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Saturday, April 26, 2014

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Video: The Blue Angels in Fort Worth for the Air Power Expo - NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth | This weekend will be very entertaining for anyone who loves speed and jets. The Blue Angels are in town and are ready to put on a show in North Texas....

This weekend's air shows are listed HERE.

Camp Mabry Open House and Air Show This Weekend - KEYE TV | KEYE TV provides local news, weather forecasts and radar, traffic updates, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Austin and nearby towns and communities in the Central Texas Hill Country area,...

Working hard for your first regional fly-in * AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points | It looks it’s going to be a Texas-sized event. We’ve had about 2,000 individual RSVPs, and 707 airplanes are expected. Airplanes have already begun to arrive in advance of the fly-in, which kicks off Saturday, April 26....

Navy Parachute Team to Land on WHS Field May 2 - The Missourian | The U.S. Navy Parachute team, the Leap Frogs, will land on Rauch Field at Washington High School Friday, May 2, at 9 a.m. WHS Principal Dr. Frank Wood said members of the squad will then take questions from students for about 20 minutes. Wood said he received an email from the Navy saying the parachute team was going to participate in the Spirit of St. Louis Air Show, which coincides with Navy Week, and was available to do a jump at WHS....

USAF Academy Wings of Blue skydivers to open 2014 Vectren Dayton Air Show * General Aviation News | DAYTON, Ohio — Skydiving cadets and instructors from the U.S. Air Force Academy will help open the Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger on June 28-29 at Dayton International Airport. The academy’s Wings of Blue, the U.S. Air Force Skydiving Team, will descend with the U.S. flag during the singing of the national anthem in the opening ceremonies. The team will also perform a...

Melbourne Air & Space Show to charge admission - Florida Today | The Melbourne Air & Space Show's move this year from the beachside to Melbourne International Airport will come with a price for spectators: a $15 to $20 admission charge for each day of the two-day show....

Vero Beach Air Show benefits Exchanges Clubs and Veterans Council of Indian River County * TC Palm | That’s right! The Blue Angels are flying again, and the Vero Beach Air Show is one of only 35 sites in the country where they will appear in 2014. Come see them May 10-11 at the Vero Beach Municipal Airport, the same grounds used by our brave men and women during World War II when it was known as the U.S. Naval Air Station at Vero Beach....

U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds to headline South Shore Air Show - GlobeNewswire | HAMMOND, Ind., April 25, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority is pleased to announce the United States Air Force Thunderbirds as the headliners of the 2014 South Shore Air Show. The South Shore Air Show will be presented at Fair Oaks Farms in Newton County July 11 through July 13...

Fly-in, air show may land in Perham - Perham Focus | It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s... a whole lot of planes! It sounds like Perham will be getting a fly-in and air show this summer, something that hasn’t happened here it years.

Red Arrows to return * Times of Malta | The team’s return to Malta this year marks a double celebration for both Malta and the Red Arrows as they both celebrate 50th anniversaries - Malta as an independent nation and the Red Arrows from their first-ever display...

Mighty Vulcan to roar over Cosford * UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | Ticket sales for the RAF Cosford Air Show are expected to get a big boost following today’s announcement of new aircraft for the flying display. After much speculation the organisers have today confirmed that the Vulcan will provide its full display for the second year running. The Avro Vulcan aircraft, registration no XH558, is the only aircraft of its type still flying anywhere in the world and makes a welcome return to the Midlands premier aviation event...

Thunder Over Louisville: More Great Aerial Entertainment on the Riverfront | The Aero Experience coverage of Thunder Over Louisville concludes with a series of photos of top-tier airshow performers. We feature:...

SUN ‘n FUN 2014: Twin Bee Interview by Damon Favor | We interview Ricci Rowe who owns the last Twin SeaBee ever built and one of only 23. He gives us a peak at what the Twin SeaBee is and what it is like to fly.

With final approach, U-2 pilot's career makes celebrated landing - Air Force Link | SOUTHWEST http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/484266/with-final-approach-u-2-pilots-career-makes-celebrated-landing.aspxASIA (AFNS) -- (This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series on AF.mil. These stories focus on a single Airman, highlighting their Air Force story.) Lt. Col. Jeff Klosky is an aviator who has spent much of his life racing out of twilight and into the dawn. After a storied career, spanning 19 years in the U-2, sundown has finally become visible on his horizon...

Blue Angels in the Spotlight at April Missouri Aviation Historical Society Meeting * The Aero Experience | The U.S. Navy Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron was the focus of the recent meeting of the Missouri Aviation Historical Society (MAHS) at Creve Coeur Airport. The theme was even more appropriate in advance of the appearance of the Blue Angels at the Spirit of St. Louis Airshow next weekend (May 3-4). MAHS member Joe Gurney, a noted speaker who gives presentations on the Blue Angels and the USAF Thunderbirds in the St. Louis area, gave an overview of the various aircraft flown by the Blue Angelssince their inception in 1946. Gurney also arranged to have several Blue Angels alumni informally relate their experiences during their tours....

P-3C Joins Naval Air Museum Barbers Point · Warbirds News | A Lockheed P-3C Orion arrived at Kalaeloa Airport in Hawaii on March 28th, destined for the Barbers Point Naval Air Museum. Bu.no 160770 was based locally with Patrol Wing 2, and represented the unit during the Naval Aviation Centennial celebration in 2011, painted up as an early model P3V-1. The special markings...

French Ambassador to visit Yorkshire Air Museum - Pocklington Post | Yorkshire Air Museum will be the host to a distinguished guest in honour of a French Airman. French Ambassador Bernard Emie will visit the Elvington museum on Friday 2 May at 3pm. Mr Emie will join the Allied Air Forces Memorial after unveiling a Civic Plaque in Honour of French Airman Yves Mahé....

Hawker Hurricane IIb ‘Pegs’ – North Weald – 19 April 2014 * Avpics | Peter Teichman’s Hangar 11 collection at North Weald, Essex, UK consists of one of each of the primary Allied fighters of the various fronts of the Second World War. A Spitfire, a Mustang and a P-40 remained tucked up in the hangar whilst Peter took his Hurricane IIb ‘Hurribomber’ BE505 – named ‘Pegs’ – out for much of the day. Having...

RAF Typhoons follow the Bear * The DEW Line | Thanks to the Royal Air Force for releasing some great Crown Copyright images of a quick reaction alert mission conducted by its Leuchars-based 6 Sqn on 23 April. A pair of Eurofighter Typhoons were launched “to intercept two unknown aircraft approaching the NATO Air Policing Area from the north,” the service says. It was probably no great surprise to the pilots involved that these turned out to be Russian Tu-95 ‘Bear H’ strategic bombers, conducting a routine training sortie in international airspace....

Former astronaut to headline Women in Aviation fundraiser * The Wichita Eagle - Kansas.com | Women in Aviation Air Capital City Chapter, which helps send low-income girls to Space Camp, is having a fund-raising dinner from 6 to 8 p.m. on May 6 at Stearman Field Bar & Grill in Benton....

FlyDays.co.uk Has Just Announced New Aerobatic Flight Experiences Throughout The UK | FlyDays.com has just announced new Aerobatic Flight experiences throughout the UK. These fantastic flying experiences offer an adrenaline rush like no other and make the perfect gifts for the adrenaline seeker!...

