Thursday, November 18, 2010

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USAF spots “apparent” F-22 wreckage, pilot still missing - Flightglobal
Aircraft wreckage spotted by a US Air Force search team is believed to be a Lockheed Martin F-22 that disappeared at 7:40pm on 16 ...
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Cracked F-35, missing F-22 from Sky Talk 
BF-1 Short takeoff_March_17_10 A busy morning in the defense aviation world. First, it was reported by Aviation Week and confirmed by Lockheed Martin that a crack turned up in one of the major bulkhead pieces on an F-35 ground test plane that was undergoing fatigue testing in Fort Worth.
And the Air Force is looking for an F-22 Raptor in Alaska that failed to return to base Tuesday evening. The Dew Line blog has what little of that story we know right a this moment. ...


Wednesday at Zhuhai Airshow - Seattle Post Intelligencer
A visitor looks at an aircraft model on display at China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition (also known as Airshow China and Zhuhai Airshow) in ...

Pakistan's T-37 Sherdils at Airshow china 2010 - Military Photos

Class of 2010 – Joe Clark from San Diego Air & Space Museum
He loves the challenges of designing new products for aviation and regularly captures the attention of the world aviation press for his innovations. He is the “Lord of the Wings!” He is Joe Clark!
Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in 1941, Clark moved with his American father and Canadian mother to the U.S. three weeks after his birth, and is a naturalized American citizen. A lifelong resident of Seattle, he would go on to attend the University of Washington.  At a young age, Joe became active in aviation and soon received his private pilot’s license. In 1966, he founded Jet Air, the first Learjet dealership in the Northwest.
His career in aviation grew quickly with marketing and sales assignments for Gates Learjet and the ...

America's First Female Aviator's Story Finally Told in Biograph's "Harriet ... - PR-USA.net
Not only did Quimby accomplish aviation history, but she was a respected photo journalist, traveling all over the world to almost every foreign country, ...

Veterans Share Their Stories - Riverbank News
Walter Mayer of Oakdale was a ball turret gunner in a B-17 Flying Fortress during World War II. Joining the US Air Corps straight out of Lodi ...
   
Bomber pilot shares harrowing story - Newberg Graphic
Black said that when he took off on June 22, 1944, he'd already flown 55 missions without a scratch in a B-25 bomber, no small feat considering the casualty ...

Historic plane featured in safety documentary from General Aviation News 
Dr. Louis Hanson, a family physician in Durham, Maine, and his 1946 Stinson Voyager will be featured in an upcoming documentary film about Aviation Safety Resources (ASR), a Long Island-based company founded by Dario Manfredi, the son of the Stinson’s original owner. The mini-documentary, being produced by veteran New York filmmaker Kai Simonsen, will highlight the history of ASR’s patented technology and serve as the foundation of a larger feature in the future.

Basement Chronicles: Painting the Peashooter from San Diego Air & Space Museum 
Most don’t know that our museum has a full fabrication shop—an “aircraft factory”—in our basement, deep below our galleries. Down in the depths of the Museum, volunteers draft schematics (or blueprints), bend metal, shape wood, and drill, hammer and rivet to create some of the airplanes you see on our galley floor. Many of these volunteers worked for ...

Long Live the DC-3 - Air & Space
A new book documents the Douglas aircraft’s supremacy as a civilian and military transport. ...

The Staff at Lee Bottom Flying Field from Nordo News

Ornithoptère of Monsieur Collomb, 1908 - from x planes
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Today In Aviation History – November 17
In 1906… The Daily Mail of London offers a £10000 prize for the 1st flight from London to Manchester. In 1910… Ralph Johnstone, pioneer pilot, becomes the 1st 'American' pilot killed ...

VIDEO: The Air Force of Chile in CRUZEX V from CavokBlog 
CRUZEX V: Press accompanies refueling from CavokBlog

Teaching Self-Confidence by Joe Clark
Teaching student pilots how to be confident aviators can be one of the most challenging tasks facing a flight instructor.  Older instructors probably have a better handle on this problem, while new CFIs may still be working on the concept. ...

Teens gather for first AF Reserve Teen Leadership Council from Air Force Link Top Stories 
Teenagers from around the nation gathered at Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command here for the first AFR Teen Leadership Council meeting Nov. 12.
The 20 teens, selected to represent their peers as members of the council, received briefings on Air Force Reserve Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Programs and spoke to Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner Jr., the AFRC commander, about issues facing children of reservists. ...

NASA Invites Young Students to a Free Afternoon of Fun and Learning About the Glory Satellite from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense
Do you have elementary school students? If you answered "yes," visit NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's Visitor Center on Sunday, November 21, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST for a free afternoon of eye-opening, hands-on activities exploring the G ...

Popular Science calls Falcon 9 “The First Astronaut-Worthy Private Rocket In Orbit” from Spaceports 
Popular Science calls Falcon 9 “The First Astronaut-Worthy Private Rocket In Orbit” and goes on to explain, “When NASA retires the space shuttle next year, the only American-owned option the U.S. government will have for getting cargo to the International Space Station is to ride with a private spaceflight company. Such an arrangement became viable in June, when ...

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