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Tusker Air Show photos – Day 1 * Kenyan Aviation | The first day of the 2013 Tusker Air Show Festival was filled with many flying displays that excited spectators. The performances were not only about aviation technology, but were a testament to the truly amazing skills of pilots who have really invested their time and energy into the air show...

Don’t Call Him a Stunt Pilot: An Aerobatic Competitor Talks Shop - SI.com | David Martin flies his Breitling CAP 232 plane upside down, sideways, and in circles, all on behalf of America. The aviation vet is the US Team Captain for the United States Aerobatic Team, representing American in the World Aerobatic Championships. We talked to him about his military background, the difference between airshows and aerobatics competitions, and why he sticks with the underfunded pastime...

FAHS and Kermit Weeks to re-enact the first airline flight that created the airline industry as we know it! by travelforaircraft | The centennial of the World's first airline with a regularly scheduled route is almost here — 01 January 2014, New Year's Day! Flight 2014, a synchronous effort of the Florida Aviation Historical Society  and famed aviator (as well as aircraft preservationists) Kermit Weeks — owner of the Fantasy of Flight mostly flying aircraft collection — will make this 100th anniversary a memorable one. The...

Daredevil UK pilot close to completing Lady Mary Heath's historic 1920s flight - The Telegraph |  Tracey Curtis-Taylor is recreating the historic open-cockpit flight first undertaken 85 years ago by the oft-forgotten aviation pioneer Lady Mary Heath. Lady Heath was the first woman in...

Happy Birthday To The Mighty Grumman F-14 Tomcat · Warbirds News | The Grumman F-14 Tomcat flew for the first time forty-three years ago today.  The F-14 emerged from the failed F-111B, which left the Navy without a successor for the F-4 Phantom in the air defense role.  Variable geometry swing-wings combined high-speed performance and supersonic maneuverability with docile low-speed handling.  The Tomcat was well ahead of its time – the Central Air Data Computer used to control wing sweep was the first microprocessor design in history and it’s design was not made public until more than 20 years after the F-14 first entered service.  The...

Happy Birthday To The Douglas C-47 Skytrain · Warbirds News By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC | Seventy-two years ago today, the Douglas C-47 Skytrain took flight for the first time.  Developed from the Douglas DC-3, the C-47 was the most widely-used transport of World War II.  Douglass built over 10,000 Skytrains and every branch of the U.S. military and all the major allied powers operated it.  The C-47...

1945 Freeman Field Airshow | This is a compilation of two films shot during the September, 1945 airshow at Freeman Field. The aircraft seen both in the air and on the ground are nothing short of spectacular. Many of the remaining captured aircraft have yet to arrive. Our thanks to the Freeman Army Airfield Museum who provided the video.

Ellsworth Airmen part of Doolittle Raiders final toast - Rapid City Journal | ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. | More than a month has passed, but the thrill of sharing a once-in-a-lifetime moment with their heroes has not lowered for two B-1 aviators from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. Last month, the pair had the privilege of being with the remaining members of the Doolittle Raid during their final toast at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio...

B-25 Group Settles Investigation Into Removal Of Airplane Parts From Alaska - Aero-News Network | Had Taken Parts From Federal Land In July Of 2008 | The federal government has reached a settlement with Georgia-based aircraft restoration company The B-25 Group which removed parts from the wreckage of an F-82 Twin Mustang that went down outside Fairbanks, AK in 1950...

Fayetteville veteran served as gunner on B-17 bomber - Public Opinion News | FAYETTEVILLE >> As a gunner on a B-17 bomber during WWII, Jack Goetz knew he would be lucky to survive 25 missions. The 1st Engineer with the 384th Bomb Group survived all of his missions, but not without some close calls...

Bessie Coleman’s star shines on · Mary Kirby | bessiecolemanIn the 1920s US, as Ku Klux Klan membership reached a height of 4.5 million and women were fighting for equal rights to men, a young black girl from Texas proved to the world that she could “amount to something”. Bessie Coleman triumphed against incredible odds to became the world’s first licensed black pilot...

Pioneering aviatrix, 94, relishes memories - U-T San Diego | CARLSBAD, Calif. ? Nancy Stratford vividly remembers her first airplane flight. It was her 16th birthday in 1935 and her big brother’s gift was a quick spin on a sightseeing plane over their native Los Angeles. Little did she know then that war was looming and her brief inaugural flight would eventually lead her into the Royal Air Force, where she would log nearly 900 flight hours ferrying 50 different types of war planes to air bases around Great Britain during World War II. Or, that in 1947 she would become the world’s fourth licensed woman helicopter pilot....