Paula Wagner to Produce Chinese Co-Production 'Flying Tigers' (EXCLUSIVE) - Variety | UDINE, Italy – “Mission: Impossible” producer Paula Wagner is set to produce a Chinese-U.S. movie about the Flying Tigers aerial combat force that performed heroically in China and South East Asia during WWII. Wagner was in Beijing last week with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Naomi Foner (“Running on Empty”) to work on the project that currently has the working title...

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Indy Transponder 28-MAY-2013 0330z

Waterloo Air Show performers plan community visits in Kitchener - Waterloo Record | WATERLOO REGION — Performers in this weekend's Waterloo Air Show are making community visits in the days leading up the event...

Waterloo Air Show - Official Site | Static Displays

Air show to include exciting line-up June 8-9 - newszap.com | OCEAN CITY — Four new exciting performers have been added to the OC Air Show lineup this week, making this year's all-star, all-civilian show scheduled for June 8-9 a must-see event. The beachfront air show, now in its sixth year, offers aircraft...

More than 25000 spectators expected for Comox Valley Air Show - Comox Vallety Record | The 2013 Comox Air Show celebrates 70 years of Canadian Air Force history in the Comox Valley and will feature current and former Canadian military aircraft, in addition to several civilian performers. Officially known as the Comox Armed Forces Day and...

The Airdrie Regional Air Show organizers are gearing up for this summers ... - Rocky View Weekly | Performers in the aerial display include the Royal Canadian Snowbirds and civilian demonstrations by teams like Team Oracle's Sean D. Tucker, Super Dave Mathieson, John Mraek and Kent Pietsch. “I know people are going to be wowed by this year's show...

Tony de Bruyn: Cotswold Airport Bronco crash pilot returns - BBC News | The display team had been in the UK as part of the Royal International Air Tattoo at nearby RAF Fairford. An AAIB investigation is ongoing into the cause of the crash. The Bronco aircraft was flown into RAF Fairford for the Royal International Air...

Choreographing a 'dance in the sky' over Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress | Super Dave made Chilliwack his official training town a couple of years ago, so he's been preparing aerobatic manoeuvres in his two-seater plane for 15 minutes at a time. Mathieson is gearing up for a big summer season of air shows across the country...

Fly in attracts aircraft from throughout the region - Opelousas Daily World | Above: Pilots wave to each other as they taxi out to the runway at the St. Landry Parish Airport. About two dozen antique aircraft from the American Navion Society flew into the airport on Saturday as part of a fly-in to begin the Memorial Day weekend ...

Midwest Aviation Salutes Our Veterans - Annual Memorial Day Ceremony in Hecker, IL Features Local Aircraft from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | Members of the Midwest Aviation community again participated in the annual Memorial Day remembrance ceremony held at St. Augustine Cemetery in the town of Hecker, IL today. The program was scheduled to begin at 10am, with presentations from local community leaders and patriotic music performed by local artists. The aerial salute featured five aircraft from...

The EHIC created in Reims, celebrates its 80th anniversary!  - Passions de Avions | On Monday June 3 that the 118 Air Base Mont-de-Marsan, in the presence of Air Chief Marshal Denis Mercier, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, the Air Force will celebrate in style the 80th anniversary of one of its most prestigious units: the center of military aviation experience. The opportunity to remember the first few years of this famous unit and remember that it's Champagne, specifically in Reims air base 112, it was created in the early thirties....

RAF Museum launches restoration of rare Dornier 17 from General Aviation News | BARROWFORD, England — A team of restoration experts is currently at work salvaging a unique World War II aircraft from the floor of the English Channel. Using cutting edge restoration techniques within a purpose-built polytunnel from First Tunnels, the team hopes to have the rare Dornier 17 ready for exhibition within two years...

Big-Bird Fly-In soars two days near Ferndale - Bellingham Herald | Dozens of aerobatic, radio-controlled planes will fly thrilling maneuvers at the 24th annual Big-Bird Fly-In, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 1-2, sponsored by Bell Air R/C Flyers model airplane club at the club's field on South River Road...

"High Flight" with Gary Sinise - HD - Vimeo | A 60:00 show documenting actor Gary Sinise’s flight to 70,000 feet in a U2 Dragon Lady, entitled “High Flight”. Jon Tennyson and Scott Guyette of Sleeping Dog Productions, Inc. wrote, produced and edited the program.

Video shows U.S. Navy’s new gigantic drone on its first flight from David Cenciotti's weblog | On May 22, 2013, the Triton high-altitude unmanned aircraft successfully completed its first flight from Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale manufacturing plant, California. The unmanned aerial vehicle took off at 07:10AM and remained aloft for about a 1.5 hour before being conducted back to the ground by a Navy and Northrop Grumman flight test team...

Rays of Hope from Paul Wex | ...I got an invitation from a pilot of the portuguese air force, who asked me to make a portrait of the Search and Rescue helicopter squad called Squadron 751, which is based in Lisbon, Portugal....

Soyuz TMA-09M Prime Crew Ready to Go from Spaceports | In preparation for launch, the final meeting between the Russian State Commission and the crew of International Space Expedition 36/37 meets at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan for the formal approval of the prime crew by the state commission. The primary and backup crews take questions from the media as the launch time is but hours away....

Thursday, January 17, 2013

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Friends remember Fred Cabanas - KeysNews.com | ... at 5 a.m. Wednesday, as tributes to the late Key West stunt pilot Fred R. "Freddy" Cabanas continued to pour in from friends and colleagues alike. The famed aerobatic aviator died in a Tuesday afternoon plane crash at a private airfield in Cozumel...

Freddy Cabanas dies in Cozumel crash from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Aerobatic pilot Fred Cabanas died Tuesday, Jan. 15, in an aviation accident near Cozumel, Mexico, according to a report in the Miami Herald. Passenger Jorge Lopez Vives, host of an extreme sports program, also died in the crash that occurred at a private airfield on the southern island of Cozumel in the state of Quintana Roo, an international tourist destination. The pair were filming a documentary to promote an airshow when the accident occurred, according to Cozumel authorities...

Ninth Annual U.S. Sport Aviation Expo Takes Off from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | The ninth annual U.S. Sport Aviation Expo is under way at the Sebring, Florida, airport with high temperatures forecasted in the upper 70s throughout the four-day event ending Sunday, January 20.

Be a Part of EAA's 60th Anniversary Celebration from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | With more than 175,000 members in 100-plus countries, there's hardly a nation on Earth where you can't find the flying, fun, and fellowship of EAA. To celebrate EAA's 60th anniversary week January 19-26, we'd like to see your photos wherever you might have your airplane or are wearing your EAA shirt, hat, or other garb.

Wings of Freedom Tour coming to Pensacola Airport - Gulf Breeze News | The Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour is coming to Pensacola in March featuring the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Nine O Nine” WWII Heavy Bomber, Consolidated B-24 Liberator “Witchcraft” WWII Heavy Bomber and P-51 Mustang fighter.

Warbirds Flypast Tomorrow - Scoop.co.nz | As a lead up to the Warbirds over Wairarapa Airshow at the weekend there will be a bit of activity over the city tomorrow (Friday). A formation comprising Mosquito (Keith Skilling), Spitfire (Gavin Trethewey) and P40 Kittyhawk (Liz Needham) plans to...

See Gabriel Villaran Surf The Skies - Red Bull UK | Watch Peruvian surfer Gabriel Villarán take the ride of his life with Red Bull Air Race champion Kirby Chambliss, as they barrel roll and turn their way up to 6G in the sky. Villarán, usually more used to the waves, was treated to a thrilling eight ...

Lack of Snow Prevents Skiplanes From Landing at Pioneer from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association  | At EAA's annual Skiplane Fly-In this weekend, aviation enthusiasts were priming to celebrate three events: the unique flight segment of skiplane flying, kicking off the 60th anniversary of the first-ever meeting of the Experimental Aircraft Association (January 26, 1953), and the January 24 birthday of EAA matriarch Audrey Poberezny. Oh well, two out of three ain't bad ...

Latest on airshow - This is Kent | The latest news about this year's airshow will be released to authorities and organisations at a ceremony next week. The 2013 show, which organisers promise will be "bigger and better" than last year's event, will officially be launched on Wednesday ...

Quentin Smith, Tuskegee Airman and Gary community leader, dies at 94 - Chicago Sun-Times | ...Smith was 24 when he enlisted, eventually becoming one of about 900 black pilots who trained in segregated fashion in Tuskegee, Ala., under a program started by President Franklin Roosevelt....

Aviator kept remarkable airplane alive - AOPA Pilot | Only a few hundred kits have ever made it in the air, and many of those pilots had Keith Hinshaw to thank. Bede Aircraft Inc. struck a chord, and was overwhelmed by orders soon after the tiny, single-seat BD-5 was introduced to the world at the 1970...

Warbird Heritage Foundation to Restore Newly Acquired Corsair from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | The Warbird Heritage Foundation, Waukegan, Illinois, announced this week it had acquired the Goodyear FG-1D Corsair, BuNo. 92050, and plans a full airworthy restoration to original configuration.

Photos: U-2 Dragon Lady 'Anytime, Anyplace' - Air Combat Command | 1/17/2013 - U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Heather Doyle, 9th Physiological Support Squadron launch and recovery technician, fits a specialized boot to U-2 pilot Capt. Travis, in preparation for a "high flight" at Beale Air Force Base, Calif., Jan. 8, 2013. Since its...

Air Force Year in Photos from Air Force Link Top Stories | A team of Air Force journalists and photographers selected the best photos from around the Air Force for the 2012 Air Force Year in Photos...

The Last Bush Pilots from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | One of the most incredible things about reading is having the ability to travel to another world, and become part of that world. But when the author has lived it and paints a picture with his words...Wow! You can't help but to be sucked in and go for the ride of your life....

January 15, 2013 Eagles' Nest from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | Mike: Welcoming students to the start of the New Year at Clear Springs High School in League City is a partially constructed airplane in the center of the main hallway. Amid the school’s glass and brick, neatly laid out are the fuselage, wings and engine of a Van’s Aircraft RV-12. On top of the box containing the engine a video monitor...

January 8, 2013 Wacky Jack from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | There’s just no mistaking an old piston radial engine. It bellows a low throaty sound, admired by airplane lovers and engine geeks the world over. While standing out in an open field taking pictures of approaching airplanes at a fly-in at Fort Parker Flying Field in Groesbeck I searched the skies for the source of that sound. When the bright yellow bi-plane crossed over the trees the throaty sound ceased as the pilot throttled back the power, leaving a whining sound as air passed over the “singing wires” that aid in bracing the wings. As the...

Friday, November 23, 2012

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Old Buckenham Airfield events in 2013 - OLD BUCKENHAM BLOG | The Military Fly In. Military aircraft of all eras are welcome, with the vehicles of the East England Military Museum on the ground. Sunday 8 September The LAA & Homebuilt Autumn Fly In. Another chance to celebrate homebuilt wonders. Friday 4, Saturday ...

European soaring through Polish skies - World Air Sports Federation | The event was organised by the Ostrów Aero Club. 93 pilots took part in the competition in 4 different classes: 19 pilots in Open Class, 20 in Standard Class, 40 in Club A and 14 in Club B. A lot of foreign teams also participated in the competition ...

Return the tricolor arrows .... the Olive Museum - Primocanale | A little more than two months after the extraordinary performance of the Tricolour Arrows in the sky of the capital, for the Lions Club Imperia Tower is time to draw a final budget and especially thank all those who, for various reasons...

Springfield claims the original 'Fearless Felix' - The State Journal-Register | Joe barnstormed with the flying circus through the Midwest, even wing walking on occasion. He said his approach was to jump, then wait as long as he could to open the chute, just to scare the crowd below. In 1925, he fell 2,250 feet (another record ...

Constellation(s) from CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | ...When I went to the Chanute Air Museum this summer and stepped outside to see the array of airplanes on display, my eyes went right to the Connie. There's just something about its striking tapered profile and triple tail design that makes it stand out. Frankly, it's beautiful - this from someone who thinks ALL airplanes are exceptional and oohs and aahs over every war bird and 747 she sees....

Chanute Museum improvements include base timeline, DC-9 flight simulator - Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette | Those are two of the entries in the recently completed timeline at Chanute Air Museum that features some of the rich history of what was Chanute. As the economic health of the air museum steadily improves, employees and a solid core of volunteers ...

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Museum’s BD-5 on Display at St. Louis Community College St. Louis Aerospace Institute from News The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum has placed its BD-5 aircraft on loan to the St. Louis Aerospace Institute, and it is now on display in the lobby of the Center for Workforce Innovation. The St. Louis Aerospace Institute is a collaborative effort between St. Louis Community College, industry partners and the Department of Labor. Initially planned as a training program for prospective Boeing Company assembly workers, the program has gained additional partners and has blossomed into an aerospace production training center featuring these current hands-on courses: Mechanical Blueprint Reading, Basic Aerospace SMAR Training, Intermediate Aerospace SMAR Training, Aerospace Assembly: Electrical, Mechanical and Composites. A Certificate of...

Dr. Eckener’s Dream Machine from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Dr. Eckener’s Dream Machine Dr. Eckener’s Dream Machine: the great Zeppelin and the dawn of air travel, Douglas Botting, 2001, ISBN 0-8050-6458-3, 331 pp. The first part of the 20th Century was a time when anything seemed possible in aviation. Dirigibles, especially the rigid airships, vied for dominance over airplanes and ships with regard to [...]

Banana from Apron 6 | On our way to Lahr we stopped at the Auto und Technik Museum in Sinsheim. Kind of a strange place with planes on all the rooftops and a playground in and around some of those planes. But certainly worth a visit as it is nice to see a Tupolev 144 and a Concorde next to [...]

Museum Curator Produces Authoritative Work on Washington Park, the First St. Louis Airport
from News Mr. Jack Abercrombie, Curator for the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum, has produced a scholarly work entitled, “Washington Park: The First St. Louis Airport.” The 18-page article took hundreds of hours of painstaking research to establish the location for the “National Aviation Meet for Novices,” the first event to attract amateur flyers. Access to the preferred location that would later be known as Kinloch Field in St. Louis County was still pending, and the President of the St. Louis Aero Club, Albert Bond Lambert, searched for ...

