Knicely Done: Blue Angels Ride Of A Lifetime * WOWT | There were a lot of pre-flight instructions but one in particular really stood out: "The airsickness bags are right there by your arm." It's something this reporter thought about a lot in anticipation of a once in a lifetime opportunity to fly with the famed Blue Angels in advance of their performance at the Offutt Air Show on Saturday and Sunday....
Wes Welker flies with Thunderbirds *9NEWS KUSA | Denver Broncos wide receiver Wes Welker participated in an F-16 ride along with the Air Force Thunderbirds Sunday afternoon at Cheyenne Regional Airport. The All-Pro NFL player participated in a three hour pre-flight training before taking to the skies for roughly sixty minutes of barrel rolls, and sharp turns, moving as fast as 9g's...
Photo Gallery: Aerial demonstrations cap Farnborough Airshow * Stars and Stripes | FARNBOROUGH, England — Five days of aviation exhibits at the Farnborough Airshow came to an end this weekend with a series of flight demonstrations. The show's schedule on Sunday featured more than 20 aerial displays with performances from the...
Video: Farnborough International Airshow Highlights * Belfast Telegraph | The amazing flying displays showcase the most advanced aircraft in both commercial and military design.
The best of the Farnborough Airshow 2014 - Telegraph | Multiple videos from the Telegraph staff
Video: Air Show scales new heights as 85,000 people turn out * Independent | THE air was dark with Vampires, Ravens and Black Knights – and 85,000 turned out to watch the free air show over the weekend. Jets, choppers and retro crafts were amongst the aircraft that took to the skies in ideal conditions at this year’s Bray Air Display....
Local pilot takes part in airshow * KETV 7 | A few months ago, Capt. Tommy Reynolds learned his base would be coming to the Offutt Air Force Base for the air show. But his name wasn’t on the list. However, he was able to pull some strings and lead his formation in for the weekend...
“The Greatest Show on Turf” – 2014 Geneseo Airshow Report * Warbirds News | In the finger lakes 
region of New York there is a village called Geneseo. In this village, down a gravel road, there is an airfield with a grass runway. On this grass airfield, for one weekend every July, one of the greatest gatherings of warbirds in the country takes place. It is called “The Greatest Show on Turf”. The Geneseo-based National Warplane Museum hosted warbirds this year from both the US and Canada, including many rare aircraft. Warbirds headlining the show included the Military Aviation Museum’s de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito, Fagen Fighters’ Lockheed P-38J Lightning “Rough Stuff” and the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s Westland Lysander Mk3A....
18th Gathering of Eagles Air Show soars high in Willoughby (with video) * news-hearld | Dan Compton of Painesville and his family couldn’t wait to check out the planes at the 18th annual Gathering of Eagles Air Show on July 20 at Lost Nation Airport in Willoughby. He said he has always loved airplanes, and now his two sons, Jake and Troy, share that love, too...
Heading to Oshkosh? Add WomenVenture to your MUST DO list * WAI Connect Blog | Details here!
Airshow Troyes in unpredictable weather (Afternoon) · Translated-Passion for Aviation | despite a 
very unstable weather, the meeting organized by the Grand Troyes Skyline Events this June 29, 2014 gave us a good show and 10,000 spectators were highly rewarded by stunning presentations in flight...
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Video: At 94, Betty Strohfus boards another B-17 - FOX 9 News | EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (KMSP) -The AirExpo at Flying Cloud Airport is truly for aviation enthusiasts of all ages, but possibly one of the oldest veterans at the show has earned her stripes in more ways than one.... Soon after that the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Betty enlisted in 1943 and out of 25,000 applicants.. She was one of just 1,800 picked to be a Woman Airforce Service Pilot or “WASP.” Eager to share her stories whenever she can, Strohfus co-piloted 8 different aircraft during WWII....
Inauguration of the Checkertails of Lesina Monument · WarbirdsNews | May 13 – 16, 2014, four days that none of us will never forget. Through his recollections of his war years in Lesina, Italy, my father Primiano gave the spark that eventually became my mission to create a memorial honoring the US Army Air Force’s 325th Fighter Group for their efforts during WWII to free his town from Nazi tirrany. That day became a...
USAF Weapons School students get first look at upgraded B-1s * Air Combat Command - Top ACC 
Stories | For the first time students from the US Air Force Weapons School got to fly with the newly upgraded Sustainment Block-16 B-1B Lancer during the student's Integration Phase (IT) at Nellis AFB, Nev. Dyess Airmen from the 337th Test and Evaluation Squadron brought the B-1s to Nellis for the weapons school students to get hands-on with the new technology. The three-week exercise at Nellis is the final phase of the weapons school curriculum and allows students to put all their learned skills to practice in a training environment that is as close to actual combat as possible...
Red Bull Air Race returns to Styria * Translated | The final of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2014 takes place on 25-26. Of October at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. The last race of the comprehensive eight stations Championships are held on the Formula 1 racetrack in Styria. Eleven years ago, the series launched the first race ever in Zeltweg, Austria. As a replacement for the unrealizable race in China, the Red Bull Air Race is returning to its origin...
Rogue Eagles Radio Control Airplane Club shows off warbirds * NBC5 | Eagle Point, Ore. -- The Rogue Eagles Radio Control Airplane Club took to the skies Saturday. Plane enthusiasts showed off their remote control warbirds from WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Current military aircraft was also displayed....
Veteran R/C flyers work with students on ERAU runway * The Daily Courier | It was all eyes on the skies Friday morning, when a group of teenagers met with members of the local Casa de Aero R/C 
Flying Club for a quick course in radio-controlled flying. One by one, the teens took control of hand-held transmitters, putting a fleet of model airplanes through elaborate turns and dives in the sky above the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) campus...
‘One Giant Leap …’ San Diego Air & Space Museum Marks 45th Anniversary of Moon Landing * Times of San Diego | Sunday marks the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and San Diego’s Air & Space Museum has an Apollo spaceship and moon rocks on display. ...The Apollo 11 lunar module landed astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon at 1:18 p.m. San Diego time on Sunday, July 20, 1969. Armstrong stepped onto the moon about six hours later and proclaimed, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” a statement broadcast live worldwide....
Monday, July 21, 2014
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Monday, November 25, 2013
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Video: Lambeau Field flyover is first for EAA's WWII B-17 bomber - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Green Bay — On a clear, cloudless Sunday, pilot Sean Elliott lined his aircraft right on the large oval 
target and aimed the B-17 bomber toward its objective. The bomb bay doors opened but no ordnance dropped. Plenty of cameras clicked, though....
Reno Air Races cuts staff, must raise $500000 - Las Vegas Sun | Air race president and CEO Michael Houghton, in a statement, says immediate financial assistance is needed in order to put on the 51st annual event in September. Insurance alone to cover the air races was over $2 million in 2012 and $1.2 million in 2013...
Happy Birthday To The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito · Warbirds News By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC | Seventy-three years ago today, the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito took flight for the first time. One of the most useful Allied aircraft of World War II, the Mosquito performed as a bomber, fighter, anti-shipping and photo-reconnaissance platform. The key to the success of the “Wooden Wonder” was its light wood construction and the power of its twin Merlin engines, which gave it the speed to out-fly almost every other aircraft type of the war. Nicknamed the “Mossie” by its crews, the...
