Monday, February 28, 2011

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Leadership and Army Values Are Vital to the Golden Knights from US Army Golden Knights | There are some traditions in the Golden Knights that can trace their roots far deeper than the Team’s 50-year lifespan. While the Black and Gold canopies and air show performances are signatures of the US Army Parachute Team, the Army Values and good, old-fashioned mentorship are what REALLY holds this Team together. The Non-Commissioned Officer [...]

Sell-out expected for next Wanaka Airshow - The Press West Coast | Tickets are already on sale and expected to sell-out quickly for the 2012 Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow. The biennial Easter event attracts over 85000 visitors and features top stunt pilots, aircraft and aerobatics from around the world. ...

2011 Show Will Be Taking Applications from Windsor International Air Show 2011 | VOLUNTEERS We'll be opening up the application process very soon. Each volunteer will have to fill in a new application even of we had you on file last year. Every year we have to get your correct information and find a place for you in our organization.  The new ...

Vintage planes take to sky for fly-in - Marlborough Express | The Tiger Moth Club of New Zealand Inc held its annual fly-in and annual general meeting at Blenheim's Omaka airfield. Pilots competed in events including spot-landing, bombing, aerobatics, flying with instruments covered, and the perfect loop. ...

Doctor dies in Hudson River plane crash - Times Herald-Record | A New York State Trooper dive team member is lowered from a helicopter on Saturday to a spot near where a small jet crashed into the Hudson River in Kingston. The pilot, Dr. Michael Faraldi, 38, of Germantown, was killed in the crash. ...

People in Aviation: March 2011 from www.ainonline.com  | 2011 Schedulers & Dispatchers Outstanding Achievement & Leadership Award ... NBAA also awarded its 2011 Corporate Aviation Management Scholarships ....

WAI Conference Wraps In Reno - AVweb | Almost 3000 people from 22 countries attended the Women in Aviation International conference in Reno that ended Saturday. In a news release, WAI said $691750 in scholarships were distributed to 76 recipients ranging from ...

The B-18 “Bolo” Story – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Monday from WarbirdRadio.com | MONDAY – Captain Richard S. Dann (United States Navy) joins us to discuss the Douglas B-18 Bolo.  Designed from the DC-2, the Bolo takes it’s place in history as one of the most versatile aircraft of it’s generation.  CAPT Dann will share ...

Reno man on the trail of Amelia Earhart mystery - Reno Gazette Journal | Elgen Long, a consultant for the 2009 movie "Amelia," said the envelopes may be the only pieces of evidence that can prove or disprove the claim that a bone found in the Pacific are the remains of the aviatrix. The envelopes will be steamed open. ...

Veteran set to turn 90 after surviving four plane crashes, train bombing - Ocala | Pringle flew the B-24 and B-17 bombers and the Bristol Blenheim, a twin-engine bomber. He said although he isn't sure of the exact amount, he flew at least 50 official missions in Alaska. After D-Day, he went on to fly more than 50 additional missions ...

De Plane - Grumman Widgeon from Fantasy Island from Another Time | Back in 2003 my dad and I flew the 170 up to Bartlesville, OK for the annual fly-in.  The weather was great and it was a nice flight.  Clear blue skies.  This was one of my first aviation events with my new digital camera.  The event produce a good number of great pictures. ...

Top Gear the Spitfire challenge - YouTube | Jeremy, Richard and James fulfilling their and almost every men's childhood dream, to fly the mighty Spitfire.

Hot ice blues in Antarctica as jet flights end from Plane Talking | The second and last jet flight between Hobart and the Australian Antarctic blue ice runway some 70 kilometres from the Casey station this season took place yesterday. ...

Formation flight Sunday from Planeshots

American Pilot First To Fly Russian-Made Mi-35 In Combat from Military Photos | Kabul, Afghanistan, May 15, 2010--U.S. Air Force Major Caleb Nimmo is the first American pilot to fly the Russian Mi-35 HIND attack helicopter in combat. He is deployed to Afghanistan advising the Afghan National Army Air Corps’ rotary wing squadron as part of the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing, Combined Air Power Transition Force.  The 377th Rotary Wing Squadron of the Kabul Air Wing is advised by CAPTF’s coalition partners from the Czech Republic, Hungary and the U.S. The squadron flies the Russian made Mi-35 attack helicopter and the Mi-17 transport helicopter. ...

Growing up in Cotton Center helped soldier - Plainview Daily Herald | A former operations officer and executive officer in Tiger Squadron (his great uncle flew with the Flying Tigers and was shot down prior to WWII over Rangoon in 1939), he was involved in multiple "combat engagements" that resulted in soldiers getting ...

Press Release: The Beer has Landed: Astronauts4Hire Completes Space Beer Microgravity Test from Astronauts for Hire | Orlando, Florida – Astronauts4Hire has completed its inaugural paid contract to test the world’s first beer designed for consumption in space. The experiment, which marks humanity’s first formal study on alcohol absorption in microgravity, took place aboard a parabolic trajectory microgravity flight out of Cape Canaveral, Florida operated by Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G). Yesterday’s flight was the first in a series of microgravity flights qualifying the beer recipe for consumption in space, funded in part by sales of the beverage on Earth. ...

NASA provides detailed pictures of Discovery's survey maneuver from Photoblog | Katie Cannon writes:I remember being in middle school and our teachers wheeling a TV into our classroom so we could watch the beautiful shuttle launches that always sent a little twinge of national pride through me. I remember that cold day in January when I was home on a snow day and saw the Challenger ...


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