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Tucker's New Ride from Blue Side Up by wilko | The Challenger III After 24,00 hours and 30 years flying aerobatics in air shows  you would think Sean Tucker has learned everything there is to know. He's world famous, an honorary Thunderbird and Blue Angel who is the only civilian pilot who has ever been authorized to and fly in close formation with both demonstration…

Cape Girardeau Regional Air Show Highlights - Blue Angels, Warbirds and Aerobatic Champions from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo

St. Louis Airshow to Feature Aeroshell, Younkin Twin Beech and Nalls Harrier!  from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | The Fair St. Louis Airshow resumes this year after being on hold since 2005.  Some of the scheduled performers include Aeroshell, Matt Younkin in his Twin Beech and Art Nalls' civil Sea Harrier.  The aircraft will be based at St. Louis Downtown Airport, which will have an open house during this weekend also.  Stay tuned for additional details…

Yes! The visitors guide has it right - Southeast Missourian | After viewing the fantastic air show, complete with the Blue Angels on Saturday, we decided to have a look at the "Missouri Wall of Fame" mural on the ...

Warren Central Grad Keeps "Blue Angels" Flying – WBKO | TJ Coots is a Warren Central grad who helps keep the Blue Angels in the air. "Yeah, we had a few maintenance issues with the number 3 jet," said Coots, ...

Warbirds and Airshows - Urbana 2010 B-25 Gathering from http://www.warbirdsandairshows.com/ Urbana, OH B-25 Gathering, April 15-16, 2010 -  Seventeen B-25s gathered at Urbana, OH to participate in the mass fly over at the US Air Force Museum in Dayton on April 18 in honor of the Doolittle Reunion at that location…

Warbirds and Airshows - Doolittle Reunion B-25 Fly-Over 2010 from http://www.warbirdsandairshows.com/ his was probably the last time we will see these many B-25s together in once place at one time.  Larry Kelly, owner of Panchito, organized the gathering of 17 Mitchell bombers for this special occasion when 4 of the 7 surviving Doolittle Raiders got together for what also may be the last time.  What a task.  Larry was able to get many of the B-25s to come for fuel or partial fuel just be be part of this historic event…

Female pilots stop for air race - Parkersburg News | Women's air racing started in 1929 with the First Women's Air Derby. Twenty pilots raced from Santa Monica, Calif., to Cleveland, Ohio, site of the National ...

The Heroes of Waycross  from Warrior Women take on the Air Race Classic 2010 by warriorwomen2010 | I don't even know where to begin except to say that we have met some amazing people here in Waycross, GA.  As one of two teams seemingly stranded after the first leg, we look to leave GA knowing we will truly miss the people we've met here.  I mean, seriously, where else do you get an ambulance to come and service your sick airplane?  Here in Waycross, if your plane is sick, they call the local EMT!  We now consider Barb and Maureen to be our sister team – Classic #37 – and were thrilled when they were able to venture off by mid afternoon.  We wished them well and watched them fly away. (If you look at the picture below… I only caught the tail of their plane as they did the fly by to continue.)  Go Cherokee Chicks!!!!...

Tuckered out!   from Warrior Women take on the Air Race Classic 2010 by warriorwomen2010 | Thank you all for following along… we appreciate it.  I hope you'll forgive me but today has been a long day and we have to power through tomorrow.  We promise to give you plenty of stories and pictures about our adventures – but we still have work to do and need our beauty sleep! We made it to Carbondale-Murphysboro, IL today!  3 legs to go…we need to make the fly by run in Frederick by 5pm…

Race day 3  from Snow Eagles Air Racing Team by snoweaglesracingteam | After sitting all day looking at weather charts, we decided to not go onto Frederick,and will make both legs tomorrow. So it's time to get caught up on the blog. Last night, we hung out with several other Bonanza Beech team's. We had a tornado warning. Today, Sara and I caught a movie, saw Knight and Day, and ate at Texas Roadhouse for the first time. This trip was alot of first for the teams. Took Sara and Suzanne to Cheeseburgers in Paradise, where I had a yummy non-alcoholic strawberry daq.

