Hill Air Force Base commemorates founding of Civil Air Patrol - Salt Lake Tribune | Hill Air Force Base • Formed just a few days before the Pearl Harbor attack, the Civil Air Patrol is still going strong, providing search-and-rescue services and training youth about aviation. On Sunday, the Utah wing of the Civil Air ...
Story of ‘Glacier Girl’ to highlight Wright Brothers banquet from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The story of the P-38E Lightning "Glacier Girl" will be told through the eyes of Bob Cardin, one of its rescuers and restorers, at EAA’s annual Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet on Friday, Dec. 16. The banquet, held in the Founders’ Wing of the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, will commemorate the 108th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C....
Wright Brothers historian to speak at Expo - Special to the News-Sun | SEBRING -- Darrell Collins, chief historian and interpreter at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in North Carolina, will tell the remarkable story of Wilbur and Orville Wright's 19ll flight that lasted nine minutes and 45 seconds and is regarded as the first soaring flight. Collins is on the schedule to speak Friday, Jan. 20 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 21 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in the AeroShell tent. There is no additional cost to attend this speaking engagement....
The P-47D “Tarheel Hal” from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | The “Jug” seems to be the
“unknown” fighter of WWII for most of the public. Those like the P-38, P-51 & F4U are readily recognized in comparison. Yet, the P-47D was produced in greater number then the P-51. While not as “sexy” at the other fighters, the P-47D and its crews were a major influence in the European theater. The... ‘The Nation’s Hangar’ from General Aviation News by Ben Sclair | “The Nation's Hangar: Aircraft Treasures of the Smithsonian” peers into the aircraft collection that is the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The book packs more than 225 full-color and 75 black and white photos in its 254 pages. Author F. Robert Van Der Linden offers much detail beyond the pictures....
Repainted B-26G Marauder now on display at D-Day Museum from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | PPG Industries’ aerospace business has donated coatings used to repaint a B-26G Marauder bomber airplane now on display at the D-Day Museum at Utah Beach in Normandy, France. The aircraft honors a B-26 flown by Maj. David Dewhurst Jr., father of current Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst....
'This is probably one of the first planes shot at during the attack' - KVAL | The plane bounced around from state to state until Kent Pietsch purchased the plane. He enlisted longtime friend and plane restorer Tim Talen from Jasper to rebuild the Interstate Cadet to its original form. Since June, Talen has been working to ...Donations sought for upkeep of La Fayette Flying Corps Memorial from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | From 1916 until 1918, the Escadrille Lafayette and La Fayette Flying Corps had served on practically every battlefront in France, downing 57 enemy aircraft and losing nine of its pilots in action. Despite its historic importance, the monument to America's first combat aviators built in 1928 near Paris, France, has deteriorated in recent years. The Foundation for the La Fayette Memorial is soliciting donations for remedial works on the crypt of the young heroes and for the upkeep of the monument...
WWII WASP Betty Haas Pfister always loved to fly - Bend Bulletin | It was the first of hundreds of flights that Betty Haas Pfister would make — dozens as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, during World War II, and many more as one of the nation's most successful female competitive pilots. ...
World War II vet shot down German planes - Enid News & Eagle | Keatley was a combat pilot during World War II, and once shot down two planes during a dogfight over Germany. He was a member of the 78th Fighter Wing, operating out of England, where he flew 59 missions, mostly guarding bombers on bombing runs. ...
Lost ‘Bermuda Triangle’ Pilots Honored - Kathryns Report | Three months after World War II ended, five US Navy torpedo bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale on a routine training mission and never returned — their disappearance helping to spawn the myth of the Bermuda Triangle. At 1:30 p.m. on Monday [Dec.5], 66 years later, aviation buffs and military personnel will gather at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to honour the memories of the 14 servicemen who vanished along with Flight 19....
Kuwaiti pilot recounts ordeal as POW Physical torture, starvation faced at ... - Arab Times Kuwait English Daily | All our flights were Sky Hawks, used by the US Navy. The operation actually started on Jan 16 in the US, but due to the time difference, for us in Saudi Arabia, the operation began on Jan 17, because it was past midnight here when we got the news that ...
Kansas Aviation Museum Plans Cessna Exhibit - WIBW | (AP) -- Cessna Aircraft is the focus of a new exhibit opening soon at the Kansas Aviation Museum. Cessna and other donors are picking up the tab for the exhibit, which will present information on founder Clyde Cessna and the company bearing his name....
Treasure of WWII mementoes needs a home - Chicago Sun-Times | Among them is the treasure trove of memorabilia from his years as a master mechanic working — and painting nose art — on B-24 bombers during World War II. “All this stuff,” he laments, pointing to the photos and news articles displayed proudly in his ...
Hindustan Aeronautics HAL Pushpak-26, G-BXTO from Shortfinals's Blog | Sometimes an article is copied out of necessity or for clandestine purposes - the German ‘Gerät Potsdam’, a wartime copy of the British Mk II Sten gun, is an example of this, as was the Tupolev Tu-4 (NATO reporting name ‘Bull’), a Soviet reverse-engineered Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. HAL-26 Pushpak could be said to be in the same class of objects....
Global 'Civil Aviation Day' on December 7 - Business Recorder | International Civil Aviation Day will be observed December 7 across the world including Pakistan to raise awareness of the importance of international civil aviation and the role that the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) plays in ...
New reality TV series seeks ‘bush pilot’ from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | AOPA's Dan Namowitz reports that the call has gone out to cast a bush pilot to become one of 12 people who will be brought together “in a remote area of Alaska,” where they will rely on their own resourcefulness while building a homestead in a new Discovery Channel series tentatively called "The Frontiersmen." At the end of the series, the "top operator in the group" gets the homestead....
L'AQUILA BALLOON FESTIVAL 2011 - BALLOON SULL'AQUILA from Aviation-
Report.com | Eagle balloons balloon festival in December 2011 Airport Preturo For the first time at the Eagle air balloons take off, to d 'to 8' 11 December there will be a weekend at a high altitude for L'Aquila Abruzzo you can admire the scenery from 'high....Apollo 13 Notebook Sold For $388K from Aero-News Network | James Lovell's Hand Calculations Saved Spacecraft The phrase, "Houston, we have a problem," is a famous line from the 1995 Ron Howard movie,"Apollo 13." Now, the handwritten notes of Commander James Lovell, including the calculations which led to the safe return of the spacecraft to Earth, have brought $388,375 at auction.
Video: Flight line at Balls 20 from High Power Rocketry by R2K