More about Camaro chase cars for the U-2 spyplanes from David Cenciotti | An article written by W.J. Hennigan for the LA Times, provides some new interesting details about the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of cars used to chase U-2 (and, presumably, RQ-4 Global Hawks) spyplanes. Chase automobiles are used to supervise take offs, landings (and touch and gos) wherever U-2 Dragon Lady pilots (from Beale Air Force Base, California, home of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing) bring their planes....

Ruth Morales from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Friday's Fabulous Flyer | ...I met Ruth at a Fly-It-Forward event when she came to share her time and experience with our young ladies at two different events. She was ground support for our helicopter on the first. And during the rained out event, she took the time to talk to the kids and teach them about the plane in a walk-around demonstration...

Through Airmen's Eyes: 65 years later, WW II veteran returns to England from Air Force Link Top Stories | (This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series on AF.mil. These stories focus on a single Airman, highlighting their Air Force story.)  On a typical day from 1942 to 1945, the flightline on Royal Air Force Alconbury, England, would be full of activity as aircrews, maintainers and weapons troops prepared as many B-17 Flying Fortresses as they could for missions in Germany...

F-35B’s Delivered to MCAS Yuma from photorecon.net by Douglas Aguillard | Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 and it’s a beautiful day in Yuma, AZ. A large crowd of hundreds is gathering at MCAS Yuma, and the crowds included dignitaries such as General James Amos, the 37th Commandant of the Marine Corps, former U.S. Navy pilot and Vietnam War P.O.W., Senator John McCain, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, and many others including the media,...

Remembering Pete from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Dan Hagedorn, Chief Curator for The Museum of Flight, pays tribute to General Aviation News columnist and renowned aviation historian Peter M. Bowers in this piece reprinted with permission from the museum's magazine "Aloft." It was late one night at our home in Copperas Cove, Texas, while still serving with the 1st Cavalry Division at nearby Fort Hood around 1986, when I received a phone call that started with a very...

Women in Aviation Is Theme of Presentation at Maplewood, MO Library from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | Libby Yunger, Chairman of the Greater St. Louis Ninety-Nines, recently gave her presentation, "A Century of Women in Aviation," at the Maplewood Public Library in celebration of National Aviation Month. The Ninety-Nines, an international organization of women pilots, was founded in 1929 by the first ninety-nine licensed women pilots including Amelia Earhart....

skydiving family boost charities - Messenger Newspapers | ... him his name he replied 'your best buddy'. “Billy was pulling my leg all the way down. He pointed out the Blackpool lights and the beautiful sunset. “When I got down I was blubbering, it was so great.” “Now I've done that, I'd like to go wing ...

'It reeks with history' - Bowling Green Daily News | However, since it's about history, it seems that kids should be given the chance to see that there's more to aviation than just the warbirds. A DC3/C47 would be a nice addition to demonstrate the double edged nature of technological acheivement. Link ...

You will not believe this weird flying machine flew 1,000 test flights 60 years ago from David Cenciotti | The Saab J-35 Draken is one of the most famous Swedish aircraft, ever.  However, its
particular double delta wing configuration was something never seen before in the ’50s and, in order to move towards that new shape, a special test-bed scale model was developed....

the Dornier Do 31 (via) from x planes

Starbase Indy convention: See a moon rock from Apollo 15 mission - Indianapolis Star | Also on hand during the weekend: Indiana astronaut Dr. David Wolf, a four-time space veteran who has flown on shuttles, lived on the former Russian Mir space station and made seven spacewalks. Indiana's most experienced astronaut, Wolf is an ...

Virgin Galactic Threatens to Depart New Mexico Over Liability Waivers for Suppliers from Spaceports | There's real concern that the quarter of a billion dollars New Mexico has invested in Spaceport America could be gone if the New Mexico legislature does not enact a spaceflight liability extending protection to commercial space launch firm suppliers, according to KTSM-TV (news video) and SpaceNews.

Monday, November 12, 2012

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Blue Angels coming Wednesday to make air show plans - St. Cloud Times | Representatives of the U.S. Navy Blue Angel team will be in St. Cloud this week to meet with officials in preparation for the team's show here in July. Lt. Ryan Chamberlain and Lt. Cmdr. Michael Cheng are expected to arrive just before 4 p.m. Wednesday ...

No tax funds for local air show - Waterloo Record | It would truly be a shame to see the Waterloo Air Show crash as an event because it has run out of money. Its displays of marvellous aircraft on the ground as well as the breathtaking aerobatics it stages high in the sky captivate and thrill crowds ...

Silver Falcons logo sting from Latest Vlog | Take a look at Silver Falcon #5, Beau Skarda's latest After Affects work. A man of many talents both up in the sky and behind the editing suite of After Affects!

Famed 'Memphis Belle' Takes to Tallahassee Skies [SLIDE SHOW] - WCTV | Our B-17 & P-40 mission for today is to educate the people of America about the courages WWII veterans, and remember those brave aircrew who never made it home. "Memphis Belle" is a living museum, our heritage not in mothballs or the pages of a dusty ...

Veteran's message: Women pilots served, too - South Bend Tribune | As aviator Bernice "Bee" Falk Haydu can attest, she and other women pilots did their part for the war effort and sometimes gave their lives even though they would not receive any recognition for their service until the 1970s. Haydu, a New Jersey ...

Our Dinner With Harry from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave | In the late winter of 1944-45, Warrant Officer Harry Hannah had been sitting, alone, with nothing to warm him but his thoughts, in a small, cold, and damp solitary confinement prison cell in Poland for the worst part of a year. Before that he had spent another year as a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft 4. It doesn't take much of an imagination to figure out what he thought about to sustain himself through the long periods of abject loneliness – food, drink, friends, home, family, peace, flying, warmth, women and a future that was quite possibly about to be taken away from him. I smile when I think that he could not possibly have imagined that all of these things would be given back to him and that 70 years into that doubtful future, he would see them all come together on a cold and blustery night, far from Poland in a land he had, just a couple of years before, travelled through. In May of 2012, the beautiful Yellow Wings Boeing PT-27 Stearman was dedicated to this elegant, quiet, and understated gentleman, in a moving ceremony at our Gatineau, Québec hangar. Following the ceremony, Stearman pilots...

Monday November 12th 2012 - Canadian Air & Space Museum - Canadian Skies | "During this time of Remembrance, our message is even more poignant, that institutions like the Canadian Air & Space Museum act as monuments and legacies to the historical value made by our veterans. It is becoming increasingly crucial to preserve ...

The Latest from Antique Airfield:

Convair XF-92A — first jet aircraft with a delta wing from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Convair XF-92A — first jet aircraft with a delta wing Dr. Alexander Lippish (famed for the Me 163 Komet rocket powered interceptor) pioneered radical wing designs in the 1930s and 1940s though Convair was the company which first produced a delta winged jet, the XF-92,which first flew in 1948. Only three years after the end [...]

