Thursday, November 19, 2009

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F-22 returns to Duabi display schedule Thursday Nov 19 - DefenseNews.com | The US Air Force F-22 is making it's second appearance of the week with a scheduled display time starting 16.16. The aircraft, one of six in the Gulf on a ...

Dubai Airshow 2009 | Popular Science - Shawn's Posterous - Our friend the GeoEye-1 satellite, which tirelessly photographs the world at half-meter resolution from its constant orbit, swung by the Dubai Airport the other day and took this snap of the Dubai Airshow, in progress this week. ...

British and Australian Air Race Rivals Form an Alliance to Display Warbirds from Air Race News | From www.nigellamb.com: Red Bull Air Race Pilot Nigel Lamb is travelling 10,500 miles to visit the Temora Aviation Museum, Australia and take the opportunity to display one or both of the museums Mk XVI and MkVIII Spitfires on 28th & 29th November. Watch by editorsdttp@gmail.com (Editor)

Decades of US Air Power - Strategy Page | A P-51 Mustang, F-86 Sabre, F-4 Phantom and A-10 Thunderbolt (clockwise) break over Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., for the Air Combat Command heritage flight ...

The Do-Everything Bomber from Air & Space Magazine

C-46s Keep Working from AVwebFlash Current Issue | There's no more dangerous type of word in journalism than the superlative and since aviation is full of the biggest, fastest, oldest, and coolest things on the planet you'd think we'd know better. Our inbox filled Tuesday with readers pointing out that Buffalo Airways does not operate the last C-46 Commandos as our Monday story on the Ice Pilots NWT television series incorrectly stated. By far the majority pointed to the four workhorses toiling for Fairbanks-based Everts Air as cargo and fuel haulers. Interestingly, we didn't hear from anyone at Everts but we got dozens of emails from their friends and airport neighbors. A quick check of the FAA registry turns up 25 C-46s but it's not clear how many are airworthy. We also heard that there might be some Commandos working in South America, perhaps even in passenger service.

Fighter Pilot's story is topic of Westfield Historical Society luncheon from Flying Tigers AVG by XPDR | WESTFIELD — "I was a World War II Fighter Pilot in China" will be the recorded story by Everson Pearsall at the First Wednesday Luncheon of the Westfield Historical Society at noon on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at the Echo Lake Country Club, 515 Springfield Ave., Westfield.

The World's First Jet Pilot from PPRuNe Forums by warsitz | My father - Flight Captain Erich Warsitz - is remembered as the first person to fly an aircraft under turbojet power, the Heinkel He 178, on August 27, 1939 and also the first to fly an aircraft under liquid-fueled rocket power, the Heinkel He 176, on June 20 the same year, setting two milestones in aviation history…

Group preserves B-26 memorabilia - Arizona Daily Star | Philip Henderson put in a lot of time behind the controls of a B-26 Marauder. Henderson, a retired lieutenant colonel with the Air Force, ...

Munch goes to Skyvue Restaurant - Pittsburgh Post Gazette | Here's a mystery for you: In January 1956, a twin-engine Mitchell B-25 bomber crash-landed in the Monongahela River, right around Homestead. ...

Charles F. Perrong - phillyBurbs.com | ... Group of the US Army Air Force during World War II from 1944 until 1945 as a B17 armorer gunner in the European and African-Middle Eastern campaigns. ...

World War II Flying Fortress pilot flies again - Examiner.com | RIDING THE WARBIRD -- WW II B-17 pilot Wil Ketner flew one more time in the Flying Fortress. When a B-17G Flying Fortress landed at Capital City Airport, ...

WWII pilots died for our country on Nebraska soil - North Platte Bulletin | In a pasture south of Wellfleet, a low-altitude B-17 "Flying Fortress" flew into a ridge in the dark, slashing a long ...

Antique Aeronautics On My Mind from Another Time by Dan Linn | As the day wore on I had my mind fading from the Learjets and Challengers at work and thinking about vintage Cessnas and Beechcrafts. No more thoughts spent on jets. My mind has wondered off to antique aeronautics!...

Winter Olympics A Trial For Canadian Aviators from AVweb Top News | When the 2010 Winter Olympics launch in Vancouver next February, it will keep many local GA operators grounded for up to eight weeks, with losses of up to $5 million, CanWest News reported on Tuesday. "We don't dispute the fact there is an issue of security, we just find this is very long," said John McKenna, CEO of the Air Transport Association of Canada, which represents about 200 operators. Flight schools will have to ground students, passengers for charter flights and floatplanes will be diverted to sites with security gates, sightseeing and banner-towing flights will be restricted, and more. About two dozen small airports are affected, including several just across the border in the U.S. The restrictions will last from Jan. 29 to March 24, to accommodate both the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and will be enforced by U.S. and Canadian fighter jets. The ATA is asking the government to compensate the affected businesses. But meanwhile, the operators of the Official Olympics Airport at Vancouver are thrilled that they can expect an additional 231,000 passengers during the event.

Legends of Vietnam: Super Tweet from Air & Space Magazine - Yeah. The A-37 was small. So was Napoleon.

Slim and Bud | History of Flight | Air & Space Magazine from http://www.airspacemag.com/ Meet Charles Lindbergh the barnstormer—as he interviews his oldest flying buddy.

Howard Hughes & The Spruce Goose - Photo Gallery, 19 Pictures - LIFE from http://www.life.com/ Industrialist, aviator, film producer, and legendary recluse, Howard Hughes was one of the most extraordinary, accomplished, and mysterious figures America has ever produced. Here he climbs into the cockpit of his Northrop Gamma H-1 plane (refitted with an engine he helped engineer) prior to breaking the speed record for transcontinental flight. On January 18, 1937, he took off from Burbank, Calif., and landed in Newark, New Jersey, 7 hours, 28 minutes, and 25 seconds later, besting his own 1936 record time by almost 2 hours.

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