Outside the office, tour guides here at Bowman Field (KLOU), presumably next door from Louisville Executive Aviation, one of the FBOs at the airport, or perhaps leaders from the local Civil Air Patrol, led a group of children around the tie-down area behind our building. Just after lunchtime today, they strolled through the line adjacent to one of the runways, looking at various aircraft on the field, mostly pistons, a couple Citations probably and a European trainer-fighter jet. The tour was fitting, as today is National Aviation Day. ...
It's National Aviation Day! from Diamond Pilots
National Aviation Day is celebrated on August 19 every year, which is Orville Wright's birthday (the pilot of "Flyer" on that first day of flight). This holiday is to recognize and remember the birth of flight. There are many ways to celebrate for all ages.
National Aviation Day celebration Saturday at Chennault Museum - Monroe News Star
Mayor Jamie Mayo and the Monroe City Council join Monroe Regional Airport and Chennault Aviation & Military Museum in inviting the public to National ...
Video: Man's Early Quest to Fly - National Aviation Day from The Kathryn Report
Early attempts to create a machine that could fly were noble, but not always successful. We laugh at these trial and error endeavors now, but these inventors and aviators are the forerunners of our modern space age. Thank God for the courage and endeavors of our civilians and our military to keep on trying.
Lindbergh Day | Atlanta, GA | October 12, 1927 from The Mach 1 Blog
Town's 1910 air show: The first man to die in flight? - BBC News
As the Bournemouth Air Festival begins in what is the town's 200th year, 100 years ago another major air show was organised in Bournemouth. ...
The mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in July 1937 during her around-the-world flight attempt persists to the present day, and is especially alive and well on the Internet. If you were to Google the term “Amelia Earhart Disappearance,” for example, the list of hits would be about 1,950,000 items! Some websites, too numerous to mention, are filled with crank conspiratorial ideas. One, for example, ...
August 19 from Cut and Paste Aviation
2010 Atlantic City Air Show: 100 Years of Thunder
Atlantic City Weekly
This year's Atlantic City Air Show - Thunder Over the Boardwalk celebrates the 100th year of air shows in New Jersey.
The Atlantic City Air Show is easily the biggest event in Atlantic City each year and the biggest mid-week air show of its kind in the world. If the 2010 Thunder Over the Boardwalk matches last year’s estimated attendance, 750,000 people will be packed along the beach and boardwalk and at special viewing parties.
Not only is the 2010 Air Show a tribute to the modern era of military and civilian aviation, but this year’s event also marks the 100th anniversary of air shows in Atlantic City and the state of New Jersey. ...
Aerobatic Demonstration Previews Air Show - WEPM
The Thunder Over the Blue Ridge Air Show won’t be here until Labor Day Weekend but there was a sneak peak Thursday at the Eastern Regional Airport. Representatives from the 167th Airlift Wing and the United Way of the Eastern Panhandle, who have partnered for the event, welcomed aerobatic pilots and performers in the upcoming Martinsburg Air Show Admiral Bill Finagin and local charter pilot Jerry Wells. Inclement weather outside of Pennsylvania delayed Wells but Finagin arrived from Maryland early enough to perform a few tricks and even take a local business man Woody Fletcher out for a ride. Finagin has participated in the Martinsburg Air Show in the past and says people will have to come out on September 4th and 5th to see which stunts he will be performing.
EAA AirVenture A Success Despite Weather from Pacific Flyer
Bringing together more than a half-million attendees and 10,000 aircraft is a daunting task even in the best of years.
Throw in unprecedented rains prior to that event, however, and the challenges heading into EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2010 made it unlike any of the 57 previous EAA fly-ins held before it.
"This was the most challenging fly-in we've had in my 35 years as chairman of the event," said Tom Poberezny, EAA's chairman and president. ...
Fastest Speed Ever at the Reno Races! An interview with Curt Brown ... by warbirdbabe
People are always talking about cars, but the Reno Air Races are a motor sport and we are the fastest and the Jet pilots have to be the fastest. Guy: Do you expect in qualifying that sometime in the next few years, we will see 600 mph? ...
from Autogyro circumnavigation of the globe by The GYROX Team
Norman has arrived back at Laoag following his 2 day sojourn in the Philippine capital of Manila. This followed yet another 10 hour overnight bus journey to the northern end of Luzon Island.
Norman described the trip as...
Australian Skydiver Will Attempt to Break 120,000 Feet Record from Aviation Blogs
Australian skydiver Felix Baumgartner plans to break the 50-year-old altitude record for skydiving later this year by jumping from an altitude of 120,000 feet (almost 23 miles, or about 3.66 kilometers), during which he is expected to reach supersonic speeds, …
Thunder Over Michigan 2010 - Belleville - 08/07/10 from FenceCheck Forums
China National Aviation Corporation exhibit now open from National Museum of the USAF
A new exhibit focused on the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC), a group that served during World War II, opened Aug. 19 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
The First Over the 'Hump:' The China National Aviation Corporation exhibit is located in the museum's Air Power Gallery. It tells the story of CNAC's pioneering search for air routes over the Himalaya Mountains between China and India, known in history as the "Hump." CNAC's great success in finding these vital air routes led to the first regular flights over the Himalaya Mountains. Joining with the Air Transport Command, CNAC became a vital partner in the world's first strategic airlift. Between April 1942 and August 1945, CNAC crews are reported to have flown over 38,000 missions transporting 10 percent of all cargo and personnel over the Hump to Allied Forces in China, Burma and India. ...
The 727 that Vanished - Air and Space Magazine
A case pursued by the FBI, the CIA, the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security, CENTCOM, and the sister of Ben Padilla.
Seven years after her brother disappeared from Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport in Angola, Benita Padilla-Kirkland is trying to persuade the FBI to re-open his case. She believes she has the “new information” agents told her they require. But she suspects that the agency already has more information than agents will admit to.
Snohomish man's youthful dream may have set a record - HeraldNet
SNOHOMISH -- The idea came while he was working on a class assignment.
Arnold Ebneter wrote about a small plane that broke a distance record while he was studying engineering at Texas A&M during the 1950s. After he finished the paper, he wanted to break that record.
"I told myself that one day I would like to build a similar thing," said Ebneter, now 82.
However, after he graduated, he enlisted in the Air Force and had to refine his design while collecting new materials to build his plane from scratch. ...
O.K., right up front, I am really tempted to crack jokes about Aeroscraft's ML866 Blimp being touted as a "Flying Business Center" because it's really, really easy to crack jokes about blimps. They look funny, they fly too slow, and they are a handful in a crosswind. ...
Why You Should Learn To Fly from Let's Go Flying
When most people think about learning to fly they envision freedom in flight but there are some other reasons why you should learn how to fly. There is a social fabric to this industry if you are an amateur or a professional. In addition to flying with friends and colleagues there are many advantages to flying. ...
AF Photos page
Michael de Boer from FenceCheck Forums
Bursting in air from AF.mil Photos | The Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron "Thunderbirds" perform the high bomb burst maneuver Aug. 14, 2010, during the Abbotsford International Air Show in British Columbia.
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