Paul Poberezny to Be Honored at Legends Event - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Paul Poberezny, EAA's founder who passed away last year, will receive special recognition during next week's 11th Annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards in Beverly Hills, California. Actor and pilot Morgan Freeman will narrate the "Flown West" segment of the program with a special tribute to Paul, who flew west at the age of 91 on August 22, 2013....
Blue Angels pilots make pre-airfest stop in La Crosse - La Crosse Tribune | ...But Wednesday’s reconnaissance mission was all about safety. Advance pilots visit each of the 34 cities where the Blue Angels are scheduled to perform this year to assess the facilities, plan the setup of ground operations and meet with local airshow crew. The key is to keep everything as consistent as possible from site to site so pilots can execute their maneuvers....
George H.W. Bush: Honorary Blue Angel - USA Today | He's done enough skydiving. So it seems only natural that former President George H.W. Bush would be made an honorary member of the Blue Angels....
Tall ships, Blue Angels to return for bicentennial of national anthem - Baltimore Sun | It's a mere yellowing piece of paper with a few hundred words scrawled on it, a document that once sat forgotten in a drawer for three-quarters of a century. But this summer, the original manuscript of "The Star-Spangled Banner," the poem Francis Scott Key wrote about a certain inspiring morning in September 1814, will be the centerpiece of a sprawling, multimillion-dollar statewide celebration...
Flying Musicians migrate to Florida for Sebring LSA Expo · General Aviation News Staff | Members of the Flying Musicians Association (FMA) are flying south to a warmer climate — Sebring, Florida — for the 10th annual U.S. Sport Aviation Expo, which kicks off Jan. 16....
EAA to Participate in AOPA Regional Fly-Ins - EAA | EAA will be participating in the series of AOPA regional fly-ins in 2014, providing attendees more opportunities to get involved in aviation and discover more about the many activities and programs available through EAA....
Red Arrows ace Sean Cunningham was a 'naturally talented pilot', inquest hears - Lincolnshire Echo | Fallen Red Arrow Sean Cunningham’s housemate has told an inquest how he rushed to help the stricken pilot after his ejection seat hit the ground at RAF Scampton from 2-300 ft. Flight Lieutenant Cunningham, 35, died after his ejection seat shot skywards from his Hawk jet before take-off on November 8, 2011...
Progress on B-29 “Doc” · Warbirds News | The restoration of the Boeing B-29 Superfortreess “Doc” is moving very fast. Steve Jantz, official photographer of Doc’s Friends, snet us an update and few pictures. Doc’s Friends is the group of business leaders from Wichita, KS that founded the organization in early 2013 with a vision to see the historic Boeing B-29 Superfortress known as Doc restored to flying condition. Steve reports that...
RIVERSIDE: Entertainer, aviator, Ravi 'The Raviator' to speak - Press-Enterprise | Global entertainer, motivational speaker and aviator, Ravi “The Raviator”, has chosen Riverside to launch his national tour showcasing the benefits of becoming a pilot, and to present local opportunities for teens and adults to participate in one of humanity’s greatest achievements — the magic of flight....
Timeless Voices - Robert Avery Saugen · eaavideo.org | Robert Avery Saugen flew 21 combat missions as a B-24 copilot with the 564th Bomb Squadron of the 389th Bomb Group during WWII. On his 22nd mission, his B-24 collided with another airplane. He survived the crash and became a POW in Germany.
Iconic NASA F/A-18 Temporarily Moved From Lancaster Baseball Stadium · Warbirds News | As reported by the NASA website the iconic NASA F/A-18A , a popular landmark in front of “The
Hangar” — the Lancaster Municipal Stadium — in Lancaster, Calif., for the past 17 years, was demounted from its pylon in front of the stadium entrance Dec. 12 and transported overland to the NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in nearby Palmdale for temporary storage...Goodyear FG-1 at KIBM - The Lexicans | Pics of an immaculate Goodyear FG-1 Corsair at Kimball Municipal Airport in Kimball, Nebraska.
Puttering back into life: Volunteers restore 100-year-old First World War prototype fighter plane but replace its original 45-horsepower engine with one from a Citroen 2CV - Daily Mail | Ian Reed, manager at the museum in Elvington, York, said the £10,000 restoration project had been 'very exciting'. 'This is the only plane of its kind in existence. It would have disappeared from history if we hadn't brought it back to life with this project,' he said....
Fort Worth marks its place in aviation history - Fort Worth Star Telegram | ...These days, the 57-year-old former Lockheed Martin employee stays connected to the sky by volunteering at the Fort Worth Aviation Museum. And like his fellow volunteers and the museum’s management, Ezrow is eager to see Fort Worth lay claim to its place in the evolution of powered flight with Saturday’s opening of First Flight Park...
SMAC063 – The ‘Best Of Stuck Mic AvCast’ First Edition - Toriaflies | HAPPY 2014!!! Episode 63 is in the house, woot woot. We hope you all had a fantastic holiday season and the happiest of New Year festivities. The SMAC gang is nursing food comas and holiday hangovers, so we decided to share some highlights of our favorite episode bytes from the past two and a half years! We'll return on January 15th with a hot new show so saddle up cuz it's podcast day!
AirplaneGeeks 281 – Women of Aviation Week is Coming! - Toriaflies | A big shout out and a huge thanks to the guys over at Airplane Geeks for having me as a guest on their podcast earlier this week! They are so much fun and I really enjoyed talking with them and seeing how they run their podcast. Of course, I talked a lot about Women Of Aviation Week and how YOU can get involved. Take a listen!
Excellent Intentional Deadstick Landing Video Via Tailwheeler's Journal - AirPigz | Between the bitter cold this week and starting a new (and large) ceramic tile install, I've been scrambling to keep up with my pig work. Early this morning I spent some time over at vimeo.com looking for a unique avgeek video to unearth, but I ran out of time to get it up because I wasn't finding just the right thing. However, shortly before I headed out the door I found this cool deadstick landing instructional video... which I'm finally getting around to sharing this evening....
Birds of Prey review by travelforaircraft | ...This tale is told with helicopters and the flying of them as well as the scenery. Starring David Janseen as hero Harry Walker, Ralph Meeker as former Flying Tiger buddy to Walker now a technocrat Jim McAndrew and Elayne Heilveil as hostage Teresa Jane...
These Flying Quadrotors Are the Robot Versions of the Blue Angels - The Atlantic | But if the video above looks familiar, it's because it's actually a sequel—a follow-up effort from KMel Robotics and Yuneec International, the collaboration that brought you the epic 2012 video "Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme." And what ...
January 7, 2014 Boyhood dreams - Ely Air Lines | ...The other day I was having lunch with Dean Doolittle, EAA Chapter 12’s Young Eagles coordinator. He told me of a Boy Scout troop in Houston that has over 200 scouts. I was shocked to hear that Dean approached the group several times to offer Young Eagles flights – a highly successful program now in its 24the year, having introduced nearly two million children to the wonders of flight - yet not one of the boys in that particular troop has participated....
NASA’s Orion Travels Country - InFlightUSA.com | The mockup rolled away from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., on Dec. 11, and will arrive at Naval Base San Diego in California in early January. There, the Orion stand-in will be used in February to support tests simulating the recovery of Orion following its return from space....
