Red Bull Air Race World Championship Ready For Abu Dhabi Season Opener - The Checkered Flag | Following a three-year hiatus the Red Bull Air Race World Championship returns to the skies as the series starts the 2014 season in Abu Dhabi at the end of February. The series started in 2003 and features a course which is marked out by inflatable...
Singapore Airshow Outtakes (2014) · AIRBOYD | Video by Lance Cpl. Cansin Hardyegritag | III Marine Expeditionary Force Combat Camera Military Personnel from participating countries, 
demonstrate the...
Birthday makeover for the Red Arrows as planes' tail fins are painted with Union flags to celebrate 50th anniversary - Daily Mail | They are among some of the most easily-recognised planes in the world and now the Red Arrows jets have become even more distinctive after they were given a makeover to celebrate their 50th display season. The famous jets have retained their famous red...
Red Arrows confirmed for all four days of the 2014 Bournemouth Air Festival - Blackmore Vale | It's officially a first for the Bournemouth Air Festival, but the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows have confirmed today they will be displaying at on all four days of the much anticipated summer event. Jon Weaver, Air Festival Director ...
Tandems,Tandems, Tandems - U.S. Army Parachute Team "Golden Knights" | Another great year has started for the Tandem Section of the United States Army Parachute Team. After a year of sequestration, the team is happier than ever to be back in the sky with civilian and military centers of influence. Already the section has taken to the beautiful skies over Homestead Air Reserve Base providing over a hundred fortunate tandem passengers with a thrill of a life time. All of these select individuals were nominated due to their commitment and involvement within the community....
2014 Thunder on the Lakeshore Grounded - WBAY | Manitowoc - The annual Thunder on the Lakeshore Airshow has been grounded for 2014. Organizers say they are taking a break this year due to financial issues....
The 2013 EAA Sport Aviation Halls of Fame Induction Ceremony · eaavideo.org | An overview of the 2013 EAA Sport Aviation Halls of Fame Induction Ceremony.
Executive Sweet B-25J Bomber to revisit Sedona March 1, 2014 - Sedona.biz | There must be some “magical connection” between our WWII B-25 Bomber and the community of Sedona. We have never had this much support from any community – and the airport staff has been wonderful, providing us with a 1st class ramp and services.
Eugene Bullard, the World’s First Black Fighter Pilot By Larry Greenly, Roger-Wilco | A generation to whom an African-American US President is a normal thing may have some trouble imagining an age where a young guy with top-notch credentials and abilities had to go to France to realize his true potential, becoming a fighter pilot in World War I and then being active in the French Underground in World War II. He was simply ignored in the United States when he returned home, his multiple decorations notwithstanding. At age sixty four in 1959 he was made a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, a fact showing clearly that the French had not forgotten him even after his return to America. Not only was he not forgotten, he was in fact fondly remembered so much so that General Charles De Gaulle personally invited him to a ceremony in New York where Bullard was embraced by the General himself...
Miracle Landing Off Korea | Setting down on a carrier is difficult under the best conditions—but next to impossible if you can’t see.
Timeless Voices - Bill Richardson · eaavideo.org | Born with dwarfism, Bill Richardson overcame major orthopedic surgeries on his legs to learn to fly. Unable to enlist during WWII due to his stature, Bill became an instrument flight instructor under contract with the War Training Service.
Profile 84 - FINAL: "573" as flown by Bob Mock and John Stiles · JSM |...BANG! 573 was smacked sideways as if hit by a titanic baseball bat! The force required to move 19 tons, moving at 500-some miles per hour sideways is enormous—imagine what it would take to do something similar to a car speeding down a highway! However, the explosion didn't merely move the Phantom into the other lane, it also flipped it over, sending it spinning like afrisbee. Upside down. It was pure, unmitigated chaos. BANG! Just like that! And in case you're trying to visualize what 573 is doing in the air, know that19 tons of flightless metal doesn't glide. It plummets...
New Dornier Do-17 Exhibit at RAF Museum Hendon - Warbirds News | Like most of our readers, Warbirds News followed the RAF Museum’s historic recovery of the sole surviving Dornier Do-17 last June with profound interest. Since then, the renowned “Flying Pencil” has found itself in a specialized conservation tent at RAF Museum Cosford, where its components are under a...
Can This P-38 Be Saved? - Air & Space Magazine | On June 27, 1944, the U.S. 5th army had the Germans in northern Italy on the run. That day, Army Air Forces First Lieutenant David Toomey, a pilot for the 3rd Photo-Reconnaissance Group, took off from an airfield at Tarquinia, 50 miles north of Rome, to photograph German fortifications along the northern perimeter of the Arno River valley, from Florence to Pisa. It was his...
WATCH: The biggest Airfix ever! Midland Air Museum to rebuild Tornado fighter jet - Coventry Telegraph | The Midland Air Museum, based at Coventry Airport in Baginton, has got its hands on a much-loved Tornado GR4 – however, it is currently dismantled and museum bosses are now preparing for the painstaking job of piecing it back together. The wings, nose ...
Video: ‘Snoopy’ an incredible helicopter act - General Aviation News | A video from 1990 shows an amazing helicopter act, “Snoopy” at an event in Australia. The closeness of the audience alone is far different than what we see today.
CoolPix: Beautiful Berkut At OSH13... (Remember What Summer Is Like?) - AirPigz | For those of 
us who live where winter is wintery, it's been a very wintery winter! In northern Indiana where I live, we've had bitter cold and loads of snow for weeks on end, and it's snowing again this evening. However, the forecast is for above freezing temps for the next several days as winter finally gives us a bit of a break. That gets me thinking about summer, and when I think of summer, I think of OSHKOSH!...
Red skies for Red Flag - Flight Image of the Day | From the US Air Force this one, showing a pair of Boeing F-15E Strike Eagles at Nellis AFB in Nevada where they were participating in exercise Red Flag, along with 123 other aircraft from the US and allied nations. The two combat aircraft are assigned to the 391st Fighter Squadron, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.
