Colorful display at Copperstate - trivalley central.com | An experimental aircraft taxis next to a vintage airplane during the 41st annual Copperstate Fly-In and Aviation Expo on Friday at Casa Grande Municipal Airport. Spectators who turned out had...
St. George Jet Blast 2013 - Photorecon.net | The phone rang Friday morning with details of the Classic Jet Aircraft Association’s Jet Blast fly-in that was happening in St. George, Uath that is just up the road from where I live. They have a yearly gathering in October at the Western Sky Aviation Warbird Museum and it is hosted by Jack Hunter and Rich Grinell...
Inaugural Melbourne Air & Space Show to take to the skies - Hometown News | 2 at Paradise Beach 
Cleveland Air Show coming back in 2014 - Call and Post | The Cleveland National Air Show will be soaring back into town in 2014 and the Blue Angels will be there! There was no air show this past summer. The decision was made in early 2013 because of federal budget cuts. “It'll take us a little bit to get the ...
Public activities part of Doolittle Raiders' Final Toast weekend at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force - Air Force Link | Two cadets from the Air Force Academy present a wreath during a memorial service in honor of the Doolittle Raiders 70th Anniversary Reunion in 2012. Public activities for the Final Toast on Nov. 9 will include a wreath-laying ceremony in Memorial Park, ...
FAQ: The Doolittle Raiders Grand Arrival - Robins Rev Up | FAQ: The Doolittle Raiders Grand Arrival. Photos. Doolittle Raiders 68th Reunion. A crowd listens to the National Anthem during a 2010 memorial service in honor of the Doolittle Tokyo Raider's 68th reunion, held at the National Museum of the U.S. Air ...
11 Time Reno Air Races National Champion Strega For Sale or Available For Corporate Sponsorship - Warbirds News · WarbirdsNews | This morning we woke up and learned about this surprising news. Accordingly to Simon Brown, co- owner of Platinum Fighters, the 11 time Reno Air Races National Champion Strega is for sale or available for corporate sponsorship. Many speculated that this was going to happened after the recent defeat at Reno ( Click HERE for a full report) but this news surely came as a surprise for many. After all Strega is a Reno Air Races legend....
History to take flight at Auburn Regional Airport - Opelika Auburn News | From 1943 to 1946, Opelika resident Quinton Walton worked on B-24 Liberator airplanes as a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps. He didn’t expect to be flying on one nearly 70 years later. “I never dreamed I’d be able to fly on one again,” Walton said. “And I understand that this is the only air-worthy B-24 in the world.” A month after graduating high school, when he was 18, Walton was drafted into the army. He had spent his entire life on a farm in Beauregard....
In 2014 Loano host the Air Show Frecce Tricolori? Maybe yes - Translated | The Frecce Tricolori could return again in 2014 in the province of Savona, in this case in Loano. The City Council has approved a resolution on October 16 declaration of intent to host next year's famous acrobatic show....
Hundreds greet WWII veterans for special homecoming following Talons Out Honor Flight - Michigan Live | ...The 90-year-old was among 22 veterans from Kalamazoo and Battle Creek to board a flight for a one-day, all-expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C. to see the WWII memorial, then return to a special welcome home from the community. The flight and homecoming were organized by Talons Out Honor Flight in Southwest Michigan....
He flew his first mission in a B-17 to the huge Japanese base at Rabaul – Lt. Col. John Pickering was also a ‘Candy Bomber’ in the Berlin Airlift - War Tales | Five days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941, 2nd Lt. John Pickering graduated from the U.S. Army Aviation Cadet Program. He had his wings, but he wasn’t qualified to fly anything but an AT-6 trainer...
New England Air Museum to hold Veterans Day event · General Aviation News Staff | WINDSOR LOCKS, CONN. — The New England Air Museum will hold its annual Veterans Day Event on Sunday, Nov. 10...
Amelia Earhart Plans Transcontinental Flight — Really - Mashable | The expression "spitting image" doesn't do her justice. Amelia Rose Earhart shares the same name and passion as one of the most revered names in early aviation, and it's that same love for soaring the skies that's pushing the NBC news anchor to recreate her namesake's 1937 transcontinental journey....
Pilots fly in cramped conditions to raise RM101,628 for Oxfam - The Star Online | PETALING JAYA: Two aviation adventurers are giving new meaning to no-frills flight in their journey from London to Sydney in a single piston engined aircraft with a cockpit the size of a Mini Cooper. While pilots Andy Hardy, 50, and Sam Kidd, 24, are fulfilling their personal dreams with the epic journey, they have set out to raise £20,000 (RM101,628) for global aid and development charity Oxfam....
CAF museum director named executive director of Sibley Nature Center - Midland Reporter-Telegram | CAF museum director named executive director of Sibley Nature Center From staff reports Midland Reporter-Telegram | 0 comments. The Commemorative Air Force's Airpower Museum director has been named executive director of the Sibley Nature Center...
The First Test Pilots - Air & Space Magazine | Not long after ex-World War I aviator John Macready left his California ranch at the age of 54 to serve again in World War II, he was checked out in one of the B-17 bombers he’d soon be flying over North Africa. A young lieutenant, eager to tout the modern, high-altitude capability of the Flying Fortress, pointed out the supercharger that made such missions possible. “Know anything about these, sir?” he asked the veteran of the Great War. Today, Sally Macready Wallace chuckles at the irony: “Daddy just looked at him and said, ‘Yes Lieutenant, I believe I do.’ ”...
HD Video: 'Must See' Pilot's Eye View... This Is Why We Fly - AirPigz | This recently uploaded HD video of a stunningly beautiful approach into Queenstown Airport in southern New Zealand shows why most of us love to fly... the view of the Earth from above is simply awesome. And when the...
Quest for Flight — why is John J. Montgomery given credit for finding it? by travelforaircraft | Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the dawn of aviation in the West by Craig S. Harwood and Gary B. Fogel | Ten years, a decade, before the famed Percy Pilcher and Otto Lilienthal were flying their gliders for seconds over the downward slope of hills there was John J. Montgomery. He was mastering heavier-than-air flying which was under control in roll as well as in pitch with lateral stability as well as flying for nearly a quarter of an hour per flight (though many were for seconds at a time to be sure) — leagues ahead of those who would come so many years later....
The First Photo From Space - Air & Space Magazine | In 1946, rocket-borne cameras gave us our first look at Earth from beyond the atmosphere. | On October 24, 1946, not long after the end of World War II and years before the Sputnik satellite opened the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful—the first pictures of Earth as seen from space....
Sick in Space - Air & Space Magazine | Poor Gherman Titov, the second human in orbit. By the time the Soviets flew him in August 1961, Yuri Gagarin had grabbed the glory four months earlier. Unlike Gagarin, who had made just one orbit, Titov was subjected to 17, which took a little more than a day. That might have granted the kid bragging rights—he was 25 years old, and remains the youngest person ever in space. But after a few orbits, Titov suddenly grew nauseous, and then—horror of horrors for any military pilot turned cosmonaut—he threw up. It looked like a rookie problem, but Sergei Korolyov, the legendary engineer who headed the Soviet space effort, took it very seriously....
Monday, October 28, 2013
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