Centennial of Naval Aviation Update – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Wednesday from WarbirdRadio.com | WENDESDAY - Captain Richard Dann (USN) joins us with an update on the plans for the Centennial of Naval Aviation celebration. CAPT Dann will also be taking your calls and questions…so join the conversation by using the contact info [...]
Some good info on kick off events on THIS POST.
Navy to celebrate 100 years of flight with huge air show - San Diego Union Tribune | In a majestic choreography of planes, boats and automobiles, more than 120,000 people are likely to gather around San Diego Bay on Saturday for an historic parade of Navy air power. ...
Centennial of Naval Aviation - Heritage Paint Schemes from FenceCheck Forums
St. Augustine Air Show announces new acts, sponsors for 2011 event - Florida Times-Union
Team MS760 is a new two-ship aerobatic formation jet airshow team. The pilots, retired US Navy Capt. Dale "Snort" Snodgrass and retired US Air Force Lt. ...
'Scaled-down' air show planned for Arnold Palmer airport - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | "Our hope is to put on a smaller version of the air show. There won't be any US Navy Blue Angels or US Air Force Thunderbirds," said Donald Rossi, ...
Aero India-2011 creates history as largest ever - Sify | The present-day version of Aero India, deemed the biggest air show in Asia, had begun as a modest display of a few aviation assets as Avia-India in 1993. ...
Aero India 2011: How the show grew by leaps and bounds - Daily News & Analysis | Of the 100 aircraft participating in the air show, 27 belong to the civil aviation sector. Barring Avia-India 1993, the growth in Aero-India since 1998 to ...
Russia stands out in Aero India-2011 - The Voice of Russia | The Aero India-2011 Air Show gets under way in Bangalore featuring the latest in aircraft technology from more than 600 companies from 29 countries. ...
Petaluma Honors Early Air Mail Pilot from Pacific Flyer | The Petaluma, Calif. aviation museum will honor through April the first local airmail flight on Feb. 17, 1911 when a young pilot braved bad weather and flew from Petaluma to Santa Rosa ... even though it took two days. According to the U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission the post office of Petaluma had flying enthusiast Fred Wiseman fly that 18 miles to Santa Rosa, carrying ... New Private MiG29 from FenceCheck Forums
A3D being rebuilt from Pacific Flyer | In January 2010, retired Navy Master Chief Mike Glenn assembled several former squadron mates from VP65 to help in the restoration of A-3D (BuNo 135434), which had been stored at Edwards AFB on an abandoned runway since the late 1960's. The Douglas A-3 Skywarrior was designed by Ed Heinemann as a strategic bomber for the United States Navy and was among the longest serving carrier-based jet aircraft. ...
More from Pacific Flyer - Waco is Perfect 10 ,CarterCopter Flies At Last
Oakland Aviation Museum — the military aircraft 1 of 2 from Travel for Aircraft | This post, the third in series on this museum, is about the aircraft on exhibit outside next to the main hangar. These aircraft are almost all military with a few exceptions such as the Short Bros. Solent* as well as the NASA McDonnell-Douglas TAV-8A Harrier. Walking the grounds is an easy affair and the exhibits are extremely approachable. Here are images of several of the aircraft there: ...
How the USS Wasp Defeated Rommel's Afrika Corps on Just Two Operations from Aviation Trivia of the Day | From 1940 to 1942 the Italian Regia Aeronautica and the Luftwaffe mounted over 3,000 sorties against the British fortress island of Malta in the Mediterranean in an effort to secure their supply lines to Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in North Africa. Despite repeated attacks, the Allies managed to keep Malta supplied, even with Axis airfields only sixty miles to the north in Sicily. With the coming of the harsh Russian winter in 1941, poor flying conditions put a temporary hold ...
The "Wright" Stuff - Summer Rocket Camp Comes to Acworth! - Examiner.com | Rocketry Club are sponsoring “The Wright Stuff” this summer at Allatoona High School in Acworth. The Museum will bring its F-15 Fighter Jet Cockpit On SITE ...
Nation's first drone test pilot trainee has the right-click stuff - Los Angeles Times | Nicholas "Hammer" Helms is in line to be the next aviator to make history at Edwards. But he won't be breaking any speed records or risking his life to push ...
Aircraft companies Submit New Designs from Pacific Flyer | NASA recently awarded contracts to three teams to study concepts for more-efficient airliners that could enter service by 2025 and the three companies competing have released artist concepts of their proposals. The designs come from teams led by Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
"Each design looks very different, but all final designs have to meet NASA's goals for less noise, cleaner exhaust and lower fuel consumption," NASA noted after reviewing the artists' conceptions. ...
Burt Rutan to speak at Robotics Team fundraiser - Tehachapi News | Tehachapi High School Robotics Team advisor Danielle Evansic announced that famed aviation designer Burt Rutan will speak at the team's chili cookoff ...
Video: Buzz Aldrin Explains The ALSRC from San Diego Air & Space Museum Blog | During a visit to the Museum, astronaut and author Buzz Aldrin took the time to explain the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container (ALSRC), currently on display in a case next to the Apollo 9 spacecraft, that he used during his trip to the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. ...
Episode 134 – Lots of Listener Mail from Airplane Geeks Podcast | Pieter Johnson, our Geek in Europe and producer of our Across the Pond segment, joins us in this listener mail episode. That’s right, pretty much nothing but listener mail. Oh, and the Australia Desk Report by Steve and Grant from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast. ...
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