Trevor Roy Flies With The Thunderbirds - Northland's NewsCenter | By KBJR News 1 The Thunderbirds are not your average pilots, these men and women perform feats of aerial acrobatics that that draw cheers from crowds across ...
Mayor Fuhriman Declares Blue Angels Week In Idaho Falls - LocalNews8.com | Monday kicks off a very exciting week in Idaho Falls as the US Navy's Blue Angels fly into town. City leaders are calling Monday the beginning of the best ...
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#FARN10: Flightblogger & Runway Girl wrap up Day 1 from Runway Girl by Mary Kirby
Small Fry Takes to the Sky:How Young is Too Young to Fly? How Old Do I Have to Be to Solo an Airplane and How Old to Get My Private Pilot Certificate? from Ask My Sky Mom by myskymom | Hi!, I'm 12 years old and I want to be a pilot badder than anything. I heard you have to be 17 to pilot a plane and I heard you have to be 16 so which is it? And can I fly some before that or is it a thing where there's no flying at all til the age you can do it? I want to be a pilot so much I can't wait to get that old so I really hope it's 16!, Thanks, Watchin' the Planes and Counting the Days…
Navy Week Goes to the Twin Cities! - US Navy SEALs Blog & Information | The Leap Frogs will once again show their stuff and jump into the stadium, while the Navy Honor Guard will present the colors…
Aviation Heritage Day draws 10000 - Danville News | "Judging by the interest showed on Saturday, it's pretty clear that people have a great interest in military aviation history. The area needs a full-blown ...
A Pilot Takes To The Air Again In His Old Bomber - Hartford Courant | It was heavily damaged in 1979 when a tornado hit Windsor Locks and the New England Air Museum. The Liberty Foundation subsequently took possession of the ...
Purdue Set To Take Delivery Of New Fleet Of Cirrus Aircraft from Aero-News Network | Deal Will Be Finalized At AirVenture Purdue University's aviation technology program will provide its students with a new, more modern fleet when it takes delivery of a representative Cirrus aircraft at 1300 Thursday, July 29th at AirVenture…
Is Airbus showing us an A320/B737 replacement? from Plane Talking by Ben Sandilands | Overview of the Airbus Concept Plane - What is Airbus really showing us with its Concept Plane, revealed at the Farnborough Air Show? This is what it's executive vice president engineering, Charles Champion says it is: The Airbus Concept Plane represents an engineer's dream about what an aircraft could look like in the long term future. It's not a real aircraft and all the technologies it features, though feasible, are not likely to come together in the same manner. Here we are stretching our imagination and thinking beyond our usual boundaries.Gone West: Captain Clyde 'Frank' Lang from Aero-News Network | Long-Time Commercial Pilot Also Flew Covert Ops For The U.S. Government Considered by some to be one of aviation's most colorful pilots, Captain Clyde "Frank" Lang, passed away July 10 in Houston, Texas, after a brief illness. Lang, who grew up in west central Illinois and had a home in Tucson, Arizona, was 87…
FlightPodcast is Live! from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | FlightPodcast, episode one, with Eric Moody is up and running! Log on, check it out, and let us know what you think! The first of many..... FlightPodcast
Todd Trainor's Aeronca K Seaplane from Antique Airfield News | Todd Trainor in Brighton, MI sent us these pictures of the favorite restorer pastime, only this time with a twist: "To the best of my research it appears that only 13 Aeronca K seaplanes (KS) were built in 1937 and 1938. And I believe I own the last remaining KS airplanes in the world…TSR-2
from The Unwanted Blog | The TSR-2 is a cautionary tale. Or perhaps just the tail end of a larger cautionary tale. From World War II through the 1950's, the British aerospace industry was second to none. Their planes were top of the line, ugly as hell and gave the Russian military the cold sweats. Their industry was forward thinking, stuck liquid fueled rocket engines on airplanes just for giggles, produced a seemingly endless stream of quality products with terrible names and called no man Mister…
Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago - One of the holy grails of aerospace technology not yet achieved has been true reusable single stage-to-orbit (SSTO) capability- a launch vehicle that is fully reusable and completely able to reach orbit in a single structure and return to Earth for reuse. No hardware or components would be shed on the ascent (or descent, for that matter). Some approaches to SSTO have looked at air-breathing vehicles while the other approaches using rocket power face the challenge of having a high enough propellant to mass ratio to reach orbit while still carrying a useful payload…
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