Kate Upton Goes Zero-G for Sports Illustrated's 2014 Swimsuit Issue - Space.com [video] | Swimsuit-clad model Kate Upton dives and floats, not in water, but through the air for a new spread in Sports Illustrated. Upton flew on a Zero Gravity Corporation flight to...
This Day in History: First Test Flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise (February 18, 1977) - WTVY, Dothan | In 2012, after the end of the Space Shuttle Program, the Enterprise flew over Washington D.C. And New York City, once again on the back of a jet. It is now on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Although it sustained damage from Hurricane ...
UNO grad makes the first cut to train for Mars trip - Omaha World-Herald | Being president of UNO's Women in Aviation group taught her about leadership and group dynamics. She already communicates via the Internet with her family in Bangladesh. And if she were selected for Mars One, she said, it would be a testament that ...
2000 free air show tickets for students - Gulf Daily News | MORE than 2,000 students will be given free tickets to the upcoming Bahrain International Air Show (BIAS)...
AOPA Announces Dates and Locations for Regional Fly-Ins Across the U.S. - AviationPros.com | Frederick, MD – The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) today announced the dates and locations of its first-ever regional fly-ins to be held nationwide throughout 2014. The Association will host six fly-ins as well as an “AOPA Homecoming” in Frederick, Md., giving AOPA members throughout the United States a chance to interact and share ideas with AOPA President Mark Baker, mingle with one another over breakfast and lunch, and take part in safety briefings, aviation clinics and flying activities...
Velasco Unveils Real Paint Scheme For McGuire P-38 – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Ep529 | Gary Velasco from Fighting Colors.com unveils a new collector panel featuring Major Thomas McGuire’s P-38 “Pudgy“. Major McGuire was one of the most decorated pilots to in WWII and according to Velasco, history hasn’t always portrait his airplane correctly. Gary sets the record straight and shares the evidence he’s uncovered...
Volunteers restoring WWII bomber Superfortress - Topeka Capital Journal | T.J. Norman, the volunteer project manager, hopes the public will see Doc in the sky above July's AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis. “I think it's doable,” Norman said. “I can't promise we'll make it, but we're sure going to try.” Still, the project needs ...
In World War Two our readers helped buy 17 Spitfires, now the famous fighter needs your help again - Belfast Telegraph | Seventy years ago, Belfast Telegraph readers reached deep into their pockets and made an unprecedented contribution to the war effort funding raising enough money to buy 17 Spitfires. Today we are asking you to help fund a small society's efforts to bring the spirit of these iconic planes home again...
Gone West: WWII Fighter Pilot William Overstreet Jr - Aero-News Network | Famously Flew Through The Eiffel Tower In Pursuit Of A German Plane | A WWII P-51 pilot who became famous for flying his airplane through the arches of the Eiffel Tower in pursuit of a German Messerschmitt Bf-109G during the war passed away last week in Roanoke, VA. William Overstreet Jr. was 92 years old...
The Weather Channel’s Tribute to Bill Overstreet · Warbirds News | Warbirds News was contacted to assist the Weather Channel in the making of this short tribute clip to Bill Overstreet who recently died...
Memorial honors Garry Davis - 'Citizen of the World' - vt.Buzz | Garry Davis of South Burlington was remembered at a memorial on Sunday as a man who was born without borders and died without borders. Davis, a former bomber pilot in World War II, was featured in Life Magazine in 1948 after becoming an instant celebrity for renouncing his American citizenship and declaring he was a "Citizen of the World." People were astonished that somebody could do this,? said Robin Lloyd, an organizer of the memorial. About 30 friends and fans attended the service at the Firehouse Gallery on Church Street in Burlington...
Video: Fly On The B-24 “Diamond Lil” - Warbird Radio
Aviatrix in awe of Holmes - The New Zealand Herald | Sir Paul Holmes' former flying instructor has tackled one of the greatest aviation feats - from South Africa to England in an open cockpit biplane. British aviatrix Tracey Curtis-Taylor, whose mother and sister live in Auckland, left Cape Town on 
November 2 on the epic two-month adventure in a restored 1942 Boeing Spearman biplane. She landed in Goodwood, on England's southern coast, on New Year's Eve....
The Second Volume Of John Brennan’s Vietnam War Helicopter About To Hit The Market · Warbirds News | Less than five weeks remain before the publication of “Vietnam War Helicopter Art: U.S. Army Rotor Aircraft- Vol 2″ by John Brennan.After the success of the first volume the new photo-book will be published by Stackpole this coming February 1st. The first volume had...
SMITHSONIAN AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM - The Daily Star | Spacecrafts and fighter jets have fascinated enthusiasts for decades. For all such devotees of air and space travel, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is the one, the epicentre to discover and see all the history behind human conflict. A large facility of the museum known as the Steven F Udvar Hazy Center is located just beside the busy Dulles airport in northern Virginia...
Saratoga foundation, Quonset Air Museum get RI legislative grants - The Providence Journal | The Quonset Air Museum and the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation have received legislative grants, state Sen. James C. Sheehan announced on Monday. The Saratoga foundation will use a $1,300 grant to help offset consultant costs for its project to convert a retired Navy aircraft carrier into a nonprofit floating museum...
Let's do the airplane shuffle! - Bayou Renaissance Man | It looks like the long, convoluted saga of the US armed forces' C-27J Spartan airlifters has finally been resolved. It began in 2005 when the US Army, dissatisfied with the tactical airlift service it was getting from the US Air Force in Iraq and Afghanistan, decided to replace its worn-out C-23 Sherpa transports with more modern, more capable aircraft. If it couldn't get the USAF to fly its people and cargoes when and where it needed them, it would do so itself...
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: Cold Weather Themes - TrickAir Snow Skis and Polar Flight 90 - The Aero Experience | The Aero Experience coverage of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 continues into the new year! In the first few days of 2014, many of us in the Midwest have experienced some very harsh winter weather, and we thought this might be a good time to review the exhibits related to cold climate flying. For those who are adept at landing in snow, the...