The last tense minutes of a fighter pilot about to eject from an F-16 hit by enemy fire over Serbia · David Cenciotti | The following video and audio were recorded by the U.S. Air Force F-16CG #88-0550 belonging to the 31th Fighter Wing from Aviano airbase, Italy, which was shot down during a combat mission over Serbia during Allied Force. The F-16, callsign “Hammer 34? was egressing from the target area located near Novi Sad, at 02.00 AM LT on May 2, 1999, when a Serbian surface-to-air missile exploded close to the plane, causing heavy damage to its engine...
Chico Air Museum gets F-86 Sabre Jet - Enterprise-Record | CHICO — There's nothing unlucky about its 13th aircraft, in the view of the Chico Air Museum. On Friday, an F-86 Sabre Jet arrived at the air museum's new headquarters on Ryan Avenue. The nonprofit air museum acquired the fighter aircraft that was a workhorse of the Korean War...
Aircraft Restoration: Vought (XF-8A) XF8U-1 Crusader - The Lexicans | The Museum of Flight located in Everett, Washington is undertaking restoration of a Vought F-8 Crusader, known as . However this isn’t just any F-8. The aircraft undergoing restoration is BuNo: 138899, was the first F-8 built served as the prototype for a production run totaling 1219 aircraft...
YP-24 - Travel for Aircraft | The U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) desired a modern replacement of the Berliner-Joyce P-16 and the Detroit Aircraft Corp. (DAC) joined with Lockheed Aircraft to produce the YP-24 in 1930 — the chief designer was Robert Woods of DAC. The aircraft looked much like the biplane P-16 but was a monoplane and with retractable landing gear — which was the Lockheed firms main contribution, essentially the wing of the Lockheed Altair...
Poll: Awesome Or Ugly? The Vought V-173 Flying Pancake - AirPigz | ...This time around the 
chosen aircraft is the Vought V-173 'Flying Pancake'. There was only one built, with the first flight taking place in 1942. With that high deck angle and those massive props, it's easy to think of this all-wing testbed as a bit of a beast, but the reality is that it weighs about the same as an older Cessna 172 (both the empty and gross weights) and it's only got a total of 160hp coming from...
Aviation's key role in Nelson history - The Nelson Mail | It fills a gap. The only other volumes of Nelson aviation history that Mr McConnell is aware of are a slim book, Flying Home, produced by the Nelson City Council in 1985, and a Nelson Aero Club 50th jubilee commemorative magazine, published 30 years ago...
Dyess Airman tapped for presidential maintenance by Airman 1st Class Alexander Guerrero, 7th Bomb Wing Public Affairs | 11/22/2013 - DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- Not many Air Force maintainers get a chance to be part of the aircraft fleet that provides support to the President of the United States, but for one Dyess Airman that prestigious opportunity has arrived...
CoolPix: Retro-Art Desktop Pic Of The Amazing Bugatti 100p (Out Of The Past) - AirPigz | To me the Bugatti 100p is one of the most beautiful airplanes ever designed. It's also pretty fascinating that it never actually flew... but of course an extensive project to build a flying replica has been in the works for years now, and it's getting very close to completion. Check out the Bugatti 100p project on facebook for lots of pix and info on the replica...
Aviation mechanic remembers lifetime in Fairbanks
- Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | Aviation mechanic Jim Anderson grew up
on Eights Avenue in downtown Fairbanks. When he was a little boy, he
liked to run down Cowles Street to Weeks Field, where he would walk into
an airplane hangar, stand there and just watch the mechanics work...
Armstrong’s Close Call - Air & Space Magazine | I'd STILL be groping for the dang ejection handle! These guys and the entire space program at that time deserve kudos for what they accomplished with basically a pencil and slide rule andless computer power than your new car. I can remember watching that black and white image of him stepping off the LEM onto the lunar surface. Remarkable then and still today! He said of himself, "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer."...
Video: Astronaut Hadfield shares 'unbeatable point of inspiration' with PBS Host Miles O'Brien - Spaceports | Col. Chris Hadfield captured the world's curiosity when he tweeted videos of everyday life on the space station and covered David Bowie's song "Space Oddity." Science correspondent Miles O'Brien talks to the retired Canadian astronaut, author of "An Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth," about the importance of space exploration.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
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Parachutist dies at Florida air show - CNN | A parachutist fell to his death Saturday when his parachute failed to deploy during an air show north of Tampa, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said. The man, Mark Curto, 62, had jumped from a biplane and died on the scene, sheriff's spokeswoman 
Melanie Snow said. The pilot landed safely....
Blue Angels, military outreach back on - UT San Diego | The Pentagon on Friday said it will reinstate the Navy’s Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds flying teams, port visits, service weeks and band appearances, but at 45 percent of what the public outreach effort used to be....
Fly Pass Creates Double Excitement For Al Ain Aerobatic Show - zawya.com | 10th Edition Al Ain Aerobatic Show Tickets Go On Sale | Abu Dhabi, UAE. October 19, 2013: Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi), which is organising the UAE National Day weekend Al Ain Aerobatic Show, has launched a two-for-one 'FLY PASS' advantage deal which delivers entry to the 10th anniversary show and exciting benefits at four key attractions in the emirate's heritage heartland. 
"The pass is designed to give visitors even more reasons to spend the November 30th-December 2nd National Day weekend in Al Ain," explained Sultan Al Muhairi, General Co-ordinator for Al Ain Aerobatic Show 2013. "We are looking to encourage visitors to stay longer in our Oasis City and discover some of its year-round attractions and to make it as affordable and compelling as possible."...
Black Iron Birds In the Sky - English Russia | Aerobatic team “Rus” was formed in 1987. It still consists of highly professional pilots, each of them has flight experience of about 2500 hours on various planes. Inside this post you may see some photos of the team’s display at MAKS 2013 air show...
2014 Event - Mojave Experimental Fly-in | April 19-20, 2014... Concept: A gathering of the leading Experimenters currently involved in GA. The event opens Saturday with a mid-day fly-in from 10 to 2. After the heat of the day has passed there will be a dinner starting at 6 with awards and a speaker. Then early morning on Sunday we gather at the airport for the departure of the show aircraft...
Strega Canopy Nomination - Mojave Experimental Fly-in | Award Nomination... Description: During qualifying for the 2013 National Championship Air Races Matt Jackson and Strega suffered an inflight structural failure of the canopy. The canopy shattered and departed the aircraft during flight. In order to remain in contention for the trophy a new canopy had to be installed before Friday’s heat 
race. This required sourcing a new canopy, trimming and fitting that new canopy and installing it in the existing canopy frame on a significantly abbreviated schedule away from their home shops...
60 years of the Patrouille de France - Translated | Wednesday was held last demonstration of the season for the Patrouille de France, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary....
Dream to turn Red Arrows' home into world attraction - thisislincolnshire.co.uk | Artist's impressions of a major new tourist attraction at the home of the Red Arrows have been released. Hangars at RAF Scampton would be converted as part of a multi-million pound project which could attract 200,000 people from around the world every year...
Outback aviation royalty celebrated By John Casey - Mulitplatform Journlaist | From state of the art aerial medical simulators to Warbirds and ancient flying machines of yesteryear, The Aero Club of Broken Hill and Royal Flying Doctor Service joint birthday party had it all...
Pushing 80, veteran aviator Pete Michaud nowhere near ready to quit - brownwoodtx.com | Maybe he'd utter the philosophical sayings of an elder statesman. Maybe he'd say it's time to think about retirement ― after all, he will celebrate his 80th birthday in February....
