Local Hero: Excitement soars as Flathead graduate visits air-show organizers - Daily Inter Lake | Excitement about next summer’s Mountain Madness 2014 Airshow began to soar Monday as Capt. Jason Curtis stopped in to visit with show organizers. Curtis, a Flathead High School graduate and member of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, is home for a couple of days over the Christmas holiday before heading out for a Thunderbirds flyover during the Rose Bowl parade on New Year’s Day. “Man, we are excited as anything to be coming back to the valley,” Curtis said. “This is a special treat for the entire Thunderbirds team.”...
Aviation buffs of Condor Squadron keep vintage WWII aircraft flying - Los Angeles Times | On the west side of Van Nuys Airport it's like World War II never ended. Vintage propeller planes once flown by U.S. Navy, Army Air Forces and Royal Air Force pilots are parked wingtip to wingtip along the taxiway. Nearby buildings are painted in camouflage. The sound of swing music sometimes drifts across the tarmac, and olive drab flight jackets are de rigueur...
Navy aviator surprises family Christmas morning - abc13.com | HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A Navy aviator is back home with his wife and three children just in time for Christmas. They were not expecting him home. But he arranged it so it would be a surprise. And our cameras were rolling to see it all unfold...
Living History Day slated at Pacific Aviation Museum · General Aviation News Staff | HONOLULU — History comes alive at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014, when 
visitors can experience the people, the aircraft, and the stories of Pacific aviation “stars”— from the early years of flight to today’s space age. The event is free to museum members and free with museum admission. For those who become a museum member that day, the event is also free...
Museum slates Open Cockpit Day · General Aviation News Staff | WINDSOR LOCKS, CONN. – The New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Conn. will hold its next Open Cockpit Day on Sunday, Jan. 19. On that day, visitors will be permitted to climb into the cockpits of up to 12 vintage aircraft, a full-motion flight simulator and two static flight simulators. Aircraft include the P-47 Thunderbolt, the North American F-100 Super Sabre, a DC-3 airliner, several helicopters and more...
One more payment will settle Spruce Goose title - McMinnville News-Register | Evergreen Aviation Museum of McMinnville and the Aero Club of Southern California agree that one more payment is required before the Aero Club will relinquish legal ownership of Howard Hughes' famous wooden airplane, the Spruce Goose...
Italian Reggiane RE.2000 Update · Warbirds News | Few weeks ago we reported the successful rescue of an Italian Re.2000 which had sunk in the waters of Portovenere (La Spezia) in 1943 . The operation was carried out for free by the company Micoperi (the same company which has completed he straightening of the cruise ship Costa Concordia).The Falco, originally discovered in April 2012, was about twenty feet deep and it crashed off the Liguria coast during a training mission...
Too Hot to Handle: McDonnell XP-67 Moonbat - Air & Space Magazine | Damn Continental 
engines. No matter how advanced an airframe is, and the McDonnell XP-67 was plenty advanced, you can’t fly a fighter fast and hard if its engines are the product of one of the biggest weapons-procurement boondoggles of World War II...
Winter Arrives for Old and Cold Warriors at St. Louis Museum of Transportation By Fred Harl, The Aero Experience | Winter in the Midwest is difficult to predict, and a distance of just a few miles can make the difference between a foot or an inch of snow. On a recent foray north following a significant snowfall, it was a little easier to catch the aircraft outside of the St. Louis Museum of Transportation with just a few inches of snow for this photo shoot. Although mostly a haven for historic trains, the museum also features two aircraft...
New details about the epic B-52 mission to rescue a Cessna in Alaska - The Aviationist | As we reported few weeks ago, on Nov. 10, two B-52s, launched from Minot and Barksdale AFB for a training mission, flew hundreds of miles off course to give assistance to a Cessna plane that had lost radio contact with Anchorage Air Traffic Control Center in bad weather, over Alaska. While all the details about the successful rescue mission were released by the U.S. Air Force and can be found here, little was known about the mission the two Buffs were flying when they received the distress call...
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Too Ugly to Print in a Magazine - Air & Space Magazine | Four aircraft so ugly they could only be published on the web...
Book Review: Unknown Rider by Major Scott D. Anderson, USAF By Carmelo Turdo, The Aero Experience | ...Unknown Rider is the fictional manifestation of Major Scott D. Anderson's experience of achieving the title, "Fighter Pilot." Anderson sums up his writing process in the Acknowledgements page: "When I was training to fly the F-16 at Kingsley Field in Oregon, each evening, after a day of flying fighters, I sat down and typed a little bit of this book...All I had to do was invent a few characters, put them in an airplane, and make them the...
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Raptor pilot confirmed killed in Alaska crash from F-22 Raptor news | November 20, 2010 (by Lieven Dewitte) - The U.S. Air Force confirmed on Friday that the F-22 Raptor pilot that crashed in Alaska earlier this week during a nighttime training mission perished in the accident. Air Force officials initially had held out hope that the pilot, Captain Jeffrey Haney, might have ejected from the plane and survived Tuesday night's crash. "Based on evidence recovered from the crash site, and after two days of extensive aerial and ground search efforts, we know that Captain Haney did not eject from the aircraft prior to impact," Colonel Jack McMullen, commander of the Air Force 3rd Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, said in a statement…
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Drones, Stealth Aircraft Steal the Air Show in China - AOL News | China's J-10 fighter jets perform Wednesday during Airshow China 2010 in Zhuhai, China. But it's the drones that are catching people's attention. ...
MCAS to test air show pyrotechnics - Yuma Sun | In preparation for a possible performance event at next year's Yuma Air Show, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma will conduct ...
World Record Flight | Naval History Blog by Proceedings | It was among the first in aviation history. Dubbed "The Flying Coffin" because of its shape, it consisted of a cylinder about seven feet long, with rounded ends and a diameter of approximately three feet. Inside was room for one man, ...
EAAer Flies Curtiss Pusher Replica In Navy Centennial Ceremony from Aviation Blogs by flyer98 | On November 14, 1910, barnstorming pilot Eugene Ely made what's recognized as the first takeoff from a ship, the USS Birmingham, near what is now Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia. Nearly 100 years later to the day, last Friday, November 12, retired Naval Commander Bob Coolbaugh, who built a replica of the plane Ely flew that day, was at NAS Norfolk to take part in a commemorative ceremony for that occasion…
BD-5 Microjet Returns to Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum Today from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | The BD-5 Microjet returned to its hangar at the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum today. Here are some scenes from the delivery - come to the museum to see it in person!
The Rogers Family: Air Show by Tina K Rogers | Air Show. Scott and Phillip were asked to perform before the Airshow the weekend of Absolutely Andalusia Homecoming. Posted by Tina K Rogers at 12:13 PM. 0 comments: Post a Comment…
Fly a piece of history - Tulsa World | GK Gentis, a former B-17 bombardier, waits for a ride on the B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" as it sits on a ramp at Jones Riverside Airport on Thursday. ...
Too Hot to Handle: McDonnell XP-67 Moonbat | History of Flight | Air & Space Magazine from http://www.airspacemag.com/ Man cannot zoom by blended wing alone; he must have an engine that, well, works…
Space tourism vid from RLV and Space Transport News | Here's a MSNBC video about space tourism with an emphasis on Virgin Galactic and travel agents: msnbc video: Adventurers pay big bucks for space tour.
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