MacDill cancels Airfest - Tampabay.com | TAMPA — MacDill Air Force Base officials announced Friday they have canceled the Airfest scheduled for April 6 and 7 because of forced budget cuts. "We waited until the very last minute kind of hoping for a breakthrough," said Terry Montrose, a ...
THE PATRIOTS - Avionics Intelligence | An aerospace engineering graduate from the University of Florida, Howell is an accomplished pilot, having been a career United Airlines captain, a Reno Air Race pilot, and an air show performer before creating the Patriots; "I wanted to show audiences ...
Air Racers OMNIMAX Movie Scheduled to Open March 8, Aviation Day March 9 at St. Louis Science Center from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | St. Louis – Air Racers, a breathtaking exploration of the fastest race in the world, is coming to the OMNIMAX ® Theater at the Saint Louis Science Center on March 8, 2013. Air Racers provides a unique insight into the legendary Reno National Championship Air Races. Narrated by Paul Walker of the “Fast and the Furious” franchise, the documentary film takes moviegoers to Northern Nevada’s Valley of Speed to experience, from inside the cockpit, the intensity and high-speed thrills of a sports event like no other, captured for the very first time for the giant screen....
Solar Impulse Prepares For U.S. Flight from AVwebFlash Current Issue | The Solar Impulse's HB-SIA solar-powered aircraft has been delivered disassembled to Moffett field, California, and its team has started the process of reassembling it in preparation for a four-stop flight across America. The aircraft's wing spans more than 205 feet and is covered with nearly 12,000 photovoltaic cells that run four 10 horsepower electric motors. The cells also charge the aircraft's lithium-polymer battery packs. In flight, the 3,527 lb. plane cruises at less than 50 mph. Test flights will be made prior to the transcontinental journey. Stops, other than Washington D.C. and New York have not been precisely identified. The program last summer suffered setbacks.
Women and aviation from Passion pour l'aviation by Xavier Cotton | March 4, 2013 at the Aero Club 
of France | Evening presented by Marie-Françoise Scibilia research engineer at CNRS. Marie-Christine Villatoux, Head of the Department of Defense Archives in Vincennes, will discuss the political, social and military that allowed the women to the rank of military pilots....
Night in the 40's - Big Band Dance at Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing ... - newszap.com | The Commemorative Air Force Aviation Museum (CAF), and presenting sponsors CareMore and Hensley and Company invite you to take a Sentimental Journey back to 1943 with “A Night in the 40s” Big Band Dance. This glamorous event is one of the ...
Millville Municipal Airport (KMIV), New Jersey: World War II P-47 combat pilot to talk from The Kathryn Report | MILLVILLE – Millville Army Air Field Museum will host a movie night at 6 p.m. March 12 in the Henry E. Wyble Research Library at Millville Airport.The movie “Thunderbolt,” will be shown, which follows P-47 combat pilots in “Operation Strangle” during the Italian campaign in World War II. Captain Bill Rich, World War II P-47 combat pilot/instructor who served at Millville Army Air Field,
Today is the One Year Anniversary of the Tornado from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | ...Here’s what she said. “We got hit by a tornado, we’re all alive, the animals are ok, everything is damaged, and the shop is gone. (someone talking in background) I have to go because another tornado is heading this way” and she hung up. And again, thank God for that aspirin....
Eglin Marines fly first F-35B post-grounding sorties from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | US Marine Corps pilots at Eglin AFB, Florida, led by 33rd Fighter Wing vice-commander Col Arthur Tomassetti flew four sorties with their Lockheed Martin
F-35B short take-off vertical landing variant of the Joint Strike Fighter. Meanwhile, US Air Force's first "official" batch of F-35 student (this is a relative term, the students are elite handpicked operational test and evaluation aviators) pilots have started the taxi portion of their transition course. These photos were taken by the USAF's ever efficient Major Karen Roganov at the 33rd Fighter Wing....
Sport rocketry archaeology (a.k.a. rocketology) from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | This month's update from Verna and Randy [yeah guys, I found it before your email announcement :)] is about the study of sport rocketeers via the rockets that they have built. They coined the term rocketology but I generally call it rocket archaeology. I borrowed one photo and the terminology. For more details...
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Andrews Marines contribute to Centennial of Marine Corps Aviation - Capital Flyer | by Senior Airman 
Amber Russell, 11th Wing Public Affairs This May, the Marine Corps will celebrate 100 years of aviation history. Since AA Cunningham's first flight in 1912 until now, Marines have adapted their aviation abilities to support ground...
WTOP guide to the Andrews Air Show - WTOP | WASHINGTON - Hundreds of thousands are expected to descend on Fedex Field over the weekend to soak in the spectacle of the annual Andrews Air Show. The event will feature performances by the Blue Angels, the US Navy flight demonstration squadron, ...
[VIDEO] Tommy McFLY Takes To The Sky In A Fighter Jet! - CBS Local | In preparation for the Joint Services Open House and Air Show this weekend at Andrews Air Force Base Tommy McFLY took to the skies with Dragon Aviation for some high flying fun! The sounds of the engines revving was ...
Westover air show to salute Greatest Generation - WWLP 22News | This year's Great New England Air Show will be a " Salute to the Greatest Generation." On Friday, the 439th Airlift Wing at Westover Air Reserve Base announced the theme of this year's show, which will be held on August 4 and 5...
THE 61 TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARMY AVIATION IN VITERBO from Aviation-Report.com (translated) | Viterbo 10 May 2012, a formation of helicopters of various models and fixed-wing aircraft in the sky flying over the Italian Army cargo area of the airport "T. Smiths "of Viterbo, officially closing the ceremony to celebrate the 61 th Anniversary of the Constitution dell'AVES, the Italian Army Aviation. The ceremony, along with the civil authorities, military and religious authorities of Viterbo, was...
