Randolph Air Force Base - 2009-Randolph Air Show via http://www.randolph.af.mil/ on 11/6/09The 2009 Randolph Air Show takes place Nov. 7-8.
The gates open at 9 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. both days.
The event is free and open to the public. ...
Free air show in Homestead via miamiflonthecheap.com
Homestead Air Reserve Base is inviting its neighbors to a free air show Nov. 7-8 as a way to give thanks and foster awareness for the local military units. Wings over Homestead will be the first air show hosted by the Air Force at the base since before Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Wings Over Homestead's feature performers will be the USAF Thunderbird.
The event will include aerial acrobatics, skydiving, vintage airplanes, a jet car, ...
New features highlight Fantasy of Flight's third Roar 'n' Soar - News Chief
AUBURNDALE -- Roar n' Soar, Fantasy of Flight's two-day extravaganza of classic land, sea and air racing machines, returns Saturday and Sunday with new ...
MORALE: The JATO Show Dies Of Old Age - Strategy Page
The US Navy Blue Angels acrobatic team will no longer feature their C-130 (called "Fat Albert", and used to haul around the maintenance personnel and their ...
Warriors & Warbirds Airshow At Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport by ssherron on 11/2/09
Monroe, NC The Warriors & Warbirds Airshow is coming to Monroe. This promises to be an incredible family fun event that you will remember for a lifetime.
VNA Air Show Week declared - Vero Beach Press-Journal
The people of Martin County know the Visiting Nurse Association Air Show as a tradition, a family event, and as a fun weekend of planes and pilots. These are all pieces that comprise the air show itself but this morning at the Board of County Commission meeting, a proclamation was brought forth that honored the air show for the good it does for our community and for the VNA. ...
Wright brothers' descendent speaks at society meeting - Cincinnati.com
She also works to preserve the story of her famous family's contributions to aviation history and is actively involved with a number of aviation-related ...
Blue Impulse - Tokyobling's Blog
The main event of the air show is obviously the Japanese Air Acrobatic team, the Blue Impulse and their Kawasaki T-4 Trainers. They performed a stunning air show complete with sky writing of fearsome precision. ...
Airportfest features Formula 1 racers via AOPA News
Two Formula 1 racers that competed in the forty-sixth annual National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nev., were on display at Peter O. Knight Airport during AOPA Aviation Summit's Airportfest.
CIVA Meets in Oshkosh via FAI Aerobatics Commission - CIVA
The FAI Aerobatics Commission (CIVA) met in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA on 16-18 October 2009 and discussed a broad range of issues, considered proposals for 2010, and accepted bids from contest organizers for next year.
CIVA President Mike Heuer will be writing about the meeting shortly on his blog and the Minutes of the meeting will be published here as soon as possible.
The CIVA meeting started with rides in the EAA's Ford Trimotor on Friday, 16 October, informal discussions, and then the Sport Aviation Hall of Fame ceremonies in the Eagle Hangar of the Museum. Famed test pilot and airshow performer Bob Hoover was inducted into the Aerobatics Hall of Fame and had the opportunity to meet many of the CIVA Delegates. ...
CIVA Publishes New List of Judges via FAI Aerobatics Commission - CIVA
Judges at work.Judges at work.At the 2009 plenary meeting of CIVA, new Judges for the FAI International List of Judges for Aerobatics were approved and inactive Judges were deleted. During this past contest season, more time was demanded of our contest officials than any time in CIVA's history. The 2010 season will not be quite as intense, however, the World Advanced and European Glider Aerobatic Championships (Finland), the European Aerobatic Championships (Czech Republic), and the World Advanced Aerobatic Championships (Poland) are all scheduled to take place in 2010. Panels of 10 Judges each will needed in addition to the Chief Judges, Assistants, and other personnel on the judging line.
The new 2009-2010 list of Judges is available below as a download in PDF.
Baillieu vows bid for air race - The Age
VICTORIA will bid to host the world-famous Red Bull Air Race if the Coalition wins next year's state election. Seeking to brand himself as a ''major ...
The Arizona Republic - AZ Central.com
Warbirds on display include the B-17 Flying Fortress "Sentimental Journey", a B-25 Mitchell Bomber, North American SNJ/T-6, Stearman trainers, and more. ...
Military Milestones from the Birth of the Marines to the First Jet Fight - Human Events
... launch from a ship underway (see last week), Lt. Theodore Gordon Ellyson makes the first successful aircraft catapult launch in Naval aviation history. ...
Veterans Day celebration - Atascadero News
Tony Woods, retired Marine, patriotic music by the Atascadero Community Band, a fly-over by the Estrella Warbirds, colorguard by the Boy Scouts and the ...
Our Veterans: Frozen in Time, but Not Forgotten - The Moderate Voice
This one, however, did not involve the recovery of our troops, but rather the recovery of an aircraft, a P-38 aptly named "Glacier Girl" afterwards. ...
Veterans Airlift Command founder honored - AOPA Pilot
( See "A welcome lift for wounded vets") "As airboss of the Veterans Airlift Command, I am honored to accept this award on behalf of the 1250 volunteer ...
John Adams, 89, combat pilot in three wars - Atlanta Journal Constitution
One of the few American pilots to see combat during three major conflicts -- World War II, Korea and Vietnam -- he piloted a B-17 Flying Fortress on air ...
Veterans Day events for 2009 - Arlington Advocate
The square will honor Eugene mcgurl, a World War II airman who bombed Tokyo as one of the "Doolittle's Raiders," and the other 12 members of the mcgurl ...
