G 44-85790 known as “Lacey Lady”. The B-17 Alliance Foundation has set up a IndieGOGO campaing with the objective of raising US$30,000....
Video: Warbird museum to honor Armed Forces with hangar dance, exhibitions - St. George Daily Spectrum | ST. GEORGE –Memories fade as years pass, but a local nonprofit museum in the St. George Municipal Airport complex aims to preserve some of the United States' history of involvement in wartime air campaigns...
Amelia Earhart Set To Complete Round-the-world Flight - Aviation International News | Contemporary aviatrix Amelia Rose Earhart stopped at EBACE 2014 this week, one month before she takes off from Oakland, California on The Amelia Project, attempting an aerial circumnavigation of the earth that her namesake never completed. Unlike her namesake, she will be flying a modern Pilatus PC-12 NG single-engine turboprop equipped with a Honeywell Apex glass cockpit and satellite communications by Inmarsat and Satcom1 that will enable her to stream the entire flight to followers around the globe. “The capability we have in this aircraft is incredible,” Earhart said while standing in front of a PC-12 NG at the Pilatus static display here at EBACE yesterday...
Chocks away for round the world flight - Kirriemuir Herald | A Forfar teddy bear is living up to his name by undertaking an epic round-the-world flight to raise money for Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA). James Bigglesworth Bear, the mascot of 2231 (Forfar) Squadron, Air Training Corps, took off from Perth Airport on Monday on the first leg of the 30,000-mile flight as a passenger with former Scottish Aero Club chairman Dave McElroy. Mr McElroy is aiming to complete the flight in his single-engine Piper Comanche in 80 days...
Video: Kirby Chambliss Explores New Career in Break Dancing by Tyson Rininger | Red Bull has a new promo enabling famed pilot, Kirby Chambliss to challenge world class break dancers.
Poll: Awesome Or Ugly? The 1960's Era 'Dyke Delta' Homebuilt * AirPigz | I can still remember 
being somewhere in the EAA campground at Oshkosh in about 1970 or 1971 and hearing John Dyke talking to someone about his Jetsons-like Dyke Delta. Even as a 10 year old I knew this airplane was something very special. I assumed then that...
Powering Imagination partners with Museum of Flight · General Aviation News | SEATTLE — On this date in 1927, Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris, electrifying the world with his historic 33.5-hour journey. Today Erik Lindbergh, grandson of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, is unveiling a partnership between Powering Imagination and Seattle’s Museum of Flight for future Lindbergh flights...
Inspiring Youth by Team Oracle | It was a magical morning, sharing the joy of flight with 3rd, 4th and 5th graders at Brentwood North Elementary School in New York. Sean stopped in to talk about pursuing dreams, experiencing flight and living your dreams. He shared a video about Every Kid Can Fly and...
Free flights for kids at Young Eagles rally By Janine Dorsey | TBO.com - Kids who aspire to be pilots when they grow up can have their dreams take flight this weekend when they visit the Young Eagles Flight Rally. On Saturday, May 24, at the Tampa Executive Airport, the Experimental Aircraft Association is hosting the event offering free airplane rides for children from ages 8 to 17 years old...
Blue Angels - Random-osity | Blue Angels. The big part of the air show last weekend was the Blue Angels. The show did not disappoint. The maneuvers and flight patterns they flew were amazing. They literally take your breathe away! They are flying within...
NASA's saucer-shaped craft preps for Kauai flight test - KHON2 | NASA is preparing for a Kauai test launch of their Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project. The earliest launch window is on the morning of June 3, 2014. LDSD is a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle that was built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, with final assembly at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai...
Thursday, April 10, 2014
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Qatar's first Turkish festival to include air show, musical acts - Doha News | A four-day festival 
celebrating Turkish culture will kick off at Qatar’s Katara Cultural Village on Wednesday, April 9. Features include a food court with Turkish fare, games for children, a storyteller, ballet and folk dance performances and concerts....
Midwest Airshow Season Coverage Begins with Thunder Over Louisville Next Weekend * The Aero Experience | The Aero Experience Midwest airshow and aviation event season coverage will begin next weekend with Thunder Over Louisville. The airshow will feature the USAF F-22A Demo Team from Langley AFB, VA and the USN Blue Angels Flight demonstration Squadron. We are...