Episode 87: Wings Over Illawarra 2012 from Plane Crazy Down Under | The Great PCDU Road Trip of 2012 covered over 1,700km in the course of a single weekend. From late on Friday night to early on Monday morning, Steve, Grant & Allan drove from Melbourne up to Wollongong (just south of Sydney) to attend the Wings Over Illawarra 2012 air show. Firmly ensconced in...
Remains of missing WWII gunner to be buried at DFW National Cemetery - FOX 4 News | Corporal Wayne Richard Erickson was just a month shy of his 20th birthday when his PBJ-1D, similar to a B-25 bomber, crashed on an island in the South Pacific. On April 22, 1944, the plane took off from Luganville Airfield on the island of Espirtu ...
B-29 ditching in the Pacific 1945 from Fear of Landing by Sylvia | Vincent "Enzo" Romano is a historian and researcher who has created the "most complete Italian private digital archive related to American History, from the end of the 19th century to 1970." Included in his collection is a stunning video from March 1945 in which Captain Bernard "Barney" McCaskill Jr ditches his B-29, the Hopefull Devil, in the Pacific near Pagan Island....
GUEST POST – Cleared for Takeoff: Second Annual Aviation Inspiration Day Is A Week Away from Aviation Queen | ...Lynda Meeks, the founder of Girls With Wings, is traveling to the Upper Midwest to host her 2nd annual Aviation Inspiration Day on Saturday, May 26th, at Fleming Field in South St. Paul, Minnesota. Together with the Minnesota Wing of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF), Wipaire, Young Eagles, and several other great partners, this event hopes to host hundreds of families, but more importantly, dozens of young girls – grades 1st-8th – who will learn the basics of becoming a pilot...
VIDEO: Recovery of C-17 which crash-landed in Afghanistan from Kathryn's Report | Three C-17s have crash-landed in Afghanistan since operations began. All three have been recovered. First two were repaired and returned to service. This one should also return to service once repaired...
First plane to land at Manchester airport returns as Hornet Moth marks 75th anniversary of historic flight (UK) from Kathryn's Report | Duncan Menzies' pilot log book, showing his entry from May 1937 when he landed at the Ringway A historic biplane that was the first to land at Manchester Airport has returned to mark the airport's 75th birthday. The vintage de Havilland Hornet Moth flew in today carrying Peter Menzies, 
son of original pilot Duncan who was aboard the aircraft back on May 17, 1937. The single-engined...
Latest Posts from Let Let Let - Warplanes
America's aging aviation force: Father, son flew same fighter jet 30 years apart - Hot Air | We are." The Heritage Foundation featured Deptula's story as a part of a three-part series highlighting the risks of budget cuts to the nation's military. The first part told the story of Col. Kerry Kachejian, an Army Reserve engineer, who relied on ...
2012 Team America Rocketry Challenge Results from Space Prizes by Ray | Here's more on the 2012 Team America Rocketry Challenge that was just held...
The Dawn of the Commercial Space Age is (Probably) Happening This Weekend from POPSCI | Tomorrow morning, whether they realize it or not, Americans will likely wake up to a new era. Though nothing will be outwardly different, a fundamental shift in the nature spaceflight will commence during the wee morning hours. Call it a defining moment, or a milestone, or simply call it what it is: the dawn of the private spaceflight industry's real presence in outer space....
Kennedy Space Center Welcoming Visitors During 50th Anniversary Year with Special Tours and Offers from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- NASA is offering visitors rare access to several key areas of Kennedy Space Center during its 50th anniversary year to enhance a popular destination that already features an array of authentic...
Thursday, May 3, 2012
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Nominate a 'Hometown Hero' for ride in fighter jet during Brunswick air show
- Bangor Daily 
News | BRUNSWICK, Maine — The Midcoast Regional
Redevelopment Authority has teamed up with the US Air Force Thunderbirds
to host the flight of a “hometown hero” at the 2012 Great State of
Maine Air Show, which will be held Aug. 24-26...
AIRSHOW NEWS: Wings & Wheels to host only UK Display for Wartime Hero
from Flightline UK | The raw power of the B-25 Dutch Mitchell Bomber
will be on display at Wings & Wheels 2012 as the throaty roar of the
1700 horsepower engines are once again heard reverberating around
Dunsfold Aerodrome, some 70 years after it was based at the historic
airfield....
Flying in the back seat of a Red Arrows from TAKEOFF TUBE | Experience an amazing flight in the back seat of a Red Arrows, the Royal Aerobatic Team.
Check out the Patty Wagstaff GoPro footage! from AirshowUniverse's Facebook Wall
Last famous Flying Tiger on mainland dies at 92 - Jakarta Post | The last remaining heroic pilot of the famed Flying Tigers who lived on mainland China died on April 29 at the age of 92, Qilu Evening News reported on Wednesday. Wang Yanzhou was the only former pilot on the Chinese mainland who flew with the 1st ...
Timeless Voices - Kenny Chapman
from eaavideo.org | Kenny Chapman began his aviation career as a
lineboy for Hemet Valley Flying Service, and in 1967 began flying aerial
firefighting missions as a copilot on a PBY fire bomber. Today he is
the Senior Firefighting Pilot for Erickson Air-Crane.
Hindenburg & Titanic Exhibit Opens at Smithsonian
from Airships: A Hindenburg and Zeppelin History Site | “FIRE &
ICE,” a wonderfully-curated exhibit about the Hindenburg and Titanic,
opened at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum in Washington, DC on
March 22, 2012. The exhibit includes rare artifacts from both ships and
visual presentations that will be of interest to both adults and
children, and features information about the Hindenburg and Titanic’s
service as flying/floating post offices....
US Training Codes
from Vintage Aeroplane Writer | It is always good to welcome another
new resource. John Voss has launched his website covering the known...
Want a Ride in Synergy?
from CAFE Foundation Blog by Dean Sigler | Howard Handelman, a 
regular
reader and observant critic of the CAFE Blog, and Patrick Panzera of
Contact magazine fame, are soliciting support for an effort to help John
McGinnis finish his Synergy aircraft, unfortunately unable to make its
Green Flight Challenge date, but nearing the finish line, none the
less....