World War II vets share B-17 memories in Savannah - savannahnow.com | They stood quietly beneath the right wing of an airplane nearly identical to the bombers they flew as young Army officers some 70 years ago over Germany and France....
November luncheon to honor World War II veterans - Fox Houston | HOUSTON (FOX 26) -John Bixby's earns a living flying for an airline, but he lives to fly this WWII training aircraft called an AT-6. "It's a handful. It was a handful to learn because of what it is. It's a quirky old war bird," he says. The plane belongs to the West Houston Wing of the Commemorative Air Force. The organization is dedicated to preserving military aviation, especially World War II aviation...
Boeing F-15SA Makes Second, Longer Flight From St. Louis - The Aero Experience | The Boeing F-15SA (Saudi Advanced) Eagle flew again Friday on a two-hour test flight, taking off solo from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and later returning to land accompanied by an L-39 chase plane from Air USA. This is the second in a series of test flights that will involve three aircraft through October before resuming at Edwards AFB, CA. The updated fly-by-wire control system continues to...
Landmark Aviation to present donation to Able Flight at NBAA - General Aviation News | Landmark Aviation will present a donation check to nonprofit organization Able Flight during the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) 2013 Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition in Las Vegas. The presentation ceremony will take place at Landmark Aviation’s NBAA exhibition booth N4515 on Oct. 23 at 2 p.m. The $8,444.90 donation is a portion of fuel sales collected through a Landmark Aviation partnership with Jet Aviation, Inc....
Dr Sky interviews Captain Mark Kelly - Photorecon.net | Attending the Reno Air Races is a great experience! I also had the opportunity to interview former Astronaut Mark Kelly. He has a rich history in aviation and space flight. Captain Kelly was kind to give me this interesting interview, on his time in space and the future of space travel...
Neil Armstrong’s Champ - Photorecon.net | In 1946, a 16 year old Neil Armstrong was landing an Aeronca Champ in a field in Ohio. He probably looked out the side window and saw a bright red sun rapidly descending in the western sky, illuminating some grain bins. That was the same humble beginning that most pilots have, a little experience behind them and a lot of...
The Save The Voodoo006 Campaign · Warbirds News | Earlier this year the Jet Aircraft Museum in London Ontario was awarded the opportunity to save a CF-101 Voodoo jet that is currently located in Cornwallis Nova Scotia. The retired Canadian Air Force jet represents a important time in Canada’s jet heritage and the Save Voodoo 006 project has been raising funds to save this unique jet. Voodoo #006 was one of two of the last in service CF-101 Voodoos in 1987. On April 19, 1987, Voodoo #101006, made the world’s last Voodoo flight, going to CFB Chatham, NB. The aircraft was then moved to its current resting and display place in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia at the Cornwallis Military Museum. However...
Flight of the Intruder - Air & Space Magazine | Their assignment, 45 years ago: Drop mines over Vietnam, something no jet had ever done....
This Helmet is a Technological Wonder for F-35 Fighter Jets - Motley Fool | A few months ago, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC ) delivered its 500th AN/AAQ-37 Distributed Aperture System (DAS) sensor to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT ) for integration into the F-35 Lightning II aircraft....
EXCLUSIVE: Brooklyn man arrested for flying drone over Manhattan - ABC News | NEW YORK (WABC) -- He's a musician from Brooklyn but he has struck a wrong note with the NYPD who tracked him down after our story aired and charged the inexperienced, drone operator with reckless endangerment. It's his own video that helped the NYPD nail David Zablidowsky . The 34-year-old musician from Brooklyn is clearly seen at the controls of the drone. The 34-year-old musician from Brooklyn is clearly seen at the controls of the drone....
ABC Developing 'Astronaut Wives Club' TV Series - mashable.com | A best-selling book about the women behind America's original astronauts is now being adapted for television by the co-creator of Gossip Girl. ABC has given the go for producer Stephanie Savage to pen a limited drama series 
based on author Lily Koppel's The Astronaut Wives Club, the entertainment news site Deadline Hollywood broke Wednesday. The TV show is reportedly being fast-tracked, possibly for summer 2014....
Virgin Galactic Wants To Do Moon Cruises, Replace The Concorde For Terrestrial Travel - Tech Crunch | Virgin Galactic is starting off sending a small group of billionaires into space, which is pretty cool… if you’re a billionaire. But the startup’s (yes, it’s a startup, even with Richard Branson at the helm) Commercial Director Stephen Attenborough took the stage at Wired 2013 in London today to talk a bit more about what the space travel company wants to do beyond billionaires. Hint: It could save the cruise business...
Saturday, June 29, 2013
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This Weekend: Find the air show closest to you on the Fencecheck calendar!
Celebration of Life planned for Wicker - WDTN | BEALETON, Va. (WDTN) - A celebration of life for wing walker Jane Wicker will be held in her home state of Virginia, but you can still get involved. Friends will take flight Tuesday, July 9 at the Flying Circus Aerodrome in Bealeton. That's where Wicker and pilot Charlie Schwenker often performed....
Crowds turn out for first night of air show By Keith Lewis ~ Southeast Missourian | The line of people waiting to see the 2013 Cape Regional Air Festival on Friday was already a long one even before the gates opened at 5 p.m. While the number of people attending Friday's portion of the air festival has yet to be determined, there were some who came to the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport from outside the local area to witness the spectacle....
Pilots bring 'smash and swagger' to aerobatic competition - Lincoln Journal Star | Straight lines and
round curves. Positive and negative G forces. Pilots grunt to prevent a vision blackout, the result of too much blood draining from the heads and eyes. They relax to ensure their vision doesn’t turn red, which can happen with a surge of blood. While competing at the Midwest Aerobatic Championships at the Seward Municipal Airport, pilots must deal with these forces, all while keeping their biplanes and monoplanes inside a 3,281-square-foot cube in the sky....
Warbirds will take to Daytona's skies for Coke Zero 400 By Deborah Circelli | DAYTONA BEACH — Coke Zero 400 fans won't hear the roar of high-powered military jets over the Speedway at the end of the national anthem, but they will be entertained with vintage warbirds. As the sequester budget cuts continue to keep military jets grounded, Daytona International Speedway has secured a group of eight World War II-type aircraft to perform the pre-race flyover at the July 6 race...
Airshow grounded due to loss of money By Loretta George | Because the Fort Scott Airport lost money from last year's airshow, the Airport Advisory Board voted during its April 4 meeting to not hold the event this year....
Red Arrows fly in for Meppershall Summer Fair today - Comet 24 | THE famous Red Arrows will be flying in for a summer fair today. Meppershall Summer Fair promises to be an exceptional one with not only the Red Arrows closing the show at 5.08pm but also a Battle of Britain Memorial Hurricane flypast at 2.05pm...
Lewis Hamilton has Literal Flying Lap with RAF Red Arrows - BenzInsider | Who says you can’t 
mix business with pleasure? Sometimes, though, F1 drivers have way better perks than most of us. Take Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 driver Lewis Hamilton, for instance. He just spent time with David Coulthard and the RAF Red Arrows last Friday, a side event leading up to this weekend’s British GP....
State of Indiana Proclaims August 17 As Model Aviation Day - Aero News Network | Celebration Planned For Academy of Model Aeronautics National Headquarters In Muncie, IN | The Academy of Model Aeronautics is pleased to announce that the state of Indiana, led by Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, has declared August 17, 2013, as Model Aviation Day....
