Video: Horsemen Aerobatic Team - Why We Love The P-51 Mustang by Martt
I'm pretty excited to be heading down to Indianapolis later today for the start of the Indy Air Show tomorrow. On Saturday and Sunday, the Horsemen Aerobatic Team will be flying 3 authentic WWII P-51's in the airshow, and this video shows why they (and all of us) love the P-51 Mustang so much.
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Plane, motorcycle to race at Indianapolis Air Show - Indianapolis Star
"Survivors from USS Indianapolis always participate in the show," Duncan said. "It's a nice living history, even for kids and adults who didn't grow up with ...
Indianapolis Businessman Selected as Indiana Aviator of the Year
Flight of fancy: A columnist's upside-down view of aerobatics - The Herald-Times
One county over from the site of the Indianapolis Air Show is the mostly neglected, rural birthplace of Wilbur Wright, w . ...
Don't Miss Your Chance To Watch Milwaukee Air Show 2010 This Year - Seven Sided Cube
In this event teams that will be participating are Blue Angels, “Leap Frogs” parachute demonstration team, and Navy bands, Interactive Navy experience ...
Navy's Blue Angels in town creating quite the stir - FOX6Now.com Milwaukee
The Navy's elite Blue Angels are in town and already practicing for their performances at the US Bank Air & Water Show set for this ...
HHS grad returns with airplane for Freedom Fest - Courier-Life
He remembers the 1992 Eau Claire AirFest he attended with his father to see the Thunderbirds as a pivotal moment of his life. “I've always had the dream of ...
Wings Over Gillespie: WWII 66th Anniversary Commemorative Aircraft Display & Airshow from The Kathryn Report
The 15th Annual Wings Over Gillespie, sponsored by Barona Resort & Casino, will commemorate the 66th Anniversary of D-Day with air shows complete with a mock battle and precision formation team and display more than 40 World War II aircrafts including trainer aircraft, fighter planes, military helicopters and more. ...
AcroBlast set for the Cape May County Airport - Shore News Today
AcroBlast is an aerobatic flying competition, not an air show. But spectators are still welcome to view the event at the airport. ...
Idaho Falls Air Show performer line up announced - Idaho State Journal
The air show will be headlined by the US Navy's precision flying team, the Blue Angels. It is scheduled for July 24 and 25 at the Idaho Falls Regional ...
Southend Air Festival gets set to take off - Southend Standard
... a breathtaking display, alongside other sky stunts from the Royal Navy Black Cats helicopters, the Breitling Wingwalkers and the Blades aerobatic team. ...
Young Nice to discover the Patrouille de France - Nice Premium
This Wednesday, June 9, the Patrouille de France in Nice was their training flight over the Bay of Angels. A foretaste of their representation ...
New York Next Stop for Red Bull Air Race Title Battle from Kirby Chambliss
The plot thickened in the 2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship heading into the first-ever stop in New York on June 19/20 when Austria’s Hannes Arch won his third straight race in Windsor to cut Paul Bonhomme’s lead at the top of the standings to just two points — even though the defending champion from Britain took a strong second and got his 11th straight podium. ...
The B-17 Aluminum Overcast Tour - StandardNet
The bomber would actually have control of the aircraft as the pilot would put the B-17 into autopilot before the bombs were released. ...
On the wings of a B-17 - StandardNet
When one of the few still flying B-17 Flying Fortresses landed at Ogden Hinckley Airport recently, former B-17 Ball ...
Serving Those Who Served First - Malakoff News
There will also be the Trojan Phlyers T-28 team, a P-39 fighter, B-25 bombers, and an L-29 fighter jet. The show culminates with Randy Ball in his MiG 17 as ...
Tom Oxendine, war hero, dies - Malinda Maynor Lowery
Thomas Oxendine, the Pembroke native known as “Tom-boy” who would buzz Robeson County in his naval jet and the first American Indian to complete Navy flight school, died Thursday. He was 87.
Oxendine died at his Arlington, Va., due to complications related to his age, according to Joe Oxendine, his brother and the former chancellor of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. ...
Harold E. Shull II, 87 - International Falls Daily Journal
He was a B-17 pilot and worked as a mechanical engineer for ATSR Architectural Firm for 25 years. He was preceded in death by his loving wife of 64 years, ...
