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Video: Lambeau Field flyover is first for EAA's WWII B-17 bomber - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Green Bay — On a clear, cloudless Sunday, pilot Sean Elliott lined his aircraft right on the large oval target and aimed the B-17 bomber toward its objective. The bomb bay doors opened but no ordnance dropped. Plenty of cameras clicked, though....

Reno Air Races cuts staff, must raise $500000 - Las Vegas Sun | Air race president and CEO Michael Houghton, in a statement, says immediate financial assistance is needed in order to put on the 51st annual event in September. Insurance alone to cover the air races was over $2 million in 2012 and $1.2 million in 2013...

Happy Birthday To The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito · Warbirds News By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC | Seventy-three years ago today, the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito took flight for the first time.  One of the most useful Allied aircraft of World War II, the Mosquito performed as a bomber, fighter, anti-shipping and photo-reconnaissance platform.  The key to the success of the “Wooden Wonder” was its light wood construction and the power of its twin Merlin engines, which gave it the speed to out-fly almost every other aircraft type of the war.  Nicknamed the “Mossie” by its crews, the...

The last tense minutes of a fighter pilot about to eject from an F-16 hit by enemy fire over Serbia · David Cenciotti | The following video and audio were recorded by the U.S. Air Force F-16CG #88-0550 belonging to the 31th Fighter Wing from Aviano airbase, Italy, which was shot down during a combat mission over Serbia during Allied Force. The F-16, callsign “Hammer 34? was egressing from the target area located near Novi Sad, at 02.00 AM LT on May 2, 1999, when a Serbian surface-to-air missile exploded close to the plane, causing heavy damage to its engine...

Chico Air Museum gets F-86 Sabre Jet - Enterprise-Record | CHICO — There's nothing unlucky about its 13th aircraft, in the view of the Chico Air Museum. On Friday, an F-86 Sabre Jet arrived at the air museum's new headquarters on Ryan Avenue. The nonprofit air museum acquired the fighter aircraft that was a workhorse of the Korean War...

Aircraft Restoration: Vought (XF-8A) XF8U-1 Crusader - The Lexicans | The Museum of Flight located in Everett, Washington is undertaking restoration of a Vought F-8 Crusader, known as . However this isn’t just any F-8. The aircraft undergoing restoration is BuNo: 138899, was the first F-8 built served as the prototype for a production run totaling 1219 aircraft...

YP-24 - Travel for Aircraft | The U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) desired a modern replacement of the Berliner-Joyce P-16 and the Detroit Aircraft Corp. (DAC) joined with Lockheed Aircraft to produce the YP-24 in 1930 — the chief designer was Robert Woods of DAC. The aircraft looked much like the biplane P-16 but was a monoplane and with retractable landing gear — which was the Lockheed firms main contribution, essentially the wing of the Lockheed Altair...

Poll: Awesome Or Ugly? The Vought V-173 Flying Pancake - AirPigz | ...This time around the chosen aircraft is the Vought V-173 'Flying Pancake'. There was only one built, with the first flight taking place in 1942. With that high deck angle and those massive props, it's easy to think of this all-wing testbed as a bit of a beast, but the reality is that it weighs about the same as an older Cessna 172 (both the empty and gross weights) and it's only got a total of 160hp coming from...

Aviation's key role in Nelson history - The Nelson Mail | It fills a gap. The only other volumes of Nelson aviation history that Mr McConnell is aware of are a slim book, Flying Home, produced by the Nelson City Council in 1985, and a Nelson Aero Club 50th jubilee commemorative magazine, published 30 years ago...

Dyess Airman tapped for presidential maintenance by Airman 1st Class Alexander Guerrero, 7th Bomb Wing Public Affairs | 11/22/2013 - DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- Not many Air Force maintainers get a chance to be part of the aircraft fleet that provides support to the President of the United States, but for one Dyess Airman that prestigious opportunity has arrived...

CoolPix: Retro-Art Desktop Pic Of The Amazing Bugatti 100p (Out Of The Past) - AirPigz | To me the Bugatti 100p is one of the most beautiful airplanes ever designed. It's also pretty fascinating that it never actually flew... but of course an extensive project to build a flying replica has been in the works for years now, and it's getting very close to completion. Check out the Bugatti 100p project on facebook for lots of pix and info on the replica...

Aviation mechanic remembers lifetime in Fairbanks - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | Aviation mechanic Jim Anderson grew up on Eights Avenue in downtown Fairbanks. When he was a little boy, he liked to run down Cowles Street to Weeks Field, where he would walk into an airplane hangar, stand there and just watch the mechanics work...

Armstrong’s Close Call - Air & Space Magazine | I'd STILL be groping for the dang ejection handle! These guys and the entire space program at that time deserve kudos for what they accomplished with basically a pencil and slide rule andless computer power than your new car. I can remember watching that black and white image of him stepping off the LEM onto the lunar surface. Remarkable then and still today! He said of himself, "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer."...

Video: Astronaut Hadfield shares 'unbeatable point of inspiration' with PBS Host Miles O'Brien - Spaceports | Col. Chris Hadfield captured the world's curiosity when he tweeted videos of everyday life on the space station and covered David Bowie's song "Space Oddity." Science correspondent Miles O'Brien talks to the retired Canadian astronaut, author of "An Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth," about the importance of space exploration.