Westover readies for weekend air show - MassLive.com | The Great New England Air Show at Westover Air Reserve Base will be an entertaining event featuring aircraft, vintage planes and music but with a serious component: It will show the evolution of the strength of America's aircraft. More than 60 modern...
Orcas Fly-In this weekend - Islands' Sounder | Orcas Fly-In this weekend. July 30, 2012 · 9:42 AM. Tweet. 0comments; Email Story; Print Story; Letter/Editor. Every year, well over 100 aircraft attend the Orcas Fly-In from around the country. Under the variety of old-fashioned airplanes, seaplanes...
Abu Dhabi back in the loop for air race - The National | The Red Bull Air Race is expected to take off again in 2014 - and Abu Dhabi has been approached by organisers to be one of the host sites. According to Red Bull officials, a team is working on securing a fixed calendar for the race, which is held in ...
Ohio Air News # 202 - Charles Johnson | AirVenture pictures from Kevin Korterud and Ken Mist,
and more from David Virant...Return of the Oshkosh Express | The famous Oshkosh Express will make a dramatic return to Oshkosh in 2013, when a state of the art Boeing 777 will deliver over 340 aviation enthusiasts from Australia and New Zealand. The Air New Zealand “All Black” 777 will make the 13,000 kilometre journey with a planned stopover to allow the charter group to visit the Mojave spaceport en route to Oshkosh. The charter flight will then land at the famous Wittman Regional Airport. The original 747 Oshkosh Express was...
‘Aviation Week’ proclaimed in Wisconsin from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker proclaimed July 23 to 29 “Aviation Week” in the state, noting the value of aviation in providing safe, efficient transportation for businesses in the state, and the important role all aviation, including business aviation, plays in Wisconsin’s economy...
Cub (on Rob's way) to Oshkosh! from A mile of runway will take you anywhere. by StevePlane (video and photos) | Pilot friend Rob (who used to blog about his aerial exploits) emailed me months ago asking if he could stay with us tonight. You see, he's in the midst of a crazy adventure to Oshkosh - riding all 2,015 miles from Philadelphia to Wisconsin and back on his motorcycle! The last time we said hello was when he and Gary flew out to visit nearly two years ago. We said yes...
Welcome To Sunny California - US Army Golden Knights | Today could have not been a better day for members of the United States Army Parachute Team, Tandem Section to kick off the Sonoma, CA Tandem Camp. The Sacramento Recruiting Battalion brought out nine Centers of Influence that were nominated to conduct a tandem parachute jump with the Army’s elite Department of Defense Parachute Demonstration Team. The group consisted of excited candidates coming from various crafts and backgrounds. The majority of the group said they jumped at the opportunity to do a tandem with...
Women in Aviation to reprise ‘Daughter Day’ at next year’s conference from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Women in Aviation, International will repeat "Take Your Daughter to the Conference Day" at its 2013 International Women in Aviation Conference, scheduled for Nashville on March 14-16...
WWII Veteran Revisits Past - Syracuse.com | Fred Taylor, 94, of Cazenovia talks to his friend John Little, also of Cazenovia, after they toured a restored B-17 Memphis Belle. Taylor flew B-17 bombers during WWII and B-29 bombers after the war. Taylor was scheduled to take a public flight on the...
A deserving toast to a helicopter pilot from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Mike Collins | ...Gordon Knight was a Nebraska native who flew Army helicopters in Vietnam, where he earned a Purple Heart. In 1988 he moved to Boulder and made the leap from home brewing to professional brewing. He also continued to fly helicopters–often as a aerial firefighter...
Greg Fletcher – Intrepid Aviators - WREG | A young Naval Aviator from Memphis finds himself in the middle of history's greatest epic Naval battle, in the new book from Greg Fletcher. It reads like an exciting war novel, but this is a true story! “Intrepid Aviators” tells the story of Will ...
Through Airmen's Eyes: A pilot who can do it all from Air Force Link Top Stories | Just three short years ago, Lt. Aaron Berry was maintaining A-10 Thunderbolt IIs. Today, he's flying them. In April 2009, then-Tech. Sgt. Aaron Berry was selected by the Deserving Airman Commissioning board to attend Officer Training School, and then attend a pilot-training program....
More Fly-In Attendees - Photo blog from Antique Airfield News
Chuck Doyle Sr. Stearman Story in Minnesota Flyer from Antique Airfield News | Chuck Doyle's
recently restored 450 Stearman has been written up in the Minnesota Flyer magazine. Here's... The Yak-130, those engine intake doors and our exclusive flight test from The DEW Line by Craig Hoyle | One of our most-read stories from the Farnborough air show reported on the confusion caused when eagle-eyed flight ops types caught sight of...
He's Still Standing - Tillamook Headlight Herald | ... Hirst, who was an F15 Air Force pilot, “lived a charmed life up until the time he hit the pole,” said his friend Renaud. Hirst’s prognosis was bleak, he couldn’t talk and doctors told him he would never walk again...
St. Louis Downtown Airport Is Hub of Medical Flights Serving St. Louis Hospitals from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | St. Louis Downtown Airport, with its location just a few miles from some of the nation's best hospitals in downtown St. Louis, has become a hub of medical flights in recent weeks. BK 117B-1 airlift helicopters known as KidsFlight 1 and KidsFlight 2, along with a Pilatus PC-12/45 KidsFlight 3, are based at the...
U.S. Navy T-34C Turbo Mentor Becoming a Rare Sight as Replacement Loom from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The U.S. Navy T-34C Turbo Mentor, once the mainstay of primary pilot training wings, is rapidly disappearing from first-line service as the T-6B Texan II takes over this role. Two T-34Cs from...
PAMA Scholarships from General Aviation News by Dale Forton | Last year the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association's chapters gave out more than $80,000 in scholarships. These are available to new students looking to get into aviation maintenance as a career and also to existing aviation maintenance professionals looking to advance their careers...
NASA Television To Air Upcoming Cargo Ship Launch to Space Station from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | NASA Television will broadcast the launch and for the first time, the same-day rendezvous and docking of a Progress cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). Coverage begins at 3:15 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 1
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