Friday, November 12, 2010

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Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show: All you need to know - Pensacola News Journal
It's time for the Blue Angels annual homecoming show at Pensacola Naval Air Station, the last performance of the Naval flight demonstration team for 2010. ...

Parades, air show honor veterans - WALA-TV FOX10
Mobile's Veterans Day parade will kick off at 10 am at the Civic Center and run through the downtown area. Pensacola's parade starts at 9 am at Spring and ...

Blue Angels: Updates on today's show - Pensacola News Journal
It was the first time he'd been to an air show. "They do all kinds of tricks I've never seen before. I wanna see the Blue Angels!" said the boy from McDavid ...

Meet the Blue Angels leader - Pensacola News Journal
After spending two years on the team, Blue Angels No. 1 pilot Capt. Greg McWherter on Thursday was preparing to fly the first performance of his final air ...


Thunderbirds fly away from OC's annual air show - Ocean City Today
The United States Air Force Thunderbirds will not be returning to Ocean City for the 2011 OC Air Show next June because the team will be on tour in Europe. ...

Should Air Show Continue Without Top Tier Act? - The Dispatch
That lack of a top jet team headliner, such as the Thunderbirds or the US Navy Blue Angels, is the biggest news coming out of this week's meeting. ...

Navy to celebrate 100 years of aviation - UPI.com
The Navy announced an air show, including a huge flyover of San Diego Bay, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of naval aviation, officials said. ...

Centennial of Naval Aviation - Heritage Paint Schemes from FenceCheck Forums

Pilot Choice Awards debut from General Aviation News 
It’s been a year since AOPA launched AOPA Live as a way to share the AOPA Aviation Summit with members who could not make the show. At this year’s show, the association is honoring the videos that got the most number of views this year with its new Pilot Choice Awards. ...

Rapid Travel Ver 2.0 Update from www.aafo.com
We have posted an update on Rapid Travel Racing's web page http://www.rapidtravelracing.com. There are some high res photos taken by Jeffery Howard (posted with permission) of the crash and there is a link to a you tube video taken by the in-cockpit camera of the last 1 minute and 40 seconds of the flight. It includes a stop action sequence of the last 5 seconds, wherein some interesting things can be seen. The mysterious loss of George's glasses were revealed (at 4:39 to 4:41 in the video) and from the pilot's perspective just how close the engine came to him during the crash. It is also interesting to note how the video camera when faced with 10 g's plus still survived, but with some major distortion in output.

RTR News Page from www.rapidtravelracing.com
Press Release:  Rapid Travel Racing Update 11/10/2010
In-Cockpit video of the last one minute and 40 seconds following the mayday You tube video

Inside Cockpits: Then and Now from ASB.tv 
The iconic P-51 Mustang changed the course of history and the  AirShowBuzz.com Horsemen are honored to bring that history to life every time they take to the skies. The Mustang is a marvel of raw Rolls Royce Merlin engine power and aesthetic beauty.  Watching it from the stands is one thing, but being in the cockpit is a whole other dimension connecting you with heroes past. ...

Fly it Forward! from Flight To Success 
Fly it Forward is a 7-week challenged to create a miracle for one woman, and to change the life of thousands of others. And you could be the winner of a $100 bill!
This is my part in a grassroots effort by women, for women, but we need MEN to help, too.
In honor of 100 years of flying, Mireille Goyer had a vision of introducing "2010" new girls and women to aviation this year. For all who signed up, only 25% followed through. She's a bit short of her goal with only a little over 500. ...

Former airline pilot was born to fly - McMinnville News-Register
They both spent many years flying a DC-3 like the one they now show visitors at the air museum. In fact, Evergreen's DC-3 is the very plane Schlemer once ...

World’s top female skydivers to descend on Eloy this month. Women’s skydiving world record scheduled over Thanksgiving weekend at Skydive Arizona from The Kathryn Report 
An international team of nearly 50 talented women skydivers will descend on Skydive Arizona in Eloy over the Thanksgiving weekend in an attempt to set a new world record for largest all-female formation while flying upside-down. The women are traveling from around the globe for the record event, scheduled for Nov. 23-27. After leaping from multiple aircraft flying together more than two miles  ...

AN-225 at Kish (KIH/OIBK) Air show from PPRuNe Forums 

Youngest Naval Aviator of World War Two - MyStateline.com
"It's kinda nice for an old aviator to have this kind of view of the main runway running over here." The lower level of his house is a hangar. ...

WWI aviator tells of surviving air war over Europe - Hickory Daily Record
John B. Parker spent World War II in a B-17 Flying Fortress over Europe. Parker, 87, of Hickory, was a navigator and, although his crew was never shot down, ...

World War II veteran paints Mighty Eighth's B-17 - Savannah Morning News
That design was modeled after a World War II era B-17 that was the 5000th plane processed through Hunter Field — now Hunter Army Airfield — named the City ...

WWI aviator tells of surviving air war over Europe - Hickory Daily Record
“They wouldn't let me go overseas, so I signed up for Aviation Cadets. I wanted to be a pilot, but they were short of navigators at the time,” Parker said. ...

CFCC honors several WWII veterans - WECT-TV6
Among those honored will be Lt. Colonel William J. Sugg, who served in the war as a B-17 co-pilot. Sugg and his crew were members of the "Bloody Hundredth" ...

A World War II Vet's Untold Story - Southern Pines Pilot
Blanche Todd, the widow of Alfred J. Todd, has lately learned the amazing story of her husband's wartime experiences as a crewman on a B-25 bomber shot down ...

FREEDOM IS NOT FREE - Decatur Tribune
Two years later, he was training to fly B-17 Flying Fortresses. By early 1944, Ernest was newly married and in England, serving as a copilot on missions ...

"America is a great country so don't let it down." - Havelock News
The Akron, Ohio native joined the Marine Corps at age 19 in June of 1942, and later that year, found himself working on the new B-25 bombers at Cherry Point ...

Westport vets, supporters heed call to salute Veterans Day - Westport-News
"We flew B-17 Fortresses. They had four engines and eight guns -- you could bring a lot of force to bear with those," he remembered. ...

Lake High School students salute veterans - Canton Repository
Westfall served in 1944 and 1945 as a B-17 gunner. By Lori Monsewicz Shot down in a B-24 Liberator bomber over Munich, Germany, in World War II, ...

Obscure Early WWII British Fighter Westland Whirlwind Subject of Documentary from EAA News
The Westland Whirlwind had only a small role in World War II for the British despite being one of the first operational frontline fighters of the war. The fast, nimble, and heavily armed twin-engine fighter featured four 20mm cannons in the nose and, like the Boulton Paul Defiant, would fall short of its initial design goal to escort bombers. Now British documentarian James Munro is completing work on Ghost of the Whirlwind, (MacDeutsch Films, Mid-2011) a film about this fighter that dazzled military brass and devastated ground targets, but eventually was defeated by its own production problems. ...

New evidence may write Lindbergh out of history as first to fly Atlantic - Independent
American aviator, Charles Lindbergh (above) is recognised officially as the first to make the crossing The greatest single mystery of the early days of ...

November 11 from Cut and Paste Aviation 

And I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time - Manufacturing Business Technology
Aerospace has a new hero in the private sector, and it couldn't have come at a better time as acclaimed aviation designer Burt Rutan announced his impending ...


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