Solar Plane: Around the world without a drop of fuel
from Aerial Sports Feed | In the new edition of The Red Bulletin we
usher in a new dawn of aviation as we follow a third-generation
adventurer, a fighter pilot, and a solar-powered plane that can fly at
night…
Lockheed Martin Delivers Final, Historic F-22 Raptor To U.S. Air Force
- MarketWatch | MARIETTA, Ga., May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] leadership delivered today the 195th and
last F-22 Raptor to US Air Force leadership in a ceremony at the
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics site here....
Delaware National Guard to host plane pull May 6
- Brandywine East Community News | By Franz Osorio The Delaware
National Guard will host a plane pull to benefit the Special Olympics on
Sunday, May 6. The event will see teams of 20 individuals competing to
see who can pull a C-130 airplane 12 feet in the shortest time.
Shoot to Kill Authorized Over Chicago?
from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | Why would they risk asking a pilot
to shoot down one of his own? Drone Operators are experienced with such
things. Just like camera bravery, when looking through a lens or at a
screen it doesn't seem as real.
News has been swirling wildly about the upcoming NATO Summit in Chicago and the accompanying “No Fly Zone”. What has...
Mahtomedi rocket team zooms to nationals - Press Pubs | The Mahtomedi High School Rocket Team has once again qualified to compete in the national finals of the Team America Rocketry Challenge. The world's largest rocket contest will be held May 12. The annual competition challenges more than 6000 students ...
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New Smyrna Beach Sky Fest performer flies in memory of wife - news-journalonline.com | When Kyle Franklin performs at the New Smyrna Beach Balloon & Sky Fest this weekend, he'll be flying in the memory of his wife and former pilot, Amanda Franklin. A few weeks before he was scheduled to perform in New Smyrna Beach last year, Franklin and his wife were performing their signature wing-walking routine at an air show in Texas when their plane's engine lost power and crashed. The fire that erupted caused life-threatening injuries and burns to both pilots....
Florida International Air Show in SWFL - WZVN-TV | Starting Saturday, you can catch some of the coolest sights in Southwest Florida's skies as the Florida International Air Show kicks off this weekend at the Punta Gorda Airport....
Florida air show packs punch for lovers of aviation - aviationpros.com | "In my 24 years here, this air show has by far the largest show schedule I have ever got into," said air boss Bob Hall, adding that fans will be "wowed" by the large and loud Super Hornets. The air show is scheduled for 10 am to 4 pm Saturday and ...
Robins April air show schedule to offer jammed array of flights, exhibits - The Warner Robins Patriot | Patty Wagstaff will return with a low-level, competition-style aerobatic demonstration. She is a six-time winner of the "First Lady of Aerobatics" Betty Skelton Award. She will be joined by the Commemorative Red Tails Squadron, the Liberty Jump Team, ...
A major air show in Bromont - Regional portal - Granby | Bromont the show will be attended by Pete McLeod, the first Canadian (and the youngest driver) to join the Red Bull Air Race. The chairman of the board of Bromont airport, is excited about this new show....
Air Show Adds US Navy Hornet Demo Team - The Dispatch | The Black Diamond Jet Team will be a new performance coming to Ocean City in 2012 as well as Mike Goulian, a former Red Bull air racer, and the aerobatic team Mike Wiskus and the Lucas Oil Pitts. Returning this year will be the GEICO Skytypers, ...
Air show aces prepare for takeoff in Flagler - Daytona Beach News-Journal | It's big and it's bad and it will be parked at the Flagler County Airport this weekend for tours during the Wings Over Flagler air show. The US Air Force C-130 Hercules, weighing in at about 100000 pounds, ...
Planes take to sky for Parafield Airshow - News Review Messenger | TAKE OFF: Tammy Augostin with one of the planes that will be flown at the Parafield Airshow. Picture: Noelle Bobrige REPLICA Spitfires, helicopters and antique aircraft will take to the skies this Sunday (March 25) for the Parafield Airshow...
Air show organizers buoyed by weather outlook - Brownsville Herald | “We think there's a lot of excitement out there about the air show with the weather looking beautiful for the weekend — and the fact that the last few weeks have been terrible weather-wise,” he said. “I think people are going to be excited about ...
Red Arrows set to return to blockbuster 2012 Bournemouth Air Festival - Bournemouth Echo | COMING soon to a seafront near you ... a blockbusting line-up for this year's Bournemouth Air Festival was last night announced at a spectacular launch event. A thrilling twilight display just off Bournemouth Pier by the SWIP team twister duo gave an ...
Arrows tricolor return to furrow the sky Timpa of Acireale - BlogSicilia.it (Translated) | March 
23, 2012 - After the show, 2 and 3 June in Rome and the first international exhibition of Bodo in Norway, the Tricolour Arrows will return to Sicily for a unique exhibition has already been defined: one that will hold the National Aerobatic ...
World War II aircraft on display at San Marcos Muni - San Marcos Mercury | World War II-era aircraft, including a rare Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and other bombers and fighters, will be on display at the San Marcos Municipal Airport March 26 through March 28. The Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour says the B-17 is ...
Hightower makes mark on EAA management - The Oshkosh Northwestern | Jim DiMatteo has been hired as vice president for AirVenture and Miracle on the Hudson co-pilot Jeff Skiles has joined the organization as vice president of chapters and youth education. "Our chapters and youth education (leaders) reported three layers ...
SNF Tornado Husky Update - AOPA Pilot | But returning to Lakeland, Florida, where it was tossed about by the infamous Sun 'n Fun tornado in 2011 (and earned its “tougher than a tornado” monicker) was perhaps the most challenging outing from a weather standpoint. The 2012 Sun 'n Fun Fly-In ...