Snowbirds flying back to Comox Valley - Comox Vallety Record | It's that time of the year again. The Canadian Armed Forces Snowbirds and CF-18 Demonstrations Team will begin preparations for the 2014 air show season when they arrive in Comox to finalize their annual training. The Snowbirds are scheduled to arrive April 17, with the CF-18 scheduled for April 24....
There's Something In the Air: Midwest Airport Fun Days Offers a Variety of Aerial Adventures * The Aero Experience | This new Midwest Aviation event offers free, family-friendly fun to the public with our thriving aviation community! Produced by the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum, Ideal Aviation, EAA Chapter 64 and The Aero Experience, Midwest Airport Fun Days will provide an opportunity for our visitors to experience aviation first-hand and have a lot of fun at the same time...
The thrill of the chase with Chambliss in Texas - Red Bull (International) | What's the legal top speed 
on a Texas highway? The cops say 85mph, and that's just on one stretch that boasts the highest limit in the USA… but Red Bull Air Race veteran Kirby Chambliss has other ideas about top speed, in the 250mph bracket...
Former RMAF pilot to compete in 2014 Red Bull Air Race - The Malaysian Insider | Malaysian pilot Datuk Halim Othman will pilot the Extra E-330LX aircraft provided by Red Bull Air Race. – Pic courtesy of Redbullairrace.com, April 7, 2014. Malaysian pilot Datuk Halim Othman will pilot the Extra E-330LX aircraft provided by Red Bull Air Race. – Pic courtesy of Redbullairrace.com, April 7, 2014. Malaysia has achieved a historical milestone after pilot Datuk Halim Othman (pic) was awarded the opportunity to race on home soil in the 2014 Red Bull Air Race....
UCAP353E "Big Finish" * Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Jack, Jeb and Dave are joined by UCAP pal Turbo Eddie to wrap up this year's Sun 'n Fun Fly-in as the Blue Angels fly overhead. All this and more on the Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast.
Flying in the Hunter Valley Fiesta: another ballooning article * Fly Me Friendly | Back in October 2013, Kitt & I went to the Hunter Valley Balloon Fiesta north of Sydney where I flew VH-BRR (a Kavanagh E-120) and we got to experience the food, beers & views of the Hunter region....
World War II veteran revisits his warbirds - Beaumont Enterprise | SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — Ludwig Havlak's mind was made up before stepping foot on the runway. The first thing the 92-year-old World War II veteran intended to do upon laying eyes on the last B-24J heavy bomber still whizzing through 21st century skies was kiss the hulking Army-green aircraft. Havlak, a Rowena native, flew the first of his 43 Pacific Theater missions nearly 70 years ago when he manned two guns in a B-24's bottom turret...
Tulsa Air & Space Museum Cuts Ribbon Opening Its Newest Exhibit - news9.com KWTV | TULSA, Oklahoma -The Tulsa Air and Space Museum at Tulsa International Airport cut the ribbon on its newest exhibit Monday morning. The exhibit is an American Airlines MD-80 aircraft. The airline donated the retired plane in 2010....
House that Howard Hughes famously crashed into may become a landmark - Chron.com | ...In 1946, eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes crashed a prototype reconnaissance plane into a residence that was built in 1926 by master architect Wallace Neff. Hughes was attempting to land on a nearby golf course green but came up short by 300 feet. The Los Angeles Conservancy reported in late 2013 that the 6,246 square-foot house had been slated for demolition by its new owners. The Beverly Hills Cultural Heritage Commission began drawing up paperwork in October to have it designated as a local landmark soon after...
War bird nesting at Nut Tree Airport in preparation for future air museum * The Reporter | ...More than likely because they've got an impressive warbird, a World War II B-25 Mitchell nicknamed "Tondelayo," nesting just inside the Copart hangar that's drawn dozens of visitors over the past week. The hope is that more will come once word of the 70-year-old plane, which still goes airborne, spreads, and visions of a world class air and space museum become reality....
Eduard set for Zvezda Bf 109F * Let Let Let - Warplanes | For the many years behind us, Eduard has delivered so many products related to the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and I think that without it, the world market would be far poorer. Their ranges are wide, from detail sets, Brassin conversion sets up to the complete kits. What will be presented here is the upgrade etched set for the Zvezda kit of Bf 109F in 1/72 scale...
Pilot talks to students about chasing dreams - The Singleton Argus | IT took two years of planning and non-stop ups and downs for Ryan Campbell to become the youngest person to fly around the world solo....
