Tuesday, July 3, 2012

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Victorious Victory Junction from US Army Golden Knights by ddixon | Members of the US Army Parachute Team, Golden Knights Gold Demonstration Team made a surprise jump Wednesday, June 27th for an extremely special group of campers. Camp counselors, teachers, volunteers and hundreds of exuberant children attending the annual summer camp at Victory Junction gathered in a circle around the center of the camp....

Organizers call weekend air show a great success - Seacoastonline.com | PORTSMOUTH — Approximately 65000 people attended this weekend's Service Credit Union Boston Portsmouth Air Show, according to a preliminary estimate of attendance released by organizers....

VIDEO: Blue Angels Soar Over Seacoast - Patch.com | The Boston-Portsmouth Air Show was held this weekend.

Breckenridge 4th of July Brings First Ever Airshow  - Mtn Town Views | With the cancellation of fireworks just about every where in the state you can still look up to see something exciting in the air this 4th of July! Breckenridge is bringing Rower Airshows and Wild Horse Aviation to present Breckenridge, Colorado’s first ever airshow at 11:30 a.m. on July 4, 2012. Pilots intend to perform at over 10,000 feet above sea level for what they say will be the world’s highest airshow.

Rare Ju 52 Makes Brief Stop in Oshkosh from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | The 1939 RIMOWA Junkers Ju 52 tri-motor airplane that will be on display at AirVenture in three weeks paid a short visit to Oshkosh just after noon on Saturday, June 30 - a planned waypoint on its journey across America to the West Coast.

Wings Of Freedom Coming To Salina - KSAL | A sight seldom seen since the 1940's, the Wings of Freedom tour is scheduled to stop Salina with circa WWII aircraft including the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Nine O Nine" Heavy Bomber, Consolidated B-24 Liberator "Witchcraft" Heavy Bomber and P-51 ...

Hodson pilots KSU to 2nd in 4-day air race - Marion County Record | Tonya Hodson, formerly of Marion, and co-pilot Nicole Lordemann placed second in the collegiate division of the 4000 nautical mile cross-country Air Race Classic, an all-female competition honoring women in aviation. “It was four straight days of drive ...

Dear Amelia… from Amelia Earhart | 75 years ago today, Amelia Earhart embarked upon her final flight… a flight that would go down in the world’s history as one of the most calculated risks, most beautiful adventures and most confounding mysteries. She blew the mind’s of her critics, she dared to dream in a way that provoked others to stare, wide eyed and excited. Amelia made others question their daily lives, asking themselves the burning question of what they could do to feel that alive! Her graceful demeanor, quiet confidence and sheer focus is what allowed her to leave her mark. This is why, 75 years later, we search for her. We search for her wreckage in hopes of putting to rest the life of a woman who knew how to go for it… big time....

Local women aviators pay tribute to Amelia Earhart - St. Louis Beacon | Libby Yunger, president of the local chapter, has researched Earhart extensively for talks she gives to area groups about the history of women in aviation. “I am interested in Amelia because she is such a modern woman,'' Yunger said. “She was not the ...

A handful of Aces at Oakland museum from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | "A Handful of Aces," a symposium discussion with four surviving World War II combat fighter pilots, will be held Saturday, July 7, at Oakland Aviation Museum at Oakland International Airport in California. Q&A session and autograph signing will follow the symposium, which is scheduled for 5 to 9 p.m. Cost: $35 per person (non-members); $25 per person for members...

Last ‘Spruce Goose’ crewmember passes away from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | John Hayes Glenn, the last crewmember of the one and only flight of the Hughes Hercules HK1, "Spruce Goose," passed away June 20. He was 94...

From Antique Airfield News

Aviation Author to sign book at July 4 Fly-In Breakfast from Kathryn's Report | Penn Yan, N.Y. — On Wednesday, July 4 the Penn Yan Flying Club will host a special guest at its pancake breakfast. A retired commercial pilot who is a native Upstate New Yorker and now lives in Auburn has published a book titled The Rogue Aviator: In the Back Alleys of Aviation by Ace Abbott (pen name). This book is a memoir of a unique...

An Aviator's Last Father's Day from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | ...One of the most cherished aviation memories of my dad involves the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA). He and I were very fortunate to spend some quality aviation time together at AirVenture 2010. Since he was already too frail for the kind of walking required to see everything, a golf cart piloted by me became his magic carpet. Like every visitor, he was awestruck by the aviation wonderland he saw as we whirred around the grounds. We offered a lift to many, who gave us a lift in return by sharing their own aviation stories....

Rare "dual unrelated engine failures" caused Virginia Beach F-18 crash. from Black Horizon by Steve Douglass | By Ian SimpsonWASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - The Navy on Monday blamed a
rare two-engine mechanical failure for the April crash of  an F/A-18D fighter into a Virginia apartment complex that caused minor injuries...

MAFFS-equipped C-130 crashes in South Dakota from Air Force Link Top Stories | At approximately 6 p.m. MDT July 1, a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System equipped C-130 aircraft supporting firefighting missions crashed in the southwest corner of South Dakota. The aircraft was supporting the efforts against the White Draw Fire....

A-10 first aircraft to use alcohol-based fuel from Air Force Link Top Stories | On June 28, the 40th Flight Test Squadron made history here flying the first aircraft to use a new fuel blend derived from alcohol.  "The A-10 is the first aircraft ever to fly on this fuel," said Jeff Braun, Chief for the Air Force Alternative Fuel Certification Division, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio...

An AvGeek Day Out In A Kansas Field … Now This Is Fun! from Flying With Fish  | ...There is nothing quite as fun as watching a Bombardier Challenger 604 being stripped, standing inside an engine cowling, sitting in old Boeing 727-100 first class seats … complete with an AirPhone, crawling through an old cut up DC-8 or climbing in the complete stripped shell of a carcass of an Embraer E-170 that over ran an runway before being scrapped. Crawling through a Republic of Liberia aircraft and stepping into an Air Malawi plane, where else would one get to do this?...

Stuck Mic AvCast: Flyabout Interview from Toriaflies | A great documentary + a great podcast = one great interview!

Parachuting from 120000 feet - Boing Boing | From Air & Space (Jay Nemeth photo): “Basically we want to instrument Felix just like he was an airplane,” says Jon Clark, a former NASA space shuttle crew surgeon and Stratos' medical director. Baumgartner will be wearing a physiological monitoring...

A Plan For Airships That Might Finally Take Off from POPSCI |Sky Captain and the World of Today | "Some kids wanted to be firefighters," Igor Pasternak says. "I always thought about blimps." Pasternak grew up in Lviv, Ukraine, near a weather station. When he was six, he convinced the Soviet meteorologists there to let him launch one of their balloons. "I was hooked," he says. "I wanted to build airships." We are standing in the vast wood-beamed hangar where one such vessel, a 400-foot-long "variable buoyancy functional cargo airship" called the Aeroscraft, is being assembled. The looming aluminum and ...

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