Shorpy.com Image: Intrepid Aviators Circa 1911 - Hang On! from AirPigz by Martt | When you click the image above you'll get a big hi-res version over at shorpy.com, and it'll give you a really up 
close view of these two intrepid aviators believed to be somewhere near Washington D.C. and around the year 1911. The expressions on their faces are really interesting to me, along with the idea that there doesn't appear to be seat belts of any kind installed! I've never studied the issue of aircraft seat belts, but I believe it was pretty common in that era to simply trust in the idea of 'hang on'....
8 Crazy Amelia Earhart Theories - msnbc.com By Jake Heller | The search for Amelia Earhart has been given new wings with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's announcement that new evidence may help to solve the mystery behind the famed American aviatrix's disappearance. An enhanced photo taken by ...
The Women’s RAF - airspacemag.com | In World War II Britain, a new group of pilots answered the 
call to serve. | Years ahead of the United States in recruiting women to fly military aircraft from factory to base, the United Kingdom was also—decades later—a year ahead in awarding them medals for their efforts. When the accolades finally came, government officials in both countries called their missions crucial to achieving victory in World War II....
Short Hills woman featured in book Military Fly Moms - NJ.com | During Operation Desert Storm, Major Marie T. Rossi-Cayton, the first woman pilot in US history to fly in combat, died when her helicopter crashed in Saudi Arabia in 1991. Various organizations, such as the WASP and Women Military Aviators, ...
Jenny Gao: Friday Fabulous Flyer from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Jenny Gao has been an Aviation High School Student and actively involved in her school’s ASB, Speech & Debate teams, and Science Olympiad team. She enjoys playing and listening to music, and has played the piano for her entire life. She also plays the violin and is in the Renton Youth Symphony Orchestra....
I Flew the U-2 - AirSpaceMag.com | One of Lockheed’s former chief test pilots for high altitude reconnaissance describes the joys and terrors of the U-2. | Marine Corps Reserve Major General 
Kenneth Weir (ret.) flew U-2s as a Lockheed test pilot between 1966 and 1993. A Marine aviator and graduate of the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and the U.S. Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School, Weir accumulated more than 19,500 hours in more than 200 types and models of aircraft....
RAF Cranwell base visit 23-3-2012 Part one - stickandrudderWTO | On the 23-3-2012 at 09.30hrs GMT we all linked-up, at the sports stadium carpark at RAF Cranwell Lincolnshire for the day's base tour. This tour was a joint-venture between RAF Cranwell and North Kelveston district council who are based in Sleaford. Ft.Lt Andrew Graves or 'Digger' took us around the place of which included the flightline of which 54 (R) squadron could be seen with their Beechcraft aircraft doing day to day stuff. We were allowed to go on the the flightline and also look inside one of...
USAF fields first upgraded F-22 Raptors - Flightglobal | The US Air Force has begun to deploy Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptors upgraded with enhanced air-to-ground strike capabilities to the operational fleet, starting with the 3rd Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. "The 525th Fighter Squadron ...
Early Gunship — Spooky, the Douglas AC-47 from Travel for Aircraft | During the Vietnam War seemed to teem with strike aircraft ranging from helicopter gunships to strategic bombers. It was an 
asymmetric war fought against an opponent who often could afford to sit and out wait attacking aircraft loiter time and most likely to assault at night — especially the remote fire bases. Service men modified the noble C-47 Skytrain so that it could be a platform which could carry ammunition and fuel enough to stay on station for hours. Armed with three 7.62mm Miniguns that could be selected to fire at either 4000 or 6000 round per minute there was enough weight of fire to place a round every few feet over the area of a football field within three seconds. But those are numbers. The result meant that attacks could be broken and troop concentrations disrupted which was a welcome relief from the outnumbered fire base under siege or the patrolling infantry unit desperately trying to break contact. Carrying nearly four dozen flares a Spooky could also deny the nig ht, further taking initiative away from attacking forces....
45-foot-long paper airplane soars over Arizona desert - Fox News | Pima Air & Space Museum launches one of the world's largest paper airplanes across desert near Tucson, Arizona to ignite youth interest in aviation and engineering.Pima Air & Space Museum The giant paper airplane was dubbed Arturo's Desert Eagle after ...
Remembering Wernher von Braun on his 100th Birthday from AirSpace by The National Air and Space Museum | Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Wernher von Braun (March 23, 1912-June 16, 1977), one of the most famous rocketeers and advocates of spaceflight that ever lived. Accordingly, it is an appropriate time to reflect on his remarkable life and career. A longstanding “space cadet,” von Braun was an early member of the “Verein fur Raumschiffahrt” (Society for Spaceship Travel, or VfR). Although spaceflight aficionados and technicians had organized at other times and in other places, the VfR emerged soon after its founding on July 5, 1927 as a leading group that both advocated for spaceflight and worked to build rockets. Growing up in the VfR, Wernher von Braun became the quintessential and movingly eloquent advocate for the dream of spaceflight and a leading architect of its technical development....
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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Blue Angel Practice at the National Naval Aviation Museum - WKRG-TV | In addition, following most of the Wednesday practices, there will be an 
autograph session with the Blue Angels inside the National Naval Aviation Museum*. Stay on top of the action with the Blue Angels mobile app now available to download from iTunes ...
Thunder Over Utah March 17, 2012 Photo Gallery - Dixie Press Online | US Navy Blue Angels Take Off at Thunder Over Utah, St. George, UT March 17, 2012 | Photo by Troy Hoskins, St. George News US Navy Blue Angels at Thunder Over Utah, St. George, UT March 17, 2012 | Photo by Troy Hoskins, St. George News US Navy Blue ...
12-day flight to warbirds show - Otago Daily Times | The latest in international military training aircraft, the high-tech T-6C Texan, is flying from the United States to Wanaka for the Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow. Photo supplied. A small but highly advanced military training aircraft left the United ...
Cocoa Beach Air Show by Mike | Saturday, Nov. 5th, 2011 | It was supposed to 
be a nice day in Cocoa Beach, FL, but the weather refused to cooperate. With the scattered showers and high winds, I was surprised that the parachute teams still jumped....
