Cleveland National Air Show - Labor Day Weekend Family Fun - Plain Dealer
This Labor Day weekend the Cleveland National Air Show will be taking place at Burke Lakefront Airport. From 9 am - 5 pm on Saturday, September 4th through ...
The Society is a group of dedicated air racing enthusiasts whose purpose is to preserve the complete and accurate records of air races, race pilots and race planes.
The National Air Races held in Cleveland from 1929 to 1949, represent one of the most significant aviation events of the 20th century. Cleveland's newly constructed Municipal Airport, the world's largest airport at the time, along with its permanent 50,000-seat bleachers, won the city hosting rights to the event. ...
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. ...
Businesses got a big boost from air show - Seacoastonline.com
PORTSMOUTH — Beautiful weather, the unofficial last weekend of the summer and a high-caliber Boston-Portsmouth Air Show created a "perfect ...
Airshow of the Cascades Huge Success - KBND
It started out as a small air show in a farmer's field, and this last weekend the Airshow of the Cascade's conducted it's tenth air show for the public. ...
Photos: Mexico, MO Salute to Veterans Air Show Fair Ground Scenes
from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo
Photos from third annual Trabuco Flyers air show - OCRegister
TRABUCO CANYON – About 100 area residents gathered Saturday at Trabuco Flyers Field for the annual Bob Pierce Memorial Training Event and Air Show. ...
Virginia Aviation News: State gears up for Fall fly-ins and airshows by DOAV
Two days of family fun including pancake breakfast each day, fly-in aircraft, classic and antique cars, youth activities including moon bounce and Young Eagles rides (Saturday only). Berlin Airlift C-54 "Spirit of Freedom" on display ...
Winds trim Offutt air show - Omaha World-Herald
Gusty winds forced a couple of changes at Sunday's air show at Offutt Air Force Base, but crowds still saw an impressive performance. ...
Red Arrows delight thousands at the Eye Show - Norwich Evening News
The RAF aerobatic display team thrilled crowds for yesterday's final day of the charitable show, which attracts around 30000 people to the farmland at ...
Shoreham Airshow bosses "disappointed" by refund requests - The Argus.co.uk
Stunned Shoreham Airshow bosses have revealed scores of people have demanded their money back – because it rained. ...
Popular air show returns to Much Marcle - Ledbury Reporter
HUNDREDS of flight enthusiasts will be heading to Much Marcle this weekend as a popular air show returns after a two-year absence. The Much Marcle Air Show ...
Lessons to be learned from air show, 'Race to the Top' - Shore News Today
Congratulations to everyone involved with the eighth annual Atlantic City Air Show, Thunder Over the Boardwalk, held last Tuesday and Wednesday. ...
A thrilling jet race to claim the air-speed crown - Financial Times
The noisy, aviation-gasoline-soaked power that produces high speeds at events such as the Reno Air Races in Nevada, which this month celebrates 47 years, ...
shoot out in super sport from www.aafo.com
John Sharp is sitting this year out, but the other racers are working frantically to take the title of Fastest Super Sport. Kevin Eldridge in his NXT 'Relentless' is perhaps the favorite, flying behind a modified Lycoming and a new MT prop; but the ...
Air Race - the critical line
In 1931, The Schneider Trophy air race was held over the waters in the snapshot. Advance this video to 2.42 for a clip of the 1929 race, also held here:
The winning plane in 1931, ...
Bob Hoover tells his absurd, incredible story.
I used to see this guy every year at the Reno Air races, met him quite a few times and stood around quietly while my dad the old dudes on the team my dad was pitting for talked incomprehensible shop, but I never really knew his whole ...
WWII aircraft bring back memories - DesMoinesRegister.com
I read an ad in The Des Moines Register announcing the scheduled arrival of a B-17 World War II aircraft named "The Sentimental Journey. ...
Image of the Week: P-51D Mustang G-HAEC from Flight Image of the Day
This week's Image of the Week (featured on page 3 of Flight International), is taken by AirSpace user flyer1 (Martin Dighton). His photo depicts "Big Beautiful Doll" P-51D Mustang G-HAEC [cn.1517] at the Shoreham 2010 air show.
This surpasses Airshow sure everything that the Red Bull Air Races worldwide will bid on. Hannes Arch has ground quite natural and normal - as you ...
