Monday, October 25, 2010

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Air show vets and rookies thrilled by power, pride at Jacksonville event - Florida Times-Union
Only this first for the 70-year-old Georgia gas station owner was his first air show. “I'm in there with them,” said Bain, who drove from Thomasville for ...

Video: Jane Wicker wing walking at Leesburg Air Show - Examiner.com
This YouTube video is from a camera mounted on the Stearman plane carrying Wicker during her performance at the air show on Saturday. ...


Air Expo set for Sunday - Daily Mail - Charleston
Smith said there are also plans for a heritage flight featuring the F-18 Hornet and the A-10 Warthog along with a World War II-era P-51 Mustang which will ...

Cleveland: Piston Power Show at the IX Center - WKYC-TV
One of the featured displays is the B-17 Bomber from the movie Memphis Belle. You can also see a North American P-51 Mustang, a single-propeller WWII ...

‘FIFI’ to be featured at AOPA Airportfest from General Aviation News 
Airportfest returns to the AOPA Aviation Summit for 2010 at the Long Beach Airport Nov. 11-13. Dwarfing all others at the aircraft display will be “Fifi,” the Commemorative Air Force’s B-29 – the only airworthy Superfortress anywhere in the world. ...

Warbirds and Airshows - CAF Airsho at Midland , TX  2010 from warbirdsandairshows
Commemorative Air Force Airsho 2010, Midland, TX | October 7-8, 2010
This is the first time I have had the opportunity to visit the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Airsho at its Midland, TX Headquarters, although I did attend two of the shows back in 1979 and 1980 at its previous base in Harlingen, TX.  This has largely been due the fact that it is out in the middle do nowhere in Texas and I did not have the time to make the trip while still working.  With the fact that the B-29 was going to be flying at the show for its first appearance in 4 years I decided to make the trip.  I was not disappointed.  The B-29, ...

San Francisco Fleet Week 2010 Photo Gallery - Keith Breazeal Video Productions

Boeing Aviation Geek Fest 2010 - theducks.org
Today was the 2010 Boeing Aviation Geek Fest.
Let me begin by saying, going on the Boeing tour at the best of times is pretty geeky. This on the other hand,  ...

This is something you don't see every day... from Black Horizon 
AN F-100 Sabre always has the right-of-way at an intersection

Indian Aviation Industry - Wall Street Stocks 
Rising high in the atmosphere, the aviation industry in India has developed exponentially over the years. With a sustained momentum, it is anticipated to ...

P-39 Recovered From Russian Lake After Six Decades from Aviation Blogs 
A Bell P-39Q Airacobra that was built in a western New York state factory in 1943 has returned home after resting at the bottom of a Russian lake since 1944. This particular aircraft was part of 4,719 P-39s sent to the Soviet Union under the United States’ Lend-Lease program, which propped up Allied forces with war  ...

Busy Times at Christchurch from MRC Aviation 
The 2010/2011 Antarctic season is well and truely ramping up with multiple support aircraft arriving into Christchurch over recent days. ...

“Aerial bombardment to reforest the earth” from x planes
This article was one of the most viewed on the guardian.co.uk website last week, despite being posted in September 1999! (My theory is that it was re-linked on the homepage in reaction to the news of the early phasing out of the Royal Air Force’s fleet of Hercules aircraft in the recent Defence Review) ...

Jean Batten: the Garbo of the skies — book review - Seattle Post Intelligencer
I became aware of his books while reading about New Zealand's Jean Batten, perhaps the world's best aviator in her time. Ian Mackersey specializes in ...

Movie: Almost Mercury -- The Story of Jerrie Cobb
from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
http://almostmercury.com/
Jerrie Cobb was one of the Mercury 13, and perhaps the most accomplished of those 13 women who strove to become astronauts during the early 1960s.  ...

Mr. Winston Erle “Wink” Moore, 67, of Fayetteville - The Citizen.com
He was an aerobatic pilot as well as a commercial pilot for 33 years. He retired as a captain on the 747-400 for Northwest Airlines. ...

Odax 96 from Military Photos 

EAA Wants To Spark Interest of Young Eagles - AINonline
The next step for the Experimental Aviation Association's Young Eagles will be to develop a group of integrated programs “that not only spark an interest in aviation among young people but build a practical bridge for each young person ...

Not two, but three Saturn 1B's appeared at Red Glare from The Original Rocket Dungeon 
Events not to be discussed here prevented me from attending Red Glare IX.  However, my rocket buddy Warthog promised to send photos for me to post.  He reported that Steve Eves 1:9 scale model was standing majestically on its gantry.  Vern Hoag's was there too, less paint.  In addition, Steve had a 1:27 scale 1B to test out the staging and fin deployment mechanisms on the big one. MDRA member Brett Keller already has some reports up. ...

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