'Women Soar You Soar' Helps High School-age Girls Discover Aviation at EAA® AirVenture® OSHKOSH - aviationpros.com | EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. — (April 7, 2014) — EAA’s Women Soar You Soar program, which allows 100 high school-age girls discover more about aviation and all its possibilities from aviators, engineers and leaders during EAA® AirVenture® OshkoshTM, is scheduled for July 28-31 and now open for registration....
Saturday, March 22, 2014
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Video: Tampa Bay AirFest at MacDill is back! - WTSP 10 News | Over 100 thousand people are expected to come to the event. This year the Tampa Bay Airfest Team says they only had 3 months to plan the comeback event...
EAA, FAA reach settlement over AirVenture fees * Sacramento Bee | Last year, the FAA told EAA officials that the cost for 87 air traffic controllers and supervisors to come to Oshkosh for AirVenture would be nearly $448,000. The EAA signed a one-year agreement under protest and asked a federal appeals court to review ...
Annual Paulding air show to wait until 2015 by Tom Spigolon | Organizers of Paulding’s annual air show are canceling the event for 2014 and planning a 2015 show after military budget cuts in two countries cut the number of available performance dates by top-drawing acts...
Hot Rods in the Sky: Up in the Air with Red Bull Air Race Pilot Kirby Chambliss - Popular 
Mechanics | Car guys love to talk horsepower and top speed, but translating those specs to the sky requires a complete relativity recalibration. Witness, for instance, Red Bull's recent F/A-18 Hornet versus F1 car drag race (top speeds: 1,242 mph vs 236 mph)-- or more even recently, my gut-wrenching aerobatic flight with Red Bull Air Race pilot Kirby Chambliss over the California desert...
Breitling Jet Team are reaching the European continent
The 2014 NAF El Centro Airshow montage
Revenge of Hermann Goering: Red Arrows took flight after Second World War 'Luftwaffe bombs' found at base - Daily Mail | Air aces the Red Arrows took to the skies this week fearing that they could be blown up by the Luftwaffe. The nine jets scrambled from their base at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire after Second World War bombs were found there. Bomb disposal experts rushed to the site to defuse the unexploded devices thought to have been dropped by the Germans around 70 years ago...
Red Arrows to take part in Portsmouth D-Day commemorations - Portsmouth News | THEIR high speed displays stun crowds around the world – and now the Red Arrows are on their way back to Portsmouth. The Royal Air Force’s aerobatic team will take part in the city’s D-Day commemorations on June 5. There will be a number of events taking place over the week of D-Day’s 70th anniversary this year, and the Red Arrows have now confirmed their return to take part....
Can you spot the difference? Father and son become world-renowned stunt pilots from the ground after building their own remote control Red Arrows planes - Daily Mail | These photographs may appear to show a magnificent display by the world-renowned Red Arrows – but in reality they reveal remote control replicas which have been made by a father and son ‘stunt pilot’ duo....
Aviation Open House - Las Vegas Sun | North Las Vegas, Nevada, Saturday March 29th, 2014 – The Clark County Aviation Association in conjunction with the Clark County Department of Aviation will be hosting the 7th Annual Aviation Open House....
Tuskegee airmen speak in Lynwood - nwitimes.com | LYNWOOD | Samuel Dave wasn't aware that he sat across the room from aviation history as he folded and played with his paper airplane at Glenwood-Lynwood library Thursday. But the Highland Elementary third-grader certainly had a big smile on his face when he asked the members of the Chicago "Dodo" chapter of the Tuskegee airmen what it was like to fly...
WWII veteran, of Clifton, honored on 90th - NorthJersey.com | CLIFTON — World War II veteran Thomas Bristol was surrounded by family and friends for his 90th birthday last week – so unlike his birthday 70 years earlier when he was instead surrounded by flames trapped inside his plane that crash landed after it was hit by enemy fire...
Danforth Loring, 95, flew dozens of bombing missions during WWII - Omaha World-Herald | Danforth “Dan” Loring distinguished himself flying dozens of bombing missions during World War II and then served in the Korean War before enjoying a long and successful career in Omaha in the insurance industry. The retired major in the U.S. Air Force Reserve died Tuesday at the Nebraska Masonic Home in Plattsmouth at age 95, said his son, Dan Loring of Omaha. Mary Loring, Danforth Loring's wife of 70 years, was at his side....