Hawaii's F-22 squadrons reach milestone - KPUA | JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (AP) — The Hawaii Air National Guard says the Hawaii squadrons that fly F-22 fighter jets have achieved a status that will allow them deploy. The 199th Fighter Squadron of the Air National Guard and the Air...

U-2 touch and go as seen from the most original point of view ever…. from David Cenciotti's weblog - the most visited Italian Aviation Blog by David Cenciotti | We have already seen several U-2 videos. Among those showing the aircraft taking off or departing, this is the one filmed from the most original point of view: the left wheel of the plane’s chase car at Beale Air Force Base, California, home of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing...

Sporty’s founder receives Chamber of Commerce award from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Sporty’s Founder and Chairman Hal Shevers has received the Edward J. Parish Pacesetter Award, presented by the Clermont County, Ohio Chamber of Commerce, on Nov. 8.

Because this is what Airplanistas do from Airplanista Aviation Blog by Dan Pimentel |...I'm not talking about big favors, or giant business ventures on the cheap (or free), or about pilots taking advantage of other pilots. I'm talking about the small things, the no-brainers that we aviators do for our aviation family members...

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

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Wings Over Houston Air Show gets ready for takeoff - Your Houston News | The vintage WWII era B-25 bomber that will fly during the Wings over Houston Airshow is named for members of the 17th Bombardment Group which made the first U.S. air retaliation attack on Tokyo after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941....

Wings Over McConnell from US Army Golden Knights by Brian Karst | McConnell Air Force Base hosted the Wings Over McConnell Open House this last weekend featuring aircraft and equipment from all branches of the military to include the Air Force Thunderbirds and of course the Gold Demonstration Team. The 22nd Air Refueling Wing on McConnell is the largest refueling operation in the world housing more KC 135 Stratotankers than any other location so it was a great honor to be invited to a location with such a high pace mission. Coming from sub-freezing temperatures the week before the much warmer Kansas climate was a...

Fly-In a huge success! - My Swainsboro News | This past Saturday, Sept. 29, the air above Swainsboro was alive with the sound of airplanes from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Six planes were continuously taking off and landing as they gave 117 area children their first taste of flight thanks to the Young Eagle program. In addition to the outstanding and record-setting number of children who flew...

Malta International Airshow 2012 Highlights from David Cenciotti's weblog | Once again, the yearly Malta International Airshow, held on the Sept. 29 – 30 weekend, featured some of the most interesting and rare aircraft of the airshow season. Among the highlights of the 2012 edition, held in the Sept. 29 – 30 weekend, the C-130J-30 Super Hercules of the Qatari Emiri Air Force and the CH-47 Chinook of the Free Libya Air Force.  Sunday Show’s Gran Finale saw a...

Image: on Sunday attracted thousands Sliač airport  - 24hod.sk  | SLIAČ second (AFP) - International Air Day Slovak International Air Fest (Siafu) 2012 continued to Sliačska the airport on Sunday. Sunday's program offered the same performances as Saturday's, only the changed order. The program started ...

The former commander of the Frecce Tricolori Tammaro in Spoleto to motivate the city  - Spoleto Online  | The former commander of the Frecce Tricolori, for 22 years in military aviation today and in the management team of Ferrari, visiting the famous city of music, starting from Casa Menotti where he met the local administration - in the person of ...

Hunt A-29 Super Tucano aircraft will be new Smoke Squadron from NOTÍCIAS SOBRE AVIAÇÃO AVIATION NEWS | The Smoke Squadron is new for 2013. A year from now, will begin with presentations game A-29 Super Tucano. The new aircraft manufactured by Embraer, have more than twice the power of the T-27 Tucano today equip the Air Demonstration Squadron (ADS), the official name of the Squadron. The presentations will change, even with...

Selection of Mosquito shots taken at Ardmore 29 September 2012 from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon

Six friends at centre of air search after Des Porter's de Havilland Dragon ... - NEWS.com.au | The fact the passengers aboard the ill-fated flight of his de Havilland Dragon were his five closest friends has only added to the mystery of what happened after the vintage aircraft and its experienced pilot took off from an air show in Monto, a tiny ...

U-2 Above All from Air Force Link Top Stories | Whether people recognize it by the Snoopy-like nose or by the flat black paint and red lettering on the tail, the U-2 has become an Air Force reconnaissance icon in its 50 years of military operations.  Since the first model was assembled in the 1950s, the aircraft's original, shiny aluminum skin has evolved to the current flat black paint scheme, and its mission has broadened as intelligence imagery techniques have improved....


How do we keep flying? from Toriaflies | In this episode of the Stuck Mic AvCast we ended up spending the bulk of our show on a discussion about ways that pilots can stay flying and ways to stay involved in aviation versus quitting...

Water jets 'create' rainbow on launch aircraft from NOTÍCIAS SOBRE AVIAÇÃO AVIATION NEWS

Morgan Freeman by Jeff Mattoon Pilot Mag | The man who may be more known for his voice than by his appearance helps give general aviation a voice that is heard loud and clear. In this exclusive spotlight on Morgan Freeman, we get up close and personal on his no-frills Mississippi way of life. From exploring his...

727 Crash To Air On Discovery Channel from AVwebFlash Current Issue The deliberate crash of a Boeing 727 will be the topic of a new Discovery channel program, Curiosity, which airs this Sunday night (9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m. Central time). No airplane of this size has been crashed for science since 1984, according to the channel's website, when NASA and the FAA crashed a Boeing 720 to see what would happen. Discovery strapped...

One-Year Stay by Astronaut and Cosmonaut at the ISS Now Planned in March 2015 from Spaceports | The first year-long mission to the International Space Station may begin in March 2015, following an agreement between ISS partners who have previously sent crews for six months, the Russian space agency director Alexei Krasnov, in charge of manned flights at Roscosmos.  The decision was made among the ISS partners at the International Astronautical Congress in Naples, Italy, this week to...

Journey with Atlantis: Public invited to last space shuttle delivery - collectSPACE.com | In April, the space agency ferried by jumbo jet Discovery for the Smithsonian in Virginia and the prototype Enterprise to New York for the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. The final airborne delivery was last month, flying Endeavour to Los Angeles for ...

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Indy Transponder 04-SEP-2012 0200z

Thousands of Arkansans will head to the Little Rock Air Force Base for the Air ... - Today's THV | There will be performances from the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, USAF's Heritage Flight, Otto the Helicopter, USASOC Black Daggers, Canadian Forces Skyhawks, Air National Guard's Flashfire Jet Truck and much more. The Air Show will take place Saturday, ...

Sikorsky Aircraft is presenting sponsor of Stuart Air Show - TCPalm | STUART — The Stuart Air Show is proud to announce that Sikorsky Aircraft will, for the second consecutive year, be the presenting sponsor of the 2012 Stuart Air Show. The event will be held on Nov. 10 and 11. Sikorsky is a world leader in design, ...

Sea & Sky air show hopes to land Jacksonville Beach approval for October event - Florida Times-Union | The Sea & Sky Spectacular Air Show's future waits for Jacksonville Beach City Council approval Tuesday night. The council is considering the contract for the Sea & Sky Spectacular that will take flight over the coastal community Oct. 19, 20 and 21. The ...

