Air show attendance numbers soar - Santa Maria Times | About 8500 people attended this year's Thunder Over the Valley air show at the Santa Maria Public Airport, according to the event organizer. ...
California Capital Airshow Promises Exhilarating Performances ... by Michelle Ventress | Performers for the 2010 California Capital Airshow include F-22 Raptors, a 40 foot tall mechanical dinosaur called Robosaurs, Smoke N Thunder Jet Car and many more. Also featured will be government and military displays for the Patriot ...
SwiftFuel to power Richard 'Smokey' Young's attempt at airspeed ... by Janice Wood - Richard "Smokey" Young will use an unleaded, high-octane biofuel developed by Swift Enterprises a during his attempt to establish a new 100-kilometer closed course speed record on Sept. 11. Young will power his No. 3 Western Air Racing ...
National Aviation Heritage Invitational Hosts Rare Restored Aircraft from Aero-News Network | Program Adding Large Aircraft Category In Its 12th Year The National Aviation Heritage Invitational, LLC, held in conjunction with the National Championship Air Races, gives aircraft owners and restorers the opportunity to bring their brilliantly restored aircraft to the high desert of northern Nevada…
Pentagon Chooses Two Companies to Build Flying Humvee from Aviation Blogs by Av8tor| DARPA Will this be the U.S. military's first flying car? The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected two companies to proceed with the next stage of its Transformer, known as TX—a fully automated four-person vehicle that can drive like a car and then take off and fly like an aircraft to avoid roadside bombs…
Luxury Jet Repo Man from Aviation Blogs by Av8tor | 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. "There's always danger because you never know who you're dealing with," said Popovich, a burly guy with both an intimidating grimace and a boyish smile. This fall, his dangerous lifestyle will be the focus of a new reality TV show based on his company's exploits around the world. The entertaining and educational show — with a working title of "Airplane Repo" — premieres on the Discovery Channel after years in the works…
Movie One: My Own Little High-Speed Taxi Test from AcroCamp by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper) Hey! Who's that guy in the black Ford Escape out there on the taxiway? Is he authorized? Is he talking to ground control? As a matter of fact, he is! …
Russian Jet Stranded In Michigan Brings Cold War Memories from Aero-News Network | Ilyushin IL-78 Has Sat At Sawyer International For 13 Months, And Will Be There A Little Longer A Russian military jet being delivered to Pakistan where it was to be used for training wound up stranded in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for 13 months, and while locals say they'll be happy to see it leave soon, it's not going anywhere for a while…
Wayne Newton — Park My Jet On My Lawn from Aviation Blogs by Av8tor | Wayne Newton has finally relocated the $2 million private jet he had previously abandoned at a Detroit airport three years ago … and it's now right in his own backyard — literally…
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WWII aircraft create a buzz at Chesco airport - Philadelphia Inquirer | Three antique warplanes - a B-17 Flying Fortress, a P-51 Mustang and the tall, ungainly B-24 - had floated down from a clear, limitless sky to spend three ...
Traveling WWII B-17 honors veterans - KCBD-TV | The Liberty Foundation is a non-profit organization and they say they are dedicated to preserving the aviation heritage of WWII, the single greatest ...
World War II fliers remember - Rexburg Standard Journal | Although time has reduced the size of the original crew, three of fliers, their wives and some other family members got together at the Legacy Flight Museum ...
Flying museum celebrates WWII veterans who accomplished the extraordinary - Philadelphia Inquirer | Three antique warplanes - a B-17 Flying Fortress, a P-51 Mustang, and the tall, ungainly B-24 - had floated down from a clear, limitless sky to spend three ...
A "Sentimental Journey" Takes Flight in Morgantown - WBOY-TV | The all-volunteer Commemorative Air Force flies the Sentimental Journey around the country to help future generations understand the sacrifices of our ...
The P-47 during the WWII -Video- from Military Photos by Santana | An Excellent video of the P-47 during the WWII over the skies of Europe | A video from 362nd group of the Army Corps Aviation during the WWII. They were based in Etaine, France and they fly the amazing P-47 Thunderbolt. An extreme fighter and a perfect killing machine. The P-47 won the air supremacy during the WWII over the European Skies…
Video: Swiss Pulse Jet Team: These Guys Are Crazy - I Love It! by Martt | You'll be tempted to stop watching this video at about 20 seconds, and if you do keep watching, you'll probably be thinking there's a lot of drama going on with the guys in the pink shirts thru the first minute... but if you're smart and you stick with it, you'll see at 1:30 what it's all about. Holy kick-in-the-pants Batman, that's one high powered RC model!...
Gulfstream Claims "Fastest Civil Aircraft" Title For G650 from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Gulfstream's new G650 recently reached Mach 0.995 on a test flight, which the company says establishes the business jet as the world's fastest civil aircraft. That title that has long been held by Cessna's Citation X, which flies at Mach 0.92. Gulfstream said the G650 achieved the maximum speed during flutter testing, when the test crew took Serial Number 6001 into a dive, pitching the nose 16 to 18 degrees below the horizon. During the dive, flutter exciters introduced a range of vibration frequencies to the wing, tail and flight control surfaces to ensure the aircraft naturally dampened out the oscillations without input from the pilots. "The airplane is very predictable," said test pilot Tom Horne. "It's very easy to control and to get precise control at those speeds."…
X PRIZE Foundation, the Government of India and IIT Delhi Announce Partnership ... - Marketwire | In 2004, the Foundation captured world headlines when Burt Rutan, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, built and flew the world's first private ...
Armadillo & Masten Gain NASA $upport from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) Commercial space companies Armadillo Aerospace of Texas and Masten Space Systems of California have been awarded nearly one-half million dollars to perform test flights of their experimental vehicles near the edge of space. The award is part of NASA's Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program (CRuSR), which seeks to develop commercial reusable transportation to near space for frequent, low-cost trips to near-space for small payloads…-For the latest News @ Full Throttle and additional features visit www.IndyTransponder.com
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