Sightings: Columbus Blue Jackets DC-9-32 in St. Louis - The Aero Experience | The Columbus Blue Jackets hockey team was in town again yesterday to play the red-hot St. Louis Blues (the Blues won 6-2). The team's aircraft, a 1979 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, was hosted by Jet Aviation at St. Louis Downtown Airport just across the Mississippi River from the Scottrade Center venue in downtown St. Louis. The venerable DC-9...
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SAND STORM COULD LEAD TO MORE CANCELLED AIRSHOW PERFORMANCES - Dubai 92 | Much anticipated performances at this year’s Dubai Airshow could be cancelled if bad weather persists. On day one of the event, the flying display programme had to be cut short after a sand storm hit the emirate. Visitors were not able to see one of the stars of the show, the Red Arrows, dominate the skies due to poor visibility and strong winds...
OC Air Show locked in for June - The News Journal | The OC Air Show has locked into a performance date of June 14-15, 2014, event officials announced. Air Show producer Bryan Lilley said he anticipates a groundswell of support for military aircraft performers going into 2014, after six months of no military aircraft performances at all, the result of what came to be known as sequestration at the federal level...
Dates confirmed for the 25th RAFA Shoreham Airshow - UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | August 30th and 31st will be the days that the organisers will be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Airshow which to date has raised almost 1.9 million pounds for RAFA funds. From humble beginnings, the show has now become one of the ‘highlights’ of the aviation flying display calendar. The organising team are all volunteers, and it is one of the pilot’s favourite Airshow venues!..
Video: Doolittle Raiders Final Toast - DoD Live | ...On the 9th of November, the remaining Doolittle 
Raiders came together at the National Museum of the Air Force to partake in one final wreath-laying ceremony, and to toast towards the lives lost for one last time...
Ohio Air News 254 - Charles Johnson | Doolittle Raiders Final Toast - November 9, 2013
Performer brings Kansas aviatrix to life - Fort Scott Tribune | Johnson learned about Thaden from racing in the Air Race Classic. "Louise won the 1929 Power Puff Derby and the 1936 Bendix," Johnson said. "She was also very much a part of promoting Travel Air and Beechcraft for Walter and Olive Ann Beech as their ...
Inside Airshows – Part 2: With a Mic in My Hand – Audio Episode Show Notes * Airspeed Online | A narrator can make or break an airshow act. Especially for an audience that doesn’t understand what it’s seeing. You’ve heard me say it before. John Mohr, Greg Koontz, Kent Pietsch, and others cast pearls before swine. I don’t mean to sound rude or elitist. It’s just true. Most of the audience has no idea how difficult some of those maneuvers are. You and I know that it’s very often not how fast but how slow, and not how high but how low, that is the really amazing thing about an airshow performance...
Shooting the Airshow Book 2013 - Justin de Reuck - Aviation Photographer | This is the second year I’ve been contracted to shoot the annual Air Show Book, “Smoke On…Go!”, a publication brought out every year by Creative Space Media. Not only is it an honour and a privilege but what an experience. I get to work with the best airshow and aerobatic pilots in the business and get the most awesome opportunities to photograph these guys in action.
Air & space legends honored in San Diego: 14 tapped to be inducted into the Air & Space Hall of Fame - 10 News | SAN DIEGO - The pilot responsible for the "Miracle on the Hudson" talked about the incredible ordeal as he was honored in Balboa Park on Saturday evening. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger was one of more than a dozen aviation all-stars who were inducted into the International Air and Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air and Space Museum. He and the other inductees were in San Diego being honored for their feats of flight...
Powerhouse Speakers Luncheon not to be missed! - Silver Wings Over Washington Fraternity | "Rear AdmiralEdward Lewis "Whitey" Feightneris a retiredUnited States Navyofficer who fought in a number of significant battles in theWorld War IIPacific Theater of Operations. During two combat tours, he shot down nine enemy aircraft to become a flying ace. He was an early member of theBlue Angelsflight demonstration squadron and...
Orlando Center Unveiled Tuskegee Airmen Monument - Warbirds News | The Orlando Science Center organized an event on Veteran’s Day to unveil a new monument to the Tuskegee Airmen. The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. Formally, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces...
Japan’s jet to intercept B-29s — Nakajima Kikka (?? ?? Orange Blossom) by travelforaircraft | 
Nakajima's Kikka ?? ?? (Orange Blossom) came at the very end of World War II and was obviously based upon the Messeschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe (Sparrow) — the world's first operational jet fighter. The Kikka did not see operational service and differed from the Me 262 in these significant ways:...
Timeless Voices - Jimmy Mitton · eaavideo.org | Jimmy Mitton worked as a flight engineer for South African Airways in a 43-year career that took him from from props to jets.
Visit Kennedy’s historic Air Force One at Air Force museum · General Aviation News Staff | DAYTON, Ohio — On Nov. 22, the world will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. One of the most historic artifacts associated with that fateful day is on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Special Air Mission (SAM) 26000, Kennedy’s Air Force One, is exhibited in the museum’s Presidential Gallery. He flew aboard SAM 26000 to Dallas, where he was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963 — and it was on this airplane that Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the new president. SAM 26000 then carried Kennedy’s body and Johnson back to Washington, D.C...
Today In Aviation:The Grumman C-2 Greyhound · WarbirdsNews By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC | On November 18, 1964, the Grumman C-2 Greyhound took flight for the first time. The Greyhound was derived from the E-2 Hawkeye and replaced the piston-engined C-1 Trader in the Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) role. The Greyhound retains the Hawkeye’s powerplants and wing but features a wider fuselage with a rear-loading cargo ramp...
Museum’s Next Living History Day Scheduled for February 1, 2014 at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor · Warbirds News | PRESS RELEASE Honolulu, HI—History comes alive at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor, Saturday, February 1, 2014, 9am to 4pm when visitors of all ages can experience the people, the aircraft, and the stories of Pacific aviation “stars” — from the early years of flight to today’s space age. The event is free to Museum members and free with Museum admission. For those who become a Museum member that day, the event is also free...
