Thursday, March 10, 2011

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Air Fiesta organizers introduces new acts for 2011 - Brownsville Herald | Franklin, a “wing walker” in air show parlance, is one half of the aerobatic act “Pirated Skies,” one of the headliners at this year's Air Fiesta, March 11-13, at the Brownsville-South Padre Island International Airport. ...

Highlights for the 2011 Fair St. Louis announced - KMOV.com | An air show including military and civilian performers will also take place. The 2011 Fair St. Louis will be held July 2-4 on the Gateway Arch grounds. It will kick off at 10 am July 2 with the 134th Veiled Prophet Parade. Following the Fourth of July ...

Naval Aviation Centennial: The Navy in fixed wing and helicopters - New Hampshire Magazine | The Commemoration of the Naval Aviation Centennial continues this weekend at the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire with the third in their speakers on Naval Aviation.  Retired Commander Peter S. Burdett will speak on Saturday March 12th, the Laconia native will speak on his service in the Navy in fixed wing and helicopters.  ...

HAFB air show in jeopardy - Standard-Examiner | HILL AIR FORCE BASE — For the second time in three years, it appears the popular Hill Air Force Base Air Show will be cancelled.  After a successful show in the summer 2009 that drew more than 400,000 spectators, base officials announced in early January, the biennial air show would be back again in 2011. ...

Watsonville Air Show - Up in the Air - Santa Cruz Sentinel | Watsonville Air Show September 3, 2010. Pilots: Mark C. Klein and Ken C. Bohrman. Video by Chloe Lee, Sentinel Correspondent.

Welshpool Airshow back on by Flightline UK | DESPITE initial gloomy forecasts for Welshpool Air Show this summer, it was announced this week that the Red Arrows display aircraft will fly over at around 10.30am on Sunday morning, June 12. It will be followed by a Spitfire early in ...

Bodies Found In Plane Wreckage Plane Headed To Idaho Falls Disappeared; Rexburg Couple On Board | Local News 8 | JACKPOT, Nevada -- Two bodies have been found in the wreckage of a Korean War-era plane near the Idaho-Nevada border, Wednesday afternoon. ... Owners of Pacific Fighter, an Idaho Falls restoration company that has worked on the plane, said the couple was returning home from a weekend trip to Wendover, Utah. They left the airport around 4 p.m. Tuesday. ...

Ninety Nine Leaders Among Honorees in FAA's 2011 GA Awards from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Four aviation professionals were recently acknowledged for their diverse contributions to the industry, through the 2011 General Aviation Awards. The annual awards program is a collaborative effort with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and over a dozen aviation organizations, including NBAA.  ...

A Week That Supports Women in Aviation Around the Globe from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | This week marks Women of Aviation Worldwide Week, which showcases today's women of aviation and encourages young girls and women to consider careers in aviation. The initiative, which runs from March 7 to 13, is scheduled to coincide with and celebrate International Women's Day, observed annually on March 8.  ...

KC-10's 30th Birthday from AF.mil Photos
Then Technical Sgt. Bill Gross stands on the flightline Dec. 7, 199, at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Sergeant Gross was in Hawaii to help commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Sergeant Gross was a long-time crew chief assigned to the Air Force's first KC-10 and has been stationed with the aircraft for nearly his entire career. As the KC-10 celebrates its 30th year of Air Force service on March 17, 2011, Sergeant Gross can claim that he has been there every step of the way. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Now: Senior Master Sgt. Bill Gross stands on the flightline March 8, 2011at Joint Base Mcguire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Sergeant Gross was a long-time crew chief assigned to the Air Force's first KC-10 and has been stationed with the aircraft for nearly his entire career. As the KC-10 celebrates its 30th year of Air Force service on March 17, 2011, Sergeant Gross can claim that he has been there every step of the way. (U.S. Air Force photo)

An F-100F Super Sabre joins the Collings Foundation’s Vietnam Memorial Flight in honor of Vietnam War Hero and MoH recipient Col. Bud Day, MISTY pilots and all Vietnam Veterans. - Collings Foundation News Letter | Medal of Honor recipients, Vietnam Veterans and POWs from around the country will be celebrating the roll out and commemoration of the F-100F Super Sabre jet (first super sonic jet). This very rare Vietnam icon will join the F-4 Phantom II, A-4 Skyhawk and UH-1E “Huey” helicopter that the Collings Foundation flies in honor of our Vietnam Veterans. ... [full newsletter]

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Video: Russian Be-200 (Water Hog?) Is Extremely Versatile from AirPigz | The Russian Beriev Be-200 built by Irkut is a pretty amazing and versatile flying machine. It's not everyday you run across an amphibious jet powered aircraft that can haul 72 passengers... ok actually, you pretty much never run across an amphibious jet powered aircraft that can carry 72 passengers. But in addition to  ...

Southern Museum of Flight Taps Billy J Singleton for Chairman from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -BIRMINGHAM AL- During a regular meeting, the board members of the Southern Museum of Flight elected Billy J Singleton as their new Chairman. Singleton, will take the reins from Jim Daniels who served in the position for the past several years. ...

Revised: A-10 Picture Gallery from MILAVIA Updates | Updated A-10 Thunderbolt II gallery to new layout and more than 200 pictures.

Space Shuttle Discovery Returns Home After Final Mission from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | CAPE CANAVERAL FL- Space shuttle Discovery and its six-astronaut crew ended a 13-day journey of more than five million miles and concluded the spacecraft's illustrious 27-year career with an 11:57 a.m. EST landing Wednesday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  STS-133 was the last mission for the longest-serving veteran of NASA's space shuttle fleet. Since 1984, Discovery flew 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited Earth 5,830 times and traveled 148,221,675 miles.  ...

Astronaut Tied Emotionally To Shuttles, KSC - The Flame Trench | Here they are making it safe enough to tow back to its processing hangar so it can be prepped for display in a museum, most likely the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. Well, the passion and pride was plenty evident for mission specialist Nicole Stott as ...

Discovery Lands, Now on to a Museum from Spaceports | Space shuttle Discovery touched down for the last time Wednesday, wrapping up another chapter of U.S. space travel. NASA's oldest and most-flown spacecraft ends its career with 148 million miles and 365 days spent in space.


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