Saturday, October 16, 2010

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Wings Over Atlanta Show at Dobbins - News/Talk 750 WSB
It's the Wings Over Atlanta Air Show, featuring the best stunt and demonstration pilots in the world. Among the flying teams that will show off their skills ...

2010 Wings Over Atlanta - MyFox Atlanta
The legendary Blue Angels and the Canadian Snowbirds soar into town this weekend for a spectacular air show. Colonel Timothy Tarchick and Captain Marc ...

Eye on the Nor'easter - CNN (blog)
The Navy's Blue Angels are in town, and they were practicing all yesterday afternoon over my house. It was like trying to live in a train tunnel with the ...
   
Marines Collecting Toys at Air Show - MyFox Atlanta
... Logistics Group will be collecting toys and donations this weekend at designated parking areas for the Wings Over Atlanta air show in Cobb County. ...

ILMINSTER: Jet set for air-raising adverntures at Ilminster's Meeting House - View Online
Air Marshal Sir Christopher Coville, who was the RAF Commander with overall responsibility for the Red Arrows from 2001-2003, will be giving a fascinating ...

Rescuers of the ADPC meet the Patrouille de France - La Montagne
... Saturday to enjoy the benefit of the Patrouille de France, more than 20,000 spectators were present on the site. ...

China-made General Aviation Aircraft to Debut at Airshow China 2010 - CRIENGLISH.com
Airshow China is the only international aerospace trade show endorsed by the Chinese central government. Since 1996, the show has been successfully held in ...

VIDEO: More of PAK-FA's first air show surfaces from The DEW Line 

Gold Team at Thunder Over the Rock from US Army Golden Knights 
SGT Jen Schaben shoots video of a mass formation. Photo by SSG Joe Abeln The weather continued to cooperate this past weekend at the Thunder Over the Rock Airshow in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Team opened the Airshow each day by jumping in the American Flag to the National Anthem, and then followed up with [...]

Video: 101st Airborne Delivers Game Ball From Above - www.wired.com
Delivering game balls to the official before a football game isn't normally a big deal. Oh, maybe some famous former player will get to come and wave to the
Check it out! Video of the 101st Airborne bringing in the American flag and the game ball to the UM/MSU game!

TALLSKY'S Best Original Air Show Films (so far) - YouTube
These are a montage of what most friends consider my best air show "cam - captures." I am unlike other air show enthusiasts in that I tend to zoom way in on a high speed passing jet, whereas most air show videographers will widen the shot. Judge for yourself, to me it's always a fun challenge and of...
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Director of National Museum of the U.S. Air Force honored with award from National Aeronautic Association from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories 
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Charles D. Metcalf, director of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, was selected as a recipient of the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) Wesley L. McDonald Elder Statesman of Aviation Award.
Metcalf is one of four recipients of the award this year. Other recipients include ...
  
Oroville Heroes of Long Ago - Mercury-Register
Don took me to a field and showed me a crash site of a B-25 bomber about 100 yards west of Wickman Road, seven-eighths of a mile south off Richvale Highway. ...

CIA Oxcart history briefing back on YouTube, sans video from The DEW Line 
I suppose it's only fitting that a historical briefing on the CIA A-12 Oxcart project gets wrapped up in intrigue. The Smithsonian Air & Space museum has resposted an audio-only version of the 24 September briefing on YouTube about one week after taking down a link showing the panel discussion in video. Since a couple ...

Which is the greatest generation? - Yuma Sun
A couple of weeks back, I posted a blog about a B-17 bomber that slammed into a mountain near present-day Telegraph Pass ...

Bob Hoover — Legend of Aviation at Spice
Great footage of Bob, I first saw Bob at the Reno Air Races in 1968 flying his Mustang as the pace plane and doing his signature roll on takeoff at 50 ft agl with SO. Later doing aerobatics in his Mustang,T28, Saberliner, F86, ... To customize this about blurb, log into the admin area, and go to the "Dojo Options" page in the Design section.   ...

Air Force squadron reunites in The Villages to celebrate commander's 90th birthday - Villages Daily Sun
“We were an offshoot of the volunteer Flying Tigers in World War II. It's a great tradition, and the squadron is still flying. ...

Fantasy of Flight Aviation Museum by Kermit Weeks from All Things Aviation 
Sometimes life hands us a great hand, and for Kermit Weeks nothing could be truer. Since he was a small child Kermit Weeks had his head in the clouds, fascinated with flying airplanes – in particular, aerobatic airplanes. But not just buying and flying aerobatic airplanes – Kermit Weeks decided to design and build his ...

Hearst air racer featured on W5 - Kapuskasing Northern Times
He is now one of the top racing pilots in the world, and one of the top ranked pilots on the Red Bull Air Racing circuit. CTV's 'W5' is Canada 's most ...

The Latest from the EAA
EAAer's Curtiss-Ely Pusher Replica Makes First Flights 
At 8 a.m. Friday, October 8, Bob Coolbaugh's 1911 Curtiss-Ely Pusher replica successfully flew for the first time on a grass strip adjacent to Runway 6/24 at the New Market Airport (8W2) in Virginia.

Romance in the Air During Fall Color Flight 
Last weekend's Fall Color Flight aboard EAA's Ford Tri-Motor is one Jill Bowers will never forget.

de Havilland Heron Coming to COPPERSTATE 
Preparations are in full swing for next week's 37th COPPERSTATE Fly-In, which runs October 21-23 at Casa Grande Airport, Arizona.
Fw-190 Nears First Flight After Engine Run 
The BMW 801 engine of the Flying Heritage Collection's (FHC) Fw-190A-5/U3 restoration project recently had its first run by Vintage V12s in Tehachapi, California, according to a report on the Meier Motors website.
Freighter becomes 'aircraft carrier' - aircargoworld
An AirBridgeCargo B747-400 freighter turned “aircraft carrier” when four aerobatic aircraft had to be transported from the Netherlands to China. ...

Alaska Guard participates in major Hollywood movie production from National Guard - Top News
The Alaska National Guard is working closely with production crews here in Alaska in the filming of a Universal Studios movie based on a whale rescue that captured the world's attention near the end of the Cold War...

OLEG: Friday's Fabulous Flyer... from Flight To Success 
Oleg may not be a pilot, but he's a huge support system for those of us who navigate over Russian airspace. A highly educated young man, he's earned two degrees from the Academy of Civil Aviation... One in HR management, and the other in air traffic controlling.
Oleg is now an Air Traffic Controller in Russia, and responsible for air safety in the upper air area... Air Route Traffic Control Center. But this isn't where he'd imagined his life would take him. ...

In Praise of Aviation Geeks from Wheels Up 
Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the first aviation geeks. His notebooks inlcude several "flying machines." Image Wikipedia.
I love aviation geeks.  I even married one.
My husband John is a helicopter pilot.  He also fixes things rather than ...

Flying Bathtubs Sell Like Hotcakes - History of Flight | Air & Space Magazine
The nation's first mass-produced lightplane started as a homely, humble homebuilt.

October 15 from Cut and Paste Aviation 

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