Lufthansa Ju-52 - Apron 6 | Besides the great looking Ju-52 I managed to capture air to air, there were 5 in total. Below some pictures from the Lufthansa Ju-52. The first one...
C-45 airplane flies again at Harrison County Airport - marshallnewsmessenger.com | Three years ago the Lone Star Wing of the Commemorative Air Force acquired an old US Air Force C-45 airplane. The plane had been in storage for several years, and to some extent, had been a parts donor for other flying C-45’s. The C-45 became a Wing project, not to restore it to flying condition, but to turn it into a static display at the Wing’s hanger located at the Harrison County Airport...
Hamilton to be inducted into Colorado Women's Hall of Fame - Sky Hi Daily News | Hamilton has authored two books aimed at encouraging and training women in aviation and flight instruction. In 1994, the FAA named a new holding intersection in Colorado at an altitude of 15,500 feet above sea level after her as part of the U.S ...
Aviation summit brings together women from all over the country - Herald Sun | WHEN helicopter pilot Kyhala Miller broke through the glass ceiling she kept on going up. The Moorabbin Airport-based pilot is one of 150 women who will be descending on Melbourne today for the Women in Aviation/Aerospace Australia National Summit. She hopes to meet other women in the industry and share her knowledge and experience with them at the inaugural summit. She developed a taste for flying while living in Papua New Guinea as a child, where she spent a lot of time flying in and out of remote villages in smaller aircraft with her dad...
WAI Mourns Passing of Dorothy "Dot" Swain Lewis - WAI Connect Blog | Women in Aviation, International was saddened to learn of the passing of Dot Swain Lewis on September 9, 2013. A 2004 inductee into the WAI Pioneer Hall of Fame, Dot was one of 10 female pilots taught to be...
EAA Staff Mourns Passing of Katrina Bradshaw - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association
Skydiving Auster V Aeroclub of Normandy in 1965 - Xavier Cotton | Thank you to David Lebloas who shares his memories of the Aeroclub paratrooper in Normandy in the early 60s. After witnessing the use of Caudron Moth...
Campaign To Salvage The P-38 Lightning “Maid Of Harlech,” By Warbirds News | The nephew of a pilot who crashed his Second World War fighter plane near Harlech is campaigning for the wreckage to be salvaged and placed in a museum. The rare United States Army Air Force (USAAF) fighter, now known as the Maid of Harlech, was discovered in July 2007 after 65 years under the sands...
Topgun in the Mid-1980s: Building on the Legacy – Part One * Photorecon.net · Dave "Bio" Baranek | PART 1: The Need for Topgun | More than forty years ago, the US Navy did something unusual for a large organization that revered its traditions. The Navy admitted that it had a serious problem and took dramatic action to remedy the situation. The actions quickly proved to be effective and formed the basis for a program that has lasted decades – yet with clear lineage to a program set up in the time of Apollo space missions and Elvis Presley’s first comeback tour. That program is known as Topgun. I was a Topgun instructor from 1984 to 1987, and will present my opinions on how decisions made during my tenure built on Topgun’s legacy and strengthened the organization for the future....
Airshow introduces about 50 students to Young Eagles program - Opelousas Daily World | About 50 students got to see their hometowns from an entirely new perspective this weekend during the Third Annual Gumbo Fly-in at Ahart Field in Opelousas...
Videos: Uh Oh... Foxbat Lands On CIVILIAN Aircraft Carrier! (The End Is Near) - AirPigz | As is so often the case these days, things aren't always what they first appear to be. With that in mind, no, I'm not talking about the Russian MiG-25 Foxbat, and the ship in the video technically isn't a 'civilian aircraft carrier'... however, what takes place in this video is almost as hard to believe as a MiG-25 on a civilian aircraft carrier...
Air and car show coming to Apple Valley - Victorville Daily Press | Aircraft from the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino also will be on hand, featuring the F4U Corsair, P-38 Lightning, B-25 Mitchell, P-51 Mustang, P-40 Warhawk and Fw190. Attendees can browse booths offering information, souvenirs, food and beverages...
History being made & on-display at NTRA this week - KTEN | Monday, the Commemorative Air Force, or CAF, landed a B-17 and a B-25 bomber at the airport, giving vintage aircraft enthusiasts, like Carol Bell, from Gainesville, a chance to take a look and take flight. "There's something about the B-17 that I just ...
The Patrouille de France was born in Reims ... - Passion for Aviation (translated) | Thursday, October 
24, 2013 at 18:30 | Audiovisual Saint-Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Centre | 20, rue de contrary, Reims | The National Association of Reserve Officers of the Air Force (ANORAA) sector 170 "Champagne-Ardennes" chaired by Captain Lawrence Marchwant the Edmond Marin la Meslée chaired by Hervé Chabaud Association, you pray for them to the honor of attending the evening they organize to celebrate: the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Patrouille de France in Reims...
Kelly Rowland To Close Out Dubai Airshow - RTT News | Kelly Rowland will close out this year's Dubai Airshow. The Airshow, which is the Middle East's leading aerospace event, takes place at Dubai World Central, a purpose-built site, from November 17 to 21 with the Grammy-winning singer performing at the ...
WWII bomber planes share their 'sentimental journey' at NTRA - KXII-TV | Commemorative Air Force B-17G Crew Chief Troy Smith said. The heavy, strategic bomber defended our nation from the sky during World War II, dropping more bombs than any other U.S. aircraft. "They're at 30,000 feet, it's 50 below zero, people are ...
Memorial set for fallen aviator - Santa Maria Times | Service for Navy Lt. Cmdr. Landon Jones to be Saturday in Lompoc | Navy Lt. Cmdr. Landon L. Jones, who died last month in a helicopter crash, will be remembered during a memorial service at 2 p.m. Saturday at Lompoc Foursquare Church, 125 North C St. The church’s doors will open at 1:30 p.m. The service will also be broadcast on Live Stream online from the church website at mylfc.com. The service will feature a U.S. Navy Honor Guard along with a Navy chaplain from Coronado Island Naval Base, as well as memories by family and close friends, organizers said...
