season, attracting top-tier airshow performers and display aircraft. The Aero Experience was pleased to attend the last several Air Festivals and get to know the staff at Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, and we look forward to the next event featuring the...Aviation engineer a trailblazing woman - Northern Star | THE year 1928 was a significant one for Ballina's connection with two pieces of national aviation history. That was the year Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew, in aircraft the Southern Cross, made landfall to the south of Ballina on the inaugural trans-Pacific flight. On that very day, there is every chance a woman named Connie Jordan could have told her music class about Smithy and the significance of that moment. Connie was at that time a relieving teacher at the North Coast Girls College in Norton St, Ballina, which is now Ballina Manor. But she went on to be Qantas' first licensed female ground engineer....
27000 hours of an 'obsession' - Saukvalley | DIXON –?Inside a hangar made of old telephone poles, with a wood-burning stove for heat, Jack Bally has been working on his "obsession." That obsession, nearly 13 years in the making, is a one-third-scale version of a B-17 G, which Bally hopes will be flyable in 2 years. The plane, which he calls The Bally Bomber, has a 34-foot wingspan and is 25 feet from nose to tail. The only part of the plane that doesn't work, the 72-year-old Bally said, are the guns...
Air & Space Museum ready for 2015 - U-T San Diego | ...“When somebody says, ‘Air & Space Museum, are you ready?’ We’re ready,” he said. “Front and center. We’re going to uphold our end of the deal.” Like the museum he leads — which, given San Diego’s rich aviation history, has a special place in the community — the outspoken Kidrick is unique among museum directors...
XP-82 restoration November Update · Warbirds News | Every month we wait with excitement for the XP-82 Newsletter with the latest developments from Tom Reilly’s hangar, the we call down to Douglas to get a voice update. This project is coming along fast.A lot of work was performed to complete the final preliminary rib and stringer set-up of the right-hand wing, and the last of the special milling of the last of the twelve special shaped stringers for the left- and right-hand wings was completed as well. Accordingly to Weezie these special shaped stringers had so many different tapers, joggles, steps and angles in them that they were not available for purchase anywhere. Paul and Randall are tasked to duplicate the same final set-up of the stringers and ribs in the left-hand wing...
Biplane Hurricane - Vintage Wings of Canada | If you do any amount of research or web-surfing on the internet about Second World War aviation or any type of aviation for that matter, you will chance
upon
some fascinating facts and some fairly obscure images from time to
time. If you are like me, you have a folder in your electronic files
into which you dump these facts and images, with the hope of someday
following them through to a story befitting their obscurity and unique
qualities. I call my folder Random Beauty, and it is full of some pretty
strange aviation material, from which many stories are nurtured and
harvested....Green Flag 14-2 - Photorecon.net | When you think of Nellis Air Force base, you may think of ‘Las Vegas’, ‘the home of the Thunderbirds’, or even the well known air exercise ‘Red Flag’. However there is another very important training mission conducted here throughout the year. This exercise is known as ‘Green Flag-West’. Green Flag is administered by the 549th Combat Training Squadron (CTS). The 549th CTS Executive Officer (XO) and Operations Supervisor, Captain James Clapper, sat down with me to explain the mission of Green Flag-West. Captain Clapper also facilitates the debriefs with the participating air crews, as well as the Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACS)...
KC-97 Video Tour - The Lexicans
Antonov An-148 displays rough-field capabilities - Aero Pacific Flightlines | Antonov has conducted a demonstration of the rough-field capabilities of its An-148 regional jet, using a dirt runway at Odessa. The twinjet, in Ukraine International Airlines colours, conducted two approaches and two departures from the reserve runway, which runs adjacent to the main one...
Should Aviation’s Past Promote its Future? By Scott Spangler | Because it’s usually informative and entertaining, I’m addicted to the bonus material that accompanies DVD movies. When Netflix delivered Disney’s Planes, I devoured the main course and couldn’t wait for the credits to end before digging into the dessert features. One of them was the Top 10 Flyers in aviation history, which were, I’m assuming, selected by the film’s director and producers....
Let Your Dreams Take Flight... * Flight To Success | ..."As an experimental test pilot, I get to wear a mask and fly, but that isn’t my superpower." ...
Embry-Riddle students given WAI memberships · General Aviation News Staff | Female students at both campuses of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University have been given a one-year membership in Women in Aviation, International. Students at both the Prescott, Arizona, campus and the Daytona Beach, Florida, campus are now full WAI members. The 1,372 Embry-Riddle students will receive all WAI member benefits...
First-to-Solo Challenge Grand Prize: $1,500 USD in Training - Toriaflies | Intl Team Leader The Institute for Women Of Aviation Worldwide (iWOAW) is delighted to announce that one of its founding members, Sennheiser, will award $1,500 USD for flight training to the winner of the 2014 Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week’s First-to-Solo Challenge...
Building the Mercury Capsule: Hear from the McDonnell Aircraft Engineers Who Made History - The Aero Experience | Dec 11 simulcast event. Details.
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