Fort Worth Aviation Museum Taking on the Restoration of A-12 Avenger II By WarbirdsUpdate | It undoubtedly took some wangling, but the Veterans Memorial Air Park of Fort Worth has taken possession of the mockup of the McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II and intends to restore it for static display. The plane was to be an all-weather, carrier-based stealth bomber replacement for the Grumman A-6 Intruder for the US Navy and Marine Corps. Its Avenger II name was a homage to the Grumman TBF Avenger of World War II....
UK’s Historic Filton Aerodrome to Host A New Aviation Museum By WarbirdsUpdate | With an aviation history that stretches back over 100 years and only ended six months ago, The Filton Aeordrome, located just a couple of miles north of Bristol, UK, is planned to be the site of an impressive new museum, the Bristol Aerospace Centre, that will showcase the role this center of aircraft manufacture (and RAF Airbase) played in the history of aviation, dating back to 1910, when Sir George White, the owner of Bristol Tramways, established the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, later known as Bristol Aeroplane Company in one of the maintenance sheds of Bristol Tramways....
Slideshow: Remembering Neil Armstrong & Apollo | WASHINGTON – It’s been a momentous year for space exploration. The Mars Curiosity rover continues to astound with its desert southwest-like vistas of Gale Crater. The most complex machine ever sent to explore another planet is gearing up for its first drive into the Martian highlands to an area with promising geological features dubbed Glenelg. The sustained excitement over Curiosity’s mission has of course been tempered by the untimely death on Aug. 25 of the first man on the Moon, Neil Alden Armstrong....
Astronaut Stories: The World’s First Spaceplane - AirSpaceMag.com | Shuttle crews from the 1980s recall how their new vehicle took some getting used to.
Shuttle Atlantis ready for public display - CBS News | The space shuttle Atlantis, the last of NASA's winged orbiters to fly in space, goes on public display at the Kennedy Space Center visitors complex Saturday, the centerpiece of a $100 million facility designed to show off the spaceship as it appeared in orbit, with its payload bay doors open and robot arm extended....
Friday, December 7, 2012
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Congratulations to GKF4 for an amazing performance at the World Meet. They will... from US Army Golden Knights's Facebook Wall | Congratulations to GKF4 for an amazing performance at the World Meet. They will be coming home with The Silver Medal. We are all proud of you. GK 8-Way still holds their lead with the final round tomorrow!!
Toys for Tots and Blue Angels Mission to Save Christmas for Children Affected ... - PR Newswire | The Blue Angels turned their C-130 aircraft, affectionately nicknamed "Fat Albert," into a modern day Santa's Sleigh with a mission to help the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation save Christmas for many children still living with ...
AirFest returns to MacDill in April with Blue Angels - Tbo.com | AirFest will be returning to MacDill Air Force Base next year. The aviation celebration will take place April 6 and 7, according to the 6th Air Mobility Wing, the base's host unit. The feature performers will be the Navy Blue Angels. So far, the wing...
Have You Tried: Aviators share Warbird breakfast with motorists - Florida Today | The monthly fly-in breakfast is a unique way to combine an interesting museum with a meal. “We started the fly-in breakfasts about a year ago to further draw in folks to our museum,” said retired Col. Terry Yon, the volunteer public relations officer ...
Air Shows in the Pulps - The Golden Gazette News | From the start, the Reims Air Show was a hit that was quickly emulated worldwide (the first air show in Britain occurred the same year). Today, with so many barriers surmounted, air shows generally feature acrobatics and showing off of airplanes from...
International Air Show Air Show in August 2013 in Radom - Gazeta Wyborcza | The Air Force has already received confirmation of participation in demonstrations strategic bomber B-52 from the U.S., the Red Arrows from the UK and the team Patrouille de France in France. International Air Show Air Show is the biggest event ...
VMM-263 puts on an air show for Naval Academy - Marines.mil | Marines from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 flew an MV-22B Osprey from Marine Corps Air Station New River to the Annapolis Naval Academy, Nov. 29. The Marines then put on an air show and static display for the Naval Academy graduating class...
167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard eyes air show - The Herald-Mail | All possibilities are being explored to determine whether the 167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard will host another air show next year, the unit's commander said Wednesday. “We are definitely looking at the possibility of holding...
RAFA Shoreham Airshow anniversary DVD reissued - Shoreham Herald | The RAFA Shoreham Airshow celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2009 and now, the special celebration DVD has been re-issued through Amazon to reach a national and internationl market. Read the Shoreham Herald 
(December 6 edition) for a full DVD...
CoolPix Triple Play: 2012 Reno National Champion - Strega! from AirPigz by Martt | ...and that got me all hot and bothered about Unlimited air racers. So, I dug out a couple unusual pix of Strega from Reno 2012 for a CoolPix triple play... the one above that brings you in really close with the Merlin Power sticker on the right wingtip, and the one below that shows the cockpit area of the airplane, with the canopy open, as it was sitting in their spot in the pit. I like the details in this cockpit pic along with the Reno National Champion history behind the canopy....
Timeless Voices - Firman Balza from eaavideo.org | Firman Balza was a Gunner's Mate, 1st Class aboard the battleship USS Maryland when it was struck by dive bombers during the Japanese attack 
on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941...
66 percent of Pacific air force assets destroyed in hours from AF.mil Photos | A burned U.S. B -17C after the Empire of Japan attacked Wheeler Air Field Dec. 7, 1941. The attack well known for crippling the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet also left approximately 700 U.S Airmen killed or wounded and 66 percent of the Air Force strength in Hawaii decimated. The...
Wheeler, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941 from AF.mil Photos
Burlington County WWII Flying Tiger veteran will tell of his exploits - Philadelphia Inquirer | But at the end of World War II, after flying 15 combat missions with the famed Flying Tigers in China and news of the atomic bomb's use, Breingan was ordered to simply observe the Japanese withdrawal near Guangzhou, then known as Canton. Breingan...
Robert L. Hemphill - The Durango Herald | He had just completed training to be a B-25 pilot when World War II ended. On Jan. 1, 1947, he married Jane L. Schaffenacker in Mt. Pulaski, Ill. The next year, Mr. Hemphill graduated from Western Illinois University with a bachelor's degree in education...
Wow! Air-to-air with a Spitfire Mk. Vb.... from You like airplanes, too? by marvinsmith
A Real Bull Stearman from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | ...Several years ago while on an overnight in Philly, I rented a car and drove to see an extremely rare bird which was being rebuilt; an M-2 Stearman. The Posey Brothers’ operation was not too far away and I wasn’t about to pass up the chance to visit. The beast, nicknamed the Bull Stearman by early mechanics, was almost finished and MikePosey had offered to give me a look....
The Aero Experience Recognizes The Value of Teamwork At Mount Vernon Outland Airport from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The management and staff of Mount Vernon Outland Airport, IL were recognized Tuesday for demonstrating outstanding teamwork in 2012. Chris Collins, Airport Manager, was given a framed print of "Teamwork," a photo depicting the pilot and crew chief atop their P-38 Lightning fighter preparing for an early morning flight, on behalf of The Aero Experience. The image captures the dedication of one crewman to another in support of a larger objective, and thus reflects the relationship between Mount Vernon Outland...
2012-12-06 - 2013 Photo Calendar Finalists from Articles | Early in 2012 we invited Code One readers and contributors to send us their best photos. We asked for recent, striking photographs of current Lockheed Martin aircraft to develop a “Best of Code One” theme for the 2013 edition of the calendar.
