EAA AirVenture To Kick Off Monday - WISN Milwaukee
Other highlights of this year's aviation festival will include anniversary celebrations for the Boeing B-17 and the Douglas DC-3, musical acts, ...
... NFL Hall of Fame running back Thurman Thomas, actor Treat Williams, actor Cliff Robertson, composer James Horner and country singer Aaron Tippin. ...
SubSonex Jet Prototype Ready to Resume Testing from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
Oshkosh WI- The SubSonex single-place jet aircraft is ready to resume testing after EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2010. Following a series of initial high-speed taxi tests, the Sonex Aircraft Hornets' Nest Research and Development team determined that a review and modification of the aircraft design was necessary to achieve acceptable handling qualities for the average pilot. Due to the increased power offered by the new ...
Chipmunk Adventure Video Update from WarbirdRadio.com
WARBIRD RADIO – Matt Jolley sent over this video update from Driggs, ID. Be sure and check out the story and pictures in the features section. Matt promises more video and pics tomorrow. Stay tuned…
Blue Angels make thunder above Idaho Falls - Rexburg Standard Journal
Standard Journal/Joseph Law Seen here in a four-jet formation, the Blue Angels practice runs garnered a lot of attention on the ground Thursday in Idaho ...
Air show flies high once again - Eden Prairie News
Bombers include the twin-engine B-25 “Miss Mitchell” and the B-17 Flying Fortress “Yankee Lady.” “To me, it's history,” said Brigitte Vanegas, ...
Air show flies into Follies (w/ video, gallery, fact box) - TheNewsTribune.com
John Klatt makes his aerobatic plane zoom like a toy in a child's hand. Again and again, he rotates the blue and white Air National Guard plane through the ...
ASBTV: ASB.tv's Rob Reider announces his 100th show! He's in Peoria, IL for the Prairie Air Show this weekend. from Twitter / ASBTV
Photos: Team Oracle's Challenger III Gears Up for Oshkosh from AVwebFlash Current Issue
Click for more photosNext week at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Sean Tucker and Team Oracle will wow the crowds and show off their brand-new Challenger III. Team Oracle's Brian Norris shared some of the biplane's unique aerodynamic features with AVweb's Mary Grady, who brought home a few photos. Click through for the photos and click here to listen to the podcast.
Whitby Regatta offers plenty to do for families - The Caravan Club
Some of the main highlights include rowing, yacht and raft races, as well as a number of display events from the Army, Navy, RAF and Red Arrows. ...
B-17 Flying Fortress at the Dane County Regional Airport-Madison, WI - AMTOnline.com
... will fly into Dane County Regional Airport-Truax Field, offering the public an up-close and personal look at this unique piece of aviation history. ...
from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
NEW from the Chicken Wings gang: We're sure everybody has a few friends that seem to do nothing but receive and forward fun emails all day. It took us amazingly long, but it finally dawned on us, that we should create something like that too. And so, ladies and gentlemen, without much further ado, please let us get right to the point, we proudly present: ...
A Father's Day gift to remember - Austin Daily Herald
Nordin, the 79-year-old captain of the Spamtown Belle and a retired Navy veteran, boarded the classic World War II bomber for the flight of a lifetime, an opportunity provided to him by his four children for Father’s Day.
Amelia Earhart: Hawaii celebrates the great aviator - San Francisco Chronicle
On July 24, 2010 — Earhart's 113th birthday — an exhibition of 65 recently discovered or little-seen photographs of the aviator's time in Hawai'i will go ...
A new photo exhibit captures the spirit and style of an iconic aviator Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Still, when Krantz pulled out a file from a dusty box labeled with the aviatrix's name, she was "blown away" by the pictures -- large-format negatives ...
July 22, 2010, marks the 77th anniversary of Wiley Post’s 1933 solo flight around the world in the Lockheed 5C Vega Winnie Mae. This record-breaking flight demonstrated several significant aviation technologies. It used two relatively new aeronautical devices—an autopilot and a radio direction finder. The autopilot corrected for errors in aeronautical bearing, keeping the aircraft on course. The radio direction finder helped Post navigate the aircraft toward specific radio transmitters along the route. ...
Barnstorming in the Blood - Air & Space Magazine
The best place to watch John Mohr fly his Stearman would have been up against the airshow fence, where I could have heard the crowd’s gasps when the airplane, which had disappeared behind trees, suddenly reappeared in a vertical climb.
Instead, I was taxiing across the ramp because my performance was after his, but I did put on the brakes when an excruciatingly slow roll near the ground caused his engine to quit and flames to shoot out of his exhaust stack and down the side of his fabric fuselage. Even though I knew it was all part of the act, I still held my breath. ...
Sightings: Water Striders - Air & Space Magazine
”You can liken the scenario to skipping a stone on water, or a barefoot water skier,” says South African photographer Frans Dely. “The water compresses and becomes as solid as concrete.” This is how Scully Levin, one of South Africa’s top show pilots, makes his AT-6 Harvard walk on water. Levin first did the trick in the lead airplane of the Flying Lions aerobatic team on a lake near Johannesburg in February 2006. ...
July 22 from Cut and Paste Aviation
Bob Bowman's East Texas - Tri County Leader
And speaking of pastures, long-time reader Ray Jayroe called me recently to tell me about a day in the l940s when the pilot of a B-17 plane ran out of gas ...
Grissom personnel to be featured at Indians baseball game from Grissom Air Reserve Base
Representatives from Grissom ARB and the 434th Air Refueling will be will prominently featured at tonight' s Indianapolis Indians minor league baseball game at Victory Field in Indianapolis.
Col. Tim Cox, 434th ARW Vice commander, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch and Master Sgt. Trudy Burnett will sing the national anthem. The base Honor Guard will present the colors and various displays at the stadium will highlight the Air Force Reserve Command.
Check the Grissom web site in upcoming days for photos and highlights of the event. ...
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