Volunteers needed for this summer's airshow - KEYC TV | More>> With the Blue Angels preparing to land in Mankato this summer, there is one deficiency on the pre-flight checklist for the upcoming airshow, and that's volunteers. Spokespeople say 450 volunteers are needed every day during the event.
30 Days of Gratitude Day 6 from by Lisa | Today we went to the Air Show in 
Monroe NC. I am grateful that the day went without any problems and the show was AWESOME!!! Even my teenager enjoyed it and was asking about coming back next year....
Celebrate women this month from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | ...More than 214,000 women are serving in the United States military. That is almost 15 percent of all of our service members. Yet when we think of war, we tend to think of men fighting for our freedom. I can remember my mother talking about the Women Airforce Service Pilots and wishing she had applied to be one of the first females to fly military aircraft. Perhaps I wouldn't be here if she had followed her dreams. While Rosie the Riveter was considered to be doing her duty for our country during World War II, the WASPs were considered a little on the wild side. After all, the women who flew noncombat missions were the first to deliver planes to military bases, including the B-29s that were thought to be difficult to fly. But throughout the ages, women have proven the status quo wrong.
Skydiving with the Valkyries - vimeo.com (via GoPro's Facebook Wall) | Skydiving with the Valkyries, a 4 woman formation skydiving team. The Valkyries are currently training for the Australian Nationals in April 2012, with the goal to represent Australia at the World Championships in Dubai 2012. At Picton on Sunday March...
Civil Air Patrol honors World War II member from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | One of the Civil Air Patrol’s earliest members, Dean Hammond, now holds the rank of colonel after being recognized with not only the new grade but also lifetime membership and the Distinguished Service Medal this month at the Mississippi Wing’s annual conference at Keesler Air Force Base. Hammond, who had already soloed in January 1938, joined CAP at the first organizational meeting in Wichita, Kan., where he was working for Boeing....
Bruce Del Mar from Hiller Aviation Museum | A Voice From California’s Golden Age of Aviation by Jon Welte | In the mid 1940s, a young Stanley Hiller Jr. and his father traveled from the Bay Area toSanta Monica,California, home of Donald Douglas and the Douglas Aircraft Company. Hiller had recently built and tested the XH-44 helicopter, and sought to consult withDouglason the prospects for creating the West Coast’s first helicopter factory....
MO Aviation Historical Society Meeting March 22 - Dr. Fred Roos Presents On Thomas Benoist from The Aero Experience | The Missouri Aviation Historical Society is a group of folks with a love of aircraft, and we are striving to record and document the rich aviation history that has been a part of the great state of Missouri for the past century. From Benoist to Zenith, the aviation industry in the "Show Me" state has always been at the forefront of technology, and has produced some of the world’s best known aircraft. Famous pilots, from Jimmy Doolittle, to Slim Lindbergh, all called Missouri home for a...
Ryan Aeronautical photo archive traces development of combat drones from the factory floor to deployment in southeast Asia from David Cenciotti | Founded by T. Claude Ryan in 1934, part of Teledyne from 1969 and purchased by Northrop Grumman in 1999, Ryan Aeronautical company has designed, developed and built some of the most innovative and successful unmanned aerial vehicles, the most famous of those is the Ryan BQM-134 Firebee....
Ultra-Long-Endurance Progress from Ares by Graham Warwick | It's proving a long wait, given they are supposed to be "rapid" programs, but Boeing has begun taxi tests of its private-venture Phantom Eye hydrogen-fueled high-altitude, long-endurance UAV, while Mav6 has attached the payload/control car to its M1400 surveillance airship. Both are aimed at providing endurance measured in days, not hours....
Counter-trend: Air Force shoots down high-tech UAV in favor of ancient U-2 - ITworld.com | The U-2 also carries a pilot, making it the first Air Force plane to defend its own mission against UAVs that don't risk the lives of pilots and which are usually less expensive to build, buy and operate than piloted planes. The decision sounds bizarre ...
Navy conducting security exercises at installations nationwide this week ... - NOLA.com Susan Poag/Times-Picayune | The Navy's Blue Angles circle the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse during a recent N'Awlins Airshow. The Navy is conducting exercises at the installation this week designed to train its security forces....
The Supersonic Jet of the Future Will Be a Biplane from POPSCI | When supersonic travel inevitably returns to the skies, the airplanes are going to look a lot different. At least one design harks back to the early days of aviation with a biplane design, rather than a sleek delta-winged jet like the Concorde. This shape can apparently...
C.M. Wright honored for service; space program spotlighted - Baltimore Sun | The talk, entitled "Project Mercury," led the students through a short history of NASA, a history of rocketry, and a walk through the training equipment needed to make the astronauts at home in space. Many elements of the Redstone booster and the Atlas ...
Billionaire Elon Musk to Neil Armstrong: Get On Board with Private Space Travel from SPACE.com | SpaceX chief Elon Musk is laying the foundation for a revolution, and he'd like some support from luminaries like Neil Armstrong
The Stratospheric Balloon: Red Bull Stratos from Aerial Sports Feed | The 
stratospheric balloon that will lift Felix Baumgartner and his capsule to the height of 120,000 feet is clearly a vital component of the Red Bull Stratos mission to the edge of space.
Red Bull Stratos | Our Beautiful Balloon from Aerial Sports Feed | With the launch date for the record-breaking freefall edging ever closer, we’ve taken a closer look at the vital piece of kit that will take Felix Baumgartner and his capsule to the edge of space – namely the helium balloon…
NASA Launching 5 Rockets in 5 Minutes This Week: How to Watch from SPACE.com | NASA's five-rocket ATREX mission will spray glowing chemicals in high-altitude winds to make light up the night sky.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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Alabama's US Navy Blue Angel Video from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Coming this March 31 thru April 1, Alabama's own member of the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, LT Dave Tickle will perform as the Blue Angel Opposing Solo in an F/A 18 Hornet number 6. Flying in the Tuscaloosa Air Show is especially sweet since he is indeed a Bama fan. A Birmingham, Alabama native, he is looking forward to seeing his "hometown" crowd....