Meet Pioneer Female Aviation Entrepreneur, Sibongile Sambo from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | When Women in Aviation member Sibongile Sambo decided to make a career in the South African aviation industry, she encountered a stumbling block - she could not meet the minimum height requirement for air hostesses. Today, Sambo is the Founder and Managing Director of SRS (Sibongile 
Rejoice Sambo) Aviation – the first black female owned aviation company in South Africa.
Astronaut Guides Women to Reach for the Stars | Young children tend to have many big aspirations. When asked, “what do you want to be when you grow up,” responses such as a doctor, firefighter, and actor often come up. The most popular childhood dream is often becoming an astronaut!...
McKeon, McCarthy Seek to Rename Dryden for Neil Armstrong - SCVNEWS.com | Mojave Air and Space Port Chief Executive Officer Stuart Witt – “Mojave Air & Space Port strongly supports a Resolution in favor of the proposed name change of the current NASA Dryden Flight Research Center to the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research...
Golden Spike Company to make announcment from Spaceports | On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 17, the last human exploration of the Moon, Former Apollo Flight Director and NASA Johnson Space Center Director, Gerry Griffin, and planetary scientist and former NASA science chief, Dr. Alan Stern, will unveil "The Golden Spike Company" – the first company planning to offer routine exploration expeditions to the surface of the Moon by the end of the decade. The executives will describe its team of leading aerospace engineers and world-class scientists, the mission architecture, and the business model at a media conference at the National Press Club, Bloomberg Room, from 2-3pm on December 6, 2012....
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Indy Transponder 20-NOV-2012 0100z
Blue Angels visit Barksdale to promote air show - Shreveport Times | The Blue Angels Lt. Ryan Chamberlain (right) and Lt. Cmdr. Michael Cheng in front of the F/A-18 Hornet that they landed at Barkesdale Air Force Base, Monday afternoon to publicize the 2013 Defenders of Liberty Air Show...
World first for Jetman - Auckland stuff.co.nz | Yves Rossy, the famous Jetman, headlines the first New Zealand International Air Show at the North Shore Aero Club's Dairy Flat airfield during Auckland Anniversary Weekend. Jetman is the world's top aviation act and one of the few able to fly like a jet.
Jacques meets the People's Daily from Apache Roll, patrolling blog by Breitling Grifil | The 9th edition of acrobatic Zhuhai began on November 13 and the Breitling Jet Team acquainted with a new audience fell in love. November 14, Jacques Bothelin, the team leader gave an interview to People's Daily Online....
Reporter freaks out on air show ride-along - Washington Post | Aviator Sean Tucker takes WBBM-TV's Vince Gerasole along for a ride 3,500 feet in the air in his Oracle Extra 300...
Airport reveals plans to revive air show - The Northern Echo | Colin Granton, chairman of the Friends of Durham Tees Valley Airport, said they hoped to attract the Red Arrows, RAF Tornado and Falcons Parachute demonstration teams and helicopers and glider displays for an air show at the airport, near Darlington,...
Don't forget the Aviators' Ball! - PilotWeb | Aviation personalities – including Buzz Aldrin and the Red Arrows – will be making an appearance, and attendees will have the chance to try their hand at a Breitling Reno Air Race simulator. There will also be a gourmet dinner with wine, auctions, live ...
Pay it forward when you "Fly it Forward" from Toriaflies | ...The initiative has doubled in size each year since 2010. Doubled. In. Size. In two years! So, this, their third year, could potentially see 10,000 girls and women in 72 countries on 8 continents... ok, so there are only 7 continents, but there are 196 countries (or 195, depending on your reference)....
Cold Start at St. Eugène from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave By Dave O'Malley | I hear voices. The voices of brave men. Gentle voices, creaking with age and weariness, soft and humble after a 
long life. I hear voices. The flinty voices of warriors at peace with themselves. Voices that linger in my head for weeks on end, calling to me from across the decades since the Second World War, from across the country, from the opposite side of this world. I hear voices. They call to me, they speak to me, willing me to understand. The men whose voices I hear, I have never met nor have they ever spoken to me in person on the telephone, yet I know their voices – clear in my head, individual, identifiable, personal. The first voice that spoke to me was that of Australian P-40 Kittyhawk pilot Arch Simpson. Arch and I exchanged e-mails no more than ten times as we put together his story about how our P-40 Kittyhawk came to...
Veteran pilot Urban Rahoi to speak on flying adventures Tuesday - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | Pete Haggland, the curator of the Pioneer Air Museum, expects to hear plenty of good material Tuesday at 7 p.m. when Urban Rahoi starts talking about his decades as a pilot. Rahoi has more energy and enthusiasm for life than most people, regardless of ...
Earhart mystery still intrigues Como resident - Park Bugle | When early news reports depicted last July's search for Amelia Earhart, the vanished aviatrix, as a failure, Kenton Spading knew that wasn't necessarily the case. Having participated in earlier expeditions sponsored by the International Group for...
Santa and Mrs. Claus will fly into MAPS Air Museum Sunday - Canton Repository | Sleighs will get you where you need to go on Christmas Eve, but a Cessna is all you need for a quick visit to Stark County. Sunday, Santa and Mrs. Claus pilot their personal aircraft to the MAPS Air Museum where they will greet children of all ages ...
Museum Restoring Historic Hangar at Sikorsky - Patch.com | Pictured on Saturday, November 17 2012, are members of the Connecticut Air & Space Center museum in the process of cleaning and restoring the historic Curtiss Hangar at Sikorsky Memorial Airport. The Curtiss Hangar is an integral part of Connecticut's ...
Awesome video shows what a fine piece of machinery the Air Force’s C-5 Galaxy’s landing gear system is from David Cenciotti's weblog | After publishing a series of posts about the C-5 Galaxy, readers have sent me a lot of interesting links to both articles and videos of the gigantic U.S. Air Force cargo plane. The one in this post is an interesting footage filmed with a camera mounted on the aircraft’s main landing gear....
Podcast: Speaking of Talking on the Radio from AvWeb Podcast | Cody Bias is a young CFI and T-38 instructor pilot with the Air Force who is not afraid to put his money where your mouth is. Bias has developed an online radio communication course for pilots, Sound Like an Airline Pilot -- and if you're not impressed, he says...
Starbase Indy - WISH | View a Tribute to Neil Armstrong NASA Exhibit, see astronaut David Wolf, and see stars from Star Trek and Stargate SG-1 at Starbase Indy: The 17th Generation Nov. 23-25 in the Indianapolis Marriott East, 7202 E. 21st St. Rock on during the Starfleet vs....
Friday, September 14, 2012
Indy Transponder 14-SEP-2012 1045z
First responders honored in emotional Reno Air Races opening ceremony - Reno Gazette Journal | Michael Houghton, president and CEO of the Reno Air Racing Association; Dave Pursell, chairman of the Air Racing Association Board; Sparks Mayor Geno Martini; and Reno Mayor Bob Cashell on Thursday thank representatives of all the emergency ...
2012 Reno Air Races - Thursday Live Update - LiveAirShowTV | Our LIVE report from the Rare Bear Pit with Stewart Dawson. Watch for expanded coverage of Thursday's news later tonight.
Photo gallery: Thursday photos from the Reno air races from RGJ.com | Reno air race organizers used the opening ceremonies as an opportunity to remember the first responders who helped out in last year's crash and the community that rallied to support the air races after the crash.