B-17 visit provides glimpse into American history - Waxahachie Daily Light
ADDISON, Texas — Although the B-17G Liberty Belle didn't see combat during World War II, its role in educating the public about the events ...
B-29 - All Four Turning from Another Time
Thanks to Brad Pilgrim for the picture of the CAF B-29 "FiFi" running her newly built engines over Memorial Day weekend in Midland, Texas. Now that the engines are installed and running plans are to return to the airshow circuit this summer after being absent for a few years. Hats off to the crews, mechanics and engine builders! Read about the process of returning her to the skies here.
Aviation Day is Saturday at Dominguez Rancho (California) from Diamond Pilots
Dominguez Hills. Aviation Day comes to the Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum on Saturday. The day will feature presentations from the Tuskegee Airmen and legendary aerospace test pilot Bob Gilliland, along with many other displays and activities.
The free event is open to the public from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Rancho's upper and lower grounds. Parking will be in Lots 1 and 2 at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Cost is $5 per car. Air conditioned shuttles will transport people to and from the museum every 15 minutes. Metro Blue Line shuttles are available. There will be no parking at the museum.
For further information, go online to http://dominguezrancho.org.
'Voodoo' Race 5 - Sunday Unlimited Gold final - 9/20/09 from Jason Schillereff on Vimeo.
Community Appreciation Days at Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum - Savannah Morning News
It is the perfect time to come see the progress of the B-17 restoration project. The Museum is restoring its B-17 in honor of the original "City of Savannah ...
Curator's Choice: Battle of Britain Spitfire at the RAF Museum Hendon - Culture 24
"In his own words..." David Keyne of the Royal Air Force Museum Hendon explains the appeal of the Supermarine Spitfire and discusses its role in the Battle of Britain.
Day - 11: Around the clock from Flying Across America
... Tomorrow is my last day at work before a five weeks leave that will be centered on our flight. This will mean more time to work on this project, and bring it to success. There is a lot to do and this is a really good sign. Seeing interest in our project and receiving donations is really motivating and we now enter the final sprint before the flight. Please continue to donate using the yellow buttons on the right hand side, and help us promote and develop General Aviation.
Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago
In aviation, those who dare to dream are either visionaries or insane. The long road of aviation history is filled with dead-end side roads of designs that simply boggle the mind. Those designs aren't just limited to fanciful thinking by eccentrics, either. Lockheed in the late 1960s devoted a surprising amount of effort to one of my favorite designs that most certainly falls into the "YGBSM" category ("You Gotta Be Sh*tting Me"- the unofficial motto of the USAF Wild Weasels, allegedly what was said by the pilots and WSOs who attended the first briefing on what was then a secret project). At the time Lockheed's Skunk Works had been looking at the feasibility of building an ultra-large transport for the US military and heading into the early 1970s the design evovled into the CL-1201 tailless aircraft that would have been for lack of a better description, a flying aircraft carrier. ...
Soaring planes can fly over 700 miles, stay in the air for hours - The Huntsville Times
Now, after winning the 18-meter nationals in 2008 and finishing third in 2009, Elliott is one of only six US pilots selected to fly in the world ...
CAP To Conduct a Nationwide Exercise Soon from Milcom Monitoring Post
According to a post on Mike Marek's Facebook page, the CAP will be conducting a nationwide communications exercise sometime between now and the 4th of July.
According to Marek: "Some time in the next few weeks, before July 4th, we will be conducting a national communications exercise. Of course, we will not announce the exact date ahead of time, but I am writing to advise you of the general scenario, so you can prepare. I told the region DCS-COMMs about this some time back, so hopefully many of you already know the general outline. ...
6/18 Aviation Photography of Ty Greenlees from AviationDayton™ Events
When: Fri Jun 18, 2010 6:30pm to Sat Jun 19, 2010 8pm EDT
Where: Dunbar Library, Wright State University, Fairborn OH
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Dayton Daily News photographer Ty Greenlees will kick off the new Living Legends of the Dayton Daily News Archive Lecture Series. Greenlees is a licensed pilot who teamed with DDN aviation writer Timothy R. Gaffney in 1997 to fly across the United States, photographing and reporting on general aviation. Their exploits resulted in the “Spirit of Flight” newspaper series, which won the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association's Max Karant Award for aviation journalism. Greenlees is ...
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