MAPS Air Museum's new memorial landmark to honor pilot and WWII veterans - Massillon Independent | Robert Withee, who flew a P-51 during World War II, was the star of the groundbreaking for a new memorial soon to be placed where the access road for MAPS Air Museum turns off state Route 241. He even signed autographs. The memorial, a landmark that ...
Redstone Report: Flying Tigers visit arsenal - WAFF | The "Flying Tigers" were the first American volunteer group for the Chinese Air Force. With the permission of Franklin D. Roosevelt, they trained Chinese pilots before WWII. Ed Stiles is now in his 90's and is one of the surviving members of the group ...
F-35 Hangar Dedicated to WWII Pilots Who Flew The P-38 · Warbirds News | Officials from 
Lockheed Martin dedicated a hangar to the people who built, flew and maintained the aircraft. The hangar is now home to the F-35 Lightning II, which is nicknamed after the P-38 and is assembled at the Fort Worth plant. With a shiny new F-35 as a backdrop for the ceremony, officials unveiled an artist’s rendering of the mural they plan to paint on the building’s exterior. It will feature the motto “P-38 Lightning Hangar: The Legacy Continues.”...
Remembering the VC10 - The DEW Line | Just over two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be able to hitch a ride on the last ever operational sortie flown by the RAF’s veteran Vickers VC10s; a type which had first entered use with the service in 1966...
Bombing Nazi Germany: the graphic history of the Allied air campaign that defeated Hitler in World War II by travelforaircraft | Wayne Vansant has once again used his art to masterfully and evocatively convey emotions and context in the telling of history — this time on the subject of the Allied bombing campaign against Nazi Germany during World War II. Like his previous book — Normandy: a graphic history of D-Day the Allied invasion of Hitler’s Fortress Europe (reviewed in an earlier post) — Vansant delves into the widely known as well as the significant but often not discussed events. No judgements are made but no punches are pulled either. The fire bombing of cities (beginning with a German air raid) which culminated infamously with the Dresden attacks is addressed — and kudos to Vansant for illuminating post war political considerations....
Per Ardua Ad Astra — the RAF in Clewiston FL by travelforaircraft | Per Ardua Ad Astra — through adversity to the stars — motto of the Royal Air Force (RAF) here on a plaque in Clewiston, the small town on the west side of Florida's Lake Okeechobee? Today it is perhaps a puzzlement but back in the days of World War II the strange often made better sense than anything else. The RAF stationed the...
Roof failure at Calif. base damages airship - RGJ.com | TUSTIN, Calif. (AP) — A $35 million lighter-than-air dirigible was damaged and leaked helium Monday after part of a hangar roof collapsed at a former military base, authorities said...
Spreading My Wings - Flight To Success | ...I’ve dreamed about being a pilot since I was 4 years old, but I didn’t begin my life as a pilot until 2006 when I took my very first flight lesson, flying around Barbados where I live. I took my next big step when I enrolled in the Aeronautical Science program at Embry-Riddle one year later....
Flight Training Scholarship awards announced - AOPA | AOPA has announced the winners of the 2013 Flight Training Scholarships that will be awarded at AOPA Aviation Summit in Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 10 through 12. The scholarships are awarded to student pilots working toward an...
Encouraging young women to fly - Australian Defence Magazine | The 2013 recipient of a RAAF scholarship, Larissa Stephens, said since she had completed the endorsement she has had several hours of learning at her aero club. “I am now able to instruct in formation endorsements and this scholarship has improved my ...
September 2013 Young Eagles Report: Sixty Young Eagles - EAA Chapter 242 | For our September Young Eagles event we were privileged to have as our guests the Spann Watson Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen. Members of the chapter arranged for about 35 youth to come for young eagles flights. They also cooked lunch for attendees and helped entertain all of our guests at the event. In addition to Tuskegee we also had several families attend...
Pilot Killed, 18 Injured in Plane Crash at Madrid Air Show - RIA Novosti | MOSCOW, May 6 (RIA Novosti) - A pilot was killed after his plane crashed into a hangar injuring 18 people at an air show in Madrid on Sunday, Spain's EFE news agency reported. Medical assistance was rendered to three policemen, five staff workers and ...
Sometimes Lightning Strikes 5 Times! - Aces Flying High | The Planes of Fame 2013 Air Show in 
Chino, California was a special one this year. 5 Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft from the World War Two period flew together at the show. There are only 7 P-38′s flying in the world today (6 in the USA and 1 in Europe – unfortunately the 6th US one could not make it), so for the past 60 years this has been a very rare event to see this many flying together!...
GALLERY: Thrilling display at Wings Over Illawarra - Illawarra Mercury | Combat fighter pilot and Red Bull Air Race competitor Matt Hall performs aerobatic tricks. GALLERY: Thrilling display at Wings Over Illawarra. The CAC Boomerang was a World War II fighter aircraft designed and manufactured in Australia. GALLERY...
WWII Re-enactment event planned - Hastings Star Gazette | Organizations on hand will include the WWII Historical Re-enactment Society, the Commemorative Air Force, the Red Bull Military Vehicle Club and Fagen Fighters WWII Museum, along with the Lakeville Area and Rosemount Historical Societies. Food and ...
History comes to life - Temple Daily Telegram | He said the B-25 was a medium-range bomber that wouldn't go too far, but that it was great in the islands of the Pacific. “I'm a veteran of Korea, Vietnam and a few other places that I got out of,” he said. “We were bombing North Korea in B-29s,” he said.
World War II POWs share memories at museum dedication - SuburbanJournals | I lost about 50 pounds by the time we were liberated, and I was pretty thin as a civilian.” Rodgers spent 21 months at Stalag 17-B. He was a gunner in a B-25 when it was shot down during a raid over Germany. He has stories about being hungry and scared.