Legendary ND aviator laid to rest - Dickinson Press | KINDRED — A North Dakota stunt pilot who died while practicing for the Valley City Air Show last week has been laid to rest. Hundreds of people turned out Wednesday for the funeral and burial of 66-year-old Bob Odegaard in Kindred. He was remembered ...
NAS Oceana Air Show - The Virginian-Pilot | Fancy flying over Oceana The Oceana Air Show will fill the Virginia Beach sky with the Blue Angels and terrific tricks this weekend. Friday starts with a 5:30 p.m. Twilight Air Show. Gates open at 8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday with flying beginning at 10...
Tri-City Herald photographer wins top award - Mid Columbia Tri City Herald | John Klatt with the Air National Guard, foreground, flies the Extra 300L two-seater as his partner Bill Kerns flies the Staudacher S-300D over the Tri-Cities on Thursday as a preview to the air shows this weekend over the Columbia River during the 2011 ...
Fly-in event offers fun - St. George Daily Spectrum | CEDAR CITY — Sphere One Aviation is hosting a fly-in breakfast Saturday with hopes of introducing more people to the world of aviation. Jay Orton with Sphere One said the event will offer sights not often seen in Southern Utah, including aerobatic ...
Air show admission charge waived - Parkersburg News | PARKERSBURG - There will be no admission charge at the Oct. 13-14 Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport Air Show. Updating Wood County commissioners Thursday, Donna Rusche, event co-chairman, said the committee has decided it would seek additional ...
Red 10 flies in to meet air cadets - Dartmouth-Today | Following the exciting Red Arrows display at Dartmouth regatta, youngsters from the town along with air cadets from Totnes, Brixham and Torquay had the chance to meet Squadron Leader Mike Ling – the aerobatic's team road manager, codenamed Red 10.
Berlin Airshow Hosts Rival Airbus A380 And Boeing 787 Dreamliner - Manila Bulletin | Airbus SAS and Boeing Co. put their flagship jumbo jets on display this week at the Berlin air show adjacent to the yet-to- be opened airfield. While the gleaming white aircraft are crowd pleasers at any event, they're getting less affection from the ...
Video: Women in Aviation 2012 from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
He flew one of the last bombing missions in WW II – Lt. Chuck Rauch was a B-24 navigator from War Tales by Don Moore | Two days before VJ-Day, Japan’s surrender ending World War II, former Lt. Chuck Rauch, of Punta Gorda, Fla. was flying as navigator in an all black B-24 “Liberator” bomber. He was on a night mission to attack shipping at the north end of Ie Shima Island, part of the Japanese home islands. “Two bomb runs [...]
So you want to fly in a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress? - Worcester Telegram | Mr. Purple, of Petersham, flew bombers during World War II and has had the opportunity to fly in the planes since the war, but the event will allow others to get to see the planes and, if they are willing to pay the price, take a flight in one of them ...
Giant German Luftwaffe Aircraft Wreck Found? from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Italian researchers claim (with video) to have found wreckage off the Sardinian coast of a huge Messerschmitt-323 Gigant (Giant) of which some 200 examples were built and none of which were thought to have survived the war. The Me-323 spanned 180 feet, was driven by six wing-mounted piston engines, weighed 45 tons, could carry 120 fully equipped men and...
The early B-24 known as “Ol 927″ by travelforaircraft | This Consolidated B-24A Liberator — 
known as "Ol 927" — can be seen in the Cavanaugh Flight Museum and is especially nice to see since it is an early version, prior to models which were equipped with powered nose gun turrets. It is also in flying condition and regularly is taken to air shows and airports where a ride can be purchased...
Newark Air Museum Aviation Amble - BBC News | Participants in the Aviation Amble will be given a guided circular walk along one of the old airfield taxiways, around the perimeter of Newark Air Museum, Southfield Site and the RAF Winthorpe Memorial. The walk is part of the Trent Vale Partnership's ...
Video: Last Flight of the C-133 Cargomaster from The Lexicans | I’m really not that familiar with the Cargomaster but have seen a few in museums. I also didn’t know that in 2008 one had flown...
Greg Marlow’s dream machine: A go-places plane from General Aviation News by Meg Godlewski | There are many reasons people chose to build an airplane. Sometimes, it's the challenge of the project, or an attempt to reduce the cost of flying. Other times it's to build a dream machine to handle what would otherwise be a less-than-enjoyable commute. Greg Marlow from Kingsport, Tenn., falls into the last category. He is the proud builder/pilot/owner of an RV-9A. According to Marlow, the decision to build the RV came out of the need for a plane he could use to commute to his Air Force Reserve unit in Charleston, S.C., where he flies the C-17...
Video: Fridays Fabulous Flyers from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Honoring the Heroes of NWA Flight 85.
Nation Says Goodbye to Moonwalker Neil Armstrong from news | LL | http://www.theledger.com | The nation bid farewell Thursday to Neil Armstrong, the first man to take a giant leap onto the moon. The pioneers of space, the powerful of the capital and the everyday public crowded into the Washington National Cathedral for a public interfaith memorial for the very private astronaut.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
National Aviation Hall of Fame Enshrinees gather at Reno Sunday to honor the late Neil A. Armstrong
“Going way back to the Heritage Invitational’s founding some fourteen years ago, Neil often returned to Reno to assist his fellow Hall of Fame Enshrinees in personally handing the winning aircraft owners’ their awards, “ said Ron Kaplan, NAHF Enshrinement Director and Deputy Director of NAHI. “We’re gratified to unveil this prestigious and very appropriately renamed trophy in honor of such a hero of flight, at an aviation event Neil loved to be a part of. It’s certainly bittersweet, but I know he will be with us in spirit.”
In 1998, the National Aviation Hall of Fame partnered with Rolls-Royce North America, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the Reno Air Racing Foundation and many aviation related organizations to establish and support the National Aviation Heritage Invitational, which was created to foster the preservation of our rich aviation history by encouraging the restoration of vintage aircraft to airworthy condition. NAHI has held annual vintage aircraft competitions in both Dayton, Ohio and Reno, Nevada since 1999. The Invitational competition in Reno is held concurrently with the National Championship Air Races each September.
At each NAHI competition up until now, the Grand Champion, the aircraft judged to be the most authentic example of a vintage aircraft restored to airworthy condition, has been awarded The Rolls-Royce Aviation Heritage Trophy, which resides throughout the year in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center outside of Washington, DC. Upon its unveiling by the NAHF Enshrinees this Sunday, the award will henceforth be known as the Neil A. Armstrong Aviation Heritage Trophy. The owner of the winning aircraft is presented with a “keeper” trophy by members of the NAHI staff and Enshrinees of the National Aviation Hall of Fame. Sponsoring the trophy this year is Gilbert, Arizona-based Perform Air International.
Nearly thirty vintage aircraft are registered for this year’s Invitational, competing also for trophies presented to aircraft judged to be best in their class or particular era. Additionally, spectators at the event are encouraged to cast a vote for their favorite, the winner presented with the National Aviation Hall of Fame “People’s Choice” Award.
For more detailed information on Neil Armstrong or the National Aviation Hall of Fame, please visit: www.nationalaviation.org. For more information on the National Aviation Heritage Invitational LLC please visit: www.heritagetrophy.com.
