Greg Poe: Elevating Lives from Featured by Richard VanderMeulen
Greg Poe flying his two-seat MX2. (Richard VanderMeulen) For many, being a world-renowned air show performer at the top of his game would be the pinnacle of their career and the answer to lifelong dreams. For Greg Poe, that laudable position is simply a tool he uses to teach kids how they can elevate their own lives with his Elevate Your Life program. ...
Blue Angels Homecoming 2010 - NAS Pensacola - 11/11/10 from FenceCheck Forums
Cancelled or Postponed Airshows/Aerial Events for 2011 from FenceCheck Forums
ACC gets $2100 from Dakota Air show - Jamestown Sun
The Anne Carlsen Center received a donation totaling more than $2100, as money was raised through a Prairie Public Broadcasting program held in November. ...
Santa Fly-In Cash Drive For Interfaith - MyMotherLode.com
Sonora, CA -- The Santa Fly-In Food and Coat Drive is coming up Saturday morning at Standard Park, and the Santa Fly-In Cash Drive for Interfaith is coming ...
DC-3 75th Anniversary - ATWOnline
The British press ridiculed KLM Royal Dutch Airlines' entry of its shiny new DC-2 into the MacRoberston Air Race from London to Australia in 1934. ...
POW during Vietnam War POW holds records for sky dives, balloon crossing
Joseph Kittinger had only 33 sky dives under his belt on the day in August 1960 when he stepped to the edge of a balloon gondola, peered into the white abyss and jumped.
Perhaps sky dive isn’t the correct term — space dive might be a better way to describe what he did, a feat that still stands 50 years later. Because on that day, Kittinger wasn’t just ejecting from a jet or leaping from a single-engine plane, he was setting the record for the highest, fastest and longest sky dive. ...
Skydivers, air acrobatics stun early morning traffic - Emirates 24/7
What appeared to be a bright yellow Cessna, the aircraft was engaged in an aerobatic display that delighted many onlookers from their cars, ...
Aerodays 2011 – Sixth European Aeronautics Days from Roger-Wilco
The sixth European Aeronautics Days will take place from 30 March to 1 April 2011 in Madrid, following its successful predecessor events that took place in Brussels (1991), Naples (1993), Toulouse (1997), Hamburg (2001) and Vienna (2006). ...
The cool news is there’s a new speed record for electric aircraft. A French pilot flew his twin-engine, electric powered Cri-Cri to a top speed of 162 miles per hour. This beats the previous record of 155 mph set by an Italian team in 2009.
The somewhat embarrassing news is the record was set September 5. ...
Come fly with me - Comet 24
... pilot from Hitchin who performs at air shows across the country is giving the opportunity for an aviation enthusiast to join him on an aerobatic flight. ...
My AOPA Summit '10 trip to CA from Life on the Road as a Pilot
This November I left the weather in Northeast Ohio to almost the exact same weather in Southern California. No kidding, a solid week of sun and mid-60's in Cleveland, in November and I missed it? Yes, but what I got to experience in SoCal was SO much better!
I have to admit, however, I was totally dreading this trip on the airlines. I have not flown commercially since ...
This seems like a terrible idea. Yet somehow they managed to pull it off without catapulting nose-first into the wet.
These photos (and the video below) show the Flying Lions, a South African aerobatic team, performing a stunt in 2006. The trick is ...
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2 - Aviation Geeks
Classed as the first operational close-support fighter/reconnaissance aircraft with vertical take-off capabilities, the Hawker Siddeley Harrier or sometimes better known as the “Jump Jet” came to the eyes of the world in the 1960s. ...
Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell Delivers Ubben Lecture - DePauw University
December 1, 1995, Greencastle, Ind. - "Why am I here today?," asked former astronaut and retired business executive James A. Lovell Jr. during a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture at DePauw University today. "Because of teamwork both with the crew and the people on the ground," added Lovell, who has received a good deal of attention since Tom Hanks portrayed him in the hit movie Apollo 13. He called the Apollo 13 mission "a great study in crisis management."