Cmdr. Charles Beauchesne: Flying the A-6 Intruder Over North Vietnam - The Lexicans | Ever wonder what it was like to fly the Tadpole A-6 Intruder over Route Pack 6 (yes, I know TF-77 had RPs 2,3,4, and 6B)? Commander Charles Beauchesne gave an interesting hour long lecture at the San Diego Air and Space Museum on what it was like to fly and fight the A-6 over North Vietnam. You’ll get the skinny on the tactics, weapons and, most interestingly you’ll learn how evade the SA-2 Guideline surface to air missile...

De Havilland DH-91 Albatross FINGAL G-AFDL - Translated | Although originally conceived as a mail plane transport version for 22 passengers was developed, the main differences being additional windows. Five of these aircraft were produced and delivered to Imperial Airways: The "Frobisher" (G-AFDI), the "FALCON" (G-FADJ), the "FORTUNA" (G-AFDK), the "FINGAL" (G- AFDL c / n 6805) and "FIONA" (G-FMLA)...

Video: Keep 'em flying: 'Spirit of 45' celebration kicks off at Chennault Museum - The News Star | At 89, Jerry Yellin looks like he could climb into the cockpit of a World War II warbird today a pilot it on a treacherous mission. He’s straight-backed with a strong chin and wavy gray hair pushed back neatly on his head...

RETRO: The First Crew to Leave Earth's Orbit - Spaceports | Forty-five years ago today, the year was 1968 with Apollo 8 carrying three NASA astronauts atop a Saturn-V booster rocket. Apollo 8 departed the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center on December 21, 1968 taking on the highest-risk mission in the space agency's history, arguably fraught with more risk than the human moon landing to follow 18-months later...

F4H-1 BuNo 145310 Restoration - The Lexicans | YF4H-1F pic1 This should make our Phantom guys hearts go aflutter (that’d be Old AF Sarge and Virgil Xenophon among others IIRC). The Wings and Rotors Air Museum in Murrieta, California is restoring an F4H-1 Phantom II. Not just ANY old Phantom (not that there really is such a thing) but the 11th aircraft built, BuNo 145310. That’s right folks, 310 is the 11th Phantom EVER built. That’s number 11 out of 5,195 aircraft built!...

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Manston Bronco Refurbishment Completed · WarbirdsNews | The North American OV-10 Bronco G-ONAA registered to Invicta Aviation Ltd and owned by Tony de Bruyn arrived at Manston, Kent on 29th May 2013 from its base at Schwenningen-am-Neckar in the Black Forest region of southern Germany via Wevelgem (Belgium) and was put in to the hands of TG Aviation Ltd at Kent International airport (Manston) for refurbishment...

Heritage Lottery grant to Orra Airmen project - Ballymoney and Moyle Times | A GRANT for £7,900 has been handed over from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the Slieveanorra (US) Airmen Memorial project. The scheme involves plans to build a memorial in memory of the US Airmen who died in the B17 air crash on Slieve an Orra in October 1942...

Daughter Follows In Father's Footsteps As Cathay Pacific Pilot - Aero-News Network | Two Recently Assigned To Same Flight From Manila To Hong Kong | Little girls often want to follow in their father's footsteps, and such was the case with Zoe Davies, whose dad Stuart is a captain with Cathay Pacific airlines...

American Air Museum Summer Residency Programme returns to Duxford for third year - Haverhill Echo | The American Air Museum Summer Residency Programme runs from July 31 to August 14, 2014. It is a unique professional development project creating a partnership between teachers from the USA and the UK...

Cessna reveals restored L-19, Dodge auction package · General Aviation News Staff | WICHITA, Kan. — Cessna has unveiled the restored 1959 Cessna L-19E “Bird Dog” (pictured below) to be auctioned at the 43rd annual Barrett-Jackson car auction in Scottsdale, Ariz. The L-19E will be auctioned alongside a Dodge M37 truck restored and donated by Okoboji Classic Cars, forming a unique pair of historical items offered in a single auction lot...

Topgun in the Mid-1980s: Building on the Legacy – Part Four · Dave "Bio" Baranek, Photorecon.net | PART 4: The Only Constant Is Change | All organizations either evolve or expire, and NFWS is no exception. In the years and decades after I left, Topgun underwent many changes – some necessitated by the increasing complexity of warfare, while others were simply ideas whose time had come. Here are just a few of the more significant events that have helped keep it effective into the 21st century...

"Oh, Those Fokkers" UCAP #341 - Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Excitement regarding FAA Medicals… Landing at the wrong airport… And an amazing historic aircraft fly-in. All this and more on the Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast.