Thursday, December 23, 2010

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Navy helicopters dip in Lake Tahoe - San Diego Union Tribune | Retired Navy F-14 pilot and San Diego resident Steve Diamond called the punishment just, but "a crushing blow" for an aviator. ...

Navy instructors punished for dipping $33 million helos in water from Warplanes Online Community by Jobelle | Two Navy instructor pilots have been stripped of flying status and two student pilots will have to repeat training because of a September incident in which they dipped two $33 million aircraft into Lake Tahoe while trying to take photos for the squadron's Facebook page, a Navy official said Wednesday…

Blue Angels To Perform In Brunswick This Summer - WMTW Portland | BRUNSWICK, Maine -- The Blue Angels, a Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, are coming back to Brunswick this summer. Although the Navy will have already ...

MCAS Miramar Air Show - KGTV San Diego | ABC10, and our sister station Azteca America San Diego 15, are proud to be the television sponsors of the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar Air Show. ...

Video pedia World - 2010 MCAS Miramar (Twilight) Air Show ... by sky | 2010 MCAS Miramar (Twilight) Air Show - Shockwave Jet Truck.

Airshow coming back to Hamilton in 2012 - Digital Forum by james99 | Airshow coming back to Hamilton in 2012 News, Weather, Sports and Anything Else.,,

Spitfire Comes To Texas from Aero-News Network | Scale Manufacturer Moving From Australia The website of the Texas Aviation Association indicated that the manufacturer of a two-place scale replica of the Supermarine Spitfire is moving its operation from Brisbane, Australia to Cisco Municipal Airport (3F2) just west of Ft. Worth. A hangar to accommodate the manufacturer is being built this winter…

Give extreme flight - Examiner.com | The thrill ride is customizable and includes loops, rolls, spins, and other common air show maneuvers - all at speeds over two hundred miles per hour! ...

Waddington International Air Show nominated as finalist in business awards - This is Lincolnshire | RAF WADDINGTON'S annual international air show is a proven regional number one for pulling in visitors. And, while thought to be worth a minimum of £12 ...



Air Force museum shows warbirds at peace - Indianapolis Star | The Air Power Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force houses one of the world's top collections of World War II aircraft. ...

Exhibit remembers fallen soldiers from war on terrorism - Lincoln Journal Star | Roy White, of Smith Center, Kansas, walks through the "Remembering Our Fallen" exhibit at the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland Monday. ...

Rutan Voyager from AirSpace by The National Air and Space Museum | On December 23, 1986, nine days, three minutes, and 44 seconds after taking off, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager touched down at Edwards Air Force Base, CA, in the Rutan Voyager aircraft to finish the first flight around the world made without landing or refueling.  Rutan's brother Burt had designed Voyager but it was the availability of carbon-fibers coated with epoxy allowing Burt to design an airframe that could lift more than ten times its flying weight (including 3,180 kg, 7,011 lb, of fuel) that made the flight even possible…

More on SpaceShipTwo testing from RLV and Space Transport News | The Aviation Week article on SpaceShipTwo tests that I mentioned earlier is now available in their open section: SS2 Glide Tests Exceed Expected Progress - Aviation Week - Dec.22.10.

The first M-346 "Master" and its future in the Frecce Tricolori display team by David Cenciotti | On Dec. 21, 2010, the first  Alenia Aermacchi M-346 advanced trainer from the first batch of six aircraft for the Italian Air Force rolled out at Alenia's factory at Venegono Superiore, during a ceremony attended by both company executives and representatives of the Aeronautical Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF) and local authorities…

How Aleksandr Yakovlev's Rivalry with Pavel Sukhoi Did Him In from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | The 1950s and 1960s in Russian combat aircraft development were marked by intense rivalries between the various design bureau (OKBs) heads. Nowhere else was this seen than with the rivalries between the respective OKBs of Artem Mikoyan, Pavel Sukhoi, and Aleksandr Yakovlev…

Today In Aviation History – December 23 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal | In 1907… The chief signals officer of the U.S. Army, Brig. Gen. James Allen, issues specification no. 486, the first military aircraft specification for which commercial tenders were invited. The specification is written around the capabilities of the Wright Flyer and, though published for bids to conform to army requirements, only the Wrights are expected to respond by the closing date of February 1, 1908…

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