Christ Nielsen was crewman aboard Navy rescue helicopter during Vietnam War * War Tales | Christ Nielsen of Punta Gorda, Fla. was a “Seadevil.” He was a member of U.S. Navy Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Seven that rescued downed pilots and seamen in trouble off the coast of Vietnam during the war. After three years of college he joined the Navy in December 1968. Trained to be part of the flight crew on a H-3 “Sea King” helicopter, Nielsen wound up in Subic Point, Philippines. Before his three year tour of duty was over the young Aviation Machinist Mate 2nd Class had served on nine of this country’s 11major aircraft carriers and 26 destroyers while flying as cable operator aboard a rescue helicopter...
Help the Yankee Air Museum Save the Willow Run Bomber Plant! * Warbirds News | As many WarbirdsNews readers will know from our previous articles ( click HERE), the Yankee Air Museum is hard at work raising the funds to help save part of the Willow Run Bomber Plant to become their permanent home. The Ford Motor Company license-built Consolidated B-24 Liberators in this factory by the thousand during WWII, so it...
Reaching for the Sun * CAFE Foundation Blog | SolarStratos, a two-seat, solar-powered airplane, is being readied for record flights in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, just a 25-minute drive from the Solar Impulse hangars in Payerne...
Tradition Aviation at the Jacqueline Cochrain Airport owner: 'Girls didn't fly' - The Desert Sun | INDIO — Penny Nelson has loved airplanes since she was a little girl. She remembers going to the airport with her parents to watch planes take off. But back then, aviation was a man's world. Flying planes was a distant dream...
Failure To Launch: How New Mexico Is Paying For Richard Branson’s Space Tourism Fantasy - BuzzFeed | They came from the north by helicopter, flying over scattered cattle and mesquite brush and yucca plants straining skyward. To the east was White Sands Missile Range, where the first atomic bomb was detonated, and further east was Roswell, where the streetlamps are little green alien heads. Below them was that old muddy snake, the Rio Grande, and just west, a town called Truth or Consequences. But the men on that cherry red Bell 206 LongRanger chopper were not sightseeing. They were headed to middle of the desert, where they planned to launch a bunch of spaceships...
Solar powered plane aims for the edge of space * euronews | Tickets to see the curvature of the Earth and the blackness of space above are projected to be 50,000 euros. There are many issues and questions yet to be resolved. Domjan may be a highly experienced pilot, but he's yet to fly a solar-powered electric...
Thursday, March 6, 2014
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Aerobatic pilot amazes in cockpit - azcentral.com | For Arizona pilot, the sky is his canvas. (Kirby Chambliss)
MacDill gets ready for AirFest's return - WTSP 10 News | Tampa, Florida -- One of Tampa Bay's biggest family events is coming back after two years. Tampa Bay AirFest will soar over South Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base on March 22nd and 23rd...
Tempest teams with Rower Airshows · General Aviation News Staff | ...Gary Rower of Rower Airshows is the premier 450-hp Stearman performer in North America, according to Tempest officials. “Gary combines the skill of 40 years and 20,000+ hours in the cockpit with the grace of a truly classic aircraft, the Stearman, to provide audiences from coast to coast with a show that is dedicated and choreographed to honor the excellence of the US manned space program,” officials said in a prepared release...
USMC Harrier joins '14 OC Air Show - Delmarva Now | OCEAN CITY — The Marine Corps has awarded one of only six coveted AV-8B Harrier demonstrations in 2014 to the OC Air Show. The Harrier is one of the most sought-after military aircraft demos because of its unique ability to hover, and perform a vertical takeoff and landing...
LA County Air show - KHTS Radio | What: Anticipation is building for the inaugural Los Angeles County Air Show.The show will thrill spectators with jets, warbirds, vintage aircraft, and aerobatic performances headlined by the world-famous U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration...
Red Arrows returning for RAF Cosford Airshow - shropshirestar.com | The world-famous close formation flying team will be the star attraction at the show on Sunday, June 8. The Red Arrows will be celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2014 and the Cosford Air Show will be one of the first opportunities to see their new paint scheme...
XP-82 Twin Mustang Restoration – February 2014 Update - Warbirds News | “Time flies,” as they 
say, and hot on the heals of our January XP-82 restoration project update, Warbirds News now has the goods on what Tom Reilly and his team have been up to with their Twin Mustang prototype in February. This update is based upon Tom’s words. Go beyond the jump to read the details, and see the fascinating images of true craftsmanship...
