Monday, August 30, 2010

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Air Show Wraps Up In Portsmouth - WMUR Manchester
PORTSMOUTH, NH -- The Boston-Portsmouth Air Show wrapped up at about 5 pm Sunday after a weekend of high-flying aerobatics. While many visitors said that ...

Offutt Air show 2010 enjoys big success - eWorld Post
Offutt Air Show will feature this year besides F-16 Thunderbirds an F-22 Raptor, the top figher jet from Air Forces which can reach twice the speed of sound ...

The festival is in full swing at airshow Marce - Ouest France
The Patrouille de France was led by Commander Virginie Guyot, who was born in Angers. 2800 spectators yesterday, now expected 7000 ...

High-flying tradition returns Labor Day weekend - Hudson Hub-Times
Photo courtesy of the Cleveland National Air Show; The US Navy Blue Angels headlines this year's Cleveland National Air Show. The Cleveland National Air ...
   
Bela Szandelszky/AP - msnbc.com
Sean Tucker flies his Oracle Challenger bi-plane inverted over US Marine Corps Major Nathan Miller, flying F/A-18 Blue Angel No. 5, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009, ...

Quick shots: Shockwave likely to return to Byron Dragway - Rockford Register Star
“We're happy,” track co-owner Ron Leek said of the crowd, “considering we are going against Rockford AirFest, and the (hot) weather is far from perfect. ...

AirVenture 2010 tops half-million in attendance - CBS 5 - Green Bay
While July's rains may have dampened the grounds at EAA AirVenture 2010, the figures show that the annual convention is still going strong. ...

A Contraband Camera: Photos Of World War II WASP from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
An article from NPR, from way back in March 2010:
A Contraband Camera: Photos Of World War II WASP by Heidi Glenn
It's hard not to want to ask a million questions as you look through Lillian Yonally's World War II-era color photos of American female pilots in uniform. Female pilots in World War II? Flying bombers? In color? What was their story?
For those who weren't alive then, it can sometimes seem as if World War II took place in black and white — no doubt the result of absorbing countless historical photographs. In contrast, Yonally's color shots, gauzy and toned with primary blues, greens and reds, look as if they were plucked from a daydream. ...
Watching Day 2 Happen from AcroCamp 
I've been spending most of today going through the video from Day 2 of Acro Camp, namely Saturday 15 May. Beautiful sunshine in the morning with high cirrus clouds (much like you see here) that gave way to a high overcast toward the evening. ...

Acro Camp Production Outtakes - Surfing the Pitts Breeze
from AcroCamp 
Here's footage from the Hero cam on the Pitts moments after startup. First Barry, then Steve, then Rod decide to surf the prop blast of the Pitts. This is from Saturday 15 May, Day 2 of flying.

Civil Air Patrol saves 100 lives so far this year from General Aviation News 
Civil Air Patrol reached a major milestone earlier this summer, racking up its 100th save for fiscal 2010 … a year that doesn’t end until Sept. 30. ...

On This Day in Aviation History: August 29th from NYCAviation.com
The US Air Force Academy opens in Colorado, Count von Zeppelin flies from Lake Constance to Berlin, the Canberra B 2 sets an altitude record, a charter flight crashes into a mountain in Norway, and more...

Jet-plane repo man ready for his close-up - Post Tribune
Nick Popovich and his crack crew of specialists have repossessed more than 1,500 luxury jetliners and other high-priced aircraft over the past three decades.
Jumbo jets, commercial airplanes, corporate helicopters, you name it. His Valparaiso-based firm, Sage-Popovich Inc., is the world's largest in the high-stakes yet high-risk recovery of aviation-related equipment.  ...

A Mooney Girl Is Born, Final Chapter from Wheels Up 
Previously, N6619U was down in the mud pond.  I grabbed my headset and started transmitting, “This is Mooney 6619U, we are down. Mooney 6619U we need medical assistance.” And in desperation said, “Dave, can you hear me?” The antenna was buried three feet in the mud. [See A Mooney Girl Is Born, Part 3]
We heard a voice call through the trees “are you okay, do you need help?” and I answered that my father was  ...

John Glenn's "fireflies"
It was the United States' first orbital space flight, the third manned flight of the Mercury program. On February 20, 1962, a massive Atlas rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, propelling John H. Glenn, Jr., into orbit around ...

Aviation Legend Burt Rutan May Retire, Leave Mojave - Associated Content
Reports out of Mojave, Calif. indicate that famed aircraft designer Burt Rutan is looking to retire from the company he founded, Scaled Composites, ...

Six-Year-Old Huntsville Boy Youngest To Receive In-Flight Astronaut Training from Aviation Blogs 
Many young people dream about becoming an astronaut, but now one Tennessee Valley boy has taken his dream one high flying, record breaking step further. Six-year-old Michael Ballance, from Huntsville has been captivated by space ever since he was two …

Pilotcast #078 - Max Trescott and Pilot Gadgets from Pilotcast 

A380 Tires Blow Out And Catch Fire On Landing from Aviation Blogs 
A Qantas Airbus A380 Video camera captured two tires blowing out and catching fire while landing in Sydney.  The passengers were watching the whole thing live right on their tv screens in the cabin.

Formation fight Sunday. from Planeshots (pictured)
Unmaned Formation flight Sunday from Planeshots
Quicksilver (P-51) on take off at WWII Weekend in Reading, PA.  June 2010 from FenceCheck Forums
Mr Hurricane from FenceCheck Forums
F-111 Art from The Unwanted Blog 
Oracle Challenger - FenceCheck
Nanchangs from FenceCheck Forums

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