Saudi Hawks to visit UK? by Flightline UK
Reports on the Scramble forum suggest the Saudi Hawks may be visiting the UK this summer. Representatives from the team recently visited the UK MoD Post-Season display symposium at RAF Northolt and the team announced they were planning to visit the UK at some point during last years Al Ain Aerobatics Show. The shows identified include the Waddington Airshow and RIAT. Neither show has yet confirmed the tour.
Vulcan needs £580k repairs to stay airworthy from OneRiot.com
In what is becoming an annual event, the Vulcan to the Sky Trust have launched... Vulcan XH558 airworthy in time for this years airshow circuit.
F-111s in aerobatic display - Ipswich Queensland Times
Squadron Leader Phil Parsons and Flight Lieutenant Leon Izatt will practise a number of stunts near Amberley as they prepare for the Singapore Air Show at ...
Starfighters Airshow Demonstration Team from FenceCheck Forums
For those who are interested and have the money fo a little ride!
http://www.incredible-adventures.com/starfighter/index.html
John Travolta to present flight award - Boston Herald
Cruise, an accomplished aerobatic pilot, owns a P-51 Mustang and inspired generations of moviegoers with his work in "Top Gun," the highest-grossing ...
Aviation history fans in SFO: Mark your calendar for Feb 4 from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
WHAT: The San Francisco Premiere of "The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club" | WHEN: Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 6:00pm | WHERE: ...
Restoring a classic: Portage businessman turns around vintage aircraft manufacturer - West Michigan Business
Peter Bowers brought more than new investment to a struggling aircraft manufacturer two years ago.
The former executive with a Portage aluminum extrusion company made the job of running WACO Classic Aircraft Corp. a full-time endeavor.
"You have to be here every day and you have to be hands-on," Bowers said.
Bowers said the former owner ran the company from Connecticut.
"He would come in for one day every other week," Bowers said of the former owner. "You can't run a business like this on an absentee basis. When things start to fall apart operationally, they fall apart financially."
Bowers, formerly vice president of Bowers Manufacturing Co. of Portage, said he invested in new equipment and tools, but has no plans to change much else at WACO ...
NB-36H in color from The Unwanted Blog
The oddest of the B-36 variants to fly was the nuclear reactor equipped NB-36H. As part of the effort to develop a nuclear powered aircraft, a single B-36 was heavily modified… an all-new lead-lined cockpit was added up front and a reactor further aft. The plexiglass "blisters" at the rear were removed, and the holes used to exhaust cooling air. The reactor itself did not power anything; all power came from the aircrafts conventional engines. The goal was simply to see what effect the nuclear radiation would have on the aircraft, and whether or not the crew and machinery could take it.
Curtiss P-36 (Mohawk) Hawk from Warbirds Online
The Curtiss P-36 Hawk, also known as the Curtiss Hawk Model 75, was a U.S.-built fighter aircraft of the 1930s. A contemporary of the Hawker Hurricane and Messerschmitt Bf 109, it was one of the first ...
British Phantom FG.1 from Warbirds Online
The United Kingdom bought versions of the McDonnell-Douglas Phantom based on the USN F-4J for use with the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. The main differences were the use of the British Rolls-Royce Spey engines and of British-made avionics. The RN and RAF versions were given ...
The True Story of BAT 21 BRAVO from The Fabricator
One of my favorite aviation-related moves is BAT 21. It's about a 53 year old colonel that is the only survivor of an EB-66 ECM aircraft that was shot down over North Viet Nam. The colonel is guided to safety by a loyal forward air controller who ends up crashing and being rescued along with the colonel. It's a great movie. However, the REAL story is even better. You can read about it here: http://www.vnafmamn.com/bat21.html
Footage for movie "Dive Bomber", 1941 from Warbirds Online
Old color shots of rare US Navy aircraft aboard USS Enterprise and around the San Diego area. Filmed for the 1941 movie "Dive Bomber". Scarce aircraft such as the Douglas TBD-1 Devastator, Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver and the Vought SB2U Vindicator are shown. It was during the filming that the US Navy was changing the paint schemes on aircraft from the colorful pre-war to the overall gray. Several planes were kept in the old patterns while the movie was filmed. Aircraft in the movie were clearly from USS Saratoga (Air Group 3) and from USS Enterprise (Air Group 6)….a very nice view of the Grumman F3F biplane fighter 6-F-4….. The best parts of the movie were just the aircraft shots. Video clips assembled by Greg Clarke.
Airshows of the Past : The Shepway Festival Airshow by Flightline UK
The 1990's were a golden era for airshows. As today, they were extremely popular and coastal resorts were starting to recognise the value of the airshow to their summer tourist season. 1990 was a particular highpoint with the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain proving a popular theme ...
DVD Review: Kemble Air Show 2009 by Flightline UK
... The only onboard footage (and the interactive section) features Neil MacCarthy's Jet Provost T3. The angle used inthis production is much better than that of the Abingdon footage and a real pilots eye view of the displays (and a Garmin GPS!) As ever, this is a good record of the day ...
Space tourism: the WhiteKnightTwo stole - Portal to the Universe from OneRiot.com
The aircraft carrier Virgin Galactic, which will carry the... has just made its first public flight at the airshow in Oshkosh, the United States.
No spaceships at Oklahoma's spaceport but they are welcome - NewsOK.com
A swath of gray concrete, nearly three miles long and double the width of a normal runway, the landing strip seems to stretch into oblivion.
It's the Oklahoma Spaceport's No. 1 asset.
The ramp alone is made of 96 acres of concrete — large enough to accommodate 42 parked Boeing 747s. The runway was constructed to allow a pack of B-52 bombers, each loaded with nuclear weapons and a full tank of fuel, to take to the skies in formation.
But some have more modern plans ...
Formation flight Sunday from Planeshots
sunday fantasy #205 from x planes
It has to be Russian… Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 from Warbirds Online
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