Annual Stearman Fly-In attracts pilots near and far - Galesburg Register-Mail | Spectators of the 41st National Stearman Fly-In, take note: This event is for the pilots as much as it is for the viewing public. The six-day event allows locals and tourists to view — and even fly in — some of the finest World War II-era Stearman ...

Cajun Lunch Fly-in is Saturday at Carroll County Airport - Carroll County News | BERRYVILLE -- Hungry for a bowl of crawfish etouffee? Craving a bite of some boudin on a stick? Well then, direct your feet, wheels or wings to the Carroll County Airport this weekend. Leave the suitcases at the door, though, because New Orleans is ...

Nearly 300 airplanes make trip to annual Blakesburg fly-in - Journal Express | “Considering the weather and the presidentail TFRs in the state, our turnout was pretty good,” Brent Taylor, executive director of the AAA and chairman of the fly-in, said of the approximately 290 airplanes that showed up at the fly-in. The weekend is ...

Winston-Salem Airshow 2012 from US Army Golden Knights by dcook | Close to home shows always give the Golden Knights an opportunity to make a huge impact on the local community. This weekend, Black Team traveled the very short trip to Winston-Salem, NC. This year’s airshow expected to bring over 45,000 airshow fans from the surrounding area to the Smith-Reynolds Airport. We performed one media jump into the airfield on Friday, giving the jumpers a sneak peak at the landing area....

Golden Knights Win Gold! - armygk.armylive.dodlive.mil | The Golden Knights Female 4-Way strike Gold! This past week, the team traveled to Prostejov, Czech Republic for the 2012 World Parachuting Cup in Formation Skydiving. GKF4 arrived the Friday prior to the opening ceremonies in order to conduct training jumps. These jumps were important for a varie...

Rimini gives wings with the Frecce Tricolori - Il Resto del Carlino | Rimini, September 4, 2012 - will take place on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 September, the largest event dedicated to the world of flight after 17 years marks the return of the Frecce Tricolori the skies of Rimini in Rimini, the most magnificent and exciting air show that ...

GREAT SUCCESS FOR ARROWS TRICOLORI IN SLOVAKIA AGI - Agenzia Journalism Italy | Last month, the Arrows tricolor had participated in the celebrations of the centenary of the Russian Air Force in Zhukovksy, just outside Moscow, performing their most 'famous aerobatic maneuvers: the looping input, until the final step with ...

Slovak International Air Fest 2012 from Aviation News - Airplane-Pictures.net | Portfolio of photos from the show by Janoby and Jaroslaw Weksej...

Southport Air Show set to attract thousands to resort - Southport Visiter | They are seen live by more than six million spectators each year in the UK and perform a breathtaking sequence of acrobatic manoeuvres and handstands while strapped to the top wings of the team's Boeing Stearman biplanes. The Trig Aerobatic Team will ...

Eurofighter's Air Show Season Continues Across Europe - defpro | Hallbergmoos | Eurofighter Typhoon continues its summer of air shows in September as it attends a number of international exhibitions across Europe. The Eurofighter team will be at MSPO in Poland from the 3rd until the 6th...

Planes part of travelling air museum - TheChronicleHerald.ca | STANLEY — George King's summer has been an experience of a lifetime. “It's awesome, a joy, a privilege,” said the Yarmouth resident. King was taking part in the 41st annual Stanley Sport Aviation Fly-in this weekend in Hants County, flying a Fairchild ... 
 
B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle Makes A Stop In Winston- Salem,NC - WFMY News 2 | Winston-Salem, NC - The restored World War 2 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Memphis Belle" flew into Winston-Salem Smith-Reynolds Airport Tuesday morning on its first national tour. This is not the original historic "Memphis Belle" that was the first B ...

Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon "Attu Warrior" Makes Stop in St. Louis from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon, "Attu Warrior," recently made a fuel stop at St. Louis Downtown Airport. After making an appearance at Oshkosh last month, the aircraft has attended other fly-ins, and was heading home to Utah. The current manifestation of the aircraft took flight May 23, 2009 after a three-year...

Video: Kermit’s Helmet Cam is AWESOME! from Flight Monkeys by Chief Monkey | We can’t be positive, but we’re pretty sure you have never flown a Curtiss Pusher. We sure haven’t. In fact, we’re pretty sure that we’re too chicken to even consider getting airborne in something that includes bamboo as a building material, and was designed before electricity was common in American homes. But that’s us. We scare easily....

Museum Participates in St. Louis Veterans Festival at Forest Park from News | The Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum joined with the St. Louis community in paying tribute to veterans of the armed services at the Veterans Festival held in nearby Forest Park in St. Louis. The museum brought in its BD-5 painted to represent the 126th Air Refueling Wing, based at Scott AFB in Mascoutah, IL. Hundreds of...

Learn about lighter-than-air flight during Family Day from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | Learn the basics about lighter-than-air flight with free educational activities during Family Day at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sept. 22.  Long before humans learned to build airplanes, they had taken to the skies in aircraft that were lifted by heated air and other gases. The museum will look at this great achievement with a variety of aerospace demonstration stations throughout the day....

North Carolina aviation museum enhances visitor experience - Attractions Management | North Carolina aviation museum enhances visitor experience. BY Pete Hayman. Carolinas Air Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, US, has been relaunched with a new exhibit dedicated to the "Miracle on the Hudson" and an enhanced visitor experience...

Beech G18S AW-01 from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | The recent post on Tongan based Beech 18 N500MK prompted Tony H to send in these nice shots of...

September 4, 2012 Amelia Rose Earhart from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | ...Maybe soon the 75-year old mystery will be solved. But that’s not so much where we’re going with this “Where are they now” question. That would be tacky. What we want to do is take a look at the heritage they left us, and the people who are carrying on.  In 1977 Amelia’s great-niece and namesake took up flying, saying, "On my first landing I couldn't help but think, 'This was how she felt.' I know how she felt when she first took the controls.” And now...

Low level Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet video from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | Check out this awesome video of a Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet doing some low level work over northern California. One can presume this Rhino is from Naval Air Station Lemoore, which is the master jet base on the west coast...

A bad day at the office: U-2-style from The DEW Line by Craig Hoyle | Every once in a while, a copy of the US Air Combat Command's "Combat Edge" flight safety magazine lands on my desk; today was that day this quarter. Following on after items about F-4 ops in Vietnam, helicopter maintainers and bird-scarers, the "awards of distinction" section caught my attention with an entry about US Air Force U-2 Dragon Lady pilot Capt Scott Thomson's startlingly bad day at the office in July 2012....

NASA’s WB-57 Battlefield Area Communication Node gets new sensors, paint scheme for more clandestine missions
from David Cenciotti's weblog |...Few months ago, I discovered that WB-57 had been deployed to Afghanistan after conducting test flights at Nellis Air Force Base.  Indeed, the aircraft is currently on a BACN deployment at Kandahar Airfield until Dec. 5, 2012. It will be back in Houston for maintenance until Feb. 2013, and then leave agian on Feb. 28, 2013, on another deployment outside the U.S. (most probably in Afghanistan) until Sept. 30, 2013....