Breaking records? - Team Bonhomme News
So what’s happening this week… I presume that if you're visiting this website, you might have a passing interest in racing aeroplanes and therefore will be interested to know about an attempt on a record that is happening at this very moment. Our friend Steve Noujaim is currently trying to fly from the UK to South Africa and back in a light aircraft in less than 3 days 15 hours and 17 minutes, a record set in May 2009 but ...
St. Louis 99s Newsletters and Minutes: Minutes - August 2010
Jean Murry reported that we had received a thank you note from the Wings of Hope for our $150 donation in support of Teresa Camp and Beverly Cleair in the Air Race Classic. Jan Pocock was thanked for bringing the cake. ...
WASP Gather As Cochran Estate is Presented with Congressional Gold Medal from WAI Connect Blog
September 29th is the day. Palm Desert, California, is the place. The occasion? The presentation of Jacqueline Cochran's Congressional Gold Medal to the executor of her estate, Ms. Aldine Tarter, by Crissi Tonsi, who has carried the medal since it was presented to all of the WASP in a ceremony at the Capitol last March. The presentation will take place at Atria Senior Living Community in Palm ...
This past week end, Georgia and I made a trip to Oshkosh to visit the EAA AirVenture Museum. We left home about 9AM on Saturday and pulled into the museum parking lot right at noon.The weather was good, the museum was uncrowded and we had the whole afternoon to explore the exhibits. ...
Pacific Aviation Museum to sign lease for historic control tower By Associated Press
The Pacific Aviation Museum officials plan to sign a lease for the historic control tower and observation deck on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor.
Museum officials said the lease will clear the way for the long-awaited restoration of the site.
The tower is where a radioman issued the first radio broadcast of the Japanese attack at 8:05 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941. Exploding bombs shattered lower-level windows during the assault. ...
A blast from aviation's past - TheDay.com
The restored World War II B-17G bomber "Aluminum Overcast', owned and operated by the Experimental Aircraft Association, is in New London on its 2010 ...
On This Day in Aviation History: August 31st from NYCAviation.com
The Super Guppy makes her maiden flight, Rolls-Royce fires up the RB211 for the first time, Rocky Marciano dies in a plane crash, Aeromexico Flight 498 suffers a midair collision near LAX, and more...
August 31 from Cut and Paste Aviation
Cluster Balloonist Jonathan Trappe from Aviation Blogs
Jonathan Trappe is a sort of super-hero to some children and a crazy man to some adults. We found him inspirational. Trappe is licensed to fly beneath a group of homemade helium-filled balloons. That means his aircraft is one of the most structurally redundant vehicles in the sky. But it’s also challenging to fly. Trappe controls his direction by varying his altitude. He can drop water ballast or ...
Preteen’s aviation dream takes flight - CTNews
Nick Nunno, 12, can’t drive a car, but about once a month he buckles into the pilot’s seat of a Grumman Tiger airplane and takes flight.
Though he is too young to earn a pilot’s license or fly solo, the Milford resident takes flying lessons for enjoyment about once a month, on weekends or after school, at Blue Sky Flight, a flight school at Sikorsky Memorial Airport.
The FAA mandates a person be at least 17 to test for a pilot license, but does not designate a minimum age requirement for flight school enrollment. ...
Grand Blanc teen pilot: 'Everything about it is fun' - The Flint Journal
GRAND BLANC, Michigan — Dillon Duquette sat in the cockpit of a Cessna 180 airplane Aug. 6, ready to take off.
Under the eyes of his flight instructor, the 16-year-old had looked over every inch of the plane to make sure it was safe to fly — tugging on wing flaps, checking the fuel tanks, flipping the lights — before the two of them taxied out to the runway.
Then the instructor exited the plane, and Duquette took off alone. ...
London, England (CNN) — Need to get your superyacht from the crystal-blue waters of the Caribbean to the glamorous Mediterranean in a hurry? Not a problem when your luxury vessel transforms into a sleek jetplane at the click of a button.
That’s exactly what Yelken Octuri’s “Flying Yacht” design would do if built. Octuri, a French cabin designer for Airbus, has combined his knowledge of aircraft design with his love of the seas to create the outlandish concept yacht. ...
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