Day 3  from Team Charley | We began day 3 of the air race in Elkhart, IN. That proved to be our toughest airport. On our fly-by into Elkhart, the stop watch flew across the cockpit, so we were unable to determine our unofficial ground speed from Carbondale to Elkhart. We spent the night in Elkhart with storms approaching from Chicago with 80 mph winds. We tied Charley down good and she weathered the storm. Were out at the airport by 8am today. The ceilings were low in both Elkhart and Parkersburg, WV, our 7th stop. We decided to wait out the weather and finally departed Elkhart at around 2pm with assurances from the weather briefer that we would have a good tailwind if we left right away…

Women Soar You Soar Reaching New Heights from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | This year's Women Soar You Soar program, now in its sixth year, is shaping up to be one of the best thanks to the number of quality applications pouring in from young women and the generosity shown through scholarship contributions...

Commemorative Air Force Aircraft Supporting EAA AirVenture 2010's Salute to Veterans from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | Commemorative Air Force Units from throughout the U.S. are lending their support to EAA AirVenture's "Salute to Veterans" with more than a dozen legendary aircraft that will be part of the air shows and ground displays in the warbird area…

Best of day 4: Busy, busy, busy in Houston from Flying Across America | This post is  a summary of today's flight that took us from Baton Rouge (KBTR) to Houston Hobby Airport (KHOU). Once again we decided to start early in the morning to avoid convective weather and once again the weather radar reports were showing serious weather already at 6am. Most of the route was clear but the Houston area was packed with thunderstorms. We departed Baton Rouge at 8am and flew our south-westerly heading towards Houston…

WWII HONOR FLIGHT AT EAA AIRVENTURE 2010 WILL BRING VETERANS TO MEMORIALS IN D.C.  EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. - (June 24, 2010) - EAA, American Airlines, and the Honor Flight Network have joined together to give World War II veterans the opportunity to visit the powerful memorials dedicated in their honor with an Old Glory Honor Flight departing from EAA AirVenture 2010…

Stoere Meiden - Airshow Breitner stuntteam - vliegveld Midden-Zeeland mei 2010 Airshow Breitner stuntteam - vliegveld Midden-Zeeland mei 2010 This video...

'H' visits RAF Sturgate 20-6-2010 from Gary Watson's Posts - Stick and Rudder | Shots of RAF Sturgate, which were seen by myself and 'H' on the way home from Wickenby on 20-6-2010. Hard to believe that this base was operational to USAF F-84s once upon a time. 'H' saw them there, lucky bloke. Nice welcome, at the flying club, where they have a museum in the tower, showing Sturgates past, and are 'proud' to tell this airfields story. On the Help !! forum on this site, I and them 'appeal' for any shots of F-84s based at Sturgate, should anyone know of any existing shots…

Longest air cargo ever carried makes landing from Alternative Energy Newswire | A record-breaking journey has ended safely. The largest airplane in the world, a 175-ton Russian cargo carrier (the Antonov 225), transported two prototype wind turbine blades from China to Denmark. The 42-m GloBlades, headed for LM Wind Power's technology center in Lunderskov, are the longest cargo ever transported by air. The Antonov 225 has six ZMKB Progress Lotarev D-18T turbofans, each producing 51,590 lb of thrust. China's demand for new energy sources has put pressure on wind industry players to quickly respond. LM Wind Power, a turbine component supplying company, now ships blades into Denmark for testing. Engineers put the blades through conditions resembling the full forces of nature, while simulating 20 years of operation. The cargo area of the Antonov 225 is 141-ft long, 21-ft wide, and 14-ft, 5-1/4 in. tall, enough to accomodate the two turbine blades. "The new blade design will help wind farm developers create clean electricity in lower-wind areas for turbines at 1.5 to 1.7 MW," says Frank V. Nielsen, chief technology officer.  LM Wind Power's worked with Geodis Wilson, freight management contractors, to transport the blades 4,650 miles (7480 km) from Tianjin, China to Lunderskov, Denmark in 12 hours. LM Wind Power lmwindpower.com

Aviation and space museums that inspire - Well-Mannered Traveler- msnbc.com - Source: www.msnbc.msn.com | Looking for some inspiration for your own innovative airplane design? There are hundreds of aviation and space museums around the country. Here are six to put at the top of your list. HA! They mentioned my plane with a pool design on MSNBC, how cool is that?

Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago - As the Second World War began to wind down, renowed British aircraft designer Barnes Wallis started investigating the challenges of supersonic flight and concluded early on that a variable geometry swing wing was the best way to accommodate the center of gravity changes in moving between the subsonic and supersonic regimes. In 1946 he wrote an engineering paper entitled "The Application of the Aerodynamic Properties to the Stabilisation and Control of Aerodynes" (quite a mouthful) in which he combined his ideas on swing wings with laminar flow studies…