Video: Red Bull Stratos: Felix vs Joe from Aerial Sports Feed |In 1960 Colonel Joe Kittinger set a record for the highest freefall in history. Right now BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner is doing everything in his command to break this record – with the help of Joe.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

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Centennial of Flight air show a 'fantastic success' - Prince Albert Daily Herald | “We're all starting to get caught up on our sleep, and we're feeling good,” event co-ordinator Tim Munro said. And they have good reason to be in high spirits. The air show has been deemed a wild success, with attendance somewhere in the neighbourhood ...

Blue Angels Practice in August - WKRG-TV | The Blue Angels will be back home in Pensacola soon and their next practices this month are scheduled for August 8*, 9, 14, 15*, 21, 22*. The Blue Angels perform practice air shows over NAS Pensacola most Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at 8:30 a.m....

Random photo of the week: the Blue Angels - Sequim Gazette | Anyway, here's a pic my father got last week from near the top of the Columbia Tower. Yep, those are the Blue Angels practicing for SeaFair. Sweet. advertisement: NissanLeaf · advertisement: LesSchwabbrakecheck · advertisement: Arnolds furniture May 15...

Green Speed Cup – Year Two, Day Two from CAFE Foundation Blog by Dean Sigler | The Green Speed Cup is a closed circuit race similar to the Green Flight Challenge, but with a more free-style approach to how each team flies the course. As reported yesterday, the first day’s competition was won by Markus Scherdel, test pilot for Solar Impulse...

Model air show to benefit MDA - Houston Chronicle | A mini air show will be conducted from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. featuring miniature aircraft that club members fly. Features will include aerobatic flying, jet models that can reach speeds up to 200 mph and large quarter-scale Piper Cubs that fly along at ...

Grants help San Diego Air & Space Museum increase its online collection - San Diego Source | The San Diego Air & Space Museum’s Library & Archives received two grants to improve online access to its extensive collection.  The museum, which houses the third largest collection of aviation-related research material in the United States...

My first Oshkosh from General Aviation News | “Silver and white Cirrus, right side of the runway.” As I taxied my aircraft through the chaos at Wittman Regional Airport (OSH) on the last day of AirVenture, it was hard to believe that only one week ago I had arrived at the big show for the first time....

August 7, 2012 AirVenture Cup from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | Linda: Growing up in corn country – central Indiana – I ate enough corn by the time I was five to last a life time, but my recent trip to palatial corn town Mitchell, South Dakota pretty much knocked Indiana’s reputation down a notch. More than just a place for harvest celebration,...

Lubbock's aviation heritage preceded World War II - LubbockOnline.com | He related the tenuous history of Lubbock's aviation Tuesday to members of the Texas Aviation Heritage Foundation who had met at Hillcrest Country Club for their Summer Membership Luncheon and to recognize Dr. John A. Buesseler for his work in ...

The Dragon Lady quietly comes by travelforaircraft  | Lockheed's titan of aeronautical design
Lawrence "Kelly" Johnson's team at the secretive Skunk Works developed the U-2 in a fantastically short time. The U.S. Air Force required a new reconnaissance aircraft which used height and speed as its main defence against interception by fighter or missile — and in a hurry. Cold War Bloc and USSR military bases, missile installations and deployments had to constantly monitored, especially urgent given the invasions Hungary and Czechoslovakia....

Hanging Out in a Bubble with the Space Shuttle 'Enterprise' - Jaunted | Well, she's not really our baby but that of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum aircraft carrier docked on the west side of Manhattan. $30 per adult ($28 if bought online) is the admission price to enter the Intrepid Museum and also the Space Shuttle ...

Friday, April 6, 2012

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Howard Pardue Dies in Bearcat Crash - Flying Magazine | A former Marine Corps pilot and instructor, Pardue was a veteran Reno air racer, airshow performer and member of an historical tribute flying team, the Navy Legacy Flight team, which performs formation flights with front line Navy fighters of today...

Howard Pardue…Gone West from classicwarbirds.net by davebudd
On April 4, 2012 just after 2PM, Howard Pardue left us before his time had come.  He was 77 years young.  His XF8F-1 Bearcat NL14HP crashed shortly after takeoff from Breckenridge Texas.  We send our sincerest condolences from the staff here at PhotoRecon to his family and friends and we shall remember him in our prayers....

BREAKING: NTSB to provide investigative update on Air Race crash - KRNV My News 4
WASHINGTON, DC – (KRNV & MyNews4.com) - On Tuesday, April 10, 2012, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will provide an investigative update on the fatal crash of a modified Mustang P-51D airplane during the 2011 National Championship Air ...

Red Steel Jet Team to headline ShrinersFest - Evansville Courier & Press | Last year, ShrinersFest organizers scrambled to make up for the last minute loss of the Blue Angels, which canceled due to emergency training issues. The Blue Angels are scheduled to return to Evansville next year, said Brian Ball, Hadi spokesman...

2012 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show Scavenger Hunt ‘Discover’ the Heritage - DVIDS | Participate in the 2012 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show Scavenger Hunt “Discover” the Heritage, April 16-April 22, without leaving the comfort of your personal Facebook page.This scavenger hunt will be conducted utilizing various Facebook pages ran by units of MCAS Cherry Point, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Corps Community Services Cherry Point, other official military pages and air show performer pages...

Air show fireworks training scheduled for Thursday - New Bern Sun Journal | CHERRY POINT – Residents near the air station can expect to see and hear fireworks about 8 pm Thursday as practice begins for the 2012 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show scheduled for May 4-6. Cherry Point's explosive ordinance disposal team will conduct night ...

LATEST NEWS: Red Arrows will return to Sunderland Airshow - Sunderland Echo | The distinctive aircraft of the RAF display team are scheduled to fly on both the Saturday and Sunday of airshow weekend. Sunderland City Council leader Paul Watson said: “The Red Arrows are the RAF's premier display team and they have a track record ...

Red Arrows return to resort's air show - This is Bristol | THE Red Arrows will return to Weston-super-Mare this summer at the resort's annual air show. The Royal Air Force aerobatic team, right, will perform on day one of the two-day show, which is being organised by the owners of the resort's Grand Pier and ...

Russian Knights to get new jets - The Voice of Russia | Russian aerobatic performance demonstration teams, the “Russian Knights” and “Swifts,” will get new jets in the upcoming years, an air forces official told journalists who today attended the Knights' anniversary show. He added the teams may switch to ...

Academy parachute team breaks own record from Air Force Times - News | AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — The Air Force Wings of Blue Parachute Demonstration Team has set another record, the Air Force Academy said.

WW2 flying museum comes to Grayson County - KXII-TV | The "Wings of Freedom" tour lets people see WW2 planes up close and inside. Today Jalah Gray talked with a few local veterans who came to see the planes they flew in many years ago. "Any of the WW2 planes that are restored it kind of hits ya right here ...

P-38 Lightning topic of Planes of Fame Museum program - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
The Lightning flight demonstration will be at noon. Eight veterans of the 475th Fighter Group will present the group's history and their stories of courage and sacrifice, as well as their experience flying one of America's premier fighters...

Anniversary of the Lady Be Good’s demise and her heroic crew from Travel for Aircraft | The Consolidated B-24D Liberator known as “Lady Be Good” was lost in the night upon returning to base during a bombing mission over Naples Italy on this date in April 1943. The crew of nine bailed out of the aircraft and likely in good, short order since they landed near each other and eight were able to quickly rendezvous — one perished due to a failed parachute. The Lady Be Good flew on into the night gradually losing altitude until making an unpiloted crash landing in the remote Libyan desert terrain...