You can buy a Ukrainian Tu-95 Strategic Bomber on eBay right now - The Aviationist | The item is listed as used but shipping cost from Ukraine is included. According to the seller (a company headquartered in Switzerland with “locations” in Germany and the Ukraine whose field of activity “includes the production and distribution of goods and raw materials from Ukraine and the rest of the world”) the Tu-95MS, a variant known as Bear-H and...
The First Step - Flight To Success | T.H.ursday with Tom Hill * ...I’ve never heard of a formal poll that asks what students of Test Pilot School dreamed of doing when they were kids. When I was five, I clearly remember telling my sister, who was seven at the time, that I wanted to be an astronaut. I have friends who were “that kid” who played spaceship with gigantic cardboard boxes. They had posters of airplanes and aviation heroes on their bedroom walls instead of pop stars. Getting to TPS is not a fly-by-night desire. It’s a goal built on years of dreams....
Secret of the flying CAR: Maker set to reveal the technology behind its... - Daily Mail | As the firm gears up to finally release its flying car next year, engineers from Massachusetts-based Terrafugia are set to reveal how the Transition was created...
Another milestone in teen's flying career - Nelson Mail | Shannon Surridge has just ticked off another important milestone on the path to his career as a pilot. As planned a year ago, he gained his commercial pilot's licence on his 18th birthday last week and his ambition remains the same: "I just want to fly fulltime."...
NASA Skylab 4 Pilot William Pogue Dies At 84 - SpaceCoastDaily.com | NASA – Cocoa Beach resident William Pogue, pilot on NASA’s Skylab 4 mission in 1973-74, has died. He was 84 years old...
Friday, February 28, 2014
Red Bull Air Races are Back !!
After a three year hiatus to revamp and rework, the Red Bull Air Races are BACK! As someone who has seen four races in person and all of them via video, I could not be more thrilled.
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| Kirby Chambliss flying over Las Vegas Motor Speedway Credit: Garth Milan Red Bull Content Pool |
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| Lycoming Thunderbolts AEIO-540-EXPs Credit: Balazs Gardi Red Bull Content Pool |
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| Locations - spanning the globe |
Thursday, January 9, 2014
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11th Annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards takes flight · General Aviation News Staff | BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The 11th Annual “Living Legends of Aviation” Awards, presented by Bell Helicopter and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, will be held Jan. 17, at the Beverly Hilton. Frederick W. Smith, founder and CEO of FedEx, will be presented the “Lifetime Aviation Entrepreneur Award.” Bruce Whitman, Chairman and CEO of FlightSafety International, will receive the “Lifetime Aviation Industry Leader Award.”...
Commemorative Air Force Announces 40th Anniversary Tour of the B-29 FIFI, Celebrates with SUPERFORTRESS Calendar - PR Web| Addison, TX (PRWEB) - The year 2014 marks the 40th year of flight with the Commemorative Air Force’s (CAF) iconic B-29 Superfortress, FIFI; queen of the CAF fleet. The airplane, rescued and restored by the CAF in the early 1970s, has been a regular feature at airports and airshows all across the country. The B-29 Squadron of the CAF was the first group to...
Special FAI medals and safety delegate for the Red Bull Air Race season 2014 - World Air Sports Federation | Red-bull-air-race NewsFollowing the announcement of the resumption of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in 2014, the FAI and the Red Bull Air Race management have signed an agreement confirming FAI’s official international recognition of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship as well as detailing the FAI’s support in the form of safety supervision.
Kirby Chambliss Announces Team Chambliss Intern - Aero-News Network | Teenager Has Been Working At Airports Since He Was 14 | It's the internship a lot of us wish we'd had. Saying he "feels a strong responsibility toward encouraging the next generation of pilots and empowering our youth to realize the dream of flight," Kirby Chambliss has announced that Danny Onofryton (pictured) will be joining Team Chambliss as an intern. At 19 years old, Onofryton said he is thrilled to be a part of the team and is its youngest member...
Meet the team behind the world famous Red Arrows - Grimsby Telegraph | The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows, are world famous but little is known about the 100-strong team behind the 11 pilots. The team was officially formed in 1965 and has displayed to millions of people in 54 countries. The Telegraph finds out more about the team behind the team at RAF Scampton...