Port Charlotte, Fla. man flew in three wars from War Tales by Don Moore | As a kid Hal Johnson wanted to be a fighter pilot. When he joined the Army Air Corps in 1943 they made him a B-24 “Liberator” bomber pilot. “By the time I graduated from B-24 training and was ready to go overseas, I was told they needed pilots to fly B-29 ‘Superfortresses.’ So I went [...]
Spotting planes, rescuing airmen, avoiding headhunters in India - Buffalo News “We radioed for a doctor,” Ross says, “and a B-25 flew overhead and a doctor and first officer parachuted in.” And the airmen survived. The same could not be said for Ross' brother, Everett, who had served as a machine-gunner on a B-17 bomber. Just ...
20th Century Images: Air show - WV Gazette | CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When Wertz Airfield was 
opened in Institute in the 1930s, air shows celebrated. This photo is especially interesting. After World War I, the Germans were made to disarm and one of their most deadly weapons was the fighter plane known as Fokker D-7. These ...
Can Project Robin’s Canberra be saved? from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Project Robin was a series of Cold War reconnaissance missions flown by the RAF, in the early 1950s, until the introduction by the USAF of the Lockheed U-2. The subject aircraft of these images may have been a Project Robin [...]
Warbird Heritage Foundation Begins Restoration of Goodyear FG-1D Corsair - Warbird News | The Warbird Heritage Foundation of Waukegan, Illinois has recently acquired a Goodyear FG-1D Corsair 92050, N194G. The plane which was surplussed from military service in 1963 was extensively modified to run in the Reno Air Races in the early seventies, its engine replaced and wingtips cut off. The museum intends to restore the plane, which has been in storage since 1977, to its original configuration over the next three to five years....
C-130 squadron first to perform new airdrop method from Air Force Link Top Stories | The 772nd Expeditionary Airlift Squadron executed the first combat Extracted Container Delivery System, or XCDS, airdrop April 29, successfully demonstrating the increased accuracy that this new technology provides. The new airdrop method is designed to pull the bundles out of the aircraft at a faster rate than the current airdrop process, which improves the overall accuracy of the drop itself.
“The Restorers” Needs Your Help! – TV Series In The Making From Warbird Radio | ...Here’s a note from Adam & Kara describing what they’re looking for:...
May 19th, 1pm: Alive Decisions Discussion by ameliaearhart1 | The very first Fly With Amelia Foundation event is now on the calendar and I am excited to have you join us. On May 19th, 2013 at 1pm, I will lead an interactive discussion for adults, kids, teens…
SUN ’n FUN baby earns private ticket from General Aviation News | By AMELIA T. REIHELD | SUN ’n FUN’s contagious aviation joy can claim another recruit to the ranks. Logan Honea has been to every SUN ’n FUN since the year he was born. Sixteen years after his first trip to Lakeland, he soloed on his birthday, and last week, just past his 17th birthday, he earned his license. “I’m probably the youngest private pilot at SUN ’n FUN this year,” he guessed....
Sporty’s Foundation makes grants to ensure next generation from General Aviation News | For the first quarter of 2013, The Sporty’s Foundation made bequests in the amount of $37,500 to groups and organizations promoting youth programs. EAA’s Next Step continues to be funded year-round by The Sporty’s Foundation. This program partners EAA with Sporty’s to make Sporty’s online Learn to Fly Course available to any Young Eagle....
Meet the 15-Year-Old Girl Who Will Probably Be the First Astronaut On Mars - PolicyMic | AH: The prize, if you won State History Day, was that you got to go to nationals, which was in Washington D.C. And I wanted to go to the Air & Space Museum in Washington D.C. I ended up not winning … But along the way … one of the things that I did ...
#Oshbash awards to honor social media stars from General Aviation News by Ben Sclair | EUGENE, Ore. – The #Oshbash Awards honor those who keep the aviation conversation humming on Twitter. Airplanista, an aviation blog site cultivated by Dan Pimentel, will present the first-ever #Oshbash Awards at its annual meetup event on Wednesday, July 31 (5:30-7:30 pm) in the EAA Press Tent at the 2013 EAA Airventure Oshkosh....
Tennessee Hall of Fame inductees announced from General Aviation News | The Tennessee Aviation Hall of Fame will hold its 12th Annual Gala & Inductions Ceremony Nov. 9. Four people will be inducted into the Hall of Fame, including Milton “Preacher” Brandon, Lt. Col. Herbert W. “Bill” Powley, Rear Admiral Jimmie W. Taylor, and Montill Warren....
Airshow, Ely-Pusher, Spirit of Freedom to headline Festival of Flight from General Aviation News by Ben Sclair | Suffolk, Va. – “Bob Coolbaugh’s replica of the 1911 Ely-Curtis Pusher which he built and flew around the country for the 2011 100th anniversary of the US Navy will attend,” the May 4-5, 2013 Virginia Regional Festival of Flight as reported by fly-in manager Judy Sparks. And the Berlin Airlift Foundation’s 4-engine C-54E, The Spirit of Freedom, a flying museum of the Berlin Airlift will pay a return visit.”...
Seaplane Adventure | Saturday May 4th | 10AM-3PM | In the early years of aviation, airplane
technology advanced in leaps and bounds-yet airport development lagged behind. Into this void came the seaplane, an aircraft able to fly without need of runways to any destination near an ocean or lake. By the 1930s seaplanes held...
The show must go on: Pensacola Beach plans July air show, concert without the ... - Pensacola News Journal | The Pensacola Beach July air show will go on without the famous Blue Angel flight demonstration team and with the addition of a free Saturday night concert. W. A. “Buck” Lee, Santa Rosa Island Authority executive director, announced the news during a ...
Six P-38s Scheduled for Chino 2013 from Photorecon by Betsy Murphy | We just got back from the Chino Media Preview for this year. Wow did they drop a bomb on us. Looks like we are going to see (assuming nothing breaks) six P-38s on the field. Five will fly and there will be one static P-38 from the Yank’s Museum at Chino. All the prior reports said they would “only” have....
