Paul Allen buys a MiG-29 fighter (Herald) from Aerospace News by Aubrey Cohen | Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has bought a restored Soviet MiG-29 fighter jet, The (Everett) Herald reported Tuesday. Here’s a photo gallery of the jet. The two-seat MiG-29UB was built in the Soviet Union between 1985 and 1991 and saw service with the Ukrainian Air Force after the U.S.S.R. dissolved in 1991. In 2005, Ukraine demilitarized [...]Goodyear firefighter to fly F-16 at Luke Air Force Base - AZ Central.com | Oscar Navarro was chosen as the "hometown hero" of the year by the US Air Force Thunderbirds F-16 Demonstration Team. He was chosen because of his involvement with the community through the Goodyear Firefighter Association's charity organization and ...
Sun ’n Fun offers new VIP hospitality options from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Sun ’n Fun is offering new ways to experience this year’s Fly-In & Expo, which will be held March 29-April 3 on its campus at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport (LAL) in Florida. Two new VIP Hospitality programs will be made available for the first time during this year’s event that combine the best qualities of membership in an exclusive club with the amenities of a “Skybox” at premier athletic events, according to fly-in officials. Read more...
Roller Derby Gals, Navy Planes And Cupcakes - Patch.com | Good Plane Fun: If you have a high flyer or two under your roof, you may want to reserve part of a Saturday or Sunday to visit the Quonset Air Museum in North Kingstown. You'll find two dozen aircraft, including helicopters to a plane flown by the Blue ...
How to enjoy a Spring "stay-cation" – Prospectus | The Chanute Air Museum houses more than 3000 items, including more than 30 aircraft. It is located on the former Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul but is easy to get to and worth the trip to see what life was like for soldiers and officers especially ...
How to enjoy a Spring "stay-cation" – Prospectus | The Chanute Air Museum houses more than 3000 items, including more than 30 aircraft. It is located on the former Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul but is easy to get to and worth the trip to see what life was like for soldiers and officers especially ...
Australian Defence Force at Avalon 2011 from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | This year commemorates the Royal Australian Air Force's 90th anniversary and Avalon was an opportunity for the air force and other branches of the ADF to show off their hardware. Unfortunately the NH90 did not fly and to the best of my knowledge the Tiger attack helicopter employed by the Army was not on location…Airshow returns to Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum - Stoney Creek News | There are also plans underway to celebrate the museum's 40th anniversary with the Salute to Allied Veterans Airshow on the same weekend. It's been a day of frantic phone calls and emails to the home country for members of Hamilt. ...
CF-18 Hornet Demo Pilot Bio by Sounds of Freedom III - 2011 Demonstration Pilot | Capt Erick O’Connor was born Quebec City and enrolled in the Canadian Forces (CF) in August 1991 while attending Chicoutimi Flight College. In 1994, after completing his Basic Flight Training in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, he was selected to fly helicopters. Capt O’Connor trained on the Kiowa before being posted to 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron (THS) in Edmonton where he flew the Twin Huey and Griffon helicopter for 9 years, deploying on multiple domestic operations and training exercises…RAF Waddington International Airshow bookings 'up' - BBC News | Organisers of the Waddington International Airshow have said that bookings are up for this year's event in July compared with last year. Held each year at RAF Waddington, near Lincoln, the show attracts more than 100000 people over two days. ...
Hill Air Force Base defers popular air show to 2012 - Deseret News | HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A recent warning that budget priorities might prompt base commanders to cancel the air show this year are now official. "Given our current budgetary environment, I don't believe it would be fiscally responsible for Hill Air Force ...
Hill Air Force Base defers popular air show to 2012 - Deseret News | HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A recent warning that budget priorities might prompt base commanders to cancel the air show this year are now official. "Given our current budgetary environment, I don't believe it would be fiscally responsible for Hill Air Force ...
Airport manager: No Cape Girardeau air show in 2011 - Southeast Missourian | Visitors to the Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival seek refuge from the sun under the wing of an aircraft Sunday, June 20, 2010. Following a successful Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival last year, ...
Intrepid Museum's Shuttle Pitch - myfoxny.com | Susan Marenoff, the president of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space museum, stopped by Good Day to talk about the museum's effort to land a retired space shuttle from NASA's fleet. The Intrepid Museum has applied to NASA for consideration to bring the ...
Fokker C.V book from Let Let Let – Warplanes | On march 3d, 2011 the book “Fokker C.5: ontwikkeling, gebruik en ondergang” was presented at the Militaire luchtvaart museum, Soesterberg (Netherlands). After a period of six years of research and writing, a 256 page work about the use of the Fokker C.5 reconnaissance and light bomber aircraft was complete. This book deals with the intensive use of the type in Dutch service, the “Luchtvaart Afdeling” (which can be translated as army aircorps)…
Fokker C.V book from Let Let Let – Warplanes | On march 3d, 2011 the book “Fokker C.5: ontwikkeling, gebruik en ondergang” was presented at the Militaire luchtvaart museum, Soesterberg (Netherlands). After a period of six years of research and writing, a 256 page work about the use of the Fokker C.5 reconnaissance and light bomber aircraft was complete. This book deals with the intensive use of the type in Dutch service, the “Luchtvaart Afdeling” (which can be translated as army aircorps)…
RetroNews: Diamandis Rallies WAI Crowd Around Private Spaceflight from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | Aero-News.net, 19 Mar 2008: Diamandis Rallies WAI Crowd Around Private Spaceflight - Hopes To Grow Zero-G Program Significantly by ANN Correspondent Aleta Vinas | The Women in Aviation International Conference always has top speakers in the aviation field, and the messages these speakers impart to the audience have no time limit. So, even though the WAI conference is over for this year (start making plans for Atlanta (GA) February 26 - 28 2009) the speakers' words are worth repeating…
'Smiles for miles': Maryland event takes 185 women aloft - AOPA Pilot | The Joneses had come out to the airport in 2010 to watch women pilots entered in the Air Race Classic land at Frederick, which was the terminus of the race. Victoria said she was “very excited” to take her first flight, while Nancy admitted to being “a ...Where is My Jetcar? from J Clark | When the clocks ticked over from December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000, everyone in the entire world collectively held their breath to see if all of the computers would crash. There had been a great deal written and published about the problems of the internal clocks within the computers; there were questions of whether or not they would recognize the year 2000. Back in the 1970s and 80s, code writers did not think about the turn of the coming century when they incorporated time into their computer software and hardware. Computer software companies wrote code as fast as they could to avoid the problems. As fast as they wrote new code, the world waited and speculated as to how bad the crash would be at the end of New Year’s Eve…
Helicopters Unable to Drop Water Over Japan’s Nuclear Reactor. from Planenews Aviation News by gil | High levels of radiation prevented helicopters on Wednesday from dropping water over a quake and tsunami-damaged nuclear reactor in north-eastern Japan, a news report said…
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