Or contact:
Ron Kaplan, Deputy Director, National Aviation Heritage Invitational LLC and Enshrinement Director, National Aviation Hall of Fame
e-mail: rkaplan@nationalaviation.org
Tel: 937-212-8847
Ken Perich, Executive Director, National Aviation Heritage Invitational LLC
e-mail: ken.perich@perichgroup.com
Tel: 703-615-3018
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Indy Transponder 08-SEP-2012 0400z
Pilot Killed in Plane Crash While Practicing for Air Show - Times Record | Bob Odegaard, 66, of Kindred, N.D., was killed Friday when the plane he was flying crashed at the Barnes County Municipal Airport, north of Valley City ...The Wings and Wheels Air Show has been cancelled.
Jessica Dean's Blue Angels Flight Report - KARK | The whole experience makes you proud to be an 
American. You can see the Blue Angels for yourself at the Little Rock Air Force Base Air Show this Saturday and Sunday. The gates open at 8:30 a.m. and the show begins at 10. Tickets and parking are free ...
Safety primary concern as Capital Airshow begins - KCRA Sacramento | The California Capital Airshow is different from the Reno Air Races in that pilots are not racing and are following a strict set of guidelines. "Air races are very different," said California Capital Airshow Director Darcy Brewer. "It's a competition ...
AVIATION HERITAGE FAIR TAKES TO THE SKIES FOR ITS 16TH YEAR - Avionics Intelligence | The Aviation Heritage Fair, which was conceived by a Kent State student aviation club, has been through several iterations over the years. The event is now run by the faculty, staff and students of the university's Aeronautics Program, with help from ...
Air Races make emotional return next week with tribute ceremonies - KRNV My News 4 | ... and legacy flight Friday, Sept. 14 through Sunday, Sept. 16 and the Patriot Jet Team will return to the Reno Air Races beginning Thursday, Sept. 13. Kent Pietsch, Clay Lacy and Jim Pietz will also perform their incredible aerobatic acts throughout ...
Schneider Trophy race for Alderney - Channel Television | Points from both the Aurigny Air Services Trophy and the Schneider Trophy will count towards the title of British Air Racing Champion and the course competitors will fly will be the same both days – a six lap, 100 mile circuit with a handicap start ...
4 pilots entertain crowd as they compete in aerobatics - Galesburg Register-Mail | The fourth day of the 41st National Stearman Fly-In included the aerobatics contest at Monmouth Municipal Airport, where contestants soared high above and performed a handful of tricks before judges and an eager audience. “It's a dream come true to be ...
The New River Valley Airport in Dublin celebrates its 50th anniversary with an ... - WDBJ7 | The NRV Skyfest Airshow will feature world renowned aerobatic performers, modern, obsolete and advanced aircraft, Warbirds, jets, helicopters, skydiving, wing-walking, static displays, comedy, and a kid zone. The New River Valley Airport is celebrating ...
Smoke Squadron surprising parade of public and opens on September 7 from NOTÍCIAS SOBRE 
AVIAÇÃO AVIATION NEWS | The parade began on September 7 Esplanada dos Ministerios promptly at 9am this Friday (7) with a surprise: the aircraft flyby of Smoke Squadron by the Ministries Esplanade. Generally, the aircraft is only present at the end. The Squadron participated in the parade with seven Tucano aircraft - all in green and yellow...
Imperia Frecce Tricolori at Saturday, September 15 - I'M from IM | To bring the Frecce Tricolori in Imperia was an idea of the current President of the Lions Club Imperia La Torre, Stefano Gobbi. The first contacts with the Aeroclub of Villanova d'Albenga, an essential reference point for the event...
Tomorrow in Hradec Kralove erupts air show CIAF! - denik.cz | On Thursday landed on runway airport Hradec aerobatic teams from Croatia and krill Oluja Latvian Baltic Bees. Also MiG-15 arrived from Poland. "Air raid other participants will run from Friday morning hours, all afternoon then ...
The Hradec airport heading airmen from all over Europe for a weekend show CIAF - iDNES.cz | The ultimate promise Croatian acrobatic formation krill Oluja. "See precise slétanost Croatian military pilots training on single aircraft Pilatus PC-9M," the spokesman said, and now explain why such a group of Croatian ...
Jacksonville Beach to welcome Sea & Sky air show next month - Florida Times-Union | ... Beach Pier, the Blue Angels ground crew waves to its pilots as. Times-Union. From the Jacksonville Beach Pier, the Blue Angels ground crew waves to its pilots as they fly their final formation at the Jacksonville Sea and Sky Spectacular in 2009...
Rutan Fly-in a labor of love - Southern Utah News | If you looked to the skies over Labor Day Weekend, you might have seen one of 25 planes here for the 23rd Rutan Fly-in. The fly-in is named for Burt Rutan, the aerospace engineer who designed the Voyager, the first airplane to circle the world non-stop ...
'Wings of Freedom Tour' - The Westerly Sun | GROTON – The Collings Foundation's “Wings of Freedom Tour” will feature the B-17 Flying Fortress “Nine O Nine” and the B-24 Liberator “Witchcraft,” both World War II-era Heavy Bombers, as well as a P- 51 Mustang fighter. They will fly into Groton-New ...
Lord Of The Warbirds - Forbes | Rod Lewis was flying circles around us. Literally. In his L-39 Albatross jet, painted in the blue and yellow colors of the U.S.Navy's famous Blue Angels team, the Texas oil and gas tycoon performed barrel rolls that swooped his jet under and then over ...
Schedule for the 2012 Great Reno Balloon Race from RGJ.com | This year's Great Reno Balloon Race runs from Friday to Sunday. Get the schedule and all the parking information before you go.
Photos: Darth Vader, stormtroopers take in Reno Balloon Race from RGJ.com
Timeless Voices - Dr. (Col. Ret.) Jerry LeMieux from eaavideo.org - most recent | Dr. (Col. Ret.) Jerry LeMieux flew F-4s in the Air Force and later flew for Delta Airlines for 20 years. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering and is the founder, executive director, and president of Unmanned Vehicle University.
POTEZ PRYP to 60 F-80s of the Black Mountain from Passion pour l'aviation by Xavier Cotton | The history of this school Potez 60 aircraft (F-PRYP) in 1934 at the time of the Popular Front. Preserved by some lovers of beautiful machines, he spent lots of land, before finishing in Normandy, abandoned and in disrepair. He was repatriated to Carcassonne where Builders Association of Amateurs Drivers and Aude (ACAPA) have restored ( see pictures ) giving him a makeover. This two-seater wooden and canvas parasol wing and conventional train is equipped with a 90 hp Continental engine which gives it a cruising speed of 150 km / h for up to 5 hours...
Douglas B-19 First Look (1941) from AIRBOYD.TV
Wright Brothers, Aviation Pioneers, Honored By U.S. (1943) from AIRBOYD.TV
Planes of the future to fly in formation, say Airbus - Daily Mail | ... the environment in which the aircraft operates. 'That is why our latest Future by Airbus Smarter Skies concepts focus on not just what we fly, but how we may fly in 2050 and beyond. A computer simulated image of an aircraft take-off in continuous ...
Homer Hickam is Inspiring West Virginian - West Virginia Public Broadcasting | He recalled an early request from the Smithsonian – Air & Space Magazine. “I was asked to write an article of 2000 words – they didn't care what it was, they just needed it overnight. I said, 'You know, I used to build rockets when I was a kid. I could ...
Crew Compartment Trainer payload bay to be built by Display Dynamics Inc. from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | The Crew Compartment Trainer (CCT-1) exhibit took another step toward becoming reality today as Display Dynamics Inc. of Clayton, Ohio, was selected to reproduce a full-scale mock-up of a NASA shuttle payload bay, engine and tail sections and a dedicated educational area....
