Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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Indy Air Show Lands Title Sponsor - Inside INdiana Business | Tom Wood Automotive Group has been announced as the title sponsor for the Indianapolis Air Show this May. The company will also provide transportation for the US Navy's Blue Angels, who will headline the May event at Mt. Comfort Airport. ...

Southend Airshow Date Change - Southend News | The 2011 Southend Airshow will not be held this May Bank Holiday as expected. As part of cost-cutting measures, this year’s airshow won’t run over the May Bank Holiday Sunday and Monday normal, but instead will take place on Saturday 28th May and Sunday 29th May 2011.  One of ...

Wings of Freedom Tour - The Daily You™ | The Wings of Freedom Tour brings historic aviation to your community, including B-17, B-24, and P-51. Tour through the authentically restored aircraft or take a flight aboard for the ultimate immersion in history. Walk through tours of the aircraft are ...

China Marks 100 Years of Flight - Wall Street Journal | China's first aviator, Feng Ru (aka Joe Fung), was a contemporary of France's Mr. Vallon but actually did most of his flying in the US He died in a 1912 crash in Guangzhou shortly after returning to China. Like Mr. Vallon, he was trying to land ...

Pushpak Expedition marks Army Aviation Corps' silver jubilee - Punjab Newsline | To commemorate the occasion, air show was held Tuesday at Aviation Base, Patiala. The air show included fly past with Pushpak/Chetak, skydiving, slithering, under slung operations and static display of aircraft etc to showcase the heritage and ...

The Nose Art Authority – Gary Velasco – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Tuesday from WarbirdRadio.com |   TUESDAY – The world’s expert on nose art…Mr. Gary Velasco joins us with an update from Fighting Colors.com.  Hear the latest news from Gary’s world this Tuesday at 10am (EASTERN) on Warbird Radio LIVE.  We’ll be talkin’ all things nose art…so tune in.  To join in on the conversation just use the contact info [...]

Navy Celebrates 100 Years of Aviation from Pacific Flyer | North Island, on a peninsula across the bay from San Diego, was the "official" kick off of the Centennial of Naval Aviation (CoNA) celebration Feb. 12 even though an event at Norfolk was held a couple of months ago.  But as it's where the Navy's first pilot trained (without a plane), so has been given the title of "birthplace."  The first successful hydroaeroplane flight took place at the base in 1911, just eight years after the 1903 Wright brother's flight in North Carolina. ...

Meet history face to face from General Aviation News | ... This column is about making that opportunity possible, at least for those who feel a little adventurous, have an appreciation for history, and are willing to travel a bit to meet and talk to some truly remarkable men in their twilight years. I’m talking about Tuskegee Airmen, and you might be  ...

His mission: Honor Flight - Coshocton Tribune | "It was larger than a B-17 and was also faster, could carry a heavier payload and flew further," Hill said. "One of my longest missions was 14 hours and 15 minutes." When he wasn't looking for targets to bomb, Hill was flying over the Hump to get ...

Blue skies, Bob Goebel (Profile 25). from WWII & Korean Conflict Airplane Profiles | Yesterday, Lt. Col. Robert Goebel, double-ace (11 victories) of the 31st FG, died at his California home.  Bob was one of the first pilots I interviewed.  He gave me gracious encouragement as well as his time.  He was an unusually articulate guy - careful in speech, erudite, intellectual.  He absolutely shattered my prior (ignorant) ideal that an Ace was necessarily a tough-talking, brassy hot shot.  No, Bob Goebel was a right-minded gentleman of the first order.  He also possessed a strong positivity about the youth of America and their potential for growing our Nation. ...

Gone West: Air Tractor Founder Leland Snow from Aero-News Network | Considered By Many To Be The Father Of Modern Aerial Spraying Leland Snow, founder and President of Air Tractor, Inc., and the inventor of modern aerial spray aircraft, died Sunday morning, February 20, 2011 while jogging near his home. He was 80 years old. ...

SFU forensic researcher to study Amelia Earhart's DNA from letters - Vancouver Sun | A forensic scientist at Simon Fraser University will attempt to extract DNA from the personal letters of legendary aviator Amelia Earhart in the hope of finally solving the mystery of her final ...

Sukhoi Su-30 from Planeshots | Additional photos here

Heber Air Force Museum needs volunteers - ABC 4 | HEBER, Utah (ABC 4 News) - The Utah Wing of the Commemorative Air Force Museum needs volunteers. They rely on volunteers to keep their doors open from April to September. Museum officials say the hours are Tuesday through Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm. ...

Aviation Group Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Wings of Hope, a charitable flying group based in St. Louis, Mo., is on a list of nominees for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, the Air Care Alliance said this week. The group is one of 237 candidates for the prize, the largest number ever. Each nominee is selected by a qualified nominator who works with the Nobel Committee to identify deserving groups and individuals around the world. "This is a great honor to all of our volunteers and donors," Wings of Hope President Doug Clements told the Bellville News Democrat. "They are the ones who see the humanity of our fellow men and who seek to extend the hand of human kindness to them." By the end of March, the Nobel committee will reduce the nominee list to a short list of prospects, and in October, the Nobel laureates will be announced. ...

the Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar, circa 1960 from x planes

International Learn to Fly Day Seeks To Increase Pilot Numbers - Suite101 | The goal of International Learn to Fly Day is to welcome potential pilots into the aviation community and guide them towards realizing the dream of flight.

Boeing Donates 'Legends of Flight' Proceeds To Washington State LASER - AvStop Aviation News | Boeing's donation comes from proceeds from its sponsorship of the IMAX film "Legends of Flight." The presentation took place during the monthly executive board meeting at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle , Wash. "Boeing is delighted to be able to ...

The World’s Largest Aircraft: Four Compared from ASB.tv | What exactly defines the largest aircraft in the world? Is it the length? The wingspan? How about its total weight? There is no absolute largest airplane winner out there, but the four largest contestants all come out on top in a certain category. In this post we look at these behemoth flying machines that seem to defy gravity when taking to the sky. ...

Today in Aviation History – February 22 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club | In 1912… The Fokker Aviatik G.m.b.H. company is entered in the trade register at Berlin, Germany with a quoted capital of 20,000 marks. The company’s Holland-born founder, Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, was brought up in Haarlem, the Netherlands and moved to Germany where he developed a passion for aviation before designing his first airplane – the Spider No. 1 – in late 1910. ...

MaxAir2Air - Hello Plane Folks, This week I bring you a slide show with music from the United States Air Force Band on a Missing Man flyover for Emil Wasilowski. Also on MaxAir2Air, there are new ecards you can send free.

Making The Switch - Tyson V. Rininger's Blog | Nikon was kind enough to allow me use of their equipment at the Reno Air Races in 2010. Evan, over at www.evanflys.com, spotted me a few RV's away along the Valley of Speed using a Nikon D3s and a 600 f/4. ...

Watch Out Virgin Galactic and Space Adventures: Here Comes Xtraordinary ... American Banking News | ... is focused on the research, development and production of safe, reliable, reusable launch vehicles, rocket engines and rocket propulsion systems being developed from its headquarters at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California. ...

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