How do you explain goose bumps in 90-degree weather? Blue Angels.
The team landed today at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport to get in a few days of practice before the weekend shows in the Heroes and Legends Air Festival. ...
• Look up: Air-show planes start arriving ... - Waterloo Record
BRESLAU – Keep an eye on the skies Thursday as planes start arriving for the weekend air show at Waterloo Region International Airport. ...
Planes, Trains and Automobiles coming Saturday - signal.baldwincity.com
On Saturday morning, there will be plenty of classic automobiles, motorcycles and tractors in downtown Baldwin City for the annual Father’s Day weekend event.
Although the event is geared toward fathers, one of the most popular attractions is for children only. McFarlane A - tion and the Vinland Airport, north of Baldwin City, will host one of the Experimental Aircraft Association Young Eagles Programs events. ...
Air show seeks military veteran pilots and support staff - Cherokee Phoenix
Organizers of the annual Will Rogers-Wiley Post Fly-In are searching for veteran military pilots and support staff to take part in this year’s fly-in on Aug. 15.
The fly-in will begin at 8:30 a.m. at Rogers’ Birthplace Ranch in Oologah. In his daily newspaper columns and weekly articles, Rogers often wrote of his flying experiences and was one of the first to promote a United States Air Force, event organizers said. ...
Send Dad Soaring for Father's Day (With Video) - The Kathryn Report
SPRING, Texas - A Houston-area flight school can make any father or husband a pilot for a day.
For less than $150, anyone can take a family of three up, up and away.
FOX 26 Morning News anchor Melissa Wilson visited American Flyers at David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport in Spring to find out how to teach anyone's favorite father to fly.
At American Flyers, a father's aerial journey will begin in a simulator.
Shaun Lutton, a pilot and the director of American Flyers in Houston walked Wilson through the steps. He demonstrated how to control the throttle, how to "roll" the plane from side to side and how to climb and "dive" in a plane. ...
Wings and Wheels – Father Vernon Airshow Day - Travel and Tourism
Father's Day Airshow! Vernon, with two of my favorite activities during an event - planes and cars.
Fancy flight - Denton Record Chronicle
Pilot Ray Kinney will fly this P-40 Warhawk in an aerial acrobatic demonstration at the Denton Airshow on Saturday. “Close air support is the bread and ...
Air show grounded, but Air Force chapter has Flying Tiger - Flying Tiger News
In July 1941, before the United States officially entered World War II, a secret force of volunteer pilots in the Army Air Corps banded together to help China fight the Japanese.
Their mission was covert, so much so that many of the pilots brought their wives and girlfriends to China so no one would suspect their real objective. Known as the Flying Tigers, the pilots helped bring supplies and soldiers into Burma and China during the war.
One of those men, Russell Castaline, will be the featured speaker Friday at ...
AirVenture Presentations Schedule is Now Online - News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
Hundreds of AirVenture presentations, forums, workshops, speakers, programs, and more are now listed on the EAA AirVenture website, allowing users an efficient way to advance plan their visit to Oshkosh next month.
Vintage 1930s Airplanes Added to AirVenture Auction - News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
More and more interesting airplanes continue to be added to EAA's first Spirit of A - tion Aircraft Auction, scheduled for AirVenture Saturday, July 31, at EAA's Jack Mark Hangar just north of Runway 9/27 at Wittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh.
Flying Fearless: 100 years of AC Airshows - Library in Real Life
Check out our new website all about the 100th anniversary of the Atlantic City Airshow! Can you believe that the first airshow was here in 1910? Most people had never seen an airplane and only dreamed that man could fly at that time. ...
Indianapolis Air Show 2010 - Indianapolis - 06/12/10 - Fence Check Forums
Wings of Freedom Tour lands in Seattle - General Aviation News
The Collings Foundation’s Wings of Freedom Tour lands in Seattle at Boeing Field/King County International Airport from June 25-27. The stop, part of a 110-city nationwide tour, includes the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Nine O Nine,” Consolidated B-24 Liberator “Witchcraft,” and P-51 Mustang “Betty Jane”.
The B-17 is one of only nine in flying condition in the United States, the B-24J and Dual Control P-51C Mustang are the sole remaining examples of their type flying in the world, according to officials with the Collings Foundation. Visitors are invited to explore the aircraft inside and out. A $12 donation for adults and $6 donation for children under 12 is requested for access to up-close viewing and tours through the inside of the aircraft. Visitors may also experience the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take a 30-minute flight aboard these rare aircraft. Flights on either the B-17 or B-24 are $425 per person. P-51 flights are $2,200 for a half hour and $3,200 for a full hour.
For more information: 800-568-8924 or CollingsFoundation.org
PE stunt aviator to compete in world aerobatic champs - Weekend Post
The 2010 national champions have been selected to represent South Africa at the World Advanced Aerobatic Championships in Radom, Poland, in August. ...
Team Muroya 31: Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2010 New York
Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2010 New York Report. An unfortunate run of bad luck has forced Team Muroya to drop out of the New York race. After an earlier mishap in Windsor that saw Team Muroya having to hurriedly prepare ...
Peter Besenyei-Red Bull Air Race: Planes grounded for training
- "air race" - Google Blog Search by Team Besenyei-Red Bull Air Race on 6/17/10
Today we have a perfect weather tough-for sailing. High winds from NW blowing in New York, so we have to wait a bit..Next deceison will be made in 2 hours from now. Bejegyezte: Team Besenyei-Red Bull Air Race dátum: 8:59 ...
Don't Miss The New York City's Red Bull Air Race 2010 - Bloginity
The fifth race of the 2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship season will be held, in partnership with NYC & Company, Jersey City, NJ and Liberty State ...
The exhilarating -- and highly dangerous -- sport of air racing - The Bonus - SI.com
Flying through the sky at 210 mph, his airplane careening out of control, the water below approaching rapidly, Adilson Kindlemann was in trouble. ...
VIDEO: Formation Flight with Michael Goulian and Matthias Dolderer - Team Chambliss
The Schneider Trophy Races and the Quest for More and More Speed - Modern British History
When aerial activities resumed after the end of the First World War in 1918, speed and increasing it quickly became the overwhelming preoccupation of air racing in general and the Schneider Races in particular. ...
Women prep for Air Race Classic - AOPA Pilot
The terminus of the Air Race Classic offers the opportunity for competitors and spectators to celebrate in style. It all starts June 25 with ...
'City of Winter Haven' to fly American's skies in race - News Chief
Pilots Michelle Bostick, left, and JoAnne Alcorn at the controls of the Cessna 172 1997 model they will be flying in the 2010 Air Race Classic. ...
Local woman takes to the skies for air race - Hometownlife.com
A primary goal, she said, is to “preserve the unique history of women in aviation.” Women's air racing began in 1929, with the first Women's Air Derby. ...
Charles Dundore, Engineer, 50-Year Resident - Palisadian-PostChuck completed his military service as a crew chief on a B-25 bomber, flying stateside.'He fondly told of flights up the west coast where low passes over ...
Spitfire returns to its wartime airfield - Northumberland GazetteA PIECE of aviation history will be returning to a former Second World War airfield in Northumberland this weekend, more than 65 years after last being ...
YF-22 Raptor Prototype returned to Edwards AFB - Air-Attack.com A prototype YF-22 Raptor fighter plane that was built in Palmdale, Calif., flight tested here, and put on temporary display at the National Museum of the Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, returned to Edwards AFB where it will stay for Air Force Flight Test Center Museum visitors to see.
U-2 Dragon Lady arrives - AF.mil Top Stories
On June 11, 1957, the first U-2 high-altitude, long-range reconnaissance aircraft arrives at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas. Assigned to the 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, the aircraft was in place to fly reconnaissance over Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis a few years later. Built in complete secrecy by Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, the U-2A flew on its first flight in August 1955. ...
June 17 - Cut and Paste Aviation ... 1964 -- The tri-service XC-142A--a vertical takeoff and landing, or VTOL, aircraft--made its roll-out in Dallas.1959 -- The first of the Dassault Mirage IV, the first European supersonic jet bomber, is made in France.This high-performance combat aircraft flies at Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound). ...
USNTPS: EQUAL PARTS BRAINS BALLS - Navy Gold
There is certainly a mystique and sense of elevated experience when you talk about “test pilots”. On a recent adventure to NAS PAX River to document the stable of dissimilar aircraft at the Navy’s Test Pilot School, I learned it takes a special breed of naval a - tor to want to put their life on the line in the pursuit of pushing the envelope. And pushing the envelope is exactly what test pilots are trained to do. All of these images were made from my personal Cessna O-2A Skymaster with Doug Rozendaal at the controls while I sat in the back operating remote still and HD video cameras situated in under-wing camera pods. ...
PICTURES & VIDEO: Virgin Atlantic celebrating 10 years of flying to Las Vegas in burlesque style - Flight Image of the Day Burlesque star Dita Von Teese helped Sir Richard Branson celebrate Virgin Atlantic's 10th anniversary of flying to Las Vegas.
Dita has been immortalised as a one-off Las Vegas-inspired flying lady on the nose of a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400.
Dita and Sir Richard posed for pictures at Las Vegas McCarran Airport yesterday.
See the videos ...
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