Neil Armstrong to be buried at sea - Indianapolis Star | In July 1969, after Armstrong landed on the moon, Armstrong and his crew splashed down in the Pacific, where they were picked up by the USS Hornet. Returning to the water meant his mission was complete, Lovell said. "It's how he knew he was finished," ...
Friday, September 7, 2012
Indy Transponder 06-SEP-2012 2330z
Blue Angels air show at LRAFB Sept. 8 & 9 - Today's THV | In fact, if you live in the area, you may have heard the roar of the Blue Angels flying overhead today! The Blue Angels are based in Pensacola, Florida and do 70 shows a year from March to November. The Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce says they've ...
Catching up with 'THV This Morning' Sept. 6 - Today's THV | Don't miss our interview with Pilot LTC John Klatt with the Air National Guard Aerobatic Team about what to expect from him this weekend in the Air Show, it's some pretty amazing video. Join us tomorrow as Tom kicks off "Breakfast with Tom" recognizing ...
Disabled American Veterans Shares Message at The Little Rock Air show from DAV Flight Team | 
Little Rock, AR – Disabled American Veterans
(DAV) will reach out to veterans and their families sharing its message
of service and volunteerism in support of our nation’s combat-wounded
men and women at the Little Rock Airshow
on September 8-9. In the company of the iconic World War II era B-25
Mitchell Bomber, the Disabled American Veterans Flight Team will...
Pilot with Libertyville roots in town for air show - Chicago Daily Herald | In addition to the Thunderbolt, the Waukegan air show will feature a variety of military and civilian aircraft. Among the featured groups is a Canadian group of pilots called the Snowbirds, which Campbell compared to the Navy's famed Blue Angels team ...
Jacksonville Beach approves contract for Sea & Sky airshow at the shoreline - Florida Times-Union | Jacksonville Beach approves contract for Sea & Sky airshow at the shoreline. Submitted by Drew Dixon on September 6, 2012 - 12:46pm Beaches Beat. The Sea & Sky Spectacular Air Show's will take flight over Jacksonville Beach next month....
Air show flies in with world class performers - KTVO | KIRKSVILLE, MO -- The fifth annual Cape Air Kirksville Air Festival is only a few days away. The event is coming up at 2 p.m. this Sunday. Organizers say the event promises to be spectacular once again with world class acts. “We have the United States Golden Knights Parachute Team this year. That’s probably our big feature. We also have an A-10 Thunderbird from the United States Air Force and then about six performers. One that is...
Ready For Takeoff, Annual Fly-In Scheduled For Sept. 27 In Simsbury - Hartford Courant | Thousands of car enthusiasts and aviation fans are expected to descend on the runways of the usually quiet Simsbury Airport Sept. 27. The airport's 27th annual fly-in and car show, will include car and aviation-related exhibits, demonstrations ...
Washington County fair board says there's little use in pressing air show to ... - OregonLive.com | As Washington County's fair board works to ease public and internal concerns about next year's conflicting fair and Oregon International Air Show dates, it's become clear a change of weekend, for either event, isn't likely to happen. But many county ...
Air show take-off for WWII bomber - Auckland stuff.co.nz | Beachlands resident Warren Denholm's company AVspecs is restoring the aeroplane for American collector Jerry Yagen who will attend the airshow. Mr Denholm says the extensive project has taken the company seven years. It is the first of three Mosquitoes ...
Bond plane bound for airshow - U.TV | A plane featured in James Bond will be on display during the annual International Airshow, as a helicopter carrying a special visitor called to the North Coast in a preview of the event. Video available to UK viewers only. We're sorry. This video is ...
Planes thunder with 400 things about Elchingen - Swabian newspaper | For the first time Red Bull Air Race star will come to the Dolderer Härtsfeld to amaze you with its spectacular air show on the air in Elchingen fans. On its construction "Edge" is Dolderer ... with up to 400 km / h over the airfield...
Bobcat views - Pratt Tribune | A Commemorative Air Force 1944 Bobcat trainer took flight over Pratt and the nearby area Wednesday as part of visit to Pratt to deliver a World War II parachute to the B-29 Museum committee and to complete a visit that was rained out on a Sept. 1 fly ...
CoolPix: 1934 Waco YMF-33 In The Air - Antique Airfield 2012from AirPigz by Martt | This post is 
a lot like the last one - it's another CoolPix of a beautiful antique airplane departing the AAA Fly-In last Sunday morning. I'm doing another post like this for two reasons...
Belle Fourche's WWII Doolittle Raid pilot to be honored Saturday - Rapid City Journal | The raid brought unsought fame for Don Smith, pilot of B-25 Number 15 in the spring of 1942. Smith and his air crew survived a landing in the sea near China. They made their way home through Japanese-occupied territory in time for Smith to be honored ...
Maude Rose "Lores' Bonney finally gets her due at inaugural Hall of Fame dinner - The Australian | In 1932, Bonney became the first aviatrix to circumnavigate Australia, an achievement that won her the Qantas trophy for outstanding performance by any Queensland pilot. She completed the flight over a six-week period and became known as "the never ...
Historic WWII B-17 lands in Great Falls - KRTV Great Falls News | A piece of World War II history can be seen in the air over Great Falls, as a B-17 bomber takes to skies for the next several days. The historic bomber, named "Sentimental Journey," is on display and available for rides and tours from September 6 thru ...
Great Reno Balloon Race looks outside Nevada for attendees - Reno Gazette Journal | Photo Gallery: Media Day at Great Reno Balloon Race. 2:00 PM. Great Reno Balloon Race looks outside Nevada for attendees. 1:14 PM. Critic of Reno Air Race safety sues over ban. 2:17 PM. ACLU protecting Burning Man participants' rights. Sep 5, 2012 ...
Photo Gallery: Media Day at Great Reno Balloon Race from RGJ.com | The weather didn't cooperate, but an epic battle took place momentarily between the Darth Vader and shark ballons.
Blimps ahoy! HP Hood set to fly in 'blimp parade' above NYC - Boston.com | By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff. The Big Apple skyline is set to be the airborne venue of a flying zeppelin flotilla Thursday morning, according to HP Hood, the Lynnfield-based dairy brand that sometimes uses a blimp to promote its milk and ice cream brands.
Air Force Week in Photos from Air Force Link Top Stories | This week's photos feature Airmen around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary
operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men
and women of the Air Force. View the slideshow.
Neil Armstrong's Visor and Gloves on Display at Udvar-Hazy Center - NBC4 Washington | Visitors at the Air & Space Museum gathered around the Apollo 11 command module “Columbia” that carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on their historic voyage to the moon, following the news that Armstrong had died...
Officials re-install Crew Compartment Trainer interior items at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | Officials with Team Raytheon based at Johnson Space Center's Space Vehicle Mockup Facility have teamed-up with the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force's Restoration staff to re-install interior items on the Crew Compartment Trainer (CCT-1)....
Chivalry at 97,000 feet from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Al Marsh | As preparation for the Red Bull Stratos record-breaking parachute jump from a balloon at 120,000 feet in early October, Felix Baumgartner jumped in early August from 97, 145 feet. Why not just go on up to Joe Kittinger’s record of 102,800 feet set on August 16, 1960? Baumgartner wanted to make sure he broke the record on the last flight. If he had gone...
