Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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Celebrate National Aviation Day with the Wright brothers, Charles ... - Examiner.com
National Aviation Day is going to be celebrated on Wednesday, August 19, which makes it a great time to celebrate some of the pioneers of flight at historic ...

Russian aviation show opens under clouds - AFP
ZHUKOVSKY, Russia — Russia's top aviation show opened Tuesday with the annual extravaganza of aerial acrobatics and self-promotion muted by the industry's ...

French jet fighters landed in Pyrzowice - NaszeMiasto.pl
Group aerobatic Patrouille de France - French Air Force landed at the airport yesterday in Pyrzowice on their way to air show in Moscow. ...

NBC 40 REPORTER GOES UP WITH THE HORSEMEN - WMGM
... this is the aircraft that really, single-handedly helped turn the tide of the war in the skies over Germany," said pilot, Ed Shipley. ...

Air show set to roar this weekend - New Baltimore Voice Newspapers
The Thunderbirds, the internationally-famous Air Force precision flight team, will perform their demonstration of more than 40 aerial maneuvers and a ground ...

Rocky Mountain Fly-In Opens at Denver Saturday via EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association
Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (formerly Jeffco) will host the Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In (RMRFI) this weekend, August 22-23, and pilots who arrive early enough might qualify for what organizers are calling the "2009 Special Pilot Stimulus Package."

Air Show may hit Saskatoon skies one more time - StarPhoenix
The final Canada Remembers Air Show in Saskatoon may get off the ground after all. After being rained out last weekend, the show's organizer wants to give ...

AIRSPORTS.TV SCOOPS ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE LIVE BROADCAST: THE WORLD AEROBATIC via AVIATION-NEWS
Today Internet sports TV channel, Airsports.tv confirmed it was hosting exclusive live online coverage of the FAI 25th World Aerobatic Championships 2009 (WAC 2009) from 28 – 29 August from Silverstone, UK. This will be the first time that the WAC has been broadcast live online. WAC 2009 is the premier event on the world's air sport calendar [...]

Arch Crushes Rivals In Final Budapest Training Before Qualifying via AVIATION-NEWS by Rob Vogelaar
Austria's Hannes Arch thoroughly dominated the fourth and final training session in Budapest on Tuesday ahead of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship's Qualifying session on Wednesday. The defending champion posted a dazzling time of 1:11.13 that was 2.33 seconds ahead of France's Nicolas Ivanoff in second place and 2.40 ahead [...]

B-17 Didn't Make Hillsboro Journey - Hillsboro Argus
4 issue of The Hillsboro Argus we featured a story and photo announcing a vintage B-17 was landing at the Hillsboro Airport for a four-day stay beginning ...

B-17 bomber tour includes Benton County Airport - Camden Chronicle
The B-17 was an important bomber plane in World War II and there are only a handful left in the whole world. One of them will make a tour stop in Camden at ...

Free admission to the Palm Springs Air Museum - The Desert Sun
The Palm Springs Air Museum will offer free admission on Sept. 12 for its Open House event. Scheduled features for the event include kids activities, ...

EAA celebrates 'Good Ol' Days' of aviation - Oshkosh Northwestern
The 1920s and 1930s will come back to life as the Experimental Aircraft Association steps back in time to revisit the "Good Ol' Days" of aviation on ...

Solo at Sixteen - SWEET! via EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association
Thursday, August 13, 2009, was a big day for Tobie Stamsta, of Hartford, Wisconsin. Not only is it her 16th birthday, but she also made her first solo flight. This being her 16th birthday, she found time during the middle of the day to pass her driver's test. But wait, there's more - by the time the sun set on August 13, 2009, she very well may have soloed in a total of six airplanes.

AviatorApps.com – Status Update by pilotbrad
I am happy to say that AviatorApps.com grows closer to launch every day. In the past two weeks I have registered the domain, purchased hosting, designed logos and banners, created a database in mySQL and now built a web page using PHP that will display the contents of the database. All of this while holding down a day job, raising a child, and building an airplane. ...

The Perfect Airplane via Air & Space Magazine

PICTURES: Sanswire makes engine progress for its airship via Flight Image of the Day by Barbara Cockburn
Airship development joint venture Sanswire-TAO has completed testing of its STS-111's propulsion system at 9,000ft (2,750m) with a goal of operating at 15,000ft. The next step will be testing of the propulsion system at increasing altitudes. Continue reading...
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