Lovell discussed "Apollo 13: A Successful Failure" in an 11 a.m. address in the ...
Recreational Aviation Foundation seeks executive director - AOPA Pilot
The RAF's Tim Clifford joined Fuller on AOPA Live during Sun 'n Fun in April to discuss the mission and initiatives the nonprofit organization is tackling. ...
Museum of Flight from Flight To Success
Today my sidekick, alias my granddaughter Kadence, and I hit the town delivering fliers for December 5th FREE FLIGHT Event.
First stop--- Museum of flight. When I told her we were going to the museum, she said, "there's a snake." I told her this museum didn't have snakes. She asked, "Why grandma?" Explain that one to a two-year-old. ...
Plenty Of Options For Aviator Gifts from AVweb Top News
If you're looking for unique holiday gifts for the aviator on your list, or compiling a list of your own, plenty of options have been flowing into the AVweb inbox. Bonham's auction house in Oxford is selling a pair of wooden photograph cases made from one of the main spars of the tri-plane flown by Manfred Von Reichthofen, known as the "Red Baron," in World War I. The airplane was shot down in April 1918. The two cases will be auctioned on Dec. 7 and are expected to sell for about $600 to $900. Build A Plane is holding an online auction to support its efforts to help kids learn about aviation and science by building their own airplanes. Bidders can find special passes to EAA AirVenture, a Garmin GPS, a Bahamas weekend and more. The auction continues until Dec. 17, with new items listed every day.
Book of the Day: 'Winged Victory' from Theo Spark
At last the book of the Blog has arrived! “Winged Victory, 1940” is a 420 page book with illustrations of planes and people. The cover price is £12.95 plus postage.
Airplanes and Mountains from ASB.tv
Have you ever wanted to travel the world by plane or jet to view all the amazing sights? In these pictures you can get a little taste of what it’s really like to do just that. Planes that are flying over mountains, large bodies of water, and massive canyons. Not to mention planes resting on glaciers, in snow storms, and finding secret cabins in the forest. Get away for a second and imagine being in these mysterious places: ...
The December edition of the Heartland Warrior is now available. The official E-Paper of the 434th Air Refueling Wing includes seven pages of stories, photos and features pertaining to Grissom ARB and the U.S. Air Force. Top stories include:
--President Obama arrives at Grissom
--Grissom families reunited after deployments
--74th ARS has new commander
--Bridging the gap
--Turkey trot
To read this issue of the Heartland Warrior, click here
UDT-SeAL — their national museum from Travel for Aircraft
Air France Sends the A380 to Washington from Things in the Sky
Air France announced Tuesday that it would send its A380 superjumbo aircraft to Washington-Dulles this summer, with daily service beginning on June 6. ...
A first landing for Virgin America from Sky Talk
It was a smooth first landing for Virgin America's inaugural flight to Dallas/Fort Worth airport. With the Fort Worth cattle herd and champagne, local dignitaries greeted the plane. "This our first midcontinent city," said Virgin America ceo David Cush. "We hope to have a long history here."
The carrier - which is 25 percent owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group - launched service today from D/FW to Los Angeles. Flights to San Francisco start on December 6. It will have two daily flights to each city. ...
Sierra Nevada looking at X-34 as Dream Chaser testbed from RLV and Space Transport News
Sierra Nevada is one of the firms that supported NASA's retrieval of the X-34s from storage: Sierra Nevada Studying X-34 As Rocket Testbed - Aviation Week.
They want to use the suborbital vehicles to support their Dream Chaser program. They are thinking of powering a X-34 with one of their hybrid motors: ...
Mystery Space Plane Coming Home, Still No Clue What it Does from Defense Tech
So, the world’s most mysterious UAV is set to return to Earth after spending nearly eight months in space where it did lord only knows what. Courtesy of the LA Times: The X-37, an unmanned spacecraft that resembles a miniature version of the space shuttle, is set to land at Vandenberg Air Force Base as [...]