Chipmunks Display - Grand Rand Airshow 2013 (w/Video) - Infozone.tv | Father and son team Larry and Jason Beamish at Grand Rand Airshow in Germiston South Africa flying the Chipmunk display. The Chipmunk was designed to succeed the de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane trainer that was widely used during the Second World War. Wsiewolod Jakimiuk, a Polish prewar engineer, created the first indigenous design of the aircraft at de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. It is an...
A Video You Never Want to End - NORDO News | ...How often to you see video of the Pan Am seaplane operations you haven't already seen?...
Nogales war hero once again honored among peers - Nogales International | Inducted into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame in April 2012, World War I ace fighter pilot Ralph Ambrose O’Neill, 
formerly of Nogales, will be lauded in February by the Commemorative Air Force’s Airbase Arizona Aviation Museum. O’Neill was selected as one of four inductees into the museum’s Arizona Military Aviation Walk of Honor as a tribute to his distinguished contributions to the field of military aviation. He is also listed on the distinguished roster of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers Hall of Fame....
Timeless Voices - Jeannette Goodrum · eaavideo.org | Jeannette Goodrum Served as a WASP - Womens Airforce Service Pilot during WWII. Graduating with Class 43-8 in December 1943, she was involved in production line maintenance and aircraft testing before the WASPs were disbanded in December 1944.
The War Eagles Air Museum’s FJ-2 Fury · WarbirdsNews By Elena Early DePree | The “FJ-2 Fury” was the Navy version of the F-86. These airplanes were delivered to the Navy in the autumn of 1952. After the Korean Conflict, the construction contract was reduced to 200 and all “FJ-2s” were assigned to the Marine Corps. Elena Early DePree takes a closer look to the history and development of the this icon jet and the aircraft exhibited at the War Eagle Air Museum in Santa Teresa, NM....
Nose Of Comet Mk2 Saved by Volunteers · Warbirds News | Ian Wilson, a former Royal Air Force mechanic updated us on the Comet Mk2 named Sagittarius. Back in November the nose of the Comet Mk2 was saved by the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection (BDAC) by using the “scrap value” of the back end to fund its removal.This De Havilland Comet C2 XK699, named...
Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer — First for the Royal Malaysian Air Force by travelforaircraft | Scottish Aviation produced the Twin Pioneer — "Twin Pin" — during the 1950s to meet a need civilian and military operators had for a cargo aircraft with STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) capabilities. The Twin Pin more than fit the bill...
My Dad Bailed Out Of This Exact 'Navy Museum' N3N! - AirPigz | My dad, who passed away in 2009, retired from 35 years at United Airlines in 1987, and while he did bail out of the exact Navy 
N3N pictured above, he was never even in the Navy. He spent two years in the Air Force after graduating high school in 1947, but the post-war military didn't need pilots, and he...
WTF? - Vintage Wings of Canada | Compiled by Dave O'Malley from the World Wide Web, with the assistance of Alex Soupy Campbell and Omer Syed. Over the past seven years of researching aviation stories on the web, I have kept a folder on my laptop dedicated to images of Second World War aircraft that had been captured and had suffered the indignity of being painted in the national makings of the enemy they were designed to fight and vanquish–like a Spitfire in the service of the Luftwaffe, a Zero in US Navy markings....
Enjoy a Guided Tour Inside the E-4B NAOC Doomsday Plane · David Cenciotti | In the event of a nuclear war, a terrorist attack, an alien invasion or, generally speaking, Armageddon, the U.S. Air Force’s four E-4B planes based at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska will be responsible to keep the U.S. Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other top personalities alive whilst Obama would be on board the Air Force One....
A-10 escapes fresh cuts; Spartans divert - The DEW Line | Fans of the awesome A-10 can rejoice (for now at least), as Washington’s recently-signed National Defense Authorisation Act has blocked the USAF from planning to retire any additional examples until at least the end of this calendar year...
Merger of museums is lost in air & space - U-T San Diego | ...The Air & Space Museum, cramped in Balboa Park’s southern cul-de-sac, asked the adjacent Automotive Museum to consider a merger for the purpose of building new exhibit space for the benefit of both museums. The marriage makes elegant conceptual sense, believes Jim Kidrick, the energetic CEO who kick-started the courtship. (Ironically, the Air & Space building was underwritten by Ford.)...
Son Gets Dad Back in the Saddle - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | January 7, 2014 - Matthew Polak, 29, of Waukesha, Wisconsin, always considered earning his airframe and powerplant (A&P) certificate at age 20 to be his greatest accomplishment in aviation. But he feels like he surpassed it this past December when he passed his checkride and gave his non-current pilot father, Allen, a ride for the first time...
