Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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Blue Angels set for St. George - St. George Daily Spectrum
Top-tier civilian and military performers, classic warbirds and static displays will also be part of the show. Tickets are expected to go on sale by March ...

HAFB to host 2011 air show, open house - Davis County Clipper
HILL AFB — Team Hill announces it will host an open house and air show Sept. 24 and Sept. 25. The air show will feature the US Air Force Thunderbirds and ...

Great State of Maine Air Show
Wounded Warrior Flight Team added to the air show.
DAV Flight Team added to the air show with their B-25 ...

Defense Update 'Airshow-Live' debut at Aero-India 2011 - Defense Update
Defense Update is introducing its latest online project – Airshow-Live, providing on-site coverage of major airshows and defense exhibitions and conferences. Airshow-Live will debut at Aero-India 2011 providing fresh reports from the airshow, including news highlights and ‘buzz’ from the exhibition halls, press conferences, national pavilions, flight line and aerial displays. ...

January 11, 2011 Honor Flight Network part 2 from Ely Air Lines
... Mike: Last week we wrote about Bill Ford, one of the veterans our friend Vickie Croston accompanied as guardian on a recent Honor Flight Network trip to Washington, D.C. This week we introduce you to her second charge, Gerald Roop. ...

Father, son injured in crash of WWII-era plane - San Diego Union Tribune
Records show that 188 of the planes are registered with the FAA. Two are owned by the San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park. ...

LiveAirShowTV profiles Reno Racer Will Whiteside
... Will Whiteside, pilot for Race #5 Voodoo, is no stranger to the Reno Air Races. Will talks about the modifications done to this P-51, his own Reno racer, and the steps he made to find himself in the cockpit of this Unlimited Gold contender. We also go on board as Will experienced engine trouble during Saturday’s Gold race. See how he got the plane down safely. ...

Racing the Spitfire - The Spitfire Site
After the war, some attempts were made to revitalize the air racing scene in the UK, with varying levels of success.
A given recipe for air racing at the time was using the many surplus military fighters available, but eventually these races never achieved the levels ...

5 Cool Things at the Udvar-Hazy Center You May Have Missed from AirSpace by The National Air and Space Museum
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, currently has over 161 aircraft and 160 major space objects on display. With so much to see in such a huge space, it’s easy to focus on the larger and more famous objects like the Concorde, Space Shuttle Enterprise, and Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay. However, there are a host of other objects of historical significance with very interesting stories behind ...

Reconnaissance is topic of lecture at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories 
Former Air Force pilot and FBI agent Taylor Eubank will present "Alone, Unarmed and Unafraid: Unarmed Reconnaissance During the Vietnam Conflict" at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 26 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
During his presentation, Eubank will illustrate the Vietnam experience from high above in the midst of surface-to-air missile (SAM) barrages and anti-aircraft flak traps; from beneath a hooch attending to the 94th running of the Kentucky Derby; through perilous nighttime photo missions and ejection into the Jaws of the Cat of Death; through incredible acts of bravery and dastardly acts of cowardice; and through hijinks on the ground between flights. ...

Cincinnati Reds to visit the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories 
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force visitors will have the opportunity to meet members of the Cincinnati Reds organization from 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. on Jan. 29.
Reds pitcher Homer Bailey, manager Dusty Baker, broadcaster Jeff Brantley, minor leaguer Todd Frazier and mascot "Rosie Red" will be the featured Reds at the museum stop. ...

Brit remains confident he'll land vintage aircraft - Calgary Herald
The British collector who wants to acquire a Calgary-owned vintage aircraft says he's confident the de Havilland Mosquito will eventually be his, despite the continued push to keep the plane in this city. ...

Hunter jet Miss Deameanour receives new paint job - Bournemouth Echo
A VINTAGE aircraft that has played a starring role at the Bournemouth Air Show has been given a stunning new paintjob by some of the masters of the art at ...

Aircraft graveyard on the cover of Flight International 11-17 Jan as we look at how to recycle old jets from Flight Image of the Day 
A scene uncommon at airports but frequent at scrapyards--a DC-10 nose upright--is on the cover of this week's Flight International magazine for our feature article: aviation under pressure to reduce landfill waste from scrapped airliners. The DC-10 is seen as Chateauroux Air Centre in France and photographed by the scrapyard. ...

Tin Hats And Football Boots from What's On at RAF Museum London
This temporary display located in the Museum's Historic Hangars explores the contribution made by various members of Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal Football Clubs to the Royal Air Force and Air Raid Precautions during the Second World War whilst examining how important regular competitive football was to the upkeep of the capital’s morale. With the outbreak of the Second World War, the world ...

‘The Restorers’ released as digital download from General Aviation News
Filmmaker Adam White has released “The Restorers” for digital download. Originally released on DVD in 2003, “The Restorers” is a one-hour documentary about Warbird and vintage aircraft restorers. ...

January 11 from Cut and Paste Aviation 
... 1935 -- In the first flight of its kind, American aviator Amelia Earhart departs Wheeler Field in Honolulu, Hawaii, on a solo flight to North America. ...

OUTSTANDING! Alaska Wing Men on Nat Geo! from Pilots of America Message Board
Alaska Wing Men is a new three-part series on the National Geographic channel and is available in HD.
... I caught a bit last night where they put a camera in the Cessna 150 with a very-capable flight student making her 150 mile solo to a short gravel airstrip. She's tracked by her CFI-father.
They also follow a commercial pilot who flies charter in an Grumman amphibian - landing on the water and taxiing up the dock to the shore. Way, way cool. ...

Name your favorite aviator and win a copy of Flyabout from Plastic Pilot
... Here’s how you can win the DVD ...

Aviation class will assemble aircraft - Morehead News
Hailey Potter is a freshman, a member of the aviation club and a daughter of Mike and Tracey Potter, fixed based operators at the airport. ...

VIDEO: Probationary F-35B ends vertical landing hiatus from The DEW Line 
On the same day that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates placed the F-35B on a two-year -- and apparently rhetorical -- probation, a flight test aircraft did something that hadn't been done since Augus: It landed vertically. ...

What's The Deal With The Chinese Chengdu J-20 Gear Doors? from AirPigz
After a couple weeks of of 'spy photos' showing up on aviation blogs all around the world, the J-20 Chinese fighter aircraft seems to becoming a fast reality. Updates from Aviation Week and Flightglobal confirm its first flight today, 1-11-11, as does the video below. I certainly find the airplane interesting, but not too surprising considering we've seen the Chinese become an economic and technology powerhouse in the ...
More on the J-20 here


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