Monday, February 21, 2011

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Female pilot stars in Valkaria air show - FLORIDA TODAY | Inside Patty Wagstaff’s Extra 300 Flugzenbau single-engine stunt plane on Saturday were a pair of white leather golf gloves she uses for flying and the words ...

Planes of Fame 2011 Airshow May 14-15 from TAKEOFF TUBE | Come experience the excitement! This year's show will feature over 40 historic aircraft performing for your enjoyment as well as a salute to 100 years of Naval aviation. 

East Cotswold businesses celebrate award success - Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard | Helen Webb, assistant marketing director of the Royal International Air Tattoo won the Howard Dowler award for outstanding contribution to the community. Chairman of the FLBC Tim Small said: "Helen works very hard behind the scenes. ...  

Flying legends, by Ken Cartwright from Pixdaus: Popular Today Pics

Indian army aviation corps celebrates it's 25 years - indiablooms | Jammu, February 20 (ANI): Army aviation corps, component of Indian Army entered its silver jubilee year and celebrated its glowing journey of 25 years in Jammu on Sunday. Speaking to media persons on the occasion, AS Sidhu, Brigadier and senior pilot ...

Speed: 500 MPH. Altitude: 50 Feet. Feeling: Amazing - Pilot Magazin | From the tiny Formula 1 class racers that lap the short course at more than 250 mph to the anything-goes unlimited class where pilots go more than 500 mph just 50 feet off the ground, going fast is the only goal. The 47th annual National Championship Air Races kick into high gear this weekend at Stead Field outside Reno, Nevada. The event started in 1964 when World War II pilot Bill Stead organized a race in the high desert of Nevada, resurrecting a sport that had largely gone missing since the last of the great Cleveland air races in 1949. ... 

Amelia Earhart's old letters hold clue to her disappearance [Mystery] by Esther Inglis-Arkell | The Amelia Earhart disappearance hasn't actually been a mystery so much as a jumping-off point for as many fantastical theories as possible. Earhart had often been credited as a better self-promoter and daredevil than a pilot. Her last stunt, in 1937, was an attempt to make the record books as the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in an airplane. During the final leg of her journey she, her navigator, and her plane all vanished. ...

Hi all my aviator friends! - Evan | I have a new interview with Eddie Andreini about his Super Stearman and all the modifications he's done to it.  I also have some photos my dad took of his new P-51 Mustang and a short video my dad did of it too!  Eddie's Mustang should be flying next month!
Also, check out this cool website. It has TONS of info about all kinds planes and all you pilot friends of mine can add to the info!  Evan

Bristol Type 152 Beaufort from Planeshots

Farewell navigator . . from www.rin.org.uk
Training of navigators in the RAF ceased forever today as the 3 last students graduated at RAF Cranwell. ...

February 20 - from Cut and Paste Aviation

Begins at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Red Flag 11-3 from CavokBlog | The skies over Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., will be busy over the next three weeks as there is the largest military exercise simulated air in the world, Red Flag 11-3, which begins on Monday, February 21 and ends on March 11, with missions taking place in the Air Training and Testing of Nevada in North Las Vegas. ...

Formation flight Sunday. Blenheim IVs from Planeshots | more formation shots in the archive

Remote control plane fly-in - Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier | RICK CHASE Pigs did fly during the Black Hawk RC Pilots E/xpo indoor electric fly-in at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls, Iowa Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011. This pigs was designed by Dave Nix and flown by Nick Weber. ...

Ohio Air News #153 - Charles Johnson | Pictures from the 2011 "Blizzardcon" Model Show

Passion for flying - The Argus Observer | Model airplane club offers venue for hobbyists.  Ontario resident Bob Moore’s love of model airplanes began when he was just a boy.  Moore said, after school, he would help out doing various odd jobs at Westcock Electric in Ontario, which was owned by Ray Westcock. He said he was fascinated with the model airplane sitting in the front window of the business. After saving up his paper route money, Moore went out and bought his first plane, a motorized free-flight glider, and began flying at age 10 on what was known then as Palmer’s Hill out by Ontario High School. ...

Intrepid Museum Celebrates "Kids Week" - NY1 | If you want to keep the children busy while they're on break this week, head to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. The Ringling Brothers Circus will be back at the Intrepid Sunday to perform and teach children about science. ...

Liverpool region 12-year-old pilot to feature on BBC Inside Out - Click Liverpool | Otto Dawes is a typical 12-year-old in many ways except that in his spare time he uses his pocket money for flying lessons.  The would-be pilot, from the Wirral, began flying at the age of 11 after becoming obsessed from a young age.

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