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ICAS FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES AIR SHOW HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES By ICAS Foundation via ASB | Air show legends Jim and Ernie Moser, Julie Clark, Steve Oliver and Suzanne Asbury-Oliver will be inducted into the International Council of Airshows (ICAS) Foundation Hall of Fame on the evening of Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas during the annual ICAS Chairman's Banquet....

Blue Angels to visit Tuscaloosa this week to plan for 2012 air show - Al.com | TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- Two U.S. Navy Blue Angel pilots will visit Tuscaloosa this week to begin planning the 2012 Tuscaloosa Air Show, according to the Tuscaloosa Tourism and Sports Commission.  The pilots will meet with Tuscaloosa...

LIVE EVENT: Breakfast with LiveATC.net Founder! - The Pilot Report | Join us LIVE online Thursday, November 17, 2011 for a virtual breakfast of sorts as I interview Dave Pascoe, founder and creator of LiveATC.net!  I’ll be interviewing him about how he got started with LiveATC and more....

This USAF pararescueman decides he’s been cooped up in... from You like airplanes, too? by marvinsmith | This USAF pararescueman decides he’s been cooped up in this HC-130 for too long. Can’t decide what’d be funner, flying this bad bird or jumping out of it!...

Airmen screen Tuskegee Airmen documentary at Pentagon - USAF | WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- More than 150 Airmen came out to screen a documentary about the original Tuskegee Airmen during a red-carpet event here Nov. 10.  "Double Victory" was produced by George Lucas, of "Star Wars" fame, in support of his new feature film about the Tuskegee Airmen, "Red Tails."  Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Tuskegee Airmen William Broadwater and...

Tuskegee Airmen:A legacy of love - USAF | PENTAGON (AFNS) -- Last week I had the opportunity to learn about some Air Force history as well as family history.  There was a screening of a new documentary about the Tuskegee Airmen that was produced, by George Lucas, in conjunction with his feature film called "Red Tails." I was especially excited to see the documentary because my paternal grandfather was a bombardier in World War II and an original Tuskegee Airman.  This was one of the most exciting times in my Air Force career. The...

Pilot’s long lost ring is key to forgotten crash - Oak Hill Gazette | This is a story about how a Christmas card to the sister of a local veteran started a chain of events that led to a ceremony in France and a monument to a forgotten plane crash in World War II.  Oak Hill resident John Tschirhart was a B-17 bombardier who flew 35 combat missions over Nazi occupied Europe. The 91 year-old is proud to be a member of the Oak Hill Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4443, and is also proud of his younger sister who he says is “a great patriot, who through diligent research solved a 60 year-old mystery.”  As we observed Veterans Day recently and honored all the men and women who have worn the uniform of our Armed Forces, what could be more appropriate than to share a story of patriotism, sacrifice, dedication and of a Ring of Honor—in this case an almost forgotten pilot’s ring found by a young boy in a small town in France....

Fallon Air Park Recce - Neptunus Lex

They yet live among us - McCook Gazette | Veteran's Day has come and gone but the memories continue. As a reminder of the annual commemoration of service by American GI's someone went me a YouTube video, produced by the History Channel, of a World War II B-17E mission in the Pacific, circa 1943. A lone B-17, Old 666, out on a long overwater photo reconnaissance mission to Bougainville and Buka Islands, was besieged by 17 Japanese fighters, collectively called the "Zero." The crew shot down at least two of the Zeros in a 45-minute combat, which ended only due to low fuel state of the Japanese combatants....

Honoring our Veterans - The Town Crier | We buried my Uncle Bill two weeks ago.  Then a few days later, before I put the coffee on, a dear friend phoned to say that her husband had died in the early morning hours.  He was my friend too. Both Uncle Bill and my deceased friend have been a part of my life forever, it seems....

North American F-86 Sabre 1947 onwards (all day-fighter variants) — book review by travelforaircraft | ...South Korea, the USA and Western Europe were surprised by the advanced technology of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 with its swept wing and powerful centrifugal jet turbine engine as well as its fearsome cannon armament (2 x 23mm and 1 x 37mm). The U.S. Air Force quickly countered with the North American F-86 Sabre which was similar in design aspects but also having significant differences....

Exhibition on the assistance of military airplanes in 1911 from Passion pour l'aviation by Xavier Cotton | I spoke recently of Tender forgot to 14-18 # 1 -themed "Competition military airplanes" that took place in Reims in 1911 and was designed to select the best manufacturers in accordance with a specification very precise, in order to develop military aviation....

HyperMach Now Aiming for Mach 4 Bizjet - AIN Online | HyperMach Aerospace’s planned 20-seat supersonic business jet (SSBJ), dubbed the SonicStar, will be able to fly at Mach 4.0, the company said Friday in Dubai. This is faster than the Mach 3.6 top speed announced when the proposed V-tailed aircraft was first revealed in June at the Paris Air Show. At Mach 4, the SonicStar would be able to fly from New York to Dubai in just 2 hours 20 minutes. According to...

Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Unveils New Exhibit Featuring Greg Olsen's Soyuz TMA-6 Descent Capsule - Space Ref | Space Adventures, the only company that has provided human space missions to the global marketplace, is pleased to announce that a new exhibit has opened at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City featuring the Soyuz TMA-6 descent capsule that returned to Earth on October 11, 2005 with spaceflight participant Greg Olsen, Ph.D. and the Expedition 11 crew onboard....

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo: Tourists in for a 'Magical' Ride - Space.com | The 400 space tourists who've already signed up to fly on the private Virgin Galactic space plane are in for a wild ride.  Virgin Galactic is developing the SpaceShipTwo vehicle to carry passengers to the edge of space for $200,000 each. Once the prototype is ready, a fleet of the spacecraft will be produced by The Spaceship...