Flight Plan: 100 years of naval aviation focus of celebration - NC Times
San Diego is recognized as the birthplace of naval aviation ---- so it's appropriate that the Navy's yearlong observation of the 100th anniversary of the first Navy flight kicks off in San Diego this week before moving on to Navy bases around the country. ...
Florida International Air Show to Host Doolittle Reunion
PUNTA GORDA, FL. The 31st Annual Florida International Air Show (Mar 25‐26) will be hosting a historic reunion between three surviving Doolittle Tokyo Raiders and special guests representing the People’s Republic of China. ...
SARAS not to fly this air show - Deccan Herald | India’s first multi-purpose civilian aircraft designed by National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) in the light transport aircraft category, SARAS, will not fly at this edition of Aero India. ...
Air Race Classic To Launch From Iowa In 2011 by mwflyer | Fly the perfect daytime, VFR cross country next summer – 2365 nautical miles, 10 stops, 4 days. You will launch from Iowa City Municipal Airport (IOW) at 0800 on Tuesday, June 21st and complete your adventure after ...
Exceeding Expectations from US Army Golden Knights | Another week of training passes us by, we see yet more astounding improvements from Gold Demonstration Team’s newest members. In particular, narration has gone from dry and boring, to nearly airshow quality. The week long coaching sessions, headed up by renowned airshow announcer Rob Reider, certainly paid off. Through Mr. Reider’s coaching the “new [...]
70th Anniversary Commemoration of Alabama's First Black Female Pilot - Mildred Carter, Photo Gallery from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -TUSKEGEE AL- Mildred Hemmons Carter flew a Piper Cub into history on February 1, 1941, exactly 70 years ago. In a room filled with palpable affection and adoration, notables and friends gathered to pay tribute to a hometown hero, the first black woman pilot in Alabama. The Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center hosted the commemoration. ...
Honoring hero of the skies - Santa Rosa Press Democrat | Retired Col. and flying ace James Morehead salutes skyward as warbirds make a flyby Saturday during a day in his honor coinciding with the Petaluma ...
Kenneth C. Carlson - Flying Tigers news | Kenneth C. Carlson, 90, of Sioux Falls, S.D., formerly of Hawarden, passed away Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, at Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls. ... He served as a member of the 14th Air Force Flying Tigers in the China/Burma/India Theater. He achieved the rank of master sergeant and was discharged in ...
Collier Trophy Selection Committee Includes Three Recipients from Aero-News Network | One-Hundredth Presentation To Take Place In March Neil Armstrong (1969), Dick Rutan (1986) and Richard Truly (1988) will participate in the Selection Committee for the 100th presentation of the Robert J. Collier Trophy, the National Aeronautic Association announced Thursday. ...
The Black Aces and President Reagan - abc30.com | ... John Heubusch, executive director of the Reagan Presidential Foundation explained the situation, "These F-14's were fired on by Libyan fighter aircraft and both were shot down by Black Aces F-14's. And the message was sent that set the stage for Reagan foreign policy for the future. That is, we wanted peace but we were gonna have peace through strength." ...
Republic F-84E Thunderjets from Planeshots
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P-40B Flight Tests from Classic Aviation Worldwide by classic-aircraft | On 3rd February 2011; Pearl Harbour veteran P-40B of The Fighter Collection underwent a test flight with Pete Kynsey at the controls. Having suffered under CAA scrutiny putting in only minimal airshow appearances since arriving in the UK - many enthusiasts will now hope to see her take a prominent place at Duxford airshows. ...
One Powerful Helicopter Gunship- the ACH-47A "Guns A-Go-Go" from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | After years of experimentation with armed helicopters, the US Army finally sent armed Bell UH-1B Huey gunships into combat in October 1962 with the rocket/gun armed Hueys acting as escort for Piasecki CH-21 Shawnee transports out of Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon. Despite the growing success of the armed Hueys in the growing conflict in Vietnam, the Army sought a helicopter that offered even more firepower to ...
The first ever colour 'Air Display' photograph from Vintage Aeroplane Writer | Certainly the first I'm aware of, being one of the first ever air 'shows' and a very early colour image. Although it's a trade show, rather than an outdoor event, it is no less historic, being taken on September 30, at the 1909 Paris Salon, and that's Blériot's monoplane, in which he flew the Channel, only months earlier, front and centre. ...
Today in Aviation History – February 6 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club
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“A Pilots Story” Film Captures the Passion of Flying by Max Trescott | Will Hawkins and Rico Sharqawi, who live nearby me in northern California, are the creative forces behind the film. Already they've shot dozen of pilots, both ordinary and extraordinary. Some you'll recognize and some you won't. ...
Warbirds For Sale - 2011 from Another Time by Dan Linn | ... The internet is where I turn when seeking out who is buying, selling and flying vintage aircraft. In the aviation world, Warbirds seem to have the most coverage on the internet so a good number of web sites, blogs and forums are listed when searching the subject. If you happened to ...
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