AIRSHOW NEWS: New Look Tucano Joins Wings & Wheels Line-up from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | Wings & Wheels is delighted to confirm the RAF Tucano will be showing off its new desert camouflage design in an impressive aerobatic display on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th August at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey....
AIRSHOW NEWS: Big cats take over at RAF Cosford Air Show from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | With a fascinating selection of Jaguars on display, RAF Cosford’s 75th Anniversary Air Show is offering a big cat line-up that will be seen nowhere else this summer.
GoPro: The Wing Walker - YouTube | Join Teresa Stokes as she risks life and limb performing aerial acrobatics for the crowd at the 2012 EAA Airventure Show!
"Air Racers" - The Edwardsville Intelligencer | In 1909, just six years after the Wright Brothers' inaugural flight, a young American named Glenn Curtiss won the very first air race in Reims, France. At that race, Curtiss made history when he completed two laps in 15 minutes with a top speed of 46 mph.
Aussie aviator searches for skeleton in Fiji - Fiji Times | ...The 56-year-old's Fiji layover is to search for the remains of American aviator Amelia Earhart who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937 while attempting to circumnavigate the globe in a Lockheed Electra aircraft....
Death by P-38 By Don Hollway | That Saturday afternoon the "Opium Den"—the smoky, sweltering, ramshackle command bunker at Henderson Field, on Guadalcanal—was packed with Navy and 
Marine brass hats. Lowly flyboys Captain Thomas Lanphier Jr. and Major John W. Mitchell, commanding officer of the U.S. Army Air Forces' 339th Fighter Squadron, arrived last, but were treated like guests of honor. Mitchell was handed a teletyped radio message marked "Top Secret": a flight schedule for an inspection tour by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto....
'There and back again' – The 305th AMW story - Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst - McGuire Air Force Base | ...A number of these Airmen were teens who lied about their age in order to enlist. They shipped out to Chelveston with a minimum of training to fly B-17s, planes well-known for being cumbersome. The Americans flew many successful missions, and the 305th BG saw so much success that, in July 1945, the USAAF chose the group to stay behind after the war, move to St. Trond Airfield, Belgium, and execute aerial mapping missions for the Allies....
Luftwaffe colour photos from Let Let Let - Warplanes by Nico | During the Second World War some 1000 photographers were active on all German fronts to make propaganda shots for publication in well-known German magazines like Signal. Also the...
Yankee Air Museum Begins $6 Million Campaign to Make Its Home in the ... - ReadMedia | YPSILANTI, MI - The Yankee Air Museum on Monday evening announced a $6 million campaign to purchase and undertake necessary separation and renovation costs for the area of the former Willow Run Powertrain Plant that ...
FlightTime Radio Show 262 | Today we get to talk to a real Globetrotter, Captain Judy Rice. Judy has flown some legs of a global flight and shortly she will take off in her Cirrus and circle planet!
Combat Air Museum to hold 20th annual celebrity pancake feed - Topeka Capital Journal | Anyone looking to support a Topeka landmark and get all-you-can-eat pancakes at the same time may want to consider attending the 20th annual Combat Air Museum celebrity pancake feed Saturday at Forbes Field. Going from 7 a.m. to noon in hangar ...
EmP – The Nuclear Winter by Thornton D. Barnes from Special Projects by tdbarnes | EmP by Thornton D. Barnes is now available in paperback and ebook on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and CreateSpace. EmP joins Barnes’s autobiography...
Teen and mom learn to fly together from General Aviation News By AMELIA T. REIHELD | Parents of teenagers, take note: Here is a mother/daughter bonding experience that doesn’t involve shopping for shoes. It all started a year and a half ago, when then-14-year-old Amy White took her first airplane ride ever. It was a Young Eagles flight at Edenton Northeastern Regional Airport (EDE) in North Carolina, and Amy got to ride shotgun with an EAA member from Suffolk, Va. Amy was enthralled, totally sold....
June 8 Marks 20th Annual EAA International Young Eagles Day from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Thousands of young people will take to the sky in GA aircraft on Saturday, June 8, as EAA volunteers continue a 20-year aviation tradition - International Young Eagles Day.
EAA Chapter 242 Flies 10,000th Young Eagle from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | EAA Chapter 242 of Columbia, South Carolina, marked its 10,000th Young Eagle flown on April 13 at Jim Hamilton L.B. Owens Airport (CUB). The lucky Young Eagle, Luke Williams, flew with chapter member Tom Roberts, EAA 697606, in his homebuilt RV-7A.
AIRSHOW 2013 – “LIGHTNING STRIKES” - Mid Valley News | Warbirds will once again fill the skies over Chino Airport during the Planes of Fame/County of San Bernardino Air Show over the 
weekend of May 4-5, 2013. On May 3, the public and museum members are invited to an Airshow Preview Event consisting of...
'Blue Angel' Hornet stops by Hillsboro to promote air show - KATU | The popular U.S. Navy Blue Angels will headline the Oregon International Air Show this summer. On Thursday morning, one of the iconic blue and gold F/A-18 Hornets touched down at Hillsboro Airport to promote the upcoming visit by the entire team. The...
Planes of Fame Features WWII Survivors; Flies Focke-Wulf - Flying Magazine | Wilbur Richardson also had the crowd on the edge of the seats as he spoke of his missions in a gun turret of a B-17 bomber. With 30 missions under his belt, Richardson survived a gunshot wound to the thigh and one major engine fire, an incident during...
The famous Patrouille de France Saturday opening MP 2013 - Maritima.info | The Air Force and BA Salon are associated with the opening of Marseille-Provence 2013, European 
Capital of Culture. PAF fly over the cities in the territory of MP early Saturday afternoon. The Air Force Base and...
Remembering an aviation Pagani Zonda " - balsas.lt | Pagani Zonda Tricolore was dedicated to the Italian Air Force aerial acrobatic squadron "Freccia Tricolore" 50th anniversary. Thus clip the car sported a graceful planes Aermacchi MB-339-A/PAN Company. Admire aviation practice "Zonda Tricolore...