TICO Warbird Show suffers iffy weather, but still shines from General Aviation News by Drew Steketee | The weekend wasn’t kind to the TICO Warbird Airshow. Showery weather plagued Florida’s east coast. Some complained online that warbird flying was thinner this year and a promised act didn’t appear. But for the dyed-in-wool military aviation aficionado, this was still a pure play. Any 
time of year...
Blue Skies! - USAGK Photos
Ohio Air News 174 - Charles Johnson | Gathering of B-25’s April 14—21 for the Doolittle Raiders Reunion @ The Air Force Museum. Schedule posted on February 10, 2012, for Grimes field, Urbana, OH and The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
EAA works to boost female aviators - AOPA Pilot | EAA President Rod Hightower underscored the message of “Bring Your Daughter to the Conference” by bringing three of his four daughters to the Women in Aviation International conference in Dallas, March 8 through 10.
WWII flying ace from Petaluma dead at 95 - Santa Rosa Press Democrat | James B. Morehead of Petaluma, a World War II flying ace and two-time Distinguished Service Cross recipient, died Sunday after suffering a stroke last week. He was 95. Morehead, flying mainly P-40 fighter planes, engaged in 20 dogfights and shot down ...
Plane involved in D-Day invasion to be restored - www.airforcetimes.com | GREENWOOD, Ind. — The massive plane’s Army-green body sat hidden behind an old airport hangar, its wings and tail in pieces next to it....
Exhibiting airpower - Airman Online | The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is home to more than 360 aerospace vehicles and missiles. The 17 acres of indoor exhibit space house thousands of Air Force artifacts dating back to the beginning of military flight....
Movie Monday - March 12 - Flight Testing 787 from FlightBlogger | Boeing has compiled its flight test footage for an expanded look at the 787's certification campaign. The...
Train kept a-rollin' from Randy's Journal |Back in December, we delivered the 7,000th 737. That 
number included the “classics” as well as our Next-Generation 737s. Now, another milestone airplane is working its way through our Renton factory. Meet what will soon become the 4,000th Next-Generation 737....
A380 to fly at FIDAE Air Show as part of 2012 World Tour - Canadian Skies | For the first time Airbus will showcase its biggest stars together at the FIDAE Air Show (Feria Internacional del Aire y del Espacio) in Santiago, Chile. Both the iconic A380 and the new generation airlifter A400M will be in static display and conduct ...
A Train to Space: All Aboard the 20,000-Mile-Per-Hour Low-Earth-Orbit Express from POPSCI 
| From the man who brought you magnetic levitation, a concept maglev cannon that could launch a train into space. Today in grandiose space ambitions that would make even Newt Gingrich balk: a $60 billion, 1,000-mile long, 12-mile high, 20,000-miles-per-hour maglev train that starts on the ground and arrives in low Earth orbit. The minds behind the Startram project think it could reduce the cost per kilo (that's like 2.2 pounds American) for cargo from roughly $10,000 to just $50....
St. Louis Science Center First Friday in March Offers Space Activities for the Whole Family from The Aero Experience | The St. Louis Science Center hosted its March First Friday event last week as an on-going promotion of Star Trek, The Exhibition. The monthly event provides a variety of science education activities for all ages in the James S. McDonnell Planetarium and the main Science Center building across Highway 40 from Forest Park. Even outside...
The remarkable 848 videos of Youtube's webdev17 from High Power Rocketry | There are so many millitary, aerospace, and other vintage videos that I can't possibly post them all. Can't even find and post the best yet, because I am not done looking around. Here are few good vids:
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
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Nominees Announced For Collier Trophy - AVweb | Four nominees were named last week by the National Aeronautic Association for the 2011 Robert J. Collier Trophy, which honors the "greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America." The nominees are:...
Theme for 2012 Cherry Point Air Show to get officials announcement - WNCT | On Wednesday, we'll get to officially find out this year's theme of the Cherry Point Air Show. This year's theme will be "Celebrate the Heritage." It will be announced at 10:00 a.m. aboard on base....
AIRSHOW NEWS: New Home for Typhoon Display Team at RAF Leuchars - Flightline UK | From RAF Leuchars Website: The Royal Air Force Typhoon Display Team 2012 will be based at RAF Leuchars in Scotland with the pilot and ground support team being provided by Number 6 Squadron in addition to their Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) mission. Typhoon’s deployment in support of the...
Mesa Takes Flight Festival highlights city’s ties to aviation - East Valley Tribune | What do a flash mob dance, flight simulators and a truck full of video games have in common? They’re all part of Mesa Takes Flight, a celebration of aviation, aerospace and all things flight-related. It takes place Friday through Sunday at Mesa Arts Center....
RSAF aerial display at Singapore Airshow - TODAYonline | Major Yip Chiang Syn will also be making his debut as part of the aerial display team for the Singapore Airshow. "In terms of the manoeuvres that we try for the air show, it's not much different from what we do in our day-to-day flying....
Tuskegee Airman gives account of 'lucky' day - AF.mil | Famed Yankees pitcher "Lefty Gomez" 
once remarked "I'd rather be lucky than good," but for one Tuskegee Airman, luck and good combined to make him one of the most successful combat pilots of World War II. During the summer of 1944, 2nd Lt. Clarence D. "Lucky" Lester was flying the P-51 Mustang over the skies of Italy's Po Valley providing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers with cover support on their way to attack airfields in southern Germany....
Video: Tuskegee Airman speaks at Devon Elementary - Mainline Media News | Devon Elementary School started Black History Month in a big way by managing to get Dr. Eugene J. Richardson Jr., a Philadelphia native resident and veteran of the famed World War II Tuskegee Airmen, to come and speak to the first- through fourth-graders Thursday morning.
Interstate TDR-1 — the Navy’s first UAV? by travelforaircraft | 
"Edna III" hangs suspended from the roof of the main building in the WW II area of the National Naval Aviation Museum. She has a clean twin piston engine design but with a cyclops-like eye and no cockpit. No cockpit? Yes, at the time it was termed an assault drone but the...