Veterans' Support Groups to Be Honored - The Ledger
LOCATION: Florida Air Museum at Sun 'n' Fun, 4175 Medulla Road. TICKETS:General admission $10 adults, $5 students. In observance of Veterans Day, ...
Jets to perform flypast in memory of fallen heroes - Northern Echo
The aircraft, as used by the world famous Red Arrows, will make their flypast at Sunday's Remembrance service and wreath-laying ceremony at the war memorial ...
C-17 aircrew scores touchdown in mission with NFL greats via AF.mil Top Stories
The quarterback was crouched in his uniform, scanning the field from under his helmet for his intended receivers. But this was no stadium; it was a C-17 Globemaster III flying over the harsh and dangerous terrain that is Afghanistan. And there was no football, but rather 18 much-needed bundles of food, water and supplies for troops at a forward operating base. The quarterback, in this case a loadmaster, found his targets. Touchdown! ...
Super Genius Airshow Blog via airshowreviews.blogspot.com
... This B1B Lancer was right next to the F-35. Are you starting to get an idea how huge this hangar is yet? I can't even tell you what the aircraft parked behind it are as we were so enthralled with the 35 that we never made it back there (at least I didn't). Heck I didn't even take a single pic of the F-22 that was parked right on the other side of the F-35. Also in this hangar was a Globalhawk UAV. ...
A Pilot's Story - EAA Chapter 119
"A Pilot's Story is a feature length documentary film that explores the mystical attraction and endless adventure that draw pilots into the sky. The story is told in the voices of noted aviators ranging from aerobatic champions and ...
Ninety-Nines Celebrate 80 Years Advocating for Women Pilots via EAA
Eighty years ago, on November 2, 1929, an unknown newspaper columnist wrote those words about 26 women who planned to convene an organizational meeting at an airport on Long Island, New York, that would eventually lead to the formation of the Ninety-Nines, an organization dedicated to helping women pilots.
Momentum needed to get women into aviation - AOPA Pilot
In the 1920s and 1930s, the "Golden Age of Aviation," women were involved as parachutists and competed in the first All-Transcontinental Women's Air Race, ...
A Few Minutes With ... Steve Jacobs - Charleston Post Courier
An avid pilot — his father worked on Army helicopter production during the Vietnam War — Jacobs was involved with the Young Eagles outreach group that ...
Aerial skills put to the test - The Ashburton Guardian
The Mid Canterbury Aero Club is hosting the Alpine Aero Clubs' area rally and dozens of pilots from clubs from Nelson, Blenheim and around Canterbury will ...
EAA News - EAAer Uses 3D Animation to Reconstruct Hudson River Landing via http://www.eaa.org/ The landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson has been dissected from many angles and now one EAA member has created what is likely the most complete and visually impactful animated reconstruction of the event to date.
Kas Osterbhur, vice-president of engineering for K3 Resources, Inc., which specializes in accident reconstruction, began the project after a conversation with EAA staff during EAA AirVenture 2009. Using their Exosphere3D software, Osterbuhr initially set out to create a reconstruction to use as a marketing vehicle; however after investing 200 hours his curiosity continued to drive him to refine the project into deeper and deeper detail. ...
New NOTSnik images via High Power Rocketry
These are two new (to this blog anyway) images from the NOTSnik project. I could spend the rest of my life just focusing on project farside, NOTSnik, vanguard, and the Thor-able moon shots.
Max Shoots The Albatross via Another Time
Max Haynes does it again with a beautiful photo essay of a Grumman Albatross. If you are a fan of the Grumman seaplanes this is a must see! The paint scheme is one of the slickest schemes I have ever seen applied to a seaplane. The inside looks like a yacht. How would you like one of these to fly around the world in?
See the photo essay here.Reflections from the late Charles F. Dare - Star News
... view the hole in the 80th floor of the Empire State building a few blocks away after an Air Force B-25 bomber had crashed into it a few days before! ...
Warrior Flight via AF.mil Photos
The B-25 Mitchell medium bomber "Special Delivery" and a Japanese A6M2 Zero replica built from a North American T-6 Texan fly over downtown San Antonio Nov. 5, 2009. The Alamo is visible to the left in the stand of trees below the Zero. Larry Gregory is one of the pilots of the B-25 from the Lone Star Flight Museum and Jim Ryan pilots the Zero of Tora Tora Tora. The Disabled American Veterans Flight Team organized flights aboard historic and experimental air show aircraft for wounded warriors from the Warrior Transition Unit of the San Antonio Military Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, two days before the Randolph Air Force Base "Forging the Future" Air Show.
Archived photos at X planesA picture is worth a thousand questions via FlightBlogger
For those of you who have paid a visit to the Future of Flight museum at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, this large monolithic composite barrel will be quite familiar to you. A few weeks ago, Boeing removed three barrel - a demonstrator of 787 section 47 - from its exhibit in at the museum and relocated back to the factory grounds. It's been rigged up near the 40-41 building and appears to have a vertical stabilizer leading edge now attached to the top of it. I confess to having absolutely no earthly clue as to the purpose of this barrel's reclamation, but it does inspire many many questions? Can anyone shed some light?
AirTran's Latest Football Livery via Things in the Sky
AirTran has already released some special liveries for the Atlanta Falcons and the Baltimore Ravens, and now a third, for the Indianapolis Colts, has been spotted. Kudos to Chris Weyer for snapping these pictures at Hartsfield: ...
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