Experimental Aircraft Association offering aviation scholarship competition - Southwest Times | The EAA does this by treating children (8-17) to flights at their Young Eagles rallies, and helping plan local air events. They also speak in local schools during career days, and work with local airports to find ways to involve the community ...
6 out-of-this-world attractions for space cadets - Fox News | Are your kids fascinated by the miracle of flight? Whether they dream of piloting jets or rocketing into a galaxy far, far away, a circle tour of
our dispersed fleet of retired space craft is a great place to foster their interest...
Explore the edge of space with 'Red Bull Stratos' exhibit at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force by Sarah Swan, National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | DAYTON, Ohio -- Just over a year ago, Felix Baumgartner ascended to 127,852 feet in a stratospheric balloon and made a freefall jump, rushing toward earth at supersonic speeds before parachuting to the ground. This amazing mission broke world records and holds the potential to provide valuable medical and scientific research data for future pioneers....
Monday, December 23, 2013
Los Angeles County Air Show Announces the Red Bull Air Force Will Rock the Antelope Valley
For Christmas procrastinators discount holiday ticket promotion launched today
LOS ANGELES (December 19, 2013) - The Los Angeles County Air Show today announced the addition of the Red Bull Air Force to its exciting performer line up along with a Christmas ticket promotion for last-minute gift-giving procrastinators. Tickets will be discounted online by 20 percent through December 25th at midnight (PDT).
The Show, scheduled for March 21-22, 2014, at William J. Fox Airport, will showcase thrill-seeking performances from the Red Bull Air Force including former two time Red Bull Air Race World Champion and five time U.S. National Aerobatic Champion, Kirby Chambliss, the Red Bull Air Force wing suit flyers, and Chuck ‘Malibu’ Aaron, known as a methodical risk taker and the first civilian ever to be licensed to perform helicopter aerobatics in the U.S. Aaron has also been inducted into the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and is recognized officially as a Living Legend of Aviation.
As part of the Red Bull performance, Kirby Chambliss will fly one of his explosive aerobatic routines in conjunction with the wingsuit flyers creating an aviation circus-like performance in the sky by some of the world’s top extreme athletes.
“We are ecstatic to announce the addition of Red Bull to our ever growing roster of elite performers. Red Bull is synonymous with cutting edge extreme entertainment, and their air show teams have mastered the art of putting on an aggressive demonstration safely,” said Dennis Dunbar, executive director of the Los Angeles County Air Show. “The ability to combine their skills with the science required to pull off these breathtaking demonstrations are exactly what we are looking for when trying to inspire and motivate our youth towards educational based opportunities with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).”
The Air Show will feature several of the top air show performers from around the country including the headlining act, the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, high-energy aerobatics, barnstorming, and various warbirds. The Show will also focus on the innovative aircraft whose roots are tied to the Antelope Valley. On the ground, spectators will be able to explore static aircraft displays, interact with pilots and crewmembers, and experience interactive attractions and educational exhibits designed to promote STEM. Stay tuned as we announce additional performers and attractions in the coming weeks.
Discount Ticket Options through December 25th
For you last minute shoppers that are scrambling to fill a stocking or buy something unique for that special someone, we’ve got you covered! Stocking stuffer General Admission tickets and the Family Fun Pack are now available online and can be easily purchased at the Air Show web site. Purchase before midnight on December 25th and receive 20 percent off tickets including the Family Fun Pack! (*discount does not apply to individual parking passes)
Sponsorship information and hi-resolution images are available online at www.lacountyairshow.com. Are you a member of the media wanting to cover the show? The online press credential application is now available at the website in the News Room. The Los Angeles County Air Show web site will be updated regularly with news, attraction information and more. Fans can follow the Airshow on Facebook and Twitter (@LACountyAirShow).
About Los Angeles County Air Show
The Los Angeles County Air Show, Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the importance of aviation for continued economic growth, inspiration and educational opportunities for our youth, and enhancing awareness for the service and sacrifice of our military men and women. The mission of the Air Show will, in part, be accomplished by giving back to the needs of the community through a regional scholarship program for individuals who are interested in pursuing a career in the areas of science, technology, engineering, math or aerospace. For more information about the Los Angeles County Air Show, please visit www.lacountyairshow.com.
