Saturday, February 26, 2011

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70 Years of Thunder - Luke AFB | Details

Newest fighter jet to headline Selfridge air show - Daily Tribune | The military’s newest fighter aircraft will headline the 2011 Selfridge Air Show in August.  A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor team will conduct one of the flying performances during the free show, Aug. 20-21.  “For the majority of our visitors, I am certain this will represent their first opportunity to see an F-22,” said Lt. Col. Sean Campbell, director of the air show. ...

ILLOWA Sport Flyers to meet March 5 - Quad-Cities Online | The club will be joining in with the Davenport Airport and the Quad City Air Show June 18-19 with an area display of the club and aircraft. This year The Blue Angles will be the featured show. The Quad City Air Show is one of a few air shows that have ...

City says no to funds for air show - Wisconsin Dells Events | The Wisconsin Dells Council's Finance Committee said no to a request for funds for the annual air show at the Baraboo-Dells Airport, but said yes to a proposal to ...

The Horsemen P-51 Mustangs - Fargo AirSho | The Horsemen are widely know for flying the world’s only P-51 Mustang aerobatic team. The team flys only a limited number of select shows each year, and have named Fargo as a site for 2011. The Horsemen are comprised of three highly skilled warbird pilots who have passion for showcasing the planes that made America great: Jim Beasley, Dan Friedkin, and Ed Shipley.  The trio is also featured on a reality series on ASB.TV that follows the team from the creation of the team to their aviation adventures around the world.

Gateway Aviation Day set for takeoff - Arizona Republic | 26, 2011 06:24 AM It's called Gateway Aviation Day, and there will be a lot to celebrate while ducking under the wings of an aircraft-refueling tanker, standing closer than most people ever do to an Apache helicopter and checking out a McDonnell ...

Kemble air show salute to Hunters - Wiltshire Gazette and Herald | The 2011 Cotswold Air Show is planning a flypast consisting of nine of the iconic jets, many of which were built and maintained at the airport. From 1954 to 1989, RAF Kemble became known as the Hunter HQ, as virtually every UK Hunter, more than 1200 ...

Big Band Hangar Dance and WWII Musical Show - Arizona Reporter | ... a fund raiser for the non-profit CAF Aviation Museum, 2017 N. Greenfield Rd at Mesa's Falcon Field, NE corner of McKellips and Greenfield; The CAF is an organization dedicated to keeping aviation history alive for current and future generations. ...

Officials celebrate 100 years of aviation Dominican - Nuevo eldiario | The 100 years of aviation in the Dominican Republic will be held on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 March, with the display of Caribbean Air Show 2011, a great air show in which acrobats and aircraft pilots will participate in various countries along the waterfront of the capital, between Avenida Maximo Gomez and Abraham Lincoln, between the hours of 13:00 to 19:00. ...

Updates from WAI
Flying the Friendly Renton Skies - Renton, WA Patch from renton.patch.com | Back at the end of December, Delta Airlines pilot and Renton resident, Karlene Pettit organized a free event, dubbed “Fly it Forward,” which had the dual purpose of being part of a worldwide celebration of the Centennial of Women Pilots and a push to help Renton Municipal Airport earn the designation of the Most Female-Pilot-Friendly Airport in the World.  Sadly, we missed out by a whisker, but as Karlene points out in her excellent blog post on the event, we started late but had an AMAZING finish and ultimately earned a top finish in the United States!  ...

1941 Air Race: Porterfield Gets Whipped By JATO Ercoupe! from AirPigz | OK, it wasn't a real 'air race', but it was a pretty historic event: the first ever JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) in the United States. And the massive brute of an airplane chosen to try this new technology? Why the Ercoupe of course... all ~1,200 pounds of it! My research on the internet turned up some confusing info on how much thrust is on display in this picture, but I'm inclined to believe the claim that the Ercoupe is ...

Crews To Use Video To Help Raise Rare WWII Airplane - 10 News [video] | TBD Devastator Bomber Discovered Off Coast Of San Diego | Recovery crews will be relying on new video footage in an effort to raise a World War II plane discovered off the coast of San Diego.  A&T Recovery revealed the first-ever glimpse of the TBD Devastator, which is considered the "Holy Grail" of naval aviation restoration. In the video, a robotic camera captures video of a weathered cockpit and instrument panel, along with the remnants of an airplane wing. ...

LaVoy Poehlman, 91 / Sept. 10, 1919 — Feb. 24, 2011 - Niles Daily Star | As a young man, LaVoy served in the United States Air Force as a flight instructor for B-25 bombers. On April 16, 1945 in Buchanan he married the former Colleen M. Mellen, who would be his wife and constant companion for more than 65 years. ...

Six decades later, World War II airmen honored with medals in Utah - Salt Lake Tribune | Also honored was Sgt. Paul Sersland, an aerial gunner on a B-17 who participated in 35 bombing raids over enemy occupied Europe in 1944 and 1945. “It's perfectly appropriate, even though it's decades late, that we still recognize the work these men did ...

A captured Junkers Ju 88A in U.S. colors from Planeshots | More Ju 88's in the archives

“Bell D188A Mach 2 VTOL Fighter Project” now in print from The Unwanted Blog | This is the real First Edition of the thing, with (hopefully) all the bugs worked out. It is revised from the original ...

February 26 from Cut and Paste Aviation 

Dream of flight within reach for scholarship winner - AOPA Pilot | Women in Aviation International President Peggy Chabrian and AOPA President Craig Fuller waved from the cockpit of the giant replica and climbed down the stairs to welcome attendees at the opening reception of the twenty-second annual International ...

Student balloon project images Discovery from above from The Original Rocket Dungeon | Alan Boyle reports on the Robonaut-1 balloon project, which imaged Discovery/STS-133 from the stratosphere.  The project was a joint project by between the Challenger Center for Space Science Education and Quest for Stars.  The balloon payload included a smart phone, however, the team found that the cell coverage over the south Florida swamps was poor.  They have recovered the Robonaut-1 and are extracting more images. ...

Boeing Receives IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing for the Mercury Spacecraft in Ceremony Today from The Aero Experience | Boeing received the IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing for the Mercury Spacecraft in a ceremony today at the St. Louis Campus Building 100 Prologue Room.  The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a non-profit, professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation related to electricity, and recognizes the advancements made by the Mercury Spacecraft team in the areas of navigation and control systems, including fly-by-wire.  Here are some views of the ceremony: ...


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