Thursday, March 24, 2011

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Air Show Celebrates Two Important Developments - WTOK | The Golden Wings Over Meridian Air Show, featuring the Navy's Blue Angels, marks the 100th anniversary of naval aviation and the 50th anniversary of NAS Meridian. Here is some information from NAS Meridian that will be helpful to those attending the ...
NAS Meridian celebrates 50th anniversary - Picayune Item

Something for Everyone - The Ledger | New to Sun 'n Fun, or want to know how to get the most out of your visit? Sun 'n Fun President John Burton offers the following tips: Wear comfortable clothes and walking shoes. Sun 'n Fun covers a lot of ground and the primary mode of ...
   
Air show features Travis Wammack - Times Daily | COURTLAND - Memphis guitarist Travis Wammack and the Alabama Blues Brothers will headline the Courtland Airshow and Music Festival in September at the airport. More entertainment is planned for the Sept. 23-24 event, representatives of the Tennessee ...

Rare B-29 to be star of Legends over the Colorado River - Mohave Valley News | The huge four-engine bomber is newer and larger than the B-17 Flying Fortress, which was featured last year. The biggest aircraft for this year's show has been undergoing renovation for the past few years. The L-BIA appearance will be her first actual ...

IMAGES: Smoke Squadron is the first demonstration of 2011 from CavokBlog | The Smoke Squadron played their first gig of the year, on March 11 in Laguna, Santa Catarina. On this day also, Lieutenant-Colonel Wagner de Almeida Esteves made his first statement as Commander and Chief of the Air Demonstration Squadron (ADS). ...

ORGANISERS say the third Armed Forces Day celebrations in Cleethorpes will be ... - Grimsby Telegraph | Attractions heading to the resort on Saturday, June 25, will include a dazzling display by the Blades Aerobatic Team, a flypast by the Lancaster from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and a parade of former and existing armed forces personnel. ...

Air Show gets fuel from province - Airdrie Echo | The Airdrie Regional Air Show Society received a funding boost Saturday morning, when the province issued the group a cheque for $75000 through the community initiatives program. Lindsay Blackett, minister of culture and ...
   
Medal of Honor recipients honored - Pensacola News Journal | Winners of the Medal of Honor, our nation's highest military award, will be celebrated at 9 am Friday at the third annual Medal of Honor Day at the National Museum of Naval Aviation, located aboard Pensacola Naval Air Station. Guest speakers include US ...

Flypast: Veteran of the 50s still flying - Skyport Heathrow | WHEN it comes to longevity in the airline world, it's usually venerable old-timers like Dakotas, Curtiss Commandos or Douglas DC-7s that get all the glory. Quite a few of these piston-engined aircraft remain in service in ...
   
J. Bradley McManus, 92, developer, WWII pilot | Philadelphia Inquirer | In 2007, nearly 65 years after the Army Air Corps squadron aborted its mission on Greenland's ice cap, a plane dubbed Glacier Girl that had been recovered there and restored was flown from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on its original mission: a ...

Fokker G.1 from Planeshots

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Levi Denham, a WC-130J Hercules... from You like airplanes, too? | U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Levi Denham, a WC-130J Hercules aircraft weather reconnaissance loadmaster assigned to the 53rd Reconnaissance Squadron, performs pre-engine start-up inspections in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, on Sept. 16, 2010. Known as the Hurricane Hunters, the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron’s mission is to provide surveillance of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the central Pacific Ocean for the National Hurricane Center in Miami. DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez.
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Skunk Works P-791 airship revived as civil cargo-lifter - FlightGlobal | Less than a year after losing a major US Army order, Lockheed Martin will revive and scale-up the P-791 hybrid airship to carry at least 20t of cargo under a new contract signed by a Canada-based commercial start-up. ...

IMAGES: Grizzly complete testing at low speeds off from CavokBlog | The A400M military transport aircraft "Grizzly" Airbus Military has completed a challenging series of tests to determine the lowest speed at which it is able to take off - known as VMU - Minimum Unstick speed, or more simply, the speed at which insurance is aerodynamically , rotate the nose of the aircraft for takeoff. ...

Picture of the Week: AVweb's Flying Photography Showcase from AVwebFlash Current Issue
This week's winning photo comes from Michael R. Lochowitz of De Pere, Wisconsin. Click here for the rest of this week's submissions.

March 24 – This Day In Aviation History from Aviation Earth | March 24, 1904 – The Wright Brothers submit a patent application to Germany for their newest airplane design, this is two days after they applied for a similar patent in France. March 24, 1909 – Orville and Wilbur Wright establish a flight training school school in the United States. The school is not established in [...]

Preity Zinta co-piloted an X-Air- Report - BollyPatrika.com | Mumbai- Bollywood diva Preity Zinta recently fulfilled one of her long cherished dreams of flying an aeroplane. The 31 year old actress, who is making her debut in small screen by hosting a reality show Guinness World Records “Ab ...

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