Toys for Tots makes pickup in Fort Worth - Fort Worth Star Telegram | On the arrival of "Fat Albert
Airlines" Blue Angels Staff Sgt. Adam Miller waves at those gathered for the delivery of the toys. The C-130 supply plane flew into Lockheed Martin Fort Worth Tuesday after a stop at Lockheed in Marietta, Ga.,...USAF Air to Air Demo at the 2011 Aviation Nation Airshow from Randy Rothhaar Photography | USAF Weapons School F-15 Eagle pulls up and deploys flares during demo at the 2011 Aviation Nation Airshow at Nellis AFB.
Ed Shipley's F-86 - Video by Airshowbuzz | In 2003, pyro hit Ed Shipley's F-86 Sabre at an air show. The video has all the radio calls as Ed, the Eagle (Alamo), Viper (Pinto) demo guys and Snort determine best options.
Pilot 'error' blamed for crash - Rutland and Stamford Mercury | A jury has found a plane crash during an aerobatic display in West Yorkshire which left a pilot dead was caused "primarily by an error of judgment". Chris Penistone, 31, a pilot for the commercial airline Jet2, was taking part in The Methley Bridge...
The Chance Vought F4U-5N - Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | Known to many as the Dash 5, the F4U-5N Corsair is the last Corsair line with the 5N being the night fighter version on the 5. The 5N first saw service starting in 1950 in Korea. It’s role turned into ground...Warbird Radio puts 'The Plastic Scale Modeling Hour' on broadcast schedule - Model Retailer Magazine | Model Retailer covers retail hobby news and provides advice about selling model railroading, radio control, games, slot cars, scale models, diecast, toys, books and video products....
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Virtual Tour expanded to include Southeast Asia War Gallery - National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | DAYTON, Ohio -- Experience the Southeast Asia War Gallery online on the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force's Virtual Tour, just in time for the 50th anniversary of the first U.S. Air Force campaign during that war. The gallery is now fully embedded with audio and video hotspots, and touch-screen devices located throughout the gallery also have been incorporated....
Air Force Museum Foundation receives gift of $50,000 from Alenia North America - Air Force Museum Foundation | DAYTON, Ohio -- The Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc, recently announced a $50,000 pledge from Alenia North America to support the construction of the new 224,000 square-foot building addition at the National Museum of the United States Air Force®. The building will house the Museum's Space Gallery, Global Reach Gallery, and Presidential Aircraft Gallery. In addition, the facility will offer new educational opportunities for history, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-based (STEM) programs....
C-53 "D-Day Doll" from Randy Rothhaar Photography | 11mm wide angle shot of C-53 "D-Day Doll" under storm clouds at the 2011 Jacqueline Cochran Airshow.
Aviation Author: Barry Schiff - Flight to Success | Barry Schiff pilot/author extraordinaire~ | How does a young man with a passion for flight become a successful author? Imagine twenty-year-old Barry teaching ground school as he works his way through college, trying to describe the sounds of
low-frequency four-course ranges, used for navigation, to very confused students....A Poultry Pilot - NASM | Turkeys are generally considered to be flightless birds, but as this postcard from the...
Back in the Air - Around the Pattern | I mentioned in Friday’s article that I had flown the Swift early last week – before the major cold front blew through the area. I had planned on flying sooner but ran into a maintenance problem that caused a few days of delay. Arrow visible while flying near Reno-Stead airport. I pulled the plane out of the hangar after my preflight, got in and prepared to start the engine. I turned on the master switch and immediately got all the landing gear warning lights, the...
Sisters Get Tour of El Paso On A Plane Through Young Eagles Program - KTSM News Channel 9 | Alan and Patti Russell, who own the plane, re two of the volunteers with young eagles chapter 125. "I'm the ground crew. I stay on the ground and help everybody in and make sure he doesn't run over anybody,” says Patti, Young Eagles volunteer....Irma: Flying Tiger lady - Warthog News | Irma Aul, an 87-year-old Pittsburg native, has had much love for the Flying Tigers ever since the days of World War II when she installed avionics on P-51 Mustang and P-40 Warhawk aircraft. Irma owns tiger earrings, tiger-stripe framed glasses and a beret with a Flying Tiger patch among other things. She attends the annual Flying Tigers Reunion nearly every year and...
Bureaucracy, Labor Woes Doom Super-Weapons Lab - Wired | Aerospace giant Boeing is in the
process of shutting down one of America’s most storied laboratories. “Building 31,” part of Boeing’s research facility in Huntington Beach, Calif., helped develop some of the Pentagon’s most secretive weapons — that is, until bloated bureaucracy and benefit cuts demoralized and scattered its employees. Under current plans, the 60-year-old lab will close its doors for good in mid-2013. Over the years, Building 31 trained...Space Shuttle Enterprise Is Now Officially A New Yorker, Says NASA - Gothamist | Earlier today, NASA officials signed the giant hunk of space machinery over to to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Our insider source tells us that today, "the official transfer of title of Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise from NASA to the...
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