Doolittle Raid airman honored in Missoula  - KAJ18 Kalispell Montana News | MISSOULA - Seventy years ago this month, 16 B-25 bombers made the first air raid on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. One of the raiders is from Missoula and Wednesday afternoon he was honored at Fort Missoula. David Thatcher is one of the five ...

Podcast: Texas Tornado “Warbird Update” from WarbirdRadio.com by Matt | WARBIRD RADIO – Charlie Wood joins Zane Adams tonight on the WIX Warbird Weekly LIVE with a full update on the tornadoes that struck Texas...

Air Racers 3D Movie Opens Today from AVweb Top News | A new 3D film currently scheduled for a handful of IMAX theaters offers unique visual perspectives of the Reno Air Races, good engine noise and a bit of aviation history. The filmloosely follows Steve Hinton, Jr.'s 2009 bid to succeed his father's record as the youngest pilot to win the Unlimited Gold championship at the races in the modified P-51, Strega. Filming was done at...

From Antique Airfield

Kent State's Aviation Heritage Fair returns to fall schedule - Tallmadge Express | The fair, originally conceived by a Kent State student aviation club, is now run by the faculty, staff and students of the university's Aeronautics Program with help from the Stow-Munroe Falls Kiwanis Club. For more information on Kent State's College ...

Fancy your own helicopter gunship? from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | It may not be as technologically gee-whiz as a current-model Apache, but if you're so inclined (and moderately well-heeled), you can own a Vietnam War-era 'Huey', a Bell UH-1E model helicopter gunship. It must be one of the more unusual auctions in eBay's recent experience!...

Diary of a Spy - airspacemag.com | Events that made the U-2 the world's most famous player in the game of espionage....

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

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Third Tuscaloosa Blue Angel Airshow Wows Crowd from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | U.S. Navy Blue Angel pilot #6 LT Dave Tickle, a Birmingham native and Fat Albert C-130 pilot Capt. John Hecker, U.S. Marines, an Auburn graduate, along with several enlisted members from around Alabama compose the 40 plus member demonstration team that headlined the show. For those with Alabama ties, performing for their hometown crowd is extra sweet...

Fort Lauderdale Ready To Soar With Coming Return of Air Show - NBC 6 Miami | Come April 28-29, the Lauderdale Air Show will launch, featuring top-notch military aircraft along with the country's edgiest aerobatic pilots. One of them is Michael Goulian, who will fly his plane at about 275 mph, do flips and turns, ...

Baker to Thunderbird pilot from Pilots of America Message Board by Let'sgoflying! | This year's number 6 has a cool story.  Apparently he first saw them fly from the roof he was working on while a baker (fixing something up there is what I heard) and that moment changed his life: Video.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's… yep a plane - Orlando Sentinel | "So you're seeing the plane really just put on an unbelievable aerial display with a backdrop that is second to none." You can catch Goulian and the rest of the performers during the Lauderdale Air Show April 26-29. Mike Goulian...

Tickets on sale now for Great Tennessee Air Show - The Daily News Journal | Ages 3 and under are admitted free. Box seats are $30 for adults and children. Flight line tickets, which include a catered lunch, are also available. To purchase, visit smyrnaairport.com and select Great Tennessee Air Show from the menu...

Ric Peterson – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Wednesday – 10am (EASTERN) | WEDNESDAY – Air show announcer, Canadian talk radio super star and stand-up comedian Ric Peterson joins Matt Jolley on Warbird Radio LIVE!  Tune in this Wednesday morning at 10am (EASTERN) and hear what’s going on in Ric’s world as the 2012 air show season gets underway.  For more information on Ric Peterson just click on...

WWII Heritage Days - Sacramento Bee | Experience the sights and sounds of the Greatest Generation when the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Dixie Wing hosts the ninth annual "WWII Heritage Days" April 14-15, 2012. The history festival will be held at The Historical Airpower Facility, ...

Jerry Moore: Local resident was part of a truly heroic group - Suburban Life Publications | He was part of a crew aboard a B-25 called Bright Eyes that flew a silent mission when the plane malfunctioned and crashed. Wilson spent more than three years in the hospital recovering from multiple injuries. These included losing part of his left leg ...

WWII airman's family in Houston receives fragments of his plane in the mail... - Houston Chronicle  | This is the crew of the C Batt, a World War II B-17 bomber named for C Battery at Pearl Harbor. Lt. Kemp F. Martin was the navigator. His friend, Lt. Ben Pasero, was the pilot. They served with 20th Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group...

Memphis Belle bomber plane takes shape again in restoration - The Republic | Instead, crews from the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton have been restoring the World War II B-17 Flying Fortress with an eye to having it back on display by 2014. Built at a Boeing factory in Seattle at a cost of about $314000, ...

Rearwin Speedster 6000M from Planeshots

1928 Heath added to Air Zoo collection from General Aviation News by Ben Sclair | The Air Zoo has added a 1928 Heath Baby Bullet to its collection.  Made by the Heath Airplane Co., it was used in various air races and air fairs during the Golden Age of Aviation....

Solar Impulse Plane Could Set More World Records - Huffington Post | Pioneering Swiss solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse piloted by German test pilot Markus Scherdel takes off for its unique flying display at the Paris International Air Show at Le Bourget airport near Paris on June 26, 2011 on the last day of the show ...

I Was There: Bring Down the Spyplane - airspacemag.com | MIG-17 vs. Lockheed U-2.  | Han De Cai was born in 1933 into a peasant family in Anhui province, an impoverished area of China. He was a farm laborer and was also a beggar. In February 1949, after Communists liberated his village, he joined the People’s Liberation Army. He was 16 years old and had one year of education. In June 1950, like many PLA soldiers, he answered Chairman Mao’s call for a strong air force and volunteered to become a pilot....

Future of Flight's popularity soars - The Leading Aviation Industry Resource for News, Equipment and | Thanks to a recent General Electric aviation program, the center received $132000 to equip the exhibit gallery with a theater that includes a 17-by-30-foot projection screen, black curtains for the hangar door and motorized shades for the gallery ...

AH-1W Cobra Live Fire Demo (2012) from AIRBOYD.TV

Build A Plane kicks off Kids Across America from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Build A Plane unveiled a new campaign called Kids Across America at Sun ’n Fun. The new program encourages kids to find sponsors for every mile they travel to reach AirVenture 2012 in Oshkosh. The kid who raises the most money wins a complete Private Pilot course from Red Bird Flight Simulations. Runners up can win other prizes like a week vacation to the Bahamas from Air Journey or a $1,000 scholarship from AOPA...

NASA - NASA T-38 Aircraft to Fly Over Washington Metro Area on April 5 - www.nasa.gov | NASA, in cooperation with the FAA, will conduct training and photographic flights on Thursday, April 5, over the Washington, D.C. area...

NASA Announces Events For Shuttle Discovery Departure from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Events and operating hours for the Press Site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., are set for space shuttle Discovery's departure. A NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), a modified 747 jet, will transport Discovery to...