Air show began in 1960, called 'Space Fair' - Ventura County Star | Civilian air show acts during this time period included Dick Schram, “The Flying Professor,” in his Piper Cub as a comedy act and Frank Tallman, a legendary Hollywood stunt pilot, flying a bright red World War I Fokker DR-1 German plane. Tallman was...
Air racer ready to show skills - Northern Star | A highlight of the weekend will be the breathtaking and low-level displays of renowned aerobatic legend Paul Bennett. Paul will be performing in his Pitts Special aerobatic biplane. Other favourites that will be visiting and available for joy flights...
Documenting fearless flight Posted by Dan Domsic | Fishers-based filmmaker debuts ‘Wings for Maggie Ray’ | One Fishers-based filmmaker is out to tell the story of a Hoosier some say was without fear. “Wings for Maggie Ray,” a documentary by Philip Paluso, owner, writer and director at Medium Cool Pictures debuts on WFYI this Thursday at 9 p.m. The film details Margaret Ray Ringenberg’s life – from her time on an Indiana farm to her days as part of the Women’s Air Force Service Pilots during World War II to a...
Popular TV antiques show heading to air museum - This is Somerset | Popular TV antiques show heading to air museum. Trusted article source icon. Thursday, January 10, 2013. Profile image for Western Gazette - North Dorset · Western Gazette - North Dorset. Follow. A BBC antiques show is being hosted in south Somerset at...
Oshkosh 2013 Gets Stung By Jerry Yagen's Mosquito? from AirPigz by Martt | AVweb had a story yesterday about how the EAA was going to stand firm on their policy of not paying appearance fees to have specific aircraft attend the annual convention and fly-in in Oshkosh, 
Wisconsin. This has become an issue because it appears that Jerry Yagen, the owner of the Mosquito recently (and impeccably) restored by Avspecs LTD in new Zealand, has said he won't bring the Mosquito (and his new-manufacture Me 262) without being paid to do so. Hmm, really? Normally I'd just hear this news and then let my opinion rattle around inside my head, but as a guy who has covered this Mosquito extensively in the last several months here on AirPigz, I decided I have something to say....
A perspective from the point of view of a museum volunteer from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | As a volunteer at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, I want to share a few thoughts about the museum, the visitors and the dedication of the volunteers and staff. I have been coming to the museum since I was a youngster in grade school. At age 64 I am no longer a youngster. The museum isn't young either. It has blossomed, from one hangar in the 1950s, to a 17 acre complex. The museum was...
1912: Famous aviator visits Cape = Southeast Missourian (blog) | Tony Jannus, a pioneer aviator, met his death in the cockpit of a Curtiss H-7 airplane on Oct. 12, 1915, while training Russian pilots to fly combat missions. According to Wikipedia, his plane developed engine problems and crashed into the Black Sea...
Airport got start with B-17 bombers - Cincinnati.com | “Funding was approved in 1942 by President Franklin Roosevelt for a 928-acre airfield and practice 
field for B-17 bombers from Lockbourne Air Force Base in Columbus,” said Flanagan. According to the Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, runways were...
American Angel from General Aviation News by Meg Godlewski | Angels have been part of aviation myths since the early days of flight — so much so that two successful Hollywood movies, “A Guy Named Joe” and the 1989 remake “Always,” were centered on a pilot turned angel who comes to the rescue of fellow pilots. John and Patti Stahr from Eugene, Ore., enthusiastically embraced that angelic connection with their RV-8 “American Angel.”
Search for WWII Spitfire planes may come to an end in Burma from The Kathryn Report by The Kathryn Report | A team searching for scores of lost Spitfire planes that were packed in crates and buried in Burma during the last days of World War II believes it may have hit paydirt.David Cundall, whose 17-year quest to unearth the long-lost planes has cost him his life savings, told a news conference today that searchers have found a crate buried in muck in the northern Kachin state capital Myitkyina.
A monument to the memory of the Greatest Generation - Houston Chronicle | I take great pride in watching this institution grow from a single building to a six-acre, $325 million campus filled with priceless artifacts from G.I. diaries to a B-17 Flying Fortress. Just as precious is the opportunity for young scholars like...
Back to the left side, and a boo boo… from The EAA Zenith Project by ChadJensen | As you’ll see from the first few pictures, Saturday’s build session was filled with green and gold, and for good reason, but we’re not here to talk about football. ;o) We had some drilling to do! First off, we had to install the lift strut attach fitting, so Dick Knapinski took care of that detail prior to lifting the skin over in to place.
Former EAA Vice President to Receive Harrison Ford Legacy Award from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Greg Anderson, former EAA senior vice president who helped launch the EAA Young Eagles program, will receive the Harrison Ford Legacy Award for his contributions to the GA community.
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New Pilot Solos in RV-12 He Helped Build from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Austin Malcomb, EAA 1044354, fulfilled a dream last Friday, January 4, when he soloed on his 16th birthday at North Vernon Municipal Airport (OVO). While soloing on one's first eligible day is not that unusual, the airplane Austin flew certainly was; it's an RV-12, N901EN, dubbed Eagle's Nest One, built mostly in the engineering classroom of Jennings County High School, North Vernon, Indiana.
Circle of Flight: Former Young Eagle Flies 500th Young Eagle from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | On September 2, 1995, 8-year-old Bradley Bormuth of Morganton, North Carolina, went on a Young Eagles flight with his dad, Al, in his Cessna 210. Eight years later - on his 16th birthday - Bradley soloed. The following year, he passed his checkride and started giving Young Eagles flights.
"Sentimental Journey" on Tuesday after landing from a 30-minute flight. The ride took her toward the Las Cruces area and back to Santa Teresa Airport. The ...
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Events, and Photos taken by our Club members for you to enjoy. The Popular Rotorcraft Association is an international group of rotorcraft enthusiasts.... Info for the Ken Brock Freedom Fly-in, Sept 28-30, HERE.
favorite warbird. Membership is... Includes: Vivid Memories of a POW, P-38 "Yippee" Quiz, Green Acres Connection. Really?