Air museum in hunt for F-111 - Sunshine Coast Daily | THE QUEENSLAND Air Museum has just over a month to complete its submission to acquire one of the seven F-111 aircraft to be gifted by the Federal Government. Queensland Air Museum president Cliff Robinson said the government had issued requests for offer and they were in the process of compiling their submission....
Airmen halt nighttime training to aid victims - AF.mil | Combat-search-and-rescue Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing here halted their nighttime training operations at a remote drop zone in Central Florida to transport accident victims to the hospital. Four people were injured, one seriously, when their airboat flipped on the St. John's River, approximately 30 miles north of where the Airmen were rehearsing for war....
FLIGHT FOR CONTROL! - Flight to Success | Flight For Control is on it's way! Tonight I will 
receive my shipment of paperbacks, next week the hardbacks will arrive. Autographed copies can be ordered by...
Student Rocket-Builders Join Top STEM leaders at White House Science Fair - Sacramento Bee | President Obama highlighted the efforts of team members, teachers and parents from a Presidio, Texas, school that worked to raise funds to participate in the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) contest in remarks at the second White House Science Fair. Lauding the initiative and creativity of all the students at the fair, the president mentioned that...
Mission: Red Bull Stratos [video] - Red Bull USA | ...Red Bull Stratos will take renowned athlete Felix Baumgartner to at least 120,000 feet above the earth, to the very edge of space. From there, he will attempt a stratospheric free fall jump - the longest in the history of man - and hopefully will become the first human to break the speed of sound with his own body. This is...
NASA calls for new taxis to fly to Space Station - Reuters | Because of future funding uncertainties, NASA is asking its potential partners to propose how they would proceed with flat funding of $400 
million a year after 2014, as well as how much they would need to get to a flight demonstration....
Single engine is stuck in a 20 m grid floor in MG - Aviation News | The aircraft was caught by one of the wheels and passengers had to be removed from...
Monday, January 16, 2012
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Thunderbirds to headline BAFB air show - Shreveport Times | The famed Air Force Thunderbirds will return to Barksdale Air Force Base this year for its annual open house and air show April 21-22. In addition, the show will have a new civilian face, with longtime director Suzy Lehr resigning and the local Military Affairs Council appointing an interim director, Air Force retiree and former B-52 pilot Bill McHugh....
Peachtree City’s Great Georgia Airshow is taking year off to retool - The Citizen | To give organizers time to prepare for an expansion, the Great Georgia Airshow will be on hiatus this year. But it will come roaring back to Peachtree City Oct. 12-13, 2013, officials said. Airshow Director Angie Faulise said the airshow board made the decision to ground it this year so time could be taken to...
Formation flight Sunday. F-35As - Planeshots
Minnesota Aviation Day At The Capitol February 9th, 2012 - Midwest Flyer | You Won’t Want To Miss This Special Event! On February 9th, 2012, the entire aviation community will come together at the Minnesota State Capitol to visit with their State Senators and Representatives to tell them how important aviation and their local airports is to them and to their local communities....
Julie Clark inducted into Air Show Hall of Fame - Mountain Democrat | LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The evening of Wednesday, Dec. 7, marked the closing of the International Council of Air Shows convention where thousands of delegates gathered for education sessions, to book air show performers and where performers put on their “game face” to make connections and book air show events. Capping off that Wednesday evening was the presentation of the 2011 ICAS Foundation’s Air Show Hall of Fame induction ceremony. ... Clark and her fellow inductees join the ranks of air show legends Art Scholl, Bill Barber, Bob Hoover, Betty Skelton and Jimmy Franklin, just to name a few....
Red Arrows to thrill the crowds at the Folkestone Jubilee Airshow - This is Kent | THE Red Arrows are set to thrill thousands at the Folkestone Jubilee Airshow, the Herald can reveal. 
Accompanied by the Tiger Club Turbulent Display Team, a De Havilland Tiger Moth and a host of others, the iconic aircraft will soar above...
Hawker Hunter airborne for airshow - Sunlive | The Hawker Hunter jet fighter aircraft is expected to be flying at the Tauranga City Airshow on Auckland Anniversary Weekend. The aircraft appeared at the 2006 airshow and it flew a few times after that, but has remained in the Classic Flyers hangar for the last four years....
Tuskegee Airman honored during Ceremonial Brass concert by Master Sgt. Adam M. Stump Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs | ORLANDO, Fla. (AFNS) -- A member of the Tuskegee Airmen was honored during a concert by the United States Air Force Band's Ceremonial Brass Jan. 14 at The First Academy Faith Hall here. Retired Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard R. Hall, Jr., a Winter Park native, was attending Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans when he was called to active duty in 1942 to serve with the Tuskegee Airmen....
Red Tails Overlooks the Story of America’s First Black Pilots - The Daily Beast | ...The good news is that a new generation will learn that courageous African-American pilots flew and fought not only against the Nazis but their own country’s racism. What the movie won’t show is that long before the Red Tails took wing, black aviators were already smashing through the color barrier in the sky—on their own terms. It’s a worthy story in its own right....
About the Royal Canadian Air Force - Flightglobal | The Canadian Air Force (CAF) was established in 1920 as the successor to a short-lived two-squadron air force formed during the First World War in Europe, also named the Canadian Air Force. The new air force, managed by the Air Board, was largely focused on civilian operations such as forestry, surveying and anti-smuggling patrols. In 1923, the Air Board was amalgamated into the Department of National Defence, and one year later, the CAF was granted the royal title, becoming the...
De Havilland DH 98 Mosquito — one of the best, bar none - Travel for Aircraft | Known as “The Wooden Wonder” and “Mossie”, all nicknames for an aircraft of many roles, this is one of WW IIs’ best aircraft designs. The de Havilland Mosquito flew high and fast, so much so that it could not be 
intercepted, never needing defensive armament. Mosquitos also flew daringly low in Operation Jericho, the exceptional daylight bombing raid on the Gestapo prison in Amiens France on 18 April 1944. There were almost countless other variants such as: attack and night fighter with 4 x 20mm cannon, photo recon, even maritime strike with a 57mm cannon in addition to the 4 x 20mm cannon and rockets....
AirVenture Museum looking for painted WWII flight jackets - EAA Forums | The EAA AirVenture Museum is currently working on the development of a temporary exhibit about WWII nose art and painted flight jackets. The exhibit will run from May 2012 to May 2013. We have about...
Podcast: Cape Cod to Cape Horn in a 172 from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast | Chris and Corinne McLaughlin are on their way down the coast of South America in a 1978 Skyhawk, on a two-month journey from Cape Cod to Cape Horn to help raise awareness about the need for more organ donors. 
Chris was a 747 pilot before he fell ill and an organ donation saved his life. He talks with AVweb's Mary Grady about the trip and the mission.
We Own the Night from American Aerospace by J. Terry White | Twenty-one years ago this week (Thursday, 17 January 1991), USAF/Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk aircraft were employed against more than 31 percent of Iraqi targets during the initial 24 hours of Operation Desert Storm. This high utilization rate came despite the fact that the Nighthawk comprised a mere 2.5 percent of all Coalition aircraft used in the [...]
Aircraft Carrier Deck Operations (2006) - Airboyd.tv | Courtesy Video Defense Media Activity – Navy | Airplanes taking off from an aircraft carrier. Scenes include...
Meet the woman behind the 2011 Most Female Pilot Friendly Airport Worldwide - Toriaflies | When Victoria moved from Michigan to Maryland, in 2010, the town of Frederick did not hold a welcome parade; I even bet that few people took notice of this bubbly red hair newcomer. But someone important had just arrived. She was about to change the face of the Frederick Airport community for ever....
3 Pilots, 2 Airplanes, 1 Camera – Behind The Scenes of Women Fly It Forward - The Pilot Report 
| I woke up the other day to a text message from Victoria, one of my co-hosts on the Stuck Mic AvCast, asking me if I’d be available to film a promo video for her Women Fly It Forward event. Well I happen to love airplanes and making videos and hanging out at the airport so naturally I said yes....
Christmas tree launch 2012 - Dick's Original Rocket Dungeon | ...I hear despite the cold and high winds there were two L3 certs and several K's and L's. And, of course, the TREES! Two photo albums of this past weekend's festivities have already appeared on ...
Thursday, October 27, 2011
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High-flying fun at Catalina Festival - Lakes Mail | The highlight will be a performance by the RAAF Roulettes who will perform their spectacular aerobatic routine over Lake Macquarie. If you've never been to the Catalina Festival, and always assumed that being an aeronautical aficionado was a ...
A job you can sink your teeth into... - Mukilteo Beacon | The 1938 fighter plane was flown by the famed American Volunteer Group known as the "Flying Tigers." The pilots liked to paint a sharkmouth onto the nose of their planes to make them look intimidating in the air. The P-40C became part of the Flying ...Virgin Galactic Selects First Commercial Astronaut Pilot From Competition - MarketWatch | Founded by Burt Rutan, Scaled developed SpaceShipOne, which in 2004 claimed the $10m Ansari X Prize as the world's first privately developed manned spacecraft. Virgin Galactic's new vehicles share much of the same basic design, but are being built to ...
Aluminum and Carbon Fiber from Flight Level 390 by Captain Dave | Position: On the ramp, KLAS | Equipment: A320 V2500 A-5 engines | The first hints of twilight in the east... Above my head, a magnificent aluminum and carbon-fiber aircraft tail arching high into the lightening sky. Looking straight up, Orion the Hunter is still visible. To me, that translates to snow and ice, i.e., wintertime operations just around the corner…
Italian Navy AV-8B+ Harrier 20th anniversary from David Cenciotti's weblog - the most visited Italian Aviation Blog by David Cenciotti | On Oct. 27, 2011, with a ceremony at Grottaglie airbase, near Taranto, the Marina Militare (Italian Navy) celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Harrier in Italian service. The AV-8B+ Harriers of the I GrupAer have recently taken part to the Operation Unified Protector in Libya, performing both DCA (Defensive Counter Air) and BAI (Battlefield Air Interdiction) out of the Garibaldi aircraft carrier…
F8F Bearcat – Grumman’s Bad Ass Fighter! from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography » Moose Peterson Aviation Photography by Moose | The US started WWII in the Pacific with noble fighters with talented pilots. They went up against the Zero which in the beginning didn’t go so well for the US. The Navy sought a carrier based fighter and two were brought into the conflict about half way into the conflict, the Vought F4U-1 Corsair and the Grumman F8F Bearcat. Thought of as a “Hot Rod,” the Bearcat was the first Navy fighter with the full “bubble” canopy providing the pilot with amazing visibility. The first variant F8F-1, 654 were produced all with the R-2800-34W engine…Thursday, October 20, 2011
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The Plane That Wasn’t There… from Pit Lizards, Unlimited by sandramore | “The Plane That Wasn’t There…” A wonderfully written article about Jimmy Leeward and “Specter,” written by Sylvia Sweeney, editor of the NAG RAG, October 1983. Enjoy!
Wreckage of RAAF Spitfire from WWII unearthed in French village - The Australian | A WWII Spitfire similar to the one unearthed near the French village of Hardifort and which crashed in 1942, killing RAAF pilot William James Smith, of Whittlesea in Victoria. Picture: The Australian War Memorial Source: Supplied AMATEUR aviation ...
Northolt Nightshoot X from PPRuNe Forums by Savoia | On 6th October Phil Dawe orchestrated the tenth floodlit night-time photoshoot at RAF Northolt with the cooperation of a number of Defence Forces. Herewith are some of the pickings:
Did someone get the jump on this SU-27? Nah, he’s just got... from You like airplanes, too? Photo by Jorgen Syversen.Today in Aviation History – October 20 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal
