Wednesday, January 23, 2013

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Update on Kirby Chambliss from Skip Stewart's FB page: There is a lot of false information about Kirby out there. I was flying off his wing practicing a dual routine when it happened. So this is the correct information. We were...

Translated News Story: Kirby Chambliss - Valencia-Oscar Iraheta Marielos Wednesday, January 23, 2013 | A small plane crashed this afternoon on Highway 3 Ilopango Airport, said the armed forces. The military said the aircraft pilot is alive and was identified as Kirby Chambliss. A UH-1H helicopter assisted the pilot and took him to the military hospital....

Chambliss Reportedly OK After Crash in El Salvador from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Veteran air show performer and AirVenture participant Kirby Chambliss is reportedly fine after experiencing a forced landing Wednesday, January 23, while practicing in his Zivko Edge 540 for a performance in this weekend's Illopango, El Salvador Airshow.

Thunderbirds award Airmen for 2012 Defenders of Liberty Airshow - Barksdale Air Force Base | 1/23/2013 - Maj. Warren Carroll, 11th Bomb Squadron, Capt. Joshua Yerk, 2nd Civil Engineer Squadron, and 1st Lt. Andrew Cooper, 2nd Munitions Squadron are awarded a plaque for excellence from the US Air Force Thunderbirds by Col. Reid Langdon ...

Tom Poberezny Named a Living Legend of Aviation from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | EAA Chairman Emeritus Tom Poberezny was inducted as a Living Legend of Aviation on January 18 during the 10th annual Living Legends of Aviation awards presentation event in Beverly Hills. Tom served as convention chairman from 1977 to 2011, EAA president from 1989 to 2010, and chairman of the board from 2009 to 2011...

Famed aviator honoured - InsideHalton.com | Famed aviator honoured. HALL OF FAME: Honorary Col. Gerald P. J. Haddon, representing his grandfather Honourary Air Commodore J.A.D. McCurdy, and his wife Amanda, were presented with a handmade crystal and proclamation from Prime Minister...

60 Years of EAA: A Bigger Role (1984-1997) from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Now in its new, permanent home in Oshkosh, EAA entered the mid-1980s with increased visibility inside and outside the aviation community, while creating programs to bring more people into flight...

RC Club to host 3rd Annual Indoor Fly-In - Lake Gaston Gazette Observer | Bring the kids and come join the 95th Squadron Radio Control Model Airplane Club for its 3rd Annual Indoor Fly-in on Saturday, Jan. 26 at the Lake Gaston Baptist Church from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.. The event will feature flight demonstrations of indoor...

WAI Pioneer Hall of Fame inductees for 2013 - BlueSky Executive Aviation News | Women in Aviation, International has announced the latest inductees into its International Pioneer Hall of Fame. These women and men will be honored at WAI's 24th Annual International Conference which will be held on March 14-16, 2013, at the Gaylord ...

The hit PBS TV show "The Aviators" had a chance to experience the incredible fee... from Sky Combat Ace's Facebook Wall by Sky Combat Ace | The hit PBS TV show "The Aviators" had a chance to experience the incredible feeling of dogfighting while on location for Vince Neil's flight training. Lisa "Vixen" Charney and Devin "Deadeye" Lund squared off as trash talking competitors, and...

Spitfire Dig To Continue At Second Site from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Undaunted by a failure to find any buried Spitfires at the first dig site in Burma, project leader David Cundall said he is ready to start excavating a second site. Cundall said he will be flying soon to Myitkyina, about 900 miles from the first dig site. A preliminary dig at Myitkyina found a buried wooden crate filled with water, and Cundall...

Planes - Coming to Theaters - Are You Excited? from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | Next in line for aviators starving for anything related to flying is “Planes”, the movie. “Planes” is an offshoot of the animated movie “Cars” which many of you may have seen. Produced by Pixar, the original four wheeled animated movie did quite well. Its sequel though took on the more typical Hollywoodslant and a third has been hard to get rolling....

Sikorsky and Boeing teaming up to build the next gen combat helicopter? from Black Horizon by Steve Douglass | Sikorsky and Boeing will once again team over a military rotorcraft project, this time the venture is the U.S. Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate’s (AATD) requirement for a Joint Multi-Role (JMR) technology demonstrator (TD), the forerunner to the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) requirement in the 2030s....

Flight keeps teen's dream alive - Hawke's Bay Today | He is a familiar sight at the Hawke's Bay Aero Club, where as a "Young Eagle" he helps out wherever he can. He cleans aircraft and talks with the pilots. "I need to focus on my school work for now